Returning home with a special guest appearance.
Link to the AudioBlog (MP3 File Format)
ShowNotes / AudioOutline:
60829 (13:18)
- Guest appearance by Britiany Cat
- Room Service Breakfast review
- Layin’ about before going to the airport (@~4:07)
- Washington National Airport, revisited (@~6:30)
- Return flight review (@~8:35)
Library of Congress.
Link to the AudioBlog, Part A (MP3 File Format)
60828a (18:10)
- Library of Congress http://loc.gov
- Deli Lunch (@~2:10)
- Folger Shakespeare Library Garden ‘walk-by’
- Captial to Union Station walk (@~4:45)
- Tina’s quick shopping review of Union Station shops
- Alex’s secret lives of the presidents, part 3 (@~12:45)
- What was in Lincoln’s pockets when he was assasinated (@~14:15)
Library of Congress Cherubs.
Link to the AudioBlog, Part B (MP3 File Format)
ShowNotes / AudioOutline:
60828b (3:07)
- Lack of show prep
- Waiting for a bridge explosion
- California Pizza Kitchen Review
- DuPont circle history (@~2:16)
- Prep for return trip
Union Station.
Day 4 Audio, Link to the AudioBlog (MP3 file format)
ShowNotes / AudioOutline:
60827 (21:33)
- Subways (the resturant) recap
- Tina stalks us to Starbucks (again)
- Spy Museum Review http://www.spymuseum.org (@~3:00)
- Postal Museum Review, featuring Owney the dog (@~8:00)
- Union Station Review (@~11:15)
- Twilight Tour (Jefferson, FDR, Kennedy Flame, Vietnam Wall, Korean War, Lincoln, and WWII memorials) (@~13:35)
Day 3, Link to AudioBlog (MP3 File)
Shownotes/AudioOutline:
60826 (35:27)
- Tina stalks us to Starbucks
- Smithsonian Castle Questions http://si.edu (@~2:00)
- Hishborn sculpture search for Antipodes (@~2:50)
- Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Planetarium, and IMax Review (comparison to smm.org IMax Dome) (@~5:00)
- Natural History Museum Review, featuring the Hope Diamond, gems, and why rubies are red (@~16:15)
- Natural History Museum (continued) mammal exhibit review and how cold a squirrel can get (@~22:30)
- Subways (food, not transport), local news, and airline strike denied.
- Washington DC Mayoral contest and social commentary (@~31:00)
The rest of Day 2.
Link to the AudioBlog Part c (MP3 File)
Shownotes/AudioOutline:
60825c (21:47)
- A bit more about Pigeon Man and his car
- The definition of a Mall (@~1:15)
- National Gallery of Art (@~2:25)
- Sculpture Garden, Jazz in the Park (@~4:25)
- National Archives/Public Vaults Review (@~6:30)
- Looking for Pizza, finding the Iraq Embassy (@~13:45)
- Review of Pizzeria Paradiso http://www.eatyourpizza.com (@~14:45)
- No Moleste (@~19:45)
National Archives – Nicest Bunker in Town.
Jazz in the Park.
The audio improves a little bit.
Link to the Audio Blog, Parts A & B (MP3 file)
60825a & b (39:38)
- Dinner review, Kramerbooks and Afterwords (http://www.kramers.com/)
- Fire alarms (@~6:30)
- Blind man and service dog evacuation (@~9:30)
- Counting stairs (@~12:00)
- Sleeping, or not
- Starbucks trip
- DC Subway review (@~15:00)
- US House of Representatives Gallery review (@~19:00)
- Supreme Court review (@~21:00)
- DC Cops, sirens, and cell phones (@~25:00)
- Pigeon Man (@~28:00)
Firetrucks outside your hotel? Not good.
&Afterwards.
Pigeon Man, got seed?
This is the first entry from the AudioBlog.
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Shownotes/AudioOutline:
60824 (6:30)
- Minibar
- Hotel room ‘Amenities’
- Airplane ride review
- Washington National Airport
- Taxi ride review
This is too good to be true, and too wierd to be made up.
I was looking up Elvin Bishop in Wikipedia (long story) and came across a paragraph that said:
Bishop’s daughter, Selina Bishop, was slain in 2001. According to the Point Reyes Light newspaper, “Bishop, her mother Jenny Villarin, and a friend of Villarin, James Gamble, were murdered as part of an elaborate scheme to extort $100,000 from elderly Concord residents Ivan and Annette Stineman.”
Ok, heres were it starts to get wierd. I checked the footnote reference and it lead to a, ah-hem, newspaper, that is indeed called the Point Reyes Light. There website looks real enough. You have to check out the advertising rate card though to find these quotes about the newspaper’s owner:
“Mr. Plotkin, who still carries a litigator’s briefcase, swept into town with big city literary ambitions and an appreciation for the symbolic. In The Light’s entrance, he replaced a historic photograph of the former creamery now housing the paper with images of Che Guevara and Joan of Arc, representations, he said in a recent interview in his office, of ‘’a messianic quest for quality journalism.’’
- THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 2006
“Bringing flair to the Point Reyes Light … Robert Plotkin, the upstart newspaper publisher in this isolated hub of organic farmers, bistro owners and wealthy Bay Area refugees, is on the move, his journalistic campaign in overdrive … He is, he boasts, an unapologetic “P.T. Barnum” luring new writing talent to town and a media Michelangelo creating the “Sistine Chapel of journalism.” …The new Light replaced Mitchell’s 100-watt news bulb with a journalistic floodlight. He wants to emulate the thoughtfulness of the New York Review of Books, the serendipity of the New Yorker’s pithy “Talk of the Town” and the gravitas of Granta, the renowned British literary quarterly.”
-THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 2006
So here’s the question; is this a real newspaper? If so, shouldn’t every business begin advertising in it immediately, just ’cause?
