When I saw people riding an escalator that actually worked, I knew it wasn't DC.

right? this is what hit me the last time I was in DC.

Last time I was in DC, both of the Metro escalators on the way to and way from the American Indian museum were working fine.

You were lucky - not only is it more usual for the escalators to be out of order (seems that after a repair they break down after eight days, on average), but at one station I read a report that the only escalator that worked and didn't have chunks taken out for repair was going up. Which meant people either had to wait for the VERY slow elevator or, as some did, go down the up escalator. And after the Jon Stewart/ Steven Colbert rally, one caved in while people were on it.

at one station I read a report that the only escalator that worked and didn't have chunks taken out for repair was going up

Sounds like Federal Center half the time. The only working escalator to the platform goes up. Which doesn't work in the evenings, when 90+% of the traffice is heading down.

I think it was Wheaton. And the problem was that they had removed pieces of the non-working escalators so that it wasn't possible to use them as stairs.

If there's only one escalator working, Metro's supposed to have it going up ... which is possibly the only time I've seen this actually done.

Om reflection, I may be giving up on Criminal Minds; the new one ... it just isn't grabbing me. I'm not feeling any kind of ... well, anything ... from the characters. They don't strike me as being particularly intelligent or good at their jobs (except Garafolo). I can't work up much emotional investment in the investigators, the victims, their families, or the criminals. And I really need to get to sleep earlier .... The extra Garcia is nice (and WHAT did she have in her hair?), but if I get an hour of her working with people she has an actual connection with, I can do without it.

The original series, those people were smart, and not just Reid. Much as I disliked Mandy Patinkin, I wanted to see the stories and the other characters. But I may give up on them as well - I'm not liking the way it's trending. (yes, I know - blasphemy!)

I am torn about it. I think I'll put it on the tivo, and watch it if I feel like it. I think that the only reason I'm thinking about it is the Original Recipe has been sucking so much lately.

You're not alone. I'm giving it another couple of eps, see if it starts to get less weak-sauce, but then I'm gone. My wife's already dropped it; she's got much less patience than I do.

I watched The Mentalist tonight - and aside from the observation that I could be quite content listening to Simon Baker reading the phone book, the thing that strikes me is that Malcolm McDowell must get tired of playing creepy-ass sociopaths.

The Bones ep where Booth proposes has now been shown in Australia. Booth was... a bit of a jerk at the end of that ep, wasn't he?