Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I would see Part 2 if you're already familiar with both plays. Better Keach.

I am, but it'll take another trip in a month or so for p2.

so is anyone interested in talking about this jim graham/brianne nadeau race in ward 1 or

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-ward-1-4-term-incumbent-jim-graham-tries-to-fend-off-tough-challenge-in-brianne-nadeau/2014/03/19/7217a1a8-aac4-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

Nadeau, a communications consultant, is hoping to rally enough residents to think twice about Graham, who for 15 years has enjoyed nearly iconic status in the fast-growing, highly diverse Ward 1 thanks to his quirky profile — thick-rimmed glasses and colorful bow ties — and close attention to constituent services.

A self-described ethical “lapse” has pitted Graham against a feisty, well-financed challenger in Nadeau, who hopes to capi­tal­ize on anti-corruption sentiment in the wake of last week’s guilty plea from a prominent businessman who financed an illegal, off-the-books effort to help elect Mayor Vincent C. Gray four years ago.

“There is a mood in D.C. right now,” Nadeau said Monday at her campaign office a few blocks north of the U Street corridor. “People are angry that their trust has been violated, and they should be angry.”

Graham acknowledged that Gray’s legal troubles haven’t done him any favors. And he conceded that Nadeau is one of the more serious challengers he has faced over the years. But he scoffed at her laserlike focus on his ethics record, calling it her campaign’s only plank. And he said he believes that his constituents still see him as someone who “gets things done.”

leftys i know are divided between people talking about 'lets topple graham and show we can have an impact' and 'you realize nadeau is like the gentrification vaguard right, how do you think she got wells endorsement'

I'm not a big Brianne fan but Jim Graham is THE WORST

the case 'for' him that i'm hearing is that if you're gonna target a councilmember for a takedown, a reliably liberal-voting guy who's arguably 'the least corrupt' on the council seems like an odd choice unless your unstated goal is to remove the least bad old guard for replacement by a representative of young transplants

or if you like the closest things to a case *for* him is a case against the demographic changes brianne's supporters rep

loool

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/dc-council-candidates-fight-about-ethics-outside-starbucks.php

DC Council member Jim Graham had to be pulled away by one of his staff when he got in the face of Brianne Nadeau, his opponent in next week’s Democratic primary.

“I’m a public official, which you will never be,” Graham barked while wagging his finger at Nadeau in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown DC.

I'd like to hear an argument for Graham being 'the least corrupt' member of the council and would like to present DC ethics board findings as a counterargument

Have a fun weekend here Morbs

thx, on da bus, if i get there by 2 gonna try find food trucks

woooo

kinda disappointed by today's selections in front of Union Station... was hoping for Basil Thyme, not DC Slices.

http://foodtruckfiesta.com/dc-food-trucks/

I have no food trucks near my dayjob

The Ward 1 direct mail campaign is completely out of control, including 2-3 of the same flyer showing up each day. The latest wave included one from Graham outlining the condo assistance charge. That said, I liked the no-frills, pro-Gray flyers the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition taped up on bus shelters downtown.

I am coming to DC for a few days specifically to vote for Wells.

Actually I am coming to DC for a few days specifically to help spouse procure employment, as I am doing my best not to be employed until January 2016.

But since I'm there anyway, I'll be voting for Wells and SO SHOULD YOU.

Also if anyone wants to give me a little bit of a job (like, fewer than 10 hours a week), I will do whatever you want! Maybe not competently, but I will do it! There are a few things I do competently so I can offer those services up as well.

QUINCE I HAD BETTER SEE YOU BTWN 4/4 AND 4/6 OR THE STREETS WILL BE FLOODED W/ TEARS

AND SPILLED BEER

I WOULD LOVE TO BUT I HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE TEXASS ON THE 3RD *crying* BECAUSE I AIN'T GOT NOT PLACE IN DC ATM!

40 years old, unemployed, homeless, living with parents, no shame.

OK, a little shame.

I am currently giving spouse a hard time because he refuses to apply for a Director of IT job for THE HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION.

I mean wtf FREE HELICOPTERS, ALL THE TIME amirite?

I am currently giving spouse a hard time because he refuses to apply for a Director of IT job for THE HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION.

I mean wtf FREE HELICOPTERS, ALL THE TIME amirite?

