The Goodspeed Update

This is the sort of topic I suspect has been written about elsewhere, just nowhere I can find through some preliminary Googling. Like many urban neighborhoods, my neighborhood of Shaw has been gentrifying slowly for a number of years after experiencing heavy disinvestment in the 1950s and 60s. That means many blocks contain not only […]

The Chestnut Tree Cafe was a short-lived project of mine to collect pithy quotes about society on an anonymous Blogspot blog. Like many an ill-fated blog project, it was abandoned in the face of more pressing obligations. If I may be humored the point, it became as neglected as its namesake, yet like the purloined […]

In January I will be starting as a Research Historian at History Associates Incorporated, a company that conducts historical research for both public and private sector clients.

Today I announced my resignation as editor in chief of DCist. I plan on following the footsteps of SFist’s Jackson West and LAist’s Jason Toney and become an editor-at-large of the site. Except, I am not quite sure what that means and have not been able to find a good definition on the web. I […]

We’ve been covering him on DCist for over a year now, but it looks like Frank Warren’s PostSecret project is taking off in a big way. His book is #20 on Amazon.com Books and his exhibit at the old Staples in Georgetown is going over well according to Lenny over at DC Art News:
I cannot […]

Last summer I blogged about how CBS and NBC had censored an ad that was part of the United Church of Christ’s “God Is Still Speaking” ad campaign. The ad, which did run on many cable networks, portrays the UCC as an inclusive church open to all people. I subsequently discovered the church had issued […]

At the University of Michigan, the Native American Student Association (NASA) is seeking student organizations who want to sign a statement “In Solidarity Against Racism” whose signers agree to withhold support to any organization that maintains ties to Michigamua. Here’s the full statement:
In Solidarity Against Racism:
We the undersigned officially withhold our support, both now and […]