Not serious about wanting a gun. Serious about being broke, bored, and bothered. Entertain me please?
― j.lu, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hi j. lu
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi, how have you been?
― j.lu, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
this election season needs more I DIED
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/9/26/f_headm_76efe7d.jpg
case in point
― I DIED, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit i love you i died
― Mr. Que, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I miss the photoshopping.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I love everyone.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 September 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
when is beers o clock?
There. Go Skins.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 27 September 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 dayhttp://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp127/deanofsomething/flying-dawkins.gif
― regular guy, scranton, pennsylvania (daria-g), Sunday, 28 September 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
OH WAIT IT'S THAT GUY UP THERE INNIT?
― quincie, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/9/29/f_partym_13ed283.jpg
― I DIED, Monday, 29 September 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow.
― quincie, Monday, 29 September 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
The cigarette is an especially nice touch!
^^^^what happens when you meet without preconditions
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 September 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/11/5/f_votem_35b8ffb.jpg
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/11/5/f_14um_e357205.jpg
that was my view around 11:30 last night, insane
― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I SO want to move back.
Damnit.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I am officially retired from breakdancing in the street. Ow.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/3009215557_30259c2b97.jpgorange line extending to NY? rendering of new 2nd Ave subway entrance.
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
cool
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
our football team is awesome
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Even your cheerleaders go on tour!
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT can you embed the mambo sauce vid at the top of the thread? tks.
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
who all had logins to there? I miss the roffles ;_;
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
WAU
http://dcist.com/2008/02/06/reality_show_ba.php
― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit
OH SHIT
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I can give LNS invites if anyone wants
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^_^
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?
omg
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
no much of LNS lives in DC west of rock creek park! Like YOU!
― I DIED, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah actually I think some of them live directly below me. PICK UP YOUR CIGGY BUTTS DOUCHES.
― quincie, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
hey whatever happened to stephen x
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
HE DIED
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
well, maybe. I don't know.
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
shit is going to be lunacy
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
#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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Tombot taking the property-ownership plunge OH YEAH.
― quincie, Sunday, 23 November 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT I am on crazy schedule for the next 2 weeks but should be OK to look at some places after.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 24 November 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I live in Swindon now, so an ok selection and half decent food will do me fine for now :-) I'm afraid I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to cities at the moment...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Recommendations for better bookshops very welcome, thanks in advance...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Second Story Books in Dupont is pretty okay for used stuff. Other than that. . . Olsson's used to be the other big indie bookstore around here, but they shut their doors. So you're stuck pretty much with Borders and B&N's.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks Mr Que. My colleague whom I'm replacing there also recommended Second Story Books, but she worked in Swindon for even longer than me, so I should not rely on her warped judgement...
I'll drop the excited puppy thing now. I'm showing up provincial England. I'm capable of getting over-excited by Whole Foods as well.
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh hey, I will be in DC tomorrow
I should have said something sooner, yeah?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
just tomorrow?
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be around! TOMBOT has my #.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i gotta spend the day w/family in the MD suburbs. not really looking forward to it, though prob won't be all that bad. theoretically i would be home about 8, but who knows.
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll probably get called in to work on some bullshit premise as soon as I get dressed and walk out of my house
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
goddamn circus.
tom I told you not to take that job with the circus.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
US-CIRCUS
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Not just tomorrow! J and I will be here thru Saturday.
Email me at djperry @ gmail if you want to do drinky type things
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
all this time I've spent wondering, who do I e-mail if I want to do drinky type things, and it was BLACK SEINFELD ALL ALONG!!!
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
ha
― W i l l, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
City to be renamed "Obama, DC" January 17 - 21, 2009
― W i l l, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Obamavegas
hey, the new Day the Earth Stood Still DVDx2 is more fun when you map the chase of Klaatu all the way up Connecticut Ave.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lol those fuckin' irish morons who own the fuckin' jury's hotel shut down for renovations on november 2nd
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
wait morbius are you describing an actual special feature on the new version or did you just break out the paperwork and a grease pencil while you were watching
Unless I'm mistaken, he's talking about a new release of the original movie (ie the DVD is new, not the movie).
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck, the jury's isn't gonna be a bargain anymore?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
that's my favorite place to stay in town
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxp: haha, neither, but I said "oh yeah that looks like Columbia & Ct." They did an awful lotta second-unit work in DC.
I'm not sure how much if Klaakeanu lands on the Ellipse, I don't want any part of it...
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The D.C. Council Tuesday night voted in favor of extending last call to 5 a.m. during inauguration week.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Dan I am available for post-work gathering tomorrow somewhere in the downtown-ish vicinity (note: my definition of "downtown" is pretty much the whole of the district, plus select MD stops on the red line).
Unfortunately Mr. Que has class on Thurs.
― quincie, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
dan went back to boston last sunday, he got sick of waiting for "those ridiculous 'q' people"
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
you ques, you lose
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha OK I should have made note of the date posted, huh?
― quincie, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
My baseball covention next summer is at the JW Marriott Pennsylvania Avenue, $179/might + tax, oh fuck that.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
uh, that's a good rate
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
for rich motherfuckers
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.marriott.com/specials/senior/default.mi
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
funny, Que (I'm in the most youthful third in that crowd)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a good rate for a good hotel on the Mall, motherfucker
(you want to do better, check the Tabard or the Jurys Normandy (promotional rate), both of which will require more walking in humid DC on the hottest coupla days of the year)
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
don't need to sleep on the Mall, assface
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
tell your fellow geeks not to have a convention there, then
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Why the hell are all you non-DC ppl on the DC thread? Get your own damn thread, douchebags!
― quincie, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Mookie is of course welcome as he is a former dcilxor. Gabbneb's time in the District does not count.
there's also these places
http://www.thedupontcollection.com/
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
WHAT DID I JUST SAY?
― quincie, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
did someone say somethng?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
;_;
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
hey dan give us a heads up next time yr in town, would love to hang. sorry we missed you
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
in fairness, I gave my brother a 72-hour heads-up confirmation that we were, in fact, going to be in town (we'd said we were coming but hadn't actually made plans)
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
On which side of this line do I fall?
I lived there for >6 years, during which time Ia) Had lots of drinksb) Ate lotsc) Met, moved in with, and married Mrs. B.L.A.M.d) Attended law school
May I continue to post, or am I doomed to remain a deemed lurker of the (Capital) Dome?
― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
if you've been a Hunan patron you don't even have to ask.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
BLAM is totally in. Dan is an honorary. Oh what the hell I love all of you, post away.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 December 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ok this is kind of random but if anyone is interested in downing good cocktails at christ0pher h1tch3ns's house and donating money to a really good cause (DC youth writing center) pls email me. lolomgwtf at gmail.
― W i l l, Thursday, 4 December 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I have had scotch with christ0pher h1tch3ns at his house! Really nice apartment. Lots of books.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, 4 December 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i am not from dc and will leave immediately so quincie doesn't yell at me, but i just had to stop by to commend Wi11 on winning the awesome gmail address game
― MINOTAUR FACEPLANT IS ITS OWN REWARD (John Justen), Thursday, 4 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
ha thanks. i also have development @ gmail. if you want CVs from the subcontinent i got em
― W i l l, Thursday, 4 December 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
my time in dc just about parallels BLAM's, except for the law school. was really ready to leave the city when i did, but now i really miss it. scotch at h1tch3n's place sounds great! i once had breakfast at at table next to him, he looked really hungover and barely said a word.
i'll be visiting again for the 24 hour drinks around inauguration day. yes!
― mark cl, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Damnit, I miss DC.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
And DC misses YOU.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 December 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I may be back for a brief time after Christmas. Stay tuned.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 4 December 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I really do not want to go outside today.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 December 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of like this weather.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 22 December 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
great winter to be unemployed
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Monday, 22 December 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there really any good season to be unemployed?
― quincie, Monday, 22 December 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
winter?
― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Monday, 22 December 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
RONG
― quincie, Monday, 22 December 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
no I see his point. mr. que posted this on another thread once:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25robb.html
― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 December 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
The MARC broke down at New Carollton and then my hat blew off on the way from the subway.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah the thing is I sleep better knowing there's a check in the mail.
KKvsG: better get a new hat--cold as tit out there.
― quincie, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes have you looked at the "Dirtbike Friends" flickr group lately
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
:D:D:D
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Saturday, 3 January 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry quincie.I wish it were possible to hate darren sproles as much as it is possible to hate pee rivers
― TOMBOT, Sunday, 4 January 2009 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link
we were watching the game at james hobans and right after the final touchdown the jukebox started playing LOVE WILL TEAR US APART. it was http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=286
― TOMBOT, Sunday, 4 January 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
WTF @ DIRTBIKE FRIENDZ
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
GUYS
NEXT DOOR to BEN'S is basically OPENthey will be FULL ON FOR THE INAUGI have told the head bartender he should get some ALE TO THE CHIEF from avery brewery but anywayWE SHOULD DRINK THERE
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly you can just hang out and have la chouffe or allagash in bottles and just eat ben's chili all day watching football at the giganourmous bar with like 9 fuckoff big HDTVs and that shit is like brand name for real all the way
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
also they apparently hired "chef rock" from teevee who is going to help them formulate amazing kitchen magic but I'm like dude everybody is just going to eat half smokes come on
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Being able to drink, watch tv, and eat Ben's in one place should pretty much be illegal or at least highly regulated. But until it is I'll be happy to take advantage of the situation.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 5 January 2009 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Also speaking of inauguration we need to figure out MEGAOBAMAFAP2K9 situation!
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 5 January 2009 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I am pretty much sold 100% on hanging for at least some period of time at NEXT DOOR (to BEN'S) sometime during the run-up; as per bro'ng out on the 20th itself things are probably limited for me because I have to show up at 8 FUCKIN AM the next day somewhere on NY ave for INDOCTRINATION TO SERVING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
R3-V4 still hasn't figured out whether she is gonna be working in an official capacity or not but I am definitely NOT working in ANY capacity from the 16th-on
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Here is the thing about the 20th - I think we should fap at a bar during the ceremony and just watch that shit on TV - it'll be early and warm! That's my plan, at least.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 5 January 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
of course that is the plan, we all live here, plus, not insane/stupid/insane-o-stupid
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean the fuck, if I gotta get up at fuckin' morning times and go downtown the 21st anyway, why I'm gonna do that two days in a row?
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
that made sense when I typed it. seriously though all I mean to do is strongly recommend next door to ben's as the hang-out-place for some day that weekend and the 20th too if we can get some seats
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
So much Obama at Ben's Chili Bowl coverage
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hey guys the list of places going for the later alcohol sales for inauguration weekend is up and it includes HUNAN PALACE?!?
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 12 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you guys have the day of the inauguration off?
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, but had to work a weekend day to make up for it
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.pushback.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/gtowninauguralball.jpg
trenh0lm b0ggs!
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lol darcars "his dad's got a dealership man"I hate white people
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, god noguys we know u are all young republicans there is no need to do this
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I have the inauguration off because I am quitting my job this friday
you are white despite your ethnic name, El Tomboto.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I might be white but that doesn't mean I'm people
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
you are a fed now are you even allowed to quit?
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean your job, not being white
i wasn't going to come down for this, but now...
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this article is even more cringeworthy than you can possibly imagine. Chefs Settle Down in ‘the Real D.C.’: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/dining/14wash.html
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Ms. Cashion calls H Street “a kind of post racial Georgetown, as it once was before the national retailers staked their claims there.” She’s consulting on the Mexican menu for the H Street Country Club, which is supposed to open in February. It will feature an irony-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.
jesus christ on a cracker^^^^
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously. this was so bad.
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i am so not reading that article again tomorrow when i get the paper
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
let's just start with the hyper-obsession with the race of every person interviewed and each neighborhood in this city. what was this story about - a demographic breakdown by ward? who writes this shit?
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
and that line about best Belgian beer selection in the city is so laughable. In a city where most restaurants have a strong Belgian beer selection. I feel like she went to one place, saw they had Chimay on tap, was super impressed, and deemed them "the best". an entire article made up of throwaway lines. Congrats NYT!
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Some people call it the Atlas District, others call it lower Capitol Hill and still others say it is Trinidad. The area had 22 killings in 2008. “I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.
H St bugs me out, I hardly ever went there even when I lived 5 blocks away, but.. really poor neighborhoods just around the corner & then you have a place like Granville Moore's where you can't get a beer for less than $8. hated worrying about muggings and break-ins but I guess they happen here @ dupont a lot and I just don't pay attention
hey I DIED, did you know Marvin was another quasi speakeasy? LOLOL
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't understand how playing miniature golf with Marion Berry and briefcases equals irony
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
see, a bar serving very expensive drinks to hill types is not enough like a country club, that you have to make a theme of it being a country club
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
a cool, P. M. Dawn feeling
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
AAAAAAARGH THAT ARTICLE
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
COULD REFUTE 240% OF IT
FUCK YOOUUUUUUUUUU
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
?? i have heard a lot of music in there but never heard any p.m. dawn, i dunno. p.m. dawn are okay, it's just not a connection i would come up with.
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post) that is the situation as I see it
(x-post) this city needs more PM Dawn
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol NYT articles about DC are always so special
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
this city needs more PM Dawn
^^ this. more early 90's hip hop/r&b anywhere, i got four compilations of new jack swing not long ago.. hadn't heard some of those songs since 1992 <3 <3 <3
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"GILLIAN CLARK calls fried chicken the curse of the black chef"
hmm that is so interesting as your restaurant offered a fried chicken dinner for the four years it was open
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Ms. Clark’s parents are from Panama. She graduated from a Long Island, N.Y., high school. She enrolled in a French-influenced cooking school and was first taught by French chefs. But whenever she opens a restaurant, people want her to fry some chicken.“I’d be more at home making knish,” she said.
“I’d be more at home making knish,” she said.
wow because you had a fried chicken night but never a knish night
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like the early 90s fried chicken/r&b dinner why because it look so interesting
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Later this year, Ms. Clark plans to open Georgia Street Meeting House in her working-class neighborhood in Northwest Washington.
... in the ground floor of a luxury condo development
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
knish are superfrançais come on
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
“It’s such an interesting time for the real D.C., because for years there has been a whole lot of nothing going on,” Ms. Clark said.
yeah the years when "nothing" was going on was when you opened your first restaurant, when property values rose, when chefs planned the outposts they have now, when developers courted restaurant tenants to make an article like this possible.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Diane Gross and her husband, Khalid Pitts, just wanted to live, work and eat out in their neighborhood, which bridges Logan Circle and U Street.
Initially, their brokers didn’t get it. “When we were looking for a space, they all wanted to show us the Hill,” Ms. Gross said.
Diane u a liar I have worked with commercial real estate brokers during this time and it was all DOWNTOWN and GEORGETOWN, the hill was way back on the list.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
p.s. I love the drinks at your bar, though
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
guys you know what I can't WAIT to see what matt yglesias has to say about this article!!! maybe mcardle will weigh in too
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
hang on did I say I can't WAIT? HA HA I MEANT I CAN'T WHITE
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"That not only means black eating next to white, but gay next to straight and young next to old" - NYT on Cork, 01/09
"Black, white, straight, gay, young and not-so-young: They're all gathered on U Street NW in what looks as if it's been around for decades rather than merely one year." - Washington Post on Marvin (three blocks north of Cork), 10/08
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean seriously
I don't care if you're black, white, that guy in the riddler suit or a gym twink! You can eat chicken in this town.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Downstairs, where a huge folk art image of Mr. Gaye dominates one wall, the restaurant feels like a stylish American speakeasy.
... a speakeasy with wide open windows and a sign. Maybe if you want to write about something you think of as a speakeasy you will write about the place next door. OH WAIT you are writing about that this Sunday.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT OTM re: riddler suit
One good way to see the changes around Washington is to jump in Ms. Clark’s car for a tour, which I did last week. She starts out with a stop at Columbia Heights Coffee. Five years ago, Ms. Clark said, good espresso from a La Cimbali machine was unimaginable in this neighborhood.
please to note two people shot within a stone's throw of this place in the last two nights.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, well
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the espresso is that good
― velko, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Ann Cashion, a chef who has helped start many food careers in Washington, including Ms. Clark’s, lives there. The neighborhood, she said, “is truly still black, Latino and Caucasian in almost equal measure, despite the introduction of lots of new housing and D.C.’s only Target and Bed Bath & Beyond.”
No another Bed Bath & Beyond opened three years ago on 7th St. Also the restaurant you sold last year that still carries your name is not very good despite the $25+ entrees.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Columbia Heights vs. the setting of Road House
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
ed the car toward an even tougher neighborhood, bouncing over a few dozen blocks of rough asphalt northeast of the Capitol. Some people call it the Atlas District, others call it lower Capitol Hill and still others say it is Trinidad. The area had 22 killings in 2008.“I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.
“I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.
okay this is actually incredibly OTM, from personal experience
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit, are they writing about the place next door this sunday? shit. it was full on a wednesday last time i was around there. what days can you actually go in there without a reservation any more?
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
who the fuck DOESN'T know that Trinidad is our Little Beirut
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the most successful is Granville Moore’s, where people line up on weekend nights to work through big, steaming bowls of large mussels simmered with bacon and wine, and dip perfect hot fries into curry mayonnaise. The place also has what might be the best Belgian beer list in the district.
No, Brasserie Beck, which is only a mile away, has the best Belgian beer list within 2000 miles at least, followed by about 5 places in Philly.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
lol daria I swear to god maur33n d0wd is going there this weekend
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Tina I am very much enjoying your fisking of this horrible waste of everyone's time A+++
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Maureen Down is going to Trinidad? Praise the Lord.
Ms. Cashion calls H Street “a kind of post racial Georgetown, as it once was before the national retailers staked their claims there.”
lol. just lol.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
It will feature an irony-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.
FYI this place was supposed to open 18 months ago, and will suck ass when it does.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Just reading the tidbits you've reposted here makes me want to move across the anacostia river or something. Jesus. RIP U ST U USED TO BE COOL
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no, i despise her. can some people not let her in, maybe? pleeeease?
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ny-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.“The D.C. culture has evolved now to a point where we can be proud of it,” said Lee T. Wheeler, the artist who designed the course.
“The D.C. culture has evolved now to a point where we can be proud of it,” said Lee T. Wheeler, the artist who designed the course.
u are the problem, not the solution
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) no I am going to hit on her an convince her men are necessary
And no one knows whether the economic downturn will stop the restaurant revival cold.
oh actually everyone knows the answer to this and it is YES
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
... just based on my experience in talking to many more restaurant and bar owners than were interviewed in this article.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i want to run into her and be like "maur33n who? sorry i don't even know who you are"
also ESPN2 is replaying redskins-niners 1983 NFC title game dudes! john riggins! darrell green! the hogs! JOE MONTANA
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
daria sundays thru tuesdays are cool there still. No guarantees after inaguration blowout 2k9.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yes! Brasserie Beck. I was going to say that clearly has the best Belgian beer selection in town - but was blinded by my rage from this asinine use of column space. and that is a very high bar to cross on any day with the NYT.
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dcfoodies.com/2009/01/beer-news-good.html
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
this really sucks for me and Tombot as we enjoy many single beers from a variety of craft brewers. Argh. I live in Ward 1 and not exactly sure which parts of the ward are covered by this.
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
btw when Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont moves to its new home a block east it'll have a 10 tap birreria!
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Wuz reading on the city paper young and hungry food blog about a New York writer for politico.com I think, who was supposed to come up with 10 DC restaurants worth eating at, and she listed only 8. She said that was all that she could come up with that met her NYC standards.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
she writes one of those every couple years, no worries
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
sucks about the single-beer ban. i bought 750ml bottles quite a lot when living in dc. though usually from chevy chase liquors on conn. ave. that's ward 3 right?
i might move back to dc later this year. i miss it more than i thought i would.
― mark cl, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that's ward 3
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that roller derby girl art exhibit at a gallery (forgot the name)worth seeing? How about the Jubilee exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum? I haven't been there in years. Heard Texas Fred talking about the Jubilee exhibit on WPFW and the NY Times just mentioned it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Cory Oberndorfer’s paintings combine the visual language of graphic design with the subculture of flat track roller derby. Oberndorfer elevates roller derby players to iconic status with bright colors and simplified, stripped-down forms. While having the look of mass production and silkscreen, these paintings are actually meticulously hand-painted. at the gallery at flashpoint
http://www.flashpointdc.org/venues/art_gallery.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it quiet enough yet to go to Ben's or Ben's next door?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
No on Ben's but you can get lucky at Next Door. I was able to poach a couple of seats from a young couple that were on their way home Monday night. Ben's is pretty much our Wailing Wall or the Kaaba at this point.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
like, you circle the structure seven times, and then you get a half smoke.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill Burton, the press secretary for Mr. Obama’s campaign who is following him to the White House, predicted changes in the Washington restaurant scene’s pecking order.
Already, he said, Cork, a relatively new restaurant in the Logan Circle area of town, is becoming a popular spot for young, incoming administration hands, many of whom have moved to the neighborhood in recent weeks. 1-14 NY Times
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 January 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
please don't get me started again
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 22 January 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol terps
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 January 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
DUKE SUCKS
note - ben's chili bowl has calmed down a little bit, uh.. only about a 20 minute wait to get (vegetarian) chili fries around midnight? i couldn't really eat too many of them. it was nice stopping by though, i used to go there a lot in 01-02. they have a big obama picture on the wall now.
― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Saturday, 24 January 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Visiting from 27 Jan-7 Feb, mostly working/compulsory worksocialising but if anyone's free and wants to have a coffee/drink would be great, esp on 30th/31st. Moving out properly at the end of Feb, if the human resources dept manages to work out what I'm allowed to ship before I have to get out of my house. Feel a bit weird announcing my impending arrival since I'm about 9/10ths lurker and 1/10th poster, so consider this spam from some random Britisher.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 25 January 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
SOME NOTES
1. a surprisingly good brunch option is sette osteria next to the benetton/G-STAR RAW on connecticut/20th - go there, get the poached eggs on toasted bagel, order a side of mozzarella and a side of proscuitto and stack your own benedict, plus, excellent hot bloody mary and no crowd
2. marvin is okay, I recommend the allagash tripel since their price for it is pretty comparable to what you'd pay in a store. Momo's still has the best burgers around U st for some reason
3. I think everybody officially knows about Next Door now, oh well, more room at the saloon?
4. Carson from Queer Eye was hanging outside Busboys & Poets this afternoon. No idea.
― TOMBOT, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome ljublajana; would be lovely to get a drink with you upon your arrival, just post with your availability/approximate location as the date gets closer. Please note also that ILXDC prefers the term "britishes" to "britisher" and thus expect to be addressed accordingly.
― quincie, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
What is this "Momo's" and why would I eat a cooked hamburger when I could eat raw hamburger at Dukem?
― quincie, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost - thanks, will do that. Approx location will be Dupont. What's the singular of britishes, or will I exist in the plural?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"britishes" is both the singular AND the plural. As in "LOLbritishes be wanking over soccer again especially that one britishes dude MattDC."
― quincie, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
AmericansesAmericanersAmeriklesor simply Americas
― ljubljana, Monday, 26 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Magic People of the Eagles
― Mr. Que, Monday, 26 January 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/34fgmk2.gif
― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Monday, 26 January 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
From my predecessor in the job - Hi Ljubljana - I went out for brunch with (future landlady) yesterday and we had a quick chat about things. Firstly, she would like to meet you next week and has suggested a novel outing. Her husband is the executive producer on America's Most Wanted and has suggested dinner on Saturday, plus a trip to the studio to see the show being made - would you like to do this?
Ph - wh - er, yes.
― ljubljana, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
lol a high-school ex of mine used to do re-enactments for AMW
― Barack You Like A Husseincane (HI DERE), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
lol yanks
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
2-3 inches of snow = everyone freaks the hell out, schools close for "winter storm."
welcome to DC, by the way! i will get drinks.
― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Shortly before a meeting with business leaders on the economy at the White House, Obama said he wanted to make an unrelated comment to the press. In a slightly amused tone, he noted this his daughters' school, Sidwell Friends, was canceled today because of a snow and ice storm that hit Washington.
"Because of what? Because of some ice?" Obama said to laughter around the table. He said Sasha, his 7-year-old, pointed out that in Chicago, not only is school never canceled for snow, "you'd go outside for recess. You wouldn't even stay indoors."
He concluded by saying: "We're going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town. I'm saying that when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."
― W i l l, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man I'm sorry I disappointed you by walking slowly on the ice on the way to work today, Mr. President :(
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
gary williams = insecure asshole, exhibit 5369
"Kathy Worthington doesn't speak for me. She has never won a national championship. She has never done anything. She is an associate AD."
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
wow @ all the quotes!
"Yeah, and it wasn't my fault that they're not here. You know, that was somebody else's call""Kathy Worthington doesn't speak for me. She has never won a national championship. She has never done anything. She is an associate AD.""Why do they jump on me all the time?""It's somebody else's call. Who said University of Maryland's call? Nobody. Why can't I say that? This is just giving you guys stuff to make me look bad.""I don't want to get into that now. No comment.""Take a look. I coach here. I've got to live here. That's the way it is. I've coached here for 20 years, long before anyone else was here. Nobody was here 20 years ago."
"Why do they jump on me all the time?"
"It's somebody else's call. Who said University of Maryland's call? Nobody. Why can't I say that? This is just giving you guys stuff to make me look bad."
"I don't want to get into that now. No comment."
"Take a look. I coach here. I've got to live here. That's the way it is. I've coached here for 20 years, long before anyone else was here. Nobody was here 20 years ago."
he needs to retire already
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
3 more years on his contract I think, and the school has no money to buy him out (in this economy).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunday anytime for drinks if anyone can make it? I'm at Dupont, but can travel anywhere as long as there's a bus or metro - in fact it would be nice to get to a new area. I only really know Dupont Circle (not even far past the actual circle), bits of Georgetown and the little bit around Ballston metro.
Cultural points so far:
Your cab drivers are friendly but not psycho friendly People stop and politely offer help if you look lost, this is very very niceYour hotel breakfasts are extortionateI do not know what A-1 sauce isNever inadvertently touch anyone softly with the edge of your coat in a bar
― ljubljana, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
someone take her to a super bowl party
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, forgot about the superbowl! Next week may be fine also one eve.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 31 January 2009 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
How's the visit going?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Deeeeeeeeeeee Ceeeeeeeeeeeee. I alway like how Russ Parr says it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 February 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 russ parrdid you hear the zodiac sign part?
― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Friday, 6 February 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. I like the friday morning at 8 "wrong song" segment but it wasn't on this a.m.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry, I was out of contact. The visit's been going pretty well. New job panic and all that but I've got three weeks to get that under control. I head back to the UK tomorrow and then I'm back here on 26th Feb. Two friends just told me they'll both be in New York that weekend at the end of Feb so even though I'll have just arrived and should be getting ready for work I might have to get that Chinatown bus I've heard so much about...
― ljubljana, Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Yea, and if that one won't work for ya the bus has competition from other bus lines now
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 February 2009 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
just crickets here
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I am right now on Skype to Comcast, arguing with them about why they can't just switch the internet service into my name
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Good ol' Comcast...Always impressive with customer service
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
DC Folks be working all the time I guess, when not not going to dj nights and stuff--see the ilm Capital Swamp linkCapital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 February 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link - maybe the move will get me back out to gigs
― ljubljana, Sunday, 22 February 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Not music:
Sietsema in the Post magazine section only likes expensive restaurants, so why do I keep reading him every Sunday? I think he blogs and/or does a chat too, but I've never bothered.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
if you read him every Sunday, why do you think he only likes expensive restaurants?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/urban-burger-company,1135558.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/w.-domku-bar-and-cafe,1111346.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/spider-kellys,1152350.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/bars-clubs/stoneys-bar-and-grill,806077.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/pike-pizza,1145487.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/restaurants/nava-thai,1131986.html
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 23 February 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
It just seems that way to me Brian. I guess I exaggerated a bit although I haven't analyzed a year's worth of items. Plus I think I remember reading someone say that in a note to him, so it's just not me. Maybe also I've been just reading more Tyler Cowen lately and he covers all sorts of cheaper Northern VA restaurants that Sietsema never mentions (and he throws 'digs' at Sietsema too re some of Sietsema's dc faves)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 February 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, Cowen is valuable but also has a tendency to list places that have been closed for two years, and a lot of his feedback (by necessity) is based on single visits.
Sietsema generally tries to highlight places with the best food, which (not coincidentally) tend to be the higher end places. I think he's largely beyond reproach in his taste and fairness. There are always balancing complaints for him - some readers think he doesn't cover enough cheap places, an equal number of readers get upset when he does cover a mom & pop joint and throngs of people show up. Some complain he doesn't cover enough restaurants outside the beltway, some complain he doesn't cover enough in DC.
Do you read T0dd Kl1man's coverage in Washingtonian? He's very good and does tend to highlight less expensive places, his dirt cheap eats list especially has a lot of worthwhile finds.
Tim C@rm@n, who writes for the CityPaper, kind of specializes in finding the rare or unsung dishes and places on the cheaper side, but often errs on the side of overpraising an establishment based on a compelling backstory rather than the actual quality of the meal or experience (lol typical altweekly review problem, amirite?).
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 23 February 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
also Cowen mentions too many places he hasn't actually been to (although he does always mention this).
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 23 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Kliman best, then Cowen and Carman. Maybe I need to splurge some time on one of Sietsema's "best Food" places and I would appreciate him more. I kinda feel like he overrates decor.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
As a restaurant designer, I may be in the wrong position to judge there.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I shoulda tried a Sietsema fave during restaurant week
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man restaurant week is the worst time to go to a nice restaurant - they're way overbooked, the menu is typically dumbed down, and the servers are overworked. Better to find a place that has a good pre-theater or special menu (T0sca, R@y's the Ste@ks, 2941) or a lunch deal (V1dalia, Pr00f, Restaurant 3ve).
There is a pretty broad consensus on what the best restaurants are - all four of the Washington P0st's four star restaurants are in the W@shingtonian's top 10, an overlap you'd rarely find with music, movie, or art critics.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks. So have you been to Inn at Little Washington, 3ve or any of the other pricey ones that always top the lists? Do you think they're worth it?
Will I really like them better than the Sichuan food at Hong Kong Palace out in a strip mall near a Home Depot in Falls Church, or Mynamar, a Burmese place out in Merrifield, or any of several Eden Center places?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I have eaten at places all over the map, and the tasting room at Restaurant Eve remains the best meal I've ever eaten. 2941 is second. But those are "occasion" places; I'm not even sure I use the same scale for those as for Eden Center meals (which are also grebt, btw).
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't been to Inn at Little Washington - it's 100 miles away and it seems really over the top frou frou from what I've seen. But I have been to the other three and I think two of them (CityZ3n and K0mi) are absolutely phenomenal - the other is very good but I didn't think it hit the same heights.
I don't know if you'd like them better than suburban asian joints. I can tell you they have better food, better service, and better atmosphere - and I say that as a fan of the aforementioned suburban asian joints. The staff at these places is as passionate and engaging as they come, they love what they're doing and they want you to have the best meal of your life. I don't think that's necessarily the case with a lot of older more formal high end restaurants.
Just like with lower end restaurants, you'll get out of the meal as much as you put in. If you go to Hong Kong Palace and don't engage with the server and order the most americanized dishes you're not going to think it's a great restaurant. It's the same with going to a place like CityZ3n - if you're nervous and don't let the sommelier help you with the drinks, don't ask the server about what might fit your tastes, and don't really engage with the meal, you're not going to have a great experience.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh and the Sietsema web chat often teases out mentions of / shoutouts to some less hoity-toity places - just because a review is necessarily confined to one place, and the chat is more able to touch on a larger sample.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone eaten at brasserie beck? i stopped in there for a drink last week--delicious smells, very friendly bar staff, atmosphere felt very 'this is a goood restaurant'. my stomach was full of teatr0 g0ldoni restro week duck so i stuck to drinks.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I had lunch there on Sunday. They have very very good beers (best Belgian selection on the east coast at least?) but I'm always happier when I think of it as just a bar and ignore the restaurant part.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
ah. got any specific beer recommendations?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ask them if Thor is working and get a suggestion from him - he's great. Otherwise, the De Regenboog Kerst they have on tap now is fantastic. If you sit at the bar when it's not busy they're usually happy to give you a sample of whatever they have on tap to help you decide.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Back for keeps. Have a long 'locked out of apartment' story but too tired and embarrassed to tell it. All well now though. Need for wireless access dictated Cosi as dinner spot.
― ljubljana, Friday, 27 February 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Not amazing, but some decent photos in dcist.com show at Flashpoint
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
good luck snow
― W i l l, Monday, 2 March 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Aww man, the Feds will only cancel if it goes over 8 inches or something
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 March 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
so i finally went to the gibson last night. great place. had my first vieux carré, very nice. my friend was joking with t1ffany the bartender about quizzing her on ingredients in mystery cocktails, and i asked if she could identify the specific ingredients and brands in a cocktail just by drinking one. she says, "no, but this guy [I DIED's name, i think??] comes in here and does that sometimes." and said you designed the place, too? if so, wow, nice job!
― W i l l, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lol I am famous only to bartenders
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
a good crowd to be famous to imo
― W i l l, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
that is a+ fame
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
man this same bartender made my friend what she called an escalade, a manhattan with 23 year willett, dunno if it's a real drink or custom-made, but WOAH that was a good manhattan
― W i l l, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man anything with the 23 year willett is bound to be great, I have made myself a manhattan with that at home and it is unbelievable. And not really available outside DC!
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Friday, 6 March 2009 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Where'd that guy go who used to be at brasserie beck with Thor?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link
idk what this thread even is but brad pitt was rumored to be in new orleans the same week i just was. i didnt see him though :(
― moonship journey to 51 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) he's beer director at the de vinos stores now.
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
How's this Out of Hours thing at the Hirshhorn? Anyone been?
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Er, After Hours I mean
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
generally good, but very crowded and sceney.
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
better to see most exhibits during regular hours and focus on the special installations/music at the events.
thanks, might give it a go. I saw some of the regular exhibits last week. I loved this:
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The NY Times on the Obamas and D.C.
How about a tasty meal? The Obamas have enjoyed white-tablecloth dining at Equinox, Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, B. Smith’s and Georgia Brown’s, and street-corner casual at Ben’s Chili Bowl and Five Guys Burgers and Fries.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 March 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
awww pretzel walrus and his gf gave me THE WAY THINGS GO DVD for my bday in january!
― 69, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Ummmm, I just don't get the cherry blossom thing.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
aw c'mon, they're pretty!
― quincie, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I have similar looking trees in my Arlington neighborhood and no tourists are stopping by to look at them.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I did the compulsory foreign transplant visit to the Tidal Basin on Saturday at 8am and it was already pretty packed. I like them. There's one across the street from my apartment that I can gaze on.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
so, i probably won't have at least my same job, or maybe any job at my organization, by the end of may. change is good & all, have an idea of what kind of place i'd like to work for & what field, but on the other hand.. have some time to think on it & wondering if i should take the opportunity to pick up and move out of dc.
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh noes! To lose you and 69 in so short a span would be too sad!
― quincie, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Is 69 going to Cali or elsewhere?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
already gone to SF :(
― quincie, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
missin mah doggz
― 69, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
<3
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
...although this tasty 2.75 BBQ pork bánh mì is easing my grief
(btw amy d sent me a link yesterday about new phở place in columbia heights that is supposedly good but is charging like NINE DOLLARS for bánh mì. UH isnt the point that it's cheap??? stupid TARGET mark-up. it's just gonna end up another place that's shittier than what langley park and annandale and columbia heights potbelly can offer)
― 69, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
DOESNT ANYONE CARE ABOUT MY TROUBLES
― 69, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
dead to us
― J0rdee Z. (I DIED), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
charging like NINE DOLLARS for bánh mì.
Saw this on dcist.com Apparently they're pushing a combo, the banh mi sandwich and soup and sumptin else for $9, but you can get just the banh mo for half that (but it's not obvious on the menu)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 April 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to Beijing earlier this year - mid February, so it was still cold and rainy - and actually saw people lining up to take picures in front of multiple fake cherry blossom trees in front of a few department stores on the main shoppig drag of central Beijing.
Crazy.
― Baffleck!!!! (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 10 April 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Also - 69. How's SF treating y'all?
― Baffleck!!!! (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 10 April 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
its great! anni3 got a job at UCSF, we got record shelving, we saw I LOVE YOU MAN last night and missed zack and emily, and we're trying out all the local pizza, and it's all like mall pizza so far.
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
have y'all tried that indian pizza place--shakey mo turned us onto it on the SF thread when we were out there last fall--fucking great
― Mr. Que, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
no but we were talking about it on wednesday! which place is it??
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
shakey mo lives like 1 block from me
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
zante's
― Mr. Que, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i was suspicious but it was delicious
― Mr. Que, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
lil young mc over here
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Back over here the $20 3-course lunch at Vidalia is still the deal of all deals. James Beard Award winning cooking, pick from the whole menu, oh my gosh.
― suggest bahn mi (I DIED), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
still goin? is it to become permanent?
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah dude I tried to hit you up for that today but no luck :(
― quincie, Friday, 10 April 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
― suggest bahn mi (I DIED), Friday, April 10, 2009 8:10 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark
UH yknow suzy's walkin around with the same handle right dogg
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
WAHT
― suggest bahn mi (I DIED), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
had no idea
will modify
if the Vidalia lunch special isn't permanent it's at least running indefinitely.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
also a killer lunch deal at Proof, an entree (from a list of six) and a glass of white or red wine for $12.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
wowwww that IS a good deal!
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
guys my next door neighbor is playing music really loud, it is some terrible amy winehouse cover
WHAT CAN I DO
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 10 April 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
fight back with 'friends in low places' at high volume
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
to save your village you may need to destroy it, etc etc
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 10 April 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 10 April 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
do you have any helmet and or jesus lizard
― Mr. Que, Friday, 10 April 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
isnt there a split record?
― 69, Friday, 10 April 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i have LIAR somewhere (prob at work?) and GOAT on vinyl but in a drawer back home b/c i have no turntable
dude has turned off the music though
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 10 April 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― the shep (shepard smith ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 10 April 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Where to take visiting Britishers gay friend for best bits of DC scene on a weekend? bar-wise rather than dancing?
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess you winged it, or got the answer elsewhere.
Is this just taking cheaper food and marking it up in price, asks cheapskate me?
from GOGs washpost blog:
Three years after he sold his popular Breadline downtown, Washington baker Mark Furstenberg is getting back into the retail business, this time with a 70-seat restaurant devoted to his current passion: street food from around the world
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, winged it especially as it was thundering and raining - went into the first bar we saw on 17th - no idea what it was called but it was ok, with huge white leather posing sofas.
― ljubljana, Monday, 27 April 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) it's taking cheaper food and using better ingredients and paying downtown rent so the prices are higher.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 27 April 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i am dining at minibar in one week.
i am excited.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't been in a couple years but it's AMAZING.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
that is just what i wanted to hear. (the second part, anyway.)
later that night, junior boys. cinco de mayo perfecto.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Spirit Catcher @ Muse this ThursdayJohn Selway @ Muse this FridayWolf + Lamb @ Comet this SaturdayJunior Boys on Tuesday
busy week
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the only one of those i can attend is jb :(
― W i l l, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Obama's making the restaurant rounds--Citronelle with his wife, and now Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington with Biden
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i can recommend he check out minibar (though it wouldn't be good for the optics). pretty amazing.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
somehow i'm going to that $$$ cocktail party at proof tonight. dropping more dough on food/drinks in one week's time than i usually do in like four months.
excited, though. 10 cocktails on a monday night. yeah.
― W i l l, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
see you there
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lol my username may be very accurate in this case - I lost my phone after the dinner last year, although it certainly didn't help that I went out for drinks afterward, too.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hey guys, i am playing at comet ping pong next month, is it cool?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
It is! It's in a kind of residential part of town but it's a neat pizza place with a backroom they've been using to do really great shows & DJs in the past few months.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've really enjoyed myself the few times I've been. Nice, intimate little venue.
― lou, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet. i am definitely going to eat the #4 when we're there.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - cool, i'll keep an eye out for you.
make sure to get the chicken wings at comet. they are...good. very good.
― W i l l, Monday, 11 May 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh.
cool, i'll post when i find out the date but it'll be sometime between june 17 - 22.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 11 May 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
They got back to you, cool. That's great. I've been e-mailing your buddy. Working on a Baltimore show
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 May 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
thx for the help, steve!
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 11 May 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i take it back, we're doing thurs. june 18th at chick hall's surf club
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 14 May 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
huh.
― W i l l, Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
is that a bad huh?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, just surprised. place has a lot of history, but mostly as a country/zydeco venue. curmudgeon would know more, i'm sure. i didn't know they did rock shows now.
― W i l l, Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even know if your band is rock
not rock
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
it's new orleans brass band music, so that place might be a cool fit
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that makes sense
― W i l l, Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I told them about both Comet and Chick Hall's and both were contacted and alas, only Chick Hall's was interested.
Does anybody have any suggestions on where they could play a quick free set during the day at a streetcorner or something? Like in front of a Smithsonian museum? This is the other idea I am trying to encourage them to try. There used to be (or still?) a House of Prayer gospel brass band that played near Dupont Circle I think. And I think there's still a paint bucket go-go drummer or 2 near Natural History.
Also, any Baltimore ideas? I think 8 by 10 is booked, and An Die Musik has not responded.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
These would be in addition to the Surf Club
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I bought a condo. Fenty is doing a walk through the hood on the 27th! Have you guys checked out http://dc.everyblock.com/ yet?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 May 2009 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
two guys bought a diner, the kind you can move on a truck, from a town in upstate ny. they want to open dc's first "real diner" on a bladensburg rd lot that used to be one of those money laundering car dealers. follow the ensuing hijinks: http://twitter.com/capcitydiner (for best results read from bottom up)
― W i l l, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
(dcra is the dc dept of consumer and regulatory affairs)
dcra is the scourge of my days
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i've yet to hear anything positive about them, ever. surprised someone there has a twitter account!
― W i l l, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
from everything I've heard, the dcra twitter feed is really helpful!
Not sure how they're working out all the code issues w/ the diner - it it possible to get a building relocated from another state grandfathered? What about accessibility/emergency egress path requirements? I have enough trouble getting regular construction to meet the latest codes so it's hard to imagine how an old diner will.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i have no idea. it sounds like they thought they had everything good to go, but perhaps they were clueless.
are dc's codes particularly tough? or is it more a question of finding out exactly what dcra is looking for to satisfy them? like, where does breakdown occur that seems to stop so many new businesses from opening or existing ones from expanding?
― W i l l, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
DC enforces code a lot harder than most other cities and the permit office is understaffed and generally screwed up.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I bought a condo.
o_O
I mean I knew about this, but seeing it on ilx is blowing my mind a little bit.
― quincie, Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
everyblock.com looks like facebook for a neighborhood--mine's even showing party photos at the moment. much easier to scan their crime reports than inspector d3lgado's yahoo group emails.
― W i l l, Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone signed up for the DC Police Alert texts or emails? It's pretty awesome, nice to get violent crime reports within minutes rather than days.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Parking in DC sucks, guys. Please build a supertrain to pittsburgh, please.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
of all people, ed, i would have thought that you'd have ridden your bike
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my friends from undergrad is on the team that built the everyblock, they started it up in chicago. so cool to see it taking off.
― cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i sort of envy the guy because he didn't come from an IT background at all, but went on to do so much great work for progressive organizations & now has this thing going. most def winning at life right now.
― cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
if they could somehow integrate freecycle offers...yeah.
― W i l l, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I like how DC was giving out parking tickets in residential neighborhoods to folks whose cars allegedly stuck out too far down from their driveway.
And y'all been following the Adams Morgan issue re pulling liquor licenses from places that don't sell enough food--Bossa and some other place so far.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 May 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah fuck those places imo - the way DC has gone about enforcement is kind of heavy handed all of a sudden but these places have been operating in clear violation of their licenses for years.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Friday, 22 May 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I do not understand how the licensing works for 'restaurants that sell alcohol'--How do they arrive at the percentage of food a place has to sell? How do they decide how many places can only be restaurants with liqor licenses rather than bars with liquor licenses and no food?
And if Bossa is closed, can it only be replaced by an establishment that also has to follow the 'restaurant with liquor license' rules rather than the bar with liquor license and no food rules?
I'm just asking, as I do not know enough about it, but do you think the DC license system is fair and that places in "clear violation" (I read that Bossa claims it came very close last year to meeting the proper percentages) have no reason to complain?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 May 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Do we still drink?
File this under "Be careful what you wish for," but I'm getting nostalgic about frat parties and have a hankering to see a bar fight (from a safe distance).
― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Now here's something to talk about over brews and the right amount of food in a properly licensed establishment--- I see in the Washington Post that the Mayor's former substitute teacher in school is now (as a civilian not employed by DC) driving the mayor around town and getting millions of dollars for his private business from the mayor's administration.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The issue is that many bars and nightspots in Washington are operating under restaurant-class licenses, which require businesses to derive either 45 percent of their gross receipts or at least $2,000 per seat in food sales. (The other usual option is a tavern license, which doesn't require food sales. Those are usually limited, though, and some neighborhoods, including Adams Morgan, have a moratorium on issuing new tavern licenses to prevent a buildup of bars.)
Keep in mind that $2,000 per seat per year is very very little - $5.95 per seat per night will get you there.
Based on the Adams Morgan license moratorium, yes.
Yes - the business owners know what the license class is when they start the business and what the requirements are. Skirting the regulations here isn't doing the neighborhood any good and heavily contributes to Adams Morgan being the hellhole it is.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
But aren't some of Adams Morgan's problems caused by "taverns" and not just the 2 "restaurants that sell food" that were shut down--Bossa and Bobby Lews?
And isn't the issue in some way just like the issue is/was in Georgetown--too many knuckleheads (from DC, Md, and VA) who drink too much in both types of licensed establishments, and establishments that are happy to sell more and more drinks to people who should be stopping at say 2 drinks?
So hypothetically an "I Died" designed and promoted establishment in Adams Morgan could meet the food and drink rules and help establish a reason to go to that part of town?! They may be wrong, but Bossa claimed it was not so easy.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to be in DC for about 24 hours next week (one night). Any recommendations for dinner and breakfast/brunch?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
argh, there was an awesome place on U Street that TOMBOT took my brother and me to but I can't remember the name, super awesome brunch spot tho
― Unclench, y'all, unclench (HI DERE), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man where to start.
oh I know: ethiopian (Dukem, Queen Makeda, Madjet).
― quincie, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of u street brunch, is hominy any good?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh I love Ethiopian and SF is weak(er) than some cities on it. Do you have a preference on any of those three (it looks like they are all in the same area)?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
no hominy
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Dukem in general - solid performer.Queen Makeda is sometimes wonderful but very quirky and slow.Madjet I like, but maybe not as much as Quincie does.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
no hominy meaning you haven't eaten there, or it's no good?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
One of the issues is that there are, according to ABRA, 16 places in Adams Morgan licensed as restaurants and operating as taverns - a very substantial total impact. The problem in Adams Morgan isn't that assholes go there, it's that due to the density of the places it crossed the asshole event horizon and attracts those people in general, leading to the marauding hordes looking for anyplace to go. And the places that are supposed to be restaurants are happy to not act as such in order to serve them.
It's not easy to meet the food requirements if you've established an image that doesn't include that, and you have an insufficient infrastructure for it. It's hard for Bossa to sell food because people only think of them as a bar - but that's only because they spent years acting like they were just a bar.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't eaten at Hominy but every restaurant in that space has sucked, and their new chef's previous restaurant sucked. Maybe two wrongs will make a right in this case but I'm not spending my money to find out.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the less fancy Ethiopian restaurant right near Etete and DC Nine on Ninth just below U st. called? I kinda liked that about as much as Dukem.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Expo? Axum? There are quite a few on that block!
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Rolling DC thread, can I beg a favor?
I'm moving to DC in late June / early July, and I'm looking for a place to live with my gf. We have 4 "wants":
1. Close to metro and/or rail lines surrounding DC (within a 10 minute walk to a train, preferably, since I don't have a car)
2. maximum of 45 minute commute into downtown DC (I'll be working at EPA)
3. A small yard would be cool, to plant a garden, but I realize that might be tricky. Maybe if nothing else, access to a relatively close community garden.
4. Under $1250 a month.
Can anyone recommend a neighbor? Or even another city, Alexandria, etc? We visited Baltimore last month to see a friend and weren't that impressed, plus the commute would be on the very edge of what I could handle each day.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Can anyone recommend a neighborHOOD?
Although neighbor recommendations could come in handy as well!
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm too new to help ZS, but I'm registering general interest in a drink, maybe when ZS gets here?
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Polly's Cafe, perhaps?
Takoma Park, MD (just outside DC) springs to mind upon reading your wants.
― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post...I think it's Axum that I liked. So many Ethiopian restaurants around there
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay so I think we are going to try Dukem. Any brunch/breakfast suggestions for the next day? Also anything happening this Tuesday night? Is the Washington City Paper the best place to find events?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Z S--you maybe could find a basement apt satisfying those criteria in the neighborhoods of Shaw (i'm thinking around 7th St NW, fairly close to U Street, which is a popular nightlife/restaurants/retail neighborhood), or Bloomingdale (farther east+south, less developed, maybe too far from Metro). your commute would be easy. dunno how you feel about basement apartments.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the seventh street garden is around there (actually on 3rd st now) http://the7thstreetgarden.squarespace.com/
― W i l l, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
just a warning: community garden space hard to come by these days. the one I'm in has a multi-year wait list!
― quincie, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and what is your crime tolerance? Important question, actually.
― quincie, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno how you feel about basement apartments.
I lived in one in Chicago for about a year. The only thing that bugged me was the lack of sunshine. I'd be willing to consider living in one again, though, if the price was right and the location was nice.
community garden space hard to come by these days
Yeah, so I've heard. That's why it would be really nice to have a place with even a tiny yard.
Oh and what is your crime tolerance?
I have a decent tolerance, but my gf would probably prefer somewhere on the safe side. Not a gated community suburb or anything, but being able to walk outside at night to a corner store without fearing a beat down would be nice.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Thursday, 28 May 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Dukem and some of the other Ethiopian restaurants sometimes have live Ethiopian bands on late. White Rabbits, a Brooklyn rock band who Spoon's singer produced, are gonna be at the RnR Hotel that night, thought that place is over in NE. In addition to the City Paper, the Brightest Young Things website lists dc events, as does the Onion's decider column, and on Tuesdays dcist.com and the Washington Post website's Going Out Gurus list recommendations.
Hmmmm, I wonder if there's any reggae happening (dj-wise or band-wise) on U st that night?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Died" could probably help with DC breakfast/brunch ideas.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Lunch places around the Capitol/Museum area would be fine too actually.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Live Ethiopian would be great.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Dukem has live Ethiopian acts pretty much every night, they also serve late so you can catch dinner & music usually around 11pm.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
slim pickings for lunch around Capitol/museums - bunch of hot dog carts, mostly. Mitsitam, the cafeteria in the National Museum of the American Indian is quite good.
Teaism, at 8th & D NW, is pretty kick ass generally.http://www.teaism.com/Restaurant/PennQuarter7.html
There are a bunch of options heading north on 7th St, Jaleo is probably the best of them fairly close to the Mall.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh noes- just noticed Dukem site lists entertainment every night but Tuesday
http://www.dukemrestaurant.com/events.htm
I bet there must be one Ethiopian restaurant open tonight late with music.
Alex, you can go see Chaka Khan Wednesday afternoon for free if you'd like at Wilson plaza near the Reagan bldg from noon to 1:30
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
So much rain. When did this place become Seattle.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ULAH BISTRO
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 June 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I may still be coming to town for baseball con at end of July if UI and family charity keeps me afloat!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 5 June 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
All right, asking for advice. Do I have more drinks - I guess I am near the breadsoda - or do I go home and watch this C Breillat film (la derniere maitresse - d'Aurevilly, Asia Argento, Roxane Mesquida FTW)
― daria-g, Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
drinks at Bourbon or Breadsoda!
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Lequel? All right, going to the breadsoda since I haven't been. I guess there is this basketball game so there's some justification for having another glass or two.
― daria-g, Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
who needs justification anyway
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 June 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I might. It's not football season yet.
― daria-g, Monday, 8 June 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd like to thank all professional sports for making it ok to hang out in a bar. I rarely do fwiw, and I MISS FOOTBALL
― daria-g, Monday, 8 June 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
^ i agree with all parts of this post
twin peaks tuesdays at velvet lounge starting tomorrow. always meant to watch the entire series and this will finally give lazy fond-of-drinking me the proper means to do so
― W i l l, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
There is a restaurant called Confit opening a couple blocks from my place oh shiiiii...
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the sound of that
― W i l l, Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
any lunch recs near dupont circle? on the 18th my band might do some busking over there before the chick hall's gig.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 11 June 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Jordan, you should also consider busking at the Wilson Plaze, near the reagon building after the lunchtime gig ends at 1:30; or maybe before it starts at 12; then metro up to Dupont Circle.
Teaism at 2009 R. St is one idea...What do you folks think of Malaysia Kopitiam, 1827 M St. NWor the Greek Deli, 1120 19th or more expensive fare such as...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://food.theatlantic.com/abroad/why-dc-should-be-a-food-destination.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - i don't live in dc anymore but malaysia kopitiam was one of my favorite restaurants there. curry gluten, laksa noodle soup, satay tofu... yea it's a really good restaurant.
― mark cl, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe sticking with vegetarian options is the secret to good meals at Malaysia Kopitam - I've eaten there several times and always walked away disappointed, usually due to the low quality meat in the dishes.
Greek Deli is awesome - there's always a line around lunch, but it moves fast. Teaism is a great suggestion, too.
You can also try C.F. Folks, just a basic old lunch place with very good basic food, or Pizzeria Paradiso, or Zorba's for delicious eat in/carryout greek.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
what do you think of the Atlantic blogger's assertion?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I think DC is a serious food city, but I also agree that it's not a destination food city the way even Seattle is. That need not necessarily be a requirement - LA might not be a destination food city either (perhaps only because non-food elements, like sunshine, are that much more attractive there?) (and maybe it is now with all the trucks and such). But I think that size/layout have a lot to do with it. DC is just not very big. Ok, neither's SF, but come on, SF packs a lot more into a small space. And OK, DC metro is pretty big, but if you're not a native, you're probably not going to be predisposed to hound out all the suburban stuff the way you would in even bigger LA, where you're already going to be roaming around and where there is a lot more density and out-builtness in the various corners and spaces between.
― Fidel Gastro (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
In comparison to most similar size cities (Boston, Houston, Philly, Dallas), DC food scene is pretty damn great right now. There's an argument to be made for Philly as a great food city, but it's really a destination as an Italian-American food culture niche in a way that even NY isn't at this point.
I don't think DC's a destination food city because no particular area springs to mind as far as specialties, or at least the ones that do (Ethiopian, Salvadoran, Vietnamese) tend not to be destination cuisines. What DC's food scene does have at this point (and I wouldn't have said this ten or even five years ago) is exceptional depth and breadth. There's amazing dining to be done in and around the city in nearly every cuisine at every price point, especially now that there are finally a slew of good options in the $12-20 entree range (including Central, the only James Beard Best New Restaurant winner outside Manhattan in the last 5 years [there's a whole rant I've been meaning to get to on the Beard awards, btw]).
I think DC is a better restaurant city than it is a food city - we're still woefully short on markets, specialty shops, and an overall food culture the way it exists in SF or Philly, but I also think it's one of the most exciting places in the country to eat and drink right now.
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
just to sum up my point - DC's non-food-city-ness may have more to do with how DC is laid out and experienced by outsiders than with the actual food
― Fidel Gastro (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
In DC last weekend, I went to Old Glory and ate 1 x Creole Fried Catfish Wrap w/ Lettuce, Tomato, Cheddar Cheese, Frickles & Spicy Tartar Sauce wrapped in a grilled Jalapeno Tortilla, plus a side of BBQ beans
I'd kill you all for another.
― ¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
you ate at Old Glory?????
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread!!!!
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Are those exclamation marks meaning "yes" or something else.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Old Glory supposed to suck? I've never been to DC before, so I wouldn't know, but that wrap was seriously delicious.
― ¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh whew gabbneb is gone. that was the impetus for "this thread!!!!"
Also: Old Glory.
Not awful, just not a place I'd choose given other options.
― quincie, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
In G'town my dining option of choice would be Pizza Paradiso.
― quincie, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
come back, we will help u
actually, after searching for ilx dc food recommendations, it was a gabbneb post that sent me there.
food aside, i did find my way to Joe's Record Paradise in Rockville courtesy of am0n's expert instructions. that place beats just about any London record store hands down.
― ¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Joe Lee should use that quote in an ad. But I don't think he knows of this site, and his website looks to be fairly bare-bones.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
So Jordan, good luck with busking today and Surf Club tonight
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/dining-guide-2009/
City Paper's Tim Carman has a new top 50 restaurants list out. He's going with a Silver Spring place near the AFI Silver as his fave Ethiopian choice.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 June 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Jordan's brass band may be busking at 4ish in Dupont Circle for those in that area..
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
after like five trips down this hallway I finally remembered MY PHONE HAZ CAMERAhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3638414625_3ff370710e.jpg
is anybody else thinking of going to the beer+bourbon+bbq fest this saturday at national harbor? $35 for four hours of "tasting"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 June 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
omg Tom that photo is an instant classic
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Friday, 19 June 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
loooool
― W i l l, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahah when Mr. Que and I got married there, the marriage bureau office was just past the domestic abuse office.
― quincie, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
they should also have a sign that mentions the syphilis test requirement
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
or just have
SYPHILITIC RETARDS -------->
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 June 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
So Oohs and Ahhhs the U St. soul food joint made the City Paper's recent top 50 restaurant list. I was neither wowed by that place nor Flavors in Falls Church, is it me(I'm either wrong or expecting too much) or are these places overrated, or something else?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard on the news that some folks are now avoiding the first and last cars on subway trains, since that Red line accident
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 June 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
where's a good place in dc to get men's clothing (shirts and trousers) of quality? i normally get my workish clothes at like h&m and banana republic but am ready to shell out a bit for well-made stuff that i'll still be wearing in a decade (too optimistic?). rather than try to interpret yelp reviews or whatever, i thought i'd ask here.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Redeem on 14th st.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That whole City Paper top 50 list was more bullshit than even old Washingtonian lists were.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been to redeem several times and their stuff is cool, tho my memory is of a mostly, uh, casual selection - but maybe that's b/c it's what i was looking for at the time?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I've gotten a number of blazers there, and have also seen a few suit separates. If you're in the market for more formal stuff, Brooks Brothers has been stepping up their game for real! It's amazing how non-preppy their stuff can look if it's just not paired with a pastel shirt.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post. Do you not like the CP list because of the way it appears to be done by food categories (new American, Ethiopian, etc) but then arbitrarily has 2 restaurants for certain categories (a Silver Spring Ethiopian and a DC one)and not for others, or do do you not like Poste or whatever choices that are included, or both or something else.Not enough high-end ones?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post to me; So do you guys consider Jos. A. Banks not high quality enough a clothier
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know enough about it to have an opinion--i know the name but not whether their stuff is really that good, where they stand in comparison to other comparable brands etc. that's why i asked!
another thing i would like to know is where if anywhere can i try on apc shirts in dc (i know denim bar has their jeans)
― W i l l, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Jos. A Banks well enough, but I like Brooks Brothers better.
Will, for clothing in general and for APC here you should check Barney's co-op in gtown.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
so glad I don't have to wear suits. will have to be doing job interviews prob in the next month & I hate having to find some very boring business casual type of thing to wear. waaah.
― CAR CHASE!!!!! (daria-g), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like the City Paper list because it's labeled as the 50 best restaurants in DC and it's not - not only are there restaurants that are clearly among the best in the area missing from the list, but there are restaurants that aren't even good, nevermind great, on there.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
can i have your old job y/n
xp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm gonna just use the CP list as a source of possible restaurants to try, but yea, I can see that it is not definitive as a whole list.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - thanks!
i'm not really looking for suits at the moment. just well-made and -fitting shirts and pants.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
my old job won't exist, that's the problem. though i got so mad yesterday i was imagining that i'd just resign. conscience bothering me about direction of things. i guess i can't afford to be all dramatic, though. gotta pay the rent.
― CAR CHASE!!!!! (daria-g), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry. yeah, i'm on the verge of being dramatic
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I got the City Paper thing wrong, as flawed as it is, every restaurant on that list is at least decent. They saved the shorty ones for the staff picks on the website.
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the CP's Carman lives in Silver Spring or nearby and it seemed like to me he used to cover more restaurants from there and from Wheaton then some of the other area reviewers (the same way the Northern VA based Tyler Cowen emphasizes that area). But he's got restaurants from all over so that might be just my perception.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
So I'm moving to Takoma Park! Should be signing the lease today.
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not comprehensive enough, but there are a few funny bits in the latest Onion re restaurant reviews.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/DenverBarry.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, heh, is that actually on the cover of the print ed.?
― W i l l, Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
It is.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The cover quote regarding Marion Barry on this week's City Paper is:
1. Unnecessary and juvenile and insensitive
2. Acceptable and relevant
3. None of the above
4. Who cares
5. I stopped looking at the City Paper years ago
or
6. __________
7. All of the above
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 July 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"Loose Lips" p. 6
― hobbes (brownie), Friday, 10 July 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
It was out there for little children to see.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 10 July 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
7
― W i l l, Friday, 10 July 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/639021.html
"The paper admits it has received many complaints about the issue's cover, including some vendors who have asked to pull the tabloid. By all accounts, the copies of the free newspaper are disappearing quickly."
I can't really say 5 because I moved house three months agocan't wait for this though http://www.hbo.com/events/ninelivesofmarionbarry/index.html
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 July 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that was at silverdocs? and got meh reviews?
― W i l l, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, that's what I thought.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902792.html?hpid=topnews
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"Before Barry's news conference yesterday, two women approached a group of reporters and demanded to know which one worked for the City Paper. They soon began shouting at City Paper's Jason Cherkis, waving a copy of the newspaper at him."
looool
― W i l l, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Exhibits I saw Saturday that I recommend:
William Eggleston, Democratic Camera Photos and Video 1961 to 2008 at the Corcoran
I didn't like the video. Music fans, his Big Star cover and Alex Chilton Like Flies on Sherbet are included
Jaromir Funke and the Czech Amateur Avante-Garde (photos) at the National Gallery West Wing
Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction at the National Gallery West Wing
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 July 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of the Eggleston photos are bizarre, others are 'hey I could have done that,' but some are special both due to his eye, technique and choice of subject matter. It's an interesting guide to parts of the American South.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.fromkomitomarvin.com/
This woman is eating at all of Washingtonian's 100 best restaurants this year and blogging about her meals.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
not trying to be a hater here but i wish more bloggers would EDIT. she does not need that many words to make her points.
― CAR CHASE!!!!! (daria-g), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
this looks cool (tho i can't picture the location), going to check out standing in the shadows of motown tomorrow night: http://www.nomasummerscreen.com
― W i l l, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't quite picture the location either (and have wanted to go to one of these but have not made it there yet). I got a press copy awhile back of the Shadows of Motown dvd and found it interesting, but am curious how it will work as an outdoors free flick.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Will, what did you think of the movie and the location?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 July 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
thumbs up on the location. big screen, not a huge space but not too crowded, good mix of people. they sell bbq for $cheap but we picked up sandwiches and beer from taylor on h street--so good.
movie pretty interesting, though about 25% of it was footage of a reunion concert of the surviving funk brothers (uncredited motown backing musicians) playing live w/ like ben harper, bootsy collins, and joan osbourne (!?) singing the tunes, and all that did was make me want to hear the originals (which i'm listening to now). aside from that, the documentary had strange feel, like it was shot and lit in an atypical style for a documentary at least ime--at points i swear actors were playing what were supposed to be people on the street, or the real funk brothers were sitting in a fake car interior pretending to drive around while they reminisced. strange.
― W i l l, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I NEED TO DRINK. Does anyone want to join me?
― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Friday, 17 July 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn. I would have done if I'd seen this earlier. I am drinking now, alone. Would pop out for a quick one now though if you're anywhere near Dupont and want to drink with a near-stranger stressed out by tragic events.
― ljubljana, Friday, 17 July 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
no energy to do anything right now.. none. I went for a pretty long walk earlier when it was still about 85-90 and muggy outside and now I feel just completely drained, which is odd - must be the weather. i am sorry because i've recently been uh, saved from the trouble of dramatically resigning from my job (layoffs!), so it's not like i have to be up early.
watching CNN now but there's not much new news at this hour.
― daria-g, Friday, 17 July 2009 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry about your news daria.
― ljubljana, Friday, 17 July 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, thanks. it's OK, i wanted to leave, was only a matter of time really.
good grief jakarta
― daria-g, Friday, 17 July 2009 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This weather is balls, but unfortunately it is just normal for this time of year, after the reprieve of the last few weeks.
Today was my last full time day at my job. wooooooooo! What's up, stack of unread starting-you-own-business books at the end of my desk...
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
So I've been by the GAYLORD NATION at "nat'l harbour" a couple of times now, and I've been by the new ATF HQ a few times as well, and I think Maryland REALLY has to go ahead and legalize gambling, because they are sitting on AC Jr. a boat ride from old town, and not even slots to speak of, while the employer of hunter age 7's dad apparently purchased 1/4th of a ballpark just to prove Kenneth Arrow wrong, and having lost the bet, turned the result into offices.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 17 July 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
they may as well, it goes on all over the state anyhow. was totally unaware that this thing existed, what is it, oxon hill?
― because i hate us and want us to fail (daria-g), Friday, 17 July 2009 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to the dueling piano bar there.
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Friday, 17 July 2009 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link
you can cab to national harbor for a lot less than you'd think, and if you plan an exit strategy involving the water taxi to alexandria, you get to catch a nap between drunkenings. we did it backwards while the parents were in town, but I'm not losing any sleep.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 17 July 2009 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&view=map&q=Waterfront+St+%26+Waterman+Passage,+Fort+Washington,+Prince+George%27s,+Maryland+20745
― El Tomboto, Friday, 17 July 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
lol dirt
dueling piano bar?!
― because i hate us and want us to fail (daria-g), Friday, 17 July 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yea, Bobby Mckeys, Fritz Hahn wrote about it in the Post. They take requests from the crowd and sing them (and if someone shows up later and requests the same song, they'll sing it again.). I think I will stick with old soul groups at Lamont's in Pomonkey, Maryland (not too far away from National Harbor) but it might be worth it once.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/profile/bobby-mckeys-dueling-piano-bar,1154537/critic-review.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 July 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
it is totally worth it if you want the opportunity to be like O_o
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure how they're working out all the code issues w/ the diner - it it possible to get a building relocated from another state grandfathered? What about accessibility/emergency egress path requirements? I have enough trouble getting regular construction to meet the latest codes so it's hard to imagine how an old diner will.― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:39 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:39 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/07/14/capital-city-diner-hopes-to-open-for-service-in-september/
Most of the DCRA comments are in, says co-owner Matt Ashburn, and so far the biggest change comes from the folks in plumbing, who want Cap City to add two handicapped-accessible bathrooms.
The only problem with that, Ashburn figures, is that the vintage 1940s-era diner has only about 560 square feet — total. The two bathrooms would take up about 70 square feet alone. “That’s a large chunk of our restaurant, and we can’t do that,” Ashburn says.
I would just like to point out that I have been OTM in this thread.
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Saturday, 18 July 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
May that knowledge help you establish your own business...
In more mundane foodie news...Obama in DelRay (Alexandria)
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/06/24/dairy-godmothers-owner-doesnt-want-the-obama-bump-that-rays-hell-burger-got/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 18 July 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops, that was back in June. The blog post is just getting more comments
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 18 July 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
two bathrooms? i mean i know this shit probably isn't up for discussion but...really?
― W i l l, Sunday, 19 July 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Separate men's and women's accessible restrooms required for new construction or substantial renovation of a business serving the public with an occupancy of over 15 persons. That's building code nationwide. Some places choose not to enforce it. DC isn't one of them.
I spend a lot of my time getting new projects to meet code and dealing with getting them through the code review office, so I don't have much sympathy for business owners who are too naive, stupid, or shady to follow building regulations.
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Observation: Staying home and not drinking (well, not very much) has not been very satisfactory.
Theory: It's worth trying going out and drinking. If anyone wants to join me I'll be at the Black Cat's Red Room after 9pm.
Related question: Is anyone else planning on going to Run For Cover this Saturday night at the Cat?
― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Might be up for Run For Cover if you decide to go...
― ljubljana, Thursday, 30 July 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
today i was on the metro and we got delayed at dalston because we were going to cross the presidential motorcade
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
do you mean ballston
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
really needed that nasal-passage-destroying humidity this weekend. And the Nationals weren't home, so they bused us to Camden Yards -- at 5pm on a Friday, 10 mph much of the way. I got to my seat in time for the game's fourth batter.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't the orange line underground at ballston?
― W i l l, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I think so.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe it comes up for air starting at EFC so if he was heading westbound that kind of makes sense
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 6 August 2009 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link
restaurant week and the annual discussion of whether one should skip it because restaurants taking part allegedly do hurried, watered down meals this week has begun...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
skip it, especially since it went up to $35.
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Rosa Mexicanos any good?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
barbecue
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
this weekend is the last one before we go to scotland and then summer's over on labor day
Rosa Mexicano sucks
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there any great Mexican food in this area? Fans of California and Texas Mexican food always seem to say there is not anything here that compares (I have never eaten Cali or Texas Mexican so I do not know). I tried that place on Kenilworth Avenue near the Surf Club in Hyattsville/Bladensburg (whose name I have just forgotten) and it was good but not great.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
re: restaurant week
I managed to have a nice meal at Ceiba last night (satisfying portions and not rushed at all).
― lou, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
There are always good new mexican places popping up/closing in Baldensburg, I haven't been there in a while. Not easy without a car.
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Lou, the group that owns Ceiba does a good job with Restaurant Week generally. There are several places that do well, but especially this year it seems like almost all those places have great deals that run during normal times, too, when it will be less crowded and you may be getting a better effort from the kitchen/servers. Not that good experiences aren't possible during Restaurant Week, the odds just aren't great.
That said, the $20 lunches can be a great deal.
Ceiba's normal happy hour promotions are pretty great...
Happy Hour Specials
$5 Signature Cocktails
11:30am - Close
Monday - Mojitos (Cuba)Tuesday - Caipirinhas (Brazil)Wednesday - Pisco Sours (Peru)Thursday - Sangrias (Spain)Friday - House Margaritas (Mexico)EVERYDAY - Dark and Stormy (Carribean)*Available Throughout the Restuarant*
Monday – Saturday3pm - 6pm & 9:30pm - Close
$5 Signature Cocktails (Listed Above)and Half-Priced Bar Food Menu!!!*Served in the Bar & Lounge Only*
Complimentary Bocaditos
Monday – Friday4pm - 7pm & 9:30pm - 11pm*Served in the Bar & Lounge Only*
(Happy Hour specials not available on holidays)
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Their mojitos were excellent. :)
― lou, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Got in line at 5:15 Friday for the 6 p.m. giveaway of free Shakespeare at the Harman tickets for the 8 p.m. show. Alas, that wasn't early enough as they ran out of tickets about 30 people ahead of me (and hundreds behind me). Since they moved this from the Carter Barron it's harder to get tickets it appears.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
their website says the line starts forming 4 hours before showtime (2 hours before tickets are handed out). pity. was thinking of trying to go.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
An employee told those of us in line that on weeknights if you get there by 5, you can "usually" get in. I think the Harman holds less seats than Carter Barron plus season ticket holders get priority and the downtown location is more accessible than Carter Barron, thus it is tough to get in.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
So now we have Dan Brown's DC (via the Masons) and separately a more contemporary lobbyist DC complete with a map and a floorplan of Ristorante Tosca on F Street---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902559.html
See the Secret Service guys at Old Ebbitt Grill (convenient to the White House); the administration's youngsters at Oya; low-level Hill staffers at Tortilla Coast; the older society crowd at Cafe Milano (Dick Cheney and his SUV entourage stopped by for a private-room meal and a bottle of the good stuff earlier this month); and so on. Few places in town, though, seem to have been embraced with such distilled dedication as by the lobbyists nesting at Tosca.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 September 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there any great Mexican food in this area?
