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The recent exploits of beloved nerdbot Peter Orszag would have one thinking that DC is the place to get laid. If a four-eyed, balding asexual can find incredibly hot women to fuck him all the time, well then …. But because love in the District seems to be confined to rendezvous with prostitutes, small children [...]

How did you get to work today?  Hopefully you risked your life and took the Metro.  Or did you drive? Because if you did, you’re in big, big trouble.  It’s Car Free Day DC, which means that walking, biking, and mass transit are the only acceptable means to get from point A to point B [...]

So no less than three (3) Richmond people told us that we just HAD to go visit the Hollywood Cemetery, where Jim Morrison is buried, because nowhere else will you see such an outstanding specimen of pastoral cemetery design. Of course we had no time to visit this ghoulish wasteland of cadavers, so we saw [...]

MICROTRENDS  11:50 am April 7, 2009

PUMAs Loose On Streets

by Sara K. Smith

It’s the post you’ve been waiting for, the one where we point out that the acronym for a certain fanciful robot-car for lazy urban dorks is the same as the acronym for bitterly disenfranchised Hillary Clinton voters, har! Mark Penn is obviously behind this microtrend, called “Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility,” or “Party Unity My [...]

Thank you, Capital Segway, for giving DCites another thing to cringe about: Segway sightseeing tours. Now that the weather is warming up, flocks of fanny-packed tourists are just rolling around town (these people in the photo above were in front of the White House) in their Segways, giving Our Fine City a bad name.


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