Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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

I used to work there but at odd hours. Walking to the metro at 11pm every night was eerie.

However, I have seen the future...

But having brought restaurants to both 14th Street and Rosslyn, Asadoorian now seems to be rooting for the underdog. “If I was a restaurateur, I wouldn’t go to 14th Street. There’s too many restaurants and the pie is not that big, and the rents are high. Go to Rosslyn. There’s no restaurants, and the pie is huge.”

This article focusses mainly on the new Heavy Seas Alehouse, which is a bar. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/03/19/is-rosslyn-on-the-verge-of-having-a-dining-scene/

Not sure that I buy it. Oh, Rosslyn's Artisphere once in awhile has an exhibit worth seeing or a music gig or 2.

"rosslyn has gotten better" isn't incompatible with "rosslyn is weird and terrible" given how low it started

I saw the DJ Adrian Loving Fade 2 Grey androgyny exhibit at the Anacostia Arts Center Saturday. Just one little room with a few video screens on the wall, and some vinyl record covers. A good guy, but I found the video art a tad underwhelming.

I was more impressed by the Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.

Ndwango (means "cloth") is a new form of bead art developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Ubuhle (means "beautiful") artists' community was established in 1999 by local resident Bev Gibson and master beader Ntombephi Ntombela [En-Tom-be-Fi En-tom-bell-la] to empower local women with the means to provide for their families through their art. The flat surface of the textile onto which the Ubuhle women bead is reminiscent of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts that many of them grew up wearing.

http://anacostia.si.edu/exhibits/current_exhibitions.htm

Also finally went to Frederick Douglass' house. Nice NPS tour and reminder of how great this guy was.

if i come back this spring it will be partly for Lincoln's Cottage; wd like to do the Douglass house too.

Have never been to Lincoln's cottage. Need to add it to my list of DC "tourist" things I want to finally do, that I haven't (despite living around here since I was 4)

^^^my list of these things is loooooooooong

Rosslyn has the Tricky Dick Memorial Garage, yo

http://www.yelp.com/biz/deep-throat-parking-garage-rosslyn

I posted this yesterday on the parenting thread, but in case you are a grown-up in the DC are who really likes dinosaurs, the fossil exhibit at Natural History is closing for a 5-year renovation starting April 28.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/smithsonian-dinosaur-hall-to-close-april-28-for-five-year-renovation/2014/01/17/acba089e-7f3d-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

hey you guys should come to my house on saturday

we're doin it big

https://www.facebook.com/events/1383372445235687

if i didn't have to work i would be there. looks awesome tbh.

Looks like something happened in my neighborhood. Crime scene tape, police and ambulances everywhere, numbered cards all over the ground, traffic gridlocked for a dozen blocks in every direction. :-/

hey you guys should come to my house on saturday

we're doin it big

https://www.facebook.com/events/1383372445235687

― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I may come. I used to live on Lamont Street.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

http://ourconvergence.org/events/syria-sacred-spaces-ancient-prayers

Jason Hamacher who has drummed in various DC bands went to Syria from 2005 to 2010 (before the fighting) and photographed ancient buildings, a synagogue & churches plus people and he recorded Syrian tranditional chant singers. He is exhibiting his photos (and the singing is heard) at Convergence church on Quaker Lane in Alexandria, near Fairlington/Arlington. Its only there for a little while longer -Wednesday through Sat. 10 am to 5. Metrobus accessible. If you can make it you should go. I was impressed (some of the pics are more interesting for who he photographed rather than his technique, but his technique/style is pretty good too).

From 2005-2010, Jason was granted unprecedented access to the Syrian city of Aleppo. He went to document ancient religious traditions and, inadvertently, captured the apex of Syria’s modernization before the eruption of civil war. Many of the people and places that appear in this exhibit have passed on, vanished, or been destroyed.
LOST ORIGIN SOUND SERIES -
Jason Hamacher created the Lost Origin Sound Series to introduce and share his archive of cultural relics with the world. Over the course of his travels, Hamacher was fortunate to record several albums worth of sacred music which are being released as a multi-volume series, Sacred Voices of Syria, showcasing ancient Sufi, Armenian, Syriac, and Assyrian musical traditions. The first album, “Ancient Sufi Invocations and Forgotten Songs from Aleppo” debuts on vinyl April 19 and CD & Digital May 6th.
www.LostSoundSeries.com to hear a sample.
Website: www.lostorigins.com
Washington Post Article (Before and after pics): http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-syria-i-saw-now-in-ruins/2013/09/27/3629abf8-2470-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html

Hi DCilxors. I am really, really, really looking forward to returning to DC for keeps on May 2. I have spent really, really, really too much time in suburban Houston and Birmingham. I really, really, really need to GTFO of the deep south.

Sooooooo I haven't actually lived in DC for just over a year, and need to get back in to the swing of things in town. What are your daily/weekly must-reads? I'll get the WaPo delivered because I am old-school like that, and the City Paper on Thursdays, and my beloved Northwest Current, but what else? PoP? DCist? Other stuff?

My school/internship schedule will leave me with more time than usual to Do Shit in DC, and I plan to take full advantage while I can.

Also: any DC apps I need on my iPhone?

Thanking u and looking forward to catching up soon.

Welcome back -- I still get the Post, too, but it has fallen off in recent years. Curmudgeon's shows list (referenced on this thread or Capital Swamp) is good, too -- I get hip to a lot of stuff checking these and the occasional website (mostly to see what films are playing at the museums). PoP is still the guide to clueless DC gentrification (National Zoo shooting thread comments are today's egregious example). Only DC app I found useful is the Metro one -- there is also a bus one that is/was good.

Thanx

Two days off and I might check out a museum or two tomorrow. Haven't been to anything in well over a year. Best exhibits worth catching?

Might go Thursday though as I could possibly be seeing Factory Floor.

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

Def go to that destructive art show at Hirshhorn.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:13 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cheers!

hey quince i hear visiting Philadelphia is like SUCH A COOL THING TO DO these days, idK?

oh hai my internship schedule gives me 4 day weekends so I am so down with that! I love Philly! I wanna see your new place! I have a housewarming present for you that I have not yet gotten in the mail!

OMG FOR SERIOUS????

New place is not ready yet and cannot really house guests (or at least not for like a little while when I get a futon or something) but YES PLZ COME TO VISIT

Have thermarest and sleeping bag; will purchase and cook food and paint!

I may return to DC on weekend of 5/17

and i hang w/ you in Philly sometime before July 4, kid

Morbs you are welcome at our place (two cats, zero kids, walk to metro and bus) :)

ya'll may roll your damn eyes at me over this but WTF are these renderings in this Bloomingdale rental ad?

Oh hay here: http://realestate.popville.com/listing/3yd-MRIS-DC8325370/32-channing-street-northwest-bloomingdale-washington-dc-20001/

what are you talking about

HEY MAN SRS Q I mean u know me, u know I have no eye for this stuff.

OK OK now that I look at it again but I mean IS NOTHING SACRED jesus I would have gotten a rendering done of my rental prop if I knew that were a thing.

that said, there is nothing like spending a couple of weeks in Alabama to make one really, really yearn for DC real estate.

I mean I look at real estate listings here (Birmingham) and I think I should be envious but instead I am like "OMG GMTF OUT OF HERE I DON'T CARE WHAT IT COSTS"