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uniquity July 15th, 2010

   

Well, while we are still playing the movie quote game, as in yesterday’s comments, here is the caption for today’s photo: “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Shouldn’t be that hard to guess…

   

It’s a topic that Matt and I have discussed at length before, and one of my favorites, because it’s sometimes hard to pick a side… Do you think people everywhere are mostly the same, or mostly different? In other words, is there even such a thing as being unique? Basic needs for water, food and shelter aside (although some might argue you don’t need food or shelter (and some of us prefer to just eat, ahem, roses)), I like to think we are all mostly different. Perhaps this is a romanticized view of the world, or maybe that’s just my public school education lingering on, thankyouverymuch Bushy Park Elementary. I think many kids are taught from a young age to believe that they are different, special, one-of-a-kind. There is no one else quite like you!

   

But then there are cases against this, like the power of the internet for example, when you find someone else on Facebook that loves the smell of skunks , collects elephants, thinks “Little Giants” is the best movie ever, and can sing every lyric of every Old 97’s album… wait! I thought that was just me……..

   

In the end though, I think we are all different because of the way we think. Even if you took the most seemingly similar two people, their thought processes would always be different, even on the same topics. You can’t account for the human mind and the way it works when you compare people. Some may say, “great minds think alike,” but I think this falls to into the category of coincidence. In other words, there are some of us who, yes, may be considered decaying organic matter (have you ever ridden the metro in the summer???), but I don’t think we’re all part of the same compost pile.

   

Happy Thursday to you, our very special Juxtaexposed reader.

   

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Das Commute July 13th, 2010

Go into the light!! Huff it up those broken down escalators!! Try not to be slower than those behind you. Love the commute…

   

   

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going green June 22nd, 2010

Peppers at the Dupont Circle farmers market — don’t they look crisp and delicious and ready to be stuffed and grilled? ahhh summertime is here.

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home on the range June 17th, 2010

   

A subtle little painting of a mountain range and river valley below, spotted on a wall in Dupont Circle. Reminds me a bit of an Alaskan landscape…

   

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USA! USA! June 15th, 2010

   

   

   

   

These shots are a few days late, but it was a busy weekend and the photo machine has been down at CVS… Soooo, here they are, better late than never — shots from the World Cup soccer watching party in Dupont Circle. There was plenty of USA love to go around and enough flag-themed t-shirts to put Zach Vogel’s closet to shame. That being said, there was plenty of good people watching to be done and photos to be taken. Where did you watch the games?

   

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take off May 19th, 2010

A flying geese sculpture in the Dupont Circle area… I guess this is what the view looks like if you are the goose at the back of the V.

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in the cross-hairs May 12th, 2010

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here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson May 7th, 2010

the graduate

   

Last night we finally made it to the Keegan Theater on Church Street to see a production of The Graduate . Neither of us are big theater buffs, so I won’t pretend to write an actual review, except to say that we enjoyed the show, even though it felt quite different from the movie — though not without using several of the more memorable lines. Maybe the hardest part for me was the omission of the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, which I still have an amazing urge to listen to this morning…

   

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One of these things… May 5th, 2010

   

…is not like the other ones. Forging its own path…or too lazy to hang on?

   

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purty garage April 26th, 2010

Flowers

   

Bringing you a little ray of sunshine and hopefully a smile, on what is currently a pretty dreary Monday in DC.

   

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