Author: susansabella

Peace Is Its Own Reward

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This is an idea whose time has definitely come — again.  It’s been a brutal summer in DC.  We just passed 100 homicides for 2015 — way beyond the number at this point last year.  The cops aren’t offering much insight, other than there being too many guns on the street, which is not a new situation.  There are some new, crazy, synthetic drugs on the street, too, which might explain some of these murders.  The only silver lining, if there can be one, is that (to my knowledge) the MPD is not responsible for any of the killings.  In America today, that’s saying something.

Columbia Heights

2015

Borf?

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Not sure if this is actually his — but it looks like it.  There’s an article in The Washington Post Magazine this weekend about him, his work, his sentence and what he’s doing now.  His tag and his art were everywhere for a while, before he was arrested — and incarcerated.  He was just a kid.  The whole thing was blown completely out of proportion.  The judge sounded like a complete asshole.

Borf tagged the big, wrought iron gate at my school in Columbia Heights, and I remember being really pleased.

Calvert St Alley — Adams Morgan

2015