Jason Linkins

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• Posted Go Home Already: So Say We All to DCist
  Thank you for having me as your guest blogger today. Sommer Mathis, in all her glory, returns next week. Please feel free to visit me here and here. And now, your Go Home Already for Friday, April 4. >> Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization: "When you have a bejeweled, buckle-shoed duke willing to pay 11 or 12 times the asking price for a block of renovated brownstones—and usually up front with satchels of...
• Posted Does D.C. Have A Novel Deficiency? to DCist
  Mark Athitakis' latest article in the City Paper, "Building the Great D.C. Novel," is a fine one, and it really gets the mind grapes juicing. It takes up a noble task: how to write the classic DC novel. His thesis, for which he builds a solid case, is this, "Though a few have come close, the Great American Novel has bypassed Washington." Along the way, Athitakis speaks to Jeffrey Charis-Carlson, a "scholar of DC literature"...
• Posted For Area Blogger, Brunch At Kramerbooks Becomes Distressing Sartrian Ordeal to DCist
  For some, "Hell is other people," but for one local blogger, hell is just one person: the maitre d' at Kramerbooks & Afterwords, who governed over last Sunday's brunchtime with a haughty manner and a tendency toward "psychological abuse." There were snippy quips over bathroom tokens, for example, and memories that seem to have been remembered in German. But the whole matter ended up taking an existential turn for the worse:I also heard Herr Säuglingsmörder...
• Posted WashTimes EIC Solomon Announces Coming Changes to DCist
  Earlier this year, newly minted Washington Times EIC John Solomon began making changes at his new place of employ. His first move was to bring an end to some of the Times' most sacred traditions: like deploying scare-quotes around the word "marriage" when preceded by the word "gay," and belittling a major national political figure and presidential nominee by referring to her constantly with her first name. Also, they resolved to be slightly less douchey...
• Posted No Taxonomy Without Representation to DCist
  My sister, after spending over a decade away from the Washington area, recently moved back to attend graduate school. As she had been away a good long time, and was only in her early teens when our family decamped for Orlando, Florida (a move we all regretted, trust me), she thought it wise to take the time to refamiliarize herself with the area. And, being a child of an employee of the American Automobile Association...