Joe Fray

Tell me more about this Santurce Brewery

Parking funeral sign

In the wild (I absolutely adore the skull and crossbones)

HELP SAVE PARKING ON BRADDOCK ROAD Hi Neighbors, On February 23, the Alexandria Traffic and Parking Board will consider a proposal to ELIMIN ATE PARKING ON THIS BLOCK OF BRADDOCK ROAD and LANES AT THE BRADDOCK/RUSSELL & BRADDOCK/COMMONWEALTH INTERSECTIONS Far from being improvements to our neighborhood, this il-conceived proposal will- Make parking near our homes impossible for visitors and those who have no driveways: Slow ambulances, fire trucks and police vehicles that use it as an emergency route: O Increase traffic volume and road rage when cars are limited to one lane at intersections; and Make our neighborhood less safe for pedestrians when - without any turn lanes -cars speed . through intersections so that more than 1-2 can get through each green light If you agree that this will seriously harm our quality of life and property values, please write the Traffic and Parking Board no later than noon on February 23 and CC all City Council members at the email addresses below. You can also attend the public hearing in person to share your Views on February 23rd at 7pm in City Council Chambers, Room 1305 at the Del Pepper Community Resource Center 4850 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA. Thank you! iraficandeankingboard@ elexandriava.goY alvia caskins @alexandriava. goy sarah baoley@alexandiava.goy iohntavor cthanano alerandtavr.Ioy canek aauire @ alexandiava abdel.elnoubi@alexandriava.gov jacinta.greene@alexandriava.goy kirk.mcpike.@alexandriava.gov

They have flyers, too (not sure that last email address goes anywhere now)

I always wondered how the band that did "Barracuda" went on to make "These Dreams," but the deeper cuts of this album pointed that way more than I expected

Ann and Nancy Wilson facing apart with a heart between them. Photo by Toby Rankin

Today's album of the day is Dreamboat Annie by Heart, released on this date in 1976

Friends, Alexandrians, cityfolk, lend me your ears;
I come to bury parking spaces, not to praise them.
The evil that cars do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Braddock Road parking.

I think @sandymarks.bsky.social's point that it only says that you a) are a democrat (why else would you be there?) and b) don't *intend* to vote for the opposition before the primary even happens (i.e., things could change once the candidates are chosen) makes this not much of a "loyalty" oath

Brasil gold medal!!

Other than the lack of child abuse, it's pretty spot on

OK, ecto cooler, dry Curaçao, aged rum, lime juice

No, the color would be all wrong. Has to be code red

Hold on. This is true, but the recipe needs to conform: swap the sour apple for half allspice dram, half campari

OK, yes, but instead of sour apple liqueur, it's hpnotiq, and the rim is crushed blue jolly ranchers

RETVRN

Kindle cover of "Wuthering Heights"

I'm not sure about that Heathcliff, but he does mention a mattock at one point

The band on "From Boyarka to Boyaca" is playing with them that night, and it rules

I agree, but no I was referring to the fact that Virginia primaries are open and that's still what determines who is that party's choice

I leave the house for ten minutes...

We're beloved!

Who's coming to see them with me and @volcanojw.bsky.social at the 9:30 Club on 3/22?

Pixelated, black-and-white Eugene Hutz with green tape around the border

Today's album of the day is We Mean It, Man by Gogol Bordello, released on this date in 2026

Nate, it's 2026. I don't think NPS is your most-hated government agency

Right I agree it's weird they're done differently. But I think it's just as weird that anyone off the street can tell the dems who they think they should choose in a city-run primary. I'm not sure your last statement is necessarily true or even falsifiable

Email from The Onionati: Tall Wizard Seeks Love

This email from The Onion was disappointingly not about Alex Sarr

Primaries are a weird thing, and I'm not sure there's a reason any chump should be able to show up and tell the democrats who they are running. Like I remember my dad voting in the 1992 democratic primary for Jerry Brown because he wanted George Bush to win

Maybe open primaries are the problem

This is about a party choosing its candidate, though, not voting generally. I'm not sure I'm all that offended that the democrats want you to affirm you're a democrat before helping choose who will run as a democrat in the general

National security advisory system with the levels above "high" being pink polka dots labeled "really high" and plaid labeled "pee pee pants"

Higher levels including blackwatch plaid labeled "scary" and the highest level is the cover of Rush's seminal album "Moving Pictures"

Any excuse to post my favorite Harvey Birdman gag where the National Terrorism Advisory System continued beyond red to peak at the cover of Moving Pictures

The cover was designed by Hugh Syme who estimated the artwork cost $9,500 to produce. Anthem Records refused to cover the entire bill, leaving the band to pay for the rest. It was photographed outside the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park, Toronto. The pictures that are being moved are the band's Starman logo featured on the reverse cover of 2112 (1976), one of the Dogs Playing Poker paintings entitled A Friend in Need, and a painting that shows Joan of Arc being burned at the stake.

Today's album of the day is Moving Pictures by Rush, released on this date in 1981