Skip to main content

What's That Smell?

Image
By
Time for the first edition of: What is that smell?

  • Bike riding home down 19th street, between Kalorama & Biltmore (which just sounds like it's a street that would smell funny, doesn't it?), around 8:30 pm on a weeknight. What is that smell? My theory, as I scrunch my nose up in disgust, is a big dumpster full of stuff people should be composting. Yup, it smells like really rotten food.
  • Walking along 18th street on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday during daylight hours. Reminds me (fondly? No, definitely not) of Castro street in SF during Sunday AM runs. I think it's puke from the night before, mixed with alcohol and cigarette butts. Can't be sure, but it is definitely not a pleasant odor.
  • Hallway of our apartment complex, first floor, generally Thursday evenings: cigarette smoke mixed with macaroni and cheese? Not sure but it smells like someone either burned their dinner and decided cigarettes might cover up the stench. Or maybe it's their Thursday Night Treat. I prefer the Office and other non-stinky things, but that's just me.
So there it is: What's That Smell - today's issue: the Woodley Park / Adams Morgan edition. Happy Friday!

- The one who doesn't remember cities being this stinky

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Saturday Morning Comparisons: by haiku

By
2 haikus 9 am Sunday morning in downtown Austin: Cyclists in spandex spin by Amidst the stench of vomit and homelessness Empty streets save for a motorcycle parade. 9 am Sunday morning, Alstadt, Mainz: The sun is shining A giant farmer's market fills the plaza Pedestrians, bikers, families smiling together.
Post a Comment
Read more

TV overseas!

By
The other day I had it. I threw up my hands in frustration. Why didn't we just get real tv already? Why does Chromecast give me such a headache? (clarification: it's usually not the Chromecast, but either our network or more often, our macbooks) Why can't I just turn on the news for a minute? Thus, the list below. I'm already enjoying a livestream of Sky News and the option to flip over to a marathon of That '70s Show. Ah, the familiar background noise of tv...  We use a (paid) VPN service to access delayed tv, and there are a lot of livestreams available as well; here's the list so far:  Live Channels: ABC Live Click2Houston  (Channel 2 Houston News) MSNBC Live Al Jazeera Live Sky News   (off VPN) CNN   NDTV India Reuters TV   Deutsche Welle English France 24 English Bloomberg   Washington Post Live Comedy Central  Fox CBS News BBC USTVNow  - the free version is good, the paid / HD version is re...
3 comments
Read more

6 Months In (almost)

By
We're coming up to our 6th month here. It feels especially poignant because our kindergartener finished his first semester in an American school. And boy was that first day full of tears. That day, that week, I think the whole month - every dropoff for every kid, every whatsapp text from a friend back home - anything set me off with this horrible guilty feeling that we had made a terrible mistake. (Full disclosure: I still feel like this nearly every day, but at least I'm not in daily tears about it...?) I'll never forget that first day of kindergarten. Staying at a dumpy (yet somehow $120/night) hotel with a free breakfast (truly, free breakfast at American hotels is the saddest breakfast), our son asked us to pack him a lunch. How? I asked him to please buy, it would be warm, he could eat well, and ... I didn't have a kitchen. He said, how about an egg sandwich? I put together the saddest egg sandwich I'd ever seen: 2 dry pieces of toast (no matter how much I ad...
Post a Comment
Read more