Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

maybe petesmith can explain to you why college park is a wonderful place. i'd do it for him, but i don't really agree.

my out of town friends who visited me still talk about the falafel place of dc.

Here, though, since they drive the market, they drive out most of the unorthodox niche joints--bookstores, strange bars, weird art things, whatever--that make a city interesting, and people who like to see something surprising every once in a while are kind of fucked.

It's funny, though, how interesting/okay people tend to cling together once they find each other, and have to look to each other for entertainment. It's like being in an expat community, but without the expensive long distance and dodgy water supply.

Also it's just kind of ugly inside now!

I actually think I might kind of prefer Pharmacy now. Although I'm still pretty sure that my favorite spot on that strip isn't any of those places but Blue Fin instead.

And to get with Brian's positive vibe: Amsterdam Falafel is excellent, and the all-you-can-stack toppings bar is the starving drunk's friend.

Re: social scene, I feel like it seemed easier just out of college, because everybody I knew was in the same boat, kinda poor and living in grungy apartments and run down group houses where they'd throw parties a lot and we'd go for $2 drinks at the Common Share. And now it's a few years out and people are movin' on up and working more hours and buying places and going to fancy lounges to hang out, except I went back to school and am poorer than I was before.

Re: security, I was so tempted to apply when I saw this job posting, Web Designer and Developer (Baghdad, Iraq)

"Yeah Mom, I landed this awesome gig building websites, uh, it's great experience, but.. it's kind of out of town.."

I haven't been there since maybe August? Whenever geeta was in town...but that was a weeknight and the crowd isn't quite the same as it used to be, a lot more...uh...Adams Morgany. I mean I dunno, in my very lengthy experience with dive bars and the like, the really grungy ass ones have 10x better crowds than tricked out "THIS IS A DIVE BAR!" designed ones. I mean the Asylum ripped out its innards and had it redone by the dude who did Reef (xpost what Stephen just said). I think they just attract different clientele. This might be due to the yuppification of Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights just as much as it is due to the change of atmosphere. I hold out hopes for Galaxy Hut and really didn't awful mind going there even though I'm not a beer person because it's so munky looking inside!

Granted, buffalo wings are fucking awesome.

Also I just saw a taxi with spinner rims. Point, DC.

another favorite dc thing: Ask Tom chats
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400577.html

http://www.washingtonian.com/chats/dining.html

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Weeknights nxt week are good for me.

i wouldn't introduce dc cabs into testimony, logos or no, the cab system in the city is really really awful.

I would love to hang out, am out of town again and don't have a place to live yet, but looks like I should have a job so will be settled.. uh.. soonish. You know, by the time the weather gets too bad to go out much.

xpost the weather is never too bad to go out. I have climbed 5 ft snowdrifts to get inside of bars. Though if it's raining, that's right the fuck out.

Last DC cab ride I took, the driver was too baked to go over 25, and kept telling meandering stories about his former career as a soccer star in Europe, how he represented Ghana at the 1972 international Boy Scout jamboree, etc. Awesome.

Tom Sietsema: The one that leaps to mind at the moment: a still-breathing (but stunned from boiling water) fish.

that sounds like a fun cab ride! the cab rides i've had from the bus station to my house at 2 am have been more stressful.

Pharmacy is alright by me! If it sucks that night we can always hit Asylum and make fun of the D&D decor or go over to the Reef and hope the downstairs is open.

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My last DC cab ride, I had to be at a job interview at 1, and I caught a cab at 12:35 (it was only a five minute ride, Connecticut to Wisconsin Ave) and on the way he picked up some other guy and started heading over to Adams Morgan and I had to talk him out of this so I wouldn't be late.. Then he spent the rest of the ride talking about how people make craploads of money pet sitting and dog walking and such, and how many hours a day he had to drive a cab just to get by..

Yeah, I remember that night; about two years ago? I have to admit, I barely remember the Fake Accents because I was talking to sketch outside for the whole set.

And now that I think of it, you and Zach were at sketch and nicole's b-day party last year, though I can't remember being introduced...Small world strikes!

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I totally know what you mean--I used to be able to get both legs back there, but now I can only get my left leg up. If I drink enough on Thursday I'm sure I'd be willing to demonstrate.

Note to self: wear pants on Thursday. Not ready for ILX to see my panties.

Here's the web site (almost NSFW 'cause it has the director in scary yoga shorts!):
http://www.unitywoods.com/