Not serious about wanting a gun. Serious about being broke, bored, and bothered. Entertain me please?
― j.lu, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
hi j. lu
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
Hi, how have you been?
― j.lu, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
this election season needs more I DIED
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah I'd be posting more except that I have tried putting Palin's head on Doctor Casino's other photos and it just doesn't work as well.
― I DIED, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
case in point
― I DIED, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
hello, I am in Oslo airport, I shall be here for some time it seems.
― I am not drunk sufficiently constantly (Ed), Friday, 26 September 2008 14:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
holy shit i love you i died
― Mr. Que, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
The atomium is not used enough for hilarious photoshops, god work.
Also that is the closest she ever got to foreign parts, I think
― I am not drunk sufficiently constantly (Ed), Friday, 26 September 2008 14:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
WOW.
I have missed the DC thread, frankly. Though not so much the Saturday morning too-many-beers-at-Big-Hunt hangovers.
― quincie, Friday, 26 September 2008 17:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
I miss the photoshopping.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love everyone.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 September 2008 05:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm gonna edit this thread title tomorrow so it has to do with that new coen flick. nobody panic.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 September 2008 05:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
when is beers o clock?
There. Go Skins.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 27 September 2008 18:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
last night you could follow the debate walking down 18th, even over the downpour. maybe not such a shocker but slightly odd nonetheless, in person.
― W i l l, Sunday, 28 September 2008 02:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
i had to be at work during the debate. and today from 11-7:30. all hands on deck until election day!
i will make some photoshops when i am back in the office.
did this the other day
― regular guy, scranton, pennsylvania (daria-g), Sunday, 28 September 2008 04:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wait was that really insane football video from way back (sandbox, maybe?)? Someone flying through the air in a ridiculous manner. I can't remember any other details, sorry. But it was awesome A++ would watch again if someone knows what the hell I am talking about.
― quincie, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
OH WAIT IT'S THAT GUY UP THERE INNIT?
― quincie, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
YEAH HE DID THAT AGAIN! this video is from last week!!
FLYING DAWKINS
― regular guy, scranton, pennsylvania (daria-g), Sunday, 28 September 2008 16:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
― I DIED, Monday, 29 September 2008 20:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wow.
― quincie, Monday, 29 September 2008 21:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
The cigarette is an especially nice touch!
^^^^what happens when you meet without preconditions
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 September 2008 23:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203346_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008102300047&s_pos=
"She's like one of us, just a normal, hardworking person, not someone from D.C. " said Ivan Capps, a Bureau of Land Management records manager who attended a Palin rally in Grand Junction, Colo.
fuck youuuuuuuu
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
the special prize we get for being #1 Obama supporters is that he's gonna come live here!
― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 15:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
not just him: On a chain-link fence erected by inaugural construction crews [near the White House], someone hung the sign: "Welcome Home Malia and Sasha!"
from the Post article on last night's partying. U Street was just, wow
― W i l l, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 22:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
that was my view around 11:30 last night, insane
― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 22:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
They call it the White House, but that's a (increasingly) temporary condition.
To each his reach, and if I can't cop, it ain't mine to hang.
― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 5 November 2008 22:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
hey guys we have to get this thread going again now that DC is the new BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
I SO want to move back.
Damnit.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am officially retired from breakdancing in the street. Ow.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.slate.com/id/2204096/
hey Slate: fuck youuuuuuuu for reprinting a 15-year old column about "life in DC" and saying "it's still remarkable how little of the city's character has changed."
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
orange line extending to NY? rendering of new 2nd Ave subway entrance.
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh man that would be the best i would buy so many records and work pays the smartrip
― 69, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
that's the part of the upper east side with all the fresh-out-of-college banker types and shitty bars
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
So, I'm coming to join your cool place-to-be city some time around February. Pretty jammy timing. I've visited before but only for 2-3 days. I think I'll be living somewhere near Dupont Circle/19th, if I take over the apartment of the last incumbent in the job...
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
cool
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
our football team is awesome
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
I get to learn the football rules!Is that a real TV show embedded in that vid somewhere?
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
nah.. DC go go band Mambo Sauce had this song out for a while and finally made a video for it, so.. that's what they did. chuck brown shows up at the end to tell the police to let them go, I guess is the gist of it
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Even your cheerleaders go on tour!
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain? TOO MANY I DEMAND RECOUNT.
― quincie, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
TOMBOT can you embed the mambo sauce vid at the top of the thread? tks.
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain?
http://latenightshots.com/
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
who all had logins to there? I miss the roffles ;_;
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
WAU
http://dcist.com/2008/02/06/reality_show_ba.php
― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh shit
OH SHIT
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/25/tonight-sean-hannity-exposes-boomtown-d-c/
Missed this Fox News expose on DC and politics and money. I'm sure it was insightful
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
huh. this exact subject was already exposéed a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/washingtons-economic-boom-financed-by-you.html
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yep, mentioned upthread (I always forget to read far enough upthread too)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:28 (3 months ago) Permalink
You guys are about to get 69F??!
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
and it's snowing/ice raining right now. then wednesday, supposedly high of 61F (last night it was saying 70F!), then friday, snow again.?!?!
