Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

https://wamu.org/story/18/05/14/d-c-isnt-cool-d-c-has-always-been-cool-and-other-%f0%9f%94%a5-opinions/#.Wvw2EdIUmrQ

Discussed on the hipness 2009, this got on Kojo on WAMU yesterday. Clueless GW Law Prof who moved here 12 years ago or something , wrongfully thinks glass condos and their denizens plus government workers and such are automatically "cool" and that they are to blame for heartland people hating city "elites", gentrification, wage inequality, housing costs.

Policies need to change, but Prof is not cool

same ol' same ol'

Can we yell about Initiative 77

Sure, but only what the DC Council thinks, matters

Un-elect Brandon Todd, Phil Mendicant and Jack Evans ASAP. Probably some other fucking crooks too but those three have to go.

Spotted Eric Cantor at dinner downtown this evening. Because he is not currently in office, we let him go.

Music stuff I posted on Capital Swamp on ILM:

Thankfully that noise ordinance got tabled (though it might be up for discussion in the fall. I don't get people moving downtown to Gallery Plce area and then griping about street musicians).

Malik Dope Drummer, one of my fave streetcorner percussionists is over in Paris and then going to South Africa as part of a special music program I think.

Still no Fort Dupont Park concert season announcement, and no news on Carter Barron fundraising.

FOrt Reno Night of 100 Cakes was fun. Unbilled act--Ian Mackaye and Amy Farina from Evens did a Lungfish cover and another song. John Davis with Chris Richards was good too. Got there late and missed Betsy Wright, Jerry Busher and others I think

Went to that kinda new Asian food court, The Block, in Annandale and not too far from Alexandria but not easily Metro accessible. Had a Banh Mi, tasted wife's Dan Dan noodles and had below snocream. Liked the dessert best (though meal was good too)--

https://www.snocreamcompany.com/

A Taiwanese-inspired twist on traditional ice cream. Think of it as a hybrid between shaved ice and ice cream that makes this dessert light and fluffy

Had green tea snocream with green apple jellies, lychee bobas (like those round tapioca balls in bubble tea), and a drizzle of chocolate syrup

Did not go to counter-rallies yesterday

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

I’m here for a bit (lots of family time, can’t FAP to my sincere dismay) and of course the Metro has an ad up for the fucking F-35. I have truly missed this.

Have fun with family and enjoy those defense industry ads

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/shootings-in-district-claim-four-lives-as-the-homicide-count-surpasses-2017s-total/2018/09/25/fd9969fc-c0b6-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.1a5ea6ea3d4d

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Tuesday that programs are in place to combat crime. She said there is not only law enforcement, but also outreach to at-risk youth and others struggling to get off the streets. Violent crime is down 7 percent across the city; homicide is the only violent crime category that is up.

Bowser said the weekend violence was “dramatic, outrageous, and it happened in different places across the city.” She added that most shootings involved people who had contact with the criminal justice system.

DC Council overruled DC voters on prop 77 restaurant employees minimum wage bill. Now they have moved on to a hearing on the Amplified Noise Bill today. They don't want new DCers who chose to move downtown to have to hear loud street musicians.

I fucking hate the DC Council almost as much as I hate the GOP

I read about the 77 vote last night and all but threw a tantrum at dinner. stop making me curse in front of my kid, DC government

Muriel Bowser getting grief from old time DCers for dissing mumbo sauce on Facebook

https://www.hailnorfk.com

No RFK and also no new site in Maryland park that Md governor Hogan wants that is nowhere near Metro

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

#dontMuteDC protests re go-go from speakers at Metro PCS phone and go-go cd store shut down due to a lawsuit threat from a resident of 2015 built luxury building the Shay.

Go-go’s been cranking there since 95.

Been a Baltimore Orioles fan since I was a kid, but rooting for Nationals now in World Series

Nats ...World Series Champs

Went down to stadium after for celebration. Joyful but not out of hand

Gonna rush from work to the parade this Saturday.

I just realized we’re supposed to have brunch in Chinatown Saturday. Have I doomed my family and friends?

Maybe not, if you're taking the Red Line or at least keeping north of Pennsylvania Avenue? My sister wants to go to Jaleo Saturday, and the parade was my first thought.

so that's why Orange Shithead will be in NYC

Sadly Nats are scheduled to go to White House Monday. Ugh

Parade route—Constitution Avenue NW at 15th Street NW, proceed east along Constitution Avenue NW, and end on Pennsylvania Avenue NW at 3rd Street NW

Sean Doolittle aint going to the WH

hoping at least ten more join him

Yes, hope so. I read that Orangeman's proposed immigration rules will keep out future Dominican and Latinx players from everywhere from coming to US no matter than baseball skills (just seen as non-English speaking )

https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/f-0100002740

AFI Silver has just announced that Friday's screening of The Oyster Princess is going to be free. Anyone else interested in going?

gonna be out of town

Speaking of AFI, got tix to the European Union Festival screenings of A Hidden Life and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Did u like those movies?

Been just posting over on ILM

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/after-30-years-horace-and-dickies-is-saying-goodbye-to-a-neighborhood-its-owner-no-longer-recognizes/2020/02/27/d8f0fb92-5809-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html

I liked that carryout whiting . No more near H St Ne location after Saturday. Just Suitland and soon elsewhere in PG County

Really hope Janeese wins in Ward 4 tonight

It sounds like she did, by 9 points even.

Brooke Pinto leading in the race for Jack Evans’ seat.

Pinto seems like she has some ethics issues...

So I think 10 years ago some ilxers went to a not open yet U street music hall and now 10 years later it is closing down due to Covid and landlord issues. Discussed a bit over on the Ilm Capital Swamp thread

Kojo retiring is making me really sad

Kojo retiring is making me really sad

Kojo!!

Don’t go, Kojo

lol kojo has always bugged me but he's probably a very good guy

His voice is so calming. I would listen to him read cereal ingredients.

i sat next to him at the hitching post in petworth back in the day and immediately knew who he was when he started to talk

What happened to Joshua Johnson?

Also my sympathy for DCers rn :(. Spouse is there now for work and says it is dismal.

Joshua Johnson quickly moved to MSNBC. Jennifer White is now hosting 1a

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/517662/city-lights-see-christopher-chens-floating-world-on-a-mount-pleasant-alley-wall/

You can see @furcafe streetscape photos, pics of Chuck Brown, Sharon Jones , band Laughing Man on the alley wall in Mt Pleasant next to Elle through May 31.

I am still posting dc area music stuff over at Capital Swamp on ILM

Good news: AFI Silver reopening 5/28.
WTF: Cruella and A Quiet Place Part II on the bigger screens?

So I guess Jim from the office dies in part 1?