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
<3
― 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