videophile alert! for DC area friends

The Video Americain video store in Takoma Park is selling off its stock preparatory to closing. While they're not just giving stuff away, and while a lot of their inventory is VHS, it's worth sticking one's head in, as they are/were a tremendously eclectic place (as one would expect in TkPk). Their section of foreign films (not just Italy and France and UK but Brazillian, German, Belgian, Dutch, Poland, Hungary, India, Africa) probably takes up more space than their section of American drama.

also for DC area friends: housing BOLO

Please be on the look out for anyone you might know who needs a roommate or will be looking to sublet a small place in the near future. A friend of mine from Boston (rubicat) is interested in moving to the DC area and is hoping to find a small pied a terre (a bedroom in a shared flat or a bedsit) so as to be able to get here on the ground and start looking for work. Any assistance would be much appreciated!

party!

I had a great party last night, to celebrate St Andrew's Day. shy_kat and redactrice came as well as their friends Nick and AJ, the gruff but amiable gr_c17 and my friendly neighbours Krista and Erik. I had laid in a goodly supply of single malt (Edradour, Glenmorangie, and Ardbeg), which was well sampled, for the holiday, and we feasted on cheese and biscuits, raw veg, chips and a tasty spinach dip, lasagna, and takeaway from Pollo Campero (what holiday can survive without it? :-)

We also played a number of games (Melissa was insistent that AJ not be allowed to continue any longer in her Eurogame-virgin state), first Web of Power, then two rounds of Samurai. And Erik and Krista polished off a game or two of Fjords. We had Cantrip, Emily Smith, Silly Wizard, The Corries, The Tannahill Weavers, Battlefield Band, and Dougie Maclean on the playlist, with Old Bllind Dogs, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Andy Stewart, and John McCusker warming up on deck.

Thanks to those who came out for a fun evening!