Most of the "Mexican" food in the DC area is in fact made by (and for) Salvadoreans. People on Chowhound and like boards talk of stalking taco trucks in hopes of finding food like you supposedly can get in any LA hole in the wall.
― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Went on one of the free Walk DC events yesterday, along the waterfront. Good to finally locate the fish market. Guide wasn't all that though.
Bad Sunday night syndrome. Anybody interested in a drink around Dupont?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
You ok?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm ok thanks - I should have just posted to the Sunday night sad thread!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
does DC ever FAP?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
We haven't in ages. We probably should.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Up for it. Any interest in this w/e?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna be in town next weekend for a wedding, but i dunno if i'll have fap time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
So I'm never gonna FAP againGuilty feet have got no rhythm. . .
― quincie, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Friday, Oct. 2Moneytown at DahlakThe October edition of the (free) monthly soul-and-funk fest should be even more fun than usual, thanks to guest DJs from other great D.C. nights like Fatback and Brazilian Rhythms.
I wanna go to this...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
or maybe not. You may resume FAP discussion
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
So more specifically... anyone up for...Sunday? brunch? evening?a workday evening next week?something further ahead/more realistic?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Quincie, you building a Sukkah (as part of your Judaism studies) that we could FAP under?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I could be up for a FAP. After work is usually best for me, though next week is pretty much booked. No need to schedule around me, however.
I'll probably be at Moneytown.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
and week after next is bad for me. What about Oct 22, Thurs? Anywhere in Dupont, Adams Morgan or downtown good for me. I only know the most obvious places, any suggestions welcome...
― ljubljana, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I am FAPing RIGHT NOW
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I ran into TOMBOT last week!
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Thursday, 1 October 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd be up for a FAP. I only know I DIED, so it would be nice to meet the rest of you.
― lou, Thursday, 1 October 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I have ice skating lessons (!) on Thursdays, but would like to meet you all so will stay tuned for FAP scheduling.
Curm on Monday my class is being held in the Adas Israel sukkah! Guess I should dress warmly.
― quincie, Thursday, 1 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Poll:Sun 18Mon 19Tue 20Wed 21Fri 23some day the next week (specify)Venue tbc...
― ljubljana, Friday, 2 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Mon 19 or Tue 20
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
sooooo....
Mon 19th? At.... say.... Bourbon?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Can probably do this. Suggested time?
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Monday, 5 October 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Say, 7? But could be earlier if people prefer HH hours.
― ljubljana, Monday, 5 October 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone fancy a pint on monday the 12th? happy hour + maybe if the place showed exciting jets-dolphins football daria would come
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 October 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I could do 19th, could also do 12th.
― W i l l, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Doh, just realized I can't do Monday the 12th or 19th. Will meet you folks I have not previously met another time I guess.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 October 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Can probably do 12th but not sure yet, depends on plans of friends in town
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
There must be some dead clever way of doing this with some kind of special softward or iphone app that exists somewhere.
software
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The solution is just to go out every night, at least this is the theory I'm testing.
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
And you can call it work research too.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit, Ben Ali died http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPmynfzpBKR9CVO4LrPJLqdTX6owD9B72OSO0
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP, Ben. Dude was on the scene longer than Chuck Brown.
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. I bet there were times between 1968 and the 90s that he wanted to move the place, but he stuck with it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
if anyone fancies a pint, mrs mookie and i and some ppl will be at the big hunt (connecticut just south of dupont) around 6:30 on monday 10/12.
please carry a large photo of ned raggett so we can recognize you
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure if I can make it as I've got friends in town, but will try. No Raggett-printing capabilities but will have a small red bag and look roughly like wot I do on WDYLL.
― ljubljana, Monday, 12 October 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the invite mookie! My parents are in town until Tuesday and I'm trying to avoid a family meltdown, but I appreciate it all the same. :)
― I got RIPPED in 4 weeks (Z S), Monday, 12 October 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the 19th still happening? I'm no longer free this evening.
― W i l l, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still up for 19th. Anyone else?
― ljubljana, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, mookie, ZS's response much nicer and more appropriate than mine, i.e. should have said thanks for the invite! Should be able to make it now.
― ljubljana, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
19th I can do only if it were to go down in the oh-so-hip neighborhood of Cleveland Park, near my loljewschool.
― quincie, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Am fine with that - others?
― ljubljana, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys last time we went to Atomic, gabbneb was there.
― quincie, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Just sayin'
Sounds good to me (*falls into trap of some complicated gabbneb situation that I don't understand*)
― ljubljana, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
was good to meet you and mrs mookie - sorry I had to go so quickly. And, now I know a new bar. So many restaurants round here, so few bars.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
lovely to meet you as well. do let us know if you visit nyc!
(ps that dude on that other thread is a fool imo)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry I couldn't join you guys tonight! Should be in NY later this month.
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
heh, thanks xpost
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/10/13/rasika-will-be-first-ethnic-restaurant-to-earn-4-stars-from-tom-sietsema/
Rasika to be first DC area "ethnic" restaurant to get 4 star love from Sietsema at the Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
hey guys, who's going to be around the week of Thanksgiving? looks like the wife and I will be all up in yr AREA
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
We'll be in town the night before T'day before rolling south.
― quincie, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Friday 11/27, I'll be at the 930 Club for the Mountain Goats show!
― W i l l, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Skipping the HS reunion then, Will? :P I was planning on missing it myself and a Mountain Goats show sounds a lot better. Was thinking about the TMBG show on 11/28 too.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
When this get confirmed tonight, a lot of people are going to complain, and a lot of people are going to stop taking the Post's dining reviews seriously. Rightfully so, as much as I love Rasika there's no way it's a four star restaurant.
Also T1m C@rman at the City Paper is a fool, who even calls places ethic restaurants anymore?
― I DIED, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, you know what, I didn't even put two and two together and realize they're the same night. Maybe I'll check it out after the show, or meet up with some people. Let me know if you go to the Mountain Goats, we could have a mini-FAP.
― W i l l, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post, B, did you see the comments on the City Paper post--- Tim and Tyler C*wen and others still use the term "ethnic" instead of uh, "food made by people who do not speak English or French," or "food that rightfully so according to I died is not 4 star worthy." I kid. I am guessing there is an actual gourmet explanation for 4 star criteria and not Tim's (tongue in cheek?) one-- that Rasika's selection means "four-star restaurants don’t all have to be rooted in French cuisine, don’t have to be tied to a luxury hotel, and don’t have to have a long, multi-course tasting menu, with wine pairings, that runs well into three digits."
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"all food is ethnic food" -Tyler Cowen http://www.tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, I agree with that Tyler Cowen quote, which is why calling any restaurant ethnic is odd to me. I mean, Komi is nominally a Greek restaurant, and Maestro had 4 stars and was Italian.
Regardless of the criteria used to define a 4 star restaurant (which vary from reviewer to reviewer), I can't imagine any list of factors that would lead to me saying Rasika is one of the five best restaurants in the DC area.
― I DIED, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I am still curious about the criteria he uses. His list is out. Quick analysis: Four "Contemporary American" restaurants get 4 stars, Rasika ("Indian") gets 4, and Citronelle ("French") get 3 1/2 stars. Here's Sietsema's list.
Here's Sietsema's list. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/gog/tom-sietsema-dining-guide-2009/
I finally made it to that Vietnamese restaurant, he, Tim C. from the CP, and Tyler C. like, Present on Route 50 near/in Falls Church, and it was pretty good.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
so, Monday 19th coming up... Cleveland Park? At Atomic? Say, at 7?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 18 October 2009 01:38 (fourteen years ago) link
If my kid's 7:30 baseball game gets rained out I may be able to join you folks.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I have class until 9, but can meet after!
― quincie, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Not many of us so maybe just aim for 9.15?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I should be able to make it.
― I DIED, Monday, 19 October 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Will be there, will check this thread beforehand
― ljubljana, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't stay long (famous last words but this time REALLY). I DIED knows what I look like otherwise look for v. tall lady in B&W print dress, black tights. Carrying a Torah.
― quincie, Monday, 19 October 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to try to make this. Tall thin guy, tan & blue sneakers.
― W i l l, Monday, 19 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 October 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Expecting to be there. Look for the black beret.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Monday, 19 October 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
;-)
― W i l l, Monday, 19 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(my photo of Ned obv)
Bucking the tall trend: short, brown hair in bob, will have small red bag.
― ljubljana, Monday, 19 October 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Think I can make it. Not sure what I'll be wearing but I'll definitely have on black shell-top adidas. :)
― lou, Monday, 19 October 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
On my way, there 9.30
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
It was great to see both new and old faces last night! Thanks for schlepping to the unfashionable Cleveland Park. I will happily trek to another locale next time (assuming it is not a school night).
― quincie, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been trying to remember the name of one of those Cleveland Park restaurants you recommended--started with a 'v', I think? Looks like I'll be having dinner in that neck of the woods later this week.
Good meeting and chatting with everyone.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Great to meet you all.
There was a restaurant beginning with 'P' as well...
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Vace!
Palena!
― I DIED, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry all, i guess i saw this thread a week ago and then forgot about it. next time.
― what kind of money? obama money! (daria-g), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost thanks!
― W i l l, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Important Vace tip: it is takeout-only (no tables), but you are welcome to take it to Atomic to enjoy with beer (they don't serve food so BYOF is endorsed).
― quincie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh (or rather UH) shall we discuss the changes to our paper of record?
― quincie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
are you talking about Admin Log?
― I DIED, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Fonts and the weather map and stuff in the Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hard to see why anyone could believe changing the style and layout would have any effect on the decline of the print edition
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
tho maybe it cuts production costs somehow
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Today there was that new lifestyle section that was just a complete disaster imo.
― quincie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
is it updating or replacing Style, or what? i never actually see the print edition (except i happened to Sunday, first day of the new design)
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Style is still around, but I'm not sure what is going on with Food, Home, Health, etc--I fear they are all being rolled into this "lifestyle" monstrosity.
― quincie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
They are trying to do two things at once: 1. Make the print edition more reader-friendly to people who do not currently read the print edition; and 2. Save money by combining sections.
The end result is they do not make anyone happy (says biased me, and yes for 5 years I did freelance concert reviews for Style until in January they cut a number of us in order to save bucks and they started putting most concert reviews online only and not in the newsprint).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The thing I found most offensive was "tabbed navigation." If I wanted tab navigation I would be reading the Web site you fucksticks.
― quincie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Does the physical paper now have hyperlinks you can put your finger on and be transported to the appropriate reference? If so, I'm all for it.
― I DIED, Thursday, 22 October 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
miss you guys!
― 69, Thursday, 22 October 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Tut-tutting at work over colo(u)r pics on more and more pages.
― ljubljana, Friday, 23 October 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Weekend section still contains some nice stuff, but the editor(who was/is in charge of the kids post page) seems to have dumbed down some pages. Plus less cd reviews doesn't make us music geeks happy. Plenty of sidebars to make it look like you're looking at a computer screen.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Awww DC is just not the same without 69 and pretzel walrus. Come back and see us--we miss you!
― quincie, Friday, 23 October 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://tynancoffeeandtea.com/
cannot walk by this place without LOLing. TYNAN!
― what kind of money? obama money! (daria-g), Friday, 23 October 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ill be in DC dec26-29? i bet zack will be, too. maybe we could hit the birreria or this BARLEY AND BIRCH place? what is that? theres a chill bar in SF called BOURBON AND BRANCH so i mean maybe thats the newest thing, B&Bs.
― 69, Friday, 23 October 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thedrinkshop.com/images/products/main/2137/2137.jpg
― W i l l, Friday, 23 October 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
what is this thing
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/fashion/25boite.html
“I’m allergic to rope lines,” joked one Congressional staffer. “Do you know who I work for?”
― what kind of money? obama money! (daria-g), Saturday, 24 October 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
GETTING IN: Reservations help, as does a West Wing hard pass.
DRESS CODE: “Casual sophistication” — suits with loosened ties, trendy dresses and BlackBerrys.
SIGNATURE DRINK: Dark and Stormy — rum and housemade ginger soda; $15
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 October 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
$15 DARK AND STORMY WTF???
― quincie, Monday, 26 October 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
shouldn't "allergic to rope lines" imply you avoid such places altogether??
― W i l l, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The ballsy and hilarious move about the drink pricing is that ALL the cocktails are $15 - some of them are absolutely worth $15, but also the people ordering vodka cranberrys get charged $15.
Nice place to kick it at 3pm on a Wednesday, otherwise it's just doucheville... WITH A VIEW. And, despite the press, having a nicer hotel there has not actually made the view any better than when it was Hotel Washington.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Are there any coffee places in DC like Tryst, other than Tryst? Busboys and Poets is ok but kind of loud and really try-hard.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
so for REALZ does anyone have a suggestion for, say, Sun or Mon night the week of THANKSGIVING when my lovely wife and I will be all up in yr grill?
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) for coffeeshops, check out Big Bear Cafe, Mid City Caffe, or Chinatown Coffee Co.
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
HI DERE are talking FAP? We got places. Where are you staying?
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
are we talking Sun-Mon before Tgiving? if so we are around, would totally do a HI DERE-themed FAP
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
re coffeeshops, I second Big Bear, and the above-mocked Tynan may be like a smaller lower-key Tryst (haven't had a chance to try it yet)
― W i l l, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah Sun-Mon before or after Tday? Let us not forget to summon BOT and Kitties for HI DERE FAP.
― quincie, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Before! And not sure where we're staying yet but it's like to be L'Enfant Plaza or someplace else downtown
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
oh for coffeehouses also Sidamo and Sova.
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
may finally be trying thai x-ing tonight. hope it's as good as people say!
― W i l l, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone interested in ethiopian on Wednesday night in the U-ish area?
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, I WILL eat all these kitfo by myself, but really a cuisine best enjoyed with a posse.
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i could go for that!
― what kind of money? obama money! (daria-g), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Great! I get out of the clinic at 7:30. Suggestions for restaurant? I always like Dukem and the place beside Dukem that isn't Dukem.
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
can I be a wet blanket and point out that in this age of swine flu epidemics, going for cuisine that usually involves a whole bunch of ppl eating off of the same gigantic plate may not be a good idea
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
no, you can't
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It's OK we'll have a certified virologist there to supervise.
ate etete fri night with minimal viral infections iirc
― W i l l, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
that raw beef dish even
― W i l l, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
See? Berebere clearly has antimicrobial qualities.
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It’s come to this: The Washington Post Style section, for years known as “the sandbox” because it was a playground for sometimes immature writers, has turned into a boxing ring because one of the editors was revolted by a story that came across his desk on deadline.
― W i l l, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh dear god in heaven
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
that feature did suck, however
I have a Wednesday evening meeting right across from Dukem, in fact. Trying to nail down a time but I'm always up for Ethiopian.
― I DIED, Monday, 2 November 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
okay in truth I'm just jealous that you guys are having Ethiopian
t;_;t
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
probably can't make it but may be able to, will know on the day.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
so we're going to stay here:
http://www.affinia.com/Washington-DC-Hotel.aspx?name=Liaison-Capitol-Hill&page=Services-Amenities
thanking u, Priceline!
― The Dance at the Crossroads (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Alright ppl I will be at Dukem tomorrow (Wed) at 7:45 be there or be without injera.
― quincie, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
can't make it but raise a glass of taj for me
― W i l l, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
or tej
― W i l l, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
likewise
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't either and I don't know what taj or tej are. Yet.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Tej is ethiopian honey wine and it is... sometimes not bad if you're in the right frame of mind.
Kitfo... wat... mitmita... injera... sambusa... gored gored... awaze... these are all things that it is very important to research.
Goddamit now I wanna go out and get ethiopian food tonight.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
By the way, the new cheesesteak place just south of 14th & U is legit!
― I DIED, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only had one Ethiopian meal and I know I had some of those things and one of them was injera. It tasted like carpet underlay, but I'm putting that down to picking the wrong restaurant.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
mookie, I'll be in NY with a Russian friend prob 10/11 Nov and again with a Britisher friend briefly on 21/22 Nov - let me know if you and Mrs Mookie happen to be around and fappable. 21/22 probably more feasible, Russian friend's English is not all that.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
totally fappable!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Great! Now I have to explain to my friend what ILX is. I'll talk with her and send you a webmail.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img03.imagefra.me/img/img03/2/11/7/f_fnpm_0407c0b.jpg
Dukem w/daria & quincie the other night was DELICIOUS
― I DIED, Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
That looks great
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
could use more h1n1
― W i l l, Monday, 9 November 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so would tickets to a friday night wizards game be available day of, or should i buy ahead of time?
― W i l l, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
can't help you with that question I'm afraid.
Shall we talk about the cover of today's Style section, or shall we pretend it never happened?
― quincie, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
was it the eatonville piece? didn't read it. but i really dug the edward p jones profile from late last week.
― W i l l, Monday, 16 November 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
no it was the tweed riders
I am at WWC tomorrow night if anyone wants to meet up for dinner ~7:45!
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post- Regarding Wizards tickets availability, it depends on who they are playing (team with a good record and stars or not). They also have certain promo deals mainly for the upper sections(student id discount for Wednesday nights); date night discounts; some "guys night out deals" that involve getting a beer and a Wizards cheerleaders calendar and an autograph session with the Wizard girls (insert jokes here if you'd like) and a girls nights out deal I think (forget what that involves; I think drinks and a t-shirt), and other offers.
They call the upper section now the "VW Penthaus".
http://www.nba.com/wizards/tickets/promotions.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Can we pretend that tweed thing never happened in London or anywhere else first as well.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Tweed rides are like the gateway drug to full-on steampunk.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to attend when I first heard about it but it quickly became apparent that my tweed hoodie and pumas had no place there, it was just a bunch of people that wanted to dress in a poncelike manner who didn't really care about tweed at all.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf are you guys talking about, am I going to need to bring a bat to DC
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Glass houses, Dan, pretty sure they do this every day unintentionally at Harvard.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I googled this
WTF
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ftr in my day anyone who did this at Harvard would have been dismembered
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess what? The wife and I are in DC!
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
WELCOME!
― I DIED, Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Who wants to go out Tuesday night btw
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I do, and I will. We can round up the troops. What time are you guys thinking?
― I DIED, Monday, 23 November 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
We are pretty flexible at the moment; no dinner plans or anything. If folks want to do drinks or food or whatever, we are cool.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Unless there are any objections I'd like to nominate Bourbon (Adams Morgan location) at 2321 18th St NW, starting at 7pm. Dinner and drinks or just drinks, either is fine there.
― I DIED, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Works for us!
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i will be able to make it
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I was up all night working and have three more meetings coming up - I'll probably be a cheap and delirious drunk by tonight. Looking forward to it!
― I DIED, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
MUCH FUN
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I am sorry I missed you and wifey last night, Dan! But Mr. Que reported a lovely time and much <3 <3 <3 for you and J. I hope he stepped up with proper representation for the Q clan.
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
snowballed by mistake by a 7-year-old outside the Tenleytown Whole Foods
― ljubljana, Saturday, 5 December 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
rough neighborhood
― I DIED, Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
might want to avoid using snowball as a verb there
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
whoops. I'm sure I say all kinds of borderline nsfw things at work in my clueless Britisherness.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 5 December 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no, a little bit of snow on the ground, time for everyone in dc metro to freak out & forget how to drive..
― yeah, whatever (daria-g), Saturday, 5 December 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Now I understand the construction at the National Gallery of Art East Building entrance---the building is falling apart. 85 mill to fix it...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574581890709007568.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Just been to 80s night at the Black Cat. What the hell happened in the US in the 80s?! Disappointing.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 13 December 2009 07:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 December 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Did they play '80s hairmetal hits or early rap or uh Styx and Kansas and Billy Joel?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
french toast alert has been raised to severe--grab your share of bread milk eggs and panic while you still can
― W i l l, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Mostly the hairmetal
― ljubljana, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
No Brit New Romantics though.
Weather--Channel 4 guy says 30 % chance of a snow of "historic proportions"....70 % chance of at least 6 inches
That likely means less than 6 inches. Will is right. Panic and get that bread and milk now.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
There's still time to buy more milk
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
IF THERE'S ANY LEFT OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
― W i l l, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah every time this shit happens it's right around the freezing point and the heat island effect means DC proper will get less than half what the surrounding areas do, if it sticks at all.
― I DIED, Friday, 18 December 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah dc proper snow forecasting goes something like: 16" predicted => subtract 4" b/c it will never ever snow more than 12" in dc => subtract 3" due to local news & weather sites hyping storm to drive viewers => subtract 2" b/c temps will be 1-2 degrees higher than called for => subtract 2" b/c the storm moves faster than expected/arrives later than expected/turns to wintry mix or rain earlier than expected = 5" = storm of the century
― W i l l, Friday, 18 December 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
that said, i like capital weather gang and they like this storm so
― W i l l, Friday, 18 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
all these 'friends' on my facebook 'news' feed like OMG THERE MIGHT BE 'THUNDERSNOW'?!
i don't believe it
― 10 yards for tripping o_O (daria-g), Saturday, 19 December 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, there closing the above-ground Metro stations at 1 today
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
they're
i feel like if they call for this much snow, we're gonna get it. it's when it's between 4-8 inches that they fuck it up.
looks awesome!
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got tons of snow in Arlington. Does look great.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 December 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
well that was fun
― W i l l, Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://community.washingtonpost.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/11/571ae95b-fbbd-4342-ab72-2e44af61af9b.Large.jpg
― W i l l, Sunday, 20 December 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Federal Govt. agencies in the DC area closed on Monday. Wooo Hooo!!!
Shoveling has not been fun. Not sure if I will make it to the Scream show tonight
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 December 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Sunday, 20 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
this means a lot of people have a 1.5 day work week - Tuesday+half of Wednesday, NICE
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Sunday, 20 December 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Federal closure is making my Sunday night a pain in the ass as I try to figure out what to do with a bunch of new federal-site contract employees who are freaking out about how they are gonna bill.
― quincie, Sunday, 20 December 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
DAMN U TOMBOT AND YOUR FED FRIENDS!
― quincie, Sunday, 20 December 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So who here other than I has to work tomorrow?
― quincie, Sunday, 20 December 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
me
― I DIED, Monday, 21 December 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I do as well. From home though.
― lou, Monday, 21 December 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yo
― W i l l, Monday, 21 December 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
based on my commute this a.m., Maryland wins the prize for the most retarded snow driving.
― quincie, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Like seriously people 270 is CLEAR and DRY so wtf u going 20 miles under the speedlimit in your HUMMER for?
― quincie, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
my co-worker, who hasn't had the best year ever and just wanted to get home (see July posts here) sat on a stationary British Airways flight for 7 hours Friday night, then was stuck for 3 days in a hotel near Dulles. I think she finally flies to the UK today. She says spirits are surprisingly high but bodies are smelly.
― ljubljana, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh dear god SEVEN HOURS ON STATIONARY PLANE is like at least six hours too many for sanity.
― quincie, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
happy birthday, quincie!
― I DIED, Monday, 21 December 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The Senate is working on X-Mas Eve morning for the first time since 1963
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah well my office is open (alas, I am not in it!) so least those bastards could do.
Thanks B!
― quincie, Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Quincie, did you do a Jewish X-mas? My kid and I saw Avatar in 3d with the grandparents and cousins and then had Chinese food.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
This movie is showing for free tonight courtesy of Solas Nua at 7 (doors at 6:30) at flashpoint, 916 G street nw, dc 20001 metro: metro center, gallery place/chinatown. Don't think I can make it.
the wind the shakes the barleydirected by ken loach | starring cillian murphy | 127 mins
as political tensions brew in early 1920s ireland, brothers damien and teddy (cillian murphy and padraic delaney) abandon their civilian lives and take up arms to liberate their country from the oppressive "black and tan" squads of britain. winner of the palme d'or at the 2006 cannes film festival, ken loach's provocative drama examines a microcosm of civil war in cork, ireland. liam cunningham co-stars.
Has anyone seen it?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Free popcorn too!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
We did Jewish X-mas Eve! Chinese dinner that included actual Jews!
― quincie, Monday, 28 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Excellent. Passover is March 30th 2010.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh god I'm not ready to do a seder! I still don't know all my Hebrew letters :(
― quincie, Monday, 28 December 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
New DC plastic bag tax in effect (money is to go to cleaning up the Anacostia River). New higher parking meter rates and increased parking meter times on Saturday expected to be operational everywhere in DC by mid-January (money to go to DC government as city deals with the recession and stuff).
In other news, I finally ate at 4-star Rasika's. I haven't eaten at other Washington Post 4 star restaurants and I'm not a hardcore knowledgeable foodie so I can't really say whether or not its 4 star rating is deserved. The food was tasty and it seemed unique--not your standard Indian food.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 January 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
brrr
― W i l l, Sunday, 3 January 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
dear god in heaven it is cold
― quincie, Sunday, 3 January 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
days like this remind me never, ever to move to Chicago
Yeah, at this point after this whole weekend I am basically opposed to the idea of wind.
― C-L, Sunday, 3 January 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
sooo cold. i walked home yesterday from cleveland park and there was hardly anyone out. only what, four more months of bad weather?
― kicker conspiracy (s. suisham ha ha) (daria-g), Monday, 4 January 2010 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
still brrrr
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Is anybody risking Restaurant week?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
nah...maybe it's b/c i was young & naive but when restaurant week started it seemed like all the participants were pretty amazing. and expensive. getting an $80 peter luger steak for $20.02 ruled. getting a $11 app + $27 medium-blah entree for $34 or whatever it is these days doesn't. i'm sure there are still deals but having to search them out and call early violates the rw spirit that flickers on in my y&n heart
― W i l l, Monday, 11 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Restaurant week lunch rules! Dinner mostly sucks. 3 courses at lunch for $20 is great, and you can usually walk into even a fully booked restaurant at noon and get a seat at the bar no problem.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm, i should try that.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Anything new and exciting happening (or same ol' thing got you riled up or just the same ol' same ol' mid-winter doldrums)?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Sally Quinn's Washington Post Style section pieces on how Washingtonians (read elite well-connected politcal types) need to have more parties and need to follow her ettiquette ideas at such parties make me laugh. She analyzes Official Washington parties from Kennedy to the present today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603507.html
Making friends is crucial. I'm only being partly facetious when I suggest that there should be some sort of in-house list where members of the administration (any administration!) are designated to go out a certain amount, in exactly the same way they make the rounds on Sunday talk shows.
This includes the president! Even senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said this week that Obama "likes the rigor of having a conversation with someone who's going to push him,." sShe told The Post, "There's really no point in him wasting time with people who simply agree with him all the time because it's not going to refine his position, it's not going to enlighten his position." In other words, he'll certainly accomplish some of that once he gets around town.
Indulge me for a moment on the topic of our cultural bellwether, "Avatar." In the film, the Pandora natives worship the goddess Eywa, who is the spirit that connects them to their planet. If there is such a goddess in Washington, I believe, it is the spirit of community. Those who live here want to welcome new friends. Washingtonians are open and willing to invite newcomers and make them part of their lives. If they can't do that, there is automatically a distance that is created so that if ¿ no, make that when ¿ the administration gets into trouble, there is too little sympathy or support
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i know right? how is anything not dull with sally quinn, she is dull. the comments on that article are delightful!
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Sunday, 31 January 2010 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of impressed, it takes a special kind of tone deafness to argue that what we really need is closer personal ties between politicians and the media.
― I DIED, Sunday, 31 January 2010 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The comments are right on target.
I thought this one bit from Sally's article was especially funny:
Years ago, the city looked to the White House to set the social tone. Whatever style the president and first lady favored was the style adopted. The Kennedys enthralled the town with their youth, exuberance and glamour. They had round skirted tables at a state dinner, and suddenly everyone had round tables. The Johnsons came in with their down-home Texas barbecues and you couldn't go out at night without being served ribs and baked beans. It wasn't until Nixon that people started to do their own thing.
Yea, like D.C.'s poor, segregated residents during the Kennedy years were busy saving their money to buy Kennedyesque 'round skirted tables.' And yea, it took that Nixon to force people to give up imitating White House style. She is so clueless.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
It's amazing that Sally's connection with former editor Bradlee allows her to still write in Style. I can't imagine that anyone else there is happy about that
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Anti-terrorism drills on the subway this morning, so if you notice about 100 cops in yr metro station, that's what.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
so what's the job climate like for liberal arts degree graduates who haven't had a steady job in the two years since they've graduated like?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
also, any thoughts on Old Town Alexandria would be appreciated.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you know any Congresspeople?
The so-called charm of Old Town has never done much for me. It's a bit of a walk from the Metro and finding parking if you drive is not always easy. I could be wrong, but I think like Georgetown that the rents went up and thus lots of the quaint little stores come and go fast. Tourists and Virginians who don't like going into DC like it alot. I do like Eamonn's/Dublin Fish & Chip place (though I'm guessing some will say it is overpriced). I have not been to many of the more expensive restaurants there that get nice writeups by Sietsema or the bars that Fritz H*hn writes up on the W. Post Going Out Gurus blog.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
got to move back to the US soon, and the most reasonable option is to move in with my with mother in Old Town Alexandria and find a job fast. Was just wondering what the area was like and if I should immediately look for jobs elsewhere to get the hell out.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think it'd be too bad in that case. very walkable, but then I typically don't mind long walks and walk everywhere in DC when possible, no matter the weather. I really love Misha's coffee shop, it's a great place to hang out, super laid back, delicious coffee. there's a neat used bookstore a few blocks north of the metro. some nice restaurants. a cool thrift store. some boring chain stores. trader joe's. it's just not the kind of place I'd go to hang out on a friday night because it's all yuppie and stuff.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i love walking, and i'm guessing transport around isn't too bad? like, would jobs (however menial) not hire me because i'd be staying there with no car?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think that situation is any of their business, just matters whether or not you can get to work on time. (obvs this might make jobs out in certain burbs difficult, but that would be true no matter where you lived, i mean a menial job in some strip mall complex in fairfax = impossible to reach on public transport.) there is a metro at king street, the yellow and blue lines are both passing through which is convenient.
most of old town (idk where your mom is at) is going to be about a 15-20 min walk at least, because the part right near metro is mostly hotels/restaurants, you have to go a ways up king st to reach the residential areas. there is a dash bus (virginia public transport) running up and down king st, it is free on weekends, i don't know about weekdays or how bad the traffic is on weekdays, but it takes you from metro all the way up king to the waterfront, and back. there are a lot of other bus lines that run from king st station and elsewhere in old town, i'm just not familiar with them.
http://wmata.com/ <-- trip planner @ metro website is pretty handy to figure out how you'd get around & how long it takes. but afaik it doesn't include all the bus lines that run in virginia --> http://www.dashbus.com/ is Alexandria buses only.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm fond of old town myself, i worked there a number of years ago. it's just the thing you will not find is dance clubs and places to see bands, and cab ride to/from dc late night is $$$$, though metro does close 3am friday-saturday. and maybe you'd have a long commute depending on where you end up working, but i guess sometimes one just has to put up with stuff, it's dc.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks. I originally come from a town with no real public transport, so every job interview asked about having a car or not.
Good to get an idea of the area and the city. I've only been to DC once, and that was mostly just for a day and a night, and even then the majority of that time was spent seeing a gig at the 930 and hanging out in areas nearabouts there.
Are there good dance clubs in DC?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
tentatively, yes? i mean there are places i like to dance (and places i think would be good but haven't tried b/c i dance less and less), but i don't know your tastes.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
about the job market, i know several people who lost their jobs in the last year or so; most have found something else but it took them months. i get the sense things are better here than elsewhere but still much slower than a few years ago obv.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I have that same sense about jobs in the DC area. When I was noting the long walk to the King Street station I of course was saying that as someone who lives in an Arlington neighborhood that's not even w/in walking distance to metro unfortunately. Old Town used to have a good used record store but that's long gone. I used to live in Alexandria's DelRay neighborhood, just north of Old Town, and I like that area.
Re dance clubs, "I Died"'s U st. Music Hall is opening in March I think.
more info on DC music on the ilx side here Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes one just has to put up with stuff, it's dc.
The new city slogan to be seen on billboards,posters, grafitti, and bathroom walls everywhere.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 February 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed Dec 19 snowpocalypse, finally get to catch up...
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Friday, 5 February 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend spent 90 mins in line at the grocery store last night
never change, dc! <3
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Riding this one out on the eastern shore. Blizzard warning from 4 this afternoon until 7 tomorrow :D
― W i l l, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing is sticking to the pavement in the parking lot near me in Arlington yet (2 pm). Nice that the Feds sent us government workers home early (or at least they did at my agency).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 February 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Juuuuust starting to stick around Dupont. Word from an 11th floor apt in White Flint is that the Nuclear R3gulation Ag3ncy has disappeared already.
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Friday, 5 February 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep it's starting to stick now (4:20 pm)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://snowpocalypsedc.com/
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 5 February 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
people are going a little crazy. i actually did run out of soy milk but do i feel like standing in an hour line? not really. times like this i am glad i live in the middle of the city, have a nice pair of snow boots and no car to worry about.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 5 February 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Which bars/food places do you think will stay open around Dupont?
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Friday, 5 February 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, couldn't say. something has to stay open.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Friday, 5 February 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I think a lot of places will be open tonight, tomorrow is when it'll be tough. Hotel bars & restaurants almost always stay open since they have guests there anyway, but their hours may be more limited than usual.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh I was hoping for an insider response to that from I DIED.
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Friday, 5 February 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
No metro buses on Saturday and no above-ground Metro trains.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Dupont circle is puuuurty!
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Snow-covered trees under streetlamps looking nice out here in Arlington
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dupont looked pretty gorgeous earlier, i was outside for a while around 9:30. going back out for a long walk tomorrow, i think, it was nice last SNOWPOCALYPSE with the streets mostly deserted.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Snow just keeps coming
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 February 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
And the wind is blowing it everywhere
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 February 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The Washington Post website covers the important stuff:
Snowball fight roundupAs the snow falls piles up, so do the number of planned snowball fights around the area Saturday. Here’s a brief round up: Know of others? email tel✧✧✧@w✧✧✧.c✧✧.-- Down on the Mall you can find Snowpocalypse II: Snowball Fight and Snow Kickball at 3 p.m. -- Battle Snowpocalypse will be at the Ellipse from noon to 3 p.m. -- Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, 2 p.m. -- East of the Anacostia River will be Snowpocalypse Celebration at Ft. Dupont Park in Southeast from noon - 2pm.-- In Northwest you have a plethora of options: The Official Dupont Circle Snowball Fight at 2 p.m.-- Nearby you could hurl frozen projectiles at the Columbia Heights Snowball Fight at Malcolm X Park from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.-- Campus Mall, University of Maryland, 1 pm. -- In Baltimore: Snowsaycanyousee Part 2: Fells Point! at 2:30pm. Broadway Square in Fells Point (Broadway between Thames & Lancaster Streets). :
-- Clarence Williams
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 February 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Walked downtown, watched the rugby at Fado's with some rugby fans, understood nothing, walked back, pushed someone's car, lobbed a few at the Dupont fite at 3pm
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Saturday, 6 February 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
there's some good snowboarding going on down the hill on 13th by cardozo high.
― Moreno, Saturday, 6 February 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Part of a tree just came down on my building's parking lot. My car is okay; I hope the car in space #1 is okay.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Saturday, 6 February 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
SO BORED
also, wondering if a bunch of people are using fireplaces or if there was actually a building on fire somewhere, because i just walked a ways around dupont neighborhood & now my hair smells like smoke.
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm tired from shoveling. Watching the Caps now (tied 4 to 4 w/ the Penguins in the 3rd) and my Terps on another channel.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 February 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I trekked to the Giant to restock on cough syrup and chicken soup. Some people were buying those fake fireplace logs, so yes, they're probably using their fireplaces.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Sunday, 7 February 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Federal Government is closed Monday. Yeehah, no work.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 February 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh fed contractors never, ever close--can't bill if you're closed! At least I get to work from home.
― quincie, Monday, 8 February 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I get to trudge in... foreigners battling on with no-one to talk to... but it's a nice day...
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Monday, 8 February 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Streets and sidewalks still a mess out here and the weather report does not look good for Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 February 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleet, snow....We'll see soon enough and through the night into tomorrow
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Tryst stuffed to the gills with people with laptops who were supposed to be working from home but were going crazy there.
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Fed closed again tomorrow. this is way too much free time for me.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
is that confirmed Moreno? The website still refers only to today. But hell, I can't see how it can possibly be open.
― Jblujlama (ljubljana), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
this is pretty annoying (the not-closing). can't keep honestly working forever without client response. but i shouldn't have to waste my vacation hours.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah they made an announcement at 7:00. i feel real bad for the contractors we work w/ who have to stay home when feds close. they're blowing through some vacation days right now.
― Moreno, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
my bff amy is p3tworth children's librarian and even though all neighborhood branches were closed monday, all personnel had to either schlep to MLK or take 8hr leave. aint that a fucked up agressive cost-cutting measure??
― 69, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
DCPL branches i mean
― 69, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
If anyone is bored and near Adams Morgan this Sat evening I'll be in L'Enfant from about 9.30 having birthday drinks with a small group of identity-challenged Britisher-Americans and American-Britishers.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
You're right Pete.
Now we got heavy winds creating WHITEOUT and still stupid drivers with no lights on and snow ontop of their cars
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i can barely see the houses across the street!
really wish the heater that supplies the bedrooms in my house had been fixed before these storms :D
― W i l l, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Will the Feds be closed again tomorrow
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely yes.
I couldn't see my steps down from my 1st floor apt just now when I ventured outside for the first time today - just a slope - I had to guess where I was planting my feet before kicking it away into the front yard. Garden flat neighbours ventured outside at one point during this, and I think I showered them by mistake.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
snow wisdom from Sally Quinn, the bard of Washington
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003503.html
― I DIED, Thursday, 11 February 2010 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
To the guys at the Tenleytown Safeway who helped unstick my car: I would have sex with both of you.
By way of saying thanks, Me.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Thursday, 11 February 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post. I wonder if anyone has ever let Sally Quinn know there is a DC outside of her fantasyland. Nothing like a walk through Georgetown and down to the Kennedy Center to capture her city though, and her closing is brilliant:
So what are all the Washington socialites doing during the snowstorm? I have no idea. All I know is that one thing has changed: my definition of the word party.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Her parties sound deadly boring! I mean I'd sooner attend a party thrown by Glenn beck!
― daria-g, Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
But if we went back in a time machine (well, her parties might still have been boring) this is what was going on:
Jason Robards played Ben in “All The President’s Men”. Stockard Channing played her in “Heartburn.” Yes, they were best friends with Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron and it was in Sally and Ben’s kitchen that Nora either dumped a bottle of wine over her philandering husband’s head, or a fruit pie. Details, details.
That was the ‘70s. If you were invited to Ben and Sally’s you were annointed. They never entertained all that much but when they did, it was perfect. Their New Year’s Eve parties were legendary for the eclectic mix of media, celebrity and political types.
http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/november_2005/sally_quinn_and_ben_bradlee/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Back to work. If only I could be a retired socialite...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not even really related to DC, but if you enjoy hating Sally Quinn her latest column brings the lols.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805078.html
I will probably be linking all her columns here until we have legitimate city discussion business.
― I DIED, Friday, 19 February 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus Christ sally STFU already!
― quincie, Friday, 19 February 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha. Between her, Marion Barry news, and political discussions about balancing the budget it's like nothing ever changes.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
she does bring out the best in people. you are reading the comments section aren't you?Thousands of Haitians read this article, wept, and recognized that in comparison their troubles weren't so bad
― daria-g, Friday, 19 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Hopefully she is not in "Washington in the 70's" a documentary that's on from 9 to 10 on WETA tonight (and they're showing it again next Monday). The W. Post review mentions quiet storm WHUR dj Melvin Lindsey, Sonny Jurgenson & Billy Kilmer, Chuck Brown, WHFS's Cerphe, and Marion Barry among others in the film, directed by a British guy (whose name I can't remember).
http://www.weta.org/tv/local/washingtoninthe70s
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/21/AR2010022103840.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 February 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/02/23/erik-wemple-to-leave-city-paper-will-edit-startup-local-news-site/
Albritton co., that once ran the Washington Star newspaper, and who now run local ABC affiliate channel 7, Newschannel 8, and politico.com is starting up a local news website and has hired City Paper executive editor Eric Wemple.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
S. Quinn's ridic pieces are getting lots of online attention from Huff Post and others. The Style section editor refused to answer City Paper questions about them.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
her wikipedia page is full of gems
Henry Kissinger said, "[Post reporter] Maxine Cheshire makes you want to commit murder. Sally Quinn makes you want to commit suicide."
― W i l l, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
No snow today. I rushed out and got all that milk and tp and stuff for nothing last night. I kid.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/02/24/brauchli-on-the-party-by-sally-quinn/
Quinn's column's gonna be online only now and not in the newsprint as well.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
hi, dc! i'm going to be in town for a few days march 4-9. holla.
― tehresa, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
hi!those are good days to be in dc: http://dcist.com/2010/02/dc_restaurants_unleashed.php
those are also days that i'll be in california.
enjoy your stay
― W i l l, Friday, 26 February 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of wish Quinn's column would move to print-only and not appear online.
― I DIED, Friday, 26 February 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
holla-ing, t! I'm around pretty much that whole time.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 February 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
half-off Putinka Premium Russian Vodka at Russia House
that might not end well.
why don't we have a bar entirely devoted to gin? of course, if there were, maybe it would be better if i didn't know about it
― daria-g, Saturday, 27 February 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
quinn column online is a treat, though - purely for the comments
― daria-g, Saturday, 27 February 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I think there is a gin bar in the area somewhere, although I have no idea where (for some reason I wanna say Adams Morgan?) or what it's called. I just remember a gin aficionado in my class talking it up right after I started school out here. My interests lie with beer and vodka so I was not paying full attention.
― C-L, Saturday, 27 February 2010 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i will have more specific timelines later (sis and bro-in-law in mexico til monday night) but i think.... thurs, fri, or sat would be good nights for hanging out
xxxposts
― tehresa, Saturday, 27 February 2010 07:13 (fourteen years ago) link
or days. i need a dc education, stat.
daria - Gin Joint, the ground floor bar at New Heights in Woodley Park
― I DIED, Saturday, 27 February 2010 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got friends with kids visiting in about a month - anyone got any recommendations for good kid-friendly restaurants? Including any posh ones, because I've been tasked with finding a fancy restaurant for their foodie dad's birthday. The kids are 18 months and 4, but for 4 read 2 because of developmental problems.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 February 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
2 Amys works for kids and foodie dads
― I DIED, Saturday, 27 February 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Good thought, and I like it a lot. How about for fancier dinner? Something tells me this isn't going to be easy...
― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 February 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
god, I'm not sure of anything fancier that's suitable for kids - that age range is pretty much the worst possible for taking kids to restaurants. Maybe someplace like Zaytinya on the early side - big, loud, and casual enough to absorb a few young kids no problem.
― I DIED, Monday, 1 March 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
is obelisk any good? i was intrigued by its low profile (no website?), but i've seen mixed reviews.
― W i l l, Monday, 1 March 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
for general dining, i mean, not for kids
It's been around a long time now, and in a lot of ways was the precursor to Komi. I've been hearing good things lately after a few years of very mixed reviews, but for the money I can't bring myself to go to Obelisk over Komi, even if the latter is a bit more.
― I DIED, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
how was it the precursor to komi?
― W i l l, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Just in terms of inspiration, not ownership or staffing. Small dining room w/ a fixed handwritten daily menu and a parade of small plates before the pasta and meat courses.
― I DIED, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
ah.
― W i l l, Monday, 1 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
― W i l l, Friday, February 26, 2010 9:04 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
awww taberna del alabardero! i miss that place.
― 69, Monday, 1 March 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel the same way about el tamarindo
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 March 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
In the past five years I've only been to El Tamarindo twice. Both were at 5am.
― I DIED, Monday, 1 March 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it does have the advantage of easily seating large groups. that's about all iirc.
― W i l l, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
and being open at 5am!
― I DIED, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Diner at that hour imo
― W i l l, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
haha but it is right on time at 5am
(actually one time i was there with two friends at 4am or whatever and they both ended up getting sick -- and they didn't seem that drunk -- but i was fine!)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Obelisk: I love it but only go there when someone else is paying (my birthday, and work a couple times years ago).
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh, maybe I should take the kids to Obelisk and see what happens. Zaytinya is a very good idea, I DIED, am pushing that one with these crazy parents.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"These Crazy Parents" -- a new food network show where foodie parents of young children go to nice restaurants and wackiness occurs
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
well hello.
i think at least friday evening will be a good time to have a drink if anyone's interested. my friend from nyc is coming down for the day but will leave me around 6 or 7 if anyone wants to meet up after work. also monday i'll be free from mid afternoon on.
suggestions for what we should do around the district on a friday in addition to the hirshhorn?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
If you're seeking more art, not sure if this is too trad for you but the nearby to the Hirshhorn National Gallery of Art has "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection"
Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau (1834), Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), Mary Cassatt's Boating Party (1893/1894), Edouard Manet's Old Musician (1862), Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques (1905), and George Bellows' Blue Morning (1909). Other artists represented include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Moneytown, a free,once a month, old-school soul dj dance thing is going on late Friday night at Dahlak, an Ethiopian restaurant at 18th & U
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Some DJ-about-town soul people from NYC have guested at Moneytown, can tentatively recommend! I prefer my soul extremely un-funky but I'm kind of lame.
― The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
oh gosh i would be fine if i never saw another impressionist exhibit in my life. maybe.
i read a write up of that night and didn't see the word 'northern' anywhere and thought, "oh my, l would certainly not approve!" but mayyybe i will give it a shot! what's a good happy hour place?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
The W. Post Going Out Gurus recommend Policy on 14th Street. "I Died" may have more ideas for you.:
If you're going out to see a DJ on Friday night, we hope you don't need to get up early on Saturday, because you're lucky if the person you want to see makes it on by midnight. That's not the case at Policy's Pregame happy hour on Fridays, which has featured local headliners Stereofaith, Jackie O and Billfold taking over the decks from 5 to 9 at the 14th Street lounge. The theme is music the DJs themselves would like to hear, so this week, when Nacey of Nouveau Riche is up, he'll play songs he picked up on a recent trip to New Orleans, say, some from the Rebirth Brass Band or Bo Dollis, alongside the usual go-go and party music. There's no cover, and the beer is dead cheap: you can get $2 Yuengling, $3 PBR and $4 rail cocktails.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2010/03/nightlife_agenda_98.html#more
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
TZA -> BOURBON
― I DIED, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The Yinka Shonibare exhibit at the Museum of African Art looks interesting to me
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/artworks.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
T, Friday night I'm going on a trawl around the small Dupont art galleries that happens every first Friday of the month with free wine/snacks, with a couple I know. (Did it about a year ago, haven't done it since). That'll be from about 5.30-6 till 7 or 8ish, then we'll probably go out to eat. I'll webmail you my mobile number in case you want to join us on the trawl or for the food - you'd be welcome! Monday pm I'm at work but will be around in the evening after about 7.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
a bar called bourbon = SOLD
is one location better than the other?
that yinka shonibare stuff looks interesting, thanks.
ljub, i got your webmail. will let you know - sis and bro-in-law may come in for happy hour/dinner as well. metro area saturday looks tempting, too...
― tehresa, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Planning on going to Metro Area. You should come!
― lou, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll definitely be at metro area!
I like Bourbon Adams Morgan a little better, but not a huge difference.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Hello thread, Yinka Shonibare is kind of awesome. Go.
― ned ragú (suzy), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
where's metro area? not that i will be around, just curious. last time at comet was intense fun.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Metro Area's playing in the basement of a new place called Bar 7, on 7th st just a couple doors down from The Passenger.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
if this thread is any indication of attendance, that place is gonna be packed!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
metro area in a basement sounds like 135 of my FB friends will attend
― 69, Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone up for Ethiopian on Monday, 7:45-ish in the U St. environs?
― quincie, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
My son's with his Mom that night, so maybe it's time for me to meet you and others that night (I've just met "I Died" and Will and DCers who've moved elsewhere-Pete and Zack).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay!
― quincie, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Clearly you need to meet some of the lady dcilxors.
We exist, honest.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I may be able to make it but will have to play it by ear.
― I DIED, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/03/02/PH2010030204542.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Barry (Ward 8) twice implored colleagues to wait for an ethics review before they passed judgment. He told them that the report "reduced Marion Barry, 40 years of service, to a petty thief . . . to a Southeast hustler." from the W. Post article
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh MB. In an NPR clip I heard him say "blah blah. . . but they can't take away my dignity!" and I muttered out loud NO SHIT THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LOST IT LONG AGO.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing thing about him is that he always has this base of unswaying supporters no matter what he's done
― am0n, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
guess thats true for any politician but y'know
― am0n, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoninformer.com/wi-web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3223:despite-censure-ward-8-backs-barry
― am0n, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
annie and i saw this documentary about six months ago on HBO, and, aside from making us homesick, it sort of gave some greater nuance to barry's character/mythos. i never saw DC in the 70s/80s/90s, and the film just made me feel like barry was this total CHAMPION, obviously flawed, but representative of the will to power and respect of the black community in DC. as his flaws/behavior have become more ridiculous over the years, his legacy has definitely taken a turn towards the pathetic, but i think if i were a black ward 8 resident, especially 40 or older, id have a tough time condemning the man?
― 69, Thursday, 4 March 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hello Q, and DCers past and present. I am present, and may be able to be present for Monday-night Ethiopian. It will be just like old times.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 5 March 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Oooh yay VP is here, too! I am definitely up for ethiopian monday.
― tehresa, Friday, 5 March 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Up for Ethiopian - that food in that place you posted pics of last time looked great
― ljubljana, Friday, 5 March 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't been real thrilled w/ Dukem lately but I've been hearing good reports on Madjet, which I've always liked.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 March 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Where should I have a nice lunch with a very dear friend? (Not toooo $$$ but comfortable. Meeting @ chinatown bus but can travel anywhere the metro will take us!)
― tehresa, Friday, 5 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Proof is close and great (8th & G), and they have a super deal lunch special in the bar/lounge area.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 March 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I also like Sou'Wester (13th & Maryland SW, near L'enfant metro in the Mandarin Oriental but great prices!), Brasserie Beck (Belgian, 11th & K), Poste (8th & F), and Rasika (Indian, 6th & D). I think they're all on Opentable.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Excellent, thanks!
― tehresa, Friday, 5 March 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
OK so should we say Madjet (which is more or less next door to Dukem) at say 7:30 p.m. on Monday (3/8)? The kitfo was great the last time I had it at Madjet!
― quincie, Friday, 5 March 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I vote yes. Have been to Dukem and a couple places on 9th(Etete and another) but not there yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 March 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Ethiopian on Monday? Sounds good.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Just had a meeting at Madjet and can confirm it's DELICIOUS! #9!
― I DIED, Friday, 5 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh sweet can't wait!
― quincie, Friday, 5 March 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
no one has angostura bitters in dc
― W i l l, Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
my sister had a drink with chocolate bitters tonight! also: it is really hard to enjoy your bourbon when it's so loud you have to scream at each other :( please, please tell me it's only because of weekend and that place is tolerable on weeknights. a bourbon list that comprehensive should not be wasted on that environment :(
― tehresa, Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad you made it there! But yes, like everywhere in DC, MUCH better on weeknights.
― I DIED, Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
20-year pappy! so clean! but so hard to appreciate under circumstances :(
― tehresa, Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Count me in for Madjet. Just been to Churchkey - liked it but shame about the TVs.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i am out in the SUBURBS. er no one is stranded in an Arlington bar are they?
― daria-g, Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I am theoretically walking past much of Clarendon, should I break something on the way y/n?
― daria-g, Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean no stores have angostura bitters, dude at metro wine said the distributor hasn't had it for four months?
― W i l l, Saturday, 6 March 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Thought the shortage was pretty much over - check w/ Ace Beverage though, they'll know the scoop. And you can always pick up Fee Brothers Aromatic Bitters there, which aren't quite the same but can sub.
― I DIED, Saturday, 6 March 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure the store on Dupont next to Kramerbooks has them - will check next time I'm there.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The hamburgers thread has me craving hamburgers but kitfo basically = Ethiopian hamburger so I am holding strong until Monday.
― quincie, Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I had the Palena burger again a couple weeks ago. Goddammit it's so amazing.
― I DIED, Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
See I have had that burger twice and was not wowed.
― quincie, Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Because you can never have too much Ethiopian, my son and I ate at one of Tyler Cowen's fave joints, Eyo Ethiopian Restaurant and Sports Bar on that George Mason Avenue strip mall off of King Street/Rt. 7 in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church. In addition to the our usual veggie combo we went for chicken shiro over pasta rather than kitfo this time. Good and interesting although the shiro while tasty was so nearly pasta souce-like that it did not feel like it was Ethiopian. We were the only non-Ethiopians there.
So tonight at Madjet, I guess I will be able to figure out who you folks are.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I am not Ethiopian, but rather an unusually tall brunette sporting ombre tights.
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i am wearing a suit!
― tehresa, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay suits!
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I DIED do you think we can get reservado at Gibson for afters???
Ooooh <3 gibson!
― tehresa, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
hi q! watch any hoops this weekend?
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even know what you are talking about.
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
umm whatever duke chill job beating unranked UNC.
TERRRRRRRRRPS
― 69, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Still not sure exactly what all this talk pertains to.
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
if duke hadn't scored in the second half, it still would have won by three
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, Dukem *is* wonderful, agree.
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
zack said it was amazing seeing all the dejection at elmo's durham last thursday
― 69, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
haha it was maybe slightly like when i watched this game at stetson's in 2001
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I second Pete's "Terps" chant. When was the last time the Tarheels struggled through a season this much?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Mookie you're coming down for dinner tonight, right?
― tehresa, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
u_u
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, March 8, 2010 6:54 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark
i watched that game from a distance of about 50ft. then the guy three seats down threw a bottle and gave carlos boozer's mom a concussion.
― 69, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Another suit here unless I can get home and get changed first.I will have a huge navy blue bag.
― ljubljana, Monday, 8 March 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Look for my trademark black beret.
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Monday, 8 March 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry folks, I have some responsibilities I can't get out of tonight. I'm here throughout the weekend if further hijinks ensue. Have fun~!
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 8 March 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
HI VPMJ
― 69, Monday, 8 March 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wow werner herzog has made a LOT of films, i had no idea it was that many
― daria-g, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Alot of netflicking to do if we're gonna catch up. Nice meeting y'all last night (and "I Died" again).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Good to see everyone! Let us do again soon.
― quincie, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Only maybe with a cuisine Mr. Que can stomach so he rank Herzog for us.
thanks for dining, guys!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
pics, etc.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
as if
― tehresa, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess 'I Died' could post the photo he took of the food--kitfo, veggie combo, etc. but the rest of the wildness...What happens in Etete stays in Etete (I may make up some stories)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
There were lentils. There were collards. There was laughter. There were tears (only because of I DIED's paint fumes, tho).
― quincie, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
After laughter comes tears, so totally appropriate imo
― tehresa, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"paint fumes"
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Tehresa I did not even get to say a proper goodbye! Hope you are back sooooooooooooon.
― quincie, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry! Sis was in a crazy hurry to get home for some reason u_u
Now we wait...
― tehresa, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a last-minute cancellation from a friend on my other free pass for Saturday night's Gilberto Gil show at Lisner. My other pals all seem to be busy or aren't interested in Brazilian sounds. There's a ton going on that night, but if anyone is interested in that one free pass (I have to pick up 'em up at the box office) let me know.
ritmika (at) hotmail (dot) com
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
hey guys.... see you again soon!
― tehresa, Friday, 12 March 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Congrats!!!
― I DIED, Friday, 12 March 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thankig u!
this is ridiculous.
― tehresa, Friday, 12 March 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantastic! Well done! Start date?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
What is a reasonably cheap place to get large picture frames in DC? (Would zipcar to IKEA but haven't driven in erm 15 years, so it has to be somewhere metro or cabbable). The places I've been so far want to charge 150 dollars to frame a 25 dollar poster.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
tbd upon final salary, etc. negotiation. probably very, very soon!xpost
― tehresa, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
you're moving here? oh wicked! congrats on job situation as well!
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks! i hope it turns out to be as perfect for me as it seems!
i still kind of can't believe it!
― tehresa, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hey congratulations to the tar heels for earning a #4 seed
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 March 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
*silence*
― quincie, Monday, 15 March 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's sure to be an emotional scene as senior marcus ginyard returns for an encore performance at home against william & mary on tuesday night. roy williams, you have made the people of haiti proud
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 March 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
too harsh? sorry xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo see u in a couple weeks maybe?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
What is a reasonably cheap place to get large picture frames in DC?
No Michaels stores in DC? The Arlington one I use is not on metro though.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
*more silence*
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
awww
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of the college basketball.. i was so happy to pick up the washington post a couple days ago & see all the SAD GEORGETOWN HOYAS on the front page
<3<3<3 WVU
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody was trying to convince me that I shouldn't hold grudges against Georgetown and coach Thompson just because of my dislike for some of his Dad's actions when he coached the Hoyas back then. No way...basketball grudges are forever(well maybe).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed -- but sometimes it's tough because JT3 looks like a teddy bear
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd like to know a reasonably cheap place to get custom framing. if such a thing exists.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I will rep for the Hoyas, because they did me a solid by letting me go to school here. Plus I do not know how anybody could hate Austin Freeman, because he is the best. Also one time Greg Monroe complimented me for studying at like 11:30 pm on a Saturday night, so he is A+ with me.
― C-L, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
programming note: tonight's first-round NIT matchup between william & mary and the university of north carolina will be played in carmichael auditorium, rather than the dean smith center, to better accommodate a smaller wine-and-cheese crowd. this will be carolina's first official game in carmichael since january 4, 1986, a 90-79 win over nc state.
sorry, can't help myself
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
*VERY BIG SILENCE*
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
TERRRRRRPS
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
my dad has this same grudge against JTJr, but he went to villanova, and always just talks mad shit about any other big east coach
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
JTjr used to refuse to let the Hoyas play the Terps and always was bitter at the press and others for stuff. A little of it was tied up in complicated DC racial politics of the time, other things were just JTjr's ego.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
how did the terps fit in with complicated DC racial politics?
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
White coach in PG County much of the time then for the terps (PG was more known then for white cops brutality against African-Americans). From what I observed, heard and read, JTjr inspired pride in many locals by being one of the first African-American coaches and by fielding a mostly African-American team at a prestigious university in a part of the city that was hardly considered integrated.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
was lefty D a bigot?
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
not that i've ever heard
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
whew!
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I was not suggesting that either Pete.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
no no, i didnt think you were. just checkin.
whoa holy shit..."On July 12, 1973 Driesell was credited with saving the lives of at least 10 children from burning buildings. He and two other men were surf fishing around midnight in Bethany Beach, Delaware when Driesell spotted flames shooting from a townhouse complex behind them. Driesell broke down a door and began getting children out. The fire destroyed four townhouses. Judge Samuel Meloy commented. "Let's face it, Driesell was a hero. There were no injuries and it was a miracle because firemen didn't come for at least 30 minutes." For these actions, Driesell was awarded the NCAA Award of Valor."
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
u know where the left-hander went to college don't u
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah yeah yeah
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
puke
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's an excerpt from a Michael Anft blog post about Leftyhttp://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:5G-HeJZ_3AoJ:www.pressboxonline.com/story.cfm%3Fid%3D1636+lefty+drisell+racism&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
The down-home, good-old-boy pitches of "Ol' Cornpone," as one Evening Sun columnist called Driesell, went over as well in the living rooms of white suburbia as they did in the kitchens of inner-city rowhouses.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man the EVENING SUN
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
While supposedly JTJr never would let his Hoyas play the Terps, others have said that it was merely a money issue--how to divide up the ticket income and where to play the game.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"which team are you here to see?"
― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Spring is here. Yay!
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 March 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Summer is here! Freaky!
― ljubljana, Sunday, 21 March 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― 69, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:51 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
^ so much lols at this, still
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― 69, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Awww Pete and Daria, Terps lost at the buzzer. Ugh.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
They got farther than Georgetown at least.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 March 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
let us not forget my alma mater's tragic loss in the first round to KANSAS.
Glad KANSAS got theirs in the end.
― quincie, Monday, 22 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm rooting for Purdue Friday night against the Dukies...
Did anybody see Sally Quinn cutting in on my turf a little while back in the Post? She wrote a feature in Style on the singer of Pakistani band Junoon. She apparently met him at the Kuwait Ambassador's gala benefit. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031200075.html?hpid=talkbox1
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 March 2010 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/2010/
some questionable choices by the people. I did not take part in the staff selections
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Are long stretches of H St. NE pavement all messed up, blocked off, etc. because of plans to put trolley tracks in, or is this just some other work that needs to be done? Was at the RnR Hotel last night at Gang Gang Dance.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So I do not care about the cherry blossoms, ok.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the cherry blossoms! I just dislike the tourists much more. I really enjoy just seeing random cherry trees in bloom around the city. Everyone knows the Arboretum is the good local place to go see a bunch w/o the masses of people, right?
― I DIED, Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Alright, you make good points
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
there aren't enough in my neighborhood (columbia heights) but i like seeing them around adams morgan and dupont and elsewhere.
oh man the tourists. it's like someone flipped a switch and made my commute home 70% stupider
― W i l l, Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Anybody go to Cherry Blast last year? How wuz?
This is from W. Post Going Out Gurus:
This year, Cherry Blast II - the creation of artist Philippa P.B. Hughes - moves to a storage warehouse in Adams Morgan, but the aesthetic remains the same. Artists will have their works displayed or projected on walls in several rooms. Music comes from the funky Fatback DJ crew, Maureen Andary of local folkies the Sweater Set, DJ Alex Gold of the Fridge and the duo of DJ Chris Nitti and multi-instrumentalist Matt Hemerlein. Throw in a sake bar, a "marshmallow arts play room" and other surprises, and it's sure to be a night to remember
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 April 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I am negotiating tourist DC with two children aged 4.5 and 16 months.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 3 April 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
We have already had an incident in the National Gallery of Art. I'm very, very up for a FAP after April 9, no under-6s.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 3 April 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, i will be there! please let's do it so i don't feel so sad about moving!
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 April 2010 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
We'll counteract your moving sadness by being very glad we've poached you. When do you arrive?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 3 April 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
morning of the 8th
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 April 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you staying with your sis for now?
Would April 9 (Fri) or 12 (Mon) work for people?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 3 April 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i'll be in alexandria for a while, til i figure out where i will live.
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 April 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm likely not available for a FAP (40-something me is gonna be busy watching my son's baseball games) Friday and Monday. Enjoy wherever you go. There's a fun Brazilian band at the Millennium Stage tonight btw.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
friday 9th i could come if it's a happy hour thing.
― W i l l, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
GOOD MORNING QUINCIE
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Dukies
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh, not that I didn't expect it.
Ok Will and Tehresa, let's do this Friday 9th if that works for T? I'm thinking maybe l'enfant on 18th which has a patio? HH starts at 6. Www.lenfantcafe.com
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone tried the sauca van? I was v disappointed with the south-of-border wrap but the 'limonaud' with rosewater is fab
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i spoke too soon--friday's no longer good. sorry!
― W i l l, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
[my brother]: sorry i missed your call my phone is whacked[me]: DUKE SUCKS[brother]: i'm not even watching it i hate them so much[me]: it's their fault i know[me]: network is wonky sometimes for no reason[brother]: totally is[me]: doesn't suck as much as DUKE though[brother]: hahahaha agreed
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
haha sorry about yr network
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
duke sucks
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
fyi
^^^still pissed about quin snyder
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
once upon a time there was a dookie dcilxor, then he left and things improved.
the end.
― quincie, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
snaaaaaap
― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
[cries]
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Tehresa, happy moving! Drop me a line on webmail or on here Friday if you fancy a drink even if it's not a FAP.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 8 April 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok maybe as an Arlington resident I shouldn't put my 2 cents in, but it seems like D.C.'s Department of Youth Rehab Services should be getting grilled alot more for the below(taken from a Colbert King column who admittedly has been fixated for a long time in his Saturday column on ripping apart the DYRBS)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040202347.html
There's something about this week's drive-by shooting that left four victims dead and five others wounded on South Capitol Street that D.C. authorities don't want you to know: One of the homicide victims, and two of those arrested in connection with that violence and an earlier shooting, were under the commitment of the city's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 April 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah and this article just lays out what's going to (not) happen to the minor who drove the car: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704954.html?sid=ST2010040705015
The teen, who has been in and out of juvenile court since he was 9, had twice fled from minimum-security facilities.
Under D.C. law, a juvenile younger than 15 cannot be treated as an adult in the courts, regardless of how serious the offense.
If the teen is found culpable for murder, a family court judge cannot order confinement. A youth can be placed on probation or committed to the custody of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
The department decides whether the offender should be held at a detention facility and for how long -- a source of frustration for many judges. The teen can be locked up until he turns 21. At that point, the family court and the DYRS would lose jurisdiction, and he would go free.
i've been hearing about the lack of teeth in the juvenile system since i moved here. politicians, judges, prosecutors, police, neighborhood bloggers/commenters, columnists/journalists--all are well aware of it, but i haven't ever seen anyone in a position of power do anything about it. well jim graham said in an e-mail he proposed some legislation but i haven't heard anything else. where is the holdup? who is arguing that the system *should* work this way? is changing it just a nonstarter? are there lots of people out there who prefer it this way? i'm really curious.
― W i l l, Friday, 9 April 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I do not understand it either.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 April 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hi ljub, apparently sis has something planned here for tonight, but i would love to get together another day this weekend or maybe monday (woah happy hr after first day of work?).
― tehresa, Friday, 9 April 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm off on a hike Sun during the day (a meetup.com one that's 'full'), but otherwise I'm around this w/e and Monday eve, so pick a day! HH after first day of work sounds like a grand plan to me... Will webmail you my mobile no.
― ljubljana, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, how about Rhee now saying "Oops there really was not a deficit that required me to fire all those teachers in mid-semester. But I'm not gonna hire any of them back even if we have the money. Plus I was going with what I was told at the time."
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
D.C. politics...The only thing more predictable is the story with video of the PG Cops beating up a University of Maryland student celebrating the win over Duke earlier this year. There have been decades now of stories about over-active PG cops.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder what Va. governor McDonnell thinks of today being Emancipation Day in DC (with DC public schools and offices closed).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 April 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow people really like to check out on fridays.
― tehresa, Friday, 16 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 April 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude what are you doing tomorrow around 3?
― tehresa, Friday, 16 April 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
playing hockey. are you in town?
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
vvv briefly.leaving @ 6.
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 April 2010 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Go Caps
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 April 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that the hockey? Sis and husb are going to playoff game tonight.
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. Wow, those tickets are impossible to get and trey expensive
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it was his bday present
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 April 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3025/roynit.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
do not want
― quincie, Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey dcilxors, I'm going to be taking a FB/twitter/ilx break for a while. If you don't have my e-mail address/phone number/whatevs, webmail me and I will send it to you. Take care!
― quincie, Sunday, 18 April 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
No, don't go.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
This is, come to think of it, one of the best, most interesting restaurant seasons I can remember -- maybe the best and most interesting.
Consider what has opened, or is opening: Kushi, 8407, Yannick Cam's Bistro Provence in Bethesda, Lyon Hall from the team behind The Liberty Tavern, and Ray's the Steaks at East River (which I think is the most important restaurant to debut in the city's history).
The common denominator? All are local, independent, and personal.
From Todd Kliman's e-mail newsletter
Hey I Died, curious what you think about the above view...I have never been to most of those so can't express any agreement or disagreement
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't been to any of them either! They've all opened in the past month or so, most of them in the last week. I don't think RTS East River is the most important restaurant to debut in the city's history, though.
I'm also not sure what "independent and personal" means - I mean, very few restaurants that food critics write about aren't independent. Whether you're financed by a hotel or an investor, you're answering to someone.
The test of these places isn't whether they have interesting concepts or make a big splash when they open, it's whether they're serving great food a year or two from now.
Maybe I'm just jealous because only one of them is within four miles of my apartment.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Arlington resident me drives by the future Lyon Hall (and the existing Liberty Tavern) all the time but I have never been to the Tavern.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hi guys being an alexandria resident sucks please find me an apt thanks <3
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you seen any yet? Someone told me the other day that Rosslyn has good deals..
― ljubljana, Thursday, 22 April 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
live in dc, not rosslyn
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 April 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I know that Rosslyn is not ideal... just cheap(er)
― ljubljana, Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it's close to work... Would be nice to get home quickly after late work nights... But dc sounds so much better in terms of having a life, and I have not even had time to look yet!
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i work in orange line arlington and wouldn't consider moving here, not even for a non-commute. it's a pleasant enough place to work (by which i mean i like the lunch options) but it doesn't have the density i want
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 April 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
and virginians are the most disgusting savages etc etc
sounds like i'll be wanting to move out of old alexandria as quickly as humanly possible
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Non-metro area South Arlington me likes my ethnic restaurant choices but goes to DC for music, museums and more. Yes we are all disgusting savages.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
And proud of it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hi guys being an alexandria resident sucks please find me an apt thanks
hey tehresa, my brother is likely moving out of his 1200 sq ft apartment in SW in about... 2 weeks? webmail me if you want more details
― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I understand the advantages of living in DC btw. But it has always made me laugh over the years though to get attitude from some DCers (no one here) when they found out I lived in either PG County or Virginia. Plus some of those particular DCers were so wed to just going to a few particular places within walking distance in their DC neighborhood that they seemed to miss out on alot of what I see as the benefits of city life because they would not pay for cab rides or metro or just be a little adventurous (just living in Mt. Pleasant does not automatically make one more interesting than a suburbanite).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 April 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i agree. i've had good times in silver spring and hyattsville and even annandale, and i have a standing envy of dc suburbia's cheap great ethnic food (for example).
my virginia savaging is always at least partly tongue in cheek. i grew up there; my feelings are complex. certainly, people who derive much personal satisfaction from living in a neighborhood they believe to be superior or whatever and people who make a point of trashing virginia (and the treasures who do both) are annoying.
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 April 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
and actually since you called it out by name mt. pleasant boosters may be the worst of the lot--SUBPAR BARS AND RESTAURANTS DOES NOT EQUAL AUTHENTICITY
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 April 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever "authenticity" is
― W i l l, Thursday, 22 April 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The transit options in va are suck, though, and I work a lot of late evening events so I want to be able to take a cab home on occasion without breaking the bank, rather than worrying about missing the last train and still having to cab home from metro since the bus only runs once an hour or not at all.
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
you getting your own place or looking for roommates? i want to move as well, soon
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Thursday, 22 April 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Seattle spoiled me and I reeaalllyy want my own place but I am also poor so I have to consider roommates in the interest of being practical. Still not 100% sure what my monthly take home is going to look like, which also makes things complicated.
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus some of those particular DCers were so wed to just going to a few particular places within walking distance in their DC neighborhood that they seemed to miss out on alot of what I see as the benefits of city life
lol curmudgeon, sometimes just going to a few particular places within walking distance in your DC neighborhood IS the benefit of city life!
― I DIED, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Otm!!! I hate when I can't walk to meet my immediate needs.
