Senator Warner has announced that he will not run for re-election next year. A sad day for Virginia.

Hey y’all. The survey that you so kindly nominated the crap out of is now available for teh v0t1ng.

Voting is your second most important duty as an American and I expect you to take it seriously.

Go vote now.

John wanted some analytics graphs so I thought I’d give them to him. Below are visits over four months for three sites I am invovled in: RVABlogs, WotBN, and Haduken.com

Richmond Magazine’s Best & Worst list never fails to disappoint the crap out of me — and it’s not just because I didn’t win Best Blog this year. When Maggiano’s wins Best Italian Restaurant we have a problem (unless you are my crazy wife). Plus, I want to know the juicy dirt on the worst things too, something RichmondMag doesn’t really do.

So in conjunction with RVABlogs we are going to do a better Best/Worst list: we have the technology, we can rebuild it. You have until Sunday the 26th to submit nominations (in the comments) for the best and worst in each of the following categories. Monday we’ll put up a survey and have the vote.

Get to nominating!

Food

• Desserts
• Thai
• Burger
• Sushi
• Mexican
• Pizza
• Chinese
• Vegetarian
• Southern
• Italian

Nightlife

• Bar
• Late night fare
• Place to go on Saturday night
• Drinks

Shopping

• Overall local retail experience
• Farmer’s market/Produce stand
• Grocery/food
• Clothes
• Mall
• Bookstore

Neighborhood

• Park
• Corner store
• Place to take out of towners
• Large scale renovation project
• Place to live

Entertainment

• Movie theatre
• Local Musician/Band
• Music venue
• Community Blog
• Website
• Blog
• Festival
• Live theatre/performance venue

I added “blog” as a category — Ed.

My friend James the Giant gave me the recipe for bacon that “tastes just like candy, man.” I thought I would share.

• Put the bacon in a baking dish (originally I typed this as a bacon dish, mmmm).
• Cover with fresh ground pepper
• Cover with brown sugar
• Bake (in the oven) until done, probably something like ten minutes @ 350 — ymmv

Boom. Try not to eat an entire pound of bacon by yourself.

I bought an Xbox360.

I will tell you two things:

• The Bioshock demo is fantastic
• I bought Settlers of Catan.

Last night on the way back from the Nats v. Phillies game I saw (twice) green lightning. I mean the entire sky lit up green. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

But no one believes me — even though everyone else in the car saw it too.

Did anyone else see any green lightning?