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, March 28, 2014 7:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are they still in Alexandria? I worked there years ago! (To be fair, when they offered me a regular job I turned them down, but still....)

GRAY PRIDE

gray's campaign manager is trolling him right

j.lu, yes, that's the place? He's not that keen based on job description, but HELICOPTERS for god's sake!

early Fri eve in Kalorama:

joggers
dogwalkers
one guy singing "We Didn't Start the Fire"

This is opening today at the Corcoran, I wonder if it will be worth checking out

Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazyhouse
March 29-June 15, 2014

The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Phillip, Dee), Liverpool, UK is a four- channel video installation by Rineke Dijkstra, created in 2009 at a popular dance club in Liverpool. It presents in sequence a group of five young people in their teens and early twenties dancing and sometimes singing along to tunes they selected themselves. While the kids' selections of music and dance are diverse, each one seems both self-conscious and lost in the moment looking for some way to transcend their daily lives and make an impression for others.

maybe I can hit that today, along w/ Winogrand and Bldg Museum.

Def go to that destructive art show at Hirshhorn.

btw can confirm morbs's woody allen impression is a++

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/03/26/dupont-circle-citizens-take-on-loud-nightclubs-one-decibel-reading-at-a-time/

Shouldn't these folks just be monitoring decibels from their homes and not from the back walls of these Connecticut Avenue & Dupont Circle clubs

maybe I can hit that today, along w/ Winogrand and Bldg Museum.

Def go to that destructive art show at Hirshhorn.

I still need to see all these. Been too busy working on weekends.

btw the children have won at the Building Museum -- randomly kicking soccer balls and running amok over the entire main floor.

what is the deal with those "for US Senator" posters around town? They don't give u ppl senators.

SHADOW SENATOR!

I figured something like that; how pie-eyed.

it's a position several degrees of magnitude less powerful than our non-voting Representative

senator literally just stands in the shadows, grumbling

I always feel badly when I forget the name of our shadow senator. I vow to remember it, and then I forget it again. Like right now, I can't remember it, even though I just voted and surely his name was on the ballot somewhere (I, uh, skipped a bunch of parts).

the shadow senator slides on their back along the floor with their toes touching the heels of real life senators, miming their movements and collecting important intel

From the City Paper election guide:

For shadow senator, the choice is between Paul Strauss, who’s had the job for 17 years and been arrested twice, or Pete Ross, who’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars campaigning for the post and once served three months in a halfway house for tax evasion.

shadow sleaze!

"I am a public official, which you will never be!" is even funnier now

GOODBYE JIM GRAHAM

It's like DC is determined to have the lamest government ever.

From the DC Board of Elections:

Of 369,037 total Registered Voters in the District – 83,040 or 22.50% voted:

MAYOR
MURIEL E. BOWSER 35,899 (votes) 44.24%
VINCENT C. GRAY 26,209 32.30%
TOMMY WELLS 10,181 12.55%

AT – LARGE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL
ANITA D. BONDS 36,426 (votes) 52.85%
NATE BENNETT-FLEMING 15,468 22.44%
JOHN F. SETTLES, II 9,332 13.54%

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD ONE
BRIANNE K. NADEAU 5,755 (votes) 58.68%
JIM GRAHAM 4,003 40.82%

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD FIVE
KENYAN McDUFFIE 8,363 (votes) 78.77%
KATHY HENDERSON 1,549 14.59%

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD SIX
CHARLES ALLEN 7,140 (votes) 57.95%
DARREL THOMPSON 5,156 41.85%

that map in the post was amazing

Oh, the one with Bowser taking NW and Sw and with Gray getting NE and SE. Yep, nothing much has changed. With Bowser identified with Fenty, its really not surprising. Also, not surprising that many stayed home.

But I'm out in the nearby burbs so I should let you city folks have at it.

http://dc.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/enjoy-these-daft-punkesque-petworth-street-signs-for-now.php

literally made me giggle

gol

• there is a club called Mova at 14th & U NW and it is AWFUL; do not ever go.

• the Damage Control show @ the Hirsh is really something special

• ugh DC gays really are just the worst, don't be gay if you live in DC

• Takoma Park is a lil cutie

• Roslyn is weird and full of office buildings but no people. Very strange place to be.

Dear lord what were you doing in Rosslyn? DON'T CROSS THE POTOMAC is a rule I try to live by.

rosslyn is weird as f

it really is