― quincie, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm always surprised by how friends of mine have managed to get along in sketchy neighborhoods like "oh, it'll be fine, don't worry about it," but I guess I don't have their good luck.
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
when my former roommates and i were looking for a place we looked at a beautiful house on harvard btween 16 and 15, and we talked to neighbors, many of whom had been there for 5+ years and seen the safety of the neighborhood improve greatly. we asked the current tenants if they'd had any troubles, and one replied, "oh no, not at all, no troubles, it's very safe. ...except the day we moved in someone smashed all the windows to my girlfriend's car and stole all her stuff out of it."
which we decided was not okay.
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
on the other hand, i've had my car broken into twice in two years at 15th & Q, there's been a pcp-enraged stabbing down the block, a mugging across the street last week, etc. nowhere is really all that safe.
um, i don't know what's required to get a p.o. box, but if you need a person on location i could probably help you.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, three things I like about the DC area right now:
1). Wonderland. 2). CDepot3). Mulligan's grill in College Park when it's 4:00 PM on a saturday afternoon, no one is there, and my roomate is bartending.
Can someone address the opinion I've heard that The Black Cat dance nights are like the psuedo-hipster/hipster single person's paradise? I've never been. Not saying I'm a hipster.
― Scott H, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I've had the window smashed on my car (U St) and that was annoying but there were regularly smashed car windows on that block all the time (don't leave stuff in your car parked on the street around there, duh..) What I did mind was Petworth someone totally busted up the car door lock, I got mugged, and I also heard gunshots sometimes. Not cool. My friends were always like "oh, it's not that bad around here.." Sure, it's fine, except I worry about having a gun pulled on me again every time I walk out the fucking door!
I guess the degree of annoying stuff you'll have in Logan Circle is one thing but that walk in the dark uphill past Florida Ave is not one I want to be doing all the time, is my sense of it. Right by U St metro and a bit south is OK just because there are tons of people around all the time and especially late on the weekends.
Thanks for the offer re: PO Box, I'm driving back for a couple days this weekend to see a few places and take care of some stuff, I'll just do it then.
― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm feeling a lot of enthusiasm for this bleakness.
black cat dance nights are best entered into with good friends, a great amount of alcohol and a minimum of self consciousness. i don't know that anything in DC is a hipster/single person's paradise. i don't know that anything in DC is EITHER a hipster's paradise OR a single person's paradise.
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
this is the first time in a long time that i'm not coexisting in both cities, which might be another reason i'm gravitating towards this thread.
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Marker-Miller Orchards 3035 Cedar Creek Grade, Winchester, VA 540-662-1391 • www.markermillerorchards.com • Activities: Pick your own apples and pumpkins on weekends. Scenic wagon rides on weekends. Picnic areas available. Also available: 10-15 varieties of apples, Barllett pears, plums, pumpkins, Indian corn, winter squash, gourds, mums, apple cider, fresh baked pies, muffins, apple cakes, apple cider donuts, breads and jams & jellies. Apple Harvest Festival: October 8th (9:00-5:00) and 9th (10:00-5:00) Everything apples!!!!!!!!!!! 20 varieties of apples to choose from, with pick your own available. Apple cobbler and apple caramel sundaes can be enjoyed while sitting on the front porch or listening to the music each day from 2-4 P.M. For the kids we have the barrel train, antique tractors, an apple pitch and room to run. Hot dogs and country ham sandwiches available for lunch. Wagon rides around the farm scheduled for every 1/2 hour. No admission fee. Pumpkin Festival: October 22nd (9:00-5:00) Come find the “great pumpkin.” Choose from ones already picked or pick your own. Enjoy pumpkin pie and hot apple cider as you browse around. Also offering hot dogs, country ham sandwiches, and homemade soup.
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The cider doughnuts at Cherry Hill Farm & Orchard in Clinton (301-292-4642) have such an avid following that you may want to order a dozen in advance or arrive early—the farm opens at 8 during the week and at 7 on weekends. Latecomers have to make do with plain doughnuts, but they’re great, too. Cherry Hill also makes soft-serve ice cream in flavors like apple pie and occasionally pumpkin.
― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
DC hipster paradise: Spilt Milk at Red, the last of which was a couple Tuesdays ago. With Red gone, I heard it might be headed to Wonderland.
