Via Slashdot, check out this interview with Wilco. Jeff Tweedy is a cool dude. But then you already knew that.

i'm looking for a new, d.c.-based running partner to run in the city (anywhere from the mall to mass. ave to glover archibald park) to run with me. i used to run with my marathon-training coworker, but now that the marathon's over and done with, she's taken to running on a treadmill at her gym. and i don't blame her. it's cold out there. unfortunately, i no longer have that luxury, as i canceled my gym membership months ago, feeling that i was too robust and wild to run on an unfeeling, boring machine any longer. stupid me.

said partner would be willing to run with me 2-3 times a week, twice during post-work evenings and possibly once on the weekends, 4-6 miles each time (or longer, if you feel like it). normally i'd be happy to run by myself, bopping along to my ipod, and i often did in the summertime and fall, but frankly, it's getting a little too dark out there for me to feel comfortable hoofing it alone on rock creek parkway, aka Rape Lane.

c'mon, it'll be fun! i will be master to your pupil, pat morita to your ralph macchio, um....mickey to your rocky. etc. if you've been looking to start running, now's your chance. don't think you can't do it; i barely ran and was in extremely poor cardiovascular shape before i bizarrely decided to start just running all over the place. and it's fun! if you run, you can eat and drink whatever you want. if you run, you will develop calf muscles the size of grapefruits. if you run, you'll constantly be buzzing on endorphins. sounds nice, eh?

so. wanna run?

i'm normally not a theater-going, drama-watching sort of gal, but mssr. dceiver writes such a glowing review of dario fo's "accidental death of an anarchist", currently being performed at the rorschach theatre, that i think i must go. plus, i have a soft spot in my heart for dario fo, as it was one of my italian professor's personal favorite torture games to have us constantly translate passages from his work.

in other news of people attempting to educate philistine catherine, teresa has convinced me to go see a play called "a bad friend," which has something to do with communism, and since i'm a democrat, and all democrats love communists, it follows that i will LOVE this play. also, it's cheap. $3.50 for those 25 and younger, and if i don't take advantage of my youth getting me free shit, i will regret it later in life.

anybody in for either? you, too, can unwillingly learn about theater.

tommy's been using it forever, but i only converted yesterday. and boy, was it worth it. if one could be in love with an internet browser, well, i am, and i want to have 10,000 of firefox's babies. you can download it for yourself here, and read a post article on the benefits of firefox here, along with a post live chat here.

mmm. tab browsing. rss reader. mmm. automatic popup blocking. major security advantages. mmm.

dcbaseball.com

season tickets go on sale thursday, nov. 18th.

(via kanishka of dcist.com)

for all of you breathlessly following the casting of the da vinci code movie...well, for me then: tom hanks has been cast in role of robert langdon, havard symbologist.

interesting facts from the article: the movie's producer, brian grazer, originally wanted to use the plot of the book as a storyline for the third season of "24" (!!!), but dan brown wouldn't sell the rights to a piddly tv show. also, they plan on using foreign actors to fill the foreign roles, ie for hottie cryptologist sophie neveu and french cop bezu feche (jean reno is on the shortlist. huzzah). apparently a "recent oscar winner" wanted to play sophie (i'm guessing nicole kidman; can you imagine her attempt at a french accent? eesh), but they turned her down.

you can read tommy's hilarious interpretation of the da vinci code here.