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
It is completely ludicrous to me that it takes me 90 min to get home and then if I want to do anything as simple as go pick up some groceries I would need a car because the concept of things within walking distance is nonexistent here.
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
To be fair, Alexandria was planned at a time that your servants would have done your grocery shopping for you.
― I DIED, Friday, 23 April 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
wah wah wahso can a local tell me how one finds an apartment? bc the craigslist here is total shit.
― tehresa, Friday, 23 April 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i found mine by starting w/rent.com and then looking for management companies.. everything is stupid expensive around here. srsly if you decide to go the roommate route in dc, at least for a time & would be interested, i am considering that too - i can afford an ok place by myself now, but i finally realized it is time to be an adult and save some money
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Friday, 23 April 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
email/fb me with some details. i feel like i have to consider everything at this point! (even though my idea of being adult is living alone lol, but i get your point)
― tehresa, Friday, 23 April 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
let me know if you want someone to check out your shortlist places, or just need a drink after!
― ljubljana, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― W i l l, Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
living in SF where it is surprisingly difficult to find a pretty good sit-down mexican/salvadorean place with full bar makes me miss haydee's a lot.
― 69, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Already need a drink and o haven't even looked yet!
Better foresight woulkd have had me wrangling someone into happy hour between close of business and evening work event. Next time!
― tehresa, Friday, 23 April 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Developers turn to artists to create buzz By Jonathan O'Connell Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 19, 2010;
In coming years, developer JBG plans to tear down a string of storefronts it owns along the 1300 block of U Street NW and put up a 240-room boutique hotel, built atop new retail and topped off by a rooftop pool and adjoining bar. But Chevy Chase-based JBG is more than a year away from construction. The developer needs a hotel operator and will need to finance construction, a tall order until lending picks up again. Meantime, the company will fill part of its property with something different: Andrew Wodzianski. Wodzianski is a local painter and mixed-media artist whose specialties include robots and Barbie doll iconography. For two weeks beginning Monday, as part of a special public art gala, he will occupy a specially constructed 100-square-foot cube in a vacant JBG storefront. There he will paint, sculpt and live using miniature furniture that pops up from the floor, nearly 24 hours a day before passersby on U Street. The exhibit, Wodzianski said, "taps into my willingness to sacrifice myself, my foolishness and my growing interest in performance-based art." "It's going to require two weeks of sponge bathing, but I'm okay with that," he added.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041603867_pf.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 April 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Somebody (not me) e-mailed Todd Kliman the following in his foodie chat:
Arlington, VA: Todd, What exactly did you mean when you said the Ray' the Steaks East River is the most important opening? I know you like the Ray's concept (listing it in your top 100), but what makes this iteration of Michael Landrum's restaurant empire so special?
Todd Kliman: What makes it so important -- to my mind, the most important restaurant ever to debut in Washington, D.C. -- is its location.
East of the River is like forgotten country for most Washingtonians. Michael Landrum's going in there, and going in there as he has done, with passion and a respect for what is already there, is a significant statement. It's a statement about what a restaurant is, or should be. About the divisions in the city. About what business can do, if it is not solely preoccupied with maximizing profits. About food as culture, and a means of connection. About what is possible, if people have imagination and drive and a belief that the stereotypes we are daily assaulted by are false.
And all of this I've just typed -- all of this has nothing to do with the quality of the food, or the service, or the value (which is considerable). The place transcends all those considerations, I think. And I think that's interesting in and of itself.
I would like to believe that if Landrum is successful, that other restaurateurs will follow. Surely, if he succeeds, it proves something -- proves many somethings. But somehow I doubt that it will be, as they say in biz circles, a game-changer. It ought to be. But there are many ought-to-bes in this city.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with anything he said there, but I still think it's a HUGE leap from that to "he most important restaurant to debut in the city's history"
― I DIED, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
oops, "the most important restaurant to debut in the city's history"
(and I'm sure there's an argument to be made for a number of places by people who know the restaurant history of the city better than I, but Jean-Louis at the Watergate springs to mind immediately for 30 years of being incredibly influential on a local and national level)
― I DIED, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
hey i don't care about horse races so much but where could i get a good julep on derby day?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Bourbon! They make a huge batch of mint-infused bourbon every year and they go all out w/ it on derby day.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
but is it full of douches, too?
ps anyone who wants should have juleps w/ me or something bc i have no friends and i work too much to make them oops.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The bar is often full of douches, but this is also a typical feature of anyplace that celebrates derby day.
The Round Robin bar at The Willard has some history w/ the mint julep.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Tehresa I'm in VA that afternoon meeting a friend's baby but should be back some time that evening and up for julep action. I like Bourbon but haven't been to the Round Robin, so up for trying that.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The Washington Post Going Out Gurus re Derby Day:
It's Kentucky Derby Day, and if you're wondering where to watch the Fastest Two Minutes in American Sports, we suggest the high-brow Bonnets and Bow-Ties viewing party at the Willard Hotel's Round Robin Bar, with hat contests and bow-tie contests and some of the finest mint juleps outside of Churchill Downs; the lower-brow Derby Day party at the Red Derby, which kicks off with $2 drinks at brunch from 11 to 3 and continues with $4 juleps until close; and the whiskey-soaked Derby parties at Bourbon, where the mint juleps are made with mint-infused bourbon and served in frosted metal cups, and you can sample a half-dozen new whiskeys from the cult Willett label.http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2010/04/nightlife_agenda_103.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
wow bourbon sampling sounds awesome. also scary since it's in press.considering going neighborhood shopping this weekend but it seems so exhausting. can't an apartment just materialize for me?
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2010/04/michael_schaffer_named_editor_of_wa.php
Washington City Paper changes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
How many DC restaurants and clubs do Eric Thievery Corporation Hilton and his brother have a hand in, 10? Feature article on them in today's W. Post Food section
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050401208.html
They plan to open three restaurants by the end of this year: the Brixton, at the corner of Ninth and U streets Northwest; another in what was formerly Billy Simpson's House of Seafood and Steaks on Georgia Avenue; and a spot that's coming along next to Marvin (working name: Blackbird Warehouse). It will make for quite a year, one in which they also have opened Patty Boom Boom, invested in the new U Street Music Hall and advised Eric's wife, Tien Claudio, and partner Steve Kaufmann on the recently opened Dickson Wine Bar.
The brothers have 200 full-time employees working for their projects, but "it's not corporate," says Ian, 38. "We don't want to corner the market. We're a family-owned shop." They don't advertise, and they don't pay for PR.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
It's gonna be 9 places. Hats off to a certain someone who is complimented in the article.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
kudos.gif
― tehresa, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
He's keeping a low profile now I guess.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 May 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Meanwhile I'm curious about a place he's not associated with-- the Babylon Cafe out in Bailey's X-Rds./Falls Church that has Ethiopian and Middle Eastern and Caribbean music and I'm not sure what's on the food menu(or if its mostly just a nightclub). Not on metro either.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 May 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not gone! Just enjoying all the newfound fame and fortune that comes from being mentioned in the 17th paragraph in a Food section article.
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ ballin'
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
which of the new hilton places are you most excited about?
also, why didn't the article say anything substantial about brixton? that building looks pretty cool. and way beat up.
― W i l l, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Of the ones that haven't opened yet, I'm really excited about Blackbird and another project I can't even mention yet.
The article seemed like it was more focused on the places that are already open than the ones that are coming up - it didn't really say anything substantial about any of the future projects.
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 May 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Post review of U Street Music Hall is up now, too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/profile/u-street-music-hall,1161767/critic-review.html
hey i was repping the gibson to a coworker earlier! i think we will plan an outing someday.
i still need to check out u street music hall in its finished state!
― tehresa, Friday, 7 May 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i'm embarrassed to say i still haven't been. would like to see michael mayer but got an early meeting the next day. maybe derrick carter.
― W i l l, Friday, 7 May 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Do DC foodies and biz people respect these Rammys restaurant Awards that are coming up in June?
http://www.ramw.org/Rammy-s/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
hello
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
hello EL TB, my schedule is actually somewhat reasonable now and we should get drinks!
― I DIED, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
and no, curmudgeon, nobody respects the Rammys.
It rhymes with Wammies and Grammys
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah let's just say it's a lot like the Wammies.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
what's everyone think of tyler cowen (profiled, not for the first time, in the post today)? i'm impressed by the scale of his ethnic food guide but unsure of its credibility. his takes on a few places i've eaten at seem accurate enough, though.
― W i l l, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a lot more useful as a blog where you get an accurate picture of the most recent info rather than as a dining guide. His takes are pretty good, but based on the sheer number of restaurants a lot of places he's reviewed have closed, changed ownership, or gone downhill in the intervening time and it may not be reflected in his guide for years.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, most of his takes seem to be based on a single visit, which is dangerous - he may miss out on a place's best dishes, it may be an off night, etc.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi TB I live here bow btw and also want to has drinks! Also if you have an apartment up your sleeve I will take that, too.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like he returns again and again to his favorites, which is not surprising but yeah, could mean he is missing out on stuff. many of the ones i spot-checked were from 2008-2006.
― W i l l, Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
seen three white tops flying over in the last 30 minutes--over the years i've seen probably hundreds but it still makes me wonder who's flying where and why
― W i l l, Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
now it's six so i figure training exercises
― W i l l, Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The photo of Cowen in that article is at Eyo, an excellent Ethiopian place in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church near Arlington and Alexandria (but not metro train friendly). I ate there recently. But you folks are right--some of the information is out-of-date.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Area btw u st and col heights: shady or no? Coworker says it can be... Is that just because he's from indiana?
― tehresa, Thursday, 13 May 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It can be, but it depends block-by-block, and what street you'd be on. Less shady than Columbia Heights itself, though.
― I DIED, Thursday, 13 May 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Just gonna live in the damn metro. Those seats aren't so uncomfortable...
― tehresa, Thursday, 13 May 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
block-by-block is right, but i don't know that i'd agree that the streets going up the hill are less shady than CH proper on average.
i've lived in CH for more than two years, with a number of roommates both male and female, and i know a number of other people who live in the area, but i don't know anyone who's been a victim of non-vehicular crime here. a couple friends have gotten mugged around U street, however. personal anecdote, sure, but i think outside of targeted violence CH is about as safe as other central DC neighborhoods.
― W i l l, Friday, 14 May 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
CH is best if you stick around the corridor btwn 11th and 13th st imo.
― Moreno, Friday, 14 May 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
on a north/south tip, where does ch begin?
meant to go to dj set at u st tonight but i just remembered and am home in alexandria :\
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's like florida (south) to spring (north)
― Moreno, Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I would maybe put CH starting at Clifton or even Euclid to the south, with the area to the East of Meridian Hill Park kind of being neighborhoodless? It's never seemed like CH to me, but it doesn't really belong to U St. Sort of "U St Heights", I guess.
― I DIED, Saturday, 15 May 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
btw tehresa you missed out on U Hall tonight for sure! The DJs were great, as was the crowd. daria g was there!
― I DIED, Saturday, 15 May 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I really wanted to go but after last minute stress over an event today it completely slipped my mind when I left work! However, anyone who's up for a drink around 8 tonight, hollaaaaa. I'm gonna need it.
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 May 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, I saw that post about a drink too late :-(
― ljubljana, Sunday, 16 May 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
hey dc, i was walking home on U street this evening and i found a random drawing on the sidewalk. really:http://i49.tinypic.com/vzuw4.jpg
HUNTER AGE 3! we missed you!!!
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Friday, 21 May 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
waaaaaauuuuu
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 May 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't even know. it was just there. so weird.
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Friday, 21 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
daria did you keep the drawing?
― I DIED, Friday, 21 May 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
parmazing.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 May 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
of course i kept itthere's another drawing on the other side
http://i50.tinypic.com/xdy2h2.jpg
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Saturday, 22 May 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of art, saw the Alan Ginsburg photo exhibit at the National Gallery West wing today. Kinda what I expected--a few photos were interesting in the way they were shot; most of them only of interest if you're into the beat era writers.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 May 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ginsberg
What's happening Deecee folks?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
being hungover, going to the Hirshhorn to see the Yves Klein exhibit.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, I wanna see that exhibit. There's special events in association with it Thursday night. I guess you had fun at UHall last night.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, thanks for the write up!
Ended up not going the Hirshhorn, had a fantastic lunch at Sou'wester and walked around the monuments.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Wtf I am going to look at an apt in alexandria bc I am desperate. Intervention time?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm away tomorrow pm till late Sun - if you wanted to use this place over the weekend and scour DC for options, email or call tonight.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually put in an app bc it was a great place. My whole life could shift to boring suburbanite... At least I'd have a pool?
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 May 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 May 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
for all i know i'll end up making a shift to suburbanite sometime this year. just been too exhausted from getting used to the job thing to really spend time thinking in any coherent way about whether/where to move..
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Thursday, 27 May 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Save your money to buy cars I guess, and ugh, pay for car repairs--my Honda puttered out today and I just made it to a gas station and it will be there through tomorrow. Was at least close enough to home to walk from there.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 May 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh all this bailing to suburbia does not give me hope for finding my own place.
― W i l l, Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
so bummed I stayed in one night this week and it was the night Ronaldinho was at Marvin, if I could have gotten a picture of him holding a bottle opener it would have been an all-time ILX coup.
― I DIED, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://naplesgc.blogspot.com/
― kkvgz, Saturday, 29 May 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks. Some of the older HFS tapes that site offers are likely the most promising. But I wonder where my old WGTB tapes are...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Suggest time-killing activities from approx 7-10pm tonight?
― tehresa, Sunday, 30 May 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
What's new?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
That was not in response to Tehresa who I am assuming figured out some fun ways to kill time that night.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
After 1 year in DC I went up the Washington monument, unexpectedly. Someone had a spare ticket. Nice thing to do on a Friday evening.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 5 June 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hh spots nearish dupont? someplace to kill like... 1 hour between 6:30-7:30.
― tehresa, Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Hunt, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Science Club, Tabard Inn (no hh prices), Town & Country
― I DIED, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I was looking @ tabard inn's site yesterday. It looks so lovely!
― tehresa, Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It's great! Cute little bar, only a handful of seats, but there are always interesting people there and the bartenders are good. Also the fish tacos RULE.
― I DIED, Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
got engaged at the tabard inn iirc
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw <3
― tehresa, Friday, 11 June 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't see this but was in the Big Hunt at that time yesterday.
― ljubljana, Friday, 11 June 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38374.html
Politico on young White House staffers without shirts on in a Georgetown bar on a Saturday...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 June 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
THE POLITICO should really mind their own business. i mean, come on. it's the weekend. that said, was told in a Very Serious Tone by a friend who's in the game that if you show up in THE POLITICO or blogs or related publications drinking all these beer drinks.. it's not good for your career, let's say. i think this is ridiculous and THE POLITICO clearly hates fun.
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Saturday, 12 June 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm on Politico's side here, ANYONE hanging out shirtless in the middle of the day at a bar in Georgetown should face serious repercussions.
― I DIED, Saturday, 12 June 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
new thread title?
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 June 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm all for nay-saying anyone that would hang out in georgetown
's all i got.
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 12 June 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
more offended by their choice of bbq tbh
― Moreno, Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
to be fair, all the barbecue in DC sucks
― I DIED, Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally read the whole piece--
contrary to the original reports, the group was not playing beer pong. And their shirts were off because the group had gotten caught in a rainstorm before repairing to Old Glory in Georgetown
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 June 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
HI DERE DC DID U MISS ME?
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Back from your top secret mission!! Successful? And how is Mr Que?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I am! I was! I don't know!
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i missed u
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
missed u too, mookie. Still staying away from the Facebook for awhile, tho.
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
tza, u an alexandrian now?
― I DIED, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I am ;_;As if I needed another reason to drink...
Missed you, q! ljub and I were just wondering about you last weekend!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yay! Any interest in a U St-area gathering next Wed?
― quincie, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Sources say yes
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome back q!
i'll go for drinx. gotta be at a conference thing all day, ugh.. so will definitely be looking forward to it
― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in the UK, sorry to miss it. Good to see you back!
― ljubljana, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Good too be back! I'm freed from the clinic at 7:30 on Wed, happy to meet up wherever for whatever.
― quincie, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
While away, I forgot how to spell, obv.
― tehresa, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Washington City Paper has their "50 most fascinating restaurants" list out... Oh, I Died, he mentions in the intro a bunch of pricier restaurants that he says are great and everyone knows about them and thus he does not include them.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 June 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"I Died", what do you think of the Italian restaurants he lists, and the upscale pizza ones(3 he mentions in his itro but says they were too new to consider for his list)? Do they interest you at all? Just curious. I'm trying to decide whether to splurge for an Italian meal. Is it worth it here?
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/dining-guide/2010
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
For some reason I can't see anywhere online to read the intro to the piece.
Of the pizza places, I adore Pete's and haven't been to the other two. Pete's is nicer than a typical pizza takeout but not really upscale - you still order at the counter and can get slices. I always get the New Haven clam pizza there, and I've been 10+ times. I haven't been to the other two, but Pizzeria Orso in Falls Church is going to be the big one on everyone's radar (it just opened in the last few weeks).
Of the ones listed as Italian, I think Palena is the best but would also be disappointing to anyone looking for an Italian meal - it sits somewhere right between Italian, American, and French cooking. Tosca is consistently wonderful but is a very sedate dining experience. You can order 1/2 portions of the pastas at the bar, though, which is great for sampling a number of the dishes. I haven't been to Dino in some time - it has a wonderful wine program and the prices are very reasonable, but the more actual cooking is involved with a dish there, the less impressed I am. I haven't been to Siroc yet, but I've only heard good things.
― I DIED, Monday, 21 June 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure why his intro is not online.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 June 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been to Siroc twice for work lunches and thought it was excellent for the price.
― ljubljana, Monday, 21 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Based on a meal there today, I'll again say that 2 Amys consistently offers the most bang for the buck of any Italian restaurant in the DC area.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I went there once 5 years ago and I still remember it being awesome!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's paert of the intro:
Only 10 restaurants listed here are what I’d consider fine-dining. Granted, I’ve purposely excluded a number of the area’s best restaurants—Central, Citronelle, CityZen, Komi, minibar, Ray’s Hell Burgers, Restaurant Eve, and 2Amys—just because I believe readers don’t need another reminder to visit them. (Consider them all honorary members of the list.)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
part
Here's another part:
In fact, three list-worthy pizza parlors—Pacci’s in Silver Spring, Pizzeria Orso in Falls Church, and Pupatella in Arlington—all opened weeks or days before this list went to press, making them essentially ineligible for consideration. I suspect next year’s list will be stuffed with pies.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
DC summer heat is here
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
The floor is now open for nominations for Wednesday FAP location. GO!
― quincie, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2010/06/23/the-restaurants-that-just-missed-the-cut-in-this-years-dining-guide/
Not nominations, just fyi
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Pilar @ 7:30 tonight, just fyi
― quincie, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Have fun, y'all! my stupid stomach and I will be on the couch wishing we could join you!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Is anyone going to Fort Reno tonight? (I slept so badly last night I'm not quite sure I can bring myself to do anything but go home and go to bed.)
― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Monday, 28 June 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^this, plus too damn hot!
― quincie, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.fortreno.com/schedule/
Nah, I am waiting for the Nighthawks on August 5th. I'm kidding. But they are on the schedule. I guess Amanda wanted to vary things, or maybe DC's longtime blues-rock band played there way back when in the '70s and wanted to do so again.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Variety is good though. That night might inspire some quizzical looks on the faces of some attendees who go every week...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Fort Reno canceled tonight! (storms)
― I DIED, Monday, 28 June 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
FORT RAINO AMIRITE
― quincie, Monday, 28 June 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe the nickname is FORT RAINOUT
― I DIED, Monday, 28 June 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody go last night?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 July 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Had Elote for the first time today--Mexican corn on the cob with spices and mayo and stuff ontop. Food is always pricey at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest but I usually just give in and have it anyway. The fruit stand that has big slabs of watermelon is always cheaper though. I like that too. Thanks for the tents--it was hot down there today, but thankfully not crowded.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/mexican-corn-on-the-cob-elote/Detail.aspx
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, I know, talking about the weather is cliched. But it is really hot out.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Fucking hell it's not really hot it's absolutely disgusting! Esp when your metro car's a/c isn't working. Mmmmmmmm.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Not exactly good news:
Borders Books on 14th & F to become a Clydes chain restaurant (20% off sale now). I saw some impressive author appearances here including writer Rob Gordon talking about his "It Came From Memphis" book and showing bootleg footage of Alex Chilton and other Memphis musicians.
Shoul I care news:
Celeb chef Bobby Flay wants to open a burger place in DC.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Should
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 July 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
hello dirtbiking friends!
hope everyone's doin awesome these days. taking a brief break from my ilx retirement to say that i'm gonna be in town on the 27th to play a show at le velvet w/new band, but it'd be rad to see any of you guys in whatever capacities you might be up for.
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope the gig goes well. I'm gonna be at the beach. Catch ya next time
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
EARTHQUAKE!
<3<3<3 and miss miss miss pretzel walrus!!! Count me in for the 27th! If you need a place to stay you are welcome to Chez Quincie.
― quincie, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't believe the earthquake was the one damn night I went to sleep before 5am.
― I DIED, Friday, 16 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It woke me up! Exciting!
― quincie, Friday, 16 July 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey guys, did I mention that my sister-in-law is now a reporter on channel 9 now? plz watch her (D3l14 G0nc4lv3s)
― HI DERE, Friday, 16 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
also now I am now totally enamored of the word "now" now
anyone have any guesses at how the local job market is for lower-level service industry stuff (coffee shops, etc...)? i can't imagine i'd have much luck at temp agencies so i might as well do what i can to get something quickly.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Friday, 16 July 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi guys!I did not feel quaking, boo!Anyone want to happy hour soon?
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep yep to happy hour. No quaking here either.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 17 July 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I Died, you know anything about the Sichuan Chinese hot pot restaurant, Uncle Liu's, that was recently opened by the owner of Hong Kong Palace? Ever had this style of Sichuan Chinese food? This article has me curious--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904047.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 July 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I've had sichuan hot pot before and it's pretty delicious, similar to shabu-shabu. I've heard some good things about Uncle Liu's but haven't been out there - suburban restaurants of questionable metro accessibility are tough for me to get to.
― I DIED, Monday, 19 July 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I am interested in happy hour!
― quincie, Monday, 19 July 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I am off on friday so maybe a thursday happy hour(s) would be awesome.
― tehresa, Monday, 19 July 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Might be able to make this Thurs but not sure yet.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I am ok for Thurs.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Quincie are you still up for it tomorrow? What about the Mad Hatter?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't do tonight or tomorrow, but I would be up movie/meal/etc. this weekend!
― quincie, Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure yet whether I can do the weekend, will get organised and then confirm... T, I’m still up for this eve if you are – happy to go somewhere nearer the orange/blue lines but don’t really know where to go around Farragut West/Macpherson Square – found this on Google Maps, we could risk it! - tattoobardc.com. At 6/6.30? (my mobile is off, can’t have it turned on at work so will keep checking this thread)
― ljubljana, Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't make it tonight, on deadlines for work maybe through the weekend.
Would NOT recommend Tattoo, though.
― I DIED, Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Any recs near an orange/blue line metro?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 22 July 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072905868.html?hpid=topnews
Been hearing this shit on the radio lately too. It's the worst shit., imo. Please don't let this catch on.
― kkvgz, Friday, 30 July 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
eh, it's been around for a long time, glad to finally see it get recognition outside - coincidentally saw it in use on a flyer in new york for the first time last week. a musician i'd never heard of but the venue was fairly well-known, santos' party house maybe.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 30 July 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I only hear it on this one radio station.
― tehresa, Saturday, 31 July 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
D.C. rappers have been saying it for years-
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/10/28/area-codethe-termdmv-brought-to-you-by-the-hard-work-of-local-rappers-and-phone-cards/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I got no problem with the term - been seeing "RUN DMV" tshirts around since way before the current wave of RUN DMC takeoffs, and it's nice for the hip hop scene to have something that actually unites it rather than having to shout out Lanham or wherever.
Of course, I'm pushing for the use of "Lower Chesapeake Bay Watershed", if y'all could help that catch on it would be much appreciated.
― I DIED, Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lollll
I'm puzzled that it is hard for people to figure out a meaning other than dept of motor vehicles. First time I heard it it was pretty easy to figure out.
― tehresa, Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
By Ann E. MarimowTuesday, August 3, 2010
During Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's tenure, the District Department of Transportation apparently has gone after only one resident for violating the city's height limit on fences: D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray.
"We didn't find any others," said the department's Freedom of Information Act officer, Diana G. Jordan, in response to a request from The Washington Post to review citations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080204672.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Shake Shack Coming to Washington, DC in 2011
i believe this is where the fabled 'whatsa bagel' used to be?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't remember. Most of the comments about that NY chain don't look that enthusiastic.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, it's pretty good. just not worth standing in line for an hour.
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 August 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The line for Shake Shack should be self-regulating considering the two other new burger places on the same block.
― I DIED, Sunday, 15 August 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm kinda thinking I want to avoid all trendy burger places and cupcake places (but I probably won't).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I am (rather self-aggrandizingly) proud not to have had any cupcakes during their current hype. And I went to Good Stuff a few weeks ago; it wasn't bad but I'd rather go to Five Guys.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Monday, 16 August 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I have yet to go to the cupcake places but was thinking of going to the Georgetown one that gets all the hype because its on tv. It's a major stop for DC tourists--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081303858.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my sister used to work around the corner from it and said that the queue was outrageous.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Monday, 16 August 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hook for rest week lunch today. Good but I'm glad it was a $20 3-course and not actual prices. Wine was a nice deal though!
― tehresa, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Going to Blue Duck Tavern Friday for restaurant week.
― ljubljana, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
so Alexandria is nice but, yeah, yuppieville. I passed an interesting looking coffee shop yesterday but I can't recall the name. I haven't braved the bus or the metro yet, but a route planner says it will take 3 buses to get to the nearest cinema, which I think is only about 2 miles away. absurd.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Was Misha's the coffee shop? Great place, been around for quite a while now.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Restaurant week is pretty crappy generally, some restaurants do a better job than others and lunch is usually a better deal and experience than dinner.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
aye, that was it. just off king street. good to know it's quality. 'perk up' and starbucks don't really look up to snuff.
xpost
i saw some restaurants touting restaurant week. is it some city-wide festival where the food is cheaper?
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Misha's was my guess too. I am appreciating the nature near me (hello wildlife preserve!) but where I live is not convenient for public transport, hence I am getting a car soon (for real this time).
― tehresa, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost)
Restaurant Week is a semi-annual promotion during traditionally slow times of the year where restaurants serve smaller portions of lower quality cooking at a higher volume to people with unreasonably high expectations who don't tip well.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The lunch I had at hook was huge portions... Too much!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
well i'm sold. xpost.
sis wants to take me to o'connell's tonight. i'm not convinced.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
went for a run down the mt vernon trail this morning and saw a bald eagle perched on a log in the potomac. /this fuckin' city
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Alexandria restaurant week from the 20th to 29th
http://visitalexandriava.com/restaurants-nightlife/restaurants/alexandria-restaurant-week/?src=ppc_bing_restaurantweek_alexandria_august
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
D.C. one ends the 22nd
http://washington.org/restaurantwk/
http://www.borderstan.com/08/dc-restaurant-week-love-it-or-hate-it/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone got any recommendations for Alexandria restaurants to try out?
and wtf is Medieval Madness and more importantly how have i noticed it?
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
restaurants in the restaurant week list, i mean
Bombay Curry Company is a nice small Indian restaurant in the Del Ray section of Alexandria.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 August 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:06 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
how is hook these days?? i had some really tight meals there!
― 69, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It was good but nothing blew me away as being 'omg I've never had anything like this! It's so good!'
Gukbe I love running on mt vernon trail :) eagle's nest is on the west side of the parkway just south of the 95(495?) overpass thing. I think I am going to start detouring into the dyke marsh trail bc it is awesome and not pavement.
― tehresa, Friday, 20 August 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
weird that when you said "eagle's nest" i went straight to 'they have a bunker nearby?'.
I live right next to that overpass. where is the dyke marsh trail?
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
nevermind, found it. i didn't know there was a place to run down there.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, it's not a "running trail," per se. Just a trail through the wildlife preserve but I like trails better than pavement :
― tehresa, Friday, 20 August 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I also like to pretend I don't live here so not being right next to the cars is nice!
― tehresa, Friday, 20 August 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh great, Glen Beck is showing up at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of MLK's speech, and some tea partiers have prepared a guide to what areas of the DMV are safe. A portion of NW and a few suburbs (but only North Arlington, not south Arlington)
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/08/23/a-glenn-beck-fans-guide-to-washington-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this visitor's guide would put quite a few sights off-limits. Among them:
The National Archives, where—thanks, no doubt, to a socialist plot—the beloved Constitution now resides, best reachable by public transit via the Green or Yellow line;
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It's Pho Dog night at Uhall. Google first showed me that "pho dogs" were sculptures of dogs with various international flags on them, but Going Out Guru Fritz spells out the real deal:
But what we were excited about is free pho dogs from the kitchen all night long. We love the pho dogs -- beef or tofu hot dogs that are placed in a spicy pho broth and topped with cilantro, basil, banh mi-style slaw and both hoisin and sriracha. So why are they free? In a few months, U Hall's chef is opening Toki Underground, a late-night noodle spot above the Pug on H Street NE. Consider this a preview of what's to come
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
What's happening? How about that weather....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 September 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a standard time that gigs finish in DC? I've got to get a shuttle and then the metro and am wondering if I'll have to duck out of the gig early.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
33-year-old friend just finished the Nation's Triathlon in under 3 hours. Weather conditions perfect for runners, soggy for spectators.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
a cop killed a friend's dog over the weekend.
police fatally shoot dog at adams morgan festival
a photo of the officer apparently having subdued parrot before throwing it over the stairwell and shooting it.http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q80/The_Moth/DSC_3074.jpg
the owner's such a nice guy, feel terrible for him.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 13 September 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
But no police around Friday night near the Red Derby on 14th Street in Colombia Heights where homeless dude was threatening to break car windows if he was not given money. He told my pals we were "saved by the bell" because my friend parked his car before homeless guy could approach us, and we decided to leave (Derby was too packed and noisy) quickly, when he did approach us.
Earlier in the night went to a movie & wine/cheese thing with music at the Institute of Mexico Studies on 16th street in Colombia Heights. What an awesome old mansion. I wanna live there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
level of press and public attention to "cop shoots dog" is always greater than "cop shoots minority"
― I DIED, Monday, 13 September 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
How about these cliches from "America's greatest novelist"
“The pedestrians in every neighborhood all seemed to have taken the same dowdiness pills,” Jonathan Franzen writes of D.C. in his new novel, Freedom. “As if individual style were a volatile substance that evaporated in the vacuity of D.C.’s sidewalks and infernally wide squares.”
Every neighborhood?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
'infernally wide'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck u franzen
― quincie, Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
He's gonna do some DC appearances. May have to attend and ask about this
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i was working at olsson's (rip) in dupont when the corrections came out. he dropped in to sign some copies and seemed like a pretty nice guy, so we were kind of giving him shit about the oprah selection -- and then like a week later he made the ridiculous decision to 'reject' it. maybe it was our fault.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw him do an appearance thing at the Smithsonian several years back. Seemed kinda OK but, but he still irks me. But not as much as Tad Friend irks me. THAT fucking guy!
― quincie, Friday, 17 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
So is it just me or does nobody care about the Nationals in this town? I went to a game and there were less than 12,000 people there. Afterwards my friends asked a lady if there were any bars around and she went on a rant about how that whole area was awful and worthless, and that the supposed waterfront regeneration lacked urban planning and was a gigantic waste of money. She was really passionate about it.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
^ all true
― I DIED, Sunday, 26 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus the Nationals are not good, the stadium was poorly designed and is bland looking, its much more expensive ticket-wise than Baltimore, the best seats have been bought up at over-inflated prices by lobbyists who often don't use them (and the seats sit empty). Another little thing--in Baltimore you can bring in food; and also sealed beverages in plastic containers. At Nationals Park you can't bring in food, and you can only bring in a sealed bottle of water (my kid had to chug or dump his bottle of gatorade bought near the stadium).
When Strasburg was pitching once, many folks left after he came out of the game. Much of the big crowd was there just for the novelty of seeing him pitch. Also, the Nationals ownership is cheap and hit up the city for all kinds of expenses, but they rarely do anything for the city community relations-wise.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Woah, you're right about Baltimore. The tickets are significantly cheaper. I got the $10 left side tickets and the seats weren't bad, but it was also the first MLB game I've been to since the Braves played at Fulton-County so I probably would have been impressed with anything.
It's a shame because there's something depressing about watching them on TV and seeing the stadium only a quarter full.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
the stadium was poorly designed and is bland looking
I disagree - I think the stadium is well designed and bland looking.
― I DIED, Sunday, 26 September 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
And actually the DC waterfront urban planning hasn't been too bad with the exception of the stadium - it's the rest of the development that's going to make it a successful urban area, not the stadium itself.
― I DIED, Sunday, 26 September 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Nats Park is fun! I went like 10 times last year but only like 6 this year, and the only time I've ever paid more than $10 is when I went to see Strasburg's first game (I paid $18 there, it was worth it). I generally end up getting the $5 walkup seats and spend more money on a half-smoke from the Ben's stand than I did for the ticket.
I don't really care about the Nationals, but it's cheap enough that if you just like baseball generally, you can go burn a night (or a Sunday afternoon) watching it without feeling like you're wasting money. I lived near AT&T Park in San Francisco for a year, which is obviously way way nicer, but also was a park I never got into for less than like $35.
― C-L, Sunday, 26 September 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i'll never forgive the construction of the stadium re: demolition/whitewashing of surrounding area and killing dc nightlife.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted this re the Sunday W. Post Arts section over on the ILM Capital Swamp thread re another DC waterfront area (my focus is on the sidebar articles about the SW waterfront area and not Arena Stage itself):
So the whole Wash. Post arts section today is about the new Arena Stage in SW. There is also a side-piece re planned SW development. I know it is a big deal architecturally. Noticeably absent to me: any mention of Zanzibar OTW, or Hogates/H2O in any of the sidebars. As much as I dislike how those places were and are managed, the arts they have presented (i.e., Latin, Caribbean, African, RnB, Go-go) are as worthy as uh, Arena's upcoming revival of "Oklahoma."
― curmudgeon, Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:45 PM (2 days ago
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2010/09/rendering_of_potential_hotel_at_800.php
Is this huge hotel really going to be built at 9th & U?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
only if the 13th & U hotel project really starts moving
― I DIED, Friday, 1 October 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
gah, josh adler of lakritz-adler is my old landlord/roommate, did some office it work for them as well.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 1 October 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
What happened at Dupont Circle/P last night? The area around Pizza Parad1so was cordoned off for about 2 hours at least, with a huge police presence.
― ljubljana, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I figured people liked the idea of bringing back streetcars as they are supposedly cheaper than subway lines, but there seems to be a backlash against them in both DC and Arlington(proposed Colombia Pike route). Would better bus service really be better as some have suggested? I don't know much about this, just putting the question out there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Autobots and Decepticons -- and the people who fight them -- will take over the District next week as filming for "Transformers 3," starring Shia LaBeouf, moves into the streets Oct. 11-15
Other celebrities who have signed on for the flick include Hugo Weaving as Megatron and Josh Duhamel returning for his third turn as Maj. William Lennox and Tyrese Gibson as Chief Master Sgt. Robert Epps. No word yet on who may be in town for the filming.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
More specific details on street closures
I'll be in town for a gig on the 12th, so I might wander around and see what's up. It'll be like I'M in Transformers 3!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe it is time that the DC thread extend a warm welcome to soon-to-be-dcer BIG HOOS AKA THE STEENDRIVER!!!!!!!!
To what does DC owe the pleasure of scoring a HOOS?
― quincie, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
He said elsewhere that's he's coming in a few weeks (but not why), so I guess he's not starring in Transformers 3.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually am starring in Transformers 3. Spent my whole steendriving life preparing for it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
An old friend is setting me up with a job opportunity, and I realized that for the first time in my life I don't have anything really tying me down in Texas anymore, so I'm due for a fuckin change of scenery. It's all happened really fast. On Friday I thought "well what if...?" Today I bought the one way plane ticket that gets me there the 27th.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not gonna have a car for the first time since I got my license, so that's gonna be interesting.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Transportation is okay, though there are some dead zones.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll most likely be living/working in Falls Church and my office will be a hair under a mile from the Dunn-Loring metro stop I think.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
My man up there tells me I might have a hard time in FC w/o a vehicle, but I'm gonna do my best to make it work. I should probably learn to ride a bike.
I am soon to begin applying for jobs in that area, having avoided doing so for that very reason.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The relative dead zone of FC?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
well that's not where I was talking about, but yeah. I'm sure there are plentiful busses though.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So yeah me and the bro are gonna get a place together and he's basically insisted I "leave it to him" which has me kinda worried since I'm gonna roll in wardrobe/laptop in hand hoping to have living arrangements set. I'm trying to stay in touch with him about it, but it's all through night phone calls what with his office hours.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Flying into bmore on the 27th so, here we go and shit
no way?! welcome to dc HOOS! awesome.
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
woah! so soon!!!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yep
this all went down super duper fast
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
your timing is impeccable! my schedule becomes much more manageable after the 23rd!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha dope.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Dang...welcome to DC! I keep suggesting we go out to Falls Church for Vietnamese at Four Sisters or the like...watch this space?
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah like
i will need help figuring out the culturally cool shit and whatnot plz be my guides
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
crystal thai y'all
also the peking duck place
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Many choices in Eden Center or Hong Kong Palace (Sichuan Chinese) nearby or Present on Rt. 50. There's also Ethiopian restaurant Meaza on Columbia Pike just off of Rt. 7 plus several other Ethiopian ones in the Bailey's X-Rds portion of Falls Church on George Mason.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
HOOS you will not have a problem without a car--several dcilxors are car-free (see: I DIED, daria-g, TOMBOT [RIP]). Zipcar always an option if you need temporary wheels.
I will be out-o-town when you first arrive, but back on Nov. 3. Pencil me in, yo!
― quincie, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anyone else hear Marion Barry on Kojo's WAMU radio show last week? It was classic.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
commentary on Washington Post's Tom Sietsema's dining guide
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2010/10/15/dissecting-tom-sietsemas-2010-dining-guide/
the DC9 incident is mentioned over on Capital Swamp on ilm btw
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 October 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
gavin holland just announced running for district 1A11 advisory neighborhood commissioner in columbia heights. is there/has there been anyone with nightlife interests in that kind of position before (versus people that just try to close things)
― fauxmarc, Monday, 18 October 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
officially have the job!!
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ this is HOOS btw
what kind of job does a HOOS have and does it involve delicious free cookies y/n
― quincie, Friday, 22 October 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Then early Saturday morning, this news out of Georgetown University in the heart of Washington: Police discovered a suspected meth lab inside a freshman residence hall and evacuated the building. Later in the afternoon, officials said the drug being produced in the dorm was actually Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a hallucinogen.
hoya saxa
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Saturday, 23 October 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I was on campus for most of the day and didn't even know about this! Although I spent all morning in the hospital way on the other side of campus and then most of the afternoon taking a nap in my car. Still, so exciting!
― C-L, Saturday, 23 October 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I'M IN THE BUILDIN
― lady won't you HOOS my desperate steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome. you won't get blown up on the metro, so don't worry about that.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dchoos.org/
― velko, Thursday, 28 October 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
hi, hoos!
― tehresa, Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome, hoos!
FAP next week Thursday/Friday/Saturday???
― quincie, Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Saturday Nov. 6 (any time that day) would work for me.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit I forgot I have to go to Denver on Saturday :(
I am going to stan for THURSDAY.
― quincie, Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I DIED is in japanese land so someone just show up in architect glasses k.
q is always traveling, but never to nyc iirc
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I will be travelling to NYC in January iirc!
― quincie, Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Can I come hang out with kitty and mookie and mrs mookie
o rly
yes you may!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yay we are going to be in yr area this weekend
although we will be doing family stuff 24/7, so basically we will be waving from afar at y'all
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
you won't get blown up on the metro, so don't worry about that.― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:44 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:44 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark
haha no joke, i get off the plane and talk to my man about getting around and what have you, get to his place and turn on msnbc and yooooooooooo
― lady won't you HOOS my desperate steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ps afaik thurs is v doable seeing as how i have like
nothing to do other than work lol
oh man should we do Big Hunt like in the olden days of ilxdc? Or somewhere Ustreetish? Where's a convenient place for folks? I'm coming from work in the 'burbs, so 6:30 would be about the earliest I could manage.
― quincie, Thursday, 28 October 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
If Thursday is the best for everyone, some area as central as Dupont Circle is best for me.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Thursday, 28 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm agreeable to whatever works for you guys, i'm pretty sure i can get anywhere between my man's vehicle and the metro. i'm out in kensington for the next week or so until i have a more permanent arrangement.
― lady won't you HOOS my desperate steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 28 October 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Up for Thurs, anywhere pretty much
― ljubljana, Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm good for thurs! damn ican't believe dan is gonna be here and i don't get to meet him :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
more like no dere
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit! Welcome to town, HOOS.
― Varèse Garagebande (kkvgz), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
tyooooooooooou
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey DC I missed you so much it's good to be home!
Also a big welcome to HOOS aka the car driver!
― I DIED, Friday, 29 October 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
where have you been, dude?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 October 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
How was Japan I.D.? We need an architecture, food, drink and music rundown...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 October 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oh japan that is dope
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 October 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
hey y'all
how's yr rally going, we were driving around 17th & Constitution and saw nothing
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
You're in DC again? Hey dere! IDK just got back into town and decided the people on the metro were annoying enough so I didn't walk there.
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i decided to sleep.
― tehresa, Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to the gym. Heading home I heard the last few minutes on C-span.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I just got back. It took two hours to get from the mall to Glover park.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, I have no idea why we missed the whole thing, we must have been driving by right in the middle of it but we saw nothing
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
rally was mildly diverting, though i was kinda puzzled at jon introducing kid rock as though he was elvis or something
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 October 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
favorite sign was "LIVE FREE AND DON'T BE A DICK" and i want it to be inscribed in the ilx faq
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 October 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
On CNN coverage I saw a number of anti- Fox News signs including "Fox is my comedy channel; the comedy channel is my news channel." Tuesday's votes and media coverage will likely show that Stewart's goals of sanity and civility will not be met.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Is a Thursday night thing happening?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I am still down! We wanna meet somewheres central I imagine? idk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi all! I am back from Mexico (not as exciting as Japan, but hey TACOS).
I am up for FAP and in fact have rejiggered my schedule today so that I could actually make it into the city during actual happy hour hours.
Big Hunt? Has a HOOS been to a Big Hunt yet? It is the scene of many a night of olddcilxdc good times. Someone pick a time, yo.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I can go to big hunt. Does 6:30 sound reasonable? earlier?
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Thursday, 4 November 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds good imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 November 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just found out about the AFI theatre in Silver Spring. And there's a European film festival on!
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
6:30 works for me--see ya there! I do not have to go to the suburbs today, so I will not get stuck there again!
― quincie, Thursday, 4 November 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
6:30 at the Big Hunt works for me. See you all there!
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Thursday, 4 November 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gukbe, Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
AFI is awesome. You just missed their "Noir City" series.
― Moreno, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
love the AFI. Have to check some of those out.. been watching too much football, time to get some culture.
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm gunning for Certified Copy. I was also given a coupon for two tickets for the price of one if anyone wants me to forward it on.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's the list of movies for the European showcase. "Certified Copy" is the only one I've heard. Anyone hear anything about any of the other films playing?
― Moreno, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
You just missed their "Noir City" series.
― Moreno, Thursday, November 4, 2010 7:04 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Will be late to the Hunt but will see you there...
― ljubljana, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Tuesday, After Dark is meant to be good. Romanian New Wave, so ymmv.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i do love new wave iirc
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
cool. gonna check that one out. there's great burmese food nearby there too btw.
― Moreno, Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
MANDALAYYYYYY
― 69, Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Awwwww Mandalay misses you, 69! BTW have not yet booked tix yet, but will be in SF/Oakland second week of December. Wanna see youuuuuuuuuu!
― quincie, Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoos is stuck outside the Big Hunt b/c his ID has expired. Change of plan: meet him in the Mad Hatter a few doors down.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
haha poor hoos lol
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Dang where are you all?
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to miss you all! Unfortunately weekdays I have to get up at 4:30, so I had to bail.
Question: has anyone reading this ever had to serve on a DC grand jury? I just got a summons, and the prospect of serving three days a week for eight weeks does NOT appeal.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Friday, 5 November 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch. Sorry I missed you folks. I was seeing Brazilian bossa-pop singer Luisa Maita with a friend at Bohemian Caverns at 8 (the early show) and just did that.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
woah, HOOS is in D.C.? that's crazy, man. i should probably post in this thread now and then anyway, since i'm not far from D.C.
― lil bow bow (some dude), Friday, 5 November 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yes post in this thread
also lol + <3 @ fap
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
so you found a bar that would serve you?
Virginia licenses have a transparent oval with an imprint of your face in them. Something to look forward to!
― Gukbe, Friday, 5 November 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
and comma
borrifying
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/11/04/zanzibar-on-the-waterfront-closes-down/
I was busy getting this written the other night. The DC government at work--they don't think local nightclubs and tourist destinations can co-exist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 November 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that is infuriating.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
But this wasn't a case of eminent domain, right? Zanzibar took a lucrative buyout offer from PN Hoffman that they could have refused.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah this seems like the owners making a call that's :/ culturally but not definitely not screwing them over or anything.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hah, just realized my high school reunion was there (didn't go)
― fauxmarc, Friday, 5 November 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
No one is rejecting the buyout offers because I think the city may have made sweet deals with the developers.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I think help from the city is therefore making it easier for the developers to throw large amounts of money at the clubs. In August, Fenty was at Hogates/H20 for a ceremonial demolition ceremony. So yes, its not eminent domain, and yes the Zanzibar owners will do fine financially, and yes they theoretically could have turned the offer down, but I think the city could have made life difficult for them (especially since the city wants to shut down Water Street where Zanzibar is located, as part of their plans to change the traffic flow and build offices, condos and park space in that area).
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so uh wow, not been ilxing for quite a while but stopped by b/c i've been on/off reading this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FAVwSQ9JL._SL500_AA300_.jpg and came across curmudgeon quoted irl which was very cool.
anyway, rad to see dc blowing up with ilxors! who knew!
― W i l l, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't know he's in that. i was def reading this at the columbia heights subway years back and someone walked up showing me their photograph in it.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 11 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, I'm in there. And lots of things I said to Marc Anderson when he interviewed me never made it in the book as they didn't fit the meme or theme he was going for.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
How about that Jack Johnson (PG County exec) and his wife--$80,000 cash in her bra, check flushed down the toilet. But's he innocent he says. FBI set him up (a variation on the Barry defense)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude is deeply, deeply in the pocket of the real estate industry.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep and as the W. Post noted, has been helping out friends with jobs and contracts for years.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine who works in news texted me she was having a crazy friday "because jack johnson had to go and get arrested"
i spent several minutes trying to figure out why the arrest of a mellow frat rock musician was a big news story
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Tick Tock liquor store allegedly involved in no-good also. I used to go there. Good 'ol PG County (I say as someone who grew up there)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally ate at Chez Aunt Libe's, Senegalese place up Georgia Avenue in Petworth. Aunt Libe gave us free plaintains (with a super spicy dipping sauce)as an appetizer---I think cuz she asked if it was our first time there. We had the lamb in peanut sauce stew and the fish with couscous as entres. Only other people there were a Senegalese family. Rockin' Senegalese music videos on in the background.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I wanna go to the Turntable restaurant and disco up that way next. It's a Jamaican restaurant and they play Jamaican oldies at certain hours and blast dancehall in the latenight hours (or so I've read).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
chez aunty libe is still there?! i had some of their food at some dc festival thing like.. 7-8 years ago. for some reason just assumed that place was no longer around. i'll have to go for some mafe, senegalese food is one of my favorites and i didn't think there was any place in dc to get it. (have tried to cook mafe myself and it didn't turn out too badly, but the spices were not quite right imo)
― daria-g, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^no complaining unless you got hit by a cab while walking, which is how I DIED's travel about the city tends to go.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, I haven't been hit by a cab for a couple years! I think for a while it was part of some cab driver initiation rite.
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 November 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I have to come down to see this queer portraiture thing at the NPGallery.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That show sounds great, I'm supposed to see it next week and will report back.
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be heading down myself at some point, would love a morbs meetup
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
k, I will see when I can get a cheap room and hope you don't get one of your crippling 3-inch snowfalls.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha.
x-post to Daria--The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also. It's a small family run restaurant. Not sure how far the restaurant is from the green line Metro stop up that way or via bus, as I drove.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey morbs I have a guest room if you don't mind sharing a bathroom with a me (presumably not at the same time). Also have a cat so no help if you have kitty allergies.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is not really that far iirc
also might be coming down some time soonish . . .
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
right but i had on ill fitting converse
i blame the shoes more than the walk tbh
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
also i am from texas and not used to you people's "walking"
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I've walked farther around DC in ill-fitting converse. Man up, Hoos!
― Gukbe, Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
noted!!
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Where can really good fried chicken - not fast food but not an extra-posh version at a silly price - be got in DC?
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
best: the general store in silver spring
good: the hitching post in petworth, oohs and aahs on u st, horace and dickie's on h st (more for the fried fish)
i know there's new fine dining places that have good stuff too, but those are my go-to spots.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks - oohs and aahs looks accessible and good but also intrigued by the general store. Will report back.
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought Oohs and Aahs was pretty tasty but kinda overpriced. The dining areas are kinda small also. But yea, it's pretty accessible, right there on U. St.
Which reminds me that I still have never tried the upscale soul food brunch at B. Smith's.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oohs and Aahs is delicious but I generally stick to the dishes that benefit from sitting in hot pans for a long time, they rarely cook a la minute.
B. Smith's is a waste of time, unfortunately.
I find the fried chicken & waffles for brunch at a lot of the mid-level restaurants to be some of the city's best - Creme, Marvin, and especially Birch & Barley.
I'll second Hitching Post.
also, POPEYE'S
― I DIED, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the general store is the shit. i eat there probably once a week. they only do sunday brunch but their chicken and waffles is amazing. it comes with mashed potatoes with a gravy that's half gravy and half syrup... so good. also, since it's out in the middle of nowhere, you don't have to deal with the crowds you get at some of the good dc places.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ya gotta eat chicken & waffles out in Los Angeles at Roscoe's. Did that for the first time this summer. Anybody try it at Gladys Knight's restaurant at Capital Centre Blvd in Largo? Yes it's a chain restaurant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
in high school tick tock liquor was always the reliable spot for getting your terrible fake id bought from the georgetown video rental place accepted
― fauxmarc, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
probably still is
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"I Died" (or others), how's Georgia Brown's (southern soul food restaurant)?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
only been once 3 or 4 years ago, but i wasn't that impressed.
― Moreno, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
my family likes it but i've never been into soul food.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
their peach cobbler is right on time iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also.
Not that big a fan of Libe's, it's passable though. The "pomegranate tasting one," if it was purplish, was most likely bissap, cold hibscus tea. For people interested, the Takoma metro is at least 1 mile away, but the Georgia Ave buses (70,71,79) stop right in front of the restaurant.
― Ivor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Georgia Brown's is pretty $$$ but the portions are huge. Maybe it was a good restaurant once, but it must have been before my time.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
x-postI think it was Bissap. Yea, I guess Aunt Libe's is south of the takoma metro and too far north of the other one.
I'm starting my quest to try D.C.'s various West and East (and wherever else) African restaurants. I mean I ate at Bukom years ago, some other place out in Langley Park, Roger Miller's in Silver Spring and have had Ethiopian, but have not yet been to Keur Damel in Silver Spring (just opened this year- Senegalese I think); or Akosomboh; or Sumah's Carryout.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched an hour-long pbs show about breakfast spots in dc. damn, i want some eggs now!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there even an hour's worth of breakfast spots in DC? Never really thought of here as much of a breakfast town.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just reading a Washingtonian e-mail from their food critic Todd Kliman who used to be at the City Paper and he just wrote in response to a reader looking for a leisurely weekday breakfast:
Todd Kliman: This just isn't a breakfast town, unfortunately. You've got high-end hotel dining and some greasy spoons, and not much of anything in between.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That might over-generalize a bit
they did both the high-end hotels and greasy spoons but also stretched to some other things like art and soul and diners out in fairfax.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Tim Carman, the Washington City Paper's food critic is leaving the City Paper to join the Washington Post's Food section staff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
One in five renters and one in seven homeowners in the Washington area spend more than half their income on housing, according to census figures, a proportion that housing experts consider a severe burden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112702782.html
Statistics supporting what we sadly already know
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is why I'm going to be living with my mother for another 5 or so months.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys why am I watching "Non-Stop Foodies" on this weird DC channel (4.2 for those of us without the cables) instead of football?
Am currently being instructed on how to eat mussels at Brasserie Beck.
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently I am supposed to DIP MY BREAD omg wtf
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I should really calculate my %income spent on housing but ignorance is bliss amirite
― quincie, Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yep.
This year's Washington Redskins mostly not worth watching
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
This year's?
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yo that sazerac at tabard was boss as all get out. loved the atmosphere. good to see yall!! next time we surely must lure out the tombot.
q you gotta tell me what you think about that book! also where did i recommend it? lol
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 November 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't you mean "that sazeac at tabard was GARBANZO?"
― quincie, Monday, 29 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
thought you drank the lafayette!
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2010/11/police_investigating_dead_body_foun.php
totally glad i didn't go with that alley-entrance basement apt at 11th and euclid.
― tehresa, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― quincie, Monday, November 29, 2010 3:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
u r correct and i applaud u for the correction
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Tabard has one of the best Sazeracs in town for sure. Minutes to learn, lifetime to master.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what's new?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing sports-wise...Wizards stink, Redskins stink, and Caps do well in the regular season but fall apart in the playoffs.
Politics no fun.
Cold weather but no snow.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I had lunch with 69 today and he admitted to missing DC awwwww <3
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I do not miss DC atm as it is ~60 F in Oakland (of course the locals are bitching about it being so cold).
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno -- are you sure he wasn't just humoring you?
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Feel like I might be getting ill, but if I'm not, I'll be seeing a film at the Irish Film Festival on Saturday.
― Gukbe, Friday, 10 December 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Have unfortunately missed everything in that and the Jewish film festival as well.
Re other weekend events, considering the museum controversy, the Patti Smith appearance for her Just Kids book about her and Mapelthorpe at the NPG could be even more interesting.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 December 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Even the Caps have lost four in a row. I blame Haynesworth.
― I DIED, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I just read curm's post above as "Patti Smith appearance for her kids' book" and was all wait what Patti Smith wrote a children's book?
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GcNrQrW1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― I DIED, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― quincie, Friday, 10 December 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 December 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
god bless us, every one
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you realize you just made yrself tiny tim, yes?
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
shit.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Chanukah was over so early this year. No last-minute shopping for relatives for me this week.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Some interesting profiles of non-celeb DCers here:
http://peoplesdistrict.com/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody try these fancy new hotdog places getting written up in the Post and City Paper? Apparently DC-3 on 8th St. SE is supposed to be the best. I need to have one of those UHall pho dogs too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2010/12/15/dog-days-is-the-district-witnessing-the-early-stages-of-a-hot-dog-boom/
And I still haven't checked out the other African restaurants...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
My gut feeling is that any stand alone upscale hot dog shop isn't going to be sustainable over the long term. I can't think of many successful models of this in other cities (something like Hot Doug's in Chicago is broader) and there are far fewer chanced for add ons and liquor like there are in a burger place (which we're already oversaturated with).
I went to chidogo's and it was pretty good, but not really someplace I'll make a destination unless it's the only thing serving.
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 December 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/restaurantreviews/18/index.html
Komi is number 1 on Washingtonian's best restaurant list
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 December 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
so, still contemplating a MLK Weekend visit. Is this DJ Dredd night of Prince a thing?
http://www.blackcatdc.com/shows/prince-party.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 December 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
prince parties in general are a thing. or prince/cure/whatever parties. you'd think they get old but they've got pretty consistent followings
― fauxmarc, Monday, 27 December 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The Prince parties always sell out - if you want to go dancing with a lot of people to a lot of Prince songs all night, it's a thing.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Curmudgeon, is that Washingtonian top 100 from earlier in the year? I seem to remember those rankings from a while ago.
Oops, maybe.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a little time yesterday and made it partway through the Hide/Seek show at National Portrait Gallery - here's a good review:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40208/hidden
There's no question that the show is worth seeing. I thought there were too many works that were just portraits of gay artists rather than gay portraiture, but still fascinating overall. I might head back today to look at the pieces I didn't have time for.
― I DIED, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I will probably visit to see it, but wish i could wear a T shirt with a big cock on it in protest.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
you can
― I DIED, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
although I'm not sure what that would protest since the video was pulled for the scene of the ants on a crucifix and not for the masturbation
― I DIED, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
im thinking ants-on-crucifix shirt not as common
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Not for sale yet on street corners with the standard DC tourists shirts
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
So which of the new (or existing) New Orleans and Louisiana food restaurants in the area are the best?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, I will study yelp and area critics and try one myself first, and then get back to y'all.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
have booked 2 nights on MLK weekend. I didn't realize it was also MAL (MidAtlantic Leather) weekend til recently. Good, at least there'll be gays who aren't federal powerqueens in the bars.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope you can tear yourself away from the queens for a few drinks with me :)
― tehresa, Friday, 7 January 2011 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, for one night! i'll try to take prisoners the other night.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too!
Also, lol at federal powerqueens.
― big jeans (lou), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Me three!
― quincie, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I would absolutely join the Log Cabin Republicans if they were called the Federal Powerqueens.
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
mal weekend is a lot less enjoyable since the main event moved to the convention center away from thomas circle, leaving bare-assed leather chaps less up-in-tourists-faces
― fauxmarc, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, I am not paying any MAL fees to go to some trade show in a hotel.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i am super down for drinks w/a morbius
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 8 January 2011 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Watch out for Blue Line disruptions around Foggy Bottom when you're in town.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 8 January 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^is that even a euphemism? i don't know
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 January 2011 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember taking the Blue Line a lot. Plus I'm from NY, I always assume nothing is running on the weekend.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 January 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Blue (and Orange line, come to think of it) will not be running between Rosslyn and Farragut West that weekend.
That is important information to consider when booking hotels etc.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 8 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I can survive this trip on the Green and Red.
Too much to do in 2 days, or I might go to see Bobcat Goldthwait in Arlington.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
poor terps
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
they kept it close
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 January 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
horseshoes
hand grenades
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2011 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
just passed Silver Springs, may make Portait Gallery by 4
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Portrait gallery is open until 7, I think
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
just wanting to register my disappointment with the AFI Silver Spring. not very much interesting going on there on the weekends this month.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
have you guys made it out to west end cinema? i kinda love it.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
crimeny HOOS, I had never even heard of it. They're playing Alamar!
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh suck a duck it's near Foggy Bottom. awful weekend for that.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it is isn't it. damn. is it playing through next week?q
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it's playing until Thursday. no information on what's happening after that.
of course, i've just noticed that it is streaming on Netflix so :/.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ha a few weeks ago they were showing breathless and i was trying to get my friend to join me, and he was all 'dude we can just stream it at my house' and i was like >_<
i was pretty impressed with the place, it actually feels like a little art house, like maybe 30 chairs in each little screening room, and i got the impression the guy warmly welcoming/goodbying the saturday night crowd was the owner.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
we have a little partnership with the dude who runs it - he does an 'opera in cinema' series. i had to work a thing there once but i've never actually seen a film there yet. the seats looked comfy though!
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
HOOS, if he was tall and baldish, that was the owner. he used to show films at atlas but then he bought/leased this space and renovated it last fall i think? the staff are all really nice, too!
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds cool. have you been to the cinema in the Goethe Institute? It's a good little place.
I was just considering the screening of Das Rheingold at the West End Cinema but then realised I have to work. ;_;
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that was the guy!
we should do a movie meetup out there one of these days imo xp
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
the whole pentagoon crew
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone know what went down near U street/15thish area last night? was taking lil sis home and had to detour because the intersection was so blocked w/ flashy lighted vehicles.
in fact, all night, we were passed by police and fire trucks speedily going places. it was almost end timesy at one point.
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
how disconerting
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wait a minute
how did dr morbius make this post?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i am guessing he is on a wifi bus!
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
with a laptop...
morbs into the future!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like the '70s klassik The Big Bus.
Usta be a nice indie-film joint (Circles?) in A-M about ten years ago, I saw The Cockettes there.
Staying across from Samuel Gompers Park, who knew? Headed to NPG.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
how did dr morbius make this post?― mookieproof, Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:31 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark
― mookieproof, Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:31 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark
the bolding & italics are amazing on this post, its like that moment in a movie where its like WAIT THE CHIEF OF POLICE IS THE KILLER
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'M POSTING FROM INSIDE THE BUS!
Well, my plans for the next 3 hours just fell through. Now what?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 January 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
leather imo
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a skiffle night in Silver Spring
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 January 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
too early
(also i am not a leatherweekend 'registrant' -- $200! as Jim Carrey says in that movie, it's really expensive to be gay)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 January 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gukbe, Saturday, January 15, 2011 11:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
is this a joke or for real cause i would totally go to a skiffle night
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it is no joke!
― Gukbe, Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
SKIFFLEBILLY NIGHT
― Gukbe, Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yer on yr own, pair of Lonnie Donegans
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck yeah! way more into this than the flaming lips wannabes i was gonna go see at the black cat tonight. thx dude!!!!
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I saw the Fleabops once, and I like the Quarry House. How was it last night?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoos, did you get Pogues/Titus tickets? $55 bucks or more, right?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Flea Bops were great! Would see again, and the bar was pretty rad too. Jumpin place.
I didn't get the tickets yet, and with my unexpected drunk in public adventure I think that's where those funds are gonna go instead. :/
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: lack of good films this month at Silver Spring AFI.
Yeah, the lack of any seres this month is pretty disappointing but at least there's the Russian documentary series and the Italian neo-realist series, both at the National Gallery of Art, and later this week the beginning of the Goethe Institut Film|Neu series at E St. Also, West End Cinema is pretty cool, it definitely fills a niche; I saw the Phil Spector documentary there.
― Ivor, Monday, 17 January 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm finally starting to find out about these cinemas. Unfortunately I work until 11pm Monday to Friday, which limits my ability to see one-offs.
― Gukbe, Monday, 17 January 2011 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
West End Cinema isn't that much of a walk from my apartment, but I have kind of a visceral reaction against it because the theater that used to be there smelled like pee in a very intense way the one time I went. If they got the smell out I'll give it a try.
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Monday, 17 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
They got the smell out. And they sell baklava and proper popcorn with butter.
― ljubljana, Monday, 17 January 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
And wine!
― tehresa, Monday, 17 January 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
baclavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 17 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
big hoos, stay outta the big haus
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
no kidding man
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 17 January 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The Freer has free movies on some Friday nights and Sunday afternoons--Asian and Iranian films and more
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp
The White MeadowsSunday, January 23, 2 pm Fans of Mohammad Rasoulof's Iron Island will find even more densely-woven symbolism and uncanny imagery in his latest film. Shot on a lake dotted with tiny islands and otherworldly salt formations, this visually stunning, allegory-rich work is full of indelible scenes, from a woman who marries the sea to a dwarf who carries jars of secrets to the bottom of a well. These and other haunting incidents are witnessed by the film's hero, a man who rows… Friday, January 28, 2011 My Tehran for SaleFriday, January 28, 7 pm In Person: Granaz Moussavi, director
This riveting film gives a view of Tehran that would never meet with official approval, taking viewers inside the city's thriving, rebellious culture of artists, poets, singers and dancers. Presented as a series of flashbacks, it stars the intensely charismatic Marzieh Vafamehr as an actress
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://africa.si.edu/calendar.html
North African Film Fest coming in early February to Smithsonian Museum of African Art
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a definitive list of locations to see under the radar, non-major studio films?
Here's what I know of:AFI SilverE St. CinemaWest End CinemaBethesda RowNational Gallery of ArtSmithsonian Museum of African ArtFreer and SacklerSmithsonian American Art Museum
― Ivor, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
forgot to add Goethe Institut
― Ivor, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Library of Congress theater shows mostly older movies but has some really amazing lineups on occasion
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
But unfortunatley there are very few movies shown at the LOC Pickford theatre since an administrator there decided that showing movies to the public there was less of a priority than just preserving them for research purposes for academics.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Former City Paper movie reviewer Mark Jenkins does a list on his blog. But he hasn't updated it since December 13th
http://www.reeldc.com/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
A current City Paper writer re movies this week:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/01/19/this-week-in-repertory-film-film-neu-carlos/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that is a lot of resources.
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there any in person ticket outlets in DC? I was going to book tickets to see Wild Nothing (lol indie) online but the service fee is a staggering $4.00 for a $10.00 ticket. I know I should probably just go to the venue but I don't have much reason to be out in that area and I wonder if the transport cost + time would really be worth it.
― Gukbe, Friday, 21 January 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure that's why they call it a ~convenience charge~
― tehresa, Friday, 21 January 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, some places do.
xxpost: Don't go to Rock & Roll Hotel to buy tickets for upcoming shows there, they don't sell em! unless they've changed their policy in the past 5 months. For upcoming tickets to R&R you have to buy online. I have no idea why they don't sell advance tickets in person, if anything it maybe gets people out there and maybe in the bar?
― Ivor, Friday, 21 January 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the heads up! was going to head along just so I wouldn't have to pay that 'convenience charge' out of principle.
― Gukbe, Friday, 21 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
We don't sell advance tix in person at U Hall either - many ticketing companies are so online-based now that the actual box offices don't have the equipment to sell tickets and the demand is so low that it doesn't really make sense to.
I've actually become kind of against the idea of completely selling out shows - keeping some tickets available at the door ensures that people who missed out can still show up early and it also really breaks down the scalping market.
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you update your website if it sells out on the night? i.e. if I wanted to head there after work is there any way to find out if there are tickets available?
― Gukbe, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ordered tickets online and feel dirty. a surcharge of 40% of the ticket price still seems absolutely insane to me.
― Gukbe, Friday, 21 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
We always update our website if a show sells out - tickets are cut off a few hours before door time so there's no confusion
― smang the DJ (I DIED), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm not against the things in principle but 40% is crazy
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Well this will be a fun commute from R'ville home to the district. Research, a dinky road that connects W. Montgomery and Shady Grove (and on which my office sits) is gridlocked for I have no idea why reason
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
there is no other way out
fuck
office shut down at 3, was leaping ankle-deep slush for most of the walk home
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 <3 quincie
seriously help I am trapped in a suburban office park!
my have to consult the emergecy beers in the office fridge
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm on the 16th st bus which has moved about 1 block in 15 minutes. Bad plan. Why can't anyone drive?! It's just slush!!!
― daria, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I love working from home
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"there is water from the sky and it has
collected
on the ground
how can we
traverse this on our
wheels of man"
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^ the entire city, just now
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno what it is like in town but visibility is genuinely not good right now up here in the country
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like working from home at all.. Much prefer a long walk at the end of the day. for real! I decided to walk a mile and get the bus instead of going to the metro. Would be fine if the bus was actually moving...
― daria, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the feeling I have right now is the exact reason I refuse to go on a cruise
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Visibility is fine in DC drivers are just fools
― daria, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
my only walking option is to walk to lockheed martin next door
should i go to there
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
do they have gin y/n?
― daria, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
probably and they probably billed it back to the government for $3000 per bottle
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
then fuck yes
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
btw
http://dcist.com/attachments/Aaron%20Morrissey/2011_0126_omgtraffic.jpg
hahaha
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm SAYIN
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
wondering if I should get out now and walk home. it's only uh .. another mile or so..
― daria, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
so our office follows fed closures. ie, if they are closing 2 hours early, we close 2 hours early. except 2 hours early for us is an hour later. at any rate, i left at 4 and it took me an hour and 20 min to get home. if i'd left at 3, i would probably have been in a much better situation.
in terms of visibility, i always, always see nat'l harbor across from alexandria when i'm on gw parkway. today: not even a tiny speckle of the lights made it across the river.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I am still trapped in an office park.
I need to get home and pack for trip to Knoxville!
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oh no!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yes and packing means creating clean laundry with which to fill suitcase
flight is not until the p.m. so not to worried, I guess
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
at what point does it become acceptable for me to eat some else's lean cuisine for dinner
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
it's dinner time, so now? they'll never know.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
perhaps you will receive Passive aggressive notes
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
We follow Feds too, I left at 3, finishing work at home.
My lights are flickering on and off a bit.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
we never close in order that we continue to charge the feds $$$ while feds sleep in or whatever the hell they do on snow days
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I just checked the office beer supply.
There are:
2 Sam Adams Lights1 Sam Adams "Latitude 48"1 Sam Adams "Rasberry Wietbeer"
what do i do
― quincie, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i would try latitude 48, though i don't know what that means
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hope you like sam adams
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Samuel Adams® Latitude 48 IPA is a unique IPA brewed with a select blend of hops from top German, English, and American growing regions all located close to the 48th latitude within the “hop belt” of the Northern Hemisphere. The combination of hops in this beer creates a distinctive but not overpowering hop character. The beer is dry hopped with Ahtanum, Simcoe®*, and East Kent Goldings hops for a powerful citrus and earthy aroma. The hop character is balanced by a slight sweetness and full body from the malt blend.
gotta be better than the light and raspberry beers I guess
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you stuck on your own or do you have to fight anyone for the Latitude?
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ wietbeer
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It took me 2.5 hours to get back to Annapolis and I saw ten accidents along the way.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
3 hours from Kensington, MD to my apt like 9 miles away. Took a full hour to go down like a mile's worth of MacArthur Blvd at the end. If it hadn't taken 3 hours to get home I would have been able to go see Georgetown play St. John's and live the dream of booing Steve Lavin live in person.
― C-L, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Manager said because the fed gov't got off 2 hours early, so could we. Trouble is that would have been 9pm. We left at 6.
Train was there when I got to the station, bus was there when I got off the train. Stopped at local bar for a beer and some wings. Now just chillin'.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
power blinking more frequently. the last time it did this i ended up out of power for 4 hours. dominion's outages map shows lots of outages in the area, though most are further west in fairfax, annandale, etc. i'm thinking it may only be a matter of time before we lose ours, though :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
so I should just not bother looking at apartments on friday then?
― skip shuffle fusion (los blue jeans), Thursday, 27 January 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
q did u make it
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I made it! 4 hours from Rockville to Tenleytown. Got stuck twice and lovely gentlemen pushed me out.
Now my only complain is that I don't have heat and I am supposed to fly to Knoxville today.
― quincie, Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and quincie the cat threw up in the bed last night. Twice.
― quincie, Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
And then ate it.
parking garage at work today was EMPTY. roads were clear this morning. what happened? i am confused.
― tehresa, Friday, 28 January 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl taking advantage of work-from-home/vacay? as former pittsburgh penguins head coach michel therrien might say, dc is soff
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 January 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
no power since weds night, dominion saying "hopefully by tonight"
last night was COLD AS F in the house, kept waking up to add layers
is this how old people die when stuff like this happens
i never really understood that before
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, I had my heat die a couple years ago. I remember being huddled under the covers with hats and coats and sweaters on until the repair guys came.
