Still Lost In Space, After A Week...

Yeah, after a week, Capicostia, successor to the irascible Penn Brangler and the frightfully irregular Mel's Penn Branch Life, is still floating in Cyberspace, undiscovered by her River East sister-blogs. I was warned, prior to The Big Move to this new blogspot, that this could happen, if I didn't mail out engraved invitations to our new location.

I didn't.

I did, however, post a thread pleading everybody, who carried PennBranch.blogspot.com, to change our listing to Capicostia.blogspot.com that would show up as a title on their blogs and hoping that would put our friends on notice. I was hoping, also, to spare them the unsightly matter of carrying dead links, which I hate to find in my own list.

The press for the new direction of this blog, all created right here, toted the Capicostia idea as being a blog about Middle River Easters (D.C.'s Silver Coast), who identified more with the international, big city experience that 'Capitol Hill represents', than with other River Easters. Never intended for that to sound as though Middle River East was looking down on its East-of-the-River neighbors, but, it probably could have been.

If that was taken the wrong way and ham-handedly mischaracterized the residents of Penn Branch, Westover-Highlands, Randle Highlands proper, Twining, Dupont Park, Fairfax Village, Fairlawn and Hillcrest (which has a mighty high opinion of itself) as elitists, I sincerely apologize. It's true that many of us have always seen our communities as the exception to the Beltway's long-standing misconceptions about River East, but, ..for what it's worth, we have also always looked at the most troubled parts of Southeast and asked, "Why not them?"

And we still do.

There's hope...And Now, Anacostia is the FIRST River East blog to carry a link to our new location. Google just started listing us (the full URL), yesterday morning, and I've reached out to some fellow River East bloggers about updating our listing on their blogs.

Like most Middle River Easters, I'm an optimistic fool.

Crossing fingers now...

Mel Dyer