farewell, sweet weekend

{uncle Jack with the M Streeters}

{photo courtesy of Nique. which may or may not have been edited from this gem}

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welcome back from the weekend! this photo was taken during last summer's outing to Wounded Knee, South Dakota for a weekend with Krishnan's Uncle Jack. a weekend where Jamie sported wrist bands mid-calf (QUITE baller of her), Krish looked incredibly happy in his teal short shorts, and I was 3 and a half feet tall. ahhhhh, the good times.

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this weekend, though, the 3 M Streeters were split up - jamie and krish off frollicking at the Daddio compound on Chincoteague, and i was holding down the m street fort, playing a couple soccer games, catching a jazz festival show at Utopia, going swimming and fried fish eatin' out at Hains Point (!), fiiiiinally checking out Dickson, and possibly contracting emphysema from the 95 degree smoggy weather the District was enduring.

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ooooh, and planning ahead for Happy Wednesday this week. what do y'all think of catching some italian ice and an outdoor movie?

The M Street Mansioneer, an excerpt

{nique, so dang excited that it's time for installment 2 of The M Street Mansioneer!}

our dear friend Nique, who serves as the M Street mansion's wine sommelier, also moonlights as the editor-in-chief of our highly regarded, quarterly news source, The M Street Mansioneer. last quarter's issue, with over 24 copies sold (read: distributed at Happy Wednesdays™) District-wide, was a wild success. with the next issue nearing completion and due out in the next couple of weeks, i would like to share with you a sneak peak that Nique was kind of enough to pass along to me. please enjoy.

"Krishnan's third-piece-of-furniture celebration cut short"
By, Nique

Continuing the unlucky streak of events originating from 2AM Wild Cherry Pepsi cravings, Krishnan's record third piece of furniture, a small bookcase, was destroyed in a late-night freak accident on Saturday, February 2. Only nine short hours before, Aiyer had found the medium-colored wooden bookcase at the corner of 5th and M Sts. NW on his way home from work.

"Let me tell you, he was like a little kid coming home with his first 'A' in gym class," recalls fellow housemate Jamie Rowe. "He was so proud. While he was DJing our party that night, he even made announcements to take people downstairs to give them a bookcase sight-seeing tour. He got them to come down and see it by offering them 'dessert,' which consisted of one fun-size Clark bar."

Jimtern "Jimmy" Vazquez, a partygoer and bookcase-tourist who took the only known photograph of Krishnan with the bookcase before the accident (see photo at right), claims that it was a "solid piece of pine, that bookcase. Oak. Maybe hickory. Hell of a piece of furniture."

....read more in the next edition of the M Street Mansioneer, coming out soon!