New blog, same fop.

Howdy friends:

I have started a new blog about living in Shaw. It's called A Shaw Thing, and you can find it at the far more aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly free blog host, wordpress, at ashawthing.wordpress.com.

I'll still be updating this blog periodically, perhaps with less lengthy pieces and more brief riffs and links on music, politics, and the like. But look for more consistent writing at the new blog, focused on the theme of class, race, and identity in Washington. What else is new?

Summertime in DC

Ahh, Summertime.

Where the rivers of love, bile, and sweat flow freely from genitalia, political institutions, and unlikely-to-second-date brows…

Where sun and urine-meets-sewerage-like light beer mixes with barbeque conversation, where crime rates soar, and 7-11 slurpee cups leave bright, corporate tags across the sad graffiti of post-Borf Washington…

Into this world step Colonel Noah and Seargent Mark, shipmen of the Q, anchor of the free world’s free radio waves: carrying with them to DC’s humor-droughted rank and file: ITSLATEAGAIN:The Podcast Series. V - Summer in DC!

Featuring the following delicious additions:

- A guide to white people in Shaw-Howard neighborhood

- Mark’s infamous “Ching Chong” story

- ITSYOUROPINION! A 2 minute debate on Global Warming

- Perfectly hummable summer melodies from Lilly Allen, Jorge Drexler* (gracias mi hermanita), The Zutons, Keane, Brazilian Girls, and my secret weapon: a Piaf-meets-Bjork temptress named Camille. She’s so perfect in fact that I mess up attributing “Ta Douleur” to her, instead re-citing Lilly. Apologies.

NB: What you hear during the intro is not a hurricane, nor an approaching earthquake. It is our fan.

My love and sweat to you all!

-Mark