Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Awesome. There's hope in 11 years. see below

combined sewer overflow, or CSO

New stormwater outfalls will be created on both the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. We will begin work on the Anacostia River first, because it is a slower-moving river, and pollution stays longer and does more damage in rivers with a slow current.

By the year 2025, we expect to reduce CSOs in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and Rock Creek by 96% overall. CSOs in the Anacostia will be reduced by 98%.

http://www.dcwater.com/education/sewer_improvements.cfm

There's an Autumn fest at Eden Center this afternoon. Wife & I went there last night for the first time in awhile. Fests everywhere-Latino one on PA Ave tomorrow, H St NE one, Bluebird Blues fest....

hey lets do more dc faps

Hey yeah! Ummm I'm not exactly centrally located here in Cleveland Park but would love to have folks over so I can feed and drink u. Maybe I should just pick a Sat or Sun and be all "come on over anytime after 1:00 there will be food, drinks, football, and/or crafts* any time u like."

* uh I don't actually have a craft in mind, but I will create one if you like!

Or I mean we could just go Old School DC FAP and meet at Big Hunt after 5 on Fridays.

and they'll even let me into the big hunt now!

“Dear PoPville,
Head’s up about a potentially dangerous runner in Dupont - Today (9/21) I was walking around 17 and S St. NW at 11 AM when I was assaulted by a jogger. A woman running quickly towards looked me in the face, said “head’s up”, then purposely body slammed me in the shoulder with a lot of force. I yelled loudly but she continued and was gone before we figured out what just happened. It was clearly intentional and she really hurt my shoulder. She was about 5’4″, Caucasian, athletic, mid-30s, with mid length brown hair. The whole experience was bizarre, but clearly an unprovoked assault on a stranger that she will probably repeat.”

god

I think she's still on the loose

sarles stepping down from metro, confetti cannons firing all over town

This September 27th Arabfest, From 10 am to 10 pm Come and enjoy a day of Arabic culture, food, games, rides and entertainment. Location Bull Run Regional Park 7700 Bull Run Drive.

I guess the more conservative politicians out that way don't know about this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/guides/2014/10/02/rasika-penn-quarter-2/?hpid=z2

He still loves Rasika. Sietsema's latest guide. Inn at Little Washington at 5.

But I also want to know where I can find a guide to Eden Center places, it's not from Sietsema, and Tyler Cowen who does cover such places is not always up to date.

it's kind of a disservice to Rasika for Tom to keep giving them four stars, it just means people will walk in there with the expectation it's a four star restaurant when in reality it's very good but far more casual and less ambitious than the other four star places in town.

I ate there recently (on wife's boss' dime), with the expectation that it would be super fancy, based on ratings like his, and was happy to be surprised. The food was killer. Someone else pls buy me dinner there ok?

less ambitious than the other four star places in town

I guess I need to splurge sometime on some of these places, but I can't convince my cheapskate self to go down to the Inn at Little Washington and spenda those big bucks no matter how great that description reads.

As for casual Vietnamese dining that I might find ambitious enough or just tasty enough at Eden Center (I went by a Yelp & Tyler Cowen recommendation last time I was there) I found these links from the past, but have not studied them yet :

http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/02/what-to-eat-at-eden-center-falls-church-vietnamese-food.html

https://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/?cat=35

x-post--http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2014/10/09/tom-sietsemas-2014-fall-dining-guide-by-the-numbers/

some items from this:

11 restaurants that opened (or reopened) within the last 12 months made the list: Fiola Mare, Iron Gate, Rose's Luxury, Boss Shepherd's, Partisan, Rural Society, Soi 38, Water & Wall, DCity Smokehouse and Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab.

$9 The average price of a sandwich at DCity Smokehouse, the cheapest eatery on this year's list.

4 restaurants -- Rose's Luxury, Little Serow, DCity Smokehouse and Thai Square -- do not take reservations.

More links re Eden Center. Have not been back lately (but ha, finally went to Rose's Luxury for its hybrid contemp American takes on ethnic dishes)

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/food-dining/cheap-eats-2013-feast-of-eden/

Washingtonian's Kliman (he was once at CP way back when)--If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.

http://www.washingtonian.com/chats/kliman/tuesday-august-19-at-11-am-1.php

Kliman at Washingtonian's list. I wanna go to the Wheaton Thai one

I'm not going to rank them, because that'd take a lot more time than I have, but this is what the list would look like right now (in no particular order):

Komi. Mintwood Place. Central Michel Richard. Rose's Luxury. The Red Hen. Vin 909 Winecafé. Fiola Mare. Thai Taste by Kob. Ananda. Sushi Capitol.

http://decadeofdocsinourcity.com/flix-tix/4585650130

Little publicized DC Movie doc fest this weekend is showing Disco Dan (again); one on Ballou High's funky marching band; and one (short one?) on U Street's old days as Black Broadway; plus more -- mostly at that Navy Theatre on PA Ave NW

That apartment (condo?) with movie theatres(they say) building going up next to the 930 Club is huge.

x-post to Kliman list

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/whats-missing-from-the-washington-posts-fall-dining-guide-a-lot.php

3 md restaurants and a few more Virginia ones...

