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
I can give LNS invites if anyone wants
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
^_^
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
can read such threads as:
- Stolen undergarments on Saturday- Manipulating men into LTRs and marriage- FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?- Is it possible to be super smoke and humble at the same time?- whats the website to order generic Viagra- How did you make up for election night depression?- any hill staffers wanna release some tension?
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 23:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?
omg
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 23:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
Is it possible to be super smoke and humble at the same time?
username on this question was "bho choom gang" right?
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Saturday, 8 November 2008 00:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
See I always assumed the LNS crew lived in Bethesda/NOVA and thus would not be fucking with DCs polls.
― quincie, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
no much of LNS lives in DC west of rock creek park! Like YOU!
― I DIED, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah actually I think some of them live directly below me. PICK UP YOUR CIGGY BUTTS DOUCHES.
― quincie, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
who wants to pal around w/ terrorists next week?
Busboys & PoetsMon, November 17 6.30pm Author Event, William Ayers
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
hey whatever happened to stephen x
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
HE DIED
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
well, maybe. I don't know.
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/no_restaurant_for_you.php
sala thai is fine for delivery and take-out? I don't understand the point about mediocrity somehow profiting from the restriction - if a restaurant truly sucks, it goes out of business, no? As pointed out in the comments, Adams Morgan is packed to the gills with bars and restaurants and I wouldn't say it's any kinda amazing dining district. Brains, tell me how it is.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sala Thai is eh. I used to eat there plenty before Rice and Regent Thai opened. Now I pretty much just do Rice since the last time I went into Regent Thai it smelled distinctly like rat poison.
This overlay needs to get changed but it's not really a problem as it stands - I know plenty of people looking at opening up in that corridor and they don't expect any problems getting a zoning exception.
I think new building in DC should require all retail on the ground floor without restrictions - this would drive retail rents way down and would negatively impact efficiency of new development somewhat, but it effectively translates to having developers subsidize cheap retail. Because of the building height limits DC retail spaces are overpriced and we lack a proportionate population to support retail, so lower rents could do a lot of good.
Mediocrity does profit from restriction sometimes - like with cabaret laws in NY.
I think the biggest factor in keeping bad restaurants open is lack of reliance on repeat business. Woodley Park is a great example of this - it's got the same demographics and a similar streetscape at Cleveland Park just up the street, but it's got a bunch of shitty places and Cleveland Park has, generally, very good ones. The large hotels in Woodley Park mean there are a bunch of tourists and conventioneers coming through who are going to eat at that random indian place or wherever because it's right between the Metro and their hotel - I don't think it's the locals keeping that row in business.
I don't think Yg's argument is valid here given the current state of development along 14th/U St. There are a lot of older struggling places in that stretch that would actually be less expensive for a restaurateur to buy out and remodel than a new space would be. If Sala Thai is able to stay open despite not doing very much business that just means they'll eventually be bought out by another operator that thinks they can maximize their volume in that space.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
our football team is awesome― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
RIP
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
Inauguration Organizers Plan for 4 Million on Mall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111703672.html?hpid=topnews
woah
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
shit is going to be lunacy
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
and fucking cold as hell
apparently i don't care about going to the inauguration, but i still want one of these
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/11/20/obamas-mug-on-dc-subway-cards-for-inauguration/
― gabbneb, Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
#Have they done this for previous presidents-elect? If not, this is a blatantly partisan move by an organization funded with taxpayer money.Comment by Ryan Lile — November 20, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Have they done this for previous presidents-elect? If not, this is a blatantly partisan move by an organization funded with taxpayer money.
Comment by Ryan Lile — November 20, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
my favorite part about this is that if you click dude's name it takes you to a site to buy $100 designer dog bowls
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 November 2008 00:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
I enjoy the fact that this thread is easily found in the search engine by querying for "pitt shit"
I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION FOR BRAINS.
when would you be available to check out PROPERTY with your bro mewhenever is fine 'cause we just started looking and I haven't bothered about a lender yet
but tis the season for getting sweet deals on exposed brick & etc
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 22 November 2008 23:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tombot taking the property-ownership plunge OH YEAH.
― quincie, Sunday, 23 November 2008 02:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
I just got back from a very brief visit to your fine fine city and I am still getting over the fact that I'm going to be living near the fabulous Kramers book store rather than here. Though Kramer's website is a bit self-congratulatory, or at least the video is. ETA now some time in February, so will miss the Mall madness...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 10:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Kramerbooks is a fairly small bookstore with an OK selection and decent beers and shitty food. And it's open 24 hours on the weekend. That's all.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 24 November 2008 15:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
This year's Building Museum mini-golf opening this weekend. Wondering if I would be throwing my money away, based on I Died's take on last year's. I'm gonna try to be optimistic (although maybe I should wait and see what others think). * #Important decisions in life
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 May 2013 17:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Is anyone here going to the Cocksucker Blues screening/lecture at the National Gallery tomorrow without going to the preceding Ornette Coleman documentary?
