Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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.

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

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.

Missed Dec 19 snowpocalypse, finally get to catch up...

a friend spent 90 mins in line at the grocery store last night

never change, dc! <3

Riding this one out on the eastern shore. Blizzard warning from 4 this afternoon until 7 tomorrow :D

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).

Juuuuust starting to stick around Dupont. Word from an 11th floor apt in White Flint is that the Nuclear R3gulation Ag3ncy has disappeared already.

Yep it's starting to stick now (4:20 pm)

http://snowpocalypsedc.com/

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.

Which bars/food places do you think will stay open around Dupont?

wow, couldn't say. something has to stay open.

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.

Heh I was hoping for an insider response to that from I DIED.

No metro buses on Saturday and no above-ground Metro trains.

Dupont circle is puuuurty!

Snow-covered trees under streetlamps looking nice out here in Arlington

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.

Snow just keeps coming

And the wind is blowing it everywhere

The Washington Post website covers the important stuff:

Snowball fight roundup
As 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

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

there's some good snowboarding going on down the hill on 13th by cardozo high.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/