― kkvgz, Friday, 28 January 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Had my shoes on in the bed because no amount of socks was warm enough.
yeah i kept thinking i was fine and then waking up cold an hour later and adding another sweater
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
More snow falling + slush that people are unwilling to shovel off their sidewalks = ugh²
― Ivor, Friday, 28 January 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The "My Tehran for Sale" movie at the Freer tonight is disappointing. It's courageous to make a movie in Iran where filmmakers get thrown in jail, but the movie's avante-garde poetry scene and rock band gig come across like a Saturday Night Live caricature of such. There's a rave scene too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 January 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i was thinkin about going to see 'and everything is going fine' tonight at west end
http://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/westendcinema/advance?v=4142&i=10023
anybody interested?
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice fell from our bldg onto a coworker: she has a sprained back and whip lash! :(
― tehresa, Friday, 28 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
omg lawsuit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
she better sue!
― tehresa, Saturday, 29 January 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't had hardly any trouble from the storm at all.. power didn't go out. but i had bought a really nice pair of leather gloves on sale only last week, and they got messed up just from brushing the heavy wet snow off my coat. bummed. they are a perfect dark bronze color. wondering if the store will exchange for a new pair. #firstworldproblems etc
― daria-g, Saturday, 29 January 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
my power is back on!1
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome!
― tehresa, Saturday, 29 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the mall and the museums are pretty quiet on Sunday mornings, or at least they were last Sunday.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 February 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
At the National Gallery this Sunday: Killer of Sheep, with the director present. Anyone else planning on seeing this?
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Saturday, 12 February 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that sounds freaking awesome. i'd like to go, but not certain yet - might have a conflict, trying to meet up at some point this weekend with a good friend who's been through some stuff lately
― daria-g, Saturday, 12 February 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Burnett never made many movies. I wonder if he's a professor now
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106500.html
Anyone see these newish Jem Cohen film shorts? I was busy with a family birthday party
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 February 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I was there, but I didn't think much of the works. Although I do plan to go to the Instrument screening on the 27th.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Sunday, 13 February 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I've kinda thought all of his stuff was a bit overrated including Instrument.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 February 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
His non-narrative approach is "interesting" but it doesn't wow me (I was hoping his newer works might offer more).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The newer works were of a piece with his older ones (set up a camera, film hours at random, select seemingly at random snippets from those hours of footage, put a drop d soundtrack over the whole thing).
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Sunday, 13 February 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I left before the Q&A, but the woman introducing him said he's currently working on a film about Barack Obama's mother.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Sunday, 13 February 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/travel/20110220-SURFACING.htmlhttp://www.princeofpetworth.com/2011/02/in-defense-of-columbia-heights-really-the-neighborhood-is-bigger-than-dc-usa/
Morbidly enjoying the NYT 11th St spot-blow-up/ongoing Prince of Petworth comment frenzy. ("Number 5: I like Silver Spring.") Remind me why I read Prince of Petworth again.
― Lt. Van Ice Cage (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw ian mackaye in columbia heights a little over a year ago, so it must be okay
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
it's been my impression that cherkis has been hating everything in DC for at least a decade and a half. you name it, he hates it. sometimes i wonder why he lives here. i remember columbia heights 10 years ago. my roommate worked there at a nonprofit, we lived nearby, and while i'm not thrilled about a ton of chain stores, it is nice to have chain stores, metro, being able to walk around after dark. better than empty storefronts and frequent shootings and having to drive everywhere because it was dangerous.
― daria-g, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Prince of Petworth is great! Always amusing.
"here's a place I walked by! What's up with it?"
"this is a restaurant I heard of! Does anyone know how it is?"
"lost pet!"
"I heard this rumor! It's completely unfounded and I have no idea what I'm saying."
"here's an ugly house/restaurant/streetscape! It looks great!"
I've never read a more frequently updated site with less informed content.
― I DIED, Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 20 February 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2010/03/friday-question-of-the-day-at-what-point-do-dress-codes-go-overboard/
I’ll admit it right away – I hate dress codes. But when I saw this sign on 18th Street in Adams Morgan I couldn’t believe it. “No timberland boots”? How can they possibly single out a brand like that? I mean why not say – no boots? I suppose I can understand places that want to maintain an air of class by banning sneakers and shorts but Timberland Boots? Am I thinking too deeply on this? Or does this seem a bit odd? I know it’s going to go there so I’ll just straight up ask it – is there a racial element to this?
This is a particular classic from last year. (Great comment section, too: "Also people need to be aware and stop putting on blinders, the long white shirts symbolize a cocaine or crack dealer.")
― Lt. Van Ice Cage (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 20 February 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i will subscribe to this newsletter with great rapidity
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 20 February 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never seen The Red Shoes on the big screen, and if the Metro will permit me, I think I'll head up to the AFI to see it tomorrow.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
tuomas of petworth
― daria-g, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^lolz for real
― quincie, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i loled
― tehresa, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
just plz nobody photoshop him onto a sundae
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
This $1,900 a month leased Navigator (now 2 of 'em) for DC City Council member Kwame Brown will undoubtedly be used as a political weapon again the city as a whole(although I'm not sure why DC taxpayers are paying for either of them)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2011/02/dc_politicos_react_to_kwame_br.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
TBD.com, the much-touted local-news Web site, will reorganize its news staff, change its focus to arts and entertainment and lose about a third of its 36 staff positions.
Under the reorganized structure, some TBD employees will be reassigned to work on a second Web site, WJLA.com, which is also owned by TBD's parent company, Allbritton Communications of Arlington.
Welp.
― Lt. Van Ice Cage (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like editor Wemple and the former Cp arts writers are still employed at tbd
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i have so much to say about that but i can't do it here.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Tombot baby!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys I saw a picture of tombot baby and her expression is 100% OMGWTF??!?!?!
― quincie, Monday, 28 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
aww <3
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ANybody seen these exhibits yet:
Gaugin exhibit at Nat. Gallery; small room exhibit of photos of DC blues musicians at Govinda Gallery in Georgetown; and at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts: "Drawn from Bank of America's renowned collection of international photography, Eye Wonder features more than 100 works by a wide array of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Rineke Dijkstra, Gisèle Freund, Candida Höfer, Graciela Iturbide, Dorothea Lange, and Hellen van Meene."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
nope
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i should def go to that though. that and buddha 2.0 at the freer. i saw gary snyder there saturday for a lecture on east asian poetry, it was pretty rad.
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe people are still asking him kerouac questions
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
'ringo tell us more about what john was like in the studio'
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys, how's it going. I just moved here.
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome sir i am v glad to have you
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hi
― tehresa, Monday, 7 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
los blue jeans rules fyi
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i hadn't heard hide nor hair of you since january so i didn't know what had happened!
you are too kind sir and a great american
yeah, i was pretty busy with work, moving, etc. actually, I'm going to CT for a week tomorrow morning
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome! the weather's great!
― Gukbe, Monday, 7 March 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
you def need to be made aware of this thread
Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome? Whereabouts are you residing?
― quincie, Monday, 7 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
uh I meant Welcome!, not Welcome?
Thanks?! I'm in Bethesda, renting an accessory apartment in one of the residential neighborhoods. Everything pretty groovy so far.
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I lived in Bethesda when I first moved to the area--convenient place to live, but I encourage you to make the leap over into DC proper at some point!
― quincie, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
HAI QUINCIE
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Um where were you on 3/5???
:(
― quincie, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh?
A Duke reference?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
clearing room in the trophy case
also pining for d0m passant1n0 iirc
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lol what a reference
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 March 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
dc united home opener on saturday night, if any TRU FUTBOL WARIERS are so inclined - they were the worst team in the league last year but i had a blast going all summer
(note to non-TRU FUTBOL WARIERS: dc united games are also a convenient framing device for "let's drink as much beer as possible in the parking lot and drunkenly insult the columbus crew for two hours")
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
thanking a hoos for this image. i have just learned of the wapo peeps show contest. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UROssXsbWHQ/TYFkKp_I6FI/AAAAAAAABf4/YVOmRUR7xBs/s1600/Escalator+Collapse+at+Peepy+Bottom.JPG
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, they're bringing that back
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Vienna/Fairfax NOPE
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 19 March 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
was thinking about going to United's game tonight.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Weird question: I'm going to be on "Jeopardy" in a couple weeks (April 12), and I want to get a bunch of people together to watch it somewhere in DC. Does anyone know a bar that might let me do this? In exchange I can promise 20+ people who are gonna want to get drunk at 7 pm on a Tuesday.
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
or 7:30 pm i guess, technically
also all y'all are 100% welcome to join, even if the meetup spot ends up being "my living room"
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha what
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
did u win? does that mean you're buying drinks?
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 March 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!!
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
TROO JEOPARDY WARIER
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 March 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't say whether i did! (regardless, everybody on jeopardy gets at least $1000, but nobody gets paid until 3-4 months after their airdate, so i haven't seen a dime.)
it feels kinda goofy to either hijack jaymc's thread or create a new one of my own, tbqh, but it's been long enough - i taped in december - that i'm finally excited/non-apprehensive about watching it. (please do not read into this too much)
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 March 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guyz btw
https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/3019211/redesigndc4.jpg
if you're not doin stuff monday night you should come out to this little thing my gang is putting on
also i'm dj'ing
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 March 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post --Congrats.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
gov it would be lol if you updated jaymc's thread & mods changed the title to something reflective of having jep with all this ilxors
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
so Bethesda's some posh-o middle class paradise it seems. still seemed nice enough, and it has the only cinema playing Certified Copy.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
bethesda is david brooks' go-to neighborhood for "coastal liberals are like this" iirc
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 March 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, every evening show of Win Win was sold out so...
― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 March 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to live at 1623 r, good to see mark and crew've really been expanding cobalt's events to things outside of twink pop sameoldness
― fauxmarc, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Anybody else just get a big wave of smoke blowing past your windows?
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Nope, but I'm not in downtown Dc if that is where you are.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
saw an alert dc message about a fire near 14th and i.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess the fire was under control a while ago, but when it started smoke was just rolling down the street.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_litu8qeHbt1qas8z9o1_500.jpg
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup. Like that!
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm missing DC a little, even though the weather here in Tel Aviv seems to be a hell of a lot better.
― quincie, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and when I lived in Bethesda I would occasionally see Brooks in the Starbucks on Wisconsin at the corner of Bethesda Ave, so I can vouch that this is where he observes his Bobos.
― quincie, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
How long are you in Tel Aviv? Did you also go to Jerusalem?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
accidentally put this on nn thread:
momo sushi in old town had the BEST fish going on last night. i've been there before but for some reason this time was WAY better. maybe the best hamachi i've ever had.
― tehresa, Monday, 4 April 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
So bummed Gillian Clark shut down the General Store. Gonna have to go on a fried chicken strike until she opens her new place in Petworth.
― Moreno, Monday, 4 April 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"shut down". She didn't pay rent for 12 months and then at the last moment asked the landlord who was now behind in paying back taxes(and who seemed to rely on her rent payments to cover those monthly taxes) for forgiveness which he chose not to offer without any cash from her. There's also apparently video of her insulting some customers. I haven't had her chicken but you and everyone seems to say its good.
http://dcist.com/2011/03/gillians_clark_restaurant_closing_g.php#
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Clark says she has financial backers for her planned DC place.
So are any of the various Cajun, Creole or New Orleans places now open any good?-- Bayou, Bayou Bakery, Cajun Experience...etc.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
went to the cajun experience one i think? off 18th? was pretty underwhelmed.
― Moreno, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, my office is upstairs from bayou bakery - it's ok, nothing to go to courthouse over
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That's what I was afraid of.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Greetings from the land of milk and honey and so much fucking Israeli salad that I think I may not be able to eat tomato and/or cucumber for awhile.
I've been in all sorts of Israel over the past 11 days (including Jerusalem), though I opted out of Eilat (someone described it to me as "the Atlantic City of Israel--no thanks). Head back to DC shortly. Please arrange for nice spring weather-I hear it has been cold and rainy.
Should we FAP or something, for god's sake?
― quincie, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you missed a sunny, 80 degree day yesterday! though yes, the rain is back.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm gonna have a jeopardy viewing party (see upthread) at the blue banana in petworth april 12 from 6-9pm, in case anybody would like to FAP @ that
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i will be at that iirc
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds awesome. i love jeopardy!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I know you're not supposed to tell us, but you're really rich now Gov after multiple nights on Jeopardy, right???
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't say, but by the blue banana let's just assume i mean "the blue banana on georgia ave, the entire 3600 block of which i now own"
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
OK who else is likely to be on unplanned vacation due to government shutdown next week?
Note: I just got back from 2 weeks off.
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
TOMBOT will certainly be off--daria-g? You too?
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no wait maybe tombot won't be off because he has to keep the internets safe from terrorists like john williams, etc.
zs will be
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still waiting to hear if I'm "essential" or not
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
bf is essential. was told he'll get paid next week, but no one knows when he'll get paid after that :(i will not be off. our company follows gov't for early closings, etc. - i think we should also follow it for not coming to work!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 April 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
how is it that ZS lives in DC and I have never met him?
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
right?
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm a gonna FIND HIM
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i have also asked this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
his gifs contain subliminal clues as to his whereabouts
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
he emailed me once about going to olive garden (lol) but it never happened. such a tease.
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ZS is about the only thing that could get me to an Olive Garden
mookie when are you coming back to dc
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
we have jobs here with the federal govenOH WAIT
― quincie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
mookie plz come!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd like to . . . but who will feed my kitty?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
you bring him, duh
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 April 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm off if there is LOLSHUTDOWN next week. i think the plan is we take leave time so we will still get paid, until you run out of leave. so i'd be ok for a week if it comes to that. if i knew it would be a full week i'd use the leave to skip town, maybe go to new york or something!
there isn't even an olive garden anywhere near, is there? i hope to not find out tbh
― daria-g, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
There's got to be an Olive Garden somewhere out in the Virginia suburbs. Like, it would destroy my whole idea of suburban places if there were not an Olive Garden.
(Google Maps says Falls Church & Vienna & Fairfax & Woodbridge &c &c &c)
I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna be pretty jealous if everybody gets a pleasant week in spring off because the government is stupid, because I will not be off. I will be hanging out at Virginia Hospital Center, though, which is pretty clearly the nicest of the Hospital Centers.
― C-L, Friday, 8 April 2011 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually took a bunch of artists to one in like bailey's crossroadsish area last year.
it was a joke about his display name tbh. i don't want to go there.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 April 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
no i didn't think you did, i figured it was some inside joke that i missed b/c of not reading many threads!
― daria-g, Friday, 8 April 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i would, however, like to visit an applebee's with nabisco
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, just saw the last few days worth of posts! you know, we can all meet up at a non-olive garden location too! :)
― Z S, Friday, 8 April 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I made way for an ambulance on the way home tonight while driving down the Leesburg Pike. I saw it further down outside the Olive Garden.
― Gukbe, Friday, 8 April 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Daria
You can't take leave during a shutdown.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 April 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Daria and I are contractors and I imagine that she, like I, will be forced by her company to take vacation during the shutdown. Apparently only California has a law that prevents companies for forcing employees to use vacation instead of leave without pay.
― quincie, Friday, 8 April 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
btw guys wapo's going out guide is compiling deals for ~the furloughed~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/deals_for_the_furloughed/2011/04/08/AFOLXh2C_blog.html?wprss=going-out-gurus
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Just another manic Monday coming up. So unessential me (and my unessential administrative appeals judge) and my unessential co-workers get to go back to work Monday. And you contractors and other government workers too.
The budget agreement did include the riders re DC the House republicans included:
1. DC cannot use its own funds for abortion-related services for poor women
2. DC must use taxpayer money as vouchers to put some kids in religious Christian schools (despite any concerns re first amendment issues or that this is not the most efficient way to help all poor kids)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i, for one, can't wait to get back into the office and get back to my unessential tasks!
― Z S, Saturday, 9 April 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
And I guess that free admission the Corcoran was promising to government workers in the event of a shutdown is gone now! I forget what's on exhibit there now anyway.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 April 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure 'in the event of a shutdown' is the key there.
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Not to mention one free Z Burger per person per day during shutdown!
God help me if we have to go through the same rigmarole this week. I'm in operations and doing contingency planning for this stuff sucks.
― quincie, Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I think they'll get the votes by Thursday
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 April 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Just another day doing "unessential" work
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 April 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Same, nothing essential to see here, carry on...
― Z S, Monday, 11 April 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted this in the other DC thread (capital swamp) when I meant to post about it here, but does anyone want to do a little happy hour thing next week? Mondays or Wednesdays work best for me, maybe around 6:30 or so, downtown somewhere? would love to see ya'll.
― Z S, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ gray getting arrested
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also i impulse bought the banana whatever groupon the other day bc i recognized it as govern yourself accordingly's jeopardy spot so i will be there tomorrow.
i have to work a happy hour at the passenger next wed, you should come!xpost
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
tehresa do you know al3x nich0ls at the passenger? she's a good pal
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like jeopardy! i hope you win!
i do not know her because i have never been to the passenger before!
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i have to work a happy hour at the passenger next wed, you should come!
sounds good to me! anyone else gonna come?
― Z S, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
would love to meet some DC ilxors, but I'm working. Hope Jeopardy goes/went well though!
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol waht
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I am pretty sure Gray is a dick but I have to recoganize game for getting arrested at a dc vote protestFenty should have pulled some stunts like that instead of trying to bother fixing up ddot and schools
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean like substantive reform is for later, you know, first term just get out there and show everybody how you don't have a real job to do
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
uff snap did my bitter white man come out
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
was it some biddle campaign dude today who complained about the 'new white residents' of dc who 'care more about their dogs and bike lanes' than the residents and 'sit in their cafes and then come out and throw snowballs'
i'm not even making up the snowball bit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I genuinely do feel conflicted about being a fenty stan considering I stupidly registered independent - not that my vote would have made the difference but this town is already more full of stuck up principles than any town could ever use by a long shot, so what did I think I was proving by acting like I should have a voice without an affiliation?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hoos, most of that line is what gray was pushing (maybe indirectly, but the what fuck ever) during the campaign. I don't have a dog or a bike, I just want vaguely competent public administration. I can't even read dcist or popetworth anymore, it's far more irritating than it's worth (the same can, and should, be said of national politics)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Would love to come to a happy hour but will be out of town. Count me in for next time though.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
We're talking next Wed, as in the 20th?
― quincie, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I would totally do that though due to working in the 'burbs it is going to be past 7 before I can get anywhere downtown.
― quincie, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post -Fenty giving projects to his frat brothers vs. Gray giving jobs to pals at high salaries. Both disapointing if you ask me (and you should not since I live in Arlington)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm gonna be out-of-town on the 20th also. Next time.
yeah, the 20th. xpost
i will stay til 7 for you, q! i have to get there at 5:30 but it's scheduled to run til like at least 8 i think?
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Excellent!
― quincie, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
attn tombot: do you have a new career in theatre?http://i52.tinypic.com/xp555j.jpg
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the ads for that are so great, the only thing that could improve them would be including the words "rock n roll" somehow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"meet the founding ROCKNROLLer"
Oh no, I missed Govern Yourself on Jeopardy tonight.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
my boy carl is putting this together, sounds like a fun way to spend a saturday evening in the park with a bunch of ppl imo
The plan is to take Montrose Park and turn it into a zombie survival map. Can you survive against the Undead Horde? Different missions will be planned to put your survival skills to the test including:Doctor Escort:Bob Loblaw, MD has the antidote to save humankind and has made himself immune. The Living must find and escort Dr. Loblaw to a safe zone while evading the zombies who pursue them. If all of The Living are transformed, the Zombies win. If The Doctor is saved, The Living might just have a chance.Zombie Assassination:Every army needs a leader - even the Undead. Without a leader, the army cannot function. In this game, The Living must act as a commando squad to locate and assassinate the Zombie Leader, then hustle back to the safe zone. The Last Stand of The Living:All is lost. The world is overrun and the only thing you can do is prolong the inevitable. A small group of The Living are pinned down and surrounded with a large, but limited supply of ammunition. How long will you be able to survive?What Should I Bring?Costumes:Zombie costumes are encouraged, especially if you want to be the "Original Zombie" or one of the special Zombie characters. A few generous makeup artists have offered to provide movie-grade zombie makeup for a few lucky participants. Move fast to claim your spot!Weapons:Weaponry is also strongly encouraged but please limit to nerf guns with small darts and balled-up socks. Bring as much as you can carry, but remember that you'll be expected to clean up after yourself and take home what you bring. After the game is done, everyone is welcome to stagger over to the Bier Baron. BRAINS.
Doctor Escort:
Bob Loblaw, MD has the antidote to save humankind and has made himself immune. The Living must find and escort Dr. Loblaw to a safe zone while evading the zombies who pursue them. If all of The Living are transformed, the Zombies win. If The Doctor is saved, The Living might just have a chance.
Zombie Assassination:
Every army needs a leader - even the Undead. Without a leader, the army cannot function. In this game, The Living must act as a commando squad to locate and assassinate the Zombie Leader, then hustle back to the safe zone.
The Last Stand of The Living:
All is lost. The world is overrun and the only thing you can do is prolong the inevitable. A small group of The Living are pinned down and surrounded with a large, but limited supply of ammunition. How long will you be able to survive?
What Should I Bring?
Costumes:
Zombie costumes are encouraged, especially if you want to be the "Original Zombie" or one of the special Zombie characters. A few generous makeup artists have offered to provide movie-grade zombie makeup for a few lucky participants. Move fast to claim your spot!
Weapons:
Weaponry is also strongly encouraged but please limit to nerf guns with small darts and balled-up socks. Bring as much as you can carry, but remember that you'll be expected to clean up after yourself and take home what you bring.
After the game is done, everyone is welcome to stagger over to the Bier Baron.
BRAINS.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
my horrible inconsiderate neighbor came home from the bars and put his TV on at top volume AGAIN. banged on the door, he ignored me
I hope he enjoyed hearing 'big-jesus-trash-can" at top volume through the wall just now. wondering if I should get out some neubauten? shellac maybe?
― daria, Friday, 15 April 2011 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
earth imo
something he;ll feel
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 April 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://365aay.com/wp-content/covers/ThrobbingGristle20JazzFunkGreats1979.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 April 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ah TG. I don't have that one.. I have 2nd Annual Report somewhere..have to sleep though. I did play some more birthday party first! RELEASE THE BATS
― daria, Friday, 15 April 2011 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry about the neighbor. That's a great album that I haven't listened to in ages--younger Nick Cave.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, i want to go to this!
― coming from me, who has written many bestsellers (tehresa), Friday, 15 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
more bad pop music at top volume, on repeat! awesome!
now playing over here - big black, 'pigeon kill,' 'honey i'm a mess,' 'texas'
man, i hate this guy
― daria g, Sunday, 17 April 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/smithsonians-made-in-america-mandate-not-easy-to-achieve/2011/04/13/AFFA2RqD_story.html
the story says "Smithsonian gift shops generate about $9 million in annual revenue" but that has to be WAY off the mark, right?
― I DIED, Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The Smithsonian institutions received a total of 30 million visitors and that article says the average purchase is $3, so it averages out to 1 in 10 buying something. Which seems about right, considering I bet most people buy their Washington, DC tie-dyed shirts and Lincoln/Washington paraphernalia from street vendors.
― Ivor, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should make a map showing how rapidly the prices street vendors charge go up as one approaches the mall
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I found a story from a couple years ago that puts Smithsonian retail totals (including website) at $155 million in revenue and $27 million profit off that, which seems a lot more realistic. I'd be shocked if Air & Space alone did under $9 million a year. Maybe the Post story was just looking at one of the museums and got mixed up.
― I DIED, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
There aren't a lot of the hand painted KODAK signs on vendor trucks anymore, the awkward attempts at the logo with weird letter spacing and all were one of my favorite things to look at around the mall.
― I DIED, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of the mall, I think read somewhere that the National Park Service is going to make the Smithsonian use a different section of the mall for the Folklife Fest this summer, because they no longer want the grass where the fest has been held for decades to be stomped on anymore.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
all i know is i payed $5 for freeze dried ice cream at the air & space museum and i'd do it again in a second.
― Moreno, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Does NOVA just not do bars? What the fuck. All I'm looking for is a little divey shithole where I can sip an adult beverage & maybe put a song on the jukebox, but everywhere I go seems like a refurbished Applebees with 27 TVs blasting ESPN variants at me. I literally spent an hour walking up and down Lee Highway just now, straight in and out of more than one place cause they were these apocalyptic clusterfucks full of wailing babies throwing mashed potatoes across the table at their parents, and now I have my goddamn laptop out at a Thai restaurant because at least I know I can get a good beer here even if they're gonna overcharge me for it.
Do I just not know where I should be going?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
not sure how far out u live, but i would recommend galaxy hut in clarendon
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 April 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
i have heard of this!!! might investigate this tomorrow as thus far i have no friday planz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, galaxy hut is pretty rad! the clarendon/courthouse area is kinda iffy honestly (my office is out there, not that i actually ever go in due to being on the road all the time), but whitlow's on wilson isn't bad either
hoos one of these nights i should introduce you to DAN'S CAFE
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 April 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
liking the sound of this!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 April 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
my co-workers want me to go out to Caribbean Breeze at Ballston tomorrow night. I'm running out of excuses not to go out with them but hoo boy.
― Gukbe, Friday, 22 April 2011 06:12 (twelve years ago) link
omg don't do that to yourself!
― tehresa, Friday, 22 April 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh god that sounds terrible on so many levels
― quincie, Friday, 22 April 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
"come on dude, it's 'South Beach Night'", they say.
― Gukbe, Friday, 22 April 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
― tehresa, Friday, 22 April 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
What is Caribbean Breeze? It sounds nice...relaxing, drinking ridiculous fruity drinks, feeling the breeze...
― god is your co-god (Z S), Friday, 22 April 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
. . . in NORTHERN VIRGINIA, far from the coast.
I guess Rt. 1 traffic may generate a breeze?
― quincie, Friday, 22 April 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha. potomac swamp breeze iirc.
― tehresa, Friday, 22 April 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
swamp goes well with mai thais afaik
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 April 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
there is a depressing happy hour at this place in l'enfant, vie de france. it's another not-great lunch place but even sadder when they're serving drinks
― daria, Friday, 22 April 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
did discover that sports bar becomes v tolerable while wearing headphones
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 April 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
1. John's Place in Fairfax City 2. Sunset Grille in Annandale 3. JV's in Falls Church
Saw this list of Virginia "dive bars" online here:http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/406775/406941.html
Numbers 2 & 3 are sometimes music clubs. I've been to the Sunset Grille that usually has bad blooz-rock bands but ocassional good ones on Thursdays; and JV's is a tiny place that also has roots rock music. These 2 places were once biker hangouts but are less so now I think. I have never heard of John's place.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 April 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
Dan Snyder's lawsuit changing jurisdictions but still on...
http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/04/daniel-snyder-lawsuit-no-settlement-in-sight-59500.html
Snyder says he didn't commit forgery although his company paid a fine for doing so...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
friday is date night with the bowie baysox
# Two (2) Lower Reserved Seat Tickets! (Tickets regularly $14 each)# Romantic Carousel Ride for 2 in Louie's Kids Park # Beautiful Flower for your date# Get a special photograph beneath the romantic archway & a commemorative Date Night at the Diamond Baysox Photo Mat!# Post-Game Dates Base Run!# Fun & Memories to last a lifetime!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
awesome (says this Bowie High grad and baseball fan)although the gf would never go for it and yes those are some corny details ( the base run...)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://artwhino.com/2011g40
This month-long artwhino byt art and music thing might be good
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
wau yeah i gotta do some of that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm hitting this up on sat w/some homies, artist's goofy name notwithstanding this looks kinda cool
http://irvinecontemporary.com/otherExhibitions.php?eventID=122
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
People at work are asking me if I have weekend plans and don't understand that when I say I am going out of town, I am going to Tyson's.
Mr. B and I decided TyCon is too far away to come back to the District after dinner, so we are going to sleep there.
Look out, NoVa.
― quincie, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
So you're gonna sleep under a table at the convention room?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Is TyCon a convention or are you just going shopping ?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
TyCon is Tyson's Corner. We're going to Michel Richard's joint at the Ritz and are sleeping there, presumably in an actual sleeping room.
Oh god do I sound like a total douchebag? The Mr. has tons of hotel points from when he travelled a lot for work. We've also overnighted at National Harbor!
― quincie, Friday, 29 April 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I hear... not great tings about Michel at the Ritz.
Fiola, the new downtown restaurant from the chef who used to run Maestro in the Ritz space, is outstanding.
― I DIED, Friday, 29 April 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
How was the food at the Ritz at Tyson's, Quincie?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 May 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
It was OK, not outstanding, but we did have great seats in front of the open kitchen and had a very fun evening as voyeurs.
The Ritz bed *was* outstanding. Slept like a (somewhat drunk) baby.
― quincie, Monday, 2 May 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Y'all wanna be at phillips after 5 tonight. Just sayin.
― tehresa, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
wish i was theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 May 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
damn i completely forgot! sorry
― daria-g, Friday, 6 May 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
ah goddamnit the Phillips is a block from my place but I'm in Rosslyn aargh
― I DIED, Friday, 6 May 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
i am so tired. our singers were awesome. twice! i had 0 drinks and 0 gelatto. my job sucks.
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
gary williams to retire from maryland
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Gah, sorry I missed it too, T.
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm all o_O at I DIED being in Rosslyn!?!?!?!
― quincie, Friday, 6 May 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha srsly
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Anybody doing anything for the Kentucky Derby?
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
i wish! i had to turn down an invite to a party bc i have a work thing that night :(but that's ok bc work thing is gonna be ridic and i get to wear a ball gown.maybe i will make myself a mint julep when i get home. heard an npr bit on bourbon balls this AM. want!
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
there was a nice little feature in the express on bourbon today
wonder what the confluence is abt
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
x-post to Mookieproof-
Do you think the new U. of Md Athletic Director forced Gary out, or is the sudden decision to retire from coaching at 66 legit (while being some sort of assistant athletic director)?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
nah, i think that when jordan williams decided to go pro, gary foresaw another season of missing the tournament. if they were going to force him out, i think they'd have done it weeks ago before the coaching carousel started spinning.
but yeah, he's not a young man, and the way he coaches/lives/(drinks?) seems pretty stressful.
never liked him, mainly because he was always playing the victim of the refs/ncaa/world, but he did an impressive job of resurrecting the program post-len bias and he wasn't a cheater.
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Br1t1sh 3mbassy open day tomorrow. I will be there till 12.30 - assigned to the dumpster area... T, no bourbon, but free scotch!
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
i just dropped off a bunch of stuff at the gr33k 3mbassy for that! sorry about your dumpstering :(
i think i might spend all day tomorrow trying to figure out what to do with my hair/which shoes/etc. big night - 0p3r4 b4ll at the ch1n3s3 3mbassy. it is clearly a very diplomatic weekend.
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Highlight of my upcoming weekend (aside from the Derby, of course): Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival!!!!!!! http://www.sheepandwool.org/
― quincie, Friday, 6 May 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
free scotch!
― ljubljana, Friday, May 6, 2011 7:31 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark
ok now i have weekend plans cool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
will jenna maroney be there to sing the wool theme song?xpost
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Passport DC (embassy tours, open houses and other events) : The European Union's embassies open their doors for tours and such Saturday
Other embassies open their doors later this month
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
HOOS, come and visit me at the dumpster and sneak me a scotch
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
haha for sure
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 May 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Where in DC can I buy some *huge* yet reasonably priced potted plants for outdoors? For putting in a front yard and skulking behind, so that I can sit out there without feeling like I'm right on the street. I would have tried Garden District but it's gone. Good online stores would be fine too, but can't find anything big enough.
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
i can't get past the fact that you have a front yard to sit in to think of a place for plants! hah. i want a yard!
i can drive you somewhere for a plant sometime, if you'd like.
― tehresa, Friday, 6 May 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh that would be great. Then come for a drink in the yard.
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
~synergy~
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys, another round of drink specials & tunes & lightning talks
http://www.parley.co/storage/redesigndc3.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1304888844248
the last one turned out to be really stimulating, and we've got a good lineup of speakers this time around too, plus i'll be playing some records
check it out! yall should come
http://www.parley.co/blog/2011/5/4/redesign_dc-vol-ii-remix-dc.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I will try to get to this - bit of a manic work week next week but will see how that goes.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
More speakers!
http://www.parley.co/blog/2011/5/11/redesign_dc-vol-ii-additional-speakers.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
/nomoreshilling
good lineup!
― I DIED, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh hai I am working from the Big Bear Cafe in Bloomingdale this afternoon. It is hipster central.
-I am the oldest person here-anyone wanna guess the mac to PC ratio?-are these ppl "working" or ?-I'm not going to get anything done, am I?
― quincie, Thursday, 12 May 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
"writing screenplays"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
good lineup!― I DIED, Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:26 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark
― I DIED, Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:26 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark
thx! we worked our butts off to get em together
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hoos have you been to the Big Bear? Or hung out in Bloomingdale at all? I can totally see you in this neighborhood. And hey btw we are selling a house in Bloomingdale, you should totally buy it.
― quincie, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
haha
i have not! i should check out this neighborhood?
i still don't have a mac, but i can "write a screenplay"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I really like this 'hood and would stay here if it were not such a painful commute to my job in the MD 'burbs :(
There are lots of young artsy types. Only two coffeehouse/restaurant/pub places at the moment, but a plethora of corner stores--the finest selection of 40ozs in all of DC!
You should come meet me for happy hour today!
― quincie, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Bloomingdale is great! Very residential in character but I have a ton of friends living in the area.
― I DIED, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
I DIED maybe it is the time for you to take the plunge in to HOME OWNERSHIP. Place has a turret! A TURRET!
― quincie, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
dc friend's fb status: Indicative of why I hate Georgetown: A guy was just SCREAMING at his wife, "Walk in the shade! Walk in the shade! You have to save the cupcakes!"
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 May 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
loll
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 May 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
How To Live In Washington DCMAY. 18, 2011 By CLARISSA RAMON Get accepted into a “competitive” fellowship or internship or entry level lobbying position, whatever. Think this is it: it’s only a matter of time before you are saving the world (or securing a “real” job). Look on Craigslist for an apartment…see the price of a one bedroom condo by the Capitol is $2700.00. Silently squeal to yourself. Look farther way. Google Shaw-Howard. Look closer. Spend 2 weeks scouring craigslist, emailing friends and distant cousins. Find a bedroom in a house in Maryland, or a couch with a friend in Columbia Heights. It doesn’t matter, you’re moving to DC.Spend the first few nights getting to know your fellow fellows or classmates, or co-workers. Ride the metro for the first time in your life. Go the wrong direction. Have people from NYC scoff at you for being confused. Go to Adams Morgan and be surrounded by the exact same crowd as college. Take too many shots, eat at McDonalds with a security guard and cab it back to safety. Look at your bank account and realize you’ve spent $200 that week on tennis shoes, a plastic drawer set, pad thai, metro fares, cabs, alcohol, brunch, an umbrella, Tylenol, toothpaste and a new suit. Silently kick yourself.Learn to take the bus. Put yourself on a budget. Visit Safeway and realize that you can’t stuff your trunk with a month’s worth of Ramen noodles and Capri suns. Buy a goofy cart, fill it with groceries, try to include something healthy. Realize you’ve lost 10 lbs from walking so much. It’s the end of summer and your shirt is sticking to your back, your feet are swollen and think how you would do terrible things to get access to a rooftop pool.Visit the Holocaust Museum. Cry.Make friends fast. Everyone is friendly. Everyone is from somewhere else. They are away from home for the first time like you, or coming from a 6 year grad/law school program where they helped with AIDS research. Whoa, people are smart in DC. Clutch your B.A. in Political Science, or Government, or History or Women’s Studies for dear life. Drink with Republicans. Make out with Liberals. See more diversity than you ever have in your entire life living back home.Have your first day on the “Hill”. Realize that people come here for very different reasons. There is someone on the other side, from the other “party” who exists solely to combat everything you believe in. Spend half your time answering phones, meeting people for coffee, getting recommendations from other people about how you just have to talk to so and so. Email them for coffee. Realize you probably have an addiction. File paperwork, run errands, respond to letters, work late. Think how recess is the best thing ever. Give a tour. Bullshit your way through. Realize that your 8th grade history needs to be refreshed. Who put people like you in charge? Realize that the people “in charge” are in the committee room next to you. Walk past John Boehner. Realize you have absolutely nothing to say to John Boehner.Go to a “networking” event. Drink too much wine and eat too many hors d’oeuvres. Listen to the person speaking incessantly about themselves and what they do. Want to punch them. Want to jump out the window. Leave feeling defeated, after meeting 100 new contacts and handing out dozens of cards realize you have not had a substantial conversation in what feels like days. (Later after your 37th reception, you have perfected it to a science. Drink 1 and half glasses of wine, skip the food, collect 5 cards, leave early and go to bar.)Have nights where you have absolutely nothing to do. Feel lonely. Call home, Skype with a friend. Wonder what the hell you ever came to DC for.Pass by a homeless person on the way to the metro. Realize that for being the capitol of the country, there is a lot of disparity. Read about the poor education system. Notice how most of the Senate staffers are white. All of the service workers are not. Feel disconnected to the reason you came here. Get frustrated with D.C. traffic, slow metros, bad neighborhoods, expensive cost of living and overall insanity. Wonder if going through a metal detector everyday is healthy for you? Feel guilty and powerless. You are not saving the world. You have not found a job.Realize that you are among your peers. Even though the girl interning next to you is only there because her father donates to the Congressman, you still feel like you are in the right place. Have your party lose the house and have you’re world flipped upside down. Life here is cyclical. Parties switch. Power shifts. Become jaded with politics. Wonder if you even matter, if anyone’s work even makes a difference. Read a bill that you helped draft. Think you just helped save a tiny piece of the world.Work with different types of people. Feel pressured to get more education. Realize that people here are just the same as the ones back home, just better at hiding it. They creep slowly into debt, live in places like Rossyln or Silver Spring and try to live off $30 K a year whilst paying for $30 brunches. Meet lots of douchey law students or worse: pre-law students. Go to a rooftop party. Visit an apartment that costs more than your parents house. Go to the W, sneak onto the rooftop by scaling the roof, or lying. Drink $20 jack and cokes. Hate yourself. Party with people from Chicago, LA and Texas. Meet people who intern at the Whitehouse. Realize you hate people who intern at the Whitehouse. Your 8 months here have made you more judgmental. Become less trusting.Gain back the 10 lbs you lost and then some over winter. See snow for the first time or the 25th time. Get a winter boo. Lose the winter boo. Go on dates, meet people, hook-up. End your pseudo relationship back home. See couples on street and stare at them like zoo animals. Everyone is too young for that here. Not really, just more self involved. Buy a bridesmaids dress for a trip back home. Question your life path. Consider letting pseudo girlfriend/boyfriend visit. Discuss relationships and sex with your new girlfriends/guyfriends over Ben’s Chili Bowl at 3:00 am after a night of debauchery. Stop questioning your life path.Get invited to a gala or escort your boss to an event. See people you only see on Huffington Post, New York times or CNN up close. Realize you are in the center of it all. Hear the President speak. See the crowd move. Shake his hand. Stare at hand. Call your parents.Pause on a beautiful spring day. Smell the cherry blossoms. Think: Damn, I live in D.C.
Get accepted into a “competitive” fellowship or internship or entry level lobbying position, whatever. Think this is it: it’s only a matter of time before you are saving the world (or securing a “real” job). Look on Craigslist for an apartment…see the price of a one bedroom condo by the Capitol is $2700.00. Silently squeal to yourself. Look farther way. Google Shaw-Howard. Look closer. Spend 2 weeks scouring craigslist, emailing friends and distant cousins. Find a bedroom in a house in Maryland, or a couch with a friend in Columbia Heights. It doesn’t matter, you’re moving to DC.
Spend the first few nights getting to know your fellow fellows or classmates, or co-workers. Ride the metro for the first time in your life. Go the wrong direction. Have people from NYC scoff at you for being confused. Go to Adams Morgan and be surrounded by the exact same crowd as college. Take too many shots, eat at McDonalds with a security guard and cab it back to safety. Look at your bank account and realize you’ve spent $200 that week on tennis shoes, a plastic drawer set, pad thai, metro fares, cabs, alcohol, brunch, an umbrella, Tylenol, toothpaste and a new suit. Silently kick yourself.
Learn to take the bus. Put yourself on a budget. Visit Safeway and realize that you can’t stuff your trunk with a month’s worth of Ramen noodles and Capri suns. Buy a goofy cart, fill it with groceries, try to include something healthy. Realize you’ve lost 10 lbs from walking so much. It’s the end of summer and your shirt is sticking to your back, your feet are swollen and think how you would do terrible things to get access to a rooftop pool.
Visit the Holocaust Museum. Cry.
Make friends fast. Everyone is friendly. Everyone is from somewhere else. They are away from home for the first time like you, or coming from a 6 year grad/law school program where they helped with AIDS research. Whoa, people are smart in DC. Clutch your B.A. in Political Science, or Government, or History or Women’s Studies for dear life. Drink with Republicans. Make out with Liberals. See more diversity than you ever have in your entire life living back home.
Have your first day on the “Hill”. Realize that people come here for very different reasons. There is someone on the other side, from the other “party” who exists solely to combat everything you believe in. Spend half your time answering phones, meeting people for coffee, getting recommendations from other people about how you just have to talk to so and so. Email them for coffee. Realize you probably have an addiction. File paperwork, run errands, respond to letters, work late. Think how recess is the best thing ever. Give a tour. Bullshit your way through. Realize that your 8th grade history needs to be refreshed. Who put people like you in charge? Realize that the people “in charge” are in the committee room next to you. Walk past John Boehner. Realize you have absolutely nothing to say to John Boehner.
Go to a “networking” event. Drink too much wine and eat too many hors d’oeuvres. Listen to the person speaking incessantly about themselves and what they do. Want to punch them. Want to jump out the window. Leave feeling defeated, after meeting 100 new contacts and handing out dozens of cards realize you have not had a substantial conversation in what feels like days. (Later after your 37th reception, you have perfected it to a science. Drink 1 and half glasses of wine, skip the food, collect 5 cards, leave early and go to bar.)
Have nights where you have absolutely nothing to do. Feel lonely. Call home, Skype with a friend. Wonder what the hell you ever came to DC for.
Pass by a homeless person on the way to the metro. Realize that for being the capitol of the country, there is a lot of disparity. Read about the poor education system. Notice how most of the Senate staffers are white. All of the service workers are not. Feel disconnected to the reason you came here. Get frustrated with D.C. traffic, slow metros, bad neighborhoods, expensive cost of living and overall insanity. Wonder if going through a metal detector everyday is healthy for you? Feel guilty and powerless. You are not saving the world. You have not found a job.
Realize that you are among your peers. Even though the girl interning next to you is only there because her father donates to the Congressman, you still feel like you are in the right place. Have your party lose the house and have you’re world flipped upside down. Life here is cyclical. Parties switch. Power shifts. Become jaded with politics. Wonder if you even matter, if anyone’s work even makes a difference. Read a bill that you helped draft. Think you just helped save a tiny piece of the world.
Work with different types of people. Feel pressured to get more education. Realize that people here are just the same as the ones back home, just better at hiding it. They creep slowly into debt, live in places like Rossyln or Silver Spring and try to live off $30 K a year whilst paying for $30 brunches. Meet lots of douchey law students or worse: pre-law students. Go to a rooftop party. Visit an apartment that costs more than your parents house. Go to the W, sneak onto the rooftop by scaling the roof, or lying. Drink $20 jack and cokes. Hate yourself. Party with people from Chicago, LA and Texas. Meet people who intern at the Whitehouse. Realize you hate people who intern at the Whitehouse. Your 8 months here have made you more judgmental. Become less trusting.
Gain back the 10 lbs you lost and then some over winter. See snow for the first time or the 25th time. Get a winter boo. Lose the winter boo. Go on dates, meet people, hook-up. End your pseudo relationship back home. See couples on street and stare at them like zoo animals. Everyone is too young for that here. Not really, just more self involved. Buy a bridesmaids dress for a trip back home. Question your life path. Consider letting pseudo girlfriend/boyfriend visit. Discuss relationships and sex with your new girlfriends/guyfriends over Ben’s Chili Bowl at 3:00 am after a night of debauchery. Stop questioning your life path.
Get invited to a gala or escort your boss to an event. See people you only see on Huffington Post, New York times or CNN up close. Realize you are in the center of it all. Hear the President speak. See the crowd move. Shake his hand. Stare at hand. Call your parents.
Pause on a beautiful spring day. Smell the cherry blossoms. Think: Damn, I live in D.C.
i fuckin love thought catalog
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
pretty and nostalgic and all but i can't get behind something else reducing dc life to political this and that
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
sure i mean
i have never walked past john boehner while eating falafel
i'm just sayin
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yo ilxors I am going to be in DC (well, Crystal City) next week M-W if anyone is interested in FAP.
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
iirc we are planning one for wednesday??
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
monday!
― tehresa, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
"iirc" -- a valuable tool in my ilx arsenal
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Nice - if you want, shoot me details at pldennison at yahoo dot com.
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
ugh guys I just had some sort of mental lapse and logged on to LateNightShots uuuuuuuuuuh
― quincie, Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaha
― tehresa, Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Do you have an obsessive love of film? Do you pore over the screening schedules around town from the multiplexes to the museums every week? Do your tastes run the gamut from the classy to the trashy? Then this could be the gig for you. If you're interested in writing about film for DCist, contact Editor-in-Chief Aaron Morrissey.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
does dcist need any film reviewers who only review early 80s crown international teensploitation movies? if so i ACCEPT
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 20 May 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
If I wasn't out of town I'd apply for that.
― Gukbe, Friday, 20 May 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Guys our Bloomindale place just went on the market. Someone go buy it, please.
― quincie, Friday, 20 May 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, May 20, 2011 2:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
would read this column
or at least this thread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Anybody wait in line at Shake Shack? Any good?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
i mean
its a shake shack man
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
check yrself
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
(for the record, none of the tasters said that their preferences were changed after this side-by-side tasting).
regional bias yo
dirty marten's all day
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
I went to Shake Shack around 4:30 on opening day - there was no line and it's ridiculously better than Five Guys. Still no match for a thicker restaurant burger though.
― I DIED, Sunday, 22 May 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
Best burger I've had lately was at Tonic in MtP! Surprisingly delicious.
― quincie, Sunday, 22 May 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm maybe once june hits i can convince office people to do a long lunch and walk to ss some day.
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 May 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Palin exploiting Rolling Thunder...ugh
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 May 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
just makes rolling thunder look bad, don't worry
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 May 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
Rolling Thunder suuuuuuucks.
― I DIED, Monday, 30 May 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha. i got the hell out of rural america as soon as i possibly could for a reason, rolling thunder.
― daria-g, Monday, 30 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
hipsters joining rolling thunder on their vespas has been my favorite sight of the summer so far for sheer ridiculousness
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 May 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
high temperatures this week:today 91weds 91thurs 87fri 80sat 87
you know what's the worst.. is when you get on the metro and as the doors close, realize the car has no air conditioning
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh god that IS the worst!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
yesssssssss
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Those no-AC metro cars are like being buried alive
― I DIED, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
AC in my apartment is currently non-functional :((i know, nowhere near as bad as a metro car!)
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Oh those weather people lied to us it is 96 degrees outside RIGHT NOW
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
ewwwwwwwwwww
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
oops my bad it's 97 now
97!
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
feels like: 101!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
― I DIED, Tuesday, May 31, 2011 7:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
and they smell awful cause everyone is just sitting in them sweating
how the fuck do people wear suits in this shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
They live in the burbs and drive door to door? I have yet to figure it out. at least I can start wearing skirts. though being this pale is NAGL
― daria, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
i am pale and i wear skirts and i just don't care!!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
was all excited that newjob is super close to home, thinking of biking but... even though it's short, there's no way i could swing it and look professional in the summer heat. maybe in fall!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
btw idk if any of you regular metro riders follow @metroopensdoors on twitter, but they've put what looks like a pair of new people on the feed and it's gone from uselessly behind exemplar of everything broken abt metro to, like, a really useful rider tool & customer experience responder almost instantaneously. its like night and day--somebody just tweeted at them that there was no a/c in their car, within minutes @metro asked for the car #s to get a tech on it--whether they did or didn't, who knows, but in terms of PR i'm flabbergasted at how well they're coming off all of a sudden.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Consider what it's like waiting for a bus in these temperatures....
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Feels like 204 amirite? Sheesh
Just played softball in this shit
― Z S, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
i walked a couple miles after work on the way home, by then it was only 90..
so i got some exercise, now thinking about going to the shake shack
― daria-g, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
we got take out because i refused to cook for fear apt would reach 100 degrees
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
have decided i'm gonna start keeping my office wardrobe in my cube closet and just start rollin in in my gym clothes
maybe this will encourage me to use the gym & shower across the street from the office in the AMs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
I just got back from Las Vegas.
It was a lot cooler there.
― quincie, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
On Friday I go to Atlanta.
Probably cooler there, too.
It was indeed cooler in my sc hometown (a few hours north of atl) yesterday than it was here!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
hey it's 96 degrees again! AWESOME
skipped the Shake Shack yesterday because I'm trying not to have too much sugar but today .. must go
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
98. hottest June 1 in over 100 years
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
sweet lord
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
arrived at shake shack just before hail storm broke out. seriously. so weird
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
dear dcites, might you fancy a pint after work on friday?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
yesss please
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes but I will be in Atlanta :(
― quincie, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'd totally be down on friday!
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Hey since I'm just back to posting this week after being on vacation last week, just want to say thanks to HOOS, Tombot, sarahel, tehresa and Z_S for the beers and talk in Ballston while I was there! Great meeting all of you, and I had a really fun pre-Jeopardy time.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Only '80s temperature wise today on Thursday!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 June 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
how did the audition go??xpost
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I think it went well, but there were some pretty interesting and charismatic ppl in my group of auditioners. One dude had flown over from Yorkshire, UK to audition and another was a Marine Corps pathologist and war veteran. COntestant coordinator twice said she liked what I was wearing, though, so I guess a thanks to Perry Ellis is due if I make it on the show.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
btw my cal is free tomorrow!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
well depending on what time i wake up/how insane the traffic is, i hope to be around by maybe 6pm?
my only serious demand of any location is that it be air conditioned (though cheap is good too)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
I could do with a few pints right now.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Cold out there.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah i opened my front door and just went "yeaaaaaaaaaaaah"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's AWESOME
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Dancers versus the Park Police Round II at the Jefferson Memorial Saturday at noon.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/performance-and-dance/2011/06/03/dance-revolution-etc-part-ii/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I am down for this fap today. Do these things get coordinated via email?
― Eris and Paris Making Dolmas (los blue jeans), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
mookie emailed me last night and said he probably can't make it due to car issues :(
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I can't make it, but I thought others were interested. Los Blue Jeans, maybe you should just suggest a spot and ask here if others are up for it?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i'd be interested for sure. tons of beer places have mad cool guest drafts due to SAVOR going on
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Washington Post on 2 Capitol Hill area happy hours:
Overheard at the conservative happy hour First Friday at Union Pub: “I’ll be over at the Faith and Freedom conference tomorrow. . . . They beat Notre Dame this year. . . . When Snowmageddon happened two years ago, I had a reservation at Minibar. . . . The Weiner jokes are overwhelming me right now.”
Overheard at the progressive happy hour First Thursday at Lounge 201 the night before: “I’m also a PhD student. . . . I’m a lawyer by day but . . . We lost the message war! . . . Libertarianism doesn’t make sense. How can you abolish everything? . . . How drunk do I have to be to say, ‘Hey, Ron Paul intern’?”
First Friday formed in 2006 when a posse of Heritage Foundation co-workers ambled across Massachusetts Avenue NE to Union Pub. They desired a social setting with no strings attached (no guest speaker, no book reading, no dress code or registration or cover charge), so they formed their own.
“At other events you’d be having a good time, mingling, having a beer, and then all of a sudden it’d get quiet and Dick Armey would stand up and pontificate on the future of America — that sucks,” says one of the First Friday charter members, Brian Phillips, 33, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “But if Dick Armey wants to come hang out, that’s great.”
First Friday lassoed big GOP names (Boehner, Steele, Newt) for guest appearances — nothing formal, just: “Oh hey, there’s Grover Norquist” — and word of mouth buoyed attendance until it became a consistent safe house for conservatives adrift in a blindingly liberal city.
First Thursday began two weeks ago in reaction to First Friday’s popularity and to reinvigorate the idling movement that elected Barack Obama in 2008. The organizers of First Thursday have boasted that they can out-network the conservatives. Whatever that means. (How is networking prowess tabulated? By the frequency with which one uses the word “networking”?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/off-the-clock-and-its-still-party-time-on-capitol-hill-with-dueling-happy-hours/2011/06/03/AGkg4lJH_story.html
There's another link with photos also
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
"networking" ugh. I really prefer to hang out with people I like and not ask them for anything related to career stuff, it's so much easier
― daria, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
"blindingly liberal" lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Showing up at the conservative one could be amusing (or frightening)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think i accidentally crashed one of those at duffy's during the ncaa tournament (coincidentally it was a duke game)
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 6 June 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
So the rally for DC Statehood on the West lawn of the Capitol Thursday evening features Chuck Brown performing after the speakers. I doubt any of the First Friday happy hour crowd will wander over, but maybe some First Thursday types will.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
hello dc dudes! i hope you are all healthy and wealthy and watching a lot of tarkovsky. nbd but i'm playing a rad zine release party on saturday at velveeta lounge and it would, of course, be a real treat to see any/all of you fine folks there for hanging, drinking etc. there may (read: will) be free donuts. <3
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 17 June 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
cool!
where is that? anyone free tomorrow?
― tehresa, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 3:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
my friend ally put this together. it was pretty rad.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol wait
anyone free tomorrow?
― tehresa, Friday, June 17, 2011 11:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
am + wld attend
donuts you say
― Gukbe, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
except i googled and could not find
― tehresa, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
donuts. anyway i'm generally outta ilx rotation but it'd be chill to meet the new class + reconnect with old pals in a fun and frisky setting (btw tehresa velvet's at 915 u st.)
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
u playing anywhere else y/n
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
mostly here in nc these days, though i think we're gonna try and make it back up to nyc relatively soon
― pretzel walrus, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
cool -- i am dling yr ep and am looking forward to learning what the safe word is
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
i think i saw you guys at cake shop once if it is same band but i don't know! maybe it is a different one?
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
it is a different one but you did see my previous band at cake shop! 69 moved to sf i moved to nc and now i am playing with some other folks and it's pretty good times i think.
― pretzel walrus, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
yay :)
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
i was unable to learn the safe word -- too noize
is the one singer your gf?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
mookie you should just come to this gig
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
you left work at one today maybe *you* should have come *here*
(i know i should; my sched is supposed to change next month)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still trying to recover from you standing me up a few weeks ago! not to mention i went to nyc in feb; when have you come here? hmmmmmmm?
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
so sad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
OMG ZR so want to see you, am gonna do this Mr. BBQ unless for some reason bbqing in rock creek this afternoon takes a fatal turn!
C'mon DCers: it is DC FAP time!!!
― quincie, Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
well there are donuts involved
― Gukbe, Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Missed ZR's band! Next time Pretzel Walrus.
Unrelated:
ashigtonian critics's 5 fave new places to eat:
Your five favorite new (opened in the last six months) restaurants. Go!
Todd Kliman:
In no particular order ...
Mala Tang in Arlington, Freddy's Lobster + Clams in Bethesda, Fiola in DC, Shake Shack in DC, Kao Thai in Silver Spring.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
or "Washingtonian" if you prefer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Been to Mala Tang twice. Individually sized Chengdu-style hot pot, nice modern atmosphere but really excellent. The hot pots are good but oh man just get a bunch of the appetizers because they are FANTASTIC.
Fiola is the new restaurant of the chef who used to be at Maestro - I think he's probably the most talented chef in DC, really extraordinary pastas and fish especially. High end place but not crazy like Maestro was.
Shake Shack is Shake Shack, I went and it's a very good fast food burger if that's your thing. Better than Five Guys for sure. Not worth waiting in line.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
and on a very important note, REN'S RAMEN has reopened, moving from Bethesda to Wheaton. Just a couple blocks from the metro and holy shit it's so delicious. Only real deal ramen in the area, I think.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
Ramen sounds good. If i ever make it to the AFI i'll check it out. I'm hoping to swing by Shake Shack some afternoon next week when it's not busy.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
I keep hearing about Toki Underground--I tried to organize a get-together down there back in April sometime and everybody bailed because of the line. Anybody tried it?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
Toki's fun and quite good, Taiwan-style ramen and other dishes, but it's a shoebox of a place with maybe 25 seats, all at counters. Not great for groups.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
noted. is it still overstuffed in terms of people? other than as a function of the shoebox, i mean.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah you still gotta show up early or late, even on off nights.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
cool. thx for the info!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
WANT
― Z S, Thursday, 23 June 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
did you try the mala tang itself (at least in China, that's sort of like the soup they sell on the streets, AMAZING)?
I did the first time I was there, but all the small xiao chi (dan dan noodles, zhong DUMPLINGS!, chengdu DUMPLINGS!, mung bean noodles, pork water DUMPLINGS!) were just so damn delicious that it's not a crime to skip it. Also this is just an observation and not a complaint but nothing seemed to be intense with the actual peppercorns.
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 June 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
I still haven't tried any of those places. Grrrr. Schedule and stuff hasn't worked out.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
best lede ever?
UPDATE 2:25 p.m. Finally, the poop is gone – some four days after its arrival.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Metro
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
I was at the other end of the mall at the Folklife fest and didn't notice this-
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=698&sid=2446397
WASHINGTON - Visitors planning to go the National Mall to see the fireworks Monday night might be surprised by a major change to a big attraction.
The iconic Reflecting Pool has been reduced to a big, brown ditch that looks something like a bathtub.
Protected by black, chain-link fencing at a healthy distance in all directions, the pool between the World War II and Lincoln memorials is being renovated . It will have a new water circulation system when it reopens, likely sometime next year.
Many visitors to the National Mall Sunday were disappointed by what they saw.
"It's kind of gross right now," a young woman from Massachusetts said at the Lincoln Memorial.
"It's so muddy and sad," her sister added
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 July 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
unless i'd missed something, that's what it looked like since i moved here in october
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 3 July 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, it seem to be taking them quite a while
― ljubljana, Monday, 4 July 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/galaxy-hut-expands-to-falls-church/2011/07/11/gIQAcFjiAI_blog.html
insert falls church joke here
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys i can fap now because i get out of work at 5 and i don't have to work evening/weekend events. let's have summertime drinks?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
ok
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
x-post. Wonder if that new Galaxy Hut II is in the coffeeshop that was/is above the CD Cellar? The linked piece says "next to."
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
mookie when you come?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
from over on the "mixed up" thread:
CVS and CSV
due to CVS' proximity to my work and CSV's applicability to my work, they come up pretty often, and i always have to stall for a second while i figure out which is which. wish the cvs was a walgreen's tbh
― larry buttz (Z S), Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:01 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark
ZS, I just put a few things together. Is this the CVS at 13th and Penn?
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
Monday we moved into the new house, where chaos currently reigns. But had dinner out on the deck last night and it was badass. Will host drinks as soon as we can locate glasses, bottle opener.
― quincie, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
it is! yep, i work across the street.
― taste the rainbow...zoom zoom...if you build it, they will come (Z S), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
1. galaxy hut II wtf2. ZR's gf is not in a band3. really really liked shake shack over memo day4. comin back to hang for work sometime in octubre
― 69, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
in other news, y'all are missing out if you arent a fan of WPGC on facebookspacester+
best poll ever
― 69, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
xxp: I work over on 12th. It is my CVS too!
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I am not particularly fond of it.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Are some CVS's worse than others?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think Bryce Harper is gonna be playing ball for Harrisburg in Bowie next week (while I'm on vacation).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Newsflash: it is hot
― quincie, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/our-technocratic-overlords/242156/
Former DC City paper writer and now Atlantic columnist T Coates talking about a NY Times article on DC, race, class and gentrification
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/us/18dc.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
power just went out for about 10 seconds and i had a mini panic attack thinking about how awful it was going to be with no a/c. so glad it's back. knock on wood.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
If the power goes out, I will just drive around all night. It's way too nasty for that shit.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
No joke, our A/C went out two days ago, the repair guy came by yesterday and was basically like
\_(oO)_/ "I don't know this time, sorry! I might be back on Thursday, maybe!"
And the landlord says that maybe it's finally time to replace the whole system?
Meanwhile, the heat index on Friday is supposed to be 116!
― Z S, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
So far our AC is holding steady, meaning it runs constantly. Can't wait to see our first power bill in this place (95 yo house). ZS we can put you up if you need a place to beated the heat. Warning: the guest room is currently bubblegum pink with safari animal murals.
― quincie, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Also half the toilets don't work.
― quincie, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
But your ac is working, so life is mostly good I guess
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Can't complain. But might anyway!
― quincie, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
heat index of 116 on friday!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
not sure how well this shakey a/c unit is going to hold out
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
thanks quincie - but i've already got a place lined up for the weekend, just in case.
our landlord is already apologizing and talking about prorating our rent, which is cool, but also suggests that it won't be fixed anytime soon.
!
― Z S, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
landlord should be doing more than talking imo -- should be buying you a window unit or something. 116 heat index is no joek
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
fortunately my a/c was just repaired in june so it should be good to go. if not, i'll go camp out in my office, which is insanely cold.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Wow this is really a whole new level of disgusting.
― tehresa, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, i was soaked within seconds of walking out the front door
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
ugh i'm flying back this afternoon
if it already fucking sucks this bad in hartford i can't wait
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
For once I am actually looking forward to a work trip to Atlanta next week. It can't possibly be worse anywhere else in the universe atm.
― quincie, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
miss u guys in this time of crisis
― 69, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
hate u
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
come back and post after the quake, mmmk?
― quincie, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
i know my chill laid-back totally not type-A attitude might surprise you but i was not tryna be facetious! it's like when snowpocalypse hit -- all me and annie talked about was how we wished we were there, trudgin to giant in car-ruts
― 69, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
aw, trudgin to giant in car-ruts was so epic.
― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
<3 you 69!!! Come back to us!
― quincie, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
ill be through in october and december!
― 69, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yay! PS there will be a wedding on October 15 iirc.
― quincie, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
B-D
― 69, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
thats a sunglasses dude AND a very important mnemonic
I am so baffled by the dude at CVS looking at humidifiers today
― I DIED, Friday, 22 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Tomorrow (Friday): Combining the heat and humidity, it’s perhaps the most extreme day in 15 years. High temperature surge to 99-104, with dangerous heat indices of 114-118. Add bad air quality into the equation, and consider cutting back on any planned time outside.
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
9pm heat index at the airport was 111
i only took one semester of meteorology in college, but dang
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
My kid is working outside at a 9am to 2 pm baseball camp today.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 July 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Holy crud. Isn't there just a baseball movie they could go watch indoors somewhere?
― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Friday, 22 July 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I think they might be able to use a gym and throw tennis balls around.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 July 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
wow, that is not safe. literally, alerts say it is dangerous to be outside!
dulles hit 105. highest temp ever recorded there.
from my work zip, around 2:30:http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/198785_10150252138876589_506836588_7729548_7753874_n.jpg
― tehresa, Friday, 22 July 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
lighting and some raindrops around here in Alexandria. should cool it down a bit.
― Gukbe, Friday, 22 July 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
also my a/c, while not totally dead, is providing less cool air. I've shut it down for a bit and am relying on fans.
The severe thunderstorm missed the District by a couple of miles. NWS has now cancelled the Severe Thunderstorm Warning. However, cloud to ground lightning strikes are currently being reported in parts of D.C. Please remain vigilant.
― tehresa, Friday, 22 July 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
i saw a couple of those cloud-to-ground strikes driving home about 15 minutes ago
― Gukbe, Friday, 22 July 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Guys I have 2 extra tix for dc united game @ 730. I won them and didn't realize this but they're club level. Anyone want?
― tehresa, Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
The forecast today is really fucking gross.
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, just arrived at desk a mess
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Despite finally working up the confidence to do so, I decided today was not really a good choice for my first bike commute.
― tehresa, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
My co-worker decided it was a good day to bike in. She stopped sweating around 11am.
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
People were dripping sweat just standing in line at the bus stop in Annapolis at 6 a.m.
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
@capitalweather National Weather Service says DC "unofficially" hit 104 today - only 4 days since 1871 have been hotter in DC2 hours ago via web
― Aglet, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
got home and took off the office garb and my undershirt was basically like i'd showered in it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Heading through Georgetown to my son's baseball game at Guy Mason in Glover Park I saw the usual long, down the street line at Georgetown Cupcakes. Crazy tourists. Thankfully I found some shade by the ballfield
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
i really don't get that line. they're not even that good and baked and wired down the street is like 1000x better.
― tehresa, Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Has Baked & Wired been on tv? The fish sandwiches at Horace and Dickies in NE has been on Man vs Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhFQILmLtE
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
The tv coverage probably has gotten the fish sandwiches in NE a few new customers...just not as many as cupcakes in Georgetown obviously
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw Billy Bragg in the Dupont Firehook. Someone asked him if he had a show coming up in DC and he very loudly said 'no show this time sorry mate, I'm on holiday, it's an interesting time to be here BECAUSE OF THE VOTE ON THE DEBT CEILING AND THE POSSIBLE ENORMOUS CHANGES TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'
I scuttled up and thanked him for his last show in DC then scuttled off back to my seat. He saw I was doing GRE alegbra and wished me good luck with it.
His last show in DC was only so-so. I am a toady in the face of fame.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
aw
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Horace and Dickie's does a ridiculous amount of business out that storefront... they're the Ben's Chili Bowl of NE.
― I DIED, Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://dcentric.wamu.org/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
covering edgy issues in a non-edgy way
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "photographer and drummer"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently it was not important to mention that he's a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i need to proofread too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
eh i guess given the event "photographer and drummer" was the way to go--i didn't even really read that closely, guh--i'm just used to seeing him billed as a poet first and foremost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I knew him for his photos. I can't make the opening tonight, but I do want to see that exhibit.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
x-post-Lljub did Bragg have family in tow who were going "oh Dad...do we really have to see these American tea party people talk"
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
They weren't the perkiest looking bunch...
― ljubljana, Saturday, 6 August 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/08/05/growler-district-dc-brau-paves-way-for-draft-beer-take-out/#comment-89340
Attn beer nerds: growler sales suddenly/unexpectedly legalized in DC!
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 8 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure if I've asked this before, but does anyone have any favourite bookstores in DC? Looking for a book that I could easily order online, but I thought it would be fun to kill a day by trawling the shops.
― Gukbe, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not as big a stan for it as some people are, but Politics and Prose is in my 'hood and is large enough/interesting enough to kill some time. There's a cafe downstairs with a badass espresso machine (Rancilio).
― quincie, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
both second story locations are pretty chill
― 69, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
If you go to the Dupont Circle Second Story Books, Books for America is also worth checking out.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I just wanna say how happy it makes me that the title for the DC thred is still this and I would like to have it remain that way, forever.
― Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Books A Million is great in Dupont imo, spend a significant amount of time there the last two weekends in a row.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
That's the only bookstore I've been to in DC (excluding VA and the now-gone Friendship Heights Borders). I vaguely recall another bookstore/cafe in that area but I can't remember much of anything about it. Looked nice, though. Will definitely swing by there if I can't get the book anywhere else. Btw, thanks for the recs everyone.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again! i don't understand how it has survived while olsson's and borders have gone under.
second story at 20th & p is grebt but do not glance into the cadaverous manager's eyes lest ye be dragged to hell.
kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn) is a neat idea but sometimes seems like an overgrown newsstand attached to a restaurant.
basically you can get cheaper shit online, but politics & prose, for its events, readings and politics (when they aren't too righteous), seems like a store worth supporting.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again!
most ringing of endorsements
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
politics and prose for history/politics/current events, fiction, genre stuff, just hanging out - the cafe is nice
for art/theory/philosophy/weirdness, my favorite bookstore in the area: bridge street books, georgetown. it's pretty small and there's no chairs or cafe or anything, but it's great
busboys & poets for progressive politics/history/current events
there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metroand another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst
i miss vertigo books..
― daria-g, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst
ya <3 <3 <3 so much idle times
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn)
I think this was the place I walked by. It looked nice from the outside but I guess there wasn't much depth to the collection.
I can always get the book online (and probably cheaper), but where's the fun in that?
there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metro
This is where I planned to go today but circumstances didn't favour the trek. If the weather is nice tomorrow I'll walk to the metro and drop in on my way.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
Kramerbooks is kind of a 'scene' but that's ok. I like their pop psychology stuff. Not the 'how to change your life' stuff, which they have too much of - the 'hard-to-understand end of the popular science market stuff.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
btw on that subject i'm reading james gleick's "the information" and it totally fucking rules
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
I am not-starting Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind. That's because I've just discovered Philip Roth and I'm still into it - it might get a bit overwhelming soon though.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
related: how google dominates us, by james gleick
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear philip roth
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
yah that's an awesome piece imo
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Kramerbooks is a bookstore/cafe that doesn't do a very good job of either, but it's a neighborhood institution. Pretty good beers.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
(btw i wasn't shitting on philip roth necessarily -- he is a remarkable writer, if not a man i can even imagine being married to) /claire bloom
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really just looking for that Thirty Years War book that spawned the poll thread. It reminded me that I made a note to get it a few years ago. It isn't obscure or anything, so it shouldn't be that hard to get, but it's also not something that any ol' Barnes and Noble will necessarily stock. It feels like something the Politics and Prose place should have, if I can make it that far north.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
ha i didn't see the thread but i did see the ta-nehisi coates posts that likely prompted it
i just got it out of the library and it is pretty awesome, and not least because cvw was 28 when it was published. she wrote lovely sentences.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
28?? fuuuck. i'll have to get it soon and read it fast, that way I can tell myself that I still have 5 months to accomplish something similar before I'm 29.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
it is also thoroughly footnoted with references to books in every european language possible, leading certain history majors to mild despair
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
that's fine. i never look at the footnotes, i just need them to be there to add academic credibility.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah, trying not to think about Roth himself... Didn't an ilxor write a doctoral dissertation on Roth?
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
So that was an earthquake? TBH it reminded me of when I worked in an office in SW right next to the railroad tracks.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
usgs just upgraded it to a 5.9
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
newbie DC earthquake question: will this affect metro availability today?
― Z S, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
top trending earthquake-related topic: what about ME?
they're testing out track lines now
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
As a result of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in the Washington, DC area:As of 1:59 p.m., all trains are operating at 15 mph.Metro personnel are conducting track inspections of the entire rail system.There are no reported customer injuries at this time.Customers should expect significant delays on Metrorail until further notice due to the reduced operating speed.News release issued at 2:34 pm, August 23, 2011.
As of 1:59 p.m., all trains are operating at 15 mph.Metro personnel are conducting track inspections of the entire rail system.There are no reported customer injuries at this time.Customers should expect significant delays on Metrorail until further notice due to the reduced operating speed.
News release issued at 2:34 pm, August 23, 2011.
― Z S, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
met a neighbour outside the building afterward. he started preaching to me about alternative perspectives on the Bible. he seemed like a dude tbh.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
guy right outside my building was jamming on his trumpet and his tip bucket said "jesus" on it
― Z S, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
SO bailed from work (because everyone else at his office did) and is heading home to start an earthquake party.
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Which apparently involves planked salmon.
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
damn hipster salmon with their planking
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
good luck commuters. so glad i didn't go on my book trek today.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh hai it appears I am released to work from home for the rest of the day, if I so desire.
I do so desire, thankyouverymuch!
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
came home w laptop bc they hadn't done our bldg inspection yet and there was some definite stairwell damage. 45ish min to go like 4 miles. worst was the line to get out if parking garage.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Fed. govt. sent me home today from Baileys Crossroads/Falls Church. It was quite a tremor here. I had just voted in the Democratic primary here and the quake felt strong in South Arlington/Fairlington.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
bricks fell very close to sister's car! luckily they missed.
