Happiness is More than a Warm Gun

Today started off bad, but greatly improved (Round 1)with the new eatery next to my office. After High Noon sold out to Organic on the Go, I lost my favorite turkey chili. The new eatery, Devon and Blakely, has a turkey chili that might even be tastier than High Noon's was. Bonus--a vast array of Cadbury goodness, including Crunchies and Wispies. Good-bye diet, it was nice knowing ya.

Happiness Round No. 2 began with this email. Yah! Culture! The-ay-tre!

I am so ready for Much Ado About Nothing, Orestes and Hamlet in the Folger Theatre!

Arlington: the Rap

This video has been passed around the DC crowd for a few weeks now, but I thought I would post it anyways. Arlington (the VA side of DC) is pretty prepster white bread, but yours truly lived there for four years before heading back to grad school in Chicago. Little did I know that its really just a suburb of Charlottesville (home of UVA). The video features my favorite old haunts--Whitlow's, Carpools, the Gold's Gym and, of course, the Starbucks.

And, yes, Arlington is sponsored by Vineyard Vines and Rainbow flip flops.

Reblog: Photo of the Day

Terrific photo of the day from DCist.com of Saturday's soap box derby.

Running the Disco

My friend Rachel has just started her blog about running her first marathon. Loved this post (mainly b/c I am mentioned in it as partner in goof off crime) about cross-training, specifically our after-work boxing class.

An excerpt but check it out in full here.

Today's workout: cross-training in the form of a serious butt-kicking session from awesome boxing trainer Marcus, who btw I do NOT believe is as old as he claims he is. These training sessions are a joint endeavor with my partners-in-goof-off-crime from work, and have thus far been both challenging and fun. Today was more a standard interval cardio workout and less on the boxing technique itself. It was a nice reminder of what those intervals are supposed to feel like - Level 10 perceived exertion, anyone? - which will hopefully come in handy when my next speed workout comes around.
Btw--boxing is hard but not as hard as our ab circuit. Boo planks. And side planks.

Reblog: Facebook Broke My Heart

LuvvBugg posted an interesting article about how Facebook ruins relationships. Interesting not because Facebook ruined the relationship, but because the people interviewed blamed their relationship problems (created by themselves) on Facebook. Facebook merely brought the bad behavior to light.
These Facebook flirtations are stirring debates online. At least a dozen discussion groups on the site and on personal blogs deal with the topic. Message boards declare: "Facebook Ruins Relationships." In one forum, a member confessed: "A three-year relationship ruined . . . if it weren't for Facebook, I would have never known he was sneaking around with other girls. . . . It's pretty much the new form of cheating."Indeed, better to be married for ten years before you discover his heart isn't true. Seriously, these people should thank Facebook for exposing their signaficant other's bad behavior--fooling around on you and being dumb enough to post it on Facebook.

Yikes!

DOJ's antitrust busting crosshairs are now focused on Google and its peers in the technology industry. The WSJ's Law Blog provides a good take on the issue. For those of you in the tech industry, pay attention. And for those who generally ignore my usual lawyer doomsday rambles, think about the last industry that DOJ went after, the airlines, paid record amounts of fines. British Airways alone paid $300 MILLION DOLLARS for alleged antitrust misdeeds. If I were Google, Genetech, Apple, etc, I would be a little nervous. This ain't chump change.

Passion Pit at DC's Black Cat

Great show at the Black Cat tonight. Checked out Passion Pit for the first time and the live show was as fun and energetic as I hoped it would be after listening to the their Chunk of Change EP and the newly released Manners LP. They clearly were having a great time playing their music and I had a great time listening. You can check the concert at NPR's website. Once again, I happen to get tickets for the show that NPR records. Its fantastic having the audio from all these concerts to go along with the ticket stub!

Opening for Passion Pit was the Harlem Shakes (also part of the NPR recording). They had been super hyped on the internet but the show itself was okay (certainly no where near as terrible as the supposedly terrific Vivian Girls) but I am not quite sure that Harlem Shakes is on the hot tamale train. I think they have the potential to be good but need to work on their stage presence a bit. Loved the addition of flautist-guitarist-saxophonist Jordan Goldstein. Terrific.