Awwwww Mandalay misses you, 69! BTW have not yet booked tix yet, but will be in SF/Oakland second week of December. Wanna see youuuuuuuuuu!
― quincie, Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoos is stuck outside the Big Hunt b/c his ID has expired. Change of plan: meet him in the Mad Hatter a few doors down.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
haha poor hoos lol
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Dang where are you all?
― powerpoint coordination specialist, chicago bears (daria-g), Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to miss you all! Unfortunately weekdays I have to get up at 4:30, so I had to bail.
Question: has anyone reading this ever had to serve on a DC grand jury? I just got a summons, and the prospect of serving three days a week for eight weeks does NOT appeal.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Friday, 5 November 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch. Sorry I missed you folks. I was seeing Brazilian bossa-pop singer Luisa Maita with a friend at Bohemian Caverns at 8 (the early show) and just did that.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
woah, HOOS is in D.C.? that's crazy, man. i should probably post in this thread now and then anyway, since i'm not far from D.C.
― lil bow bow (some dude), Friday, 5 November 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yes post in this thread
also lol + <3 @ fap
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
so you found a bar that would serve you?
Virginia licenses have a transparent oval with an imprint of your face in them. Something to look forward to!
― Gukbe, Friday, 5 November 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
and comma
borrifying
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/11/04/zanzibar-on-the-waterfront-closes-down/
I was busy getting this written the other night. The DC government at work--they don't think local nightclubs and tourist destinations can co-exist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 November 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that is infuriating.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
But this wasn't a case of eminent domain, right? Zanzibar took a lucrative buyout offer from PN Hoffman that they could have refused.
― I DIED, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah this seems like the owners making a call that's :/ culturally but not definitely not screwing them over or anything.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hah, just realized my high school reunion was there (didn't go)
― fauxmarc, Friday, 5 November 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
No one is rejecting the buyout offers because I think the city may have made sweet deals with the developers.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I think help from the city is therefore making it easier for the developers to throw large amounts of money at the clubs. In August, Fenty was at Hogates/H20 for a ceremonial demolition ceremony. So yes, its not eminent domain, and yes the Zanzibar owners will do fine financially, and yes they theoretically could have turned the offer down, but I think the city could have made life difficult for them (especially since the city wants to shut down Water Street where Zanzibar is located, as part of their plans to change the traffic flow and build offices, condos and park space in that area).
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so uh wow, not been ilxing for quite a while but stopped by b/c i've been on/off reading this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FAVwSQ9JL._SL500_AA300_.jpg and came across curmudgeon quoted irl which was very cool.
anyway, rad to see dc blowing up with ilxors! who knew!
― W i l l, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't know he's in that. i was def reading this at the columbia heights subway years back and someone walked up showing me their photograph in it.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 11 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, I'm in there. And lots of things I said to Marc Anderson when he interviewed me never made it in the book as they didn't fit the meme or theme he was going for.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
How about that Jack Johnson (PG County exec) and his wife--$80,000 cash in her bra, check flushed down the toilet. But's he innocent he says. FBI set him up (a variation on the Barry defense)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude is deeply, deeply in the pocket of the real estate industry.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 13 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep and as the W. Post noted, has been helping out friends with jobs and contracts for years.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine who works in news texted me she was having a crazy friday "because jack johnson had to go and get arrested"
i spent several minutes trying to figure out why the arrest of a mellow frat rock musician was a big news story
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Tick Tock liquor store allegedly involved in no-good also. I used to go there. Good 'ol PG County (I say as someone who grew up there)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 November 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally ate at Chez Aunt Libe's, Senegalese place up Georgia Avenue in Petworth. Aunt Libe gave us free plaintains (with a super spicy dipping sauce)as an appetizer---I think cuz she asked if it was our first time there. We had the lamb in peanut sauce stew and the fish with couscous as entres. Only other people there were a Senegalese family. Rockin' Senegalese music videos on in the background.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I wanna go to the Turntable restaurant and disco up that way next. It's a Jamaican restaurant and they play Jamaican oldies at certain hours and blast dancehall in the latenight hours (or so I've read).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
chez aunty libe is still there?! i had some of their food at some dc festival thing like.. 7-8 years ago. for some reason just assumed that place was no longer around. i'll have to go for some mafe, senegalese food is one of my favorites and i didn't think there was any place in dc to get it. (have tried to cook mafe myself and it didn't turn out too badly, but the spices were not quite right imo)
― daria-g, Sunday, 21 November 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^no complaining unless you got hit by a cab while walking, which is how I DIED's travel about the city tends to go.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, I haven't been hit by a cab for a couple years! I think for a while it was part of some cab driver initiation rite.
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 November 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I have to come down to see this queer portraiture thing at the NPGallery.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That show sounds great, I'm supposed to see it next week and will report back.
― I DIED, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be heading down myself at some point, would love a morbs meetup
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
k, I will see when I can get a cheap room and hope you don't get one of your crippling 3-inch snowfalls.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha.
x-post to Daria--The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also. It's a small family run restaurant. Not sure how far the restaurant is from the green line Metro stop up that way or via bus, as I drove.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 November 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey morbs I have a guest room if you don't mind sharing a bathroom with a me (presumably not at the same time). Also have a cat so no help if you have kitty allergies.
― quincie, Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is not really that far iirc
also might be coming down some time soonish . . .
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
right but i had on ill fitting converse
i blame the shoes more than the walk tbh
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
also i am from texas and not used to you people's "walking"
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I've walked farther around DC in ill-fitting converse. Man up, Hoos!
― Gukbe, Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
noted!!
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 21 November 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Where can really good fried chicken - not fast food but not an extra-posh version at a silly price - be got in DC?
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
best: the general store in silver spring
good: the hitching post in petworth, oohs and aahs on u st, horace and dickie's on h st (more for the fried fish)
i know there's new fine dining places that have good stuff too, but those are my go-to spots.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks - oohs and aahs looks accessible and good but also intrigued by the general store. Will report back.
― ljubljana, Monday, 22 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought Oohs and Aahs was pretty tasty but kinda overpriced. The dining areas are kinda small also. But yea, it's pretty accessible, right there on U. St.
Which reminds me that I still have never tried the upscale soul food brunch at B. Smith's.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oohs and Aahs is delicious but I generally stick to the dishes that benefit from sitting in hot pans for a long time, they rarely cook a la minute.
B. Smith's is a waste of time, unfortunately.
I find the fried chicken & waffles for brunch at a lot of the mid-level restaurants to be some of the city's best - Creme, Marvin, and especially Birch & Barley.
I'll second Hitching Post.
also, POPEYE'S
― I DIED, Monday, 22 November 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the general store is the shit. i eat there probably once a week. they only do sunday brunch but their chicken and waffles is amazing. it comes with mashed potatoes with a gravy that's half gravy and half syrup... so good. also, since it's out in the middle of nowhere, you don't have to deal with the crowds you get at some of the good dc places.
― Moreno, Monday, 22 November 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ya gotta eat chicken & waffles out in Los Angeles at Roscoe's. Did that for the first time this summer. Anybody try it at Gladys Knight's restaurant at Capital Centre Blvd in Largo? Yes it's a chain restaurant
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 November 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
in high school tick tock liquor was always the reliable spot for getting your terrible fake id bought from the georgetown video rental place accepted
― fauxmarc, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link