it's been my impression that cherkis has been hating everything in DC for at least a decade and a half. you name it, he hates it. sometimes i wonder why he lives here. i remember columbia heights 10 years ago. my roommate worked there at a nonprofit, we lived nearby, and while i'm not thrilled about a ton of chain stores, it is nice to have chain stores, metro, being able to walk around after dark. better than empty storefronts and frequent shootings and having to drive everywhere because it was dangerous.
― daria-g, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Prince of Petworth is great! Always amusing.
"here's a place I walked by! What's up with it?"
"this is a restaurant I heard of! Does anyone know how it is?"
"lost pet!"
"I heard this rumor! It's completely unfounded and I have no idea what I'm saying."
"here's an ugly house/restaurant/streetscape! It looks great!"
I've never read a more frequently updated site with less informed content.
― I DIED, Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 20 February 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2010/03/friday-question-of-the-day-at-what-point-do-dress-codes-go-overboard/
I’ll admit it right away – I hate dress codes. But when I saw this sign on 18th Street in Adams Morgan I couldn’t believe it. “No timberland boots”? How can they possibly single out a brand like that? I mean why not say – no boots? I suppose I can understand places that want to maintain an air of class by banning sneakers and shorts but Timberland Boots? Am I thinking too deeply on this? Or does this seem a bit odd? I know it’s going to go there so I’ll just straight up ask it – is there a racial element to this?
This is a particular classic from last year. (Great comment section, too: "Also people need to be aware and stop putting on blinders, the long white shirts symbolize a cocaine or crack dealer.")
― Lt. Van Ice Cage (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 20 February 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i will subscribe to this newsletter with great rapidity
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 20 February 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never seen The Red Shoes on the big screen, and if the Metro will permit me, I think I'll head up to the AFI to see it tomorrow.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
tuomas of petworth
― daria-g, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^lolz for real
― quincie, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i loled
― tehresa, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
just plz nobody photoshop him onto a sundae
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
This $1,900 a month leased Navigator (now 2 of 'em) for DC City Council member Kwame Brown will undoubtedly be used as a political weapon again the city as a whole(although I'm not sure why DC taxpayers are paying for either of them)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2011/02/dc_politicos_react_to_kwame_br.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
TBD.com, the much-touted local-news Web site, will reorganize its news staff, change its focus to arts and entertainment and lose about a third of its 36 staff positions.
Under the reorganized structure, some TBD employees will be reassigned to work on a second Web site, WJLA.com, which is also owned by TBD's parent company, Allbritton Communications of Arlington.
Welp.
― Lt. Van Ice Cage (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like editor Wemple and the former Cp arts writers are still employed at tbd
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i have so much to say about that but i can't do it here.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Tombot baby!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys I saw a picture of tombot baby and her expression is 100% OMGWTF??!?!?!
― quincie, Monday, 28 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
aww <3
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ANybody seen these exhibits yet:
Gaugin exhibit at Nat. Gallery; small room exhibit of photos of DC blues musicians at Govinda Gallery in Georgetown; and at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts: "Drawn from Bank of America's renowned collection of international photography, Eye Wonder features more than 100 works by a wide array of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Rineke Dijkstra, Gisèle Freund, Candida Höfer, Graciela Iturbide, Dorothea Lange, and Hellen van Meene."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
nope
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i should def go to that though. that and buddha 2.0 at the freer. i saw gary snyder there saturday for a lecture on east asian poetry, it was pretty rad.
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe people are still asking him kerouac questions
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
'ringo tell us more about what john was like in the studio'
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys, how's it going. I just moved here.
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome sir i am v glad to have you
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hi
― tehresa, Monday, 7 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
los blue jeans rules fyi
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i hadn't heard hide nor hair of you since january so i didn't know what had happened!
you are too kind sir and a great american
yeah, i was pretty busy with work, moving, etc. actually, I'm going to CT for a week tomorrow morning
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome! the weather's great!
― Gukbe, Monday, 7 March 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
you def need to be made aware of this thread
Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome? Whereabouts are you residing?
― quincie, Monday, 7 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
uh I meant Welcome!, not Welcome?
Thanks?! I'm in Bethesda, renting an accessory apartment in one of the residential neighborhoods. Everything pretty groovy so far.
― manic pickle dream gherk (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I lived in Bethesda when I first moved to the area--convenient place to live, but I encourage you to make the leap over into DC proper at some point!
― quincie, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
HAI QUINCIE
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Um where were you on 3/5???
:(
― quincie, Sunday, 13 March 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh?
A Duke reference?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
clearing room in the trophy case
also pining for d0m passant1n0 iirc
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 March 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lol what a reference
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 March 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
dc united home opener on saturday night, if any TRU FUTBOL WARIERS are so inclined - they were the worst team in the league last year but i had a blast going all summer
(note to non-TRU FUTBOL WARIERS: dc united games are also a convenient framing device for "let's drink as much beer as possible in the parking lot and drunkenly insult the columbus crew for two hours")
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
thanking a hoos for this image. i have just learned of the wapo peeps show contest. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UROssXsbWHQ/TYFkKp_I6FI/AAAAAAAABf4/YVOmRUR7xBs/s1600/Escalator+Collapse+at+Peepy+Bottom.JPG
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, they're bringing that back
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Vienna/Fairfax NOPE
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 19 March 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
was thinking about going to United's game tonight.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Weird question: I'm going to be on "Jeopardy" in a couple weeks (April 12), and I want to get a bunch of people together to watch it somewhere in DC. Does anyone know a bar that might let me do this? In exchange I can promise 20+ people who are gonna want to get drunk at 7 pm on a Tuesday.
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
or 7:30 pm i guess, technically
also all y'all are 100% welcome to join, even if the meetup spot ends up being "my living room"
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha what
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 March 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link