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/299403_10150248737458414_508198413_7295733_1474225_n.jpg
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Any Hurricane Irene predictions? Should we panic?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 August 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Guys does anyone wanna come to cleveland park sometime and, like, drink beers and stuff?
― quincie, Thursday, 25 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
I mean I'm sitting on the front porch right now so come on by, I'm making quiche for dinner.
i do! sometime... leaving for saratoga soon, though.
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Should we panic?
should probably rush to the safeway for bottled water and tp just in case
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Would totally hang out in Cleveland Park. Might be hanging out in the library there on Saturday. Is it a good place to study? Also I have a Groupon to Tackle Box.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
It's not until Saturday, right? I was planning on my crazy trip up to Van Ness tomorrow.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
CP Library is an OK place to study, but the new Tenley Library is even better for that, methinks. . . then you can walk down to Tackle Box and stop by my place on the way to have a drink! Weather may be shitty, though--I think the action is supposed to start Sat. afternoon.
― quincie, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, it does look good and would love to drop in and see the new place, will email you....
So apparently, weather is supposed to be beautiful for a week after the storm, due to science?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Please do e-mail! Want to catch up with the locals, for sure.
Yay SCIENCE if it makes for nice weather.
― quincie, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
guys I'm kind of scared now. my impression of hurricane effects before we left town were that it wouldn't be so bad, but by now my hood's list serve has alerted me that with Isabel, every basement flooded with many feet if water and cars were totaled. mine is there and our basement unit is jam packed. :(
― tehresa, Friday, 26 August 2011 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ssurge/risk/index.shtml?gm
I dunno where you live offhand, but these storm surge risk maps give a pretty good idea of what parts of DC are likely to get flooded, and by how much.
2011-08-27 7:17 PM EDT 3.30 feet High Tide2011-08-28 2:14 AM EDT 0.43 feet Low Tide2011-08-28 7:35 AM EDT 3.66 feet High Tide
By the sounds of things, though, we may escape the worst of the additional effects of a high tide when the storm's really bad late Saturday night - at that point it should be off the Outer Banks.
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 26 August 2011 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
(at 7pm saturday it should be off the outer banks, i mean)
But they're still predicting lots of rain here Saturday night through Sunday morning
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
apparently my neighborhood is the lowest point in fairfax county. insurance lady said car would be covered, but I am still really nervous.
― tehresa, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Some of you may have heard about the Tar Sands protests at the White House, running every day from Aug 20th - Sept. 3rd. 322 arrests have been made so far.
The media coverage is starting to pick up steam:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/08/tar-sands-xl-keystone-pipeline-protest.htmlhttp://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/why-far-off-canadian-tar-sands-have-become-a-make-or-break-issue-for-obama-with-enviros.php?ref=fpbhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61837.html#ixzz1W4D5RzZZ
If any of you are willing to join me on Sept. 3rd, here's a pretty detailed account of what you're in for:
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/adam-maynard-we-shall-overcome-tar-sands/http://www.tarsandsaction.org/update-from-legal-support-team/
"Processing once we arrived at the jailhouse was relatively painless. One by one they snapped off our plastic cuffs and led us to a long table staffed with officers who had us fill out paperwork for our release. Because of the low severity of our crime – we were charged with failure to obey a lawful order (aka get off the sidewalk) – and the benevolence of the Park Police, we were granted a “post and forfeit” release. Under these terms we could pay a $100 fine instead of staying overnight in jail and arranging a date in court. Thankfully we were instructed to have cash on us beforehand, and we were all out of police custody by 2:00 or so. Not so bad considering arrests had started around 11:30. I also want to make a point of saying that the DC Park Police were courteous and professional throughout the process, and I hope they spend my $100 wisely."
After being relative assholes on the first day (the Park Police decided to try to deter future protesters by holding them for 2 days overnight in jail), all of the protesters are now getting charged with "Failure to Obey" (a traffic charge less than a misdemeanor) and a "post and forfeit" release, which entails a $100 fine and an immediate release.
Sept. 3rd is the last day of the protests, and will probably have the most people and the most coverage. If any of you want to kick it in the paddywagon with me for an hour or so on the 3rd I'd welcome your company. Or, of course, if you can make it on any other day, even just to register your support (no arrest/fine), please do.
― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
So the worst winds and rain are gonna be at 2 am tonight(Saturday night/Sunday morning)?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 August 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
overnight, definitely.
fashion news: on the way to get a coffee this morning i walked past a girl wearing the acne 'pistol' boots in black. WANT
― daria-g, Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
ooh googling now
― quincie, Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
super cute! you should get.
― quincie, Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
they are fantastic. i preordered a pair in a different color. shouldn't spend the money but i think what i'll do is sell this one pair of rachel comey boots that i haven't worn because they really only go with cute dresses and that's not my thing
― daria-g, Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
some school cancellations today but that's about it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Noticed but did not buy the new Washingtonian mag in the grocery store with its "best cheap eats" theme. Washingtonian defines 'cheap" I think as $25 or something like that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
after waiting out storm in saratoga (no power, crazy winds) we finally got on the road at 5:45pm! arrived home a bit before 1 and were SO relieved to find full power and no evidence of flooding :D
― tehresa, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yay!!! I was thinking of you.
― ljubljana, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks again for the bookshop tips. Politics & Prose was pretty ace and Kramerbooks actually had what I looking for.
Anyone got H St. NE parking tips? Bad areas/good spots/That Safeway parking lot down the road?
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
I actually parked up there earlier in the summer, I think I just parked in residential on-street parking north of H street, presumably it was after permit hours. My car didn't get jacked up or anything, if that's what you mean by "bad areas", but it was just one time?
― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't parking complicated on some streets also by the street-trolley car construction.
The shops there used to help fund a bus from the metro but I'm not sure if they're still doing that
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
They discontinued that bus at the beginning of the year.
Yeah, "bad areas" as well as just resident-only parking (if that exists here?) areas etc. I guess I mostly wanted to know if it was easy and do-able or a pain. It'll be a Wednesday night. I've never really driven in the city before. SCARY.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
You'll be fine (I say optimistically--old man only had bad experiences parking in DC and Md back in the'80s), just give yourself extra time. H Street spots that were closed due to construction have reopened, so maybe there will be less competition for spots on other streets(or maybe you'll get lucky and find an H Street spot.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
old man me
Pretty much every time I've gone to H St in a car with someone there's been parking available on H or within a block of it. It's really only a problem on weekends.
― I DIED, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/sections/restaurants/cheapeats/index.html?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Washingtonian&utm_content=Where+%26+When+-+September+1st
Here's Washingtonian's 2011 "Cheap" Eats list (supposedly $25 a meal). Do they still do a "dirt cheap list"? I like Masala Art on Wisconsin Ave but it's not exactly cheap
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Masala Art is great! We were worried when we moved that we'd stray out of the (very) limited delivery area, but we made the cut and now order out way too much.
― quincie, Friday, 2 September 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Discovered a secret restaurant in Blagden Alley tonight?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
was it R0gue 24?
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
somehow i knew you'd know abt it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol I designed it
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
well then!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
it is gorgeously designed fwiw :)
thank you thank you
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
It closed for the final time last year but I think you really would have liked Fight Club in Blagden Alley:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/03/25/live-saturday-fight-club-d-c-s-skating-valhalla-hosts-its-final-show/
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
Brian you need to be on this thread like 100X more, I miss the old sandbox days, the days of dirt bike friends and latenightshots.
― quincie, Friday, 2 September 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
What is everyone doing for Labor Day????
also: footballz is starting, dar1a to thread.
― quincie, Friday, 2 September 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
I am off work today, can you tell?
I think you really would have liked Fight Club in Blagden Alley:http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/03/25/live-saturday-fight-club-d-c-s-skating-valhalla-hosts-its-final-show/― I DIED, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:58 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark
― I DIED, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:58 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark
yah i am jealous i missed out on this
love the kid in the comments section
DuAnneMarch 28th, 201012:42 am #1whatever with all the bogus reporting so people could get their name in the paper. As long as Dan and Jenn are there fight club is still around dumbasses.
<3 <3 loyal skate kidz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus dumbasses.
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Overheard a conversation today about R0gue 24 while in line at Chinat0wn Coffee Co today. I like that place but damn if 8 minutes for an iced tea isn't making me rethink the artisanal coffee/tea boom.
― I DIED, Friday, 2 September 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Hey Quincie:
Since no one else wants to tell you their Labor Day plans, I will tell you that I will be away. If I was here I think this Sunday night event I mentioned over on ILM's Capital Swamp thread could be fun:
THE NSO PAYS TRIBUTE TO
LEGENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC:
Sousa, Ellington, and Brown
Chuck Brown to Perform
Sunday, September 4, at 8 p.m.
West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 September 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to Woodbridge to watch Alabama tomorrow. That's all I've got.
Was planning on saving my one final pillage of the Borders at Bailey's Crossroads for the weekend but went yesterday instead. Bunch of copies of Dorian Lynskey's 33 Revolutions Per Minute for 60% off if anyone wants to get in on that action. Also one copy left of Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro for 70% off is anyone was unwilling to pay full price to test out those waters.
― Gukbe, Friday, 2 September 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
i am doing fun things like cleaning my apartment and going to the dmv and maybe a bike ride if it doesn't rain too much. also i will be doing more fun things like laundry to prepare for my trip to seattle. maybe if i am lucky i will go to see seabsicuit at nat'l harbor tonight. what an amazing weekend. sigh.
― tehresa, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to Woodbridge to watch Alabama tomorrow.
jeal.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
― I DIED, Friday, September 2, 2011 7:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
I am doing math. again. Quincie, I'm heading up to Tenley library tomorrow, let me know if you want to grab a coffee!
― ljubljana, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to, but tomrrow a.m. I have to get into 16-FOOT UHAUL currently parked in front of my house and drive it to, among other places, the DC dump and Front Royal, VA.
Back on Sunday, though!
― quincie, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
that is a long drive!
― tehresa, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
ya front royal is a ways yo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
but near shenandoah! do you have time for a short jaunt on a mountain after?
― tehresa, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
you're gonna need these on yr u-haul if you're going to front royal
http://oddculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mud-flap-back-off-yosemite-sam-741908.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
also: footballz is starting, dar1a to thread
lol. i am deliberately spending less time on the web lately so just saw this. watching football right now. baylor vs tcu. i could not possibly care less about these teams but it's football and it's on tv (also this game is INSANE)
i'm ok with waiting for artisanal coffee at f1lter coffeehouse or peregr1ne. haven't tried the one on h st yet!
― daria-g, Saturday, 3 September 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
yay I made it to nat'l harbor for seabiscuit! it was very nice weather, a food time save the parking situation.
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 September 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
I have been to nat'l harbor twice! Overnight! Don't ask!
Did you visit the Peeps store?
Anyhow, important shit here: I have recently learned that DC will be graced with a Stevie D earlyish next week. If possible, clear Monday or Tuesday (or maybe Wed) for FAP! Unless, uh, Stevie D doesn't actually want to see any of us. In which case, fuck it--FAP anyway!
― quincie, Monday, 5 September 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Overnight!
askin
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
It is somewhat embarrassing.
― quincie, Monday, 5 September 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol i actually stayed overnight at nat'l harbor last summer!
we sat in front of the peeps store. we did not enter.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
i get back from seattle on redeye at 5am monday so i would like to voice preference for stevie fap tues or wed.
i could probably make it on either one of those days! would <3 to see stevie d + the rest of you!
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
I can do, and would like to do, Tues or Wed.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
None of the college football fans here discussed those new U. of Md uniforms with the state flag design on the helmets and the shoulders. Did they get the design from the Charm City Roller Girls roller derby team?
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-09-06/sports/bal-are-the-terps-new-helmets-too-much-like-to-those-by-charm-city-roller-girls-20110906_1_new-helmets-terps-state-flag
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
those uniforms look nice! good job.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think they're awesome. It's as though they emerged from an alternate universe where Medieval Heraldry never died.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.uni-watch.com/2011/09/06/more-corporate-bullshit-who-really-cares/
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
that dude really tore apart that press release. good for him.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. I don't give a fuck about sports and only think this is cool because it's so fucking Maryland, but that article is some wetblanket bullshit at best. Dawg, it's a forfucksake press release announcing new athletic uniforms for a school. Why bother to hack your way through the stupid, vapid pr shit to the extent that he did? He is one of few people who actually read the damn thing and the probably the only person who saw value in picking it apart piece by piece. What a turd.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
: D
It just reads like he's onto some fucking conspiracy or something.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
His fixation on the word "custom" is overdone and he ignores the fact that these uniforms got plenty of national attention and this state flag design is not a traditional football uni design.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
This guy just doesn't appreciate that Maryland is the best state with the best state flag. Also Under Armour itself is a Maryland company started by a UMD alum and now they're on the scale of trying to compete with the big sports brands, which is kind of a big deal. haters gonna hate
― daria-g, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
i see there are no other "beer frame" readers itt
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 10 September 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Those new uniforms are siiiick. Hopefully UVA responds in kind with a Sic Semper Tyrannis uniform theme.
― I DIED, Saturday, 10 September 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
I DIED, what is a good cocktail lounge to go to if the Gibson is full on the night in question? This is for friends who are really into the Gibson. I am not fussed but they're looking for... whatever it is the Gibson has. Anywhere reasonable kicking distance from any red line stop. Thanks!
― ljubljana, Sunday, 25 September 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
On the red line I like the bar or lounge at Tabard Inn, or Sidebar up in Silver Spring.
― I DIED, Monday, 26 September 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks, did not know about the Sidebar.
― ljubljana, Monday, 26 September 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
ATTENTION DCILXORS
A STEVIED IS IN TOWN
FAP MUST HAPPEN
Please vote for tomorrow (Thurs), Fri, Sat. . . *maybe* he will find DC awesome enough to stay longer than that, but we better get him while we can!
― quincie, Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
oh jeez i am leaving fri night!! i am only avail tomorrow
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
i can't do sat but the others are ok
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
insufficient enthusiasm imo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
hush you
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
I can do today but not Fri or Sat
― ljubljana, Thursday, 29 September 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
Might be available tonight. Could be available Fri/Sat.
― Dood, waar is uw prikkel? (j.lu), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Tonight then--name a place! Dupont? U St?
― quincie, Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
FYI DC is amazing so far and the Nam June Paik video/neon "Electronic Superhighway" piece in the Smithsonian is one of the most mind-blowing works of art I have ever seen in my life. I am still getting unbelievably giddy just thinking about it.
Also I need tips of cheap and also nifty stuff to do in DC! What other museums are good for installation/video/sound/weirdish stuff? Debating btwn the Corcoran and also the Women/Art museum where there's a Guerilla Girls show now. Or just cool stuff in general, especially hidden or off the beaten path stuff.
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Hirshhorn!
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh ya that's my first stop today :D
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Keep an eye on the National Gallery film programs--I'm especially stoked for the Warhol retrospectives coming this fall.
― Dood, waar is uw prikkel? (j.lu), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Big Hunt would be an easy and good option?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Im good w/ anything relatively cheap and also easily accessible by metro. Is 6ish good? Earlier? Later?
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
I second Big Hunt. Stevie, it's on Connecticut near the south Dupont Circle metro entrance. Let's do no later than 6 so we can get at least an hour of happy hour prices.
― quincie, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
5-5:30 even better, really. I'm back from Rosh Hashana services already!
― quincie, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I like Big Hunt, but I don't think I could get there before 8:30. (I'm working in Ashburn, VA currently, and will be leaving here at 6:30 at the earliest.)
― Dood, waar is uw prikkel? (j.lu), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I can get there by 6ish and maybe a bit earlier.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
overslept this morning so gotta work late tonight and then pack for beantown, i prob can't make it after all :(
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
I am trying for 6... We'll see how traffic is!
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
At 4th and Connecticut, headed tk Judiciary Sq metro and north to Big Hunt.
HOOS NO!!!!
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Back table, y'all
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Will try to make it, but 8:30 is probably still the earliest.
― Dood, waar is uw prikkel? (j.lu), Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
i miss that hunt
― 69, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
<3 steve <3
― tehresa, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
On his way to U St :-)
― ljubljana, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Fun FAPS I assume...
political gossip department:So Michelle Obama was shopping in an Alexandria Target the other day, and last night I saw on tv that she and her hubby went to Restaurant Eve in Alexandria for an anniversary dinner.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
ZS posted this over on the Capital Swamp thread on ILM. Any suggestions?
can someone recommend a good place to get a haircut? i'm in an odd situation, because my ex-gf cut my hair for the last 7 years, and before that a friend of mine cut it for another 2 years. and before that, i just let it grow for like 6 months because lol college.
― Z S, Monday, October 3, 2011 8:13 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Question answered over at the Swamp
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 October 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xz39bQZxfW8/To2QrDB09uI/AAAAAAAACLU/gdpCk-cr5bQ/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-10-06%2Bat%2B7.26.28%2BAM.png
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
ha. even though that's going to be annoying for commute home and return trip back downtown to join in on the festivities, that makes me happy to see
― Z S, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh, wait. i thought that was due to protests, but, no.
Delay
― Z S, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/TomDeLay.jpg/200px-TomDeLay.jpg
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://occupydc.org/to-the-media-and-whoever-it-may-concern/#more-461
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 October 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
I am no fan of Stop the Machine--all signs I recognize suggest they're a front for the Int'l Socialist Organization trying to hijack the Occupy momentum for their own ends, because that's the kind of thing the ISO does. After OWS became a thing the Stop the Machine leaders started throwing the word Occupy into all their press stuff & online engagement. V distasteful tactics imo, but I've got a short fuse when it comes to authoritarian ideological hijackers like them.
Stop the Machine's permit to be in Freedom Plaza expires tonight, so their plan was to hoedown in Freedom Plaza til midnight and then pack up and either go home or join up with the #occupy crew at McPherson. #Occupy is expecting to grow by another hundred or so tonight as a result.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
I hope those answer.org folks who used to corrupt anti-Iraq War protests aren't involved either
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 October 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
^ totally the same people
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
"The Workers World Party Says Occupy Movement is 30 Years in the Making"
^ 'see, isn't it a good thing we're here to save the day??'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 October 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
Guys I miss all of you
― (╯° □≗)╯︵ ┻━ןɐıɔǝds━ʇɥbıן━pǝɹ━┻ (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 October 2011 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
Where are you now Stevie?
― ljubljana, Monday, 10 October 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm in Baltimore occupying a city square. It's fun here!
― (╯° □≗)╯︵ ┻━ןɐıɔǝds━ʇɥbıן━pǝɹ━┻ (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 October 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
do the protest signs in Baltimore read "We are the 100%, because really, if you're the 1% you don't live in Baltimore"?
― I DIED, Monday, 10 October 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oct 26 Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy and the Politics of Division WEDNESDAY 10:00AM The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium
I think some Occupy folks ought to wander over and check out Paul Ryan's speech tomorrow. Try to help him get away from those politics of division...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
hm.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
And it’s also cool. Some have probably moved to D.C. because they’ve heard it’s a cool city to live in, though not to the extent of Portland.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/census-dc-area-gains-young-adults-in-recession/2011/10/26/gIQA8gijKM_story.html?hpid=z4
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Feels almost as rainy as Portland lately
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I love rainy DC. It is my ideal DC.
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/players_ball_dc-e1319653450173.jpg
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2011/10/dear-popville-players-ball-coming-to-dc/#comments
O_o (even by prince of petworth standards!)
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wow
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Shaw and Bloomingdale are well on their way to being the Brooklyn of D.C. The brewpub will be a true neighborhood gathering place. It's an under-served neighborhood for something like this."
Does every location have to be compared to Brooklyn...
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/11/02/bye-bye-brasserie-beck-thor-cheston-sets-out-to-start-his-own-suds-spot/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
haha i know that guy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Thor's a great guy - he's made a huge impact on the beer scene here and hopefully will continue to do so.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
I am glad he is back--wasn't he in Philly for awhile?
Kinda sad we don't still live on N. Capitol sometimes :(
― quincie, Thursday, 3 November 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he was in Philly briefly between Paradiso (first time around) and Beck
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 3 November 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://cache.dealbreaker.com/uploads/2011/05/drudge-siren.gif'It's Academic' host Mac McGarry retireshttp://cache.dealbreaker.com/uploads/2011/05/drudge-siren.gif
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 3 November 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
If I'm feeling up to it, I might march against the "Defending the American Dream Conference" on Friday.
Never been to McPherson Square.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 3 November 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, that's the protest march at 6 against the Koch Brothers conference at the Convention Center.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
x-post--wow, McGarry was hosting that show for 3 or 4 decades ...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-academic-host-mac-mcgarry-retires/2011/11/02/gIQAfIksgM_story.html
50 years
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I had no idea you had an interest in It's Academic!
― quincie, Thursday, 3 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^a show I have never seen btw
― quincie, Thursday, 3 November 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was kind of impossible to be a nerd at a nerd high school in the DC area and not have at least some interest in the show
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Thursday, 3 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Behind the name Foggy Bottom
totally gutted that "Funkstown" didn't survive
― encarta it (Gukbe), Sunday, 6 November 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
George Clinton woulda loved it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, to think we could have ended up with Funkstown and Swampoodle.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Monday, 7 November 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Fotoweek, Warhol exhibits, Callahan photos, various gallery shows, Dean & Britta at NG of Art Saturday and other music--it's a busy town culturally right now
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm thinking I need to stick with cultural events since all the sports teams (pro or college) seem so lame at the moment(I stick with Terps anyway but its painful). Yes, the Caps are frequently winning in the regular season, but tickets are nearly always sold out and expensive.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was on It's Academic a few times during my high school quiz bowl years
Mac McGarry basically seemed like a half-dead quiz show hosting zombie
good news is as far as we know he didn't cover up any child abuse
legacy untarnished
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
No need for rioting
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 November 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
The Laotian food at Bangkok Golden in Falls Church was so spicy
http://www.yelp.com/biz/bangkok-golden-falls-church
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
i watched it's academic last weekend!
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
Is I Died the new host?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
He'd be good at it, really.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
i was on it's academic, my team lost i'll be in DC for xmas btw
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
I will not :(
I will be in Tuomasland. Does Tuomas still live in Helsinki??? Must I board-stalk him???
N/a if you&S&E would like a crash pad you are welcome to ours!
― quincie, Saturday, 19 November 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
quincie will you be around the 7-9th??? SAY YES
― Sally Field hysterically shrieking "Gloria fucking SWANSON!!!" (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 20 November 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
CHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOP
― Newgod, Sunday, 20 November 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
Tried Mala Tang (Sichuan Chinese hot pot) in Arlington the other night. Not wowed, but maybe I did not pick the best ingredients for dipping or the best sauces to apply afterwards
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Is there another hot pot place in the area that you'd recommend? I was just talking about going to one of those 2 weeks ago
― mystical orbs, talismans, rain sticks (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
Mala Tang and Uncle Liu's are owned by the same guy and are good, but yeah choice of meat & veg at Mala Tang has a huge effect on the outcome and I've made some bad choices too. The spicy Sichuan broth is great though!
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mala Tang (in Arlington) has tables where each person has their own hot pot, while from what I have read, at Uncle Liu's (Falls Church) they just do it the traditional way where everyone is at a big table and uses the same hot pot. I think.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks!
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
the online debate continues on whether DC is a good places for artists and musicians
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/01/how-good-dc-artists-musicians-and-writers/856/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
hmm seems like Richard Florida's numbers aren't really relevant to the argument, he's working outside the Yglesias and City Paper definition of artists as white indie rock musicians.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
hahah
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
And many of those indie-rock musicians from the 1980s and 90s were living in Arlington and Bethesda
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/01/05/h-street-playhouse-priced-out-of-h-street-looking-for-new-spot-to-open/
What will be the next neighborhood that arts outfits with little money will have to move into...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
whoever figures that out is gonna be a winner
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
The next real estate king. Perhaps Joe Englert who owns so many H St NE places is already looking elsewhere. I think the Theivery Corp empire is staying in the U st area
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
guessing upper Georgia Ave and North Capitol
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
arts organizations have never really been the real estate bellwether in DC that they've been in other cities due to the limited building stock here - there are really only so many areas of town that have a history as commercial corridors and the spaces to match.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/historic-theaters-buildings-in-dc-are-resurrected-as-entertainment-spots/2011/12/23/gIQAZL9xQP_story.html
Then there are the new attempts at slightly upscale presentations of music-- the Clydes-chain owned Hamilton at 14th & F that is charging $100 for Mavis Staples but otherwish so far has been just having aging DC roots rockers for cheap. Don't know how the food is.
And the eventually to open Howard Theatre that is being reconfigured.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think the Theivery Corp empire is staying in the U st area
their french bistro thing is supposed to open at georgia and randolph really soon afaik - i live like six blocks away
(to quote prince of petworth: "Between this and the approval for the new Petworth Safeway across the street – we are not going to recognize this stretch of Georgia Ave in the near future. Sweet!")
― Federal Titt (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I wish they were doing more to make it like the old Billy Simpson’s, but having ANY place to get something to eat without having to shout through bulletproof glass in that war zone is a real Godsend. I can’t wait to try it!
i mean who among us hasn't caught a slug walking from domku to the yes! organic market etc
― Federal Titt (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
hey it's a serious risk, there was a slug in the leeks I got at the Petworth farmer's market.
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Friday, 6 January 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
As long as Chez Aunty Libe's, the Senegalese restaurant at 6115 Georgia does not lose their lease, I will remain happy
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 January 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://chezauntylibe.com/
So Hoos is gonna Occupy Congress today?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
yah sorry everybody if we fucked with your traffic and whatnot
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
awesome fucking day btw
good job on organizing/media-ing/not getting arrested/keeping everyone alive HOOS!
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
W. Post buried it on the Metro page of the newsprint this morning not the front page
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
GQ likes byt
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201202/50-most-powerful-people-in-washington-dc#slide=42
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
at least we made the front page of the examiner.
i love that we keep making the cover cause they hate us, but somehow didn't notice that the beat reporter they put on us just happens to be an ACTUAL JOURNALIST. she covers us fairly, shine and warts and all, instead of the hack jobs we get any time another of their writers does a piece on us.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
page A 18 of Washington Post newsprint re no more Occupy "camping"
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Unsolicited email I get due to my freelance writing:
Jan. 26: Public Policy Day at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
The day offers a private preview of The Washington Auto Show to government, industry and media officials. The daylong schedule of events features a government keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and an industry keynote by Hyundai Motor America Executive Vice President of National Sales Dave Zuchowski. The evening boasts a celebratory Sneak Peek Reception and a special tribute to Roger Penske, who will receive the Keith Crain/Automotive News Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Keith Crain, Editor-in-Chief of Automotive News. GM President Mark Reuss will deliver the event keynote.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe Metro folks should show up and beg for more funding
music geek arcane postings here. But you probably know that
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
"Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays," he said. "I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy."
On the rolling Republican nominees thread via somewhere. Weird,as others noted, if this is true, that they would eat at a Thai place
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Hello National Park enthusiasts,
Celebrate Frederick Douglass's birthday with a party! Come by Frederick Douglass's house for music, history, games, face painting, live Douglass speeches and more.
This year's theme is "Abolition", and will feature programs on Douglass's work as well as the ongoing fight against slavery today. The United Nations estimates that more than two million people remain enslaved throughout the world, and Douglass's legacy has never been more important. US Ambassador CdeBaca will deliver the keynote address.
So stop by for a birthday party and a celebration of the struggle against slavery.
Dates: 02/11/2012 Times: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Location: Frederick Douglass NHS
Have never been to the Frederick Douglass house. This is tempting.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
This year's theme is "Abolition"
hahaha I mean how many other valid theme options would there even be for a Frederick Douglass birthday party
― I DIED, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
games, face painting ....slavery
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjHCG33WlsY
― I DIED, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
^ go-go guitar hero
― I DIED, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. I heard that on WKYS last night. funny stuff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Serious stuff-
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/washington-post-will-further-reduce-staff/?hp
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
woof
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/sections/restaurants/100best/index.html
I Died, what do you think of these choices?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty damn good selections throughout. Haven't been to the Inn at Little Washington (and probably never will, not into the idea of driving 100 miles for dinner), but I've eaten at the other 9 out of the top 10. I think Citronelle is excellent but somewhat overrated at this point, mostly because of how outdated the room is and the sometimes rote nature of the experience and service there. Still top 10, though. Marcel's was never really my thing, but they make an unreal boudin blanc.
A couple points on the rest of the list:- I think Graffiato's been consistently critically overrated- Ripple seems good but I can't take the aesthetic, it looks like a Real World house- haven't been to Cafe du Parc in years, but very surprised by it getting three stars- as with the Post, they really overestimate Jaleo- Woodberry Kitchen is better than 2.5 stars, if it was in DC I'd say it was top 10. Worth heading to Baltimore for dinner.
― I DIED, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
Obama sure loves going to Alexandria
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/obama-valentines-day-dinner_n_1277889.html?ref=dc
POTUS and FLOTUS left white house at 7:00 pm in presidential suv for 25 minute trip to Alexandria for a valentines day dinner. Pool did not see POTUS but am reliably informed that he was not wearing a tie, Motorcade stopped at lights and crawled through downtown Alexandria. Destination was Vermillion restaurant. Motorcade was uneventful except for heavy traffic and one white lincoln that kept trying to cut into the procession.
Pool now holding at Hard Rock Cafe
Dave Cook
CSM
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
omg. i really like vermillion! though i can't eat dinner there because $$. but the bar makes lovely cocktails and their mall plates are affordable. i wanted to go there for my birthday but they were closed for brunch that day (stupid new years eve parties!).
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
i think the pool was holding at hard times cafe...
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/articles/101-reasons-to-love-dc-part-1.htm?utm_source=Best+Weekend+Bets&utm_campaign=07a429ae11-BWB_2_16_20122_16_2012&utm_medium=email
BYT polls arts, athletics, media etc people on things they love about DC
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
braggin 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-gurus/post/got-plans-meet-dcs-most-stylish-bar-designers/2012/02/15/gIQAWK71FR_blog.html
― I DIED, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Cool, but no picture of you and the other partner in your firm. Will have to send you trick questions or goofy ones when you sit in tomorrow.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, I guess that's today Thursday at 1
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
rad! i love the bar top at the gibson - i was wondering a while ago about whether they'd had to replace it at any point
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
too busy to listen now, maybe the Post will put the transcript up later
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
very cool, ID!
― tehresa, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
There was a solid like week after I visited DC where I wanted to be ID when I grew up. $$$ spin beats make restaurants be fly $$$
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 19 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
american ice co and boundary stone are my main two drinking establishments for sure, and i was just at dickson last night, and have plans to go to gibson next week with a friend. ID can i just mail you $100, it'll be quicker this way ;)
― tmi but (Z S), Sunday, 19 February 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
aw you guys, thanks!
― I DIED, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/02/23/bens-chili-bowl-ranks-higher-than-palena-on-101-best-restaurants-list/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://live.washingtonpost.com/got-plans-2-16-2012.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone know anything about Artomatic?
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
I know that I have failed to go to it on multiple occasions.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
It's supposed to be in Crystal City in May and June, and yes, some artists and art fans snear at it because it is open to almost anyone thus meaning you might see some less than pleasing art.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
sounds....exciting.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
It's kind of the art show version of the books that will publish your poem for $40. Except non-profit and you have to work hours. There's some good work but it's in the very small minority.
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I got invited to go to some sort of short film thing they're running there. I'll go, because, why not...but I'm not really looking forward to it.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes they have live music too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
their actual events tend to have a better hit rate than the visual art
― I DIED, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
dc best city for cheating
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
"according to adultery website..."
the internets have everything
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
"It's Academic" is on channel 4 right now, 10:45 am, with the new host! The show has been on for 51 years
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Ilxer the pinefox is gonna be visiting our area to watch the Chickfactor fanzine anniversary shows at Artisphere on Passover/Easter weekend April 6 and 7th. His band is playing some of the related NYC shows.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
I need to look into getting tickets for that.
Anyone going to the Bresson retrospective starting this weekend?
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Which Bresson films do you reccommend, or are you just figuring that this weekend's showing will be a good one?
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/bresson.shtm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Friday night I might go see, as part of the DC Independent Film fest, this one-time only rare showing of a Les Blank movie about pianist Leon Russell:
http://dciff-indie.org/
Les Blank made A Poem Is A Naked Person during 1972-74, while living at the Russell/Shelter records recording studio compound on Grand Lake Of The Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. While the film has had few public showings as, apparantly, Mr. Russell is not keen on sharing it with his public. According to Les's contract, He is legally able to show his own copy if personally presenting it and a non-profit organization is sponsoring the showing. There are presently no such screenings in the works. It is feature-length, with appearances by Willy Nelson, George Jones and some amazing characters in Oklahoma, where much of it was shot. At least two major critics have declared it the best film ever made on Rock and Roll.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
There are presently no such screenings in the works.
except for Friday night!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
My plan is to see all of them if possible, as I haven't seen six of them. All of the ones I've seen are definitely worth it, though.
Pickpocket is probably the Bresson standard, which plays on Saturday. Diary of a Country Priest is my favourite, which plays on the 11th at 4:30. Au Hazard Balthazar and Mouchette on the 18th are bona fide classics as well. A Man Escaped on the 25th at 4:30 also a classic. Lancelot Du Lac is probably my second favourite, and that's on at 4:00 on the 31st.
Les Anges du Peche, which is on Saturday at 3, before Pickpocket, is his first film and I'm not sure its ever had a proper release in the US, at least not since VHS. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, on the 10th, is based on a story by Diderot and the dialogue was written by Jean Cocteau, if that sways you.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I hope to see the entire program, although sooner or later I WILL find myself struggling to stay awake and wondering why I subject myself to this.
In the last year I've spotted Ian Svevonius several times in the audience. Perhaps he'll show up at this series?
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
With Makeup reuniting for some overseas gigs, maybe he will be busy. But yep, National Gallery movies are a cool weekend choice
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen films there before, and they've always been free, but will that be the case here? I'm sure you have to buy tickets in the other cities this retrospective is playing.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
NGA website says free.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Frist come first seated. Are these screenings likely to fill up the way the Dean and Britta event did?
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I do not think so. That was indie-rockers doing Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol related music with film, not a French film director's oeuvre.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
It has had a lot of press within certain circles, not least because people are touting it as one of the final great retrospectives on celluloid.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2012/03/02/the-robert-bresson-despair-o-meter/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
re the 74 Les Blank movie tonight that cannot be named:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/director-to-fill-in-the-blank-of-mystery-film-at-dciff/2012/02/29/gIQAquo4iR_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
An additional screening has been added on Saturday for the Les Blank movie
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoyed the Les Blank mess of a movie Friday, but missed this weekend's Bresson movie. Was the Gallery of Art as packed as it was for Dean & Britta event?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Nobody was turned away, but there had to have been 350-400 people (the place supposedly holds 500). Screenings of the better-known films (Balthazar and Country Priest) probably will be packed.
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and apparently negotiations to get the print of Les Affairs Publiques broke down, so that won't be screened.
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/03/09/boundary-road-gets-the-obama-bump/
Obama eating on H St NE, did he have the the Foie Gras Torchon PBJ, with homemade peanut butter and peach-vanilla jelly,
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Any suggestions for a quick vegetarian bite near the 930?
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 9 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmmm, I guess veggie Ethiopian is not quick.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
There's a Subway at 14th & U but I am guessing you might want better than that
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
Aye. My friend is driving up for a gig and they just had terrible Subway on the road so they're looking for something better. I floated Ethiopian but I think he worries about his digestive tract/time.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 9 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
the Greek Spot on 11th between U and V is close, pretty quick, good, and has a sizable number of vegetarian options
― I DIED, Friday, 9 March 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome. That sounds perfect.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 9 March 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
That does look good.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ever wanted to go to a St Patrick's Day party at an Ethiopian restaurant?
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6973668313_e12f261355.jpg
NO COVER, BRO DJ
― I DIED, Monday, 12 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
LUCKY US
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 March 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
BRO DJ
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 March 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
luck of the broish
― tehresa, Monday, 12 March 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
I just do not . . WAHT
― quincie, Monday, 12 March 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Don't bro me if you don't know me," to quote a t-shirt I saw this weekend.
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Monday, 12 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/03/14/city-paper-sister-papers-cut-pay-staffing/
Washington City Paper publisher Amy Austin announced today changes to staff operations at Creative Loafing, the company that owns the Chicago Reader, City Paper, and Creative Loafing Atlanta.
All employees at Creative Loafing's three publications, including City Paper, will receive 5 percent pay cuts. Austin said the reductions will "stabilize" the company.
Additionally, some employees' hours have been cut to part time. There are no further staff reductions at City Paper planned. The other two papers had more extensive cuts to staff, Austin said.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/events/351564038206729/
Everything is Terrible live show at Subterranean A tomorrow night - they'll be showing their remake of Jodorowsky's "Holy Mountain" comprised entirely of "dog-related found footage." I can't wait.
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
i am probably going to go to that
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Seen at tonight screening of Balthazar: Ian Svenonius. Don't know if he stayed for Mouchette.
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Monday, 19 March 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
is svenonius a lithuanian name?
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
i was there but didn't see him (nor you j lu!) - but i arrived a few minutes late and didn't stay for mouchette
that film is weirder and spookier than i remember, i know i've seen it before but i think it was on a small screen about 8 years ago
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
Folks were sleeping out since Friday to get some of the 60 seats available to the public for the Supreme Court Arguments on health care. A number of 'em were folks paid to wait in line for others. I've been to 2 Supreme Court sessions. Very interesting experiences both times.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 March 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
ilxor Pinefox's band the Pines has been added to the Friday 4-6 Chickfactor anniversary show at Artisphere
― curmudgeon, Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:58 PM (2 hours ago)posted this over on ilm Capital Swamp thread
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
waht
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen the Pines since a Chickfactor in London many years ago. I will make an effort for this.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, gf, son and others out of town this weekend, and I'm gonna do Passover with my folks on the 2nd night Saturday, so that means I am going to the Chickfactor show Friday night(yes the Windian label thing is also going on, but I made my choice). I have never seen the Pines nor met ILXer Pinefox, but hopefully that will all be remedied Friday night. I will miss most of the old-school DC pop acts that are there on Saturday though.
http://artisphere.com/calendar/event-details/Music/chickfactor-2012-for-the-love-of-pop.aspx
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Saw an advanced screening of Margaret at West End yesterday. They'll be showing it daily at the end of the month. SEE IT!! It's great.
― Moreno, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
Reopened Howard Theatre and the Hamilton seem pricey for many gigs. I guess this is the new DC. But of course, there are still other choices
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
so this
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-wnYHPHs8_6A/T38jtAQUGTI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/rDAQ7CUs6JU/s490/2012-04-06
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know what name you post under, but just thought i'd say it was neat to hang out at your place last night, Seth!
/SpontaneousILXorMeetings
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Monday, 9 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
I met ilxor Pinefox over the weekend but did not get to meet ilxor M. Jones whose significant other was performing onstage at the Chickfactor fest
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Northern VA food blogger (and annoying libertarian economist) Tyler Cowen in the NY Times. I went to this place once!:
So where did Professor Cowen, who lives in Northern Virginia, choose to have lunch to discuss his book? An Ethiopian restaurant in a strip mall wedged between Falls Church and Alexandria, a place that illustrates his belief that anybody can use simple economic analysis to improve their odds of getting a good meal. Professor Cowen said that some of the best food in America can be found in such immigrant restaurants in malls like the ones along El Camino Real in Silicon Valley in California or on Main Street and Northern Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. The best food is not the most expensive and is rarely found in Midtown Manhattan, he said.
This restaurant, Eyo’s, is off Interstate 395, near apartment towers populated by affluent Ethiopians. It is one of six restaurants in the tiny mall with a 7-Eleven sitting on one end. That’s not all, Professor Cowen said: “There are six more in the back. I’ve tried them all.” His point being, of course, that a restaurant facing competition has a better chance of being good.
It’s a sports bar, which seems like an unlikely choice, but not to Professor Cowen’s way of thinking. He chose it precisely because it was an unlikely choice. An American sports bar might mean Buffalo wings and cheeseburgers, but an Ethiopian sports bar? “They are making no attempt to appeal to non-Ethiopians,” he said.
How does he know it is good? Ethiopians eat there. It’s crowded. People look prosperous. But the two-page menu offers more clues. A few American items are tucked down in a corner, but other than that it is all Ethiopian. It has Ethiopian breakfast items. The descriptions are sparse, because why would they need explaining to its core audience? There are dishes on the menu that he doesn’t recognize. “That’s always a good sign,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/dining/an-economists-theories-plot-a-course-for-good-food.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/books/an-economist-gets-lunch-by-tyler-cowen.html?ref=books
The NYT book review absolutely teed off on his book on Sunday:
The quality of Mr. Cowen’s prose varies wildly. Many of his sentences read as if he composed them before entirely waking from a nap. Here’s an example: “The more fundamental problem is that labels do not encompass the same economywide information that is communicated by the price system in its assessment of competing uses for resources.”
Word-goo of this sort creeps in everywhere. One of his favorite books is assessed this way: “I found his writing compelling and the photos full of striking colors.” Items on one’s plate are “foodstuffs.”
You sense in almost every chapter that he’s stretching thin material. Thus the ponderous detours into much-trampled areas like the history of barbecue, the varieties of Chinese food and how to choose kitchen equipment. Truisms are sprinkled like whatever the opposite of salt is. “Barbecue restaurants often have idiosyncratic names,” he announces, to aliens I suppose. “Like Bubba’s.”
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to that guy on the Kojo Show. Sounded like kind of a bore and definitely not someone I would want to break bread with.
― quincie, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
hate cowen many times
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I still look at his restaurant list despite the issues I have with him, just because he writes about some places that the other restaurant critics in the area do not cover. I recently went to a good place in Eden Center that he liked.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Todd Kliman (former City Paper restaurant critic years ago, with the Washingtonian for some time now) was asked in his food chat to list fave places for $5 to $10. Here's his list from the email-
Mangialardo’s, DC, for the G-Man.
Bayou Bakery, Arlington, for the Arm-Drip or the gumbo.
Zorba’s Cafe, DC, for gyros.
Fishnet, College Park, for the fish tacos.
Ravi Kabob I and II, Arlington, for the bone-in chicken with rice and chana masala.
China Bistro, Rockville, for the shrimp-chive and beef-celery DUMPLINGS!.
La Limeña, Rockville, for the tiradito, anticuchos, or ceviche.
Mama Chuy, DC, for the pork sopes.
A&J, Rockville and Falls Church, for noodle bowls and chili-oil wontons.
Saint Michel Bakery, Rockville, for everything.
Taqueria la Placita, Bladensburg, for pork leg tacos and al pastor tacos.
Pho 88, Beltsville, for a regular bowl.
Bon Fresco, Columbia, for the Brie sandwich and London broil sandwich.
Ren’s Ramen, Wheaton, for the miso ramen.
Woodlands, Langley Park, for the masala dosa.
Pimento Grill, DC, for the goat curry roti
Carbon, Rockville, for the asado de tira with black beans and rice.
R&R Taqueria, Elkridge, Md., for the cochinita tacos or the chilaquiles.
Sidebar, Silver Spring, for the Chicago dog.
Mount of Lebanon, Falls Church, for the chicken shawarma.
Shawafel, DC, for the chicken shawarma platter.
Ruan Thai, Wheaton, for the yum watercress.
Sardi’s, Beltsville, for the Pollo Ever—a marinated, chargrilled, spatchcocked chicken.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
China Bistro sadly shut down by the health department; I was a frequent customer :(
― quincie, Friday, 13 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I 've heard negative comments about Bayou Bakery in Arlington but have not tried it yet mself
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
not one place on that list in alexandria. i feel overlooked.
― tehresa, Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Just had my first Ravi kabob experience. Tasty!
― quincie, Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Ravi Kabob is great.
Just tried Bayou Bakery over the weekend. The gumbo was just ok--not bad but not great. The beignets were tasty though. It turns out that the arm-drip sandwich is only available for lunch
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
plz explain this arm-drip sandwich
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
I think it is a creamy gravy on roast beef sub and the gravy drips down your arm as you eat it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
SPACE SHUTTLE DAY BITCHES
― I DIED, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Before it settles down, though, you'll have the chance to step outside and wave at the shuttle. It'll fly low over local landmarks -- the National Mall, Reagan National Airport, National Harbor and the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center -- between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. before touching down at Dulles International Airport.
I will likely be stuck in my office though
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Woo hoo! Now that I have a window I was able to see it. Cool.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
uuuuugh, just missed it by a few minutes while stuck in an all hands meeting where management laid out their "leadership principles" in a way that spelled out V I R T U E. the whole time i'm thinking "SPACE SHUTTLE DAY, C'MON"
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Missed it, darn!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
My husband and his office-mates went to Hayne's Point to watch. I, on the other hand, am stuck on bedrest (actually floor rest, bed too soft) for stupid back. Better be goddamn fixed for my upcoming trip to WOO-HOO FT LAUDERDALE WOO
― quincie, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hanging out in ZS's local
― ljubljana, Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
whaaaaa? where?
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Big Bear
― ljubljana, Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I can't not surreptitiously read the to-do list of the woman next to me, which includes 'Whole Foods/Safeway' with 'Safeway' crossed out, 'Personal development', and 'Tweets'.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
lololol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 April 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Berger cookies from Baltimore are yummy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/baltimore-storied-berger-cookies-come-to-washington/2012/04/17/gIQAVMpbTT_allComments.html?ctab=all_comments
By Andrew Reiner, Published: April 19
My wife, Liz, and I had been living near Silver Spring a few months when we attended one of her good friend’s dinner parties last summer in Dupont Circle. Like many of Liz’s friends who live in or near Washington, this woman slams pretty much anything — music, people, stores — that smacks of mainstream American culture. Especially food.
Back in my native Baltimore, where I’ve lived for much of my life, Berger cookies top the guest list at dinner gatherings, ranging from picnic table crab feasts to white-linen fetes. The groom’s cake at my wedding? Berger cookies. But no one at this dinner party featuring crepes drizzled in truffle oil had ever seen a Berger, with its trademark Himalayan mound of chocolate frosting. In all fairness, until very recently, the Berger had been practically synonymous with Baltimore.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/baltimore-storied-berger-cookies-come-to-washington/2012/04/17/gIQAVMpbTT_story.html
Other link was to the comments
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
haha I think truffle oil is more of a "mainstream American culture" food item than Berger cookies
― I DIED, Monday, 23 April 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
To a city where blue-collar culture and ethos mesh with a thriving underground music scene, this “chocolate helmet” means a cookie with little patience for restraint for restraint’s sake.
oh my god, worst Post culture writer since Monica Hesse
― I DIED, Monday, 23 April 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
i hate impatient cookies
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 April 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
He's a guest writer:
Andrew Reiner teaches freshmen writing at Towson University and is presently teaching creative writing and literature, as well, in the Honors College
Berger cookies are not mainstream because of lack of distribution while truffle oil is still mainly at gourmet shops. [does google search for truffle oil and walmart and comes up with hits]. Oops, maybe you're right
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
“What they’re doing with their money is not necessarily buying a $40,000 Vuitton bag,” said Aba Bonney Kwawu, president of the Aba Agency, a public relations firm that specializes in high-end retailers. “They’re spending their money on private school tuition and taking the whole family to Greece.’’
That's a relief. That's from the article in the Washington Post the other day on DC area 1 %ers.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
spending their money on boring suits and tickets to the Kennedy Center Honors
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
the private school only approach sadly helps them isolate themselves from others who may never be able to take advantage of the tax breaks and deductions and such that help rich Washingtonians maintain their status
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/lanier-three-violent-attacks-in-northwest-potentially-linked/2012/04/26/gIQAM4w9jT_story.html
Possible link between three random assaults (one fatal) in Petworth this week; police advising residents not to walk around alone. The neighborhood (where I live) is completely crawling with cops tonight.
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 27 April 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Friend near petworth asked me to walk her from bus stop first time ever, had wondered what that was abt.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Cynthia Connolly photo opening at Civilian Arts Friday 7 to 9 and this at the Hirshhorn:
ilxor Geeta on a panel at the the Hirshhorn friday: A symposium inside the museum Friday will feature Aitken, David Allin, Aaron Betsky, Geeta Dayal, Sasha Frere-Jones, Dean Kuipers, and Zabet Patterson.
Outside will be: this Friday's "Happening"—for which the museum will turn off the soundtrack to the massive installation and allow a handful of Pitchfork and Wired-approved acts to perform—now has a full lineup. Geologist and the pair of Tim McAfee Lewis and Leo Gallo will perform along with High Places, No Age, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Nico Jaar.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2012/05/08/song-1-extended-at-the-hirshhorn-and-geologist-added-to-this-fridays-happening/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 2:59
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
x-post-sadly does not look like any police updates re those Petworth incidents
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
huh? they arrested a guy pretty quickly. I haven't heard anything since then, so I presume he hasn't been let go.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/michael-davis-held-without-bond-in-petworth-hammer-attacks-5th-victim-comes-forward/2012/04/28/gIQAhFGFoT_story.html
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, missed that. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Are Taylor's Gourmet's hoagies any good? Obama went there yesterday as part of a small business initiative
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Chuck Brown news disccussed on other dc music and gogo and obit threads
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, taylor's real great - get there early before they inevitably run out of bread a couple hours before closing
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
new mural up already
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2012/05/chuck-brown-remembered-in-petworth/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 May 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
Sietsema's spring dining guide(he returns to and looks again at 15 fave places of his) is out in the Washington Post magazine http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/best-bets/dining-guide/dining-guide-spring-2012,102675.html
I heard a radio ad for the Washingtonian June Cheap Eats issue on WTOP radio (do not think it is online yet)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
The Cubanos at Fast Gourmet aren't bad, but I do not think I will race back there quickly for another
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
have you had the chivito?
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
No. I'm so dumb. The owners are from Uraguay, so that is probably the sandwich to have.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah - i thought the cubano was ok, but the chivito was really something else
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Still haven't read Sietsema's spring guide. City Paper has a new restaurant critic who is focussing on uh, restaurant openings and news, rather than reviews
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i dunno how that's going to work out - there are plenty of blogs covering that ground already. she seems to be posting with pretty good frequency already though - it can't be a bad thing for eater dc to have some competition
to continue SANDWICH CHAT i finally swung by the pepe truck today - i don't know if the pollo frito was totally worth $10 but it was fucking delicious
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the chivito OK, but it was not my favorite sandwich ever. I'm a fan of Taylor Gourmet over Fast Gourmet so far, but I have more I need to eat at Fast.
― quincie, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
FAST GOURMET is overrated because it's in a gas station. The sandwiches are very good but nobody would be going apeshit over them if it was just a storefront selling $14 chivitos.
Taylor used to be very good but now it isn't. Still a great meatball sub though.
Can't really think of a local chain I love - plenty of alright ones but nothing amazing (Taylor, Matchbox, Sweetgreen, Busboys, etc)
― I DIED, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm have not had Taylor recently; I am sad if it has gone downhill.
Actually, I've had great sandwiches at the Jetties Express on Macomb St. in CP. Also good salads and an excellent brownie. Ice cream is totally midling, as are the cupcakes. But the tart frozen yogurt is very good (I'm very picky about my tart frozen yogurt).
― quincie, Friday, 25 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
I go to Sundevich like once a week nowadays. Great sandwiches.
― Moreno, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
^ right on
― I DIED, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2012/06/04/corcoran-gallery-considers-selling-building-moving-elsewhere/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmmmm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42814/dcs-most-valuable-restaurants/
City Paper likes Sundevich and still sorta kinda likes Taylor
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sally Quinn always makes me laugh. She's still (albeit, indirectly) moaning that the Obamas aren't hanging with her social circle
Washington has become a community of small groups of people, mostly staying within their circles, occasionally making a foray out into the bigger world to large events, only to be turned off by the endless corporate “fundraiserness” of it all. How special can you feel when you know you have to pay to go to an event and then get a bad seat on top of that?
Could it be that the Obamas, not knowing Washington, think that’s all there is to the social life here? Who wouldn’t want to stay away? On the other hand, he is the president of the United States and, whether he likes it or not, the leader of social as well as political Washington.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/sally-quinn-announces-the-end-of-power-in-washington/2012/06/07/gJQA6iTcMV_story_1.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
hope mitt will party suitably
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 June 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Sure, picking on Sally Quinn is easy, but I really like this jibe below from Jonathan Chait at New York magazine:
When assessing Quinn’s sense of the Lost Eden of Washington, we should also have a firmer sense of what the culture was actually like. Here is one scene from Quinn’s inculcation into the Washington elite:
Washington writer Sally Quinn told of a 1950s reception where: “My mother and I headed for the buffet table. As we were reaching for the shrimp, both of us jumped and let out a shriek. Senator Strom Thurmond, grinning from ear to ear, had one hand on my behind and the other on my mother’s. As I recall, we were both quite flattered, and thought it terribly funny and wicked of Ol’ Strom.”
Once Washington was a happy place where a girl and her mother could be groped simultaneously in good fun by a white supremacist. Sadly, it has all been ruined by Kim Kardashian and Ezra Klein.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/sally-quinn-forced-to-dine-with-non-fake-friends.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
According to one slide, "Question #12: Tell us more about the consultants," the Corcoran has paid $2.1 million to consultants to analyze the mechanics and identity of the museum and college.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2012/06/15/the-corcorans-2-1-million-question/#more-74230
That's a lot of money for a place with financial problems, and that money still has not given them good data or options.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my god Sally Quinn
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
more like SILLY Quinn
― Delbert Botts, D.D.S. (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Washingtonian's Cheap Eats 2012 is available (June issue, a fair amount of clicking required online right now to get it, I think). They define "cheap" as $25 a person!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
people be mad about this rush+ shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
my mother was complaining. "the blue line now takes 6 minutes instead of 3...and it was really packed!"
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh hey, btw my wife and I will be in town 27th - 1st
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
FAP!!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
we are busy on the 27th and have several other ppl to visit but yeah, I was totally thinking FAP
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
awesome! the 29th and 30th will be tricky for me but otherwise i'm free
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
tricky but doable that is
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet; the 28th (Thursday) would be best for me.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Would love to finally meet some of you DC folks. I'll try to make it out, though Friday I'm busy.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'll try to make it but might have a non-ILXor friend staying, so might fail.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Make your friend an ilxor! "one of us...one of us..."
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
You can vet her if you like, yes!
Better still, everyone, come to the Topaz Hotel's comedy night this Thursday 28th at 7.30pm, where she's doing the open mic night.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
Fook, I am out o town this weekend (again), but if stars align I will move heaven and earth to see some Perrys!
Also, for those not yet familiar with the DC way of introducing internet friends when you don't want to say "internet friends," we are DIRTBIKE FRIENDS (RIP 69; miss you, boo!)
― quincie, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
Will my friend believe I have anything to do with dirtbikes? She knows me too well...
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
Likely no FAP for me as I'm gonna be busy with relatives in town for a niece's Bat Mitzvah Thursday to Sunday. May try to go see George Clinton and Meshell Ndegecello for free tonight on the mall between 6 and 9 pm. But it will likely be mobbed.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
Is this going to happen tomorrow? Should we maybe think about Big Hunt or somewhere nearby the Topaz? Dan, where are you guys staying?
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
I'm thinking Friday may be better just to give a little more time to ppl for planning etc. we are staying with my brother in SE.
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Thursday, 28 June 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Omg so glad I saw this! I want to meet the infamous dip!
― tehresa, Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
Okay here's the deal:
- my brother is playing guitar at a show tonight and we are trying to go to it- also trying to meet up with a singing friend from back in the day prob for dinner
I don't know the details for the show otherwise I'd give them, I just know its a rock band. If ppl want to come to it I can find more info, otherwise we might have to do tomorrow.
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 29 June 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
INFO:
8pm doors, Axum is a grungy ethiopian spot, 1934 9th St. NW Washington, District of Columbia 20009$5 cover
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 29 June 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
i will try to make it! how long will you be there?
― tehresa, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Probably for a while, I think my brother goes onstage at 9
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
I will be wearing a Donkey Kong t-shirt
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
WE ARE HERE, COME BY AND DRINK WITH US
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i couldn't make it :(
― tehresa, Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
this weekend is full of visiting family but if there are any other goings on i will do my best to get there!
― tehresa, Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
well that was a fun time. how are dcilxors faring with power, etc? ours came back last night but pepco tells my sister their estimate is 7 days.
― tehresa, Sunday, 1 July 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
Our power never goes out, but my in-laws who live a few blocks away usually don't get their power back for a few days after one of these things happens, so we always end up hosting the contents of their refrigerator.
I'm really thankful that we still have a/c. My baby came down with an ear infection/fever on Friday and keeping her cool is a priority.
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Sunday, 1 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
No power; currently working on alternative living arrangements because it is Too Fucking Hot. Spent last night with friends in Calvert Co who have both power and a POOL. Still here, actually.
― quincie, Sunday, 1 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
I lost power for a little while on Friday, and internet gone until late last night. Guess we got lucky in this part of Alexandria.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
So lucky: no power loss. Very relieved as friend was staying from the UK and cousin is on his way.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 1 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Still no power at my ffx place
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
found effects?
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Sunday, 1 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
bro had power, no cable
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 1 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Had a flight out of DC about 20 minutes before the storm hit, got back this afternoon and my power never even went out. Yay for buried power lines.
― I DIED, Monday, 2 July 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
My power was out for a bit but it came back. Sorry I missed DJP but was busy out in Maryland at Bat Mitzvah with relatives
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 July 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Today was supposed to be my first day of work at a new job and I got sent home as soon as I got there. No power for the whole office.
― Vinnie, Monday, 2 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Nice. Got to my job and was sent home too.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 July 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Finally got my power back last night. For all the talk of a "new" Washington, the place continues to exemplfy "Northern charm and Southern efficiency."
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Monday, 2 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
new Washington, same Pepco
― I DIED, Monday, 2 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
i bitch about dominion sometimes but then i remember it could be worse and i could have pepco!
― tehresa, Monday, 2 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
My parents' block in Arlington still has no power. It kinda blows since I am home this week.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 2 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Loving u friends on 16th who have power and are putting us up in their guest room <3 <3 <3
Kinda sucking for the cats, though. S suggested we shave them, as though that would not produce more problems than we already have. . .
― quincie, Monday, 2 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
apparently you ppl like to do vacays in Rehoboth--is anyone there btwn now and Thurs morn?
― Natalie Portmanteau (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
i am doing vacay in miami! starting: tomorrow :)
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
No Rehoboth till August for me.
A+ choice though.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yay for buried power lines.
We all should have 'em but I guess power companies and local governments think that's too pricey to do
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
you know it is bad when you are considering abandoning DC for New Jersey until the power is back :(
― quincie, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
*claws off face*
― Natalie Portmanteau (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Aw actually I am now in New Brunswick (!) having a great time so yay to NJ! Also Stevie any interest in DC house sitting in Dec???
― quincie, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
OMG!! Where in NB are you?! And also hells yes!!
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
I am staying at the hotel we call the Heimlich, though its actual name is something else, let me see. . . oh yeah Heldrich. I'm here for two more nights! Tell me fun stuff to do!
I'll txt you about the house sitting! That would be so awesome, kitties would be thrilled, as would all dcilxors.
― quincie, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Oh damn I remember when that was being built. I used to take classes at the art school across the street; I remember one time they were having some sort of *very distinguished* event and they had a red carpet that led from the entrance of the hotel to the entrance of the Mason Gross building and it was the most preposterous thing.
There's not much to do in NB except go to basement hardcore/punk shows. Most all of the 4000 pizza places serve falafel and other Middle Eastern foodstuffs, which is charming. If you really want to eat like the locals though I strongly recommend getting a fat sandwich on Easton Ave somewhere (the standard is the Fat Darrell which is chicken fingers, moz stix, fries and marinara, or the even better Fat Bitch which also has cheesesteak and swaps marinara for ketchup). Around your part of town, I remember Old Bay being a decent enough bar and Harvest Moon Brewery's pretty good too. The Zimmerli museum might have something decent though nothing compared to DC. Rutgers Gardens is supposed to be good too though you'd have to drive. Thomas Sweet's and Sanctuary are good for ice cream; the latter has a comic book shop and a really good buffalo veggie quesadilla. Next door is a great hot dog joint too. You're also a few doors down from a handful of decent theaters too though I never really went to any of them.
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Also Olde Queen's campus is pretty to walk around but also very small and also lol at my recommendations of fun stuff to do being "eat food that a drunk 19 year old would eat".
Stuff opens and closes so quickly there that it's probably pretty different from 2 years ago. If you've got an afternoon to kill you could stroll down George St to Easton and walk up that, but there probably won't be much besides cheap food and awful bars. It's a city lacking any sort of hidden treasures.
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
This is my second trip to NB in as many months, and it is actually kind of growing on me! I have not yet gotten over to campus as I am supposedly working, but maybe this evening or tomorrow. A Fat Bitch sounds right up my alley!
Anyway sorry DC thread for so much NJ talk.
― quincie, Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
heard there's some pretty decent ethiopian in NB if you're missing DC
― I DIED, Thursday, 5 July 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Dude there is an ethiopian restaurant on this very block, but I am stuck here with yet another husband who has injera issues!
Where is the man who seeks injera? Where?
― quincie, Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
Makeda iirc; supposed to be pricey but good I think? My friend used to work there
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
^^^that's the one!
Going to Frog and Peach tonight; excited for Fat Bitches tomorrow!
― quincie, Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
That post is basically "
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Wait I was trying to come up w a good simile and accidentally hit post! But it's like saying "I'm wearing my Cartier diamonds tonight and I'm so excited to try out my new Claire's charm bracelet tomorrow!!"
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
It is soooo hot out, so when I go out for lunch I don't want to slog too far. If I want to try out this "jersey" "pizza," should I go to Angel's, Douglas, Filippo's, or Panico's?
― quincie, Friday, 6 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and Frog and Peach was closed for summer vacation but we are going to try again tonight. Spouse's work is picking up the tab up to $75, so we might as well. New Brunswick seems so inexpensive compared to DC! The beer prices are amaaaaaaaazing.
― quincie, Friday, 6 July 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Are these Peter Greenaway movies at the National Gallery (in DC not NB...ha) this weekend worth seeing:
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/greenaway.shtm#remjaccuse
Though Peter Greenaway (born 1942, Wales) is one of Europe's most cerebral and eccentric filmmakers, he was trained as a painter. Finding correlations between painting and filmmaking in his own practice, Greenaway believes that cinema should move away from "the text" (or script) as its time-honored underpinning and instead be based solely on images. Residing now in Holland, he has embarked on a series of idiosyncratic works about Dutch art.
Rembrandt's "J'Accuse" July 7 at 4:00PM
NightwatchingJuly 8 at 4:30PM
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen them, and I'm pretty ambivalent about Greenaway in general, but those both sound kind of cool.
That new print of Celine and Julie Go Boating is playing at the National Gallery next weekend (14th) if anyone has a spare 190 minutes.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 6 July 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
xp oh then for sure, tap that shit! Frog & Peach is supposed to be really great. Douglas is terrible and pretty much just for ppl too lazy to walk to Filippo's, but Filippo's isn't that good either. Panico is excellent but kinda gourmet; if you want an excellent cheap slice I always loved King's, PJ's, and Ta Ta's (<--actual name) though they might be a bit of a hike from the Heldo
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
Oh! And La Familia! All of those but Ta Ta's are on Easton though :( but srsly cannot believe I forgot this but the boli's at Stuff Yer Face are probably the closest thing NB has to an institution next to fat sandwiches and they're excellent
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone tried the architect designed miniature golf course(s) in the Building Museum yet? And why was I DIED not asked to contribute?
More weekend stuff I am thinking about: Chuck Brown day Saturday at the Folklife Fest with the Junkyard Band and others. 106 degrees in the heat forecast for Saturday but under the Folklife Fest tents on the mall it will feel like only 101 or so.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
wait that's a thing? I have to go to that tomorrow while I'm still here.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 6 July 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
I DIED would have contributed to a mini-golf clubhouse/bar, I bet!
― quincie, Friday, 6 July 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nbm.org/programs-lectures/summer/play-mini-golf.html
Don't let your summer get stuck in the rough—combine your love for the building arts with a putter, ball, and one-of-a-kind mini-golf course designed and built by some of the leading architects, landscape architects, and contractors in the Washington area. For two glorious months at the National Building Museum, play holes inspired by architectural and landscape-oriented themes. Challenge your friends and family to a round of mini-golf in air-conditioned comfort, packed with enough fun to make Augusta National Golf Club green with envy!
Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours. The Museum will also be open late on two special evenings until 9 pm: Thursday, July 26 and Thursday, August 23.
$5 per round per person. With purchase of full-price Museum exhibition admission ticket, the price per round is reduced to $3. Museum members play for $3. Those who want to see the course without playing can do so as long as they have exhibition admission tickets.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Tee off when the course opens on July 4 at 10 am and play every day through Labor Day during Museum hours.
i want to play there EVERY DAY! it would be fun to really master the course, but also to be really intense about it, doing the tiger woods fist pump after particularly good shots. and wear a red shirt every day.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
with much love in my heart for all fake sports, i completely support this idea
every time i go to the red derby i complain about them getting rid of the pool table - yes, it was a piece of crap, yes, you were always at risk of putting out someone's eye or knocking a drink over, but i was getting scary good at learning all its quirks and dead spots. rip...
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'd have done a 2012 design trends minigolf hole w/ reclaimed wood and edison bulbs and subway tile and concrete floors and vintage pig butcher's charts
― I DIED, Friday, 6 July 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
We'll have to do a kickstarter or find a space somewhere
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
But what will be on the 2012 food trends menu at the minigolf clubhouse?
― quincie, Friday, 6 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
sliders
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
For real though what foods are up-and-coming/"breaking" right now? Also I DIED have you ever had zhajianmiang (it's like Chinese pork bolognese sorta)? I think it's maybe top 5 most delicious foods of all time, not joking.
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Zhajiangmian, rather
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't had that but would love to! I do love me some dandan noodles which sound like they're in the same family tree though no super close. Chinese restaurants in the DC area are pretty lacking generally.
― I DIED, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
For up and coming food trends, hmm.
eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines
― I DIED, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
For up and coming food trends, hmm.eggs, goat, aspic, bourbon, cauliflower, black garlic, soils, pork rinds, foraged ingredients trickling down to more traditional high end restaurants in a big way, house made sodas, house made vermouths and other fortified wines
ASPIC?! omg, you're joking. I just learned what aspic was a week ago when this stupid bougie lady in a Cukor film from 1934 was wigging out bcz her cook dropped the aspic she was going to serve at her v fancy dinner party. Also yeah I've been seeing black garlic a lot but still have not had it. I want garlic scapes to get trendy! Hasn't bourbon been stylish/trendy for like 10 yrs? Also foraging is already ridic/eye roll inducing to me. I am all for eggs though! More shakshouka at brunch places plz. And there's a place in Philly famous for its dandan noodles and they get a lot of comparisons to the hand drawn w/ pork soy sauce ones (what they call zhajiangmian at the noodle place; also it's $5.50 bro!!) but I think dandan has peanut sauce in it which is gross to me
I love the idea of food trends so much but they are NEVER priced affordable which keeps me from really getting to experience them often. Even food trucks are pricey. Part of me wants to open up a very unique but also cheap restaurant so ppl like me had access to this shit but I also feel like what's the point when you can just make more money by charging more and ppl will still pay.
How do you learn abt this stuff? Do you have food blogs worth reading?
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
I've been predicting an aspic comeback for years and it's finally happening! Result of emphasis on nose to tail cooking and in many ways a reaction against blah comfort food trends with a return to classic technique.
Garlic scapes are hella trendy, same with just about any shoots and stuff in a similar family (hello ramps duh). I'm all for super trendiness of limited time seasonal products, especially if somewhere down the line it gets people to think of things like tomatoes as being seasonally available instead of shit ones most of the year.
Dandan noodles don't usually have peanut, but every place does them a bit differently. I went to Han Dynasty last year when I was in Philly, which I think is the place you're talking about, and was pretty disappointed.
Lucky for you eggs are an affordable food trend, and easy to prepare at home too!
I read Eater and a few other blogs but mostly just go out a lot and a lot of my friends are restaurant people.
― I DIED, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's Han Dynasty. Is lowbrow-made-highbrow food a trend per se or just a framework in which specific food trends come and go? Or is it maybe like a medium-term trend umbrella with shorter term ones in it?
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
It's closest to your last theory, I think it's part of the death of traditional stuffy fine dining and a new approachability but we'll see how things develop. Lowbrow-made-highbrow has the ability to engage people who would never be into pike quenelles.
― I DIED, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
106 degrees, filthy air. PANIC (please don't)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Hey dudes, just a heads up: my wife and I will be in D.C. at the end of August (24-28). She works in the international nonprofit field, so naturally all of her dream jobs are there -- so the trip is in part to see what the city's actually like, in case we might someday want to move. (Neither of us has been to D.C. since we were kids.)
Anyway, I know it's a few weeks down the road, but it would be cool to see some ILXors while we're there. We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Tabard Inn is great all around!
― I DIED, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
please do better at meeting up with ppl than I did ;_;
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Tabard is awesome, will totally have all the drinks with you there, or anywhere.
DJP next time stay loooooooonger!
― quincie, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, that's good to hear. I'll monitor this thread and check back in when we have a better idea of our plans.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 9 July 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!
one of my good friends is the bartender there! and yeah, it's great. i'll definitely try to stop by when you're there!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
which bartender, Z S?
― I DIED, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Tim B!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
ah I do not know T B
― I DIED, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
He's great! mid-20s, blonde hair, looks sort of like a 1940s movie star. also a hell of a bartender!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
I love Tim B!
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure I can make it anyway, but any thoughts on this Hong Kong movie at 7 at the Freer tonight?
Like the famous Henry David Thoreau essay with which it shares a title, Life without Principle is a warning about the dangers of greed. This tense drama from veteran director Johnnie To (Vengeance, Mad Detective) taps into the zeitgeist by telling three linked stories of Hong Kong’s money-obsessed culture. A financial analyst (Denise Ho) pushes high-risk investments on her unsuspecting clients, a smalltime gangster (Lau Ching Won) plays the Chinese stock market to raise quick bail money for a friend, and a humble cop (Richie Jen) finds himself in need of dough when his wife puts a down payment on an expensive pad. Their fates intertwine thanks to a bag containing $5 million in stolen money and a stock market crash. (Dir.: Johnnie To, 2011, 107 min., Cantonese with English subtitles)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
DC 2012:
H Street NE now has a place to satisfy your cravings for whole wheat-crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.
― I DIED, Friday, 13 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
crap, would have gone to that movie
― american consumer goods (los blue jeans), Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, Julie and Celine Go Boating is on earlier than I thought. Got some things in the morning, plus train is down between Braddock Road and Reagan. I can see missing it.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
waou, of rivette i've actually only seen la religieuse, maybe i will try to catch this now that my plans tomorrow got cancelled
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
hey i finally have a valid ID again (lol) and will have a real paycheck and am not a full-time rabblerouser now so soon so i'll actually be able to join yall at some beering
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 July 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
finally made it out to the much-loved taqueria la placita in hyattsville tonight - holy shit that was great. pork cheek, pork belly, cecina highly recommended
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 15 July 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
taqueria la placita rocks my world
― I DIED, Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
also congrats to a hoos on re-upping the job/ID/life situation!
― I DIED, Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
most definitely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
big congrats HOOS!
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 15 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yay hoos! Look forward to seeing you (and all of the dcilxors) at some point! We are planning a backyard kegger in Sept/Oct, will keep all posted. Band may be involved. Also taco truck.
