First and foremost, I just came back from lunch at my beloved Elevation Burger only to find out they had raised the prices on the menu and dropped their combo menu! Now everything in the place has gone up 30%. I used to pay six fiddy for a number two and now its over eight bucks. I'll grumble, but I'll pay because their burgers are probably the best in town. Damn them and their heavenly burgers!


We went out to dinner last night with SS at Bangkok Joe's in Georgetown. What was interesting is that I found out over dinner that SS and her friends have a newfound hate for NBC4/WRC-TV's Barbara Harrison! You know, when ever someone goes on a diatribe about any local news anchor here that has been in this market for more than 10+ years, I have to question it. I mean, most of the people that work at WRC-TV are sort of DC institutions (which my wife hates me calling them that). I don't really have an opinion about Barbara Harrison since I don't wake up early enough to watch NBC4's news coverage and even if I did, I'd rather be tuning into channel 7 / WJLA's hottness Alison Starling and the awkward comradery between her and Doug McKelway with added geekiness from weatherman Brian van de Graaff. My little sister seems to think Ms. Harrison seems to be a nice lady since Barbara came and visited her elementary school when she was a kid. (Which leads to the wife ridiculing me for giving these people angel points for just coming to visit kids at local elementary schools.)

What was shocking to hear was that Barbara Harrison has been flubbing up her news delivery as of late. She told me that she would trip over words, seem in an altered state of mind, or just genuinely screwing up all over the place on live tv. SS and her friends have apparently attributed Barbara's antics to a bad train wreck. So bad that its good to watch every morning just to see how far she can take it, as well as see the tortured look in Joe Kreb's eyes. They even were thinking about developing T-shirts that say "Free Barbara" and "Save Joe Krebs." Hilarious.

I was still not convinced that such antics would be allowed on such a large market local news channel so I did some searching. Apparently a search of DCRTV's mail bag brought many hits back. One particular week of the beginning of March elicited numerous anger, concern, and heckling from viewers in the area. I even found another blog entry about the whole incident that was geniuinely concerned for Barbara's health. (What about Barbara?). Meanwhile digging deep into the blogosphere turns up the fact that this is not the first incident that has shown Barbara slowly loosing her marbles (Barbara made a funny). With all these incidents and just local news anchors gritting on some people's nerves, I found a site that just dishes out the hate on several local news anchors including Barbara Harrison.

I'm just confused that if Ms. Harrison isn't in the perfect state of mind, how in the hell did she score a fluff interview with Condi?! SS has several conspiracy theories which I can't get into since it does involve some slanderous/libelous suggestions. What's even funnier is that Katie Couric seems to wish her know-it-all self had beaten Barbara to the punch! Anyway, this entry is for you SS, you're right, somehow the DC news anchor "institutions" are seemingly breaking their own legacies down before my very eyes.