“America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall.”
A couple weeks ago I wrote about whether is was appropriate to publish a photo of Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard being tended by two comrades after he was wounded in Afghanistan. He later died from his wounds. I posted […]
A week or two ago I was sent up to Colonial Beach, the so-called Playground of the Potomac, to get a picture to illustrate a story about some proposed beach ordinances that on face-value, appeared to eliminate fun and/or shenanigans at the beach. Locals the reporter and I spoke to suggested it was directed specifically […]
*thank god for football
I tend to get down in the wintertime. I guess it is the cold and the gray skies. My wife on the other hand told me she can’t stand the summer, especially August. Come to think of it, I don’t like it either. And not just because I sweat like a pig […]
Note: this post has been sitting in the drafts for a long while – not sure why. -mike
With my wife very close to completing her capstone project for her master’s degree, I thought it would be a good time to get out of town and let her have some peace and quiet to finish up. […]
It seems like every time I get around to updating this thing, I preface it with ’sorry I’ve been away’ or some other excuse for not being a regular blogger. For a while I got hung up on Twitter and Facebook, both of which are simultaneously entertaining and eternally frustrating. I guess it speaks to […]
My first NFL game of the season was a long day. One of the reporters and I left Fred. Vegas at 8:30 am for the 4:15pm game in East Rutherford, anticipating at least some traffic. As it turned out it was a smooth ride all the way to the stadium. This was my first visit to […]
I spent yesterday at FedEx Field in not-so-sunny Landover for the first home game of the Redskins’ season. Surprisingly they won but I wasn’t there to see it – I bailed early as my deadline had come and gone, I was having a hell of a time sending pictures out and well, it is FedEx […]
Last night I was sent to cover a meeting of the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors as they held a public hearing and vote on whether or not to join the Virginia Railway Express. It started at 6:30 and my deadline was 10pm. I figured that was plenty of time. I wasn’t expecting to make […]
I haven’t had many positive things to say and I’m trying to minimize my griping about the newspaper business. I guess I should address that soon though as it has a bearing on my work. In the meantime, here are a few pictures from recent assignments including the Redskins/Ravens preseason game, a balloon festival, the […]
A few days after I returned from Key West, my boss Dave went on vacation for just about two weeks, leaving me in charge. I was kind of looking forward to it as I figured the dead of summer would be a nice time to ease into the management chair. It turned out that juggling […]
