Lighting up the Screen Again

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/17223.html

I'm really excited to see "Howl" finally. This might be just the theater to be at.

Drag Racing

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/17212.html

If I wind up living in DC, I will attend this event every year, and I will become best friends with a drag queen. I love how willing and proud they were to pose for photographs. None of the, "ugh, I look so terrible." attitude that runs rampant. I also loved that there was an "Ambiguously Gay Duo."

I'm obsessed with Christylez Bacon

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/Arts%20&%20Events/afterhours/17208.html

So talented. So kind. So dapper.

Also brilliant

Brilliant

This stuff gives me the heebie jeebies

Seven Spookiest Places in Washington

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/artsfun/17148.html4

Man, this is heavy....

Gathering the components for the best. halloween costume. ever.

getting better at this whole 'society' photography thing?

http://www.washingtonian.com/PhotoGallery/186/2918.html#gallery

I love lamp

Adventures in Media: Make fun of Caitlin edition

http://www.flathatnews.com/blog/54/cultural-encounters/74232

Views from the 12th floor

Gotta love the discovery channel.

Probably my favorite class visit so far this semester. Let's see if we can top it.

More photography for the Washingtonian

http://www.washingtonian.com/PhotoGallery/175/2827.html#gallery

There are some hits and misses in this slideshow. I just gotta keep snapping and keep improving.

Meeting Jonathan Safran Foer at the National Book Festival might be my favorite moment of the semester thus far. I had him sign my copy of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. A lot of people I know aren't familiar with his words, which is a shame. My paperback copies of Extremely Loud and Everything is Illuminated are marked up with pen and highlighter

"Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."

"Songs are as sad as the listener."

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"

"My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time...
...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future."

"I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone…"

"We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say. "

After waiting over an hour in line, I walked up to the signing table and handed him my book. I wanted to tell him so many things about his words and the ways they have affected me for the past four years. He asked me my name, signed the book, and smiled. I whispered a 'thank you..' and walked off.

Despite and because of my inability to speak, my admiration has only grown. Eating Animals is next on my reading list.

Tallest Man on Earth run down

I forgot how much I love hearing live music after the Tallest Man on Earth show at the 9:30 club. Maybe I just hadn't seen a show in a while that was a significant sonic improvement over the recorded version. Tallest man's vocals were so forceful and driving and communicated so much. Maybe I'm all synthed out, but I found the twangy enthusiasm highly refreshing.

Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo

It was a busy weekend...

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/shopping/shoparound/16976.html

AND

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/16971.html

I'm digging photo abstraction lately