I don't understand why Kliman would write a response like that - he already publishes his own annual list of the top 100 at Washingtonian. Say it there!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2014/10/21/in-a-changing-washington-lots-of-stuff/

Mocking that latest NY Times piece on DC restaurants. That latest Times article has me just wanting to avoid all DC restaurants; and to instead just eat at cheap ethnic joints in the burbs (even if they haven't "taken it to the next level" as suggested in that NY Times article)

~haters gonna hate just because I was quoted~

Hating cuz of the way that article was phrased and the other quotes, not you

I am seeing critiques of that article everywhere, and most of those folks don't know you.

You're a star, congrats.

So which pickle from Gordy's do you like best? Or are you recommending them for other stuff?

I like their thai basil jalapenos and their giardiniera best

iirc their giardiniera is $12 a jar so if anyone wants to get me some please go right ahead because it is delicious

guys i still live here

Will you buy us all pickles?

Jar of Thai basil ones are listed for $10 on Gordy's website.

pickles rule

currently slightly addicted to the hot okra pickles they sell at Harris Teeter (and Streets - Streets kind of rules, guys, they have unique splits AND uncle jerry's)
and always Bubbies and/or Ba-Tampte as needed from Yes! or Rodman's
Gordy's prices are demented

oh and one time at HT they had jars of pickled habaneros, I bought one a while back, sat in the fridge until a couple weekends ago when I finally ate one and man what a feeling

yeah I like the thai basil japapenos from gordy's because a little goes a looong way

how come you can't go to a bar and get a plate of pretzels, pickles and salted radish slices. that should be a thing you can order. fuck a charcuterie tray, you know?

Tombot I have tons of fresh habeneros let's make pickles

I don't even know how to make pickles but slow cooker chili is go

Yeah I need to learn your secrets. BTW you can get pickles and pretzels at Clyde's, maybe even radishes in season.

I'm just saying salted sliced radishes and pickled vegetables need to be a regular bar food thing. And extra dark pretzels.

me and the wife sitting on the sofa with macbook airs in our laps watching homeland on the DVR
this some Washington DC New Yorker cartoon bullshit right here

anyone familiar with Jody Mack and her experimental film/performance artist homage to old college dorm posters like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Sunday, Nov. 2
Let Your Light Shine at National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/aonMack/light-shine.html)

Initially, she planned to shoot some sort of documentary, but the musical stop-motion show she wound up creating is harder to classify. Titled “Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project” — and featuring Ms. Mack’s mother, Sharon Marney — it’s a kinetic, handmade cornucopia of movie and music stars’ imagery and shots of the poster-filled warehouse. The infectiously obsessive 40-odd minutes are timed to the Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

At screenings, Ms. Mack supplies live vocals, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by nine people. Singing over instrumental renditions of the classic album, she enunciates wittily precise lyrics in playful harmonies: “Sometimes there isn’t much to do/about depreciating revenue.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/movies/jody-mack-makes-plays-with-posters-in-dusty-stacks-of-mom.html?_r=0

The experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack grew up around the family business of posters and merch. From a Florida warehouse her parents supplied music retailers and others with the cultural wallpaper that decorated countless bedrooms in the 1990s — from the bands and celebrities du jour to the dorm-room patron saints Belushi, Marley and Guevara.

With the rise of the Internet came a downturn in sales, leaving thousands of Leonardo DiCaprios and Winona Ryders to languish in the cubbyholes of the warehouse. Ms. Mack’s mother, who by then ran the company on her own, talked about closing up shop. But the bust in sales was a bonanza for Ms. Mack, an animator for whom paper materials are both a favored medium and a ripe subject for cultural history.

“There were so many things in there that were available in multiples, so I thought it would be very interesting to go down and shoot and make animations of all of it,” Ms. Mack, 31, recalled by phone while on a trip to Ukraine. “The stuff that I had to work with was the stuff that was left behind, the stuff that didn’t sell out.”

http://dcist.com/2014/10/popcorn_candy_post-apocalyptic_edit.php

more movies

Best Vietnamese Restaurant at the Eden Center? Anybody?

Still trying to figure that out. See upthread links.

Kliman at washingtonian recently said:

If I’m in the Eden Center and jonesing for pho, I’m going to Huong Viet and, if it’s too crowded there, then to Hai Duong.

He also likes a newer upscale looking place there called Rice Paper that Tyler Cowen does not like.

http://www.huong-viet.com/press.html

This is where we ate the last time we were there. It was good but not amazing. They have a real long menu. Maybe I didn't order the right thing

That's where I was going to go.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1pr370CIAAFN-3.jpg

hahaha