This is Princess, my neighbor Spencer's dog. Princess is 8 years old. Spencer has lived in his house on Kilbourne Pl for 34 years; he has lived in Mount Pleasant for nearly 50 years. I am moving off Kilbourne Pl the beginning of August.
I really enjoy a live performance over recorded music. I thought the music I was hearing was being played from an album, but it was Frankojazz. Frank on the guitar and his son Julian on the drums. I had to stop and take a couple of pictures when I heard this father/son team jamming on Kilbourne Pl NW. Eight-year-old Julian seems to be a prodigy on the drums ... I imagine he owes it to the musical guidance of his father.
Protestors supporting the Falun Dafa religion have been demonstrating in DC for the past few days. They say China has been killing members of the new Falun Dafa or Falun Gong religion. They gave me a free DVD and pamphlet. From the first few minutes of the video it looks like the guy who developed Falun Dafa in 1993 held sell-out seminars all over China. The sudden popularity of a man with far-reaching ideas or just thinking differently has always been a good reason for death.
Mike Ross grinds away some rough edges while installing one of nine call box sculptures that tell the story of Mount Pleasant. Good thing someone had the idea to do that with the old police and fire call boxes. The boxes can be found all over DC, so this may lead to the commissioning of other artists to work on call boxes in other DC neighborhoods.
Saturday, July 24, 2004
11am- Unveiling, Hobart and Mount Pleasant Sts NW
12noon-Walking tour starts from Hobart and Mount Pleasant Sts
12-6pm Exhibit and refreshments at 3163 18th St, NW
(202) 460-5569
Ray was probably the reason I joined the Marine Corps. He was my father-figure during 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade when my Mom and he and I were living at 5077 Noble St Riverside, Ca. Ray and his daughter Ayana and fiance Kimberly came to DC today. They stopped by the Rayburn Building to see Congressman Jerry Lewis so he could perform the ceremonial kiss on baby Ayana
Have you ever heard the Monkees' song Last Train to Clarksville? It seems like a nice song but it's actually about a last visit at the train station before some guy gets shipped off to Vietnam ... "And I don't know if I'm ever coming home ..." Did you ever hear the M*A*S*H theme song? It is actually a song entitled Suicide is Painless. Did you ever hear the song about the six-pence, pocket full of rye, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!?
I was coming out of the National Geographic Building after dropping off some files to print and coming down the street was this "Billy Bass Car." It stopped at the light and a man almost shouted laughing when all the fish (including the lobsters on the roof) started singing and moving.
Many people may not know that there are practically no bowling alleys in all of Washington DC, and those are the people who don't bowl. The big joke is, that the bowling alley in DC is in the White House ... because there is one in there. Me and my fellow photographer friends AJ and Antonio went to Alexandria Lanes instead of the White House. As if bowling isn't a wacky enough sport on it's own, they had to put this place in the basement of a discount supermarket.
Me and my friend Brandon were sitting on the bench across the street from the DC City Court House when I noticed this squirrel chasing another squirrel. Then I started watching it through my lens ... I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The squirrel was playing with a branch. "Dude, look at this crazy squirrel," I told Brandon. It was soo playful I couldn't believe it. I thought it might have been bitten by a bug or something. It ran up the tree trunk and did a flip landing on its feet and started rolling around with the stick again. Brandon suggested it might have rabies and started making the squirrel sound. I took his suggestion for real and told him to be quite so it didn't attack. While we watched it ball-up and roll down the hill, and repeat this several times. "it might be a government experiment animal," I said. Wouldn't it be cool if they bred park squirrels to do tricks for you while you sat on the bench?
Vanessa Hidary shouts verses of spoken word poetry focusing on popular social issues. She has appeared on HBO's Def Comedy Jam. I was there at Woodrow Wilson Plaza shooting the event for ESPN Magazine, and focusing on the Washington Wizards Basketball player Etan Thomas. Thomas is also a spoken word artist. He seems like a really decent person too. He does a lot of work with the community, and tries to raise young peoples' awarness of the importance of education and making the right decisions with their lives.
I need to move out of my place at the end of the month. I found a couple places ... one on Corcoran St., too small though. It would be nice if I could find a place near a Metro subway, but anywhere in North West or South East close to downtown would be convenient. If you know of a place please let me know ... thanks.
