The Wife and I found a good little pizza joint down in Old Town Alexandria this afternoon. Red Rocks isn’t a completely new place as there are a couple in the DC area, but the one in Alexandria is only two weeks old.
Now I’m not sure I’ll ever had pizza better
than what I had when we were in Tuscany, but Red Rocks was some of the best pizza we’ve had around here. The tiramisu was top quality as well, but the real winner was the bruschetta. Kind of odd in that the consistency was more like a salsa than most buschettas I’ve had, but the flavor was awesome. It had a little bit of an extra kick of spice to it that was really nice.
In addition to the good food, the service was great and the atmosphere was pretty cool. It wasn’t anything really special, but it had a nice simple character to it. If you’re looking for a good little place to grab a bite you should check it out.
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Tagged Food, Red Rocks pizza
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It’s things like this Slate article that have made me completely disenchanted and inclined to weep for the future of this country. Love him or hate him, how can you still have a complete lack of understanding about some fundamental characteristics of the leader of your country? And I’m not sure which is worse, the Republicans who don’t know that Obama isn’t a Muslim or the Democrats that haven’t figured it out. Yeah, I’m going to go with Democrats.
HE’S THE LEADER OF YOUR PARTY AND YOU DON’T KNOW SOMETHING REALLY FUNDAMENTAL ABOUT HIM. REALLY?
On top of that, the numbers are trending in the wrong direction. Instead of people getting a more accurate understanding, a greater percentage of people are getting wrong as time goes on.
Sad. Just sad.
After every World Cup there is much debate over the future of the coach of every team that participated, from the Cup winners to those that return home heads bowed in shame. (I’m looking at you France) US coach Bob Bradley is no different.
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Okay, I know what you’re saying. ”What the hell can he tell me about blogging? He can’t even manage to post anything in 3 weeks.”
Yeah, that’s what my tip is about. Don’t write a post about starting to post more and reinvigorating you blog in the middle of the World Cup, when you’re about to move into your first house, and you just got new responsibilities at work that consistently keep you at the office 10-12 hours a day every day.
So we’re pretty much moved in now and the World Cup is over *sniff*, but the work thing hasn’t abated yet. That being said, we’re going to make a go at this. Posts will likely shorter than some used to be, but its better than nothing. We’ll see what happens.
If you actually visit my blog instead of getting posts through email or RSS then you’ll quickly notice that things look a little different. Wordpress just released a new version of the blogging platform, and one of the biggest parts of the release was a new default theme that I’ve decided to use, at least for now.
At a pretty basic level, I was bored with the old one and I wanted to simplify the look a little and I’ll probably end up noodling with it again when I have a little bit of time. Most of the stuff on the right side will remain the same and should seem pretty familiar, but I’ll probably mess with the aesthetics a bit and try different plugins here and there as I find them.
Along with update/changing the look, I’m going to try to start posting more frequently again. Things have been sort of insane ’round these parts lately. At least one big thing going on that I should probably consider blogworthy that I could probably share.
I don’t know, we’ll see.
I’ve been super busy with work and non-work stuff lately so I’ve had basically no time to write anything, but there is no way I couldn’t comment on the WC. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I follow US Soccer very closely and I’ve been waiting for this Cup to come back around since we unceremoniously crapped out of ’06.
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From the holy crap files, a couple’s baby starved to death while they were in the middle of marathon gaming sessions raising a baby online.
In early pre-World Cup qualifiers you don’t learn so much about the team as you hope to learn about individual players. I think tonight we were actually able to learn a lot about some players and at least a couple of really key things about the team.
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Tagged Bob Bradley, Carlos Bocanegra, Clarence Goodsen, Eddie Johnson, Heath Pearce, Jonathan Bornstein, Oguchi Onyewu, Robbie Rogers, Sacha Kljestan, soccer, Stuart Holden, USMNT
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A couple of months ago I had to go to Dhaka, Bangladesh for work. Its kind of hard to give an accurate accounting of what its like in Dhaka using words and I didn’t really have an opportunity to take any pictures because of my work schedule.
Check out the video in this article to get a decent taste of what the streets are like there. It’s actually a little bit worse in real life in terms of how crowded with cars the streets are than this video portrays. Also know that there are a ton of vendors like this boy in the streets and a ton of beggars, most of whom are in really bad shape right next to them.
Usually, when I do an Audio Addiction its for a specific album, but I’m bending my own rules a little bit and doing “double disc” AA this time around. I got the three most recent Kings of Leon CDs this past Christmas, and I’ve been slightly obsessed with two of them ever since. Not to say that I dislike Aha Shake, Heartbreak, but it hasn’t worked its way into my blood like crack in the same way that Only by the Night and Because of the Times have.
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than what I had when we were in Tuscany, but Red Rocks was some of the best pizza we’ve had around here. The tiramisu was top quality as well, but the real winner was the bruschetta. Kind of odd in that the consistency was more like a salsa than most buschettas I’ve had, but the flavor was awesome. It had a little bit of an extra kick of spice to it that was really nice.
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