Showing posts with label David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Blizzard déjà vu! Carol Joynt gives you a Georgetown view of the Blizzard of 2010


"It's déjà vu all over again" -Yogi Berra.
Above, cover of today's Washington Post


Above, a Washington Post cover from my
last brutal blizzard, January of 1996, when I
lived on Pershing Drive in the Clarendon
neighborhood of Arlington County, off of
Washington Blvd. and near Fort Myer,
home of "The Old Guard" of the U.S. Army
and the site of the historic first plane flight in
Washington.

(One of my former Arlington housemates was
a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
at Arlington National Cemetery.

That Fall I moved to another part of northern
Arlington County, just off of N. Glebe Road,
south of Lee Highway, where I had some very
hilly areas to deal with carefully whenever we got
heavy snow, and I had to make my morning and
evening walk to the Ballston Metro, which was
about a 25-minute walk sans snow.

All the video and photos I've been looking at every
day for the past week on the Washington Post
and Baltimore Sun homepages have reminded me
all over again about the absolute worst part of so
much snow: lazy and inconsiderate home owners
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/

In my case, lazy and inconsiderate home owners
who lived on the high east-side of curving, uphill
Glebe Road, with their alleyway/side street rear
entrances to their homes, who continually "forgot"
to shovel their sidewalks, despite the County
promising to take it seriously.

Folks like me who took the Metro into work in
D.C. every morning had to walk facing traffic
on main roads, just two feet from passing cars,
constantly on alert for skidding cars or blasts
of snow falling on us as cars moved past us.

I seldom took the bus running from McLean
south on Glebe Road to the Ballston Metro
station
on days like that, because even though
the bus stop was within of my bedroom window,
they were almost always running so far behind
schedule that it was quicker -if more arduous-
to walk, albeit very carefully.

Being very coordinated and graceful person,
I hated slipping and falling on ice, esp. in front
of a crowd!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/metro/passable-streets/

First saw this great video in my daily email from
David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/

The added reason to see the post at his website today,
Nary a flurry outside; not so at the Leviev
salon
is the photo of talented, savvy and oh-so adorable
designer Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss at the
City Harvest benefit held at the Leviev diamond
jewellery flagship store on Madison Avenue.
http://www.shoshanna.com/
She's got brains and personality to spare -love her!


Below, Carol Joynt gives you the Georgetown
grounded birds-eye view
of things during the
Washington Blizzard of 2010, starting with an
establishing shot of M Street and 32nd Street, N.W.



Also see: http://www.caroljoynt.com/and
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheQandACafe

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

When Your Blog Roll and Media List Has a Life of Its Own...

Because of some recurring problems I've been having
with Blogger.com the past week Hallandale Beach
Blog's Indispensible Blog Roll and Media List has,
of its own volition, decided to migrate towards the
middle of the front page from its side-pocket position.

Of hiding in plain sight, so to speak, perhaps to tempt
you to click some blog or website you've heard of
before but never seen for yourself, like the fabulous
WireImage.com, where I have both the main website,
webpage that directly connects you to all the
WireImage photos with a connection to Miami
and South Florida, usually but not always, at
-shocker!-South Beach.


Then there's IU grad Mark Cuban's always
fascinating Blog Maverick site.
(I highly recommend his recent post,
FireTrucks, the Internet and Life and Death

The great photos and topics at David Patrick
Columbia's New York Social Diary never
fail to satisfy -especially his insanely great photos
of New York after a big snow storm!-
always something worthwhile that strikes my
fancy and makes me think deeply at the blog
of defense and international
security author Thomas P.M. Barnett,
whom I first discovered years ago on C-SPAN,
and whose books are both prescient and amazing!

And you really can't consider yourself
well-informed about what's going on in
South Florida if you haven't read Miam's
own Eye on Miami before you leave
the house in the morning,
as it justly earned its rep as the most
consistently prescient and spot-on
blog in all of South Florida, even when
you disagree with them about a particular
issue.

There's something for everyone.

I'm trying to fix that logistics problem
but it may take a few days to unscramble,
so the blog may appear a little more
unwieldy in the interim.

Until then, to better read my daily posts
more clearly and without any bleeding
from other fields and graphics,
I suggest clicking the category header
marked Blog Archive, the third text
field down from the top.

Sorry about the confusion!

-Dave
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HALLANDALE BEACH BLOG'S INDISPENSIBLE BLOG ROLL & MEDIA LIST