yeah I am pretty much sold 100% on hanging for at least some period of time at NEXT DOOR (to BEN'S) sometime during the run-up; as per bro'ng out on the 20th itself things are probably limited for me because I have to show up at 8 FUCKIN AM the next day somewhere on NY ave for INDOCTRINATION TO SERVING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
R3-V4 still hasn't figured out whether she is gonna be working in an official capacity or not but I am definitely NOT working in ANY capacity from the 16th-on
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Here is the thing about the 20th - I think we should fap at a bar during the ceremony and just watch that shit on TV - it'll be early and warm! That's my plan, at least.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 5 January 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
of course that is the plan, we all live here, plus, not insane/stupid/insane-o-stupid
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean the fuck, if I gotta get up at fuckin' morning times and go downtown the 21st anyway, why I'm gonna do that two days in a row?
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
that made sense when I typed it. seriously though all I mean to do is strongly recommend next door to ben's as the hang-out-place for some day that weekend and the 20th too if we can get some seats
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
So much Obama at Ben's Chili Bowl coverage
― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 January 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hey guys the list of places going for the later alcohol sales for inauguration weekend is up and it includes HUNAN PALACE?!?
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 12 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you guys have the day of the inauguration off?
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, but had to work a weekend day to make up for it
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.pushback.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/gtowninauguralball.jpg
trenh0lm b0ggs!
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lol darcars "his dad's got a dealership man"I hate white people
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, god noguys we know u are all young republicans there is no need to do this
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I have the inauguration off because I am quitting my job this friday
you are white despite your ethnic name, El Tomboto.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I might be white but that doesn't mean I'm people
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
you are a fed now are you even allowed to quit?
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean your job, not being white
i wasn't going to come down for this, but now...
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this article is even more cringeworthy than you can possibly imagine. Chefs Settle Down in ‘the Real D.C.’: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/dining/14wash.html
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Ms. Cashion calls H Street “a kind of post racial Georgetown, as it once was before the national retailers staked their claims there.” She’s consulting on the Mexican menu for the H Street Country Club, which is supposed to open in February. It will feature an irony-laden miniature golf course that requires putters to work through the swinging briefcases of K Street lawyers and shoot around Marion Barry, the former mayor and councilman.
jesus christ on a cracker^^^^
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously. this was so bad.
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i am so not reading that article again tomorrow when i get the paper
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
let's just start with the hyper-obsession with the race of every person interviewed and each neighborhood in this city. what was this story about - a demographic breakdown by ward? who writes this shit?
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
and that line about best Belgian beer selection in the city is so laughable. In a city where most restaurants have a strong Belgian beer selection. I feel like she went to one place, saw they had Chimay on tap, was super impressed, and deemed them "the best". an entire article made up of throwaway lines. Congrats NYT!
― a slap in the face (Kitties!!!), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Some people call it the Atlas District, others call it lower Capitol Hill and still others say it is Trinidad. The area had 22 killings in 2008. “I don’t care what you call it, it’s still the ’hood,” Ms. Clark said.
H St bugs me out, I hardly ever went there even when I lived 5 blocks away, but.. really poor neighborhoods just around the corner & then you have a place like Granville Moore's where you can't get a beer for less than $8. hated worrying about muggings and break-ins but I guess they happen here @ dupont a lot and I just don't pay attention
hey I DIED, did you know Marvin was another quasi speakeasy? LOLOL
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't understand how playing miniature golf with Marion Berry and briefcases equals irony
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
see, a bar serving very expensive drinks to hill types is not enough like a country club, that you have to make a theme of it being a country club
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
a cool, P. M. Dawn feeling
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
AAAAAAARGH THAT ARTICLE
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
COULD REFUTE 240% OF IT
FUCK YOOUUUUUUUUUU
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
?? i have heard a lot of music in there but never heard any p.m. dawn, i dunno. p.m. dawn are okay, it's just not a connection i would come up with.
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post) that is the situation as I see it
(x-post) this city needs more PM Dawn
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol NYT articles about DC are always so special
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
this city needs more PM Dawn
^^ this. more early 90's hip hop/r&b anywhere, i got four compilations of new jack swing not long ago.. hadn't heard some of those songs since 1992 <3 <3 <3
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"GILLIAN CLARK calls fried chicken the curse of the black chef"
hmm that is so interesting as your restaurant offered a fried chicken dinner for the four years it was open
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Ms. Clark’s parents are from Panama. She graduated from a Long Island, N.Y., high school. She enrolled in a French-influenced cooking school and was first taught by French chefs. But whenever she opens a restaurant, people want her to fry some chicken.“I’d be more at home making knish,” she said.
“I’d be more at home making knish,” she said.
wow because you had a fried chicken night but never a knish night
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like the early 90s fried chicken/r&b dinner why because it look so interesting
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Later this year, Ms. Clark plans to open Georgia Street Meeting House in her working-class neighborhood in Northwest Washington.
... in the ground floor of a luxury condo development
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
knish are superfrançais come on
― disco is the reason (daria-g), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
“It’s such an interesting time for the real D.C., because for years there has been a whole lot of nothing going on,” Ms. Clark said.
yeah the years when "nothing" was going on was when you opened your first restaurant, when property values rose, when chefs planned the outposts they have now, when developers courted restaurant tenants to make an article like this possible.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Diane Gross and her husband, Khalid Pitts, just wanted to live, work and eat out in their neighborhood, which bridges Logan Circle and U Street.
Initially, their brokers didn’t get it. “When we were looking for a space, they all wanted to show us the Hill,” Ms. Gross said.
Diane u a liar I have worked with commercial real estate brokers during this time and it was all DOWNTOWN and GEORGETOWN, the hill was way back on the list.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
p.s. I love the drinks at your bar, though
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
guys you know what I can't WAIT to see what matt yglesias has to say about this article!!! maybe mcardle will weigh in too
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
hang on did I say I can't WAIT? HA HA I MEANT I CAN'T WHITE
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"That not only means black eating next to white, but gay next to straight and young next to old" - NYT on Cork, 01/09
"Black, white, straight, gay, young and not-so-young: They're all gathered on U Street NW in what looks as if it's been around for decades rather than merely one year." - Washington Post on Marvin (three blocks north of Cork), 10/08
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean seriously
I don't care if you're black, white, that guy in the riddler suit or a gym twink! You can eat chicken in this town.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Downstairs, where a huge folk art image of Mr. Gaye dominates one wall, the restaurant feels like a stylish American speakeasy.
... a speakeasy with wide open windows and a sign. Maybe if you want to write about something you think of as a speakeasy you will write about the place next door. OH WAIT you are writing about that this Sunday.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link