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. . . on the community bulletin board at Mancini’s Cafe, Alexandria:
Lonely? Worried About The Threat Of International Terrorism? Need A Little Extra Spending Money?
“Here’s a scan”:http://www.polytropos.org/mt-static/misc/homesec.jpg of the whole ad. What I love most about it is the guerilla satire angle — no attribution or link or anything, just the piece itself. Now that it’s scanned I’ll put it right back where I found it. Kudos to whoever’s behind it.
Well, a few miles, anyway. Polytropos HQ is changing its coordinates in meatspace. The new apartment is in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, which is one of those areas that has a pretty good mix of “hip” and “quaint” and that everybody recognizes when you say it and thinks it’ll be a great place to live. Consequently the houses around there are totally unaffordable, as are most of them ’round these parts, so we’ll give that step another year or two.
Playground in walking distance: check
YMCA in walking distance: check (added bonus)
Metro stop: check, definitely walkable, though far enough away that you’d feel obligated to drive out and pick up people you don’t know very well.
Decent coffee shop nearby: “check”:http://www.stelmoscoffeepub.com/
Hiring movers this year, instead of the usual bribing-friends-with-pizza-and-beer. Does that make us grown-ups, now?
I haven’t linked to him in a while, but Douglas Farah’s blog remains a rare and valuable resource for tracking Charles Taylor’s mischief-in-exile and its implications for Liberia’s future. Most recently, see “this piece”:http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/17/a-bad-start-in-liberia-of-johnson-serlif#comment on some bad seeds in the new Liberian government, and “this one”:http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/22/the-administrtation-is-still-oblivious-on-taylor#comment on the Administration’s obliviousness to Taylor’s continued importance to both Liberia and the struggle against terrorism.
I’ve been getting absolutely hammered by comment spam. Don’t know if there’s some MT setting I need to tweak or if the built-in filters just aren’t doing their job. But in any case I’m going to turn off comments until I get a chance to sort it all out. Feel free to send your comments via email in the meantime.
