At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Camera phone FTW Monday night marked the first game of the Angels-Nats interleague series, so I dusted off my incredibly large Angels jersey (no really, it’s like really big. I bought it before they started making the women’s cut, so I swim around in the smallest men’s size) and headed down to Nationals Park. A [...]

Now I can get a bit of practice in before Olga’s next Wii tournament. It’s my goal to beat her in tennis. How the hell did those Russians get so good at tennis?

That’s the 22 year old guy who ran AEY Inc., the company that landed the nearly $300 million government contract to supply ammunition to Afghan security forces, and fulfilled it by giving the Afghans substandard ammunition that was made in China. Anyways, Efraim and the other AEY “executives” were recently indicted on charges of fraud [...]

Rick Dutrow, Big Brown’s trainer and the man who put the use of steroids in horse racing front and center with his colt’s bid for a Triple Crown, is ill and will not testify as expected Thursday before a Congressional subcommittee examining drug use and fatalities in the sport. [...] Even though he will be [...]

Came across 500mL cans of Strongbow during last night’s YPE happy hour at Rocket Bar in Chinatown (714 7th Street NW). Updated list: – Fado Irish Pub in Chinatown (draft) – Elephant & Castle Pub (draft) – Finn macCool’s Irish Publick House (draft) – 51st State Tavern (draft) – Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits (500 [...]

Senator Arlen Specter said he would not pursue Congressional hearings on the New England Patriots’ videotape scandal. “There’s not much more I can do at this point,” Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, told the editorial board of The Philadelphia Daily News on Monday. “We’ve exposed a lot. But the public attention span is so limited.” [...] [...]

As I previously mentioned, the entire reason I took this trip to New York City was to see the Mets play at Shea Stadium. After NYPD gave us the go ahead to leave the scene of the accident, we caught another cab. “Did something happen here?” our new cab driver inquired. “Yeah, our cab driver [...]

I made a quick trip to New York City this weekend. One of my roommates, Laura, had a Sunday flight to Israel out of JFK airport and had decided to go up to NYC a day early. We looked up the schedule for the Mets and Yankees, and since the Mets were in town I [...]

NYC for the weekend, originally uploaded by lfincher. In NYC for the weekend. Mets game tonight. Our cab driver hit a pedestrian on the way to our hotel (she will survive). More on that later.

Thanks to a former co-worker who informed me of my appearance in today’s edition of the Washington Post Express. I usually grab a copy of the Express on my way down to the bowels of hell (aka metro) but the Examiner lady was closer so I got one of those. Figures. Yep, making fun of [...]