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

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so let's do a weeknight, like maybe next Thurs?

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.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Next Thursday's great. Shall we pick a bar off of Brian's list? Nothing wrong with Pharmacy.

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.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

hardcore: Q: What is the strangest/most exotic item you've ever had to eat?

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.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

The cab rides from Union Station to anywhere are like hell on earth. What is with the obsession with piling as many people as possible into cars down here anyway? I mean they'll have a string of taxis 30 deep and they try to pile everyone into one cab. Which is A) crap B) you should not have to pay full fare for, 90% of the time you're going to have to be taken out of your way, unless you are the lucky bastard who is the first stop.

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.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Any chance at Wednesday next week instead of Thursday?

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

hey scott h, i think we've met before, and im pretty sure youve seen me and zack's band before, too!

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

wed or thurs is fine by me, and pharmacy sounds good, too.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I have

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on Wedensday nights

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

p-bar = the bar

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I have yogaY on Wednesday nights, but screw it I can skip if necessary. My karma is fucked anyway.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

is there any chance of thurs for you, quincie?

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll try to be there if possible.. signs point to "I have no idea where I'll be next week but hopefully moving in to a nice place.."

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..

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I can do Thursday, yeah--I'll just do my downward dog on the bar or something.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Last time I did a downward dog on a bar.....

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Pete-

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!

― Scott H, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

quincie, I'll join you in it, I haven't been keeping up with my working out lately and it's starting to show...

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Man ally you know it is bad when fifty-something housefraus are kicking my thirty-something ass in yogay class.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

where do you do yoga, quincie? its been a couple years since i have, and i have considered getting back into it...

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Unless the 50-something is Madonna then yeah that sucks. I am most likely in the same boat by now, I can no longer stretch my leg behind my head! Not even painfully...It just doesn't work. :(

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-x-x-post) Wednesday or Thursday next week would work for me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Unity Woods. They have a couple of locations--where is it you live again? Anyhow, it is a mega shrine to Iyengar yoga (everyone is having a freaking yogic orgasm about his being in town on a book tour) but I must admit all of the teachers I've taken classes with have really known their shit, and they are much less flaky that the Bikram and Anusara crowd. Ashtanga is too aerobics-like for me, but a lot of people dig that style, too.

xpost

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.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I should totally sign up for yoga, is it expensive where you go? I tried a few classes once and it was great.. I used to be really flexible because I took dance classes for years and years, and suddenly it was like holy shit, what happened, I can't do splits any more and I'm getting old.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

It is insanely expensive compared to my $8/class place in Texas! I think it works out to eighteen dollars or so for an hour and a half class, but you sign up for a session of 12 classes so it seems like a mega money hemorrhage when you write the check.

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

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i was enjoying that you are all such busy dc go-getters that it was troublesome to agree on a meeting night, but i guess all is well in the world.

pls, zr, maybe it's time to start advertising for red hook again. please use the search function or incur the wrath of hstence. possibly with google maps crossed with mta bus routes. also, when is google going to include public transport, trains and buses, on its googlemaps? this is a million dollar idea right here.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

go-getter me a DRINK!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

when is google going to include public transport, trains and buses, on its googlemaps? this is a million dollar idea right here.

Of course our Department of Homeland Security would never allow anything like that

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

wow!

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not much, but it's a start.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

whoa thats awesome

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how if you zoom out enough the green line disappears altogether while the other lines are still visible

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Green line disappearing altogether=any typical weeknight.

Access to an even more valuable civic resource.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I was wondering why the cabs are so slow in this area? I go past the airport a lot and when I get stuck behind a cab I want to cry.

When I worked at Olsson's I met a lot of smart, interesting DC people, but I don't know where they all are now.

Re NYC people, for the most part they are pretty annoying really. Besides the Ilxors. NYC is a great place, in spite of the people who live there.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Washingtonian magazine is lame, but their new restaurant columnist, Todd Kliman, who used to be at the Washington City Paper is not.

― Steve K (Steve K), Thursday, 20 October 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

he likes china cafe in college park! and he is SO RIGHT!

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm glad, because i like contributions of positive things to this thread and to washington.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Positive thing: The fries at Five Guys. Quality and quantity.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah those are pretty good.

Positive thing about ARLINGTON: Guajillo's!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Positive thing about Silver Spring: Samantha's!

― ng-unit, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Positive thing about DC in general: Trees!

― quincie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh wait am I supposed to be talking about food?

Positive thing about Rockville: Excellent Chinese!

― quincie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Other positive food things in Silver Spring: York Castle tropical ice cream and motherfuckin Mandalay!

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

jogging on the mall listening to power pop is actually pretty great.
oh, and the jefferson memorial is niiiice.
and cherry blossom trees live up to the hype.
and cicadas every 7 years = ABSURD and awesome.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

hey mary which olsson's did you work at? (i worked at the dupont store a few years ago.)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Positive food: The Burma Restaurant. Cheap weird salads and noodle things, with all the ambience of a Bulgarian money-laundering storefront.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the burma tofu salad. i would like one right now.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

negative thing about DC in general: HIV positivity (seen those new posters on the backs of the buses?)

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Coffee Espress across the street from my workplace makes some pretty good cappucino and muffins.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Naan and Beyond has a wonderful name and a fine shrimp tikka.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

isn't sizz-ex a funny name for a place? it just makes me think about sex.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I get paid a lot for just being able to answer dumb questions while strapped into a silly machine.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

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