Monthly Archives: February 2009

AO: A Generational Talent

Alexander Ovechkin is almost too good. I’m convinced he’s from another planet. He doesn’t even make sense. Here’s his absolutely stunning goal from last night:

This is right up there with “The Goal,” which I thought would never be topped. Ovie just might have done that last night.

Here are a couple of other gems from this year. DC is so incredibly lucky to have this type of athlete in a town recently known for being where sports go to die. We’ve got him under contract for another 12 years after this one. He, and the other youth on the team are just getting started.

Do something nice!

I feel somehow cosmically nudged by this news story about Capitals owner Ted Leonsis and a homeless man at Union Station, and the interaction between Henrietta Hughes and President Obama at the President’s townhall meeting yesterday in Florida.

So here’s what I want both of my readers to join me in doing this week.

  1. Do something really nice for someone less fortunate. It can be anything; Buy a meal for a homeless person or family; Join Kiva and give a microloan to a budding entrepreneur in the developing world; Have a conversation with a lonely senior citizen; anything. It doesn’t have to break the bank. It doesn’t even have to cost a dime.
  2. Report back.

25 Things about Me

I got tagged with this thing multiple times in various places and since I haven’t updated in a while anyway, here goes.

  1. I collect hobbies. I tend to roll from thing to thing pretty quickly but music tends to always stay at the top of the list, either DJing or making it with live instruments, electronically, vocally or whatever.
  2. I am a data sponge, which means I am a fountain of useless information. I’ll spend hours reloading the Random Article on Wikipedia and drilling down into all the links. Yet I always lose at pub quiz.
  3. My first car was a 1987 (I think) Mercury Lynx. I loved that piece of crap. It changed it’s own oil!
  4. I’m allergic to cats but I have two of them. One I’ve had since high school, and the other since 2000. I love cats, but they are probably the last I’ll ever have.
  5. In sixth grade, I got my head caught in the revolving door at the World Trade Center. Ever since then, I have had an irrational fear of revolving doors when anyone else is in them.
  6. I don’t care for whole apples. I prefer them sliced.
  7. I’ve never traveled outside of the US. Prior to 2007, I had never left the Eastern Time Zone. Elizabeth and I are planning an overseas trip next year, though which is awesome! Passports are expensive.
  8. I’ve never had any surgery.
  9. The only bone I’ve ever broken was one in a pinky finger. — At least I think it was a pinky finger. I know I’ve only had one broken bone and it was a finger. I think I broke it on a radiator, which I was probably climbing on or something.
  10. I got two tattoos when I was 18ish. I don’t like either of them and want to get them covered with something awesome (and get more), but instead I spend my extra money on music gear that winds up sitting on my desk because I’m so busy all the time.
  11. I was on the wrestling team in high school for one season. I believe it was sophomore year. I won precisely one match all season. By forfeit.
  12. I was also in marching band, choir and every musical production put on by my high school while I was there. I’m 100% certain that this and the wrestling thing are completely unrelated.
  13. I’m nocturnal. I often wish I wasn’t, because the rest of the world isn’t which makes everything horribly inconvenient for me unless I keep something resembling a normal schedule. I’m still up late every night, but thankfully I don’t seem to need much sleep.
  14. I’m one of those nutty pro-gun Democrats.
  15. I can juggle. I like to do this in the produce section at grocery stores.
  16. I learned how to throw pizza dough from my second job during high school, when I worked at Pizza Boli’s. I learned all about pharmaceuticals by accidental osmosis at my first job in high school, at Giant Pharmacy. Now I work indirectly with pharmacy information. I sometimes think throwing pizza would be more rewarding, but the pay would suck.
  17. I just got booked for my first DJ gig on the west coast and I’m super pumped about it.
  18. I’m terrible at Netflix. I’ve had the same DVDs for months.
  19. I think it is awesome that I have a somewhat unique name.
  20. I want a motorcycle. Every year I say “next spring”, but it never happens.
  21. I’m not into most sports, but I absolutely love hockey. So much in fact that I am a season ticket holder and plan to double my tickets for next year. GO CAPS!
  22. At 29, I’m still not 100% sure what I want to be when I grow up.
  23. I once roller-skated on a coffee table, and I have the scars to prove it!
  24. It took several days to come up with 25 semi-interesting things. I think this is probably because I’m an open book and most everyone has heard everything anyway.
  25. And because I can’t go more than a couple of posts without talking politics; I’m pretty disappointed in the fact that so many of President Obama’s various nominees have tax trouble. Not because I see any of them as a huge deal, but because it tarnishes the image of “change” and looks more like politics as usual.