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:28 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
didn't know about either of those but now i'm going to try to go to both!
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 25 May 2013 02:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I might just go to CS Blues, although I saw it years ago here.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
uuuuhhh, cs blues made me nauseous
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:52 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Yes, once again handheld camera work did a number on my stomach.
I liked best the lecture preceding the film screening. *toddles off to see if Performance is on DVD (legit or otherwise)*
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
first time I've ever been affected like that, I wonder if it was compounded by something in my lunch.
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:32 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
xp it is
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 May 2013 06:46 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
After reading the dcist.com editor tweet about seeking viewpoints from NYers on their new bikeshare system, I almost (just almost) wanna join Post columnist Courtland Milloy and his grumbling about bikepaths and what makes a world-class city, but then I take a deep breath and relax and move on.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 15:45 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/06/04/14th-and-youtube/
DC-based fictional dramas that air on Youtube: Orange Juice in Bishops's Garden; Real Housewives of Benning Road, and more
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
x-post-- What I mean is that the dcist.com editor never requests NY viewpoint on anything else that both cities share: kids struggling in schools; subway and bus transportation; etc.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
to be fair, a literally insane subway system is probably doing more to keep us from being a world class city than what we do or don't do about bikes
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
That WMATA guy saying that 10 years or something of weekend work will need to be done was something else.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-u-street_n_2612105.html
She lives in the U Street area and The Post writes that Sotomayor likes to pick up food from The Greek Spot, Chix and Tacos El Chilango, whose owner, Juan Antonio Santacruz, seems thoroughly enamored. “We love her,” he told the Post.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 03:07 (1 week ago) Permalink
Yes to the Greek Spot and Tacos El Chilango.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 11:42 (1 week ago) Permalink
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 14 June 2013 12:43 (5 days ago) Permalink
There have been vague references to 2017 as when Metro may return to normalcy, but most riders haven't heard that, and those who have don't know what it actually means. Thus, the Washington Post today published an editorial calling on WMATA to publish deadlines, so the riding public has a better idea of what to expect.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 June 2013 16:17 (5 days ago) Permalink
what's been going on with the metro?
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:17 (5 days ago) Permalink
major track work/multiple station closings every weekend + weeknights after 10pm, "new" escalators that took months to install instantly breaking, so many elevator outages that the system becomes nigh-inaccessible to people who need elevators, plus a dude got hit by a ceiling tile recently.
"the metro becomes unusable on weekends" has become a pretty common refrain. trips that would take me 30 minutes wind up taking an hour plus.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 14 June 2013 18:27 (5 days ago) Permalink
i don't understand why they schedule maintenance on the weekends, rather than from 11pm-5am, when no one's actually using it. i mean, i know that's hard on the employees, but when has any entity ever cared about the employees, and isn't that pretty standard practice anywhere else?
― Z S, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:05 (5 days ago) Permalink
i'm sure ridership figures on weekends are like a fraction of what they are on weekdays, but even so
honestly if it weren't for having to commute to arlington when i lived in dc, i probably would have taken the bus like 90% of the time - i'm familiar with the reasons why, but looking at metro's coverage map as a whole you can REALLY tell that it's a city that just had a subway system kind of sloppily grafted onto it ex post facto (ie i still don't think i've ever seen a person get on or off at judiciary square)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:39 (5 days ago) Permalink
I read the first chapter of this once http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Society-Subway-Washington/dp/080188246X
I forget what its thesis was
― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Monday, 17 June 2013 04:58 (2 days ago) Permalink
Great book, no real thesis just a history. It gets into a lot of the larger transportation planning of the region/era without getting crazy unreadable. There's such a huge difference between subway systems developed before widespread car ownership and after.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:43 (2 days ago) Permalink
#fuckLAmetro
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:47 (2 days ago) Permalink
i'll have to check that out, been meaning to read it
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 17 June 2013 14:35 (2 days ago) Permalink
metro service has gotten amazingly bad over the years but i gotta admit the however many long month upgrades on the south dupont station were worth it, that new escalator is amazing as far as escalators go. high walls. sturdy. good lighting.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:44 (14 minutes ago) Permalink