Reviews

Recent experiences:

1. 2Amy's:  magnificent DC Pizza. Located next to the National Cathedral.  Insert joke about heavenly experience/many routes to heaven/Gluttony. Went with V, ran into a classmate from Brooklyn + Wesleyan- not a coincidence.

2. The new West End Cinema: lovely. An oasis of the avant garde, a hipster in East Midtown. Art house movie theater in downtown DC? Evidence that the city's tastes are improving? Can it survive the 2010-2012 congress?

3. Josephine and Lima: The former is acceptably typical, the latter is moderately elegant- Mies Van Der Rohe couches, lots of glass, club 2.0. 

4. Unstoppable with Denzel Washington and that guy from Star Trek (Chris Pine): Unstoppable. Like being on the Acela: alternatively exciting, exhausting, entertaining, disengaging, and reasonably quick/palatable.  

5. Bayou Bakery in Arlington, Virgina: fattening, pleasant, and extremely out of place. Good espresso. Will be more fun in the summer. Met the owner/chef: exudes entrepreneurial focus, professionalism, and understated confidence.  I predict enormous success. 

6. The Player with Tim Robbins and by Robert Altman.  Arguably the best thing I've seen all year on the little screen. 

7. Setting up a Delta Mileage run out of DC:  Nearly impossible. If the service on the shuttle wasn't so good, I'd move fully to the Star Alliance.