Neighborhood non-emergency of the month

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092501773.html

What will happen next month? Stay tuned! In the meantime, it seems as though you may want to stay away from me this week.

Abnormally fast vibrato

About 7:45 last night, running about 5 minutes late for orchestra rehearsal, I was behind this guy on 395.

I mean that literally: I flashed my headlights at him because he was driving without his lights on. Then two police cars sped past, soon to be joined by about two dozen more. I could see the first couple officers get out, guns drawn, and take cover behind their cars, which were probably 100 feet in front of me with a couple of civilians' cars between us. The suspect's car was also in my line of sight, which was a bit disconcerting, seeing as how I was not taking cover behind my car.

Eventually the police at the back of the, um, convention? directed those of us who were stuck to get off on the GW Parkway going south, so I turned around at the airport and eventually got to rehearsal ... only about 25 minutes late, and without getting shot. It was a good day.

WTF?

Former Mets minor league pitcher turned actor on trial for killing his girlfriend's cat.

The annual Ricky Williams update

Clearly we've been ignoring Ricky Williams, the original PH4H poster-boy, for too long. To get our attention, he's gone ahead and negotiated his own contract extension.

Tip: Do not wear around neck

Washington Post, page 1 of the Sports section:
Cejudo Done Grappling With the Past
Freestyle Wrestler Puts Hardscrabble Life Behind Him, Wins 55-Kilogram Gold Medal

(This one's for all you heavy medal fans out there.)

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Here's why lunch lasted 2 and a half hours. 15th and I streets NW? Say, that sounds remarkably like the front of my office.

But at least it was not an actual emergency. The all-clear came 45 minutes ago, and to look outside my office window now, you wouldn't know anything happened.

Which doesn't mean it wasn't nerve-racking.

This is Not from The Onion

This is a real headline from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz:

"Two Jews and a Black Man Help Phelps Fulfill Olympic Dream"