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?
― tehresa, Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
The forecast today is really fucking gross.
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, just arrived at desk a mess
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Despite finally working up the confidence to do so, I decided today was not really a good choice for my first bike commute.
― tehresa, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
My co-worker decided it was a good day to bike in. She stopped sweating around 11am.
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
People were dripping sweat just standing in line at the bus stop in Annapolis at 6 a.m.
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
@capitalweather National Weather Service says DC "unofficially" hit 104 today - only 4 days since 1871 have been hotter in DC2 hours ago via web
― Aglet, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
got home and took off the office garb and my undershirt was basically like i'd showered in it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
i really don't get that line. they're not even that good and baked and wired down the street is like 1000x better.
― tehresa, Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
The tv coverage probably has gotten the fish sandwiches in NE a few new customers...just not as many as cupcakes in Georgetown obviously
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 July 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
aw
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Horace and Dickie's does a ridiculous amount of business out that storefront... they're the Ben's Chili Bowl of NE.
― I DIED, Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://dcentric.wamu.org/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
covering edgy issues in a non-edgy way
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "photographer and drummer"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i need to proofread too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I knew him for his photos. I can't make the opening tonight, but I do want to see that exhibit.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
They weren't the perkiest looking bunch...
― ljubljana, Saturday, 6 August 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 8 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― quincie, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
both second story locations are pretty chill
― 69, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
If you go to the Dupont Circle Second Story Books, Books for America is also worth checking out.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Books A Million is great in Dupont imo, spend a significant amount of time there the last two weekends in a row.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again!
most ringing of endorsements
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 metroand another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst
i miss vertigo books..
― daria-g, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst
ya <3 <3 <3 so much idle times
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
btw on that subject i'm reading james gleick's "the information" and it totally fucking rules
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
related: how google dominates us, by james gleick
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear philip roth
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
yah that's an awesome piece imo
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Kramerbooks is a bookstore/cafe that doesn't do a very good job of either, but it's a neighborhood institution. Pretty good beers.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
(btw i wasn't shitting on philip roth necessarily -- he is a remarkable writer, if not a man i can even imagine being married to) /claire bloom
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really just looking for that Thirty Years War book that spawned the poll thread. It reminded me that I made a note to get it a few years ago. It isn't obscure or anything, so it shouldn't be that hard to get, but it's also not something that any ol' Barnes and Noble will necessarily stock. It feels like something the Politics and Prose place should have, if I can make it that far north.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
ha i didn't see the thread but i did see the ta-nehisi coates posts that likely prompted it
i just got it out of the library and it is pretty awesome, and not least because cvw was 28 when it was published. she wrote lovely sentences.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
28?? fuuuck. i'll have to get it soon and read it fast, that way I can tell myself that I still have 5 months to accomplish something similar before I'm 29.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
it is also thoroughly footnoted with references to books in every european language possible, leading certain history majors to mild despair
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link