― quincie, Sunday, 15 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Um
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 July 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
dude Stevie you are a dcilxor at heart, are you not?
― quincie, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
― american consumer goods (los blue jeans),
I missed all the movies at museums this weekend too, but did see "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (I liked this Louisiana magic realist meets Maurice Sendak effort despite its flaws and what Ms. Holliday in the W. Post attacked as patronizing faux-k culture) and "The Rise and Fall of the Clash" at the Positive Force benefit showing at St. Stephens Church. The latter movie was shown on a tiny screen and was all about the decline of the Clash(management issues, drug addiction, and more negative stuff)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
Ha no that was more an "Un, that sounds insane"
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/amid-the-districts-crisis-the-i-told-you-so-gloating-begins/2012/07/15/gJQA9dq8mW_story.html?hpid=z4
Post columnist Courtland Milloy wants more help for D.C.'s poor, but he has an interesting way of getting to that point:
Well look who’s back: the Fenty brigade, led by true believers of former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty. Among them are my nemeses — whom I have referred to before as myopic twits because of their inability to see that dog parks, bike paths and cupcake parlors do not make a “world-class city.”
And still they come to gloat.
....But Gray has played right into their hands.
How could the myopics even imagine that the city was “headed in the right direction” under Fenty, as polls showed?
The District’s poverty rate shot up to its highest level in a decade, and the employment rate for African American adults dropped to a 20-year low. One in three black children were living in poverty. The income gap was among the highest in the nation.
I will leave this to dc residents to comment on specifics if they'd like; or just Milloy's abrasive style.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I always thought that the reason the city was heading in the right direction under Fenty was that he wasn't blatantly corrupt.
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Sulaimon Brown calls rally for Mayor Gray "literally ridiculous & unconscionably stupid" in news release.
http://i.imgur.com/yjJZk.gif
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/20/mini-golf-at-the-national-building-museum-a-hole-by-hole-account/#more-75977
photos of the Building Museum mini-golf course have me less interested in going (but I will still probably go anyway)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
a couple of good holes on that course, LOTS of shitty ones. Kevin Roche exhibit is totally worth seeing though.
― I DIED, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
I still haven't made it there yet. Played a boring course in Ocean City last week
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
anybody going to this?
http://dcist.com/2012/07/my_my_how_far_weezer_has_fallen.php
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Won't that be a very crowded zoo? I guess their popularity is not what it once was if they're at a mall. Sometimes I don't mind crowds, and I like some old Weezer songs, but that one's not for me.
There will probably be less people at the National Gallery of Art for this:
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, arguably the most influential director of the postwar era. The National Gallery of Art joins the American Film Institute and the Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, in a retrospective of his most distinguished works.
OK movie geeks, what should I see. http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/antonioni100.shtm
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I've only seen the last four (L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, La Notte, and Red Desert) and I recommend you see L'Avventura if you haven't. Really though it depends on if you can vibe with Antonioni or not.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
woah, awesome. i want to see l'eclisse on the big screen.
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Thursday, 2 August 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
EVERYONE EVERYONE GO SEE RED DESERT ON A BIG SCREEN
Damn I might plan an entire trip around that
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously it's prob one of the top 10 or 5 most gorgeously composed, visually striking films I've ever seen. The colors!!!!!
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
damn, wish it wasn't showing at 2:30 on a monday. :(
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Labor day, right?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
wait, it is?
YES!
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Thursday, 2 August 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Also quincie you are being paged to the HIV thread bcz I would really like to hear yr 2c abt the whole thing
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 August 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I shall report to that thread!
― quincie, Friday, 3 August 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
i ran into govern yourself accordingly on the metro today!!! :D
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 4 August 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
good seeing you dude! that united ticket's still yours if you wanna go tomorrow
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 4 August 2012 09:03 (eleven years ago) link
I am pretty sure this describes my h street corridor-dwelling coworker.
Hi friends, I am not reading ILX so much these days why bc lyfe, srsly, but pls to email me when faps happen if you can?
― tehresa, Friday, 10 August 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 August 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Hi T! I have missed you! Let's get together and curse the summer.
― quincie, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
I am now officially resident in Toronto (though am in the UK at the moment). Other than DC ilxors (obv), I think I'll miss the small-town, can-really-get-to-know-it feel the most. I like big cities too, though, so should be ok.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
omg you are not ljub what the fuck!!!!
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 17 August 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. :-/
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
best of luck to you in toronto, though!
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks! I'm currently hanging out in Helsinki with friends who just moved here...
― ljubljana, Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Hey so I will be in DC from Friday morning through Tuesday night. No set plans yet -- when would be a good time to meet up, if anyone's inclined? As I said upthread, we're staying at Tabard Inn. Happy to meet there or anywhere else that's reasonably convenient.
― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
Just got back from vacation, did u all fap?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 August 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Got a friend coming into town Saturday. Recommendations for restaurants in DC with good vegetarian options? Also bars in the DuPont or Adams Morgan area? Or maybe just any cool bars.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 20 August 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Getting excited about the trip -- the wife and I have made a big list of things to do, places to eat, etc.
― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
Of course, I'm in the midst of one of the busiest weeks at work in a long time, which makes last-minute planning a pain in the ass, but also means the vacation will be well-deserved.
― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
x-post- re veggie option restaurants-- Haven't looked at it but here's a W. Post list:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/best-bets/vegetarian-friendly,89828.html
Ethiopian restaurants can do veggie only also.
I Died and others can mention cool bars
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Just looked last night at the June published Washingtonian best cheap eats list. They stick with some places for years on their list. Last few times I have been to Etete the Ethiopian food portions were tiny (compared to Dukem on U and any of the Ethiopian places in the mostly Ethiopian strip mall out in Bailey's X-Rds like Bati). Etete looks nice but that's not enough. Cuba de Ayer out in Laurel and Elephant Jumps out in Virginia somewhere are ok, but don't seem that great.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Etete doesn't even look that nice and the service is terrible. Pretty into Habesha across the street right now.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
I have been led to believe -- in part by comments on this thread and also by ... Eater 38, I guess? -- that Dukem is the go-to Ethiopian place in D.C. Confirm/deny?
― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
Dukem's alright but has gone downhill in the last few years. Better late at night with live entertainment 6 nights a week.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
What about Meskerem?
― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Last time I went to Meskerem was in the 80s when it was the first Ethiopian restaurant in the area and its Adams Morgan home neighborhood was considered edgy by some. Now, Meskerem is dismissed by many (along with Adams Morgan).
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
I always liked my meals there, but it became passe when the whole 9th and U St NW Little Ethiopia area developed (and now there is another Little Ethiopia out in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church, VA plus Ethiopian restaurants in other parts of DC and MD and VA)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how the Eritrean food is at Keren Restaurant, 1780 Florida Ave NW(between N. 18th St & N. U St)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Both Tyler Cowen and Yelpsters like it
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
An Eritrean place just opened up in Chicago -- I read an article in which the owner claimed that Eritrean cuisine is pretty similar to Ethiopian except they also eat spaghetti.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I have been in Ethiopian restaurants that serve spaghetti (Italy invaded Ethiopia at least once, so there's a history). Eritrean and Ethiopian are similar.
Re local Eritrean food, there's long been an Eritrean place in Crystal City/Arlington
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
I guess what I am also wondering is, having had good Ethiopian food elsewhere (Chicago/SF), are there places in D.C. that would blow my mind? Or is the deal just that there's so many places to choose from?
Btw, I'll be online only sporadically while I'm around, so if anyone does want to meet up, it might be best to plan it within the next day. If not, no big deal, I think my wife and I will have plenty to do.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
keren is pretty good! i've been there for brunch - some cool ethiopian-style spins on american diner breakfasts, spaghetti or (very good) macaroni salad offered as a side with everything. dirt cheap too (though jaymc, if you're staying at the tabard, they have one of the best brunches in town)
i like habesha better than dukem too, but dukem has a nice patio, live music, and is usually open late on weekends - i'd probably recommend going there just for the experience, or just go there for drinks if the band sounds cool
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds good re Keren. I agree re late at Dukem and brunch at Tabard. I need to go to Habesha, although I am happy with the George Mason Drive strip mall of Ethiopian restaurants in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church.
I guess what I am also wondering is, having had good Ethiopian food elsewhere (Chicago/SF), are there places in D.C. that would blow my mind? Or is the deal just that there's so many places to choose from? ― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc)
It may just be the large number of restaurants and large size of the Ethiopian community here.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Jaymc, hope you and your wife are having fun. Did anyone ever plan meeting up?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard from anyone but that's OK. Yesterday we looked around DuPont Circle, had a nice lunch at Hank's Oyster Bar, walked up Embassy Row to Biden's house, took a nap, then did a late dinner at Birch & Barley. Today so far has been mostly museums -- American History and Portrait Gallery -- with a swing by Sundevich for lunch. Everything good so far.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like a good schedule. I was out in Va seeing Al Green Friday night, and moving my kid into college for his freshman year Saturday and have been busy working on freelance writing today. Maybe we should all meet for drinks somewhere Monday night (if you're not booked up).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
bump
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, August 24, 2012
Maybe too late, but tonight could work
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Hey just saw this. I think we are going to Bohemian Caverns tonight so our plans are settled, but thanks anyway.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Have fun in the (historic)stalagtite-filled basement there tonight with the Monday Night Orchestra. Haven't seen them in awhile but have read nothing but good things about them.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I was just home visiting my mom and Alexandria seems to be getting better and better. We went to society fair, which had really good food, and their wine bar looked nice, and they also have an Anthropologie now. Also went to vermillion and had the chefs tasting menu with four different wines paired with four different courses.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 27 August 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
I walk by Society Fair almost every day and I still haven't gone in.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
mixed reviews (of course) from yelpsters
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man sorry to miss you jaymc; I just got back into town on Monday after a week away (from both town and ILX) and am just now catching up!
― quincie, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Just remembered that this Antonioni movie is showing Labor Day Monday afternoon at the National Gallery:
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― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, may see that and then head to the 6 to 9 blues/soul night at Westminster Church in SW DC to see Little Margie(from DC soul/girl group the Jewels) with Jacques Johnson (Michelle Ndegeocello's dad) and band.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
still my plan
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
me and the gf heading there shortly. See you all there!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 September 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
So the cinematography in Red Desert was great but I found the wannabe psychological artsy dialogue and plot to be weak. I know, I know, Antonioni is considered a master but I am not completely wowed. It was great to look at though. This is the 2nd Antonioni movie I have seen (and the 2nd one I have been a bit disappointed in).
Little Margie, longtime DC r'n'b vocalist was as captivating as when I last saw her. Westminster Church Monday blues/soul gigs are often great and this was one of them.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
I like the pastries at the (Caribbean) Crown Bakery on Georgia Avenue. I also had Senegalese food at Chez Aunt Libe for the 2nd time. She was out of several items, but the peanut stew maffe was not bad. She told us she is struggling in this economy.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also went to vermillion and had the chefs tasting menu with four different wines paired with four different courses.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, August 27, 2012 8:57 PM
I should splurge sometime for this.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 September 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
hey film nerds, anyone know anything about the Angelika Mosaic Film Center opening on Friday in Fairfax?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
nevermind, found the website (/idiot). where the hell did this come from?
nothing except that i love the angelika chain and hate that it's out in fairfax
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
...and now years later that i know there's an everything dc and i can stop spamming the music dc resource thread:
The Master playing this weekend at e street and in 70mm at the AFI, i don't usually care but have heard stories of crowds gawking at the opening in 70mm
also e street has 3 showings of QUEEN: LIVE IN BUDAPEST.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
that Mosaic development that the Angelika's a part of out in Merrifield is crazy ambitious
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I'm going to see The Master in 70mm. Maybe noted upthread, but it's only 70mm on weekends and evenings.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm just gonna settle on e street's regularness, i haven't been there in like four years
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
wow yeah xpost: http://mosaicdistrict.com/
http://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/ANGELIKA_ABOUT.ASP?hID=3854&ID=84&page=ABOUT%20ANGELIKA%20MOSAIC
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
anything fun happening between now and october 1? i'm moving to nyc :/
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
anyone up for seeing "The Master" Sunday @ AFI?
― los blue jeans, Friday, 21 September 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
probably gonna see it wednesday or thursday night at AFI once my gf is back in town
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
ahh. I'm out of town next week
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Good luck in da big apple GYA
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to The Master at 6:30pm on Monday at AFI.
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Me and the gf had a busy weekend-- saw 1937 flick Grand Illusion at the Angelika (nice theatres but yeah, out in Merrifield near the 4 Sisters Vietnamese restuarnat and the H-Mart Asian grocery store). Liked the movie but its not a top 10 of all time one for me(as it is for some). Also saw Bobby Blue Bland, Clarence Carter and the Jewels at PG Community College, and on Sunday the play about Scottish troops in Iraq--The Black Watch-- plus the Latin Fest on Pennsylvania Avenue...(eating pupusas and listening to loud bachata, tribal and salsa).
Gonna take it easy tonight
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna hit up the Angelika this week I think. Looking forward to it.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
It was $13 a ticket Saturday night. Isn't that a couple bucks more than other theatres?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Landmark is $11, AMC/Regal chains are $12.50 (I think), so yeah, it's a bit more expensive.
I think it's only $6 if I can get there before noon on a weekday though. Is it nice? Are the screens a decent size?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Is it nice? Are the screens a decent size?
Yes and yes.
Gourmet popcorn for $8 in slightly smaller bags.
Lots of other food choices if you're interested. There's also a Chipotle nearby plus various other choices.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
if anybody wants to come: i'm having a going-away thing at the red derby in columbia heights on saturday, 4pm-whenever. i've met many of y'all over the last two and a half years and it'd be rad to say goodbye
(or i dunno, going-away FAP?)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
This is completely uninteresting to anyone but me, but the Angelika is at the site of the Multiplex that was the fancy new movie theater in about nineteen hundred and eighty-five. First theater I ever went to with cupholders in the armrests, first with reclining chairs, first with "stadium seating." That shit was cutting-edge at the time of the release of, say, Ghostbusters. I'm told there had been a drive-in there previously, but I have no memory of it. Microbrews and artisanal popcorns are the new cupholder armrests.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
I find that interesting!
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Yes! I thought one of the theatres in that area (that I took my kid to when he was young) later started showing Bollywood films, but google tells me that Bollywood films now are being shown in nearby Falls Church and out in Herndon
Loehmann's Twin Cinemas 7291 Arlington BlvdFalls Church, VA 22042
http://www.nowrunning.com/usa/virginia/va/showtimes.htm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, the Loehmann's down the road has been foreign-language for ages; it used to have dollar movies and, for a while, porn (do people still go to porn movies in theaters?). I think the last thing I saw at Loehmann's was La Double Vie de Veronique, or maybe one of the Red / White / Blue feelms. Theaters are a warm topic for area old-timers; my cohort has a lot to say about the Biograph, Georgetown, Uptown, Key....
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks. Yep, I also remember those old theatres well.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
i hear it's a hole but want to check out the west end theater, i miss being able to see movies in that area (rip dupont loews, visions)
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
My friend's dog was lost in a crazyt incident this morning in NE somewhere.
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2012/10/help-find-murray-lost-dog-near-h-street-ne/
― how's life, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
that is AWFUL. wtf. I'm sure Murray will be found soon!
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
holy fuck, i hope your friend is okay (and best wishes for murray as well)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
Was Murray the dog ever found?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Big month for author appearances here that interest me: Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, William P. Jones.
Diaz is the same night as a possible Nats playoff game if they get that far. Wish I had Nats playoffs tickets for today. I grew up an Orioles fan and am still one, but the Nats are my National League team (even though the Lerner family owners take advantage of DC taxpayers and others and the stadium is not nearly as nice as Camden Yards).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
x-post- Oh, I see that Murray the dog was found. Yay
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe Nats and Os can turn it around today/tonight
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Nats postseason looking to be a damp squib.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Nats postseason looking unsurprisingly like a lot of the last month of their regular season
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I shoulda guessed when my car broke down last Friday night that the Orioles and Nats were bound to lose. Threes.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/10/17/25-restaurants-dropped-from-tom-sietsemas-fall-dining-guide/
His same top 4 I think --Komi, CityZen, Inn at Little Washington, and Rasika Penn Quarter,
Sietsema likes Ethiopic, while Tyler Cowen thinks its mediocre. Not that Tyler Cowen is always reliable either.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Sietsema's not reliable on Ethiopian, and for years he's been pushing the ridiculous idea that Rasika is a four star restaurant (it's great, but it's not at that level). And his annual heap of praise on Jaleo is just weird, 3 1/2 stars?!?
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't eaten at Jaleo in ages, but I just recall it as being good but not 3 1/2 stars
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
any thoughts on mark's duck house in seven corners? i'm back in town this weekend and a bunch of us are going to dim sum there on sunday
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I used to love its regular offerings but never had the dim sum, but haven't been there in a long time. Yelpsters like their dim sum, and Kliman(Washingtonian) and Cowen used to like it (and maybe still do). Not easily metro-accessible
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Post Express's Readers Poll Best of issue is out. Nothing too surprising (based on my quick lunch-time glance through)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://dc.eater.com/archives/2012/10/18/where-to-find-wealthy-attractive-republicans-around-washington.php
list of restaurants and bars (to avoid?)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 October 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
dovetails nicely with that planet money piece from march on dc restaurants that host tons of congressional fundraisers (though obligatory lol @ the brixton)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 19 October 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/03/26/149390968/take-the-money-and-run-for-office
this being the url of said piece
I DIED has some explaining to do
― quincie, Friday, 19 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
that Eater piece OTM
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 19 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Why are you creating nice places for republicans to hang out
― quincie, Friday, 19 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
If you're gonna do that you should put them in Reston and get them out of the city
― quincie, Friday, 19 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
need to provide them with safe space, Sidwell's too rough:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/10/19/sidwell-friends-plagued-with-young-political-bullies/
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 19 October 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna lock my doors knowing those thugs are just two blocks away *shrudder*
― quincie, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
I remember in sixth grade in Arlington, (i.e. 2000) my whole class taunted our social studies teacher when she revealed she voted for GWB. I seem to recall Gore winning our mock election with like 95% of the vote.
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Sunday, 21 October 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone know anything about this movie showing for free tonight/Friday at 7 at the Freer:
Beijing Flickers’ screenplay is inspired by interviews Sixth Generation auteur Zhang Yuan conducted with hundreds of twenty-somethings while he was working on his photography exhibition Unspoiled Brats. Dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man, San Bao descends into a self-destructive spiral and meets a few kindred souls: a drag queen addicted to cosmetic surgery and poetry, a female singer kicked out by the musicians in her band, and a girl…
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't make that movie. Saw A.C. Newman & Mynahbirds instead.
Federal government closed Monday. Hopefully Frankenstorm won't be too bad.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 October 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
No power loss for me in Arlington. Hope everyone else is doing ok
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Question for Bradpittsville ilxors: I'm going to be in DC for the first time on election night - where would be a good place to watch the results come in?
― Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Sunday, 4 November 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Huddled in your hotel room, raiding the minibar. Wear a suit. Pretend you have to give a concession speech.
― Infamous dickbiscuits (silby), Sunday, 4 November 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
make sure there's a pool photographer there to get shots of you looking pensively at the screen as results come in
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
suggested actions (today and tomorrow):
start your own political consulting firmmake a facebook fan page for your consulting firmmake a facebook fan page for yourselfhave business cards made up w/your firm's name on itvisit lots of bars and restaurants on cap hill and k street and south of dupont circlenetwork with everyone -> give them your business card, friend them on facebook
election day:invite all 1500 of your new facebook friends to your firm's official returns eventdon't worry when only 20 say they will attendnetwork some moretake lots of pictures of everyone at the bar
days after, suggested plan of action:post on facebook lots of pictures of your wildly successful eventfriend the friends of all your 1500 friendsask them all to "like" your consulting firm's fan page ask them all to "like" your fan page for yourselflook up the email addresses of everyone you cangenerate a mailing liststart emailing them updates about your latest facebook posts about yourself and your firm
etc
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
^ my god
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 November 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
So dj Chris Burns and BYT folks are at Bohemian Caverns/Liv tonight. I think I wanna stay in and sit on my couch in control of my tv remote.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Had yummy Trinidadian "doubles" (pancake/soft taco with curried chickpeas inside) and roti at Caribbean Palace in Langley Park, MD yesterday. Great stuff. Also wandered around and picked up some stuff for home cooking at the Red Apple Market and the Caribbean market.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2012/11/13/martin-baron-editor-the-boston-globe-become-editor-the-washington-post/ycJWyd1XOsuvpQAQ3LMStI/story.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone going to the Magnetic Fields at 6th and I? Saturday sold out, but I'm thinking about getting Sunday tix.
― quincie, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://maxgif.com/5fk
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 November 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2012/09/where_to_eat_in.php?page=all
Village Voice food critic visits DC and likes a few places
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
I think I saw that article a while ago. Coincidentally, I got a cubano from Fast Gourmet today. It was really tasty!
― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Friday, 16 November 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
going to be in DC next week for thanksgiving
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
dammit, n/a, why are you always here when I am not???
― quincie, Saturday, 17 November 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
ugh I wanna come visit y'all
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
My fave new Vietnamese restaurant in Eden Center is now gone. It's a Vietnamese ban mi sandwich joint now. Lots of competition there
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Guys I think I'm coming to DC in December but I don't know when. Is there anything awesome happening I should see or do?
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
hay stevie I'm going to be driving back and forth a couple times in december if you need a ride (unfortunately I'm probably going in the opposite direction, north on fridays & south on sundays)
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
plus i'm notoriously unreliable
Ah, damnit! Yeah, it looks like I'll be there the 13th-15th. I'll probably just get a Megabus.
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm toying w/ the idea of bringing a bike. How is biking in DC? Is this a v good or a v bad idea?
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
biking in DC is certainly a fine idea; putting yr bike on a megabus…maybe not so much? Do you have a folder?
― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
also http://www.capitalbikeshare.com
― Toshiro Mifune is my spirit animal (silby), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
Megabus actually won't let you bring a bike on; I'd have to use Greyhound or Greyhound Express. I've taken it on a Bolt to NYC/New Haven just fine, though.
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
Stevie you are welcome to my bike! It needs air in the tires and I have to find the seat, but other than that. . .
― quincie, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I have an extra ticket for Neil Young in Fairfax tomorrow
email bonus (dot) tubes (at) gmail.com; 1st come 1st served etc.
― los blue jeans, Friday, 30 November 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
Splurged already for tickets. Will hopefully be a great show
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Hopefully someone wanted your extra
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Guys.
Seriously, this Nam June Paik exhibition @ American Art Museum is one of the most fucking incredible things I have ever seen in my entire life. There is so much to see and explore; if you miss out on this you will be robbing yourselves of something truly great.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/paik/
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
There is so much innovation and inquisitiveness and genuinely awe-inspiring moments in this guy's career and it often has a levity and sense of humor about that allows the viewer to engage in a really intimate way vs. the sort of detachment that one may often feel with Stuffy Serious Artworks.
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to wander the museums next week, so I'll put this on my list.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
I <3 him and I really want to see that but I just moved to Seattle, hope I visit back home in time to see it. And by "hope" I mean "I'll have to plan to."
Electronic Superhighway is one of my favorite works of art.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:42 (eleven years ago) link
8 months, I shd be able to swing that.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
As a newly unemployed person I am going to avail myself of ALL of the free museums in Jan/Feb!!! Thanks for the tip Stevie.
― quincie, Saturday, 15 December 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah mine too. I didn't notice until yesterday that Idaho's video was just footage of piles of potatoes and I laughed a lot harder than I probably should have in a quiet museum
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
This Vergara photo exhibit at the National Building Museum could be worth seeing also:
http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/detroit-is-no-dry-bones.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
still need to see the lichtenstein before it goes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
me too
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/dining-at-level-3-todd-klimans-most-memorable-meals-of-2012.php
tldr but I might later
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Saw the Serial Portraits photo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art West Wing the other day (some nice Stieglitz, Friedlander, Nan Goldin and others works) and today, the "Detroit is No Dry Bones" and "Detroit Disassembled" photo exhibits at the National Building Museum in DC. More than "ruin porn," as some naysayers would argue, these are fascinating photos of abandoned Detroit that don't seem too exploitive (some buildings and blocks now covered with trees and growth; others show new life or at least new paint)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Still haven't seen Nam June Paik; Lichtenstein; or that newspapers in collage paintings one at National Gallery
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
fuck I wish I saw that Detroit stuff
― nicki mINOJ (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 December 2012 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
but really go see NJP, why not tomorrow?
the lichtenstein was badass. i didn't realize he'd had a whole fascination with chinese landscapes at one point--gorgeous stuff imo
http://www.bettertotravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/20120606-133112.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 December 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ but god the enormity of the thing in the room
oh my god that's gorgeous
― nicki mINOJ (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 31 December 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
rawr why am I in Seattle, should've gone home for xmas :(
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Monday, 31 December 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
Some of these are still showing in January. Need to see 'em before they're gone
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 December 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Saw the Nam June Paik exhibit yesterday. What a wacky guy. Have not finished reading the W. Post article grumbling about which Paik items were emphasized in the exhibit, and which ones the author liked more.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Ate twice lately at Hong Kong Palace in the 7 Corners Shopping Center near Eden Center in VA. Spicy Sichuan, not your normal American Chinese food. North Szechwan (alternate spelling) Spicy Cold Bean-Starch Noodles, and the Dan Dan noodles (both appetizers) are awesome and unique (at least to me!).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Saw that traveling "women in rock" exhibit at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts on its closing day. Some nice artifacts and videos, but not tied together well and too boomer heavy. Then finally saw the big retrospective Lichtenstein exhibit that I largely liked. It's just there through next Sunday the 13th I think.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/washingtons-economic-boom-financed-by-you.html?pagewanted=5&hp&_r=0
Whatever happens to Washington, it seems hard to believe that there won’t be enough people willing to pony up $3,000 a month to inhabit Abdo’s latest vision, to drink lattes on his sidewalk cafe and walk on his arts walk.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh good this article again
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 11 January 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
washington, dc, food destination
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
2 pts for 'artisanal'
DC at 44 on that NYT food list--
In recent years, the capital has seen the arrival of a vibrant, independent food scene — one that’s blossoming just in time to welcome a renewed Obama administration. Last November, in a gritty northeast corner of town, Union Market opened, a gleaming food hall featuring local farmers, artisanal vendors and stalls like Rappahannock Oyster Co., which offers quick, luxurious bites of Chesapeake shellfish. Meanwhile a handful of talented young chefs is bucking the city’s traditional steakhouse culture: Mike Isabella, a former Top Chef contestant, at his Italian restaurant Graffiato; Erik Bruner-Yang at the Taiwanese-style ramen bar Toki Underground; and Johnny Monis at Little Serow, a Thai-inspired spot that Bon Appétit named one of 2012’s best new restaurants. Providing some background for it all is a new permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian, “Food: Transforming America’s Table 1950-2000,” which traces major changes in the nation’s food culture. — Ann Mah
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, all DC was known for till 2012 was its steakhouse culture
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Toki Underground is the fuckin shit tho
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Saturday, 12 January 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
real talk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E4gK4HFEw88
"The Legend of Cool Disco Dan" movie doc trailer ('80s DC graffiti artist and more)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
and this:
DC Funk-Punk Throwback Jam
Trouble Funk, Scream, Shady Groove, Black Market Baby, DJ Kool, Junkyard, Youth Brigade, Static Disruptors, Worlds Collide, w/ Special Guests Stinky Dink, DJ Tommy B and more, Hosted by Henry Rollins
Sunday February 243:00 PM$259:30 Club
Celebrating PUMP ME UP: The DC Subculture of the 1980s at the Corcoran Gallery & the release of the film THE LEGEND OF COOL "DISCO" DAN
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
got my tickets
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just read at lunch Sietsema in the Post Express sorta dissing Hanoi House, the Hilton Brothers Vietnamese restaurant. How many DC places do those guys own now?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2013/01/25/komi-no-longer-washingtonians-top-restaurant-in-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, mentioned upthread (I always forget to read far enough upthread too)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
You guys are about to get 69F??!
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
more like the STINKIN monument amirite
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"i drove to washington once"
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"The Big Crapple"
About 103,000 results (0.28 seconds)
― dope ass mug (los blue jeans), Friday, 1 February 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
fan reaction to the dcu carlos ruiz pickup is, uh, muted
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
whoops wrong thread
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
fan reaction to Wizards crawford trade to Celtics for injured guy and benchwarmer is whatever
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
TAINT is banned
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
TTAINTT is ok
brb, going to the DMV
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant
Sushi Taro
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Hi DC. Miss you boo.
― quincie, Friday, 12 April 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
― quincie, Friday, April 12, 2013 8:40 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2013/v10i2/olivierassayas.aspx
So which one(s) should I see?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
the only advice I have is: not Demonlover
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
isnt that shit called AUDIDOCS now?
― 69, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
sounds
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
it's not even controversial it's just boring and poorly made.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
you can skip Boarding Gate too. Summer Hours/Irma Vep/Carlos essential.
― Gukbe, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Thanks.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
mini-golf opens near the end of May
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Gordon Parks photos are imressive at the Adamson. For sale in the $10,000 range!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
I might just go to CS Blues, although I saw it years ago here.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
uuuuhhh, cs blues made me nauseous
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
xp it is
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 May 2013 06:46 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Yes to the Greek Spot and Tacos El Chilango.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/toles06142013.jpg
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 14 June 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
what's been going on with the metro?
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
#fuckLAmetro
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Was reading "Dr. Gridlock" (I think that was the columnist) in the Washington Post Express and he was asked why couldn't Metro not have done work a recent weekend where there were 40,000 at that international soccer game at RFK. He responded when else do you think they should do the work, without mentioning weekday overnight. Would they have to pay more overtime rates to do the work on weekday nights after midnight?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Probably? I imagine fucking the track worker out of the overtime pay is part and parcel of their "fuck everyone until this shit is over in 10 years" strategy.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tom-sietsema-just-say-no-grazie-to-la-tagliatella/2013/06/18/88fbab74-ca0c-11e2-8da7-d274bc611a47_story.html?hpid=z1
Tom gets mean towards a red sauce and spaghetti place.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
“This is like Olive Garden,” I say to a friend who is not putting a dent in a mound of black ravioli under a blanket of minced salmon, tomatoes and cream. “When’s the last time you were at Olive Garden?” he asked. Fair point; I couldn’t recall. Soon after, I headed to the Falls Church outpost of the popular chain owned by Darden Restaurants to do some comparison grazing — and found myself eating my words. Among other dishes, the minestrone at Olive Garden, thick with identifiable vegetables and robust in flavor, is superior to the pallid puree at La Tagliatella.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
more food stuff
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44476/the-food-issue/
50 dishes they like (both high-end and low)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2013/06/an-astonishing-first-at-the-national-gallery/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
re: food stuff
one of the more well-written articles going around re: paula deen turns out to be written by an old pal mike twitty that lives in montgomery county
http://afroculinaria.com/2013/06/25/an-open-letter-to-paula-deen/
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 27 June 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Interesting. thanks
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
check out this awesome nice guy just outside of my work a few days ago!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAGGoPidEY
― Z S, Monday, 8 July 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
The Final American Revolution...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2013/07/this_town_full_of_sandwiches.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/07/08/hey-new-york-times-heres-where-you-can-get-a-good-piece-of-pizza-in-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
ps re: kokesh that video got him arrested and his house raided, wherein they found magic mushrooms
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/us/dc-kokesh-search
kokesh is sort of insane but a nice guy irl in the way that i imagine i would not really want to punch ron paul in the face if i shook his hand first
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
You softie !
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
he's like down for the cause on a couple of things i'm down with, we have fist bumped and he's filmed me getting roughed up by cops, its hard for me not to feel a *little bad* for the guy even if he's 90% sub-Alex Jones libertarian theatrics.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
were they magic mushrooms? the articles i've seen just say schedule I or II drugs, and given his intensity in the video i just assumed they were amphetamines of some sort.
― Z S, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
and yeah, of course he's not dr. evil or anything, and i appreciate his anti-war activism in particular. still, when a dude is standing outside of my work talking about rebellion and snapping bullets into his shotgun, i cringe
― Z S, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
― Z S, Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah shrooms
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/988254_611171302250811_1959374098_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 12 July 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Todd Kliman of Washingtonian from an online chat in response to a question about their upcoming August issue with best cheap ethnic eats ($25 or under per person). It used to be just "cheap eats"
what does it tell you that the only "American restaurants" that qualify for Cheap Eats in the Washington area are pizza, burger, and barbecue joints?
To me, it's a fascinating thing to ponder.
One question that comes to mind is this: Why are there so few restaurateurs in the entire DC region able to compete with the prices charged by the so-called ethnic restaurants? In DC, for the most part, you either have Modern American restaurants, and can expect to pay $120 for two, or you have chain restaurants and their crummy chain food that costs $40 for two.
Why are there only a handful of American restaurants where you can eat well for $60 for two?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
because you insist on buying wine, probably
― しるび (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
eating out is so much cheaper when you don't drink
― しるび (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
gimme dat wiiine
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Silby, he's talking about "ethnic" restaurants vs. American ones; not about reducing one's total bill
Kliman theory in response to an online chatter:
One thing to consider is that so-called ethnic restaurants are often family restaurants, and can get away with paying less to employees as a result. Hey, that’s what family’s for!
As for paying less for raw ingredients … maybe. But I hope you’re not reflexively equating paying less with inferiority. If you’ve ever eaten at a Vietnamese restaurant in the Eden Center, you will be struck by the quality and freshness of the produce. Lettuces, herbs — all so green and so fragrant. And of course no one comes around to brag about where they were sourced.
I doubt that that is the case where meats and fishes are concerned, but you never know. And if you’re turning those meats and fishes into pastes and sausages, or treating them to long marinades and then grilling them and giving them that char and smoke, it often does not matter that much.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
1st world problems
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's just weird that he disqualifies burgers/pizza/barbecue from being food that can be served at american restaurants. I bet if you take out three of the most popular and low cost kinds of food from most other cuisines you're not left with a lot of options either!
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 1 August 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
I love the new Cheap Eats issue (it's always one of the most exciting days of the year when it comes out), with the tremendous detail on the different cuisines. I especially like that the "guide" doesn't limit itself to the Cheap Eats dollar ranges, but also includes expensive places like Izakaya Seki.
Kliman confuse me here (maybe because I haven't seen the hard copy "Cheap Eats" issue. Only the table of contents is online. So the "CHEAP Eats" contains a guide with "expensive" restaurants?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm looking at the hard copy right now & there's a section of two pages for each cuisine and restaurants they recommend, followed by a list that adds some more restaurants that don't fit in the previous groups. i don't see how 'cheap eats' has much to do with it other than it's the magazine's branding thing, some of these places are cheap and some could quickly get rather expensive ime
reminded me that i have to go to georgia ave for some mafé at that senegalese place, i didn't know it was still there
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Friday, 2 August 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
dad post
if anybody wants to accidentally run into a tombot and tombot mini we're thinking about making a regular thing of the "brunch" at the boardroom on sunday mornings. there's like tickets and drink tokens and shit but it's pretty clear you don't have to bring a toddler. That and eatonville are what we get up to these days. looking forward to Ted's Bulletin though
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
aww
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 August 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g),
Went back there around 6 months ago and the restaurant was mostly empty except for me & gf. Food was mostly good, but I think she doesn't have much ready for each night in the kitchen-- meaning, yes those were canned veggies--peas and such--thrown on top of the rice.
Reminds me that longtime ethnic restaurants, wel any restaurants, need to find a way to keep folks coming out. Taste of Morocco in Arlington was pretty empty when we went there the other night. Maybe cuz it was Sunday and its Ramadan.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Hi Tombot, long time no see! I would love to see you and R and the mini, but I am in Mexico for a while longer. Will try to catch up with all dcilxors when I do a quicky trip up sometime in November or December. I miss Ethiopian food soooooooo much it hurts.
― quincie, Friday, 2 August 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
THE UNTITLED (SMITHSONIAN HIRSHHORN MUSEUM) PIECE IN THE PETER COFFIN EXHIBITION AT THE HIRSHHORN
IS SO
FUCKING
CRUCIAL
― #REV! (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
like guys seriously there are no words
― #REV! (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
well okay there are lots and lots and lots of words that I could say about it but instead why don't you just go experience it for yourself
Will check it out. Have seen the war photos exhibit at the Corcoran but nothing else lately.
Oh I did finally play mini-golf at the Building Museum. I kinda liked it even if many holes were annoying-- no proper place to put golf ball at beginning; topographical map that made golf balls roll right off it; cylinder with impossible angle.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Aww man, I missed 3 exhibits I shoulda seen: BK ADAMS*I AM ART at Honfleur Gallery; Chocolate City Rest in Peace by Steven M. Cummings at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions; plus Permanent Summer with the work of veteran rock show poster printers David Sandlin, and artists such as Maya Hayak, Brian Chippendale, and Rob Corradetti
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Will try to see that Peter Coffin exhibit at the Hirshhorn before its October 6th closing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/
Sad and frustrating
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
x-post -- and that go-go exhibit in SE DC before it closes in mid-October, and that landscape photo one at a museum
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
plus this one of D.C. photos:
http://www.popville.com/2013/08/art-exhibit-coming-to-glen-echo-park-from-the-incredible-historical-photo-collection-by-michael-horsley/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Saw the Peter Coffin exhibit--took me some minutes to appreciate it but then I did--there's a dark room with paintings on the walls and then visual projections start randomly appearing from projectors on the ceiling onto the various paintings; accompanied by audio of music and animal sounds. Visuals of flowers bloomings, numbers, German text, all kinds of stuff,
There's also a big giant sitting dog sculpture in another room
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
and a non-imprssive sculpture outside and other stuff elsewhere in the museum
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
is everyone ok right now?
― Baby, where'd you get Chobani from? (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Sending u love, DC.
― quincie, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Couldn't get to work today but otherwise everyone I know is OK
― los blue jeans, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Ok here. Up to 13 dead now. Terrible
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 September 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Back to regular stuff (for most of us)
I wanna try this place to eat:
Sumah’s: 1727 7th St (Shaw)
Run by a Sierra Leonean
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 September 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
Just ate there a few days ago!
The good: The food is AMAZING. the owner asked us if it was our first time eating there, and then offered to bring out a free sampler dish that had 7-8 of the menu items on there. every single one was very good. even just plain old spinach was really good. you can't go wrong. the owner is ridiculously friendly. you get a ton of food. everything is $15-$17, but even just a medium order was enough for a full meals and a full meal for leftovers the next day (at least for me).
the eh: no big deal, but the vibe in the place was very much "these are all close friends of the owner". which is cool, but no one else was eating anything, just sitting around talking, and it felt kinda weird to be sitting there eating dinner. it's the kind of place where little kids are running around and stuff. doesn't really bother me, but it might bother other people.
the bad: good lord, the process of getting and paying for the check took like 45 minutes. not even a joke. the owner had disappeared somewhere in the back, and then two of the hangerouters were hangeroutering at the counter by the register the entire time, so it was kind of hard to just go up to the cash register and get some service. then when we finally flagged him down for the check, it took another 20 minutes or so for it to finally arrive, even though no one else was eating.
verdict: the place advertises itself as a takeout place, so that's what i'll be doing next time (i'll probably show up about 20-30 minutes after they say it'll be ready, based off of the first experience). but there will definitely be a next time. sooooo sooooooo good.
and with that, i have fulfilled my pledge to the owner. when we paid the bill, he leaned in really close to me with a crazy grin and whisper shouted "WRITE ABOUT US ON THE INTERNET!!"
― Z S, Friday, 20 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
lmao
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 20 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
― how's life, Friday, 20 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
i got a jury duty summons the other day. i don't have it in front of me right now, but it appears that say that after submitting the questionnaire to the city, i am required to call into a hotline EVERY DAY from late november until December 28 to check to see if i have jury duty? wtf?! in maryland (the only other place i've been summoned), they just told you to show up in court on a certain day.
― Z S, Thursday, 26 September 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
I have heard of the calling in thing. It saves you from going there every day. But yes doing it for a month is a pain.
In other news: My fave local blogger (of course)
http://africaindc.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/where-to-get-6-packs-of-ethiopian-beer-friday-night-africa-in-dc/
Also, this is happening tonight Saturday the 28th
music, art, film, foodrsvp at eventbrite (which only allows rsvp for 1 person).
http://www.francedc.org/events/?id=210 Saturday, September 28, 2013 7:00 PM - Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:00 AM Saturday, September 287PM-3AMWonderbread Factory // 620 S St, NWNo charge 21+ | RSVP
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 September 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Re. the jury summons--have you been tapped for grand jury service? I was called for that a couple of years ago. I pleaded poverty (no employer to pay me while serving), whereupon they shifted me to the petty jury pool. I was then promptly selected for a jury, but it was a relatively straightforward hit-and-run case.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Yay, shutdown over!
Decided to eat Laotian food last night at Bangkok Golden in 7 Corners, to celebrate. Yummy
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
I had eaten there before, but was lured back by seeing the restaurant in Tom Sietsema's top 40 restaurants in the Post magazine last week. No, it did not get 4 stars.
Government shutdown messed up my plans to see certain exhibits at museums. I wish they could have extended the runs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 October 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
Hey ZS, how did jury duty work out? If you're allowed to say?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 October 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/10/17/georgetown-waiter-bought-fanciest-stuff-ever-with-stolen-credit-card-info/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
Haven't heard back, but I can't make any travel plans for the holidays because I could have jury duty the day after thanksgiving or for Christmas Eve, and I won't know until the night before!
― reckless woo (Z S), Friday, 18 October 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
i suggest you make your plans!
one time in dc i got a summons but lost the notice so i called the hotline to find out when my day was -- the automated switchboard told me that the average hold time was 30 minutes. i hung up, ignored it, was not jailed. fuck that
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 October 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
I finally saw "Cool Disco Dan" movie this weekend. A bunch of it kinda bugged me, but I am still glad I saw it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
http://artforum.com/?pn=picks§ion=us#picks43498
ArtForum crits give love to a Transformer gallery exhibit that closes Saturday and to the Kerry James Marshall exhibit at the National Gallery of Art that is there through December I think
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Transformer is such a consistently great gallery.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
That article in the Washington Post Style section by the former dcist.com editor (now at Atlantic cities) on how D.C. is the cool city for her, was uncool.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 October 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
that whole spread in the magazine this weekend about millennials remaking dc was obnoxious, though their descriptions of life at meridian buildings certainly jibed with every party i ever went to at one of those
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Haven't read it yet, but thanks for the warning
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
Derek Rogers, a 23-year-old Meridian resident and an associate at a consulting firm, summed it up like so: “The pool is where you really see the colors of the building. It is a frat party. With less restrictions.”Picture: the last Saturday in August. The midafternoon sun is pulling “now you see me, now you don’t” tricks, ducking in and out of clouds. Post-grad paraphernalia is scattered about: cardboard boxes of Bud Light and Corona Light, red Solo cups, brown paper bags from Trader Joe’s. Tattoos peek out from neon bikinis and bro tanks in all the predictable places – wrapped around upper arms, perched on shoulder blades, high on the hipbones and insides of ankles – and music is blasting. It’s Avicii’s “Levels,” sampling Etta James’s “Something’s Got a Hold on Me”: Ooooh, sometimes, I get a good feeling. I get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before.
Picture: the last Saturday in August. The midafternoon sun is pulling “now you see me, now you don’t” tricks, ducking in and out of clouds. Post-grad paraphernalia is scattered about: cardboard boxes of Bud Light and Corona Light, red Solo cups, brown paper bags from Trader Joe’s. Tattoos peek out from neon bikinis and bro tanks in all the predictable places – wrapped around upper arms, perched on shoulder blades, high on the hipbones and insides of ankles – and music is blasting. It’s Avicii’s “Levels,” sampling Etta James’s “Something’s Got a Hold on Me”: Ooooh, sometimes, I get a good feeling. I get a feeling that I never, never, never, never had before.
it gets worse from there
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
the Post sees it as an advertiser package but I see it as an exposé
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
From the Style section millenial piece this morning
But as we look at the increase in restaurants, bike lanes, night-life options and other hallmarks of modern urban cool, there is also that admittedly less important, more ethereal question: Is it possible, after all this time, that D.C. is getting — whisper it with me now — awfully hip?
How predictable
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
huhhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2013/10/18/march-of-the-millennials/
Once-dead streets are bustling, even after dark. High-rises are replacing aged structures and overgrown lots. Restaurants pop up overnight, like dandelions.
i feel like i have read a lot of writing where all the work that goes into all this passive/magical replacement process of making new buildings and restaurants appear is glossed over. not interesting
also re: some people they saw on 14th street, isn't 'transvestite' a derogatory term? where are the editors??
thx for reminder about transformer. d'oh. i was just at 14th and p this evening and didn't realize it closed so soon, will have to see it tomorrow
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Friday, 25 October 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/homespun-dc-places-lost-to-condos-and-burger-chains/2013/10/17/f065ac16-1a42-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
At least one piece touched on what used to be here.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/keep-your-cool-new-york-and-la-the-millennials-flocking-to-dc-redefine-hip/2013/10/23/5988d83c-3b2f-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
S. Mathis hung out with the wrong people if all she can say re her time in LA and NYC is that LA is so superficial and NYC is so expensive. Not particularly insightful. And then she acknowledges that DC had Duke Ellington, go-go and punk but its really only becoming hip and cool now (because she has lots of friends who are policy wonks and such)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
i'm friends with a bunch of said policy wonks (as are at least a couple people in this thread, i'm sure) - i gotta be careful here because i've met s0mmer and i have no problem with her, and i like her/my mutual friends a whole lot, but there's something weirdly depressing about hanging out with that whole cohort, even if they are super idealistic about remaking dc from the inside out
part of it is the fact that their world is completely foreign to me, but there's something more - there's something about a lot of young dc people's altruistic impulses that feels extremely insincere and self-serving to me.
that said they do serve really good beer at their parties though
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 October 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
I met her once and contributed on ocassion to dcist.com when she was there (but did not really work with her). I don't know her policy wonk friends and have nothing against them, I just hate that she's defining all of D.C. with just this one group, and with a cliched idea of coolness and hipness. Is that all she can offer: L.A.= superficial, N.Y. =expensive, D.C.= policy wonks. And the earlier quote: But as we look at the increase in restaurants, bike lanes, night-life options and other hallmarks of modern urban cool, there is also that admittedly less important, more ethereal question: Is it possible, after all this time, that D.C. is getting — whisper it with me now — awfully hip?
Groan. Its just lazy journalism.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Plus it's insulting to everyone else here.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
what it comes down to is just that it's always really embarrassing for people to try to write about the idea of what's cool
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
pretty much
― quincie, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/the-20-diner-panda-gourmet-dazzles-with-genuine-sichuan-and-shaanxi-cooking-at-a-days-inn/2013/08/28/cef3a876-0b9c-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html
Panda Gourmet on NY Avenue
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 October 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if its as good as the 4 Corners Sichuan restaurant in a strip mall near Eden Center and Home Depot
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 October 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-detection-system-documents-39000-shooting-incidents-in-the-district/2013/11/02/055f8e9c-2ab1-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html?hpid=z2
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs.html#film-programs.html?category=Film%20Programs&pageNumber=1&_suid=138445983889007557851583022691
Which of the Pasolini films at the National Gallery do you recommend?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Film nerds come back and school me, please
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Alright, I guess I will use ilxor search engine and google
Pier Paolo fucking Pasolini: Search (I don't want to hear your destroy choices cause they're of no fucking interest to me)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
i've only ever seen medea and salo unfortunately. medea is really good (the marxism-for-dummies comment in that thread is way otm though). salo is obviously not in this series lest it inspire any "Taxpayers Fund Obscene Homosexual Christmas at Smithsonian"-style headlines again
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Missed the this Sunday Pasolini movie but did finally see the interesting Kerry James Marshall exhibit in the East wing; and in the West wing the Charles Marville photos of Paris from the late 1800s; and the "Yes,No, Maybe" exhibit of printmaking with Chuck Close and John Cage and others.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 November 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
According to Walmart spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg, the company is hiring about 300 associates for each store and has received more than 23,000 applications for D.C. Walmart jobs.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
A 550-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment rents for about $2,700 a month. City Market has already rented 75, sight unseen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/o-street-market-symbol-of-violence-becomes-a-marker-for-dcs-resurgence/2013/11/19/52012d2c-4ca9-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html?hpid=z2
Are these folks who are renting likely lobbyists and lawyers?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45074/the-people-issue-2013/
spam department. Ilxor Some Dude and I each wrote one of these q & a's of interesting D.C. people for this week's City Paper cover story
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
The Stadium Club owners paid ~$150K to clear the TruOrleans lien: $61,000 in singles. http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2013/11/stadium-club-bill-paid-lien-lifted.html …
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 November 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
one of the things i heard re: who rents those places, the housing funds (? not sure of the term) for some senior manager level government employees who get temporarily moved to the dc area for work (i think these are for the shorter term assignments, like someone at defense dept. here for a year or a couple years) is a lot of money - and has to be used for housing so there's no incentive to look for a place where the rent is cheaper since the government is paying for it, so if you have like $2-3K/month to spend on housing, why not rent a place that costs that much? this was the explanation i heard from friends as to how people could afford apartments in their arlington neighborhood where a one bedroom in certain buildings was like $2500
there's that, or if you figure it's a couple renting the apartment and each pays $1350/month it's not that difficult if they both make pretty good salaries? don't know why you'd spend quite that much on rent but again, if you're not expecting to stay there more than a year or two & can afford it..
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 24 November 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
^^^ having rented out our house for what seems like a totally obscene amount of money, I have pondered this myself. We've had two tenants: one was being relocated by his NYC law firm, which I am sure picked up the tab for the four month lease while the family looked for a place to buy. The second is a lawyer from the neighborhood who is doing a reno that is taking over six months, and is extensive enough that the family had to move out for that time. He makes over half a million bucks a year, so uh yeah, there is that. Basically rich people be rich, same ole' story.
― quincie, Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
my company (consulting company that does a lot of government work, though not exclusively) puts a shitload of people who are relocating/being staffed to longterm projects into corporate apartments in the immediate suburbs of nyc and dc, many of which are really just regular apartments in managed apartment complexes - when i left dc i lived in a one-bedroom in new jersey for a few months last year that cost them $3k-plus, and it wasn't even particularly close to manhattan
the way to look at it, i guess, is that it's STILL much cheaper than putting someone up in a hotel room 20 nights per month
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 25 November 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
In non-renting news, this Roger Ballen staged photos (mostly in South Africa) and drawings and a video with Die Antwoord exhibit at the Museum of African Art is interesting but creepy
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/ballen/index.html
While the Eliot Elisofon photos from throughout Africa from the 40s through to 1970 or so exhibit, have me envious and wanting to be able to see all that http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africa-reviewed/index.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 November 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Have missed all the Pasolini movies...Oh well
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
That Library of Congress Jefferson Building Great Hall is pretty nice looking I think
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Finally saw that Smithsonian American Art Museum's Latino Art overview exhibit. There's some good stuff in it, and Kennicott's moaning in the W. Post that the intro caption doesn't magically link all of these US based artists who speak Spanish together, can be ignored, I think. Yea, that's true, but so what.
On another floor I quickly saw the exhibit of black and white US landscape photos. I need to look up who the photographer was who did the photos of sideshow snakeholders and stuff out in the rural west. Impressive and not cliched.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 December 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Coming to National Gallery of Art
December 22 at 4:30December 28 at 2:30
Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris) was released in France on December 20, 1963. Fifty years on, the film retains its appeal and inventiveness. A screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) is weighing an offer to jazz up The Odyssey for a Hollywood mogul (Jack Palance) and trying to fathom why his wife (Brigitte Bardot) no longer likes him. Contempt makes a bold statement on everything from Greek epic to American modernity. “The greatness of the work is not that Godard is nostalgic for Homeric harmony. He knows that ship has sailed. Instead everything, ancient or modern, ‘real’ or ‘unreal,’ has its own stunned dignity, and the movie wants us to see it all—as its people, tragically, cannot. . . . The audacity, we now see, is breathtaking”—Terrence Rafferty. (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, DCP, French, English, German, and Italian with subtitles, 102 minutes
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
I expect to be at the Dec. 22 screening--if you recognize me, do say hi.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
if that's the restored version that played earlier this year at film forum, it's going to look completely awesome
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/12/19/the_ultimate_hate_d_c_essay_of_2013.html
Nothing too new about it really, or about Weigel's take on it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 December 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
Cine-Concert: The General at NGASunday, January 12 at 6:30 p.m. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926, 78 minutes preceded by Drummer of the 8th (Thomas Ince, 1913) and The House with Closed Shutters ( D.W. Griffith, 1910), approximately 25 minutes World premiere of orchestral score by Andrew Simpson
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Another movie I want to see -- this time at the tiny Library of Congress Pickford Theatre as part of their winter jazz film series that starts this friday night
JANUARY 17 at 7 PMMickey One (1965) – Directed by Arthur PennHollywood’s version of a French new wave film stars Warren Beatty as a paranoid comic on the run from the mob. Superb soundtrack features Eddie Sauter’s imaginative score with featured soloist Stan Getz (93 min). We will be showing a 35mm print. Introduction by Tim Masters, WPFW-FM
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
The General was fun. Looks like some other interesting stuff at coming up at NGA, esp. Videofreex, a Ondes Martenot doc, and Czech animated shorts
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Monday, 13 January 2014 07:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/17/a-look-at-the-library-of-congress-jazz-film-friday-series/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Noir weekend (Feb. 1st and 2nd) coming up at NGA
Saturday at 2:00 p.m., the Gallery presents T-Men followed by Raw Deal, introduced by historian Max Alvarez. In The Crime Films of Anthony Mann (2014), Alvarez brings essential scholarship to an aspect of Mann’s career often overshadowed by his 1950s westerns. A composite story based on Treasury Department case files, T-Men’s quasi-documentary narrative is brilliantly served by Hungarian-born cinematographer John Alton, whose camera placement and lighting seem the very definition of film noir. In Raw Deal — again with John Alton’s expressionistic camera and lights — gangster Joe Sullivan (Dennis O’Keefe) breaks out of jail with social worker Ann (Marsha Hunt) as a hostage.
Sunday at 4:30, the Gallery kicks off its series Recovered Treasure: UCLA’s Festival of Preservation with Gun Crazy, with an introduction by Rebecca Prime, author of Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture (2014). One of the finest mid-century noirs, this Bonnie-and-Clyde tale of two outlaw lovers — a naïve gun-crazed war veteran and a carnival sharpshooter whose inner anomie is exceeded only by their amour fou — was adapted in part by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
KRAAAAFTWEEEERRRKKKwho's going????
― vylvyt ylvis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
2nd show added! $55 plus service charge. Enjoyed them last time but think I'm gonna pass this time.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
I got a ticket to the 6pm show which is nice bcz I won't be super tired. It was $67 when all was said n done.
― vylvyt ylvis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
Went to ramen place Daikaya last night. Eh its ok, but like with Toki Underground I think its been over-hyped. Also, maybe its just cheapskate me, but I think some suburban pho places (yea I know, different food and nationality) offer better tasting soup at half the price.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
still haven't made it to toki underground
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
IF i don't have any health mini-crises, may be down for Prez Day wkend. Pondering going to Cibo Matto at 930.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
some people are ramen people some are pho people
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
My 2 current non-soup faves (though they have good soup too) are the Laotian food at Bangkok Golden in Seven Corners, Falls church near Home Depot (not far from Eden Center) and the Sichuan place a few doors down, Hong Kong Palace.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
can vouch for Bangkok Golden
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 30 January 2014 06:29 (ten years ago) link
kogiya: believe the hype
what I initially wrote off as a honey pig knockoff turned out to be the best korean bbq I've ever had
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 30 January 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
Will have to try it. Have you had Korean tofu soup at Lighthouse Tofu (which also has a Korean name too I think)? Pretty good.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Afrofuturism: Artists on Three Continents Explore “Black to the Future”Exhibition and Short FilmsMonday, 3 February – Friday, 28 February 2014http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en12153732v.htm
Gallery hours: M-Th 9-5; F 9-3
The hours are so limited. Not sure how I will see this...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Watched an out-of-print I think dvd of 1950 noir Gun Crazy that's at the NGA on Sunday. Nicely shot (ha )
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
waaaaht
love that movie
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
4:30 Sunday
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
I've seen it on TCM in the last year...but a restored version in 35mm is damn tempting.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Saturday, 1 February 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link
Gonna have to miss today's offering: Saturday at 2:00 p.m., the Gallery presents T-Men followed by Raw Deal, introduced by historian Max Alvarez.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
so is yr burg mobbed on Prez Day weekend? I'm thinking any weekend after the spring thaw will be worse, but whadda i know.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
hotel prices that weekend look pretty typical for winter - any time before cherry blossom week is going to be pretty sedate
if anything a lot of people skip town president's day weekend, since many kids have the following week off
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Snow Emergency parking rules going into effect at 6:30....
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
no shelter buses tonight, either. :/
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 13 February 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/02/12/a-murdered-deli-owner-lives-on-at-heaven-h/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I think the below M. Yglesias statement is an exaggeration
Like most people residing in the nation’s capital, I spent a healthy chunk of my weekend binge-watching House of Cards. In my case, I binged all the way from the beginning since I inexplicably missed the first season.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/netflix_s_original_series_it_s_beating_hbo_without_being_better_than_hbo.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
lol everyone in my cube sector watched it
i did not
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
My gf and I did not. Haven't polled the cube sector near me or my family, though no family members have mentioned watching it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
I think there's a significant audience in DC and in Maryland that watches Scandal and not House of Cards, so his "most people" comment is not accurate. Plus there are those who aren't watching either
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
i mean yeah
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
moved back here just in time to see Los Angeles Plays Itself
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 February 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
sweet Jesus, not a room in the District to be had under $180/night two weekends from now
airbnb signup i guess
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 March 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
(that is, I'm not staying in the far NE)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 March 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
You can get a room at the Holiday Inn in Alexandria across from Eisenhower Metro for 100 a night but then you'd be in Alexandria.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah Arlington is an option tho. "Spring" tourists gonna be disappointed at those bare cherry trees.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Trying not to stay in Arlington, but if I ever do I will visit Lee Marvin's grave.
So I see the Nas symphonic show at the Kennedy Center is sold out! wtf
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45548/garry-winogrand-at-the-national-gallery-of-art-reviewed-a/
I wanna see this. Here through June.Plus a couple other museum retrospectives at Phillips and elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Morbs, have you been to the architecturally unexciting Nationals ballpark yet?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
this should be fun: http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/home/#collection=disasterthon-coming-april
I want to go to the Hirshhorn's Jeremy Deller lecture this Thursday at 7pm but I'm sure it's gonna be packed
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
I have been to Nationals Park once. Going again to exhib game on 29th, barring snow!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
nice
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
I need to see that Art & Destruction exhibit at the Hirshhorn. How did I not know about this from last year:
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz performs one of his historic Piano Destruction Concerts on the Hirshhorn’s outdoor plaza as part of the opening night of Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
oops
I'd really like to see the Deller talk -- is the ring auditorium a small room? I can't remember ever being in there.
― a-lo, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Isn't it around a 100 people at most? Hirshhorn site says members can reserve spots but others should get there early.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
It's only members at the $500+ level who can reserve spots, unfortunately. I'd guess that there won't be a ton of seats for the public.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
damn, that is some elite-level museum shit
did that superbookstore in Dupont close? I fergit.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Kramerbooks & Cafe on Conn. Ave near the Circle is still open.
Melody Records is closed.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
If you mean Books-a-Million, they're still open.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Morbs you would be more than welcome at our place, except that our place is currently rented out (by a family of 5! In our little house!) until May. After that you always have a place to hang your hat, just say the word!
― quincie, Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
aww thx
I am being met on airbnb thus far w/ impassive silence
what's the funky bookstore off Dupont that had all the sidewalk shelves?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
ok, Second Story, i see it's still open.
and hey, the Eagle-in-Exile will be open at the DC Fringe space!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
If you're looking for used books, Books for America (1417 22nd St NW, few blocks west on P St and then a left) is really great, especially for new-ish books and political/history stuff.
― a-lo, Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
You probably won't be able to get out there but the Second Story in Rockville is a massive, warehouse-sized space.
― Chris L, Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/zoo-keepers-become-mama-bear-to-sloth-bear-cub-that-was-at-risk-of-being-eaten-by-mother/2014/03/20/f4da6a6e-aecd-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 March 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
The Deller talk was really interesting last night and less than 1/2 full. His English Magic film is great and is being shown until early April -- Steel drums, Bowie, crushed land rovers, slow-mo owls. It's also online.
― a-lo, Friday, 21 March 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
aargh with I'd gone to the Deller talk but I was in Baltimore :/
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 21 March 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
wish, that is.
I've got to go see that Dan Kiley show at the National Building Museum too
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 21 March 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
What's going on the weekend of Fri 4/4 - Sun 4/6? I am totally def going to the decay thing at the Hirsh and also the Nat'l Bldg Museum too. Are there any other good exhibitions/events/happenings/must-see things going on?
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 22 March 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
There is this club, it is called U Hall, I hear it is pretty good.
― quincie, Sunday, 23 March 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah i've heard about that one
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 23 March 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link
Every time I try to put my drinks on the ledge of the DJ booth there they slide off and bounce off the floor :/
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 23 March 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
whoever designed that place is clearly an asshole
― quincie, Sunday, 23 March 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
sorry i'll miss you Stevie! hold yr damn drink. :)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 March 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
I MEAN WHY WOULD YOU SLOPE THE LEDGES OF A DJ BOOTH, THEY ARE CLEARLY SPACES MEANT TO HOLD CONTAINERS OF LIQUID
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 23 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I am curious about the Adrian Loving, DC dj, artist, schoolteacher, exhibit http://lilsoso.com/lsp-picks/art-pick-adrian-lovings-fade-2-grey-opens-march-7th
press release excerpt:
Fade 2 Grey is a groundbreaking new solo art exhibition by artist Adrian Loving. His works explore androgyny, gender roles, fashion and the sensationalism of style in 80’s pop music. Included in this show is an installation of rare album covers from the late 1970’s through the mid 80’s from Loving’s personal collection. Themes of New Wave, Punk, Electro Boogie, New Romantic, Sexy Robots, Hair Bands and Jheri Curl Funk all play out through the identity of the artists presented on each album. The primary focus of the exhibition will be a series of six video art installations that will explore the aesthetic tension of duality in the visual identity of select musicians including: Patti Smith, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Sylvester, Boy George and Prince
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 March 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
What's going on the weekend of Fri 4/4 - Sun 4/6?
Photographer Winogrand exhibit plus a couple other museum retrospectives at Phillips and elsewhere;
U St Music hall has Dean Wareham Friday, Grandmaster Flash Saturday and others. There's various interesting to me Latin shows Friday the 4th-- El Gran Combo at the Howard; Bobby Sanabria at the Smithsonian; a Cuban timba group at Artisphere; reggaeton rappers Jowell & Randy out in the burbs somewhere
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 March 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
adrian's a good dude
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 24 March 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
saw some of his visual stuff a few years ago that i really enjoyed, very colorful & thought provoking
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 24 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe I'm going to the Nationals home opener on 4/4 instead of a Kraftwerk show, 20 year old me would disown myself
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 24 March 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe you don't want me to put my drink on the dj booth
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 24 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
history will vindicate me
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
OK DCilxors, this is probably a long shot, but anyone wanna FAP on Sunday or Wednesday? I am in town briefly (back permanently on May 1). Won't have a car but can Metro wherever.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 09:45 (ten years ago) link
I could drink either evening.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 11:14 (ten years ago) link
I'm around til Mon morning, but possibly seeing Stacy Keach as Falstaff on Sunday night.
Is anything institutional or arty open late on Friday, like til 8? I probably need something to do 4-8pm besides eat dinner.
(also do these Farragut food trucks exist, if I get off the bus downtown at 2?)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Longtime lurker, but it's a thrill to know Dr. Morbs might come to my theatre.
― drew in baltimore, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
what's the deal w/ those $20 tix? I don't have to be a student?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Smithsonian American Art Museum at 8th & F Sts NW is open til 7 on Friday;
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Show is still in previews, so they're trying to fill the house.
― drew in baltimore, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
I would see Part 2 if you're already familiar with both plays. Better Keach.
― drew in baltimore, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
I am, but it'll take another trip in a month or so for p2.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
so is anyone interested in talking about this jim graham/brianne nadeau race in ward 1 or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-ward-1-4-term-incumbent-jim-graham-tries-to-fend-off-tough-challenge-in-brianne-nadeau/2014/03/19/7217a1a8-aac4-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html
Nadeau, a communications consultant, is hoping to rally enough residents to think twice about Graham, who for 15 years has enjoyed nearly iconic status in the fast-growing, highly diverse Ward 1 thanks to his quirky profile — thick-rimmed glasses and colorful bow ties — and close attention to constituent services.A self-described ethical “lapse” has pitted Graham against a feisty, well-financed challenger in Nadeau, who hopes to capitalize on anti-corruption sentiment in the wake of last week’s guilty plea from a prominent businessman who financed an illegal, off-the-books effort to help elect Mayor Vincent C. Gray four years ago.“There is a mood in D.C. right now,” Nadeau said Monday at her campaign office a few blocks north of the U Street corridor. “People are angry that their trust has been violated, and they should be angry.”Graham acknowledged that Gray’s legal troubles haven’t done him any favors. And he conceded that Nadeau is one of the more serious challengers he has faced over the years. But he scoffed at her laserlike focus on his ethics record, calling it her campaign’s only plank. And he said he believes that his constituents still see him as someone who “gets things done.”
A self-described ethical “lapse” has pitted Graham against a feisty, well-financed challenger in Nadeau, who hopes to capitalize on anti-corruption sentiment in the wake of last week’s guilty plea from a prominent businessman who financed an illegal, off-the-books effort to help elect Mayor Vincent C. Gray four years ago.
“There is a mood in D.C. right now,” Nadeau said Monday at her campaign office a few blocks north of the U Street corridor. “People are angry that their trust has been violated, and they should be angry.”
Graham acknowledged that Gray’s legal troubles haven’t done him any favors. And he conceded that Nadeau is one of the more serious challengers he has faced over the years. But he scoffed at her laserlike focus on his ethics record, calling it her campaign’s only plank. And he said he believes that his constituents still see him as someone who “gets things done.”
leftys i know are divided between people talking about 'lets topple graham and show we can have an impact' and 'you realize nadeau is like the gentrification vaguard right, how do you think she got wells endorsement'
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I'm not a big Brianne fan but Jim Graham is THE WORST
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
the case 'for' him that i'm hearing is that if you're gonna target a councilmember for a takedown, a reliably liberal-voting guy who's arguably 'the least corrupt' on the council seems like an odd choice unless your unstated goal is to remove the least bad old guard for replacement by a representative of young transplants
or if you like the closest things to a case *for* him is a case against the demographic changes brianne's supporters rep
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
loool
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/dc-council-candidates-fight-about-ethics-outside-starbucks.php
DC Council member Jim Graham had to be pulled away by one of his staff when he got in the face of Brianne Nadeau, his opponent in next week’s Democratic primary.“I’m a public official, which you will never be,” Graham barked while wagging his finger at Nadeau in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown DC.
“I’m a public official, which you will never be,” Graham barked while wagging his finger at Nadeau in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown DC.
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to hear an argument for Graham being 'the least corrupt' member of the council and would like to present DC ethics board findings as a counterargument
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Have a fun weekend here Morbs
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
thx, on da bus, if i get there by 2 gonna try find food trucks
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 March 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
woooo
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 March 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
kinda disappointed by today's selections in front of Union Station... was hoping for Basil Thyme, not DC Slices.
http://foodtruckfiesta.com/dc-food-trucks/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 March 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
I have no food trucks near my dayjob
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
The Ward 1 direct mail campaign is completely out of control, including 2-3 of the same flyer showing up each day. The latest wave included one from Graham outlining the condo assistance charge. That said, I liked the no-frills, pro-Gray flyers the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition taped up on bus shelters downtown.
― a-lo, Friday, 28 March 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
I am coming to DC for a few days specifically to vote for Wells.
Actually I am coming to DC for a few days specifically to help spouse procure employment, as I am doing my best not to be employed until January 2016.
But since I'm there anyway, I'll be voting for Wells and SO SHOULD YOU.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Also if anyone wants to give me a little bit of a job (like, fewer than 10 hours a week), I will do whatever you want! Maybe not competently, but I will do it! There are a few things I do competently so I can offer those services up as well.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
QUINCE I HAD BETTER SEE YOU BTWN 4/4 AND 4/6 OR THE STREETS WILL BE FLOODED W/ TEARS
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
AND SPILLED BEER
I WOULD LOVE TO BUT I HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE TEXASS ON THE 3RD *crying* BECAUSE I AIN'T GOT NOT PLACE IN DC ATM!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
40 years old, unemployed, homeless, living with parents, no shame.
OK, a little shame.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
I am currently giving spouse a hard time because he refuses to apply for a Director of IT job for THE HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION.
I mean wtf FREE HELICOPTERS, ALL THE TIME amirite?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, March 28, 2014 7:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Are they still in Alexandria? I worked there years ago! (To be fair, when they offered me a regular job I turned them down, but still....)
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
GRAY PRIDE
gray's campaign manager is trolling him right
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
j.lu, yes, that's the place? He's not that keen based on job description, but HELICOPTERS for god's sake!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:07 (ten years ago) link
early Fri eve in Kalorama:
joggersdogwalkersone guy singing "We Didn't Start the Fire"
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 March 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
This is opening today at the Corcoran, I wonder if it will be worth checking out
Rineke Dijkstra: The KrazyhouseMarch 29-June 15, 2014
The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Phillip, Dee), Liverpool, UK is a four- channel video installation by Rineke Dijkstra, created in 2009 at a popular dance club in Liverpool. It presents in sequence a group of five young people in their teens and early twenties dancing and sometimes singing along to tunes they selected themselves. While the kids' selections of music and dance are diverse, each one seems both self-conscious and lost in the moment looking for some way to transcend their daily lives and make an impression for others.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 March 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
maybe I can hit that today, along w/ Winogrand and Bldg Museum.
Def go to that destructive art show at Hirshhorn.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
btw can confirm morbs's woody allen impression is a++
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 30 March 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/03/26/dupont-circle-citizens-take-on-loud-nightclubs-one-decibel-reading-at-a-time/
Shouldn't these folks just be monitoring decibels from their homes and not from the back walls of these Connecticut Avenue & Dupont Circle clubs
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 March 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
I still need to see all these. Been too busy working on weekends.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 March 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
btw the children have won at the Building Museum -- randomly kicking soccer balls and running amok over the entire main floor.
what is the deal with those "for US Senator" posters around town? They don't give u ppl senators.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
SHADOW SENATOR!
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
I figured something like that; how pie-eyed.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
it's a position several degrees of magnitude less powerful than our non-voting Representative
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
senator literally just stands in the shadows, grumbling
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
I always feel badly when I forget the name of our shadow senator. I vow to remember it, and then I forget it again. Like right now, I can't remember it, even though I just voted and surely his name was on the ballot somewhere (I, uh, skipped a bunch of parts).
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
the shadow senator slides on their back along the floor with their toes touching the heels of real life senators, miming their movements and collecting important intel
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
From the City Paper election guide:
For shadow senator, the choice is between Paul Strauss, who’s had the job for 17 years and been arrested twice, or Pete Ross, who’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars campaigning for the post and once served three months in a halfway house for tax evasion.
