I'm not sure how widely known this is, but last night Union Station in DC was shut down for about three hours. I saw the message on the electronic sign as I was getting on the metro late last night but it said "Union Station closed due to police situation" so naturally I thought somebody just got shot. Then I actually started thinking and figured they wouldn't close the whole station because one person got shot (ahh, the joys of a city), so I started making up a story in my head of a gang war breaking out right in Union Station--the coffee machines in Starbucks getting caught in the crossfire, the delicious Auntie Anne's pretzels riddled with bullets, the walls of Au Bon Pain stained with orange juice. It wasn't a pretty (pretend) picture.
Anywho, I get home and the story is on the 11 o'clock news. Apparently the station was closed and evacuated because of a suspicious package left in the Amtrak baggage claim. They eventually reported that it was nothing, although the suspicious part is that after about an hour or so, they started hustling the already evacuated people farther away from the building and across the street. The hilarious part is that the news actually had footage of this and while the police officers are mildly yelling at the people to back up, with a noticeable amount of panic in their voices, the evacuees are casually strolling along like they're at a parade. They were more annoyed at not being able to finish their frappuccinos than potentially being blown up. And it's not like this kind of thing happens every month--it was a total shutdown of a major metro and train station for 3 hours! Oh, how I love my fellow city-dwellers. That's the kind of jaded thinking you can't buy.
On a lighter note, who here has seen the Dave Chappelle "Lost episodes?" No wonder he skipped out and didn't want them aired-I personally think they've kind of sucked. The first one held a few chuckles but I don't think I even cracked a smile during the second episode. Luckily it looks like he'll redeem himself on the third with a fantabulous Cribs send-up. If not, I'll just go buy the second season DVD and put it on a constant loop.
Hey Shannon--Happy early birf-a-day!!!
Anywho, I get home and the story is on the 11 o'clock news. Apparently the station was closed and evacuated because of a suspicious package left in the Amtrak baggage claim. They eventually reported that it was nothing, although the suspicious part is that after about an hour or so, they started hustling the already evacuated people farther away from the building and across the street. The hilarious part is that the news actually had footage of this and while the police officers are mildly yelling at the people to back up, with a noticeable amount of panic in their voices, the evacuees are casually strolling along like they're at a parade. They were more annoyed at not being able to finish their frappuccinos than potentially being blown up. And it's not like this kind of thing happens every month--it was a total shutdown of a major metro and train station for 3 hours! Oh, how I love my fellow city-dwellers. That's the kind of jaded thinking you can't buy.
On a lighter note, who here has seen the Dave Chappelle "Lost episodes?" No wonder he skipped out and didn't want them aired-I personally think they've kind of sucked. The first one held a few chuckles but I don't think I even cracked a smile during the second episode. Luckily it looks like he'll redeem himself on the third with a fantabulous Cribs send-up. If not, I'll just go buy the second season DVD and put it on a constant loop.
Hey Shannon--Happy early birf-a-day!!!
posted by staca at
10:20 AM
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I thought some of them were very funny, but you could tell from how much he focused on the $50 million and how it would effect his life that he was totally uncomfortable with it. It makes you wonder, what could the Comedy Central execs have offered Dave that would keep him on TV? Less money? But I liked the Tupaq sketch. Not so much the Gary Coleman one.
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Miller Sturtevant, at 11:11 AM
i liked the one when he did the sketch with the person and the situation and the thing, it was funny. 'Memeber?
Anywho, i got the second season DVD set and i didn't laugh as much as I would if I was watching it with Staci. Whatev's. Thanks for the happy b-day bullshit.
Love,
Shannon
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Anonymous, at 7:11 PM
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