DC's 2009 Blizzaster!

It only took eight years of living in DC for me to experience my first blizzard! I took a few photos with my iPhone on my six block walk to the cleaners (only to find out they were closed). I was right in the middle of the controversial snowball fight on 14th and U Streets. As an innocent bystander, I'm siding against the anarchists. They were really rude and didn't mind charging into the snowy and icey streets despite the fact that there were cars coming. And I saw them throw snowballs at a cop--now that is STUPID.

I'm sad that I can't take full advantage of the snowpocalypse free work day tomorrow. Next time, we need to schedule these things on a really busy Wednesday workday.

P.S. To be fair, I was kind of around for the snowstorm in 2003, but I was coming back from New York, so it doesn't really count.

songs of the decade

I did this for the 90s over the period of a couple weeks while bored in class. As you can tell my interests are somewhat narrow, but that is the way I like it.

I started off by creating a list of 175 or so songs, then cut to 125, then to 56, tore out some hair, then got it down to 50. Enjoy.

50 John Reuben - Word of Mouth.
49 Tapes 'n Tapes - Just Drums.
48 Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats.
47 Animal Collective - My Girls.
46 The Roots - The Seed.
45 Spoon - The Underdog.

chris's albums of the aughts

I am a big fan of lists, music, and periods of time, the confluence of which is my top 10 albums of the aughts list.

10 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois. He didn't make much progress on the 50 state/album effort, but it was good while it lasted.

9 Radiohead - Kid A. The oldest album on the list. It opened me up to music I would have never before considered.

8 Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild. Huge bias with anything Pearl Jam-related, but there is nothing better coming through your headphones on the subway trip home from work Friday night.