― a-lo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
shadow sleaze!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
"I am a public official, which you will never be!" is even funnier now
GOODBYE JIM GRAHAM
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 07:54 (ten years ago) link
It's like DC is determined to have the lamest government ever.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
From the DC Board of Elections:
Of 369,037 total Registered Voters in the District – 83,040 or 22.50% voted:
MAYORMURIEL E. BOWSER 35,899 (votes) 44.24%VINCENT C. GRAY 26,209 32.30%TOMMY WELLS 10,181 12.55%
AT – LARGE MEMBER OF THE COUNCILANITA D. BONDS 36,426 (votes) 52.85%NATE BENNETT-FLEMING 15,468 22.44%JOHN F. SETTLES, II 9,332 13.54%
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD ONEBRIANNE K. NADEAU 5,755 (votes) 58.68%JIM GRAHAM 4,003 40.82%
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD FIVEKENYAN McDUFFIE 8,363 (votes) 78.77%KATHY HENDERSON 1,549 14.59%
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD SIXCHARLES ALLEN 7,140 (votes) 57.95%DARREL THOMPSON 5,156 41.85%
― a-lo, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
that map in the post was amazing
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh, the one with Bowser taking NW and Sw and with Gray getting NE and SE. Yep, nothing much has changed. With Bowser identified with Fenty, its really not surprising. Also, not surprising that many stayed home.
But I'm out in the nearby burbs so I should let you city folks have at it.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
http://dc.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/enjoy-these-daft-punkesque-petworth-street-signs-for-now.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
literally made me giggle
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 4 April 2014 06:07 (ten years ago) link
gol
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 6 April 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Dear lord what were you doing in Rosslyn? DON'T CROSS THE POTOMAC is a rule I try to live by.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 April 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
rosslyn is weird as f
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 April 2014 04:36 (ten years ago) link
it really is
― Karl Malone, Monday, 7 April 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
I used to work there but at odd hours. Walking to the metro at 11pm every night was eerie.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 7 April 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
However, I have seen the future...
But having brought restaurants to both 14th Street and Rosslyn, Asadoorian now seems to be rooting for the underdog. “If I was a restaurateur, I wouldn’t go to 14th Street. There’s too many restaurants and the pie is not that big, and the rents are high. Go to Rosslyn. There’s no restaurants, and the pie is huge.”
This article focusses mainly on the new Heavy Seas Alehouse, which is a bar. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/03/19/is-rosslyn-on-the-verge-of-having-a-dining-scene/
Not sure that I buy it. Oh, Rosslyn's Artisphere once in awhile has an exhibit worth seeing or a music gig or 2.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
"rosslyn has gotten better" isn't incompatible with "rosslyn is weird and terrible" given how low it started
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
I saw the DJ Adrian Loving Fade 2 Grey androgyny exhibit at the Anacostia Arts Center Saturday. Just one little room with a few video screens on the wall, and some vinyl record covers. A good guy, but I found the video art a tad underwhelming.
I was more impressed by the Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.
Ndwango (means "cloth") is a new form of bead art developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Ubuhle (means "beautiful") artists' community was established in 1999 by local resident Bev Gibson and master beader Ntombephi Ntombela [En-Tom-be-Fi En-tom-bell-la] to empower local women with the means to provide for their families through their art. The flat surface of the textile onto which the Ubuhle women bead is reminiscent of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts that many of them grew up wearing.
http://anacostia.si.edu/exhibits/current_exhibitions.htm
Also finally went to Frederick Douglass' house. Nice NPS tour and reminder of how great this guy was.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
if i come back this spring it will be partly for Lincoln's Cottage; wd like to do the Douglass house too.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Have never been to Lincoln's cottage. Need to add it to my list of DC "tourist" things I want to finally do, that I haven't (despite living around here since I was 4)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
^^^my list of these things is loooooooooong
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
Rosslyn has the Tricky Dick Memorial Garage, yo
http://www.yelp.com/biz/deep-throat-parking-garage-rosslyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
I posted this yesterday on the parenting thread, but in case you are a grown-up in the DC are who really likes dinosaurs, the fossil exhibit at Natural History is closing for a 5-year renovation starting April 28.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/smithsonian-dinosaur-hall-to-close-april-28-for-five-year-renovation/2014/01/17/acba089e-7f3d-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html
― take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
hey you guys should come to my house on saturday
we're doin it big
https://www.facebook.com/events/1383372445235687
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
if i didn't have to work i would be there. looks awesome tbh.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 10 April 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
Looks like something happened in my neighborhood. Crime scene tape, police and ambulances everywhere, numbered cards all over the ground, traffic gridlocked for a dozen blocks in every direction. :-/
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 April 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I may come. I used to live on Lamont Street.
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Friday, 11 April 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 11 April 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
http://ourconvergence.org/events/syria-sacred-spaces-ancient-prayers
Jason Hamacher who has drummed in various DC bands went to Syria from 2005 to 2010 (before the fighting) and photographed ancient buildings, a synagogue & churches plus people and he recorded Syrian tranditional chant singers. He is exhibiting his photos (and the singing is heard) at Convergence church on Quaker Lane in Alexandria, near Fairlington/Arlington. Its only there for a little while longer -Wednesday through Sat. 10 am to 5. Metrobus accessible. If you can make it you should go. I was impressed (some of the pics are more interesting for who he photographed rather than his technique, but his technique/style is pretty good too).
From 2005-2010, Jason was granted unprecedented access to the Syrian city of Aleppo. He went to document ancient religious traditions and, inadvertently, captured the apex of Syria’s modernization before the eruption of civil war. Many of the people and places that appear in this exhibit have passed on, vanished, or been destroyed.LOST ORIGIN SOUND SERIES - Jason Hamacher created the Lost Origin Sound Series to introduce and share his archive of cultural relics with the world. Over the course of his travels, Hamacher was fortunate to record several albums worth of sacred music which are being released as a multi-volume series, Sacred Voices of Syria, showcasing ancient Sufi, Armenian, Syriac, and Assyrian musical traditions. The first album, “Ancient Sufi Invocations and Forgotten Songs from Aleppo” debuts on vinyl April 19 and CD & Digital May 6th. www.LostSoundSeries.com to hear a sample.Website: www.lostorigins.comWashington Post Article (Before and after pics): http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-syria-i-saw-now-in-ruins/2013/09/27/3629abf8-2470-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Hi DCilxors. I am really, really, really looking forward to returning to DC for keeps on May 2. I have spent really, really, really too much time in suburban Houston and Birmingham. I really, really, really need to GTFO of the deep south.
Sooooooo I haven't actually lived in DC for just over a year, and need to get back in to the swing of things in town. What are your daily/weekly must-reads? I'll get the WaPo delivered because I am old-school like that, and the City Paper on Thursdays, and my beloved Northwest Current, but what else? PoP? DCist? Other stuff?
My school/internship schedule will leave me with more time than usual to Do Shit in DC, and I plan to take full advantage while I can.
Also: any DC apps I need on my iPhone?
Thanking u and looking forward to catching up soon.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
Welcome back -- I still get the Post, too, but it has fallen off in recent years. Curmudgeon's shows list (referenced on this thread or Capital Swamp) is good, too -- I get hip to a lot of stuff checking these and the occasional website (mostly to see what films are playing at the museums). PoP is still the guide to clueless DC gentrification (National Zoo shooting thread comments are today's egregious example). Only DC app I found useful is the Metro one -- there is also a bus one that is/was good.
― a-lo, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Thanx
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Two days off and I might check out a museum or two tomorrow. Haven't been to anything in well over a year. Best exhibits worth catching?
Might go Thursday though as I could possibly be seeing Factory Floor.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
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― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Cheers!
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
hey quince i hear visiting Philadelphia is like SUCH A COOL THING TO DO these days, idK?
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
oh hai my internship schedule gives me 4 day weekends so I am so down with that! I love Philly! I wanna see your new place! I have a housewarming present for you that I have not yet gotten in the mail!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
OMG FOR SERIOUS????
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
New place is not ready yet and cannot really house guests (or at least not for like a little while when I get a futon or something) but YES PLZ COME TO VISIT
Have thermarest and sleeping bag; will purchase and cook food and paint!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
I may return to DC on weekend of 5/17
and i hang w/ you in Philly sometime before July 4, kid
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Morbs you are welcome at our place (two cats, zero kids, walk to metro and bus) :)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
ya'll may roll your damn eyes at me over this but WTF are these renderings in this Bloomingdale rental ad?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh hay here: http://realestate.popville.com/listing/3yd-MRIS-DC8325370/32-channing-street-northwest-bloomingdale-washington-dc-20001/
what are you talking about
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
HEY MAN SRS Q I mean u know me, u know I have no eye for this stuff.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
OK OK now that I look at it again but I mean IS NOTHING SACRED jesus I would have gotten a rendering done of my rental prop if I knew that were a thing.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
that said, there is nothing like spending a couple of weeks in Alabama to make one really, really yearn for DC real estate.
I mean I look at real estate listings here (Birmingham) and I think I should be envious but instead I am like "OMG GMTF OUT OF HERE I DON'T CARE WHAT IT COSTS"
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
that said, pt II:
My parents--aging, as are all or our parents (and us)--have announced that, while they would be thrilled if we would move down (to Alabama) to be near them, they know that this is So Not Gonna Happen.
Their choices, when they stop driving (because you can't get to shit without a car here), are: 1) California with my brother or 2) DC with me.
They choose DC. The claim this is that they are not "in to" California. I think it has more to do with their expectations of the eldest daughter.
They claim that they absolutely do not want to live with me/us. Just near me. So, DCilxors, where the hell do I put aged, non-driving, need-access-to-medical-care parents?
Srs Q. My mom has suggested a place in Gaithersburg where her Great Aunt Elsie once lived. Do I really want to have to drive to Gaitherburg to see the aging 'rents in assisted living/nursing care? What are my in DC options? What do they cost.
Ah fuck
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Sorry about this. Don't know your DC options.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-d-stryker/save-the-smithsonian-folklife_b_5239900.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Park Service wants the mall with perfect country club lawn and noone using it. Grrrrr
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 May 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
i believe my feelings on the park service are well established.
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
back for a whirlwind visit a week from today... got a cheap Airbnb 2 blox from the W House for Thu-Fri! quincie, i'll let u know if i need your help after that. :)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Yes, please do!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
apparently there is going to be some kind of a DELUGE on Friday, so I better hole up at the Natl Gal or a Smithsonian.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
What will the DELUGE of tourists going to the newly reopened Washington Monument do...probably go to Air & Space museum
Another exhibit below, at the Goethe Inst. at 812 7th St NW, maybe of interest to you (classic shots of 20th C. jazz folks):
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-heyday-of-blue-note-records-captured-in-photographs/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en12531305v.htm
This Goethe Institute exhibit has the worst hours-- Mon. to Thurs. 9 to 5, Fri. 9 to 3
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah I saw that in the other thread
I do have a rez for the Lincoln Cottage on Sat afternoon. Maybe I'll stop by Rock Creek Cemetery to say hi to Gore Vidal while I'm up there.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
also are any of these allegedly undouchey bars worth drinking in? (the ones that are still open, anyway) I've only been to the Red Room i think.
http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/the-least-douchey-bars-in-dc.htm
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
I like the Rock N Roll Hotel but it's a bitch to get to and I've only ever drank there while waiting for a gig to start. Going tonight, actually.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
The Saloon, Red Room, Red Derby, Tune Inn. In terms of newer places Showtime in Bloomingdale is great.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
standard DC caveat applies, which is that most places are douchey at 10pm on a weekend night and even the douchiest of places are fine during off hours.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
my faves are saloon (tasty beverages, more expensive) and showtime (less expensive, best jukebox in town). there's also boundary stone across the street from showtime, which has decent drinks and apparently really great hot wings
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
ok, now i know where Bloomingdale is
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Showtime Lounge, 113 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/the_usurpers_last_few_days050341.php#
According to this blogpost a bunch of tea party types are heading to the capitol Friday,
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
well it looks like I will get in around 4-5 thx to BoltBus delay... Seeing Shakespeare across the street from Gaga at Verizon Center tonight. :0 If i need to eat near there...?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
Food Trucks! Or will they be gone by then?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
haha, i mean like 6-6:30. i will probably wolf down a Jumbo Pizza slice on arrival if i have to.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Chinatown Express is on the NE corner of the Verizon Center block and is pretty legit and cheap. Daikaya is on the East side of the block -- downstairs is ramen, upstairs is all kinds of (pricier) Japanese food. Noodle Boy will be closed by 4-5 pm, but also worth mentioning.
― a-lo, Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Morbs, Gaga got moved to earlier in the week. Wizards game 6 basketball playoff game tonight against Indiana at Verizon.
Some Sichuan Chinese menu items at Full Kee at 509 H St NW are pretty good, although some folks think the place is too dumpy and don't like some of the menu
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, i've eaten at that dump twice before! too filling for tonight tho, I would be in a coma before Falstaff gets renounced.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 May 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
NY Times writer likes restaurants, the Library of Congress, H St Country Club and more in NE and SE DC but re DC coffee she says while she's at the Tune Inn:
The coffee is meh — a problem throughout much of the city
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/travel/36-hours-in-washington-dc.html?hpw&rref=travel
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
I really thought the Wizard were gonna have a game 7. Oh well, wait till next year.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Wizards
shocking that a 60 year old dive with a neon "MIXED DRINKS" sign in the window would have "meh" coffee
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Friday, 16 May 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Enjoyed the latte I had at Dolcezza last week.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Morbs, another Saturday option
Saturday at 3:30 at the Gala Hispanic Theatre is the DC premiere of "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders!" Directed by Danny Garcia ("The Rise & Fall of The Clash") who will be present for post-film Q&A3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17thGala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
sorry ive gotta go up to Lincoln's cottage at 2pm, after switching rooms
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
also Jon Langford co-wrote a musical that's at Fringe, but the 'pay anything' matinee is tomw as well
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
im gonna go catch the end of happy hr at the Fireplace in Dupont, eat somewhere, then collapse
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 May 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
x-post--was out of town this weekend. Want to see that Jon Langford co-penned musical some time
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/2014/05/theatre-review-neropseudo-by-wsc-avant-bard-at-the-shop-at-fort-fringe/
Oh, still showing till June 1
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Washingtonian has responded to NY Times meh re DC coffee w/, surprise surprise, a top 10 DC coffee shop list
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/10-great-dc-coffee-shops-the-new-york-times-should-visit-next-time.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
it's true though, whoever wrote that has no idea what they're talking about wrt dc coffee. i'm biased because my gf worked at big bear and currently works at peregrine, i guess
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
student video of 1968 riots, Gallaudet, H st:
http://www.popville.com/2014/05/1968-riots-dc-video/
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
I think I experienced CemeteryFail last Sunday when I was looking for the graves of Thurgood Marshall and Medgar Evers in Arlington, and instead ran across William Rehnquist and John Mitchell.
I did find J Edgar in the Congressional Cemetery w/ no assistance! While yupsters walked their dogs and had wine and empanadas whilst sitting on gravestones on a Sat afternoon.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize Marshall was buried there. Googling now tells me
He was buried in Section 5 of Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of fellow Justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan and Potter Stewart.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Are all of the Justices together?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/05/22/the-future-of-d-c-arts-as-told-by-matt-yglesias-holly-bass-brendan-canty-and-victoria-reis/
Wish I had known about this. Sounds interesting although I'm not a fan of host MattY, and the panel coulda probably used a millenial contributer as well
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
no mudge, there are no group plots by professions afaik, unless yer a Kennedy. (even Bobby and Teddy are off to the side of that slope.) I think I saw Potter Stewart along w/ Rehnquist but none of the others.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Other stuff in my life is getting in the way of me seeing various cool docs and such at the National Gallery of Art. Missing all those NYC old-school street ones so far.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/onthestreet.html#onthestreet.html?pageNumber=1&_suid=1401812967789046795645288242393
This is the series I am referring to
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Saw that (kinda disturbing at times) Art of Destruction exhibit on its last day at the Hirshhorn, so since this photography one at the National Gallery closes Sunday, I need to make it by:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2014/winogrand.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 June 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
Glad I saw that Winogrand exhibit. Nicely shot b & w photos from the last century. A bunch of 'em were posthumously printed, as Winogrand toward the end of his life just started taking lots of photos, and never printing them. Contact sheets for some, was the most he did. Exhibits like this make me want to get a nice camera and learn how to use it well.
Cassavetes movie there next weekend.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
What's a "pop-up cinema"?
http://angelikapopup.com/
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
An outdoor screen or something till they build their new Angelika there, I guess
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45947/24-hours-of-eating-in-dc/
x-post--dcist.com :
Angelika says that they converted a warehouse space at Union Market into intimate screening rooms, where they'll show films this summer.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/how-two-art-spaces-have-survived-in-gentrifying-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I did not realize DC had ANY warehouse spaces, really!
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
National Gallery of Art's final showing of a movie in its East Wing Auditorium until 2016 (due to renovations) is a Sunday 4:30 screening of the Italian film Il Sorpasso -- a director Dino Rosi 1962 effort, described as a "sorely neglected ... commedia all’ italiana [that] reads as a sort of elegy on unfettered energies of the early 1960s — fast cars, sleek jazz, rock ’n’ roll, even fashion sense."
National Gallery will keep showing movies in the West Wing and elsewhere in the city, during the renovation period
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Is there anywhere recommended to watch the world cup, preferably in Alexandria/arlandria/Arlington? I am in town the weekend of July 4 to takecare of some stuff, but there are major games on the 4th and 5th. So far I am considering rustica and Daniel o'connells.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 20 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I work down there in Old Town and I've watched a few matches in the Union Station Pub for convenience and it's been good. Lots of TVs and space and the sound is turned up. Never too busy. Not sure what it's like for US games, mind (I watched the Ghana match in the Iron Horse in DC and it was swamped).
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Babylon Cafe in a Bailey's Crossroads strip mall near Arlington & Alexandria has matches (lotsa Ethiopians as well as Hispanics go there). Plus the City Paper and W. Post have published links for lotsa places showing matches.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/20/2014-world-cup-where-to-watch-the-united-states-and-other-matches-outdoors-in-d-c/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/06/11/world-cup-2014-watch-the-games-at-a-top-soccer-bar/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/worldcup
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
x-post--Relatives in town, so I missed that Italian film. Oh well...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Apparently Il Sorpasso is having another screening in September (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/summer14-specialevents/sorpasso.html), at an AU venue.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
good
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
lol @ courtland milloy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
He and John Kelly in the Post worrying about those biker terrorists making life tough for old-school DC car drivers...
Milloy:
On Wednesday, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association’s Bike Ambassadors will ride to the NoMa Summer Screen viewing of “The Muppets” “to hand out surprise goodies to people who biked.” There’ll be kids and bikes and Muppets, as if Kermit is supposed to make us forget about the biker terrorists out to rule the road.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
lol @ so many people linking Milloy's 1988 column on how difficult it was to get around on a bike after his license was suspended
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 10 July 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-in-petworth-a-robbery-and-death-tell-us-something-abut-ourselves/2014/07/11/468362de-085c-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html?hpid=z3
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/07/16/how-food-brings-d-c-s-iraqi-exiles-back-home-again/
I wonder how these Iraqi restaurants in Alexandria and Herndon are? Not easily metro-accessible for some of you tho
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Every so often we talk about an ILXpedition to the suburbs for Vietnamese food, only for the idea to dissipate. Any interest in trying to go to one of these places?
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Good lunch joints on U Street or thereabouts?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 18 July 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Greek Spot, Chix, Amsterdam Falafel, G Sandwich, Zenebech Injera
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 18 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Went with Greek Spot. It's good!
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 18 July 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
yes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
Have managed to miss the experimental films at National Gallery and the Asian ones at the Freer. Ugh. Oh well. Despite stereotypes about August being dull, there's lots happening culturally (at least music and movies and exhibits) plus the Nats....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/08/15/why-photographer-lida-moser-couldnt-be-pigeonholed/
Maybe a local art space or museum can do an exhibit of this local resident (via NYC) who just died at 93 but was a talented, feisty photographer
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/08/popcorn_candy_have_you_seen_my_baby.php
On most (some? ) Thursdays, Pat Padua (Library of Congress employee and writer) posts some nice writeups on movies to see at museums and artsy theatres and such
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-falls-church-eden-center-tenants-sue-landlord-say-mall-crumbling-around-them/2014/08/20/bb5ef4ae-23cf-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
http://nyadiff.org/adiff-dc-2014/
Little publicized movie fest this weekend of international films from Brazil and various African countries
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46224/the-dives-of-others-how-to-open-a-new-old-bar/
Paul V's comments dissing the Thievery Corp places are kinda fun
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
wow what a prick
i mean damn, you're from rockville, worked at saint-ex and bar pilar and are trying to be punker than thou
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 August 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
He had a few self-deprecating comments early in the piece though. But he also got his Marvin Gaye facts wrong (aserting that Marvin lived nearly his whole life in D.C.)--Marvin lived in Detroit and L.A. a bunch (in addition to that 1 year in Belgium that Paul mocked in relation to the Marvin club)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Thanks a lot Mr. Amazon:
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is replacing Publisher Katharine Weymouth with Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a former Reagan administration official who was part of the founding leadership team of Politico, a primarily digital news organization that competes with The Post on political coverage, the company announced Tuesday.
The departure of Weymouth, 48, ends eight decades of Graham family leadership of The Post, which her great-grandfather bought in 1933. Bezos, who acquired The Post for $250 million in a sale announced in August 2013, initially kept the senior leadership team intact. He told Weymouth during a visit to Washington, on Aug. 18, that he had selected a new publisher, according to people familiar with the decision. She will remain on the company payroll as an adviser through the end of the year.
Ryan, 59, an attorney, spent years rising in the Reagan administration, eventually becoming a top presidential aide and key leader in the construction of his presidential library and numerous other initiatives after Reagan left office in 1989.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:37 PM (4
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Saw American Cool exhibit at National Portrait Gallery...Uneven & gimmicky but I kinda enjoyed it anyway
http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2014/08/directed-by-ken-russell-film-fridays-at-the-mary-pickford-theater/
Fridays this month (I've only seen Tommy)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
oh is american cool still happening
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
i kinda wanna get down to that
through this weekend. Closes on Sunday I think. 11:30 to 7 through Sunday
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Former VA guv McDonnell and wife found guilty!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
woooooooo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/09/04/even-ian-hilton-thinks-this-brixton-diss-track-is-catchy/
too easy (and a tad simplistic) but hey what do I know
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Oh Kennedy Center...
In recent years, the Honors were dogged by controversy amid charges that they consistently overlooked Latin artists. The selection process was revised, and soprano Martina Arroyo and rock guitarist Carlos Santana were among the 2013 recipients. No Hispanics were named this year. Felix R. Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, was in the middle of the campaign for changes after a heated 2012 phone call with Michael Kaiser, then the Kennedy Center president. (Kaiser stepped down at the end of last month. President Deborah F. Rutter is in her first week on the job.) On Thursday morning, Sanchez reacted negatively to this year’s slate. “I think that it’s incomprehensible that after the discussions we had in 2012 and the changes that were supposed to be in place in 2013 that we have the same result in 2014,” Sanchez said. “It shatters the trust in the promises that were made and in the structural changes that were supposed to prevent this kind of outcome.” Asked if Latino artists should expect to be named every year, Sanchez said, “There is a threedecade backlog of not acknowledging Latino artists.” He said he will press for a meeting with the center’s Latino advisory committee “posthaste.” In a statement, Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein said, “We were proud to Honor two Latinos last year and expect to honor more in the years to come.”
Al Green and 4 Anglos this year (Hollywood everyman Tom Hanks, singer and songwriter Sting, George Balanchine muse Patricia McBride and the singular Lily Tomlin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/honors-class-of-14-al-green-tom-hanks-patricia-mcbride-lily-tomlin-sting/2014/09/04/d1bba46a-33b3-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Awesome. There's hope in 11 years. see below
combined sewer overflow, or CSO
New stormwater outfalls will be created on both the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. We will begin work on the Anacostia River first, because it is a slower-moving river, and pollution stays longer and does more damage in rivers with a slow current.
By the year 2025, we expect to reduce CSOs in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and Rock Creek by 96% overall. CSOs in the Anacostia will be reduced by 98%.
http://www.dcwater.com/education/sewer_improvements.cfm
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
There's an Autumn fest at Eden Center this afternoon. Wife & I went there last night for the first time in awhile. Fests everywhere-Latino one on PA Ave tomorrow, H St NE one, Bluebird Blues fest....
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 September 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
hey lets do more dc faps
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Hey yeah! Ummm I'm not exactly centrally located here in Cleveland Park but would love to have folks over so I can feed and drink u. Maybe I should just pick a Sat or Sun and be all "come on over anytime after 1:00 there will be food, drinks, football, and/or crafts* any time u like."
* uh I don't actually have a craft in mind, but I will create one if you like!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Or I mean we could just go Old School DC FAP and meet at Big Hunt after 5 on Fridays.
and they'll even let me into the big hunt now!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 September 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
“Dear PoPville, Head’s up about a potentially dangerous runner in Dupont - Today (9/21) I was walking around 17 and S St. NW at 11 AM when I was assaulted by a jogger. A woman running quickly towards looked me in the face, said “head’s up”, then purposely body slammed me in the shoulder with a lot of force. I yelled loudly but she continued and was gone before we figured out what just happened. It was clearly intentional and she really hurt my shoulder. She was about 5’4″, Caucasian, athletic, mid-30s, with mid length brown hair. The whole experience was bizarre, but clearly an unprovoked assault on a stranger that she will probably repeat.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
god
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
I think she's still on the loose
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
sarles stepping down from metro, confetti cannons firing all over town
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
This September 27th Arabfest, From 10 am to 10 pm Come and enjoy a day of Arabic culture, food, games, rides and entertainment. Location Bull Run Regional Park 7700 Bull Run Drive.
I guess the more conservative politicians out that way don't know about this
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/guides/2014/10/02/rasika-penn-quarter-2/?hpid=z2
He still loves Rasika. Sietsema's latest guide. Inn at Little Washington at 5.
But I also want to know where I can find a guide to Eden Center places, it's not from Sietsema, and Tyler Cowen who does cover such places is not always up to date.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of a disservice to Rasika for Tom to keep giving them four stars, it just means people will walk in there with the expectation it's a four star restaurant when in reality it's very good but far more casual and less ambitious than the other four star places in town.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I ate there recently (on wife's boss' dime), with the expectation that it would be super fancy, based on ratings like his, and was happy to be surprised. The food was killer. Someone else pls buy me dinner there ok?
― tobo73, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
less ambitious than the other four star places in town
I guess I need to splurge sometime on some of these places, but I can't convince my cheapskate self to go down to the Inn at Little Washington and spenda those big bucks no matter how great that description reads.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
As for casual Vietnamese dining that I might find ambitious enough or just tasty enough at Eden Center (I went by a Yelp & Tyler Cowen recommendation last time I was there) I found these links from the past, but have not studied them yet :
http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/02/what-to-eat-at-eden-center-falls-church-vietnamese-food.html https://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/?cat=35
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
x-post--http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/10/09/tom-sietsemas-2014-fall-dining-guide-by-the-numbers/
some items from this:
11 restaurants that opened (or reopened) within the last 12 months made the list: Fiola Mare, Iron Gate, Rose's Luxury, Boss Shepherd's, Partisan, Rural Society, Soi 38, Water & Wall, DCity Smokehouse and Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab.
$9 The average price of a sandwich at DCity Smokehouse, the cheapest eatery on this year's list. 4 restaurants -- Rose's Luxury, Little Serow, DCity Smokehouse and Thai Square -- do not take reservations.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 October 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
More links re Eden Center. Have not been back lately (but ha, finally went to Rose's Luxury for its hybrid contemp American takes on ethnic dishes)
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/food-dining/cheap-eats-2013-feast-of-eden/
Washingtonian's Kliman (he was once at CP way back when)--If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.
http://www.washingtonian.com/chats/kliman/tuesday-august-19-at-11-am-1.php
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Kliman at Washingtonian's list. I wanna go to the Wheaton Thai one
I'm not going to rank them, because that'd take a lot more time than I have, but this is what the list would look like right now (in no particular order):
Komi. Mintwood Place. Central Michel Richard. Rose's Luxury. The Red Hen. Vin 909 Winecafé. Fiola Mare. Thai Taste by Kob. Ananda. Sushi Capitol.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
http://decadeofdocsinourcity.com/flix-tix/4585650130 Little publicized DC Movie doc fest this weekend is showing Disco Dan (again); one on Ballou High's funky marching band; and one (short one?) on U Street's old days as Black Broadway; plus more -- mostly at that Navy Theatre on PA Ave NW
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
That apartment (condo?) with movie theatres(they say) building going up next to the 930 Club is huge.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
x-post to Kliman list
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/whats-missing-from-the-washington-posts-fall-dining-guide-a-lot.php
3 md restaurants and a few more Virginia ones...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I don't understand why Kliman would write a response like that - he already publishes his own annual list of the top 100 at Washingtonian. Say it there!
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 17 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2014/10/21/in-a-changing-washington-lots-of-stuff/
Mocking that latest NY Times piece on DC restaurants. That latest Times article has me just wanting to avoid all DC restaurants; and to instead just eat at cheap ethnic joints in the burbs (even if they haven't "taken it to the next level" as suggested in that NY Times article)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
~haters gonna hate just because I was quoted~
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Hating cuz of the way that article was phrased and the other quotes, not you
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
I am seeing critiques of that article everywhere, and most of those folks don't know you.
You're a star, congrats.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
So which pickle from Gordy's do you like best? Or are you recommending them for other stuff?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
I like their thai basil jalapenos and their giardiniera best
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
iirc their giardiniera is $12 a jar so if anyone wants to get me some please go right ahead because it is delicious
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
guys i still live here
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Will you buy us all pickles?
Jar of Thai basil ones are listed for $10 on Gordy's website.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
pickles rule
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
currently slightly addicted to the hot okra pickles they sell at Harris Teeter (and Streets - Streets kind of rules, guys, they have unique splits AND uncle jerry's)and always Bubbies and/or Ba-Tampte as needed from Yes! or Rodman'sGordy's prices are demented
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
oh and one time at HT they had jars of pickled habaneros, I bought one a while back, sat in the fridge until a couple weekends ago when I finally ate one and man what a feeling
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah I like the thai basil japapenos from gordy's because a little goes a looong way
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
how come you can't go to a bar and get a plate of pretzels, pickles and salted radish slices. that should be a thing you can order. fuck a charcuterie tray, you know?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Tombot I have tons of fresh habeneros let's make pickles
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know how to make pickles but slow cooker chili is go
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I need to learn your secrets. BTW you can get pickles and pretzels at Clyde's, maybe even radishes in season.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I'm just saying salted sliced radishes and pickled vegetables need to be a regular bar food thing. And extra dark pretzels.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
me and the wife sitting on the sofa with macbook airs in our laps watching homeland on the DVRthis some Washington DC New Yorker cartoon bullshit right here
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
anyone familiar with Jody Mack and her experimental film/performance artist homage to old college dorm posters like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Sunday, Nov. 2Let Your Light Shine at National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/aonMack/light-shine.html) Initially, she planned to shoot some sort of documentary, but the musical stop-motion show she wound up creating is harder to classify. Titled “Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project” — and featuring Ms. Mack’s mother, Sharon Marney — it’s a kinetic, handmade cornucopia of movie and music stars’ imagery and shots of the poster-filled warehouse. The infectiously obsessive 40-odd minutes are timed to the Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
At screenings, Ms. Mack supplies live vocals, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by nine people. Singing over instrumental renditions of the classic album, she enunciates wittily precise lyrics in playful harmonies: “Sometimes there isn’t much to do/about depreciating revenue.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/jody-mack-makes-plays-with-posters-in-dusty-stacks-of-mom.html?_r=0 The experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack grew up around the family business of posters and merch. From a Florida warehouse her parents supplied music retailers and others with the cultural wallpaper that decorated countless bedrooms in the 1990s — from the bands and celebrities du jour to the dorm-room patron saints Belushi, Marley and Guevara.
With the rise of the Internet came a downturn in sales, leaving thousands of Leonardo DiCaprios and Winona Ryders to languish in the cubbyholes of the warehouse. Ms. Mack’s mother, who by then ran the company on her own, talked about closing up shop. But the bust in sales was a bonanza for Ms. Mack, an animator for whom paper materials are both a favored medium and a ripe subject for cultural history.
“There were so many things in there that were available in multiples, so I thought it would be very interesting to go down and shoot and make animations of all of it,” Ms. Mack, 31, recalled by phone while on a trip to Ukraine. “The stuff that I had to work with was the stuff that was left behind, the stuff that didn’t sell out.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2014/10/popcorn_candy_post-apocalyptic_edit.php
more movies
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Best Vietnamese Restaurant at the Eden Center? Anybody?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 2 November 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Still trying to figure that out. See upthread links.
Kliman at washingtonian recently said:
If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.
He also likes a newer upscale looking place there called Rice Paper that Tyler Cowen does not like.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huong-viet.com/press.html
This is where we ate the last time we were there. It was good but not amazing. They have a real long menu. Maybe I didn't order the right thing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 November 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
That's where I was going to go.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 3 November 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1pr370CIAAFN-3.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
So there are a couple open DC Council seats....
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Naturally, lots of contrasting takes everywhere on Marion Barry's passing
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2014/12/05/despite-breaking-ground-kennedy-center-expansion-meets-challenges/
opposition to Kennedy Center's proposed floating pavilion addition
But hours later, the plans for expansion were put in limbo by the National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees and approves all projects that impact the D.C. metro area. The main issue? A floating pavilion in the Potomac River that connects to the Kennedy Center by a pedestrian bridge and, according to the community members who testified before the commission yesterday afternoon, severely impact rowers, recreational boaters, and high school and college athletes who regularly use the river. While most of those testifying politely encouraged the commission to consider an alternative design which would place the pavilion on land, Ann Satterthwaite of Friends of Georgetown Waterfront Park went a bit farther, calling the River Pavilion a work of "architectural hubris." Commission chairman L. Preston Bryant Jr. later echoed this sentiment, saying that he believed placing the pavilion on the river was an act of "architectural novelty and wow factor" and served no real purpose.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp#/?i=2
Grr, I keep missing these movies
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 December 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Had a nice meal last night at Thip Khao, in Columbia Heights, the new sister restaurant to Bangkok Golden, the Falls Church Thai & Laotian restaurant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
NEW RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Liked Mazagan in Arlington much more than I thought I would.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
x-post-- I've alway liked the Laotian food at Bangkok Golden, and they offer the same plus more at Thip Kao.
I like Moroccan but haven't been to Mazagan. Will try it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 December 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I am going to be spending an inordinate amount of time in Merrifield in January, what should I eat.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
After Jan I'll be rolling (literally, home hospice social work) in Great Falls and McClean, what should I eat there too.
I know fuck all about Virgina and am mildly terrified that I will be spending an abundance of my life there through August 2015.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
hahaha I don't even know how to spell mclean until just now
four sisters, elephant jumps
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
that is not a weird code it's where you should eat
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Yes to Four Sisters Vietnamese. And go to the nearby H Mart Korean Supermarket
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Also, Burmese restaurant Myanmar had good food when I ate there many moons back, but I see Yelpsters are complaining about its customer service
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile in Maryland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/could-a-new-wave-of-boutique-coffee-beer-and-bao-buns-remake-silver-sprung/2014/12/22/2016291a-8232-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/why-is-washington-dc-an-art-desert.html
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/12/29/why-the-d-c-gallery-landscape-isnt-as-barren-as-outsiders-claim/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
@DennisThePerrin It's snowing here in DC, which of course means martial law.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/12/31/the-year-in-cheap-eating-the-best-of-the-20-diner/
I haven't gone yet to Tim Carman's #1. Taqueria Habanero .
Was underwhelmed by Honorable mention pick Elephant Jumps.
Some D.C. Food critics--Tom S., Tim C., Tyler C., Todd K. Today's suggestions are brought to you by the letter 't'
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
are any other old fucks going to the Cracker/Camper Van show on Wednesday?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Think I am gonna skip it. Toying with going to the Vaselines instead (Scottish pop-punkers that Kurt Cobain loved). Mostly likely not going to either. Although may go to see old DC soul band Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks at Westminster Church Sw from 6 to 9pm tonight, and a Wizards game tomorrow.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
x-post -- Went to Taqueria Habanero yesterday. Yummy shrimp taco, and other tacos we had were ok (did not try beef tongue or all veggie). Chorizo huarache was good too--tortilla covered in beans, strips of pepper, avocado (& choice of meat & maybe sauted cactus!)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
damn i gotta get in on that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
3710 14th St. NW, outskirts of Columbia Hts
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
tortillas made to order, pretty rare in/around DC
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
^^^ which strikes me as so fucking weird. I mean even in the middle of fucking nowhere village I lived in Baja there was a tortillaria. No gas station, but fresh tortillas every day from early in the morning until ~2 p.m.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Spouse and I were joking that I should just team up with a nice Mexican lady and we can sell artisinal tortillas (i.e. regular old fresh tortillas) in my cleveland park kitchen and sell them in the alley for like a buck a piece and GET RICH.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I ate at Elephant Walks today. It is super close to my temporary office, so I figure I'll just show up daily and run the "chef's choice" menu. Cheaper than four sisters (whose menu is intimidating) and much easier to park.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 12 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha Elephant Jumps, not Elephant Walks.
Sounds like a good approach.
Non-foodie street team pr for my buddy:
We start off 2015 with two screenings of Led Zeppelin Played Here to celebrate the 46th anniversary of when Led Zeppelin did/did not play the gymnasium of the Wheaton Youth Center in Wheaton, MD, in front of 50 confused teenagers on January 20, 1969, the night of President Nixon's first inauguration.
First screening is Wednesday, January 14 at the Avalon Theater in Washington, DC, on Conn Ave right near Chevy Chase Circle (8PM)http://www.theavalon.org/films/led-zeppelin-played/
And second, an exact 46th anniversary screening on the night the concert did/did not occur.This will be on Tuesday, January 20 at the Black Cat on 14th Street in DC (doors at 8, screenings usually start 8:30)http://www.blackcatdc.com/shows/film-screening-2.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/take-the-20-diners-international-breakfast-tour-of-washington/2015/01/22/f907611a-9ab2-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html
No surprise that some of these interest me
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
Didn't make it to any of them this weekend, alas.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Washingtonian q and a--Kliman loves Wheaton Thai restaurants (I haven't been)...and makes that clear in his response re the new internationally owned Thai place Mango Tree, whose first US location is in DC
Hi Todd,
Have you had a chance to visit Mango Tree yet?
I'm wondering how it compares to the other restaurants in town that tout authentic Thai cuisine. We certainly do have some great options for that in DC already.
Todd Kliman:My first impression is — eh.
I mean, the space is stunning. If you were to ask yourself what the interior of an upmarket Thai restaurant ought to look like, this is pretty much exactly what you would come up with. The colors, the movement, the lights, the tables and chairs. Stunning.
The food? Not stunning. Granted, I only tried three dishes, but nothing made me want to return to try more. A grilled pork neck salad was unbalanced, and not in an interesting way. A crab fried rice was, thankfully, not greasy, but it wasn’t particularly flavorful or distinctive either.
If you were to put Thai Taste by Kob in that location, there would be a line around the block every night.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2015/02/05/this-sandwich-by-dirty-south-deli-and-taylor-gourmet-contains-multitudes/
They've started with Taylor's breaded chicken cutlets -- which are doused in Crystal, the Southern hot sauce with a cult following -- and topped them with sliced cucumber, kale and cabbage slaw, red onion, gorgonzola and a pepper and Parmesan buttermilk dressing.Available through Feb. 28. Small: $7.49. Large: $10.49.
Not cheap but kinda looks tempting...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 February 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2015/02/13/how-city-paper-remembers-david-carr/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/02/popcorn_candy_166.php
At AFI tonight--Frankenstein with live music from former guitarist for Captain Beefheart and others
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
holy fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 February 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
went to the opening of the Ben Tolman show at Flashpoint tonight. I'm mostly out of the gallery scene these days but this show is pretty amazing - overwhelmingly detailed pen drawings.
http://www.culturaldc.org/events/2015/01/ben-tolman-civilized/
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Saturday, 28 February 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that does look good.
I ended up going to the Mingering Mike panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was pretty interesting (and not as awkward as I thought it might be for Mike). Mike did "outsider" art-- soul and funk album covers and some reel to reel tapes and cassettes of his own music from 1966 to 1977 I think. Mike was dressed as a surgeon in gown and mask as he wants to keep his identity secret. The panel included the guy who found Mike's work at a flea market;plus an outsider art author; an old-school WOL AM DC soul dj; and the museum curator. Images of Mike's artwork were projected behind them. They then had free wine, beer, cheese, and dip afterwards as dj Harry Hotter spun soul and funk vinyl in the enclosed courtyard there. But the exhibit itself had closed for the evening so I will have to go back. I had seen a smaller showing of Mike's work at the Hemphill Gallery awhile ago.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 February 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Reminder (to myself) that the Tolman drawing exhibit at Flashpoint runs only through the 28th and from Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6PM
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/03/12/d-c-s-most-essential-dishes-of-2015/?hpid=z1
W. Post Weekend section compiled from readers and Post writers
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Anyone ever figure out best choices for Eden Center (or if anyone is highlighting such places on the internetz)?
Been just eating Laotian food myself and haven't been back there in a bit
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/03/dc_conflict_cuisines_ethiopian.php
A history of Ethiopian food in DC. Forgetsto mention Red Sea, but gets other highlights.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Saigon Cafe (across the street from the Eden Center) was really good
― Flow-through nonresident pass-through entity (los blue jeans), Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Post food critic Sietsema was asked in the Post the other week for his fave Banh Mi sandwich in Eden Center. He instead replied with Falls Church located but not in Eden Center place Banh Mi DC, that has been a fave of many since at least 2008.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 April 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
if you're a Grantland reader you might wanna go to P&P tonight
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/grantland-panel-jonah-keri
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Alas, working late. Can't make it over there. Haven't read too much of Keri on baseball. Have read some of Pierce on politics
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/the-exquisite-baan-thai-hides-in-plain-sight-at-tsunami-sushi-on-14th-street/2015/01/08/457c823c-913f-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html
Good Thai food here.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
May have to try one of these places next. I'm such a sucker for these cultural food trends. Go ahead, make fun of me, I deserve it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/at-long-last-filipino-food-arrives-what-took-it-so-long/2015/04/21/a4674bb0-e153-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
street team late posting. This is tonight in Takoma park at 7:30
http://docsinprogress.org/events/280/jeffkrulikat30/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 May 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/new-york-times-washington-dc-cheap-eats-frugal-traveler-100.php
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/05/popcorn_candy_clotheshorse_edition.php
movies
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 May 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/548-coding-and-decoding-dinner
Food critic Todd Kliman writing about race and foodie restaurants
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
in DC
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
wow, that makes two Kliman pieces in a week talking about what DC area black restaurant patrons are and aren't looking for without interviewing any black patrons
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/todd-kliman-otherwise/how-a-fish-sandwich-became-a-symbol-of-shaws-changes.php
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 18 May 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
Good point.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/05/19/bethesda-condo-buildings-sommelier-in-residence-talks-about-his-unusual-gig/
very rich people
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2015/05/21/a-man-a-plan-a-canard-panacea/#more-39099
CP housing and transportation reporter who is going to Mother Jones magazine offers his ideas for Metro, streetcars, funding development, building height rules in DC , etc
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 May 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
shd i march in the dc pride parade y/n?
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
y
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
HRC's headquarters is 1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, so stop by and cause a ruckus
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
v y
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
For a lot of reasons, just moved to Arlington near Rosslyn/Courthouse -- any recs on good Metro-accessible food down here or other hidden gems? Galaxy Hut seems promising and there seems to be lots of decent Pho places (plus all that stuff going on in Falls Church) . . . any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, trying to make this work.
― a-lo, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
Galaxy Hut is cool.
Not in Rosslyn and not right near a Metro, but bus-accessible in Arlington: http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/restaurants/la-jarochita-no-2-puts-off-cuts-front-and-center-in-its-tasty-tacos/2015/04/01/60dff96c-d31d-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html
La Jarochita No. 285 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington. 703-243-2545.Hours: Daily, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.Nearest Metro: Virginia Square or Ballston, with a 1-mile trip to the restaurant
*Ravi Kabob 305 N. Glebe St. Arlington (they also have a second place across the street on other side of gelebe0
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 June 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Peter Chang Arlington (Now Open) 2503-E North Harrison Street Arlington VA 22207
has anyone been here yet?
He's a former Chinese Embassy Chef
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2015/03/09/the-wait-is-over-peter-chang-returns-to-northern-virginia-on-saturday/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 June 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, Curmudgeon -- both those spots look great, just what the doctor ordered.
Despite record shopping in DC since 2007, I've also never been to CD Cellar, so planning to check that out as well. And the Arlington Flea, provided that is still happening.
xpost, definitely want to hit the new Chang spot.
NoVa is looking up already.
― a-lo, Monday, 15 June 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Peter Chang's restaurants are DELICIOUS
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 15 June 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
i discovered THE best restaurant in all of DC this weekend, it's a cozy little spot called Quincie's Place u shd lQQk it up
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 June 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
i wish i could've
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Lol iirc we mostly ate cake!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
should i visit Rehoboth Beach to see the Mekons play on July 18, stay over?
http://www.dogfish.com/community/events/live-music/931386/the-mekons.htm
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
whoaaa
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
i was actually thinking about going with some friends that weekend
just by coincidence
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
well thatd be a plus!
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I wanna see that gig too (but have a conflict)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
and how does one get a room there on a summer weekend for less than $220-400/night?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah. I wonder if priceline or kayak or whatever would list anything? I guess you could stay for cheaper nearby in Ocean City, MD, but that would involve driving there (not sure you can get a cab or uber to go at that time or distance after gig).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Dewey Beach, De might be an option too.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
nahhhh, don't drive, don't uber, rent-poor, not goin.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Washingtonian's top 100 "Cheap" Eats list is out. Cheap defined as $25 or less. Here's their top 25 from that 100. They have that Laurel, MD Cuban place on their list every year--Cuba de Ayer; it's ok but not great. I think 3 of these are in DC itself
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/cheap-eats/best-cheap-restaurants-in-washington-dc.php
Amoo’s Restaurant - PersianBayou Bakery - SouthernBob’s Shanghai 66 - Chinese/TaiwaneseChina Bistro - ChineseCosmopolitan Grill - Bosnian/GermanCuba de Ayer - CubanCurry Leaf - IndianDaikaya Ramen - JapaneseDCity Smokehouse - BarbecueEamonn’s - Irish Enat - EthiopianG by Mike Isabella - Italian-AmericanHaute Dogs & Fries - American Huong Viet Restaurant - Vietnamese Jewel of India - IndianKogiya - KoreanLa Caraquena - Venezuelan Ravi Kabob House I and II - PakistaniRice Paper - Vietnamese Ruan Thai - ThaiRus Uz - Russian/UzbekSaba - Yemeni Taqueria el Mexicano - MexicanThai Taste by Kob - Thai Thip Khao - Laotian
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 June 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Bayou Bakery's Arlington location never wowed me either(they have a DC location now too)
Thip Khao rules tho
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 June 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
http://www.eater.com/2015/6/19/8788487/washington-dc-southeastern-asian-dining-scene
Agree with much of this but was underwhelmed by Purple Patch.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Not SE Asia but if anyone happens to find themselves in Ashburn, 1) I'm sorry and 2) really good Taiwanese food at Yen's Cafe, where I have been a handful of times, including today!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Sounds good. First Merrifield, now Ashburn...You keep going farther out into the state
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 June 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Changing gears...
DC history, recent and older, here, neighborhood by neighborhood:
http://prologuedc.com/blog/mapping-segregation
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
The Smithsonian Folklife Fest starts today. They have Peruvian places from Gaithersburg and elsewhere selling food. Around 11 to 5 in the day. Concerts from 7 to 9 at night. Through Sunday and then July 1st through 5th
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
talking Fort Reno and music stuff over on Capital Swamp on ilm btw
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 June 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
http://wamu.org/news/15/06/19/amid_claims_of_financial_irregularities_adams_morgan_day_canceled
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
A modified version of Adams Morgan Day is apparently back on.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47323/art-art-art-at-anacostia-arts-center-friday-july-10/
Friday night-- some art exhibit openings; free music from DC's Eddie Drennon and Charanga Soul and a pop-up food truck. All free except maybe for the food
Violinist Drennon played with Bo Diddley; Ike & Tina Turner and on a Latin hustle dance hit
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
pop-up restaurant
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
It was a fun time.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 July 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
http://dc.eater.com/2015/7/10/8928539/zenebech-ijera-staying-open-in-shaw-at-least-for-now
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-decades-in-dc-the-islander-closes-its-doors/2015/07/19/059832da-2675-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html
But in recent years, newer residents surrounding the Islander complained about the restaurant’s late-night noisiness. The tension reached a critical stage in 2013, when a group of residents protested the restaurant’s efforts for a liquor license renewal.
I wonder if they tried to work things out with the club before going to the liquor board? The Islander had been there since 1994, so the new folks should have been aware that U Street can be loud at late hours
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I saw D.C.'s Eddie Jones & the Young Bucks perform there a long time ago
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 July 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
I am at the Dead Milkmen show because I am still 14 years old.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 26 July 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
where the hell was that i wanted to go
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
9:30
Mosh pit had etiquette? LOL i so old.
But not as old as the band, hah
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 July 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2015/07/28/fish-market-tenants-say-d-c-waterfront-developer-are-trying-to-destroy-their-businesses/
A lawsuit filed by the seafood sellers against the developers. Most of the comments on the posting though appear to be from newbie locals critical of the longtime market. I like shopping at the Maine Ave wharf even though I have heard some say the seafood available is no different from that which you get in your local Giant, Safeway, etc. The incoming development there is undoubtably making it harder to park there if one drives. Naturally, a commenter on the posting just blames those who are parking without suggesting that maybe the developers should try to make parking available. Also, I wonder what the parking plans are for the new IMP Arena that is going to be built there (or will folks just be expected to metro).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
"Harder to park" on SE waterfront is akin to "harder to breathe" on the moon. It's always been terrible, now it's worse. I used to work and eat near there (when the Coast Guard was at Buzzard Point).
It is also a dreadful walk from the subway (and it would be pretty conspicuous and inefficient to try bring a couple dozen steamed crabs home via Metro).
I think for my last crustaceanfest we had a driver circling the block while others nabbed the seafood.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Yep. I bet the commenters have never bought any seafood from there.
When I used to see latenight music at h2O on the Waterfront and Zanzibar there used to be an underground parking garage there on the SW waterfront, but I never used that for when I was going to buy seafood at the Wharf.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone here tried Bridj (the "Uber for buses") yet? In October my office is moving from Farragut North to L'Enfant Plaza/Federal Center SW, and Metrorail has been conspicuously unreliable recently.
― Charlie Chaplin Challenge (j.lu), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
Nope.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/pages/workhere/
Become the Arts Editor
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
christina rules, sad to see her go off that beat
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
She'll likely be happier at Slate writing just about women and gender issues
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
guys what happens
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Bot bot bot waht up
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 11 September 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
So driving into DC from VA I get on a little side access road off of 14th on the right opposite the Holocaust Museum to head over to L'Enfant at 10 pm. I do a quick stop at the stop sign before turning right and the next thing I know I am pulled over by a Bureau of Engraving and Printing "cop" who tells me I have made an illegal right turn. As he asks for my license and registration and insurance card, a cop colleague of his stands straight behind my car glaring while another such cop I see standing by my right rear car passenger door. Looking in my side view mirror I see her nervously moving her fingers around on her gun. Yikes. Thankfully, the first cop returns to my car with my info and just says, "Boss, make your right turn on the next street from now on, not from that access road. Ok boss."
Thank you Bureau of Engraving cops for uh somehow protecting one and all, and for my white male privilege. They probably couldn't give me a traffic ticket anyway...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 September 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
the tomboto appears
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 September 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
and then. . . disappears again
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 13 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
like the wind
through our trees
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 September 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
Back to his E games
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/09/11/logan-circles-iconic-barrel-house-liquor-is-relocating/
I guess the Barrel entrance can't be designated a historic landmark?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47495/new-hirshhorn-chief-melissa-chiu-explains-why-new-york-matters/
Hmmmm, let me think about this
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
New York writer having fun schooling everyone on how DC works or doesn't. Who edits this stuff?So how did I not know the rules for women wearing big hats at polo matches in DC?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/fear-and-clothing/405919/
Washington’s permaclass of wealthy Georgetown-establishment socialites has always ruled the roost on D.C.’s domestic front. The older rich ladies are the keepers of the social rulebooks—and the keepers of all the best HUMINT (human intelligence) and RUMINT (rumor-based intelligence) in town. These are the Mean Girls who make or break political aspirations, who get to wear big hats at polo matches, make disparaging comments about social climbers, and police the actions and/or styles of younger, more fertile women.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Meanwhile:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/three-homicides-bump-dcs-total-to-114-for-the-year/2015/09/19/70ed0c52-5eda-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?postshare=4981442835209983
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Today I had to explain to a born-and-bred Alabama boy in his 20s that DC is below the Mason-Dixon line.
"Oh," he said, "isn't it in, like, Maryland? Near Jersey."
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cartoonsonnet.com/southern-fried-rabbit.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
xpost - never been anywhere near a polo match, but the ubiquitous ann taylor thing is real + this pressure to assimilate to dc conservative office dress codes. ugh
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
WTF this year with the killing coming back to my neighborhood. Are Lanier and Bowser really this dumb they can't figure out how to just restore the fucking drug TF?
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
bowser seems kinda clueless tbh
"i was supposed to be the Cool Gentrification Mayor"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 October 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
The latest from the alleged cool gentrification mayor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/poorer-tenants-fear-being-pushed-out-by-planned-congress-heights-complex/2015/10/14/1ecaad34-6c9b-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html
There, a gleaming new complex of apartments, offices and shops is planned above the Congress Heights Metro station — the kind of development that is similar to dozens around the still-gentrifying city over the past 15 years and one that could help make this community the next hot neighborhood.
To build the project, the developer would have to raze four rent-controlled apartment buildings where residents already feel they are no longer welcome. The tenants are largely poor, elderly and live on fixed incomes. They said they believe they are being pushed out by two politically connected developers, who have failed to make improvements to the four apartment buildings even as many residents live in squalor.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
Here's what the Georgetown socialites mentioned upthread a bit are also doing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/the-secret-surveillance-of-suspicious-blacks-in-one-of-the-nations-poshest-neighborhoods/2015/10/13/2e47236c-6c4d-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html?tid=sm_tw
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh that Georgetown private chatroom shit is the most Georgetown thing ever. Like the DC Urban Moms list after a visit from Max Jacobson. The idea that a white person who lives or works there needs to read a chat log to figure out their neighborhood is bigoted as fuck is hilarious. Burn that shit down. Except for the Benetton and the Mossimo Dutti. And the Levi's Store. And the DMV, also necessary. The rest though! It's the worst! Can we make this thread into our special room to report on when rich neighborhoods piss us off?
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
In other gentrification whining news, I realized an interesting trend in the restaurants in my neighborhood: Everywhere that's open for lunch (read: before 4pm) is part of a chain or series of restaurants owned by successful restaurant business people - mark and ty neal, mike isabella, andy shallal, etc). Everywhere else that doesn't open until happy hour is either a one-shot or belongs to some ass hats who magically haven't managed to run their one other concept into the ground yet. The lesson here is if you can't get it together to be open for lunch then maybe you're in the wrong business! And I'm tired of going to the same five places whenever I want to get lunch out somewhere without a hike! *shakes fist at capitalism*
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
I sympathize with your rage in general, Mr. Tomboto. Continue to fight the power. And I am a big fan of lunch, especially if there's a liquor license involved (because I am an unapologetic drunkard). Absolutely agree that more places should serve lunch. But I see mom and pop-ish lunch places all over the place; not sure where you mean.
Downtown and in Crystal City there are loosely-Asian buffet pay-by-the-pound places and a zillion delis in almost every office building. Ditto Skyline and L'Enfant and Rockville and Farragut/Dupont. For years of being an office drone I subsisted mainly on deli reubens and street hot dogs. Doesn't Rosslyn (i forget if that is still your hood) have Piola, Café Asia, Guajillo - and is not too far from 4 Courts, Guarapo, Amsterdam Felafel?
If one's anti-chain purism is such that Ben's or Busboys and Poets are now OMG BAD AND HATED CHAIN RESTAURANTS because there's more than one of them, I don't know what to say. Yes, those are JUST like Applebee's. Ditto Jaleo, District Taco, Lebanese Taverna, Ray's. Or, for that matter, the Palm, Legal, etc. Basically TGIF with nicer linens. Perhaps sometimes "successful" means you're doing something right.
Re: Isabella, Kapnos is walkable for me and they do lunch quite decently. So does Vine & Fig, Mussel Bar, Ser, Liberty Tavern, Thirsty Bernie's.
― ice cream socialist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 October 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
...Taqueria Poblano, Atlacatl, Majestic, Murphy's, 4 Sisters, Whitlow's, Cowboy Café, Kite Runner, El Ranchero, City Lights, Big Buns, Niwano Hana, La Caraquena...
― ice cream socialist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 October 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Suburbanite me who lives in VA to be close to his VA dayjob is still disgusted by that Congressional Heights/St E's thing I mentioned above-- from giving Wizards/Mystics owner Leonsis an arena to the development now planned by the metro there. Folks I am mad at:
developer Geoffrey Griffis of CityPartners said he took an interest in the neighborhood back in 2008. Other Metro-accessible neighborhoods were booming, but Congress Heights wasn’t even on most investors’ maps, he said.
“I thought, here’s an opportunity to start to assemble something, to start to do something,” Griffis said in an interview.
To redevelop the area around the Metro station, he teamed with the Bethesda-based company Sanford Capital.
Over the next three years, Sanford Capital bought the four brick apartment buildings at 1309, 1331 and 1333 Alabama Ave. SE and 3210 13th St. SE for about $2.8 million.
Together, the companies laid out a plan calling for a 285,000-square-foot office building and about 208 apartments with ground-floor shopping. The project, Griffis said, would be “transformative,” bringing jobs and businesses to a long-neglected neighborhood.
...“We’re not trying to run anybody off. If anything, we’re trying to get them to work with us so we can move at a faster pace,” Griffis said.
Some residents are wary. City inspectors have cited Sanford Capital for nearly three dozen violations, including rat infestations, failure to maintain minimum temperatures, obstructed drains, broken lights, splintered floors, leaking faucets and defective smoke detectors.
Residents have accused Sanford Capital of deliberately contributing old mattresses and furniture to a trash heap in one building’s parking lot. The company also owes more than $10,000 in back taxes on two of the properties, according to the D.C. tax office.[/I]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 October 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Eesh. Disgusting and, sadly, not surprising.
― ice cream socialist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 October 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
I work in your neighborhood and they know how to be open for lunch, because Ballston is building density in office space as well as residential. Heck, the redevelopment of the Blue Goose parcel is exactly that. I'm living by 14th & U and I'm like hey my neighborhood is hopping! It's a bridge-and-tunnel destination! But it's like a freakin' dead zone until 5pm.
My point about the Neals, Isabella, Shallal et al. was that these are people who are demonstrably pretty good at the restaurant business, and all the "mom and pops" that aren't open for lunch are just being lazy. Literally you can walk down U or 14th all the way between columbia heights and logan and every place open for lunch is operated by people who are in the restaurant business to make lots of money. I look at all the other places and now I'm like, amateurs.
We do need more commercial space though. Whenever they finally tear down the reeves center I hope they put offices there and not more apartments.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 October 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
when our bank screwed up our property taxes the DC OTR was all over our shit. wasn't anywhere near $10,000 either. developers get away with so much shit
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 October 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
They've been attempting to gentrify my apartment building in Alexandria for 2 years now and it's a hilarious, asbestos-laden disaster.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 19 October 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
Senor Tomboto, sorry for the snarkitude (think I mistook your point; I get you now).
As it happens I tried to have lunch with a friend in that hood a while back, and found the same thing. I wanted to go to Fainting Goat but they were closed. Ditto Vinoteca. I think Alero was open but meh. Nearing desperation ended up at Ben's Next Door, which is fine but does not exactly roxor one's soxorz.
Arlington's approach to affordable housing is nobly intended and sometimes succeeds - but it is very much swimming against the tide. The ratio of "affordable" to "at-market" rents in every new development is tweakable, and occasionally contributes to decent diversity. When I was young and underfunded I lived in a complex with a sliding scale (Woodbury Park, near Court House, run by the nonprofit AHC). At the time it was 60% "affordable" / 40% "market rate" - but "affordable" in these environs is still pretty steep compared to Manassas Park or whatever.
Accommodating current residents (as opposed to new ones who are non-rich). A lot of this development is happening in comparatively new spaces, though, and sometimes it leads to comical results.
For example, there's a church in Clarendon that decided to put an apartment building on top of the church. To do so they had to argue about whether or not they owned the air above their building. There are strong tax incentives for including affordable units in the building, and they of course wanted those. So they had to argue about whether or not a taxpayer-subsidized apartment that is on top of a church somehow violated church-state separation.
I know there are genuine heartbreaking human hardships all over, and I wish there were more we could do. But meanwhile this is the kind of silly argument we are having on this side of the river: if people see churchy signs and such while going to and from their subsidized apartments, does this constitute proselytizing, or imply state endorsement of a religious faith?
― ice cream socialist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
http://georgetownvoice.com/2015/11/12/student-activists-announce-sit-in-in-president-degioias-office-call-for-name-change-to-mulledy-hall/
Student activists announce sit-in in President DeGioia’s office, call for name change to Mulledy Hall
By Elizabeth Teitz on November 12, 2015 News Georgetown students announced at a solidarity demonstration on Thursday, Nov. 12 that they are to begin a sit-in outside University President John DeGioia’s office on Friday morning to continue until administrators change the name of Mulledy Hall.
Several hundred students, faculty, and administrators attended the event, which was organized to call attention to racial disparities and discrimination at Georgetown as well as to send a message of support to activists across the country, including at University of Missouri and Yale University. The event, which was organized on Facebook, was hosted by Crystal Walker (SFS ‘16), Candace Milner (MSB ‘16), Queen Adesuyi (COL ‘16), Ayo Aruleba (COL ‘17), and Stephanie Estevez (COL ‘16).
The sit-in is to continue during the president’s business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until administrators change the name of Mulledy Hall, named for a former university president who sold 272 slaves to Louisiana in 1838 in order to raise money to pay off university debts.
Milner read off a list of demands from what she called a “working document,” which includes renaming McSherry Hall and the John Main Center, in addition to Mulledy Hall, installing plaques on unmarked graves of slaves on campus, the implementation of an annual program to mark slavery’s legacy at Georgetown, revision of campus tours to include information about the roles of black people in Georgetown’s history, mandatory training for professors on identity and diversity, and the creation of an “endowment to recruit black identifying professors.” The endowment should be “equivalent to the Net Present Value of the profit generated from the transaction in which 272 people were sold into bondage,” according to a document circulated by the Black Leadership Forum.
“We’ve been dialoguing enough. We are the university of dialogue,” said Walker who spoke at the event and sits on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. “We want tangible change.”
The organizers also called for structural and cultural change on campus that reflects greater diversity and active progress.
“The culture doesn’t prioritize the needs of people of color,” said Antwan Robinson (COL ‘16). “You have to watch your backs on campus. It’s not always safe.” He spoke of feeling uncomfortable on campus due to a climate of racial intolerance and ongoing micro-aggressions, and urged students to speak up about the injustice they witnessed.
Administrators, including Dr. Todd Olson, vice president for Student Affairs, also attended the event.
“It’s very valuable to listen to our students tonight,” he said. “We are committed to continuing to engage with our students and make changes on our campus.”
After the event ended and participants dispersed, some lingered in Red Square, while Father Raymond Kemp, special assistant to the president and an adjunct professor in the Theology Department, walked through the square with one fist held in the air.
“This is solidarity, this is what I teach. It’s straight out of Papal doctrine,” he said. “This is exactly Catholic social teaching at its very best.”
This story will continue to be updated as more information becomes available.
Editor’s note: An error with regards to Antwan Robinson’s class year has been corrected. Robinson is in the College Class of 2016, not the College Class of 2017.
In addition, a sentence summarizing Robinson’s remarks at the rally has been updated. The sentence previously read, “He spoke of feeling uncomfortable at times walking on campus at night due to a climate of racial intolerance, and urged students to speak up about the injustice they witnessed.”
I read elsewhere about U of MD issues:
http://www.testudotimes.com/2015/4/9/8375065/byrd-stadium-maryland-football-name-change
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/wallace-loh-forms-a-work-group-to-help-consider-renaming/article_385d78d0-62e1-11e5-bcf7-e32ca19dd581.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/washington-dc/best-washington-dc-restaurants-for-ethnic-cuisine
Not sure I agree with Yechon as top Korean
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
The writer is including the whole region btw, not just DC itself
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Someone needs to do an updated ratings of Eden Center restaurants list.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/12/03/pro-kobe-crowd-at-verizon-center-doesnt-make-d-c-a-bad-sports-town/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_sports
hmmmm
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I never agree with top X lists for food in this town. They always seem soaked in affectation and a clear preference for places with demonstrably shitty service
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
If you like the Big 3 sports, DC is totally trash. If you like the other two, it's great.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
'is _________ a good sports town' is an even dumber argument than 'is __________ an elite quarterback'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
yes but seriously DC is a demonstrably awful sports town for fans of 3/3 of the big major league sports
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
what's...sport #5
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
frolf
tiddlywinks
― yo no soy marinara sauce (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Thursday, December 3, 2015
Examples please of these raved about places with lousy service? Also, while there are similarities on many top local food lists (from Tom Sietsema in the W. Post to blogs like Eater and Thrillist and Washingtonian and Tyler Cowen and Don Rockwell) they all have their idiosyncrasies, so I am not clear which ones you are talking about.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 December 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
We eat out at about the same 5 places over and over and over since the person-making happened, so take my grouching with a grain of salt. I would like examples of good service in WDC actually. Even as regulars where the managers all know us (and like us) we still get frequent WTF moments from hosts and staff.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 4 December 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
take my grouching with a grain of salt
always do <3
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
I view those lists the same way I view "100 greatest books" or "100 greatest albums" or whatever. Interesting as debate starters for people with a lot of spare time and money - "Why haven't you included Chez X?" Or "Why are you still listing chez Y"? But not very good indicators of where you should go tonight for a reliably good meal.
Just as I don't consult Rolling Stone to know what record albums to put on the ol' hi-fi of an evening.
And like Tombot I have the small-person factor to consider. Taking an unruly special-needs toddler to even the most patient restaurant is risk incarnate. And every time we go out on our own, we blow 80 bucks on a babysitter in addition to whatever we're going to do or eat, so sure bets are prioritized over the New Hot Thing.
That said, in 40 years of living here I've managed to hit a lot of the highlights (Eve, 2941, Pesce, Vidalia), a few reliable mainstays (Lebanese Taverna, Lost Dog, Cashion's, Nora, 1789), and a number of overhyped Fails (Zola, Corduroy, Zed's).
― yo no soy marinara sauce (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 December 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Luxury apartments are more fun to build and market than affordable apartments, file under Duh.
Here in Arlingtopia, we use tax incentives and the permitting process to force developers to include a certain percentage of "affordable" units (i.e., still pretty costly but theoretically within reach) along with their "at-market" (i.e., gonzo insane nightmarishly expensive) luxury units. My hood has a bunch of this kind of housing (though not nearly enough to meet the demand). It helps (a little). Certainly better than nothing.
For every allegedly "affordable" apartment that is close-in and transit-accessible, there are surely 25 people living in some exurban group-house, or with their parents, who desperately want to move to the city but can't afford the rent. It's an unquenchable level of demand. Hard to fault developers for preferring to serve the market of people who can spend $3k/month and are picky about what type of marble lines the showers in the gym, and how obsequious the concierge is about getting them KenCen tickets.
― ready for the raptor (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
The Metro sucks? http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/transportation/why-does-metro-suck-dangerous-accidents-escalator-outages.php
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Yes, it does.
That's a great article.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/12/_all_aaditya_shah_wanted.php
It all began when Shah made an appointment with Paint1ng.com, a company he found on Craigslist, for Monday at 8 a.m. He got a call at 8:09 a.m. saying that the crew wouldn't arrive for another 45 minutes."I told them I didn't have time to wait around, and they told me to leave the door open or the key under the door," Shah says. He declined and said he would hire another crew instead. That's when "the guy started losing it," Shah said.Shah provided DCist with the texts he received, which quickly escalate from promises to arrive shortly to "Death to Muslims," and "Get out of my country bitch," with a photo of Shah from Facebook.
"I told them I didn't have time to wait around, and they told me to leave the door open or the key under the door," Shah says. He declined and said he would hire another crew instead. That's when "the guy started losing it," Shah said.
Shah provided DCist with the texts he received, which quickly escalate from promises to arrive shortly to "Death to Muslims," and "Get out of my country bitch," with a photo of Shah from Facebook.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
from the wmata article
Colvin left after a year on account of the unsafe practices, which “just blew my mind,” he says. He’s now working in Kuwait.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
Was never interested in restaurant Fig & Olive, and definitely not now. Misleading re local farm grown food and raising prices after salmonella problems and the shipped in dishes controversy
As City Paper reported earlier this week, many components of these dishes were not made fresh on-site. While the restaurant touts local farms and "genuine taste and seasonality" at the top of its menu, a lot of the food—from risotto to ratatouille—was pre-prepared at a central commissary in Long Island City, New York. That commissary suspended production in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, and investigators from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration never got a chance to test food samples for the bacteria there.
In response to City Paper's reporting, Fig & Olive shared the following statement with other media outlets:
"Commissaries are routinely used by upscale restaurant groups that serve a high volume of customers to ensure consistency in food quality and service. We had a commissary that was utilized for specific items by our New York outposts and selectively nationwide, which we closed in September 2015. The vast majority of ingredients served at our restaurants are locally sourced from vendors and farms. Currently all of our dishes are prepared in house at each location."
It's possible that the price hikes are related to changes in how and where they produce their food. However, Fig & Olive declined to elaborate to City Paper on what "prepared in house" actually means or how they were able to transition from making nearly 200 food items at a commissary to now making them at individual restaurants. They declined to say if they now make desserts, breads, sauces, and other ingredients from scratch at each location.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2015/12/17/fig-olive-increased-prices-after-salmonella-outbreak/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/19-Year-Old-Found-Dead-in-Adams-Morgan-After-Night-at-Bar-Family-Says-362866631.html
McGuinness' family believes he went down the back stairs of the bar and fell, Nicolai said.
Madam's Organ
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 December 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2015/12/activists_take_complaints_about_con.php
An unassuming house in Cleveland Park had some extra lights shining in front of it on Wednesday night, but they were not of the festive variety. About 50 activists placed lighted placards reading 'slumlord' at a politically connected developer's home and demanded better conditions at a Congress Heights apartment complex.
"If you're allowing rodents, mold, no heat, we don't want you to be able to return to your nice house in a nice neighborhood and enjoy yourself," says activist Eugene Puryear of Justice First, which organized the protest. "We're not just going to sit back."
The developer, Geofffrey Griffis, counters that those sorts of issues are exactly what his firm is trying to fix with a sizable new development. He pins the problems on the buildings' owner, which his firm has partnered with on the planned project.
At issue is a complex of apartment buildings—four inhabited, one vacant—around the Congress Metro station and across the street from a proposed pro-basketball arena on the St. Elizabeth's East campus. Sanford Capital, which bought four of the buildings in recent years, has teamed up with Griffis of CityPartners to plan a gleaming new mixed-use apartment complex. But two major issues stand in their way.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 December 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
hell yeah, that was good shit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/12/AbrDUcK/3f163c270.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Boycotting Cafe Saint-Ex on the basis of "HTTR" on their sidewalk chalkboard this morning.
