DC and Back

I promise I haven’t moved to a fortnightly posting frequency. I’ve spent the week at Activate without my personal laptop, so no posting last week. It’s catch-up time again!

• DC is very warm in September.
• No, really, sweating heavily after walking from the WMATA station to the hotel.
• I might be the only person on the Internet that finds HOXPOX boring.
• I went to Jack Rose and I’ve now had ‘pre-fire’ Heaven Hill bourbon. It’s…alright! Probably not something I would actually spend secondary prices on, but worthwhile to actually try.
• Conferences are fun, but by 19:00, I really just want to go to my hotel room and hide.
• YES, FATHER, I WILL BECOME A GOOSE
• On the quiet, Cincinnati has a varied selection of interesting concert venues. Take the Riverbend for example. An outside arena with a fancy roof and surprisingly few mosquitos for the time of year…
• Flying to DC at 6am and getting a notice at 4:30am that instead of flying direct as planned, you’ll be flying to Chicago instead is not a fun way to start the week.
• A thought: is it likely that despite everything, Oasis’s lyrics have aged better than Blur or Pulp’s? Granted, this is mostly because Noel is a member of the ‘make it rhyme and we’re done’ school, but there’s nothing as problematic as ‘I-Spy’, is there?
• It turns out that I don’t remember a lot of Ronin past the Sean Bean scenes.
• The electronic version of the Dishoom bookhas arrived and I now have the secret of the fabled bacon naan rolls. Coming to a larger audience this Thanksgiving!
• 2point4 Children is a series that has been mostly forgotten but has aged better than you think for a mainstream BBC1 comedy series (see also: Waiting For God).
• For my sins, I’m getting an iPhone 11 Pro. So many cameras.
• No more planes for…three weeks. Hurrah!