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2/19/25 madly
For the most part, I’m madly in like with off-road trails around DC, Maryland & Virginia. The only drawback tonight was a couple of bad, thick ice spots that I walked or sidled across and the doofus who wasn’t controlling his dogs on long leashes on the bike lanes near Rumi’s Maryland Meade works. One loud-mouth beagle came halfway into my lane and the guy actually had something obnoxious to say that I couldn’t quite make out rather than accepting responsibility for being a bad pet owner. Just control your pets in public!
Scavhunt
2/17/2025
I solved this one in 2 — it’s a VERY important word to me! (Me too! The importance part, not the solving)TRAIL
#Bingo Bison 15th mascot at Howard University where I teach medical students the history and physical with lecture, hands on experience and case studies. Differential practice and SOAP notes get to the clinical foundation of their studies.
2/16/25 #publicartfinder
This neon sign at Glen Echo has always seemed beautiful too me, artistically. It could only be better with a trolley at the doorstep instead of that POS car that ruined the trolleys and attendance at Glen Echo (not to mention the danger biking on McArthur BLV).
2/16/25 SUAVE
I subscribed to the Merrium-Webster definition as well in choosing this house with smooth curves along with the garden wall.
Another example of this definition is I N describing wine.
2/16/2025
SUAVEMerrium-Webster
suave
adjective
ˈswävsuaver; suavest
Synonyms of suave
1
: smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated2
: smooth in texture, performance, or styleUK Wine Forum
Can a wine accurately be described as feminine or masculine? Alex Rychlewski May 18, 2021
Alex Rychlewski
That was one of the subjects under discussion last night with my neighbors, whom I had invited over for dinner. I served a wine from Ludon, where they have family ties: 1990 Château La Lagune. This looked far younger than its years and had a delightfully evanescent nose of ripe Cabernet, humus, and truffle. The wine was suave and seamless, by no means powerful, but very elegant and poised. It was as good as it will ever be, even if I’m sure its plateau will be quite long.”
2/14/25 Dog
Found on ride begun on 2/15/26I had just gotten home in the wee hours and found this pup out wandering, probably with instructions to “go pee”.
2/14/2025 Ditty
DITTY
It does not have to be valentine themed. 🙂jacobsnchz14
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SCHMIGADOON! to play Kennedy Center
Posted: 2/8/25 at 1:36pmThere’s also that cute “Picnic Basket Auction” ditty that’s very “Clambake” from Carousel right before that whole scene. haha. Entertainment Weekly released the sitzprobe video of it as a sneak peek, I believe.
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Posted: 2/3/25 at 3:21pm
Yeah, I’d wondered about this: https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-schmigadoon-onstage-at-the-kennedy-center.html ”Yet, for all its savvy reinvention of show tunes, the production’s handling of race strikes a discordant note. The TV series knowingly engaged with the way musicals of the ’40s and ’50s marginalized or caricatured characters of color without giving in to what the historian E.P. Thompson called “the enormous condescension of posterity.” And although it’s still engaged with the subject — the songs “Somewhere Love Is Waiting for You,” “He’s a Queer One, That Man of Mine,” and “I Thought I Was the Only One” sidle up to rather than soft-shoe away from prickly topics — the subtle self-awareness has been diminished for the stage. To state the obvious: Casting a white actor as Josh diminishes the opportunities for the show to probe these problems. Lines from the TV series about “color-blind casting” and “miscegenation” have vanished, as has Mildred Layton’s testy observation that Josh and Melissa make an “exotic couple.” Gone, too, is a scene in which Josh trades confidences with Emma Tate, the Black schoolmarm, about the “menace” Mrs. Layton. When Keegan-Michael Key’s character says to Emma, “So she’s got a problem with you, too … Yeah, that lines up,” there’s a flash in her anthracite eyes, as if he’s picked at a scab she never knew she had; no such tête-à-tête transpires in the Kennedy Center version (which, unlike the show, keeps the schoolroom set sparse, with no Abraham Lincoln portrait). On TV, when Josh presents Carson (Ayaan Diop), the lisping toddler town crier and Emma’s ward, with a kazoo he tells the boy: “When I was in school to be a doctor … there wasn’t anybody like me in my whole group. And to tell the truth, it got pretty lonely sometimes.” In the musical, the sentiment is genericized into: “The other kids made fun of me when I was your age too.””
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2/13/25 CRANE
Richard and I went hunting all over creation to find a crane and low and behold as I took one last attempt on Hains Point (kinda where we started our Capitol Hill/Stadium trek) he saw one from a higher vantage point as he was about to cross the bridge into Virginia and shouted down to me.
I think this is my favorite shot because the contrast and focus on the crane is good, but I’ll post others on Strava. There also a distant, purple crane near the Kennedy Center perhaps.
Scavhunt
2/13/25 RUMBACuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar
801 9th St NW suite a, Washington, DC 20001Some random Rumba facts. I’ve done Salsa myself, didn’t know rumba was even sexier!
“Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and Matanzas, during the late 19th century. It is based on African music and dance traditions, namely Abakuá and yuka, as well as the Spanish-based coros de clave.”
“The rumba is characterized by close partner work, a still upper body, and slow swaying hips and footwork that follows a slow-quick-quick pattern (American style) or a quick-quick-slow pattern (International style).Sep 17, 2021”
“As Salsa and rumba are in the same family of Latin dances they share many of the same step patterns. The main difference? Rumba is danced at about 1/4 the speed of your typical salsa making it a much easier way to learn the step patterns off by heart before applying them to the faster music. Apr 8, 2019”
