This is by far the longest piece I've written for @fastcompany.com, but it takes a few words to unpack why the NextGen Acela isn't that much faster than the old one, the past mistakes that got us here, and the incomplete steps Amtrak is now taking to speed up every train on the Northeast Corridor.

Results of nuclear testing in Rock Spring?

Needless to say, this sucks.

Halloween approaches in Rock Spring. #ArlingtonVA

Wow. Two Flos died in the same week.

RIP Mark Volman

Jazz and fascism

Early autumn in #ArlingtonVA.

rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through

Somewhere in South Carolina a teacher is begging for crowdfunding to buy construction paper for her classroom of thirty 2nd graders while the governor sends the National Guard to stand around Washington D.C.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Latest item in Rock Spring Park. #ArlingtonVA

The 10-piece Either/Orchestra, formed in Cambridge, MA in 1985, “will be coming out of a long hibernation” according to their leader Russ Gershon. i believe their last album was 15 years ago, but a new one is on the way.

Charlie Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on this day in 1937 📸 Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, NYC, July 3, 1975

Whoa… over 24,000 old vinyl LPs digitized and available for free to the public, including over 5,000 from shuttered Seattle record store Bop Street

R.I.P. Hal Galper www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5x...

Props to the newspaper delivery person who tied a knot in the newspaper bag today.

Did this impact the #ArlingtonVA theater? Still an AC/DH fan.

Sunrise moments ago from the summit of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park. A beautiful reminder, as Earth Month comes to an end, of why we need to preserve & protect our National Parks & our natural areas. @capitalweather.bsky.social

Congrats to Carol Kaye for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She played a great line on this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_...

Listen to some Pere Ubu today. RIP David Thomas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zN6...

It's peak DeVita sign viewing season. These 13 different signs (!) were spotted along the 7 blocks of George Mason between Rock Spring Park and Langston Blvd. Who's got some different ones? #ArlingtonVA

First horror of the day...

Arlington resident disappeared by the Trump regime. No due process, no hearing, no better than a bag over his head and dragged away. Why? Bc his wife, a US citizen, has Palestinian heritage and MIGHT be sympathetic to the people of Gaza. @beyer.house.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

The CPRO sign has aged as well as the road surface in the “BRT”/post-streetcar debate era.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

I didn't know the late Larry Appelbaum well, but I appreciated his dedication to the music. A small part of his legacy was a definitive answer to the question, "Who wrote 'Solar?'" iverson.substack.com/p/tt-491-mil...

RIP Larry Applebaum from WPFW larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/about-me/ he was a good one

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

Thank you Governor WMD-Ignorant L for our updated state flag. Perfection!

This is well worth a read (with a bunch of things to go listen to as well): www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Lots of lefties in Emmet Otter.

Had my first ever "show up for a gig only to find it had been preempted" night today. Reminded me of this great Charlie Kohlhase tune that commemorated when his band showed up at the Willow in Somerville only to find they had been preempted by a dart tournament: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV4n...

Ron Carter is still setting the pace. All recipes should come with a suggested soundtrack. Ingredients: 8 apples (Jazz variety or any red apple) Sugar, Cinammon, Lemon Juice, 3-4 Cinammon Sticks Tools: Vegetable peeler, Sharp paring knife, Potato masher, 2-3 Qt saucepan

Finished running all the streets of Arlington today (minus Arlington National Cemetery and the parts of Pentagon Access Road that are behind access control). 1/2