Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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.

Federal Government is closed Monday. Yeehah, no work.

Ugh fed contractors never, ever close--can't bill if you're closed! At least I get to work from home.

I get to trudge in... foreigners battling on with no-one to talk to... but it's a nice day...

Streets and sidewalks still a mess out here and the weather report does not look good for Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday

Sleet, snow....We'll see soon enough and through the night into tomorrow

Tryst stuffed to the gills with people with laptops who were supposed to be working from home but were going crazy there.

Fed closed again tomorrow. this is way too much free time for me.

is that confirmed Moreno? The website still refers only to today. But hell, I can't see how it can possibly be open.

Ugh fed contractors never, ever close--can't bill if you're closed! At least I get to work from home.

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.

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.

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??

DCPL branches i mean

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.

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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

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

Will the Feds be closed again tomorrow

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.

snow wisdom from Sally Quinn, the bard of Washington

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003503.html

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.

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.

Her parties sound deadly boring! I mean I'd sooner attend a party thrown by Glenn beck!

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/

Back to work. If only I could be a retired socialite...

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.

Jesus Christ sally STFU already!

Ha. Between her, Marion Barry news, and political discussions about balancing the budget it's like nothing ever changes.

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

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

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.

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.

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."

No snow today. I rushed out and got all that milk and tp and stuff for nothing last night. I kid.

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.

hi, dc!
i'm going to be in town for a few days march 4-9.
holla.

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

I kind of wish Quinn's column would move to print-only and not appear online.

holla-ing, t! I'm around pretty much that whole time.

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

quinn column online is a treat, though - purely for the comments

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.

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

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or days. i need a dc education, stat.

daria - Gin Joint, the ground floor bar at New Heights in Woodley Park

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.

2 Amys works for kids and foodie dads

Good thought, and I like it a lot. How about for fancier dinner? Something tells me this isn't going to be easy...

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.

is obelisk any good? i was intrigued by its low profile (no website?), but i've seen mixed reviews.

for general dining, i mean, not for kids