mr. matty wright just donated (a third time! for a total of $100!) to my fundraiser for the marine corps marathon. so i wanted to thank him effusively. i also realized that i had forgotten to thank a couple of other people who had donated recently -- mark silver and tracey parker. matt and tracey are people i've only hung out with briefly in person, and i've never even met mark, so i am amazed by their willingness to give me money (i mean, how do you know i'm not really running off to rome with it? moo hahahhah). anyway i owe them all a million beers if i ever get the chance.

if you'd like to help out, but can only afford a few bucks (i know times are tight for all us poor post-college kids), make your way to our fundraiser next week! it's just $5 for drink specials and a raffle ticket! (i promise this will be over soon. just one more month.)

muse is playing the 9:30 club november 8th, the upstate life is reporting. though i haven't listened to them in a super long time, i used to be obsessed with them. they were some damn good britpop. earlyish radiohead, at least when i last listened to them. i even wrote an overthetop gushing review of their first cd for the dec.

anyway, that's one of the cds i am meaning to pick up, along with the arcade fire. where the hell is a good record store in d.c., by the way?

ms. jessica yu has sent me the answer to all my entertainment-related questions. since i'm still not very familiar with logan circle/shaw, i don't know what restaurants/bars/theaters/trashy liquor stores are easily accessible. (okay, i lied, i've already familiarized myself with the neighborhood booze stands.)

but here comes yahoo with smartview! all you have to do is map your address, hit enter, and it comes up with icons for all the establishments that are nearby. then you can search by type of food, bars, theaters, banks, atms, etc. it's fantastico! maybe this has existed for years now, but i haven't ever seen it.

by this i learned that the wooly mammoth theater is about 2 blocks from my house, which is awesome, because i'm going there tomorrow with teresa to see a play for 25 cents. i've already forgotten what the play is about, but how can i pass up culture for a quarter?

anyway...i hope you all can come to the happy hour raffle at front page in dupont next week (sept. 22). we have such awesome prizes as gift certificates to many restaurants, an hour massage (!), trial gym memberships, $50 to spend at the ritz-carlton, etc. and a raffle ticket is only $5! if you didn't receive an evite from me, email me and i'll pass it on.