Naebody in Particular

You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.

“excuse me, I believe you have my red stapler…”

August 31, 2010

Active Spine and Support
Arlington, Virginia
out: friendship heights spray park

August 31, 2010

sparklet must of walked around this place for 20 minutes today, held up by some kind of fake-lawn-mower-works-like-an-old-dude’s-walker thing. unfortunately, i was alone so all the photos are decidedly top-down.

See a Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
friendship heights spray park, washington, dc
out: national sculpture garden fountain

August 30, 2010

not sure we’ve ever been to the sculpture garden when it wasn’t 20 degrees out, but it’s actually quite lovely. they even let you hang your feet over the edge — or in sparklet’s case, her face.

See a Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
national sculpture garden, washington, dc
take mommy to work day

August 30, 2010
going downtown

August 30, 2010

our nanny-share has shut down for the week — the nanny’s on vacation — so i’m off this week for some bonding-with-sparklet time.

nothing in particular planned, but it’s so #$%^#ing hot that whatever we end up doing, it’ll be indoors — first stop, national museum of natural history.

strange how the weather always seem to suck on my weeks off with sparklet.
“rise, my black bean. riiiiise!”

August 29, 2010

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commonwealth gastropub, washington, dc
out: brunch with the talimo’s

August 29, 2010

brunch with the talimos, our former nanny-share partners and sparklet’s bff. goodness ensued, not limited to jalapeno-cheese scones that were frankly too good for description with the English language.

More photos at taliandmo.com, but frankly we were too busy eating for much photography ….
video: sparklet, the filmographer

August 28, 2010

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMrzKEyh8E

it’s a little avant guarde. or maybe just weird for the sake of being weird. but who am i to judge?
week forty-six

August 28, 2010

photo of the week // week forty-six
humanity, pt 2

August 28, 2010

Favorite bit of coverage from the Glenn Beck-apalooza being held on the National Mall as we speak:

In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting almost to think like a minority, even like a persecuted one.

What does it take to believe that Christianity is an endangered religion in America or that the name of Jesus is insufficiently spoken or appreciated? Who wakes up believing that there is no appreciation for our veterans and our armed forces and that without a noisy speech from Sarah Palin, their sacrifice would be scorned?

It’s not unfair to say that such grievances are purely and simply imaginary, which in turn leads one to ask what the real ones can be. The clue, surely, is furnished by the remainder of the speeches, which deny racial feeling so monotonously and vehemently as to draw attention.

CREDITS: Excerpt from Christopher Hitchens’ White Fright, via Slate; Photo © Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post.