Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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!).

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.

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.

oh good this article again

washington, dc, food destination

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

Yes, all DC was known for till 2012 was its steakhouse culture

Toki Underground is the fuckin shit tho

real talk

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)

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 24
3:00 PM
$25
9:30 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

got my tickets

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?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2013/01/25/komi-no-longer-washingtonians-top-restaurant-in-d-c/

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

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

Yep, mentioned upthread (I always forget to read far enough upthread too)

You guys are about to get 69F??!

and it's snowing/ice raining right now. then wednesday, supposedly high of 61F (last night it was saying 70F!), then friday, snow again.
?!?!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

But she doesn't think so:

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/nation_crap_ital_HhE3movzcOu5eJzrxfwuwO

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

more like the STINKIN monument amirite

It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.

"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!

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."

"i drove to washington once"

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!

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.

"The Big Crapple"

About 103,000 results (0.28 seconds)

Missed the Forward on Climate rally today. I wonder how big the turnout was? Alas, Obama was in Florida having a golf weekend

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.

fan reaction to the dcu carlos ruiz pickup is, uh, muted

whoops wrong thread

fan reaction to Wizards crawford trade to Celtics for injured guy and benchwarmer is whatever

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

TAINT is banned

TTAINTT is ok

brb, going to the DMV

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

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)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/03/08/youve-seen-our-list-now-show-us-your-40-eats/?hpid=z9

What's new?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant

Sushi Taro

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

― quincie, Friday, April 12, 2013 8:40 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!

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.