Mom and Amy
(Mom_Amy2.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) We breakfasted at IHOP, where Mom regaled us with stories of open sea sport fishing.
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The Ong Incident, Redux
This is a followup to The Ong Incident, though now I’m thinking that “incident” is too grand a word for such a botched non-event as that was. Lots of links and analysis from Manuel Quezon III, and Inquirer columnist Conrado De Quiros has two columns on what should be done about the president: Curiouser and […]
The Ong Incident
So if I’m understanding the current situation in the Philippines correctly, here was the strategy, from my own paranoid musings: The Marcos/Erap-funded underground opposition attempted to pass off a new round of [faked / illegal] wiretap recordings as “proof” of the Arroyo family’s involvement in jueteng kickbacks and election fraud, via martyr whistleblower Samuel Ong’s […]
Wistful and Sleepy
(IMG_2380.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) Pandora drifts off.
Book Meme
Meme via Aelki. (I bought this bamboo-and-rattan folding bookcase for $10 from a moving sale on Capitol Hill. It was only a year later that I found the “Made in the Philippines” sticker on its side, though I should have figured it out from the quality craftwork.) Number of books I own: About 75, I […]
Metro Perspectives
(RailYard.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) Metro rail yard at Brentwood. (Wheaton.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) Wheaton Metro station escalator, supposedly one of the longest in the western hemisphere.
Deep Throat
Deep What? What Throat? I hadn’t been born yet when Watergate happened; I grew up in the Philippines, and the only reason I knew about Nixon when I was a kid was from seeing Rich Little’s Nixon-as-Jacob-Marley parody of him in Rich Little’s Christmas Carol. My whole experience of those days has been limited to […]
Concert at the Capitol
(Uploaded by brownpau.) I opted to skip the Memorial Day Concert at the Capitol and go skating instead, so you can stop looking for me on PBS now.
Q Street Doggie
(q-st-doggie-1 uploaded by brownpau.) Sad, forlorn-looking dog behind the fence of that big house at 20th and Q St NW, across from the Dupont Circle Metro exit. Aw!
Crepuscular Rays Over Northeast
Saw these lovely crepuscular rays shining through a layer of stratocumulus perlucidus clouds over Union Station and Northeast DC earlier this morning. (crepuscular1 uploaded by brownpau.)