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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
QUINCE I HAD BETTER SEE YOU BTWN 4/4 AND 4/6 OR THE STREETS WILL BE FLOODED W/ TEARS
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
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!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
40 years old, unemployed, homeless, living with parents, no shame.
OK, a little shame.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 March 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
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, 28 March 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
― 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....)
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
GRAY PRIDE
gray's campaign manager is trolling him right
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
j.lu, yes, that's the place? He's not that keen based on job description, but HELICOPTERS for god's sake!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 29 March 2014 04:07 (ten years ago) link
early Fri eve in Kalorama:
joggersdogwalkersone guy singing "We Didn't Start the Fire"
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 March 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
This is opening today at the Corcoran, I wonder if it will be worth checking out
Rineke Dijkstra: The KrazyhouseMarch 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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 March 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
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, 30 March 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
btw can confirm morbs's woody allen impression is a++
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 30 March 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 March 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
I still need to see all these. Been too busy working on weekends.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 March 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
SHADOW SENATOR!
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
I figured something like that; how pie-eyed.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
it's a position several degrees of magnitude less powerful than our non-voting Representative
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
senator literally just stands in the shadows, grumbling
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
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).
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― a-lo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
shadow sleaze!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
"I am a public official, which you will never be!" is even funnier now
GOODBYE JIM GRAHAM
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 07:54 (ten years ago) link
It's like DC is determined to have the lamest government ever.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
From the DC Board of Elections:
Of 369,037 total