Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/9/29/f_partym_13ed283.jpg

Wow.

The cigarette is an especially nice touch!

^^^^what happens when you meet without preconditions

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

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!

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

http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/11/5/f_14um_e357205.jpg

that was my view around 11:30 last night, insane

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.

hey guys we have to get this thread going again now that DC is the new BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!

I SO want to move back.

Damnit.

I am officially retired from breakdancing in the street. Ow.

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."

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/3009215557_30259c2b97.jpg
orange line extending to NY? rendering of new 2nd Ave subway entrance.

oh man that would be the best i would buy so many records and work pays the smartrip

that's the part of the upper east side with all the fresh-out-of-college banker types and shitty bars

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...

cool

our football team is awesome

I get to learn the football rules!
Is that a real TV show embedded in that vid somewhere?

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

Even your cheerleaders go on tour!

I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain? TOO MANY I DEMAND RECOUNT.

TOMBOT can you embed the mambo sauce vid at the top of the thread? tks.

I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain?

http://latenightshots.com/

who all had logins to there? I miss the roffles ;_;

WAU

http://dcist.com/2008/02/06/reality_show_ba.php

oh shit

OH SHIT

awesome

I can give LNS invites if anyone wants

^_^

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?

FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?

omg

Is it possible to be super smoke and humble at the same time?

username on this question was "bho choom gang" right?

See I always assumed the LNS crew lived in Bethesda/NOVA and thus would not be fucking with DCs polls.

no much of LNS lives in DC west of rock creek park! Like YOU!

Yeah actually I think some of them live directly below me. PICK UP YOUR CIGGY BUTTS DOUCHES.

who wants to pal around w/ terrorists next week?

Busboys & Poets
Mon, November 17
6.30pm
Author Event, William Ayers

hey whatever happened to stephen x

HE DIED

well, maybe. I don't know.

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.

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.

our football team is awesome

― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

RIP

Inauguration Organizers Plan for 4 Million on Mall

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111703672.html?hpid=topnews

woah

shit is going to be lunacy

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/

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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

Really hope Janeese wins in Ward 4 tonight

It sounds like she did, by 9 points even.

Brooke Pinto leading in the race for Jack Evans’ seat.

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

Kojo retiring is making me really sad

Kojo retiring is making me really sad

Kojo!!

Don’t go, Kojo

lol kojo has always bugged me but he's probably a very good guy

His voice is so calming. I would listen to him read cereal ingredients.

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

What happened to Joshua Johnson?

Also my sympathy for DCers rn :(. Spouse is there now for work and says it is dismal.

Joshua Johnson quickly moved to MSNBC. Jennifer White is now hosting 1a

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.

I am still posting dc area music stuff over at Capital Swamp on ILM

Good news: AFI Silver reopening 5/28.
WTF: Cruella and A Quiet Place Part II on the bigger screens?

So I guess Jim from the office dies in part 1?

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.

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?

They also announced a stricter no food/beverage policy than Regal, so I don’t know.

I miss AFI so much

http://www.filmfestdc.org/

Filmfest DC is virtual june 4 to 13

heard a rumor that the kids are calling adams morgan AdMo

Sadly they might be, and dc government has already been using it on hanging cloth banners and signs for awhile.

And they’ve introduced “The Yard”, presumably in celebration of Jame Gray, as well as SoNYa because NoMa was too broad

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

Lived there for about 20 years, gone for 3. Glad to have been there, glad to have left.

Rosslyn Jazz Festival has some interesting stuff: https://www.rosslynva.org/do/rosslyn-jazz-fest-2024

Spoke with a number of federal government employees at the Slumberland records anniversary show at Comet last night and they are all scared and down. Neighbor who has a fed government job and young kids is scared and down too. Only someone with Veterans seems to have any slightly optimistic hope

Republicans writing a bill to end Home Rule and calling it " “Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident (BOWSER) Act” is so petty I'd respect it if the whole notion wasn't so egregious.

Surprised they haven’t called her a “DEI Mayor” or something like that.