Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I think they might be able to use a gym and throw tennis balls around.

wow, that is not safe. literally, alerts say it is dangerous to be outside!

dulles hit 105. highest temp ever recorded there.

from my work zip, around 2:30:
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lighting and some raindrops around here in Alexandria. should cool it down a bit.

also my a/c, while not totally dead, is providing less cool air. I've shut it down for a bit and am relying on fans.

The severe thunderstorm missed the District by a couple of miles. NWS has now cancelled the Severe Thunderstorm Warning. However, cloud to ground lightning strikes are currently being reported in parts of D.C. Please remain vigilant.

i saw a couple of those cloud-to-ground strikes driving home about 15 minutes ago

Guys I have 2 extra tix for dc united game @ 730. I won them and didn't realize this but they're club level. Anyone want?

The forecast today is really fucking gross.

seriously, just arrived at desk a mess

Despite finally working up the confidence to do so, I decided today was not really a good choice for my first bike commute.

My co-worker decided it was a good day to bike in. She stopped sweating around 11am.

People were dripping sweat just standing in line at the bus stop in Annapolis at 6 a.m.

@capitalweather
National Weather Service says DC "unofficially" hit 104 today - only 4 days since 1871 have been hotter in DC
2 hours ago via web

got home and took off the office garb and my undershirt was basically like i'd showered in it

Heading through Georgetown to my son's baseball game at Guy Mason in Glover Park I saw the usual long, down the street line at Georgetown Cupcakes. Crazy tourists. Thankfully I found some shade by the ballfield

i really don't get that line. they're not even that good and baked and wired down the street is like 1000x better.

Has Baked & Wired been on tv? The fish sandwiches at Horace and Dickies in NE has been on Man vs Food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhFQILmLtE

The tv coverage probably has gotten the fish sandwiches in NE a few new customers...just not as many as cupcakes in Georgetown obviously

Just saw Billy Bragg in the Dupont Firehook. Someone asked him if he had a show coming up in DC and he very loudly said 'no show this time sorry mate, I'm on holiday, it's an interesting time to be here BECAUSE OF THE VOTE ON THE DEBT CEILING AND THE POSSIBLE ENORMOUS CHANGES TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'

I scuttled up and thanked him for his last show in DC then scuttled off back to my seat. He saw I was doing GRE alegbra and wished me good luck with it.

His last show in DC was only so-so. I am a toady in the face of fame.

aw

Horace and Dickie's does a ridiculous amount of business out that storefront... they're the Ben's Chili Bowl of NE.

http://dcentric.wamu.org/

covering edgy issues in a non-edgy way

lol @ "photographer and drummer"

Apparently it was not important to mention that he's a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York

i need to proofread too

eh i guess given the event "photographer and drummer" was the way to go--i didn't even really read that closely, guh--i'm just used to seeing him billed as a poet first and foremost

I knew him for his photos. I can't make the opening tonight, but I do want to see that exhibit.

x-post-Lljub did Bragg have family in tow who were going "oh Dad...do we really have to see these American tea party people talk"

They weren't the perkiest looking bunch...

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/08/05/growler-district-dc-brau-paves-way-for-draft-beer-take-out/#comment-89340

Attn beer nerds: growler sales suddenly/unexpectedly legalized in DC!

!!

Not sure if I've asked this before, but does anyone have any favourite bookstores in DC? Looking for a book that I could easily order online, but I thought it would be fun to kill a day by trawling the shops.

I'm not as big a stan for it as some people are, but Politics and Prose is in my 'hood and is large enough/interesting enough to kill some time. There's a cafe downstairs with a badass espresso machine (Rancilio).

both second story locations are pretty chill

If you go to the Dupont Circle Second Story Books, Books for America is also worth checking out.

I just wanna say how happy it makes me that the title for the DC thred is still this and I would like to have it remain that way, forever.

Books A Million is great in Dupont imo, spend a significant amount of time there the last two weekends in a row.

That's the only bookstore I've been to in DC (excluding VA and the now-gone Friendship Heights Borders). I vaguely recall another bookstore/cafe in that area but I can't remember much of anything about it. Looked nice, though. Will definitely swing by there if I can't get the book anywhere else. Btw, thanks for the recs everyone.

i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again! i don't understand how it has survived while olsson's and borders have gone under.

second story at 20th & p is grebt but do not glance into the cadaverous manager's eyes lest ye be dragged to hell.

kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn) is a neat idea but sometimes seems like an overgrown newsstand attached to a restaurant.

basically you can get cheaper shit online, but politics & prose, for its events, readings and politics (when they aren't too righteous), seems like a store worth supporting.

i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again!

most ringing of endorsements

politics and prose for history/politics/current events, fiction, genre stuff, just hanging out - the cafe is nice

for art/theory/philosophy/weirdness, my favorite bookstore in the area: bridge street books, georgetown. it's pretty small and there's no chairs or cafe or anything, but it's great

busboys & poets for progressive politics/history/current events

there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metro
and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst

i miss vertigo books..

and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst

ya <3 <3 <3 so much idle times

kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn)

I think this was the place I walked by. It looked nice from the outside but I guess there wasn't much depth to the collection.

I can always get the book online (and probably cheaper), but where's the fun in that?

there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metro

This is where I planned to go today but circumstances didn't favour the trek. If the weather is nice tomorrow I'll walk to the metro and drop in on my way.

Kramerbooks is kind of a 'scene' but that's ok. I like their pop psychology stuff. Not the 'how to change your life' stuff, which they have too much of - the 'hard-to-understand end of the popular science market stuff.

btw on that subject i'm reading james gleick's "the information" and it totally fucking rules

I am not-starting Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind. That's because I've just discovered Philip Roth and I'm still into it - it might get a bit overwhelming soon though.

related: how google dominates us, by james gleick

oh dear philip roth

yah that's an awesome piece imo