welcome to america

today was a day of confusion and clarity -


riding the bus home today and a woman looking rather clueless boarded after me. she mumbled something to the driver and he told her to just sit down. what she, clearly a tourist with limited english proficiency, said was - "is this the bus to georgetown?" what he she should have told her is what a horrified middle-aged woman barked -"honey, you couldn't be going more in the wrong direction! you're headed over the bridge and there aint no georgetown over there. you need to go back the other direction!" she still look confused and a young boy put his hand on her shoulder and said - "welcome to america ma'am!"


yes, osama is dead; or as the newspaper seller hawking the evening edition of the examiner at eastern market was yelling -

"extra, extra! it took obama to get bin laden!"

"we got him," obama stated emphatically, but i don't think it's as easy as that. bin laden, while despicable and detestable, was not the root of all evil and it would be presumptuous and dangerous to think that we're safer now than we were yesterday. i think that the most disturbing part for me have been all of the stories about the college students celebrating in front of the white house early into the morning. many of those students were from george washington university, my alma mater. at first i was perplexed as to why someone would go to celebrate that a person, again no matter how despicable and detestable, was shot twice in the body and once in the head at close range. it seems beyond explanation. but then i became even more dumbfounded as reports emerged that some of these kids were engaging in debaucherous behavior under the guise of celebrating the death of a man, no matter how despicable and detestable, who was shot twice in the body and once in the head at close range. petula dvorak sort of felt the same way.

but then i got home and the world started to make sense again. why, you ask? because i was greeted by pictures of pippa middleton that i inadvertently left on my screen last night. come on - woman, man - it doesn't matter. that dress is inspirational!






so welcome to america and god bless the flipflopfed! after all, where else could you get a story from the bus, commentary on bin laden and a gratuitous shot of pippa middleton all in the same blogpost?

no lesbians in lucketts

told you! the washington times played it straight.

lucketts, buckeystown, and the washington times

today was adventure day in the flipflop fed house. first we made a stop at wegmans in sterling and then we headed to the old lucketts store in lucketts, va. this has to be one of the coolest places around. tons of salvaged materials - old shutters, doors, weather vanes, windows - mixed with fun new stuff. while there we finally decided what to do with our bed. (you see - for four years we have been talking about making a bed frame. we've had tons of different ideas but never seem to follow through on any of them.)

we are going to make a headboard and foot board from salvaged doors - all hardware included! the headboard will be two doors side-by-side and vertical and the foot board will be one door horizontal. as we were looking at doors we struck up a conversation with a woman who was wandering the property taking pictures. she was from the washington times and was doing a story on the old lucketts store. she was intrigued by our idea and asked if she could take pictures of us for her story as we surveyed the doors. we obliged.

if this were any other paper i would say that you should look for kristin and me in an edition this week. but this isn't any other paper. this is the washington times - the conservative washington paper started by the reverend sun myung moon. (yep, that's the guy that started the unification church, better known as the moonies.) there is NO WAY that paper will feature a picture of two lesbians who are figuring out how to turn doors into a bed! i'll just have to wait for my moment of fame.

anyway, we ended up not purchasing any doors because another customer told us about an even better place to buy salvaged goods - chartreuse and co. in buckeystown, md. we're headed there tomorrow and i'll let you know how it is.