Also I watched three people walk out of Provision 14 saying "Sorry not sorry - $20 for a (inaudible), I don't think so" and then walk directly across the street to Eatonville. Hilarious.
I heard the place that replaced Ulah Bistro is obnoxious and terrible.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 January 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
The place that replaced Ulah is owned by the same people as Provision 14, so no surprises there.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Saturday, 2 January 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Aha.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 January 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
x-post - you wanted a soccer reference instead on the chalkboard, or did the DC amurican football squad steer you wrong in fantasy football? Or is this just a suggestion St Ex is bandwagon jumping?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
1. They're in bumfuck maryland, not dc2. It's a tossup whether "Make America Great Again" would make me more or less annoyed than cheering Dan Snyder's shit show of a team3. That too
seriously the idea that I would play fantasy sports, though
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
anyway I came here to post this
http://wtop.com/lifestyle/2016/01/new-development-transforms-shaws-historic-streets-into-retail-destination/
“I think they see a life and an energy in D.C., and they saw a great opportunity in D.C. to do something that was a collection, so to speak, of retailers that were in a more intimate format and more neighborhood based,” Mosle says.“This is underground, this is artisanal, this is the creative class.”
“This is underground, this is artisanal, this is the creative class.”
HURBLRGGH
I guess I like that I can (more easily) walk to a movie theater now, although I haven't been yet.
As a mortgage holder I'm not even that stoked for what this potentially means for property values, because if every square foot in the neighborhood goes up, then we're not climbing the ladder - just staying put at an inflated nominal price. OTOH I keep hoping for the Reeves Center to come down, like they're going to replace it with anything other than another high-rise, high-priced residential development that looks like basically all the other big-windows tiny-patios multicolored-brick-curtain-wall buildings that popped up over the last decade and a half. I am a gentrification hypocrite
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
3,000 a month for a one bedroom at The Shay
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
FWIW I heard The Louis hasn't been able to break ~88% occupancy since they opened. There are still some units that have never had a tenant.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Chris Earnshaw's old-school DC photo exhibit with limited hours, opening tonight--
January 7 – February 26, 2016
DISTRICT explores D.C. during the 1960s and 1970s through the extraordinary eye of photographer Chris Earnshaw. These images – captured originally as Polaroid prints and nearly lost to time and neglect – reflect the demolition, desperation, beauty, and energy in the every-day of the capital city of the era. DISTRICT is presented by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., in partnership with artist and archivist Joseph Mills.
121 - Loew's Palace in Her Prime, 1965
Earnshaw, whose work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others, is, says Mills, “one of the finest photographers I have ever had the pleasure and privilege of knowing. He is able to speak in depth of the great architects of his time and place, as well as of the details on the building and the destruction he witnessed of their beautiful works. Whether turned toward a building being wrecked, or a soul being lost, Earnshaw knew instinctively not to interfere with the camera’s ability to see clearly.”
DISTRICT will be on display in the Historical Society’s rotating gallery space on the second floor of the historic Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square, 801 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. Following the evening opening reception on Wednesday January 6, 2016, exhibition hours will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, with additional viewings on Saturday January 30 and Saturday February 20. The exhibition closes February 26, 2016.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Anyone know anything about this movie Sweaty Betty? Apparently it's a little slice of life indie set in hyattsville with a dude who wants his 1000 lb pig to represent the Redskins. Got some good reviews and festival awards but I've read nothing about it locally and I live in hyattsville
― Heez, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
can we have a moratorium on naming things DISTRICT that are in or related to the district
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
x-post--- from the V. Voice review
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the film's setting as Hyattsville, Maryland. The film actually was shot near Hyattsville, in Cheverly and Kentland, also in Prince George's County. A newscast excerpted in the film erroneously identifies Hyattsville as the setting.
Sweaty Betty Directed by Joe Frank and Zachary Reed
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Yep, no one has written about the Sweaty Betty movie locally
just film sites and publications in NY and elsewhere.
The film, from first-time directors and best friends Joe Frank and Zachary Reed, tells the story of a number of real-life residents — and a massive pig named Miss Charlotte — living in a low income African American neighborhood in Hyattsville, Maryland on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Frank and Reed, both Hyattsville residents (Frank works as an accountant when not making films; Reed works as a meat processor), made "Sweaty Betty" to pay tribute to their neighborhood and the people they've come to love in the area.
springboard-meet-the-directors-behind-sweaty-betty-a-film-unlike-anything-playing-on-the-festival-circuit-20150605
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Odd that no one has written about this. Maybe not odd since most blogs around here just write about new restaurant/bar openings
― Heez, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I think this is their first movie, but they were smart enough to get it to national film fests elsewhere and quickly garnish attention from folks who pay attention to such events.
Pat Padua, who writes about offbeat and critic fave movies for the dcist blog, and curates films for the Library of Congress, usually gears his coverage around movies opening/showing here, as do others in the local media, so maybe when this opens locally it will get ink. But yea, new restaurant/bar openings get the most attention, followed by local rock bands...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Sweaty Betty opens in nyc tomorrow and i plan to catch it, i'll let ya know
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Please do.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Chris Earnshaw's old-school DC photo exhibit, "District" may have a clichéd name, but its worth seeing at the Carnegie Library.
The Anacostia Community Museum has an exhibit with 60s and 70s DC too, that I need to check out.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
def recommend Sweaty Betty, tho i was unprepared for Redsk1ns content, and thank God for subtitles.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Deft avoidance of hatcat there. Good to hear re sweaty Betty
― Heez, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
This treehouse extends 20 inches into an alley and it’s dividing the neighborhood
"I hope it gets taken down and we can go back to healing," she said.
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 January 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
jfc
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 January 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
wow
Capital Hill Corner blog beating the Post to the story
The couple said they passed out fliers alerting neighbors that they were building the treehouse and got no response. They also hired an arborist to help them avoid harming the tree, then bought $300 worth of “eco-friendly tree-building hardware
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
It looks like that "Sweaty Betty" movie about the people with a pig in Cheverly is already available via Amazon and elsewhere online, if not yet in DC area theatres (I don't think)
http://dcist.com/2016/01/dcist_interview_sweaty_betty_director_zachary_reed.php
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 January 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/01/15/walmart-is-ending-its-express-concept-and-closing-269-stores/?hpid=hp_local-news_walmart-1015am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
As part of this strategy, the company said it will not move forward with plans to build two new supercenters in the District — one that was planned for Skyland Town Center in Southeast Washington and the other at Capitol Gateway Marketplace in Northeast Washington.
Of course
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
I like how that Hedgpeth felt she needed to explain what the treehouse builders do for a living but not the woman who spends 20 hours a week trying to get the DC govt to tear the treehouse down.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/15/the-real-instagram-husbands-of-washington-dc/
“I have no innate interest in photography. I am just a monkey with a finger. I do have a feel on what looks good but have primitive technical skills and little desire to improve.”
― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 17 January 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
hahaha that sounds like it could be a Warhol quote
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Sunday, 17 January 2016 01:32 (eight years ago) link
I made it to the Anacostia Museum 1963 to 1975 exhibit and the Renwick's new offerings yesterday. Both worth seeing.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
Saw this over the weekend:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2016/01/18/at-reeves-center-demonstrators-say-muriel-bowsers-gotta-go-go/
It seems like pissing off http://www.onedconline.org/ is a pretty good way to ensure a single term?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
it is now legal to sled on capitol hill
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Best part of that recent bill.
x-post--Yes, but is Bowser pissing off most Black and Latino workers, and who will take her on?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 January 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
@wmataMetro to suspend service during blizzard: tinyurl.com/za2z3w2 #wmata
good luck. we're all counting on you
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 January 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
24-30" huh, g'luck all
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 January 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Now thinking that I did not lay in enough wine.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 21 January 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
I mean my boss suggested that one bottle per inch was the appropriate amount, so I'm like a case and a half short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SemqaC3UdI
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 January 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Go-go vocalist and old-school r'n'b dj James Funk made it over to the WPFW 89.3 (and online) studio (now at K and 20th Sts NW) and has been on all day spinning great tunes. I wonder if anyone will make it over there to replace him?
18 " of snow earlier in the day at Dupont Circle, more by now. Plus its getting windy. 30 " out in parts of Virgina
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 January 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/top-shelf/2016/01/adams-morgan-dive-bar-mainstay-for-sale-likely-to.html
Millie & Al's possibly for sale for 1.8 million, or maybe not for sale at all?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2016/01/29/union-arts-to-become-a-boutique-hotel-with-an-arts-program/
zoning hearing tonight
Luke Stewart, who manages Union Arts, says that CulturalDC gave a presentation to the building's tenants about its plans, which he was told will include "seven artists studios that will house up to 20 artists." (CulturalDC spokesperson John Richards says it will have "eight artists' studios that can house up [to] 20+ artists"). Stewart says the building currently houses studios and practice spaces for "between 70 and 100 artists"—far more than what CulturalDC's current plan can accommodate.
Stewart is also worried that CulturalDC's plan for cultivating local arts isn't what's currently happening at Union Arts. CulturalDC says it will "solicit proposals from artists of all disciplines for studio spaces, exhibitions, and programming opportunities, and will engage panels of experts and advisory groups to identify appropriate models and programming for artistic inclusion that will reach a broad range of audiences."
Among other functions, Union Arts serves as a practice space for local musicians—something that's hard to come by in D.C. these days—as well as a cherished DIY venue for hosting concerts. Stewart fears this aspect of Union Arts will be lost in CulturalDC's current plan. "The [studio spaces] not going to be for musicians, they're mainly going to attract craft people," Stewart says, "they're completely tearing out the vibe."
On Monday, the D.C. Zoning Commission will hold a hearing on the future of 411 New York Ave. NE. Union Arts is asking all of its supporters to come out en masse to voice their frustrations on the project and the need for space for community artists in the District.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/21/20_best_restaurants_in_washington/
Not their "cheap" eats, their "best" ones
1. Fiola Mare, the extravagant Georgetown seafood restaurant.2. Komi, Johnny Monis and Anne Marler’s Mediterranean-accented tasting-menu destination in Dupont Circle (and last year’s number-one restaurant). 3. Little Serow, Monis and Marler’s Northern/Northeastern Thai dining room. 4. Convivial, Cedric Maupillier’s French-American newcomer in Shaw. 5. Rasika and Rasika West End, the modern Indian dining rooms in Penn Quarter and the West End. 6. Plume, the opulent creative American dining room (with purse stools!) in downtown DC’s Jefferson Hotel. 7. Bad Saint, the tiny Filipino hotspot in Columbia Heights. 8. The Inn at Little Washington, the baroque Rappahannock County destination. 9. Casa Luca, Fabio and Maria Trabocchi’s trattoria in downtown DC. 10. Izakaya Seki, Cizuka and Hiroshi Seki’s spare Japanese place off U Street. 11.The Source, Wolfgang Puck’s recently renovated pan-Asian satellite in Penn Quarter. 12. Masseria, the tasting-menu-only Italian restaurant near Union Market. 13. Garrison, Robert Weland’s farm-to-table newcomer on Barracks Row. 14. Vin 909 Winecafe, the homey small plates and pizza place in Annapolis. 15. Proof, the eclectic wine bar in Penn Quarter. 16. Maketto, the Cambodian/Taiwanese restaurant, coffee bar, and shop on H Street, Northeast. 17. Blue Duck Tavern, the classic American dining room in the Park Hyatt Hotel. 18. Bistro Bis, Jeffrey Buben’s old-school French bastion near the Capitol 19. Central Michel Richard, the playful French/American brasserie in Penn Quarter 20. Marcel’s, Robert Wiedmaier’s quietly formal French restaurant in Foggy Bottom
Rose’s Luxury fell from #3 to #21 (“A once-airtight menu of knockout dishes now yields the occasional dud.”). And the Red Hen dropped from the #7 slot to #39 (“Inconsistencies have cropped up of late.”).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
so this just finished its soft open I guess:
http://thesovereigndc.com/
Also, Mule Bone opens next week!
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Friday, 12 February 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Is Belgian food and beer enough of a reason to make me go to Georgetown....Maybe
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2016/02/12/d-c-film-leaders-want-to-turn-old-goethe-institut-space-into-film-fest-hub/
The location was established as a designated arts space through a 1992 mayoral letter, in accordance with the Support for Art in Public Places Amendment Act of 1986. The issue, Gann says, is that the city’s definition of an arts space is so broad that it includes “culinary arts,” creating the possibility that a restaurant—in an area that's already overpopulated with them—could take over the building.
Right now, Levin and Gann have been in talks with the new owner’s leasing agent, who is open to the idea of dedicating part of the building as an arts space. Their main obstacle: rent prices. The owner wants to lease the space at market value, which would exceed $200,000 annually, a near-impossible figure for Gann and Levin to afford for their intended art rental space.
To meet their budget, the duo has been appealing to local arts groups, and sent a message to the D.C. Council to pressure its members into reserving the location as an arts space. “The city is quick to label an area or say this is a set-aside, but there’s no one in the city to enforce the renovations,” Gann says.
Their plan, if it's able to get fully funded and supported, is to renovate the 120-seat theater on the first floor and convert the upstairs gallery into another 150-seat theater that could also function as a performance space. With that, they hope, the building could house the film and smaller arts festivals that come through D.C. and often struggle to find a space that's affordable and appropriate. Ideally, festivals such as the AFI Docs, the Washington Jewish Film Festival, and Gann’s own DC Shorts festival would all be ideal contenders to use the space.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.districtdig.com/2016/02/10/out-to-pasture/
What will be the future of Barry Farms
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2016/02/empower_dc_activists_co-opt_bowers.php
Mayor going ahead with St E's site 5,000 seat Arena despite concerns, from multiple angles.
Other than for Mystics games and Wizards practices, how often will this arena get used? The similar capacity DAR Const. Hall does not host that many concerts, and IMP is still scheduled to build a 6,000 seat arena on Maine Ave SW.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
A press release about the new facility estimates that it will generate $90 million in tax revenues over 20 years, in part by hosting Mystics WNBA games and an estimated 90 non-basketball events a year.
The total cost for the Congress Heights facility will be $55 million
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2015/09/15/taxes-will-fund-90-percent-of-wizards-practice-site/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the facility will cost more than $55 million and the tax revenues and event estimates will fall short of projections.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 22 February 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Yep, and with IMP preparing to build their own 6,000 seat arena in the SW waterfront(will they be asking for tax breaks too), I just do not see many events for either of these proposed arenas (plus DAR and the Patriot Center still do stuff)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/03/03/a-definitive-guide-to-the-best-cheap-eats-destinations-in-the-d-c-area/
Beltsville, Wheaton and more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 March 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Ward 7 Council Candidates Respond To PJ Harvey's New Song
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Oh my god
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
Also so weird to see someone who looks so much like you (from the neck up; she is tiny and I am tall)
I will not dignify this inane composition with a response
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Lol britishes, basically
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Over on the ILM Capital Swamp thread I noted--I read someone defend PJ, saying that those lyrics were her voicing the views of people she met.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
lol the metro
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
Shutting down for 29 hours...wow. Years worth of safety inspections to do in one day
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
of course I can walk commute easy enough, but tomorrow's the day I need to get to DCA during evening rush hour. hello 1000x surge pricing.
― franklin, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdncZhEWEAEwQb8.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Metro buses will be running. When the Pope was in town, many feds telecommuted and traffic was light, but there was more notice for that.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
Status: Open with Option for Unscheduled Leave or Unscheduled Telework
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are OPEN and employees have the OPTION for UNSCHEDULED LEAVE OR UNSCHEDULED TELEWORK.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:45 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/i-gave-a-famous-rock-star-a-windshield-tour-of-dc--and-didnt-know-who-she-was/2016/03/18/8124ab28-e488-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Wow, if an afternoon of driving through a place suffices to know it well enough to portray it in song....
I hereby volunteer to drive any and all minor or major alt-rock stars through any DC-area neighborhood they choose. I agree to provide half-baked ill-informed observations of the exotic urban environments that we pass, with the proviso that these observations will be henceforth musically immortalized, preferably on vinyl.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 March 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
Moving Wizards, Caps to a new arena in RFK stadium area seems like a dumb idea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/rfk-stadium-site-offered-as-home-for-redskins-or-maybe-wizards-and-capitals/2016/04/01/df0c51c8-f757-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html
D.C. officials plan to unveil an array of possibilities for the future of the RFK Stadium property Monday night, among them a new 65,000-seat Redskins stadium and a basketball and hockey venue capable of replacing Verizon Center.
All the proposals include a raft of suggested recreation facilities for a city with a booming population, among them playing fields, a field house, a water park and a sports-and-entertainment complex that officials likened to Chelsea Piers in Manhattan.
Two of the six proposals, outlined by Events DC, the District’s sports-and-entertainment arm, lay out a path for the Redskins to return to the District, though serious obstacles remain should Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and the D.C. Council move to reach a deal with owner Daniel M. Snyder.
Officials also said for the first time that they are considering the 190-acre riverfront property as a possible location for a 20,000-seat arena equipped to serve the Washington Wizards and Capitals.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Does Verizon ctr need replacing? Thought it worked p well actually, and paid for by the teams iirc
― tobo73, Monday, 4 April 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
No need to do so--the scoreboard screen might not be as big as in some newer arenas but that's all I can see as a problem. They are talking about in the future, and the building will have some wear and tear, but the current location downtown seems more ideal. The late Abe Pollin paid for it, which is more than most sports team owners do (the city later helped out some and gave some breaks, but not as many as the Nats ownership got). Current owner Ted Leonsis seems to be trying to hit up the city for more. He got that that good deal for him but lame deal for city taxpayers on the new Wizards practice space/Mystics arena at St. E's...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
This is what they should also be worrying about, after a 29 million investment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/money-problems-and-no-name-acts-the-howard-theatre-is-struggling-again/2016/04/03/da0e2122-cb71-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news2_howardtheatre-1030am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Fillmore and Hamilton getting some name acts rather than the Howard, plus overpriced food and marketing and security issues all make it hard to pay the bills
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2016/04/13/john-mica-to-metro-leaders-i-am-not-going-to-bail-out-washington-d-c/
Evans pointed to Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow, Paris, and London as cities where the national governments invest majorly in their "world-class" subway systems. "These are all communist countries!" Government Operations Subcommittee Chair Mark Meadows retorted.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 April 2016 04:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/realestate/commercial/crystal-city-once-cast-off-by-washington-reboots-itself.html
“Think Brooklyn and Manhattan,” said Mitchell N. Schear, president of Vornado/Charles E. Smith, the dominant property owner and landlord here. “You’re close enough, but you’re not paying higher taxes and utilities. Here, we are a slightly geekier crowd, and we are embracing it.”
― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Crystal City FAP?
No? Didn't think so.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
but more importantly, hi daria-g! Miss you 'round these parts!
hi quincie!! miss you too!
― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
I could do a crystal city FAP, maybe.
prefer Ballston FAP
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
I just moved next to Braddock Road station and even being that close to Crystal City I don't think I'd bother.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.yelp.com/biz/enjera-restaurant-arlington
In Crystal City I think. Ethiopian Tej wine maybe
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
One of the weaker Ethiopian joints imo
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Just grabbed that one from a google search. I work in Bailey's X-Rds and stick to ones in a strip mall here, or down the road at Meazza.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
had a couple beers at Jaleo in Crystal City the other day. Quite possibly the classiest place I've been to down thataway
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Solid Filipino next to Enjera. Good Ethiopian at Skyline. Also Cafe Aurora is good, but I have trouble with what makes Eritrean different from Ethiopian (every Ethiopian I know says 'nothing' but you know). They opened a new Dama in Annandale and I've heard good things.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
thanks. Just tried a different Ethiopian one at Skyline on George Mason-- in the back, and I've just spaced on the name. They had a sax player and keyboardist playing live during dinner hours. Good enough but not amazing food.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
Was it Bati? That place has always been alright without blowing me away.
Enat on Beauregard was incredible once, then a little underwhelming the next time. They've recently only had Ethiopian injera, which is a little too salty and sour for my taste.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
I have been to Bati which I used to love and is just alright and does have late night music on weekends I think (but sadly not anymore this great guitarist who is on an Ethiopiques compilation), but a place with its entrance in the back ---Balagger Restaurant & Market
I tried Enat once (admittedly after reading about the Washingtonian food critic taking the Post's Sietsema there) and it was solid but not incredible.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
The Baby Wale is kind of totally overpriced but they're playing 100% go-go, huge space, and very decent beverage selection. Definitely going to be my new HH spot after I have shit to do at the convention center in the afternoon.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Friday, 22 April 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
toxic leak from freight train
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/CSX-Train-Derails-Hazardous-Material-Leaking-377725691.html
tho not as toxic as the WH correspondents' dinner, amirite
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 May 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Morbs, thought you would like the Larry Wilmore joke at the WH C Dinner that Obama was busy hanging out and having fun with Golden State Warrior Steph Curry because they both like raining down bombs from long distances
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 May 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
not bad
i saw/heard Larry Wilmore emcee a screening of The Parallax View a few months ago, and there are limits to his expertise.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/05/best-cheap-restaurants-in-washington-dc/
$25 or under places to take metro buses or uber to
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
They still like Ethiopian joints Enat and Ethiopic, plus a number of other places have been on their list for years. All still good? Or is Washingtonian getting lazy?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
Finally made it to The Sovereign, for brunch. It was fantastic. Get the loaded fries.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Sunday, 8 May 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/12/fort-reno-not-happening-2016-national-park-service-amanda-mackaye/
It looks like Fort Reno is NOT happening this year. I for one am bummed.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
I know they've had logistical troubles before, but that is legitimately sad.
― embryo mtv raps (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/washington-d-c-s-metro-catches-fire-more-than-four-times-a-week/
Hilarious
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Sad.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Ft. Reno may happen per Bandwidth article that came out after Washingtonian one. Organizer Amanda just likes to take her time. Link is on the Capital Swamp thread on ilm
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjPisDMWEAAvScp.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
noooooooo
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
nooooooooo
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm still annoyed at how badly Shallal has fucked up Eatonville. There was a time when that place was our go-to brunch spot and we'd drag the in-laws there for dinner every time they came to town. The service and food quality had declined so much that we had high hopes for Mulebone but it's practically a self-parody, all the bad dumb ideas in one place. "Hey, what if we did chicken and waffles with a PANCAKE instead of the waffles?!?"
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 June 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Maybe the chef that Shallal hired is to blame. I'm not a fan of W. Post reviewer Tom Sietsema, but back in March here's what he says in part, in his praise for the the new place--he has hired Joseph Paire to take over the kitchen? An alumnus of Todd Gray’s Watershed in NoMa and Farmers Fishers Bakers in Georgetown, the chef, 33 and a District native, is cooking notches better than his résumé suggests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/mulebone-review-with-a-new-chefs-help-andy-shallal-steps-up-his-game/2016/03/22/3797a6cc-e9f6-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
It's not just that. The clothes for sale = weird. The dinner menu = buttered to death. The service: as bad as it ever was during the twilight of Eatonville. And this is a pet peeve, but Shallal needs to fire whomever is in charge of the beer sections of his menus. Busboys and Mulebone have taken to just listing the name of the brewery as if that tells you what you're getting, letting stuff get 86'd with no replacement, and suggesting the existence of a "seasonal" when there is actually no seasonal, just something that they don't have anymore. Seasonal empty tap. GTFOWTS,A
At least the Neal brothers can be bothered with the logistics, even if the tap menu kind of sucks (compared to the glory days of 2014) and keeps getting worse.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Sietsema slams Founding Farmers Restaurant and gives it zero stars, a rare thing for him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/founding-farmers-review-where-the-biggest-temptation-is-to-leave/2016/06/01/76b2c844-204e-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html?platform=hootsuite&tid=a_inl
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
That was pretty savage. I assume their food is in fact edible, but Sietsema generally grades on performance relative to expectations - whether those expectations come from hype, reputation, popularity, or chef resume.
― full of grapes (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Architecture / DC code question: The building height restriction is the width of the facing street plus 20 feet, correct? So why is nobody building anything higher than 4 stories along Rhode Island Avenue NW? Went for a stroll this morning to check out what might be our future neighborhood and noticed that new construction seems to not be taking advantage.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 June 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
street +20' is the maximum citywide but neighborhood zoning often further restricts this through FAR caps, additional height restrictions, etc.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Was going to post that Sietsema review - have always slightly amazed by the clueless raves that place gets
the Rinzler concert is pretty tempting this year. need to clone self.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Friday, 10 June 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Another Post food reviewer Tim Carman has the carryout and international ethnic beat. I loved the roti I had recently at Caribbean Palace (New Hampshire Ave on the Langly Park & Takoma Park , MD border) and have had in the past a few times; I see that Tim Carman liked it last year (although he seems to like Teddy's Roti Shop in DC more).
Sietsema only goes to places like this when Todd Kliman brings him there in an uber (read this awhile back in either Post or Washingtonian). Kliman is leaving Washingtonian but hasn't announced where he is going to.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/restaurants/at-caribbean-palace-a-no-frills-tour-of-west-indian-cuisine/2015/02/19/1c801fec-b390-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/empty-seats-quiet-hearing-fight-over-union-arts-dissipates-as-artists-negotiate-exit/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
hey DC people, this is super last minute but my brother's band Thaylobleu is having a CD release party at The Velvet Lounge tonight:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1091981960875283/
Also playing will be:
The Cornel West TheoryLaughing ManLeftist
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
El Tomboto, Mulebone just fired the chef and the mixologist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/06/14/a-few-months-after-opening-mulebone-lays-off-its-chef/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 June 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/blog/20782982/culturaldc-sells-flashpoint-gallery
Last remaining art gallery in Gallery Place hood is leaving
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
So yeah, this blew up on popville. what people think? http://www.popville.com/2016/06/well-this-is-depressing/
Honestly this kind of reminded me of that Blowfly song, you know the one.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
(except Blowfly was being funny)
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
lots of clichés in that article. Poverty and crime and policing and good government issues and DC history are more complicated than that guy will acknowledge.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 June 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah and apparently the greatest political participation the author could muster is an anonymous open letter and moving his small business tax revenue to some undisclosed location that's definitely not DC. He also never actually tried to find out why things were/are bad and terrible, just allocates blame that suits his own bigotry.
The part re: Columbia Heights being evidently worse than it was when I lived there 11 years ago feels about right, sadly.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 July 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.borderstan.com/2016/07/06/opinion-popville-op-eds-indictment-of-columbia-heights-difficult-to-agree-with/
ANC 1A chair Kent Boese, whose commission represents Columbia Heights:
My concerns with the District’s police force falls into two main areas 1) the decision a year ago by Chief Lanier to eliminate police district based plainclothes units with little forewarning or community input, and 2) our ability to train and maintain new recruits at a time when we have a significant number of police officers leaving or retiring. The elimination of plainclothes officers stationed in our communities was a misstep that likely has more to do with MPD’s attrition rate than it does with the changing nature of crime. It was equally disheartening that our Councilmember’s response to concerned residents seeking a return of dedicated plainclothes officers was that of equating plainclothes policing with jump out squads. In conversations with beat officers, DC Police Union members, and the Office of the Attorney General, have all said that addressing the most problematic criminal behavior in our community has become more difficult since the elimination of the vice squads. This is particularly true with nuisance properties – places that can and do harbor drug dealers, illegal firearms, and prostitution.MPD’s decreasing number of experienced officers is also concerning.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
I saw Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and other original Freedom Singers perform, 50 some years later, some of their civil rights anthems last night and talk about them, and it was very impressive and inspiring and occasionally sad and depressing(not the quality of the singing, but the subject matter talked about and sung about). The event at the Metropolitan AME Church in W. DC (where Frederick Douglas long ago once spoke) was part of the March on Washington Film and more Festival going on this week and next. Ysaye Barnswell, who was once in Sweet Honey in the Rock with Johnson Reagon, later did a version of "Wade in the Water" with "Black Lives Matter" in the lyrics. She can still emote powerfully too.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
hot enough for ya all
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 July 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
u know it
― tobo73, Monday, 25 July 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, hate
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 25 July 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/blog/20828698/congress-heights-tenants-plan-protest-against-developer
sad story that could have a happy ending but likely won't
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 July 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Report: Dispute over Metrorail operator’s break almost resulted in a head-on collision
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2016/07/28/before-construction-can-begin-cost-of-wizards-practice-facility-rises-10-million/
The 118,000-square-foot venue, designed by D.C.-based architects Rossetti and Marshall Moya, would have a minimum of 4,200 seats, down from 5,000 originally planned.
In an interview, O’Dell said the changes reflected a more realistic estimate of what it would take to build an entertainment venue capable of attracting concerts and other performances
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/housing-complex/blog/20829382/cost-of-taxpayerfunded-wizards-practice-facility-balloons-to-65-million
DAR Constitution Hall in DC and the Patriot Center(now Eaglebank Arena) are both about that size I think, and neither have that many concerts per year. Who are these folks kidding. Even if they get the circus, its still not many days. Wizards practices, Mystics games and a handful of other events for a lot of DC taxpayer money, that won't generate too many jobs or development.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/next-challenge-for-dc-police-chief--how-to-continue-community-engagement/2016/08/17/e4d2d7f0-646a-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Awww, I'm going to Nats v Os game Wed., which means I will miss DC architecture discussion that night at 7 at The Third Floor (above Slim’s Diner) in Petworth
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
I'll be part of that discussion!
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
I knew that, but wasn't sure if you wanted the millions who read this thread to have me signaling you out
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
So will a an oversized 7 story hotel really be better than a privately created ugly little plaza in Adams Morgan?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
What's with the liquor tasting rooms located right next to animal rescue shelters, folks?
Washington Animal Rescue League -> Don Ciccio & FigliWashington DC Humane Animal Care and Control -> One Eight Distillery
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
industrial zoning
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
I prefer to think that they collude
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
booze goggles -> old mutts finding homes
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
Traumatized animal rescuers need to unwind at least as much as the rest of us.
― Rhys Witherspork (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
"I Died," did you get hit with tough questions at panel last night?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
Matt Yglesias is looking for a nanny share on DC Urban Moms.Our world.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
The boring architecture panel was really fun - moved along fast, lots of great audience comments. They're looking to organize more soon.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 26 August 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
nice.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
BTW did I forget to tell you guys my new master plan for getting representation? DC will band together with Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the USVI to form a SUPERTERRITORY with 2 senators and (according to the 2010 Census, 3725789 + 601723 + 159,358 + 106405 + 55519 + 53883 = 4,702,677 residents) 6 reps (exactly the number we all have now, coincidentally). This is the best idea.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 August 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
I like it, but only if it will be called Wapricoguamariasamaoavirginland.
The flag could be three palm trees above two half-smokes.
― plenty offish (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 August 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
From Elizabeth and Philip Jennings' training materials....
http://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/8/6/hyper-detailed-soviet-maps-of-washington
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/the-essential-guide-to-ice-cream-and-frozen-desserts-around-washington/2015/06/24/02101680-0642-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?tid=a_inl
Ice Cream Jubilee -- Had Thai iced coffee with banana bourbon caramel ice creams in a waffle cone that quickly fell apart and it was...uh ok. I'm not as wowed by this place as some are (its opening a 2nd location in the 14th street nw area). Also, even worse is the Yards park hood the store is located in. So many private property only & no parking signs to discourage evil car drivers, plus condos and more condos coming soon ones.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
car drivers are evil though
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 29 August 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
even uber and lyft ones?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Or especially?
Once safe track gets finished, I'll be taking the train everywhere.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for that link, Morbs
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/in-gentrifying-dc-apartments-for-large-families-are-quickly-disappearing/2016/08/29/b93276d6-6aec-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html
Brookland Manor today has 134 four- and five-bedroom apartments. Yet when the new community is built, none of its 1,646 apartments or 114 for-sale townhouses will have more than three bedrooms, and a vast majority will have only one or two.Brookland’s owner, Mid-City Financial Corp., based in Germantown, Md., told the city’s Zoning Commission that four- and five-bedroom apartments “are not consistent with the creation of a vibrant new community.”
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 04:48 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2016/09/01/amidst-building-boom-an-effort-to-save-washingtons-last-warehouse-district/?hpid=hp_local-news_digger-11am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Will this attempt be too late?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20832984/doors-arent-closing-just-yet-on-latenight-metro-service
Jacob Weisman, a 26-year-old line cook at Daikaya who also pulls some shifts at Bantam King, can’t afford to take an Uber home to Greenbelt, Maryland, when his night ends. And there’s no good bus route for him, either.
Already, Daikaya has reduced weekend hours to close at 11 p.m. so employees and patrons can still take Metro home before the train’s midnight closure during SafeTrack repair work. The notion that Metro would make the change permanent—and also end service at 10 p.m. on Sundays, as Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld has proposed—strikes Weisman as an assault on the city and the people it serves.
“It’s a huge deal,” he says. “For me personally, there’s not really a bus that goes directly to my place. I think there are three separate buses, and I don’t think they run where I need them to. And calling a car, if there’s a deal, maybe it’ll be $10. But during surge times, it could be upwards of $50 to $65.”
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
In the Sunday newsprint version of the New York Times, this article had a different title-- something about "Gritty North Shaw"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/travel/five-places-to-go-in-washington-dc.html
Here's the opening paragraph:
North Shaw is popping as a vibrant urban landscape with new shops and restaurants and more in mid-construction. Formerly a 15-acre swath known for gritty streets, parking lots, vacant buildings and chain-link fences, it’s the latest residential, retail and creative hub in the nation’s capital. On warm nights now, crowds pack the outdoor tables of tasteful restaurants on the wide sidewalks near the intersection of Florida Avenue and Eighth Street Northwest; street murals by local artists brighten building facades; and posters promote sumo wrestling and free henna tattoos.
Oy veh.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
My wife does some volunteer work for the Smithsonian so we got a sneak peek preview of the new National Museum of African American history and culture. Spent 5 hours there and did not see it all. Poignant, often somber, and also inspiring.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
Public opening is the 24th, and there's a fest going on at the mall Friday through Sunday.
http://dcist.com/2016/09/photos_finding_chocolate_city_at_th.php#photo-1
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
A bunch of Washington Post restaurant lists posted--Sietsema top restaurants one plus Tim Carman on Cheap Eats and Ethiopian ones
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-restaurants-guide-fall-2016/
Sietsema's latest list
Analysis of it by numbers;
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/10/13/tom-sietsemas-2016-fall-dining-guide-by-the-numbers/
Below two are from Tim Carman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-10-best-places-to-eat-cheap-food-in-the-washington-area/2016/10/07/dbd11f42-8010-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-10-best-ethiopian-restaurants-in-the-washington-area/2016/10/12/0c38147c-8027-11e6-a52d-9a865a0ed0d4_story.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvOZtzmUAAAr_A8.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/20837636/blagden-alleys-last-remaining-artist-is-being-priced-out
Overview re Bill Warrell and the history of art spaces downtown, from his dc space club on 7th & E to Warrell's current status as last artist left in Blagden Alley
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
x-post-- Funny...but I think Dischord has already shut those items down, as no money was going to the artists not approved , etc.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
The bittersweet Blagden Alley, Warrell piece has me wondering do other cities help artists and musicians via zoning and real estate laws, etc. Is DC worse than others or just the same?
Warrell’s looming departure from Blagden Alley isn’t just another example of an artist being priced out of his neighborhood. In Furioso’s view, it’s emblematic of why the arts have not fared well in D.C.
“The city of D.C. has never given one square foot to the visual arts,” he says. “You can go to almost any town—any city practically—in this country and they’ll give you an old building, an old post office, an old something.”
Furioso has tried to keep Warrell in the building as long as possible. He didn’t raise the rent until last year, when years of property tax increases made it impossible for him to charge the same price as when Warrell moved in.
Furioso wishes the city offered more incentives to developers to keep low-income residents in their buildings. “We’re not even asking the city to do anything except give that deduction through property tax.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
georgetown-rosslyn gondola feasibility study (pdf)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
SummaryIn terms of potential ridership, the findings of thisstudy suggest that a Gondola connecting Rosslyn toGeorgetown could significantly contribute to a moreeffective multi-modal transit system while addressingtransportation needs in the immediate study area. Thissection provides an overview of the development of theridership projections.
Ha. Once they do this and get the trolley going all the way to Georgetown, all of the area's transportation issues will be solved (plus Metro is gonna have non-existent buses take the place of late-night Metro trains...)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
I'm trying to imagine the circumstances in which I'd wait for a fucking gondola rather than just walking across the bridge, and I am failing. However, if you devise a trebuchet that can fling me from Wilson & N. Lynn to a trampoline placed at Wisconsin & M Street, then we'll talk.
― pumpkin spice was the Spice Girl who died suspiciously (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
http://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/event/walter-e-washington-convention-center/washington-free-press-50th-anniversary-reunion-cl
Saturday panel discussion on Washington Free Press, 1966 to 1970 DC radical newspaper that was harassed by the FBI
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2016 12:47 (seven years ago) link
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/11/ted-leonsis-wizards-capitals-verizon-center
In a recent conference call with the Washington Post, Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis grumbled that his teams were “disadvantaged” because he was forced to pay more in building costs than other teams in other cities, in a Verizon Center deal he called “the worst building deal in professional sports.” Leonsis pays an estimated $36 million mortgage annually on the Verizon Center.
He also hinted that in six or seven years’ time, when the mortgage ends, he “will be a free agent,” suggesting that he could could possibly move the teams.
...This is absolutely preposterous. Yes, Leonsis may have to pay more for his mortgage than other professional teams, but just because those other teams duped cities into paying for their stadiums shouldn’t make D.C. fans feel bad about the deal here.
The Wizards and Capitals have spent plenty of money. They’ve spent an ungodly amount of money. The Wizards are currently spending more than the NBA Salary Cap, so for Leonsis to say that he can’t spend enough on his players is outrageous. He can’t spend more on his players because the league expressly prohibits him from doing so. The Capitals are also considered a “cap team,” having spent close to the cap every year in recent history.
The reason the Wizards and Capitals haven’t won a title has nothing to do with Leonsis’ mortgage and everything to do with the fact that he’s hired bad people who have done a bad job. Ernie Grunfeld, as Deadspin pointed out, is still somehow the general manager of the Wizards, even though he hasn’t shown like once in his entire career that he has any idea how to effectively run an NBA franchise. The team has wasted draft picks and signed the wrong guys to big deals and kept ineffective coaches and on and on.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
so it seems like we spent about a week staring at the sidewalk and now everybody is gearing up for a long slog. Is that everybody else's take?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 November 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
yeah. Although it feels like everyone's's going to be far more involved than the passive resignation post-2000 and even 2004.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Friday, 18 November 2016 06:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it's going to be freezing at the inauguration protests.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 November 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
true.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
DISTRICT II
In less serious news. Lots of exhibits worth checking out around DC. Just noticed that this opened at the Building Museum:
District II
November 19, 2016 - February 12, 2017
This poetic visual essay explores the changing streetscape of downtown Washington in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s through the urban street photography of Bill Barrett, Chris Earnshaw, and Joseph Mills
http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/district-ii.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
I saw the Van Vechten Harlem Heroes photo exhibit, and the Herman Leonard Jazz photos ones. Both worth seeing although I agree with the following:
Of the two exhibits, Herman Leonard’s jazz photographs exude more verve and cool. Van Vechten’s images, taken as much as 20 years earlier, are more historically groundbreaking and serve as a fitting memorial to Van Vechten’s role as a patron of African-American artists—but as artistic objects, his images fall short.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/blog/20833380/at-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum-carl-van-vechtens-photographs-of-harlem-heroes
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
x-post -- there were protesters at the Reagan Trade Center Bldg Saturday protesting the "alt-right" conference there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2016/11/21/a-changing-neighborhoods-last-cheap-carryout-is-closing-owner-says-change-is-great/?hpid=hp_local-news_cheap-carryout-12pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Carryout near Hecht's warehouse
Guzman, 41, is the owner of Louis’ Restaurant & Carry Out, which has operated since 1988 at Fenwick and Okie streets NE in now-gentrifying Ivy City. ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 23, Guzman will close the restaurant’s doors for the final time, but not before giving away free food to all of his neighbors, which include a homeless shelter next door. His landlords are doubling his rent, he says, after he made an offer to buy the building that was declined. (Several attempts to reach the building’s owners for comment were unsuccessful; no one at their number picked up.)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
At least Maggiano's donated 10 grand from the day the white supremacists showed up to eat and sieg heil
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
NY Times article on C*met P*ng Pong is not likely gonna be enough to stop crazies from harassing anyone associated with that pizza place, including musicians who have played there.
Maybe they'll move on and find a new conspiracy theory soon
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
We moved! Petworth is my new metro stop.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
sellout
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
j/k obv but if you have a garage i will lol
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
no garage. lol basemetn is hueg tho
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 November 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
Warning: hueg basement, like hueg garage, leads to failure to purge/massive accumulation of crap (at least if you are me).
Luckily we are solving the garage accumulation of crap by doing this lil project: http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/tiny_house_in_cleveland_park_historic_district_approved/11740
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
wau
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
ooh can I live there
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
You are more than welcome there, just be warned that you may be sharing space with an elderly parent or two.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
lol @ Granny Pod
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that was spouse's choice of term. We're totally sneaking a roof deck in, btw, zoning be damned.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
https://www.popville.com/2016/11/kramerbooks-expansion-coming-under-new-ownership-in-dupont/
free beer if you buy $50 worth of books, now through 12/31
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 November 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/young-hungry/article/20845471/two-wage-theft-lawyers-cash-in-on-dcs-restaurant-boom
Just three years after leaving Maryland Legal Aid and launching his practice, the 33-year-old Zelikovitz has gone from using just a single room in a Chinatown townhouse to renting the entire building. He is one of several attorneys who have discovered that suing District restaurants over wage law violations doubles as doing good and doing good business.
Zelikovitz and attorney Jonathan Tucker, who left Maryland Legal Aid last year to join the firm, benefit from wage law violations they say can often be caused by scofflaw managers or ignorance among restaurant owners. They have more than 30 active cases, with nearly 20 others on payment plans.
When a restaurant fails to pay a dishwasher minimum wage or time-and-a-half for overtime pay, that’s an opening for the lawyers to send a demand letter on behalf of their clients, many of whom come to them via word of mouth or Spanish-language Google advertisements.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-police-respond-to-report-of-a-man-with-a-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-restaurant/
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Sunday, 4 December 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Crazy. Sounds like guy was arrested with no loss of life. Knuckleheads on twitter still pushing their conspiracy theory
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 December 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
yeah i just checked and clicking the trending topic it's all "this is a false flag, this place needs to be investigated"
wtf
i saw an acid mothers temple show there that was pretty loud but that's really it as far as weirdness
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Sunday, 4 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
the inauguration is going to be such a fucking mess. I'm not worried, per se, about the grab bag of deluded stupid assholes who are going to descend upon us in January, but if I were a betting man I wouldn't put a dime of somebody else's money on the inaugural parade + affiliated nonsense going off without at least a couple of people winding up in the hospital
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 4 December 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Also, the National Park Service has still not confirmed locations for the various anti-Trump protest organizations. They say that the folks who requested the Women's march location, filed late. Plus there are legal battles re locations near the Trump hotel on inauguration day.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
I'm probably just going to go to Freedom Plaza and see what happens
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 December 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm working in Downtown on 9th Street during it so good luck to me.
― Gukbe, Monday, 5 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Was re-reading that during the Bush inaugural parade (the first time), some folks decided to show up at random sites and boo, rather than joining in the sole designated protest area...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/groups-call-blocking-inaugural-protests-unconstitutional-44029039
In the past, inaugural committees have let the park service know what land they won't be using, and then permits have been issued, Litterst said. The park service is awaiting word from Trump's inaugural team about its plans. Verheyden-Hilliard said activists are concerned that the inaugural committee will run out the clock on dissidents and she will take legal action in a bid to prevent that.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
So U St. condos get named after famous Black musicians, and H St NE ones will get named after historic NYC Black theatres/music sites?
The Apollo Apartments - Brand New Apartments
Live in Luxury on H Street at The Apollo. Now Leasing!
Amenities: Rooftop Deck, Fitness Center, On-Site Cafe, Resident Lounges, Dog Run, Bike Storage, 24-Hour Concierge, Guest Accommodations
600 H St NE, Washington, DC
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/restaurants/the-20-diners-favorite-cheap-eats-of-2016/2016/12/28/58c95a1a-c890-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_20-diner-1155am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.280637d84bbb
Tim Carman lives in Maryland so its possible that is why the list has more Maryland places on it (or perhaps that is not why)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
There was an Apollo Theater on H street NE. It's not named after the Harlem venue.
http://www.popville.com/2013/10/from-apolo-theatre-to-murrys-grocery-store-to-120000000-apolo-mixed-use-development/
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Interesting
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
The Airedale at 14th & Perry is slept on
I think I really like my new neighborhood y'all
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
No matter how I parse your first sentence (neighborhood terrier? Hipster bar?) I cannot make sense of it.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 31 December 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
hipster bar! wall covered in soccer scarves. wide range of local beers on tap. excellent brunch. slept on = seems rather un-busy
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Weather this week was great for our visit over xmas
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 31 December 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
man a dude moves to Petworth and all of a sudden he's speaking a new language!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 31 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
What's the feasibility of finding somewhere okayish in DC for 1300 a month?
Currently in Alexandria, but need to move in a few months. Was thinking Silver Spring?
― Gukbe, Sunday, 1 January 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
it seems totally doable imho but I don't know what your parameters are for "somewhere okayish"
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Your own place, I assume, or are you willing to consider a housemate? I suspect that 1300 may be putting you into teeny-tiny (studio as opposed to 1 br) territory. But throw in a roommate and ~2400 will get you something pretty nice if not luxury-building style in NW. Not really familiar with rents in other parts of the city these days.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm okay with tiny studio but if the gap in quality is so large that a roommate will do the trick then I'm willing. Weighing that versus moving further out and buying a car.
― Gukbe, Monday, 2 January 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
do you have a preference of metro line? i've had a lot of luck along the green line for affordability.
― Heez, Monday, 2 January 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
Green Line works, yup. Hyattsville/College Park. If you're thinking Red Line you might find yourself in Wheaton rather than Silver Spring. I like that part of the world fine, even though I am a novadude.
― maccabeelzebubbly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
the red line is an abomination
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Hey! I like my 'hood!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
FP'd
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/01/30/a-hoagie-shop-chains-co-owner-shakes-trumps-hand-and-a-twitter-outcry-ensues/
UNTREATABLE SCHADENROFFLES
fuck Taylor Gourmet honestly. I cannot wait to see every storefront replaced by a new franchise of MONARCH NOVELTIES or PUPPET HEAVEN which frankly would be nutritionally identical lol lol etc
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
lol because that writer used the word hoagie like the good pittsburgher she is <3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Shhh, don't tell 45, but the Iranian filmfest is going on in DC and Maryland
http://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/event/afi-silver-theatre-and-cultural-center/reseeing-iran-cl
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 February 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
more movie fests, including the new African Film fest that started last week, and I forgot about till today; an environmental one coming up
http://dcist.com/2017/03/popcorn_candy_is_dcists_6.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! I should bookmark the DC Resource thread on ILM because otherwise I only ever see it on Zing by happenstance.
― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
ABC News reports:
Shots were fired this morning near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. U.S. Capitol Police responded to the area at Washington Ave and Independence Ave, which is located near the U.S. Botanic Garden and the Rayburn House office building. The suspect apparently struck a Capitol Police cruiser and then tried running over several officers who were on foot, according to Metro DC Police. At one point Capitol Police fired shots, but no one was hit. The suspect was apprehended at 3rd and Independence Ave, and has been taken into custody. No one was hit by the suspect’s car, police said.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/13/judge-sheila-abdus-salaam-first-african-american-on-new-yorks-top-court-found-dead-in-hudson-river/?utm_term=.d08d33475a43
She was a great judge from DC. Articles are suggesting it was suicide.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.popville.com/2017/04/zenebech-injera-reopening-adams-morgan-dc/#comments
This good Ethiopian place used to be near the Howard Theatre...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 April 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
A few months before it opens on 18th Street
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
My SALT pint glass finally got a fatal chip in the dishwasher. My Hunter Age 3 shirt disappeared a long time ago. End of an era.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I still drink from my SALT pint glasses. Hunter Age 3 is memorialized as artwork hanging on the wall.
Murial Bowser is trying to take my hens away from me! Please help save my backyard hens! Petition here: https://www.change.org/p/d-c-city-council-lay-off-the-hens-support-backyard-chickens-in-d-c?recruiter=682192361&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Calls to your city councilperson and at-large members would be awesome. Bower has stuck a line item in the fucking budget, for god's sake. Zero transparency. More here: www.dcbackyardchickens.org
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
dude we need to hang out. I can take some of those chickens off your hands.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
sorry I have to share this, I promise it gets local at the end
12 ISO part-time nanny11 FREE Tomorrow - Outdoor Fit - Focused - Baby Friendly Group Training10 ISO: Baby gates and booster seat or small high chair9 Free: club chair 8 ISO Full Time Nanny for Nanny Share in Bloomingdale 7 Local Family Lifestyle Photographer6 ISO good dermatologist 5 ISO good internist 4 Pediatrician nearby 3 Keep your family safe! Infant/Child CPR training2 ISO: temporary nanny from mid-July to mid-October1 Funk Parade Intergalactic Intergeneration Station at Harrison Rec Ce
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
Infants and children have no business doing CPR imo
― okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:33 (six years ago) link
WaPo is coming to my house to take pics of my hens.
HEN FAP
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
Please go to dcbackyardchickens.org to sign the petition and call your council person to protest the proposed chicken ban!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
I have done so.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
I forgot who my new council person is though
Nadeau? Oh pleasepleaseplease give her office a call. They are logging chicken calls. She is a Bowser person but she is big into gov tranparency, so may not be keen on the chicken ban being snuck into the budget proposal instead of going through the normal legislative process.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2017/05/lord_protect_us_from_gentrification.php
Not really addressed in this article about the St. Elizabeth's arena that DC taxpayers are largely paying for (65 million!), is that other than for Mystics games and Wizards practices, it is likely to sit empty. I just don't see this 4,200 seater competing with the new IMP/930 owned hall Anthem in the Wharf, or with the National Harbor Hall or even DAR or the George Mason Arena or Echostage...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 May 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
National Gallery of Art is honoring Canada's 150th anniversary with its film program July 1st through 8th, so that means on the afternoon of the 4th of July they are showing a 1965 doc on Leonard Cohen!
July 4 at 1:00 East Building Auditorium
Four classic shorts from the National Film Board of Canada begin with Norman McLaren’s legendary animation Begone Dull Care (1949, 8 minutes) and his famous pixilation Neighbours (1952, 8 minutes). Next is City of Gold (Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, 1957, 22 minutes), a groundbreaking compilation of archival and contemporary photography depicting author Pierre Berton’s childhood in Dawson City and his father’s involvement in the Klondike Gold Rush. Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen — the first documentary portrait of the famous poet and songwriter, released two years before his first album — captures Cohen’s imagination and candor during live performance and casual interaction (Don Owen and Donald Brittain, 1965, 44 minutes). (Total running time 82 minutes)
https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/canada/cohen.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-vance-washingtons-longest-serving-local-news-anchor-is-dead-at-75/2017/07/22/7869297c-6ee4-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.e6d859cc1ef6
Jim Vance was the coolest. Smart and real with great commentaries. A sports fan and soul music aficionado who anonymously contributed to WPFW. Cancer got him quick. He's pictured in the new Ben's Chili Bowl Mural
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 July 2017 06:27 (six years ago) link
Didn't watch him as much lately as I once did, but I took the Vance news hard. A classy admirable guy.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 July 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
Another one-- graffiti artist Cool Disco Dan from complications from diabetes. He was in his 40s
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
oh wow. that's crazy. I figured he would have to be older than that. he must have tagged everything in sight of the above-ground parts of the green line.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
also it's COOL "DISCO" DANit's not the real deal without the quotes
he was also bipolar I guess:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cool-disco-dan-opens-up-about-his-battle-with-mental-illness/2013/10/28/e81bef10-3da2-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
tribute service at 930 Club on the 19th
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 August 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Music related stuff over on that thread
Do ILXORs drink any more? I need to make myself get out of my current routine.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Friday, 25 August 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
I do, from 5-7 ish.
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Friday, 25 August 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2017/09/pc_2017-9-29.php
Interesting artsy movies at theatres still exist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/13/washington-city-papers-owner-puts-it-up-for-sale/
Uh oh. I write for them sometimes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
I worked for the City Paper many years (and many changes of ownership) ago; in my mind it already left the city when it transferred most functions to Atlanta, leaving only the tiniest reportorial footprint here.
No matter who owns it, I suppose they could continue that way - like those Clear Channel radio stations where everything but the weather and traffic emanates from a central computer, and they keep a local sheen by peppering in requests and dedications like "This one goes out to Laura in Columbia Heights!" Loose Lips and a few other things may live on forever in some form, but the picture for print is dismal and has been for ages.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
The Nashville-based Southcomm that bought it from the Atlanta folks doesn't want to hold on to any more papers/websites that aren't bringing in a big enough profit. So just as the not-connected Baltimore City Paper is shutting down Nov. 1st; the Washington City Paper may get shut down 12-31. Loose lips on DC politics, various cover stories, local music coverage, citylight previews of events that don't get highlighted elsewhere (some club dance events, punk, African, etc.), other voices on DC restaurants, etc. will be gone. They have never marketed their web presence well enough to get more readers (be they college kids, longtime locals, 20-something millennials) and they have cut back on newspaper availability, plus the advertising staff hasn't been able to get more ads, so here we are.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
I feel like I haven't seen a city paper in ages
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
I haven't. And I stopped looking! Which is completely nuts, and yet here we are. My wife and I are old-school print-era creatures; when I cut back the Post to weekends-only I felt like I was betraying my ancestors.
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
They cut back on the # of newspaper boxes and assume everyone knows their website, gets their morning daily news & food & music aggregation email, gets their "To Do Today" and "To Do This Weekend" emails, or follows their 2 twitter accounts. Only fanatics like me do.
I find the paper in Shirlington (I work out in VA) and sometimes in DC. I email, FB, & Instagram links to my little previews and reviews and post 'em over on ILM.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Speaking of hard to find newspapers, this is going on tonight at the Shaw Library:
https://www.dclibrary.org/node/58202
"History and State of D.C.'s Black Press" from 6:30 to 8pm
Join four local journalists, editors and publishers for a lively and informative discussion about the history and state of the Black Press in Washington City from the first abolitionist newspaper founded before the Civil War to the challenges and opportunities facing black journalists in today's local media scene.
The panel will be moderated by Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer.
Panelists will be Howard University's Jazmin Goodwin, Editor-in-chief of The Hilltop, James Wright, local reporter for the Washington Afro and Prof. A. Peter Bailey, author and professor of the history of the Black Press.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
http://wamu.org/story/17/10/16/southeast-d-c-residents-protest-food-deserts-grocery-walk/
1 grocery store in all of Anacostia
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html
Dcist, Gothamist, etc CEO shuts 'em down (reportedly a week after one of 'em voted to unionize their tiny staff)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Pat Padua's weekly movie guide column at dcist on artsy movies, b-movies, foreign films, etc. at DC area theatres and museums was best such item around. No other DC media covered them the way he did imho.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
Padua is blogging it now himself
https://patpadua.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/mexican-fireworks-top-your-movie-picks-this-week/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2017/11/09/a-d-c-jazz-singer-started-a-blog-to-replace-dcist-the-sites-billionaire-owner-is-threatening-to-sue-him-for-100000/?utm_term=.3a543fe19a71
https://technical.ly/dc/2017/11/15/aaron-myers-closes-dcistnow-amid-trademark-spat-launches-thedistrictnow/
https://thedistrictnow.com/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 November 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
Oh no, Ben Carson's corrupt buddy wants to buy Washington City Paper.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-does-conservative-armstrong-williams-want-to-buy-the-liberal-washington-city-paper/2017/12/04/217db692-d5f9-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.73a84841c96f
His plans include a possible change to glossy print, an increased focus on celebrities, distribution to places like Philadelphia and New York, and more human-interest stories — he specifically suggested some soft-focus takes on prominent Trumpites, such as Hope Hicks’s hobbies or Stephen K. Bannon’s charitable works.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/11/armstrong-williams-washington-city-paper-ben-carson/
― curmudgeon, Monday, December 4, 2017 4:39 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
So Armstrong Williams has taken himself out of the running to buy the City Paper (per a tweet from W. Post writer Terris) but there's been no announcement of anyone else yet. Southcomm wants to sell the paper/website by 12-31. I know many of you never read it, but a few geeks in town do check out its politics and arts and foodie coverage, and even its sports column.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
How much, can I pick it up for a couple hundo
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
I read it every week (paper copy, been harder and harder to come by) and would miss it a ton :(
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
hi we're planning a coffee fap over on the ILM DC thread
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 05:10 (six years ago) link
Link to thread pls! ILM gives me the hives.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 05:38 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 05:51 (six years ago) link
La Colombe at 1346 Florida Ave NW? Location fine for me; any decisions as to day and time?
― I, Fanbrat (j.lu), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
No date and time yet. El Tomboto's idea
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
yes that la colombe - I assume the next two weeks is no good for most folks
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
What about Friday, Jan 12?
Works for me.
― I, Fanbrat (j.lu), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Washington City Paper is being bought by Dem philanthropist and Washington Kastles tennis team owner Mark Ein
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/article/20986837/long-live-city-paper
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
are we still up for coffee fap, does someone need to do a doodle poll or a google cal thing or however this is supposed to work
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
I am going to see a Congolese band called Jupiter and Okwess from 6 to 7 for free at Kennedy Center on Jan. 12th. But me and maybe the missus could come by afterwards
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
I just checked the La Colombe site; apparently the place closes at 7pm on weeknights. Maybe we should meet up at the Kennedy Center instead?
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Official FAP will be Another time. I’m gonna still try to head over to Kennedy Center for free 6 pm Jupiter & Okwess Congolese gig. Band should be fun.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
All welcome. El Tomboto is working late.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
I don't remember what any of the DC ILXors look like; if you recognize me there, please say hi.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 12 January 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
Me either! Maybe meet after at merch table? I will be one of many older but not ancient white guys there with a hat on. My wife might be there too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
I’m stuck at work way up in the MD ‘burbs :(
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 12 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
The band is rocking. Drummer in a Mexican wrestling mask. The normally uptight red jacketed ushers are letting people dance upfront.
My wife is working late too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
Kids and aging hippies dancing w band onstage
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
I was wondering about that mask!
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 13 January 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/01/25/metier-is-the-best-restaurant-in-washington-dc/?utm_source=Editorial+and+Events&utm_campaign=b68416831e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_612a4959fd-b68416831e-402537885
I guess a few of these aren’t super expensive
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
A lot of those are totally destination special-occasion places. To my mind those should be evaluated in a different category than the really-good-but-accessible-to-ordinary-mortals restaurants.
I will admit that I have eaten both at Rose's Luxury and at Pineapple & Pearls. Both were extremely good meals, but in different ways. Neither is a normal weeknight-dinner-out kind of experience; both had great food but P&P was more about drama and presentation.
If pressed to choose among luxe destination restaurants, I might sentimentally prefer the Restaurant Eve tasting menu. But then I haven't yet done Inn at Little Washington. Maybe I will do so one of these days, but it's not a high priority. There are so many great-but-approachable places still to try.
And I'm still not tired of reliable old boring neighborly weeknight choices like Nam Viet, Lebanese Taverna, Rosa Mexicano, Jaleo, Ray's, Kapnos, etc.
Harder still when any dinner out requires blowing $200 on a babysitter.
― Tippi Sanhedrin (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
I miss Jaleo a lot~It’s basically an “almost every time I’m home” place to me now, alongside Kabob Palace
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Friday, 26 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
Not sure why fast casual Barracks Row Korean place Chiko is on the list ? It’s ok but there are better places in Annandale.
Splurged for Rose’s L twice. Pretty good. Just read that P & Pearl is raising prices even higher. So no thanks.
Lots of “cheap eats” places around the area I haven’t tried.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 January 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
In the W. Post Sietsema loved the upscale African food st Kith & Kin at the Wharf. Has he ever written about Mom & Pop African places in town? I am sure Tim Carman has written about them, but not Sietsema.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 January 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Maybe its upscale Caribbean and Africa at Kith & Kin, but my point holds regarding that too
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.youcaring.com/funkparade-1121941
Fundraising for Funk Parade
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
On March 6, we announced that Funk Parade was well short of meeting its fundraising goals for 2018, and the event was unlikely to take place. We've made this campaign in response to requests from many supporters for a way to give.
All contributions are helpful. If we are able to raise an additional $60,000 through crowdfunding and sponsorship pledges, the event will take place. Otherwise, these funds will be used to pay off debts, and any remaining funds will be donated to a local charity.
Donations will go to All One City, the District-based 501(c)3 nonprofit which produces Funk Parade.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
https://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/publication/best-of-dc/2018/food-and-drink/best-southeast-jerk-and-jerk-que-carryout-chicken
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
An Ask Tom Sietsema (Post food critic) writer wanted to know if there was a Chinese restaurant in the DC area that does for Chinese what he and Tom say Rasika does for Indian. Alas, Tom had no ideas, and just mentioned a long-closed place he liked. We're doomed folks, when you can't find upscale Chinese.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
It is sooooo time for Tom Sietsema to move on. I can't stand to read him anymore.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 7 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
It used to be that City Lights was decently regarded. Peter Chang had good reviews but may have gone downhill (they had a widely-talked-about customer service fail and may not have recovered, socially speaking). But I don't know anything regarded as on a par with Rasika.
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 May 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I expected Sietsema to at least mention Peter Chang in his response but he didn't. He also never said while Setzuan offerings at restaurants like Panda Gourmet on NY Avenue or at Hong Kong Palace in Falls Church may not provide the combination of innovation and service that Rasika does with Indian food, they still have some merit. Sietsema over the years seems to judge Chinese places solely by the quality of their Peking Duck (or their attempts at fusion). That seems kind of narrow.
Also not that I've read all his writing, but I have noted that he has recently reviewed some of the new DC and Maryland hybrid fine dining Caribbean places (some with touches of West African), but there has seemingly never been a mention from him of Mom & Pop Caribbean takeout places. So how familiar with the underlying cuisine is he?
Sure he can leave most of the coverage of such non-fine dining places to Tim Carman's $20 diner column , but I think Sietsema's coverage of fancier stuff would be enhanced by showing he has familiarity with cheaper and street food type offerings as well as the pricier hybrid (and sometimes more unique) stuff.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
Eh, I don't expect him to Be The Authority on everything about everything. It's a lot of ground to cover.
His method includes multiple visits to each place, and his beat appears to include going to other cities - indeed, other countries - and have some familiarity with those scenes as well. Like everybody, he has a viewpoint and a set of interests. Does a primarily classical music critic need to be up-to-date on every subgenre of house music, etc.? I think it's unrealistic to expect that he should be familiar with every "underlying cuisine" in a region that has places labeling themselves as Burmese, Uzbek, Lao, Bolivian, Balkan....
That said, I would applaud greater diversity of voices (Carman and whoever is at Washingtonian and Young & Hungry); it's not like There Can Be Only One restaurant critic.
Anyway do you have an opinion on the Caribbean place at Lee Hwy./George Mason? I ate there when I lived in that hood but I don't really have much basis for comparison.
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Good points. I guess, food critics like music critics who choose to suddenly listen to some genre from wherever, end up doing whatever last minute prep they can, even if they don't keep up with that genre on the regular.
Ha, so I keep meaning to make it to that Caribbean place at Lee Highway (Caribbean Corner?) but haven't yet. I heard good things about it.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
https://wamu.org/story/18/05/14/d-c-isnt-cool-d-c-has-always-been-cool-and-other-%f0%9f%94%a5-opinions/#.Wvw2EdIUmrQ
Discussed on the hipness 2009, this got on Kojo on WAMU yesterday. Clueless GW Law Prof who moved here 12 years ago or something , wrongfully thinks glass condos and their denizens plus government workers and such are automatically "cool" and that they are to blame for heartland people hating city "elites", gentrification, wage inequality, housing costs.
Policies need to change, but Prof is not cool
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
same ol' same ol'
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
Can we yell about Initiative 77
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
Sure, but only what the DC Council thinks, matters
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
Un-elect Brandon Todd, Phil Mendicant and Jack Evans ASAP. Probably some other fucking crooks too but those three have to go. Spotted Eric Cantor at dinner downtown this evening. Because he is not currently in office, we let him go.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
Music stuff I posted on Capital Swamp on ILM:
Thankfully that noise ordinance got tabled (though it might be up for discussion in the fall. I don't get people moving downtown to Gallery Plce area and then griping about street musicians).
Malik Dope Drummer, one of my fave streetcorner percussionists is over in Paris and then going to South Africa as part of a special music program I think.
Still no Fort Dupont Park concert season announcement, and no news on Carter Barron fundraising.
FOrt Reno Night of 100 Cakes was fun. Unbilled act--Ian Mackaye and Amy Farina from Evens did a Lungfish cover and another song. John Davis with Chris Richards was good too. Got there late and missed Betsy Wright, Jerry Busher and others I think
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Went to that kinda new Asian food court, The Block, in Annandale and not too far from Alexandria but not easily Metro accessible. Had a Banh Mi, tasted wife's Dan Dan noodles and had below snocream. Liked the dessert best (though meal was good too)--
https://www.snocreamcompany.com/
A Taiwanese-inspired twist on traditional ice cream. Think of it as a hybrid between shaved ice and ice cream that makes this dessert light and fluffy
Had green tea snocream with green apple jellies, lychee bobas (like those round tapioca balls in bubble tea), and a drizzle of chocolate syrup
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
Did not go to counter-rallies yesterday
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I’m here for a bit (lots of family time, can’t FAP to my sincere dismay) and of course the Metro has an ad up for the fucking F-35. I have truly missed this.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 16 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Have fun with family and enjoy those defense industry ads
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/shootings-in-district-claim-four-lives-as-the-homicide-count-surpasses-2017s-total/2018/09/25/fd9969fc-c0b6-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.1a5ea6ea3d4d
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Tuesday that programs are in place to combat crime. She said there is not only law enforcement, but also outreach to at-risk youth and others struggling to get off the streets. Violent crime is down 7 percent across the city; homicide is the only violent crime category that is up.
Bowser said the weekend violence was “dramatic, outrageous, and it happened in different places across the city.” She added that most shootings involved people who had contact with the criminal justice system.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
DC Council overruled DC voters on prop 77 restaurant employees minimum wage bill. Now they have moved on to a hearing on the Amplified Noise Bill today. They don't want new DCers who chose to move downtown to have to hear loud street musicians.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
I fucking hate the DC Council almost as much as I hate the GOP
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
I read about the 77 vote last night and all but threw a tantrum at dinner. stop making me curse in front of my kid, DC government
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
Muriel Bowser getting grief from old time DCers for dissing mumbo sauce on Facebook
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 November 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.hailnorfk.com
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
No RFK and also no new site in Maryland park that Md governor Hogan wants that is nowhere near Metro
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
#dontMuteDC protests re go-go from speakers at Metro PCS phone and go-go cd store shut down due to a lawsuit threat from a resident of 2015 built luxury building the Shay.
Go-go’s been cranking there since 95.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
Been a Baltimore Orioles fan since I was a kid, but rooting for Nationals now in World Series
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
Nats ...World Series Champs
Went down to stadium after for celebration. Joyful but not out of hand
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 October 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
Gonna rush from work to the parade this Saturday.
― Gukbe, Friday, 1 November 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
I just realized we’re supposed to have brunch in Chinatown Saturday. Have I doomed my family and friends?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 November 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Maybe not, if you're taking the Red Line or at least keeping north of Pennsylvania Avenue? My sister wants to go to Jaleo Saturday, and the parade was my first thought.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 1 November 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
so that's why Orange Shithead will be in NYC
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 November 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
Sadly Nats are scheduled to go to White House Monday. Ugh
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 November 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
Parade route—Constitution Avenue NW at 15th Street NW, proceed east along Constitution Avenue NW, and end on Pennsylvania Avenue NW at 3rd Street NW
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Sean Doolittle aint going to the WH
hoping at least ten more join him
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
Yes, hope so. I read that Orangeman's proposed immigration rules will keep out future Dominican and Latinx players from everywhere from coming to US no matter than baseball skills (just seen as non-English speaking )
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100002740
AFI Silver has just announced that Friday's screening of The Oyster Princess is going to be free. Anyone else interested in going?
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
gonna be out of town
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Speaking of AFI, got tix to the European Union Festival screenings of A Hidden Life and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
― Chris L, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
Did u like those movies?
Been just posting over on ILM
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/after-30-years-horace-and-dickies-is-saying-goodbye-to-a-neighborhood-its-owner-no-longer-recognizes/2020/02/27/d8f0fb92-5809-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html
I liked that carryout whiting . No more near H St Ne location after Saturday. Just Suitland and soon elsewhere in PG County
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
Really hope Janeese wins in Ward 4 tonight
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
It sounds like she did, by 9 points even. Brooke Pinto leading in the race for Jack Evans’ seat.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
Pinto seems like she has some ethics issues...
So I think 10 years ago some ilxers went to a not open yet U street music hall and now 10 years later it is closing down due to Covid and landlord issues. Discussed a bit over on the Ilm Capital Swamp thread
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
Kojo retiring is making me really sad
― Heez, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
Kojo!!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Don’t go, Kojo
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
lol kojo has always bugged me but he's probably a very good guy
― tobo73, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
His voice is so calming. I would listen to him read cereal ingredients.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
i sat next to him at the hitching post in petworth back in the day and immediately knew who he was when he started to talk
― Heez, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
What happened to Joshua Johnson?Also my sympathy for DCers rn :(. Spouse is there now for work and says it is dismal.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Joshua Johnson quickly moved to MSNBC. Jennifer White is now hosting 1a
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/517662/city-lights-see-christopher-chens-floating-world-on-a-mount-pleasant-alley-wall/
You can see @furcafe streetscape photos, pics of Chuck Brown, Sharon Jones , band Laughing Man on the alley wall in Mt Pleasant next to Elle through May 31.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
I am still posting dc area music stuff over at Capital Swamp on ILM
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
Good news: AFI Silver reopening 5/28.WTF: Cruella and A Quiet Place Part II on the bigger screens?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
So I guess Jim from the office dies in part 1?
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
I hope it's just a case of trying to temporarily fill seats after a tough year and not an indication of what their programming is going to be now.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
They do have AFI DOCS coming in June, and when I see the programmers I will ask them about rescheduling The Lincoln Cycle and the early Fox films. But the Regal barely a block away will also have these titles--even allowing for buzz and pent-up demand, are audiences likely to go to AFI to see these?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
They also announced a stricter no food/beverage policy than Regal, so I don’t know.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
I miss AFI so much
― Heez, Thursday, 27 May 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
http://www.filmfestdc.org/
Filmfest DC is virtual june 4 to 13
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link
heard a rumor that the kids are calling adams morgan AdMo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 July 2023 02:21 (nine months ago) link
Sadly they might be, and dc government has already been using it on hanging cloth banners and signs for awhile.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 December 2023 19:11 (four months ago) link
And they’ve introduced “The Yard”, presumably in celebration of Jame Gray, as well as SoNYa because NoMa was too broad
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 00:34 (one month ago) link
Gonna celebrate my 20 year anniversary of living here in august. i fall deeper and deeper in love with this place every year, although i think i'm to the point where the western quadrants are the least interesting. i officially live in PG so NW is kind of a haul, but my old hood in the columbia heights/u street area is pretty awful now. i really like the open air skating rink in anacostia and all the trails. great place to raise kids
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:20 (two weeks ago) link
Lived there for about 20 years, gone for 3. Glad to have been there, glad to have left.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:07 (two weeks ago) link