― Z S, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
But she doesn't think so:
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/nation_crap_ital_HhE3movzcOu5eJzrxfwuwO
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
Help us. Help your country. Help your capital. Help Washington, DC. Clean it up. Drive into it, drive by the approach, see how rank it is. How murky. How smelly. How putrid. How vile. The area’s a sewer. It lacks only a dead body decaying there.
tbf there probably is a dead body decaying there
― Z S, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
more like the STINKIN monument amirite
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:55 (3 months ago) Permalink
It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
"In open areas around gutters, roadways, open deserted lots, it’s discarded soda cans, graffiti, syringes, rotted junk, rubber tires, strewn paper, chalk marks, cigarette butts, dog poop, empty bottles, thrown out plastic bags, open garbage, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needles, filthy rags, needles, junky clothes, broken plumbing facilities, backyards and front yards filled with detritus. Elvis alive is probably in there."
syringes, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needes, and needles all at the same time!
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:17 (3 months ago) Permalink
It's like fifteen paragraphs consisting of lists of things and ending with a ridiculous sentence fragment like "And it's shameful." What is she even saying? I'm tempted to fault her for identifying a problem w/o suggesting any solutions but she's not even identifying a problem; basically it's "I saw some urban decay in a major metropolitan area; here's some hyperbole and a lot of misconceptions I have about stuff."
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
"i drove to washington once"
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
also lmao @ "geezers"
christ on a cracker has this person ever traveled to a city in a developing/third-world country? After three weeks in Sri Lanka, it took me a while to get over how relatively spic-and-span our city is!
― quincie, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
oh god why did I read that. Is that how she always writes? It hardly qualifies as "writing" in the formal sense. Ugh wanna punch her. Hack is too kind a word.
― quincie, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
"The Big Crapple"
About 103,000 results (0.28 seconds)
― dope ass mug (los blue jeans), Friday, 1 February 2013 23:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
Missed the Forward on Climate rally today. I wonder how big the turnout was? Alas, Obama was in Florida having a golf weekend
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 February 2013 01:55 (3 months ago) Permalink
in florida having a golf weekend with oil folks, as it happened.
count varies from 35k to 50k depending on who you ask--looked to me like 40.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 February 2013 02:00 (2 months ago) Permalink
fan reaction to the dcu carlos ruiz pickup is, uh, muted
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
whoops wrong thread
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
fan reaction to Wizards crawford trade to Celtics for injured guy and benchwarmer is whatever
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:24 (2 months ago) Permalink
The capital city's DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license plate no-no's that prohibit everything from praising the local baseball team to expressing disgust with the Internal Revenue Service.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/vanity-license-plate-banned-washington-d-c-201629267--politics.html
BSTMEUP is permitted
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
TAINT is banned
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
TTAINTT is ok
brb, going to the DMV
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:02 (2 months ago) Permalink
TTAINTT is my new chillwave band
13 shot the other night.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/up-to-11-people-shot-on-dc-street-corner-overnight/2013/03/11/d7c5197e-8a39-11e2-a051-6810d606108d_story.html
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 13:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
So why doesn't Lanier have cops sitting between Tyler House and the nightclub at 2 am closing time instead of just doing her standard lets just shut down the club routine (especially where as here there were allegations that troublemakers were hassling folks leaving the club)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 March 2013 21:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/03/08/youve-seen-our-list-now-show-us-your-40-eats/?hpid=z9
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
What's new?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 18:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant
Sushi Taro
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
Hi DC. Miss you boo.
― quincie, Friday, 12 April 2013 13:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
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― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/04/26/come-get-some-a-lit-party-without-stale-crackers/
I don't know the work of any of these DC writers. But I still need to read Edward P. Jones first I think.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2013/v10i2/olivierassayas.aspx
So which one(s) should I see?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the only advice I have is: not Demonlover
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
isnt that shit called AUDIDOCS now?
― 69, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Yep the AFI Silver Docs fest is now sadly called that in honor of Audi of course; I was just asking about the AFI's separate fest:
May 2–July 1 Hailed by many as the most important of contemporary French filmmakers, Olivier Assayas has made more than 20 films across a diversity of genres, including features, documentaries and shorts.
He directed Irma Vep and Carlos and others (and includes Sonic Youth, John Cale & Pixies music on the soundtrack in some--says the blurb), and that controversial one Stevie says to skip (soulds like good advice).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sounds
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
it's not even controversial it's just boring and poorly made.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
you can skip Boarding Gate too. Summer Hours/Irma Vep/Carlos essential.
― Gukbe, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:38 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Thanks.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I missed the mini-golf at the National Building Museum last summer, but I see now I have a 2nd chance. It's coming back. Yay!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/04/30/mini-golf-returns-to-the-national-building-museum-on-may-27/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Gotta do it this summer. In other deadline-related stuff, I wanna see that Gordon Parks photo exhibit at the Adamson before it closes May 31
http://adamsongallery.com/exhibitions/2013-03-23_gordon-parks-an-american-lens/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
mini-golf opens near the end of May
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:20 (1 week ago) Permalink
oops, duh, says it right there in the link above.
Hoping sequester doesn't end concerts at Carter Barron and Fort Dupont this summer. National Park Service is keeping quiet about the full schedule till the end of the month, although the Washington Post shows at Carter Barron are cancelled, and the 4th of July concert at the Washington Monument is cancelled (but not the fireworks)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:23 (1 week ago) Permalink
last year's NBM minigolf course sucked, it reaffirmed every negative stereotype about architects caring more for aesthetics than function.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:27 (1 week ago) Permalink
But I'm gonna keep up my hopes for this year, since I never made it to last year's...Maybe they'll choose different folks to design them
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:01 (1 week ago) Permalink
Gordon Parks photos are imressive at the Adamson. For sale in the $10,000 range!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:55 (4 days ago) Permalink