Black Cat upstairs DJ nights (Mousetrap, Depeche Mode Dance Party, etc.) are much larger and a little less friendly than the downstairs DJ nights (Right Round, BLISS, bluestate, Guilty Pleasures). BLISS is my favorite of the bunch and it happens to be this Saturday. I also guest DJ there sometimes, so take that with a grain of salt. The worst thing about Black Cat backstage DJ nights (aside from the crappy sound) is that they shut down at 2am instead of 3.
new(ish) places:
I really like W Domku, a Scandinavian/Baltic restaurant/bar in Petworth. Housemade aquavits, a very comfortable atmosphere, and a staff with a personality surplus.
A few blocks south of Domku on Georgia Avenue, Temperance Hall will be opening soon. It'll be a restaurant/bar in the ever-expanding Joe Engelert empire, but I've got high hopes anyway.
Vegetate is open or opening soon on 9th st, featuring an awful name and all vegetarian menu. It's part-owned by DJ Dredd, so the music should be good.
I'll soon be trekking up to the new Dogfish Head non-brewpub in Gaithersburg. Hope it's worth the journey, too bad they're not brewing on site.
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Around U St fashion crimes outnumber violent crimes 3 to 1 these days. There's been a run of small-business stickups on 14th the past few weeks, though, one of which I think was Candida's bookstore, goddamit. If you've got to jack a business, in the future please make it Whole Foods.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Living in DC for about a year (Clarenden/NOVA and now College Park), I unfortunately see what you're saying regarding DC not being good for singles (at least singles without much power to weild) or hispter-boho-audiophile types. After college, I actually started out in New York (Brooklyn, east Williamsburg off the Flushing Ave J train stop) but couldn't find any good work, so five months removed from graduation I headed to DC. I am now ready and willing to move back to New York. Suffice it to say, despite all sayings regarding the grass always being greener on the other side, DC just doesn't seem too welcoming.
Maybe it IS impossible to compare New York to DC, but I just get the feeling that although both are smug and competitive, in NY I often feel that I'm struggling with other people, whereas in DC I feel like I'm struggling against everyone.
― Scott H, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scott H, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
if i could go to a pumpkin patch in the near future, i really would.
xp haha
― carly (carly), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been trying to occupy myself with drinking heavily! I recommend that, to everyone. I do not care for the Black Cat v. much. Downstairs is much better than upstairs in virtually every situation except maybe NYE. Though I've noticed less the hipster quotient and more the huge goth quotient upstairs.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
My coworkers sometimes joke about my issues with crossing South over the damn Potomac. My boss went so far as to deliberately set up meeting in RESTON and forced me to attend. Reston needs to justify its existence, as far as I'm concerned.
― quincie, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
futurebride and i are considering haphazardly moving to NYC. i don't think this thread is gonna talk us out of it.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey mookieproof is did your futurebride go to DUCK, too? Are you going to spawn a new generation of DUCKIES?
Note that I checked out the UNC roster the other day and, uh, WTF--is NO ONE LEFT from last year??? Arrrrgh, another season of frustration. . . and K going global, good god.
― quincie, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
ballston has always been ballston, though, as far as i know.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I will totally go cider-apple picking!
― library girl, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
oh, nevermind, it'd probably be pretty much the same only flatter
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I think it would be better to live in the city proper. It is just kind of like...ok the best I can do to describe NOVA is like living in suburban Long Island or Jersey, except without ANY of the local flavor or tiny establishments because EVERYONE is a transient out of town 9-5 5 days a week. Whatever local color scene might've been here before the invasion of the Stepford Corporates, it's totally been demolished and replaced with a total void which is really disturbing in a lot of ways.
But hey whatever dood we booked yr suggestion wedding spot! Thx for tha tip!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
For serious!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
i think you've booked JimmyMod, but in case not, this is the dude that's doing our photos for crazy cash: http://www.carlbower.com/
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I have to look into them this week. Can't you just do all that online these days anyway? That's what I'm hoping at least.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I have a sad idea that will never come to fruition of going to a Chinese take out, getting 80 or 100 of their little rice boxes, and printing up "fortunes" that invite people to our wedding! But you cannot really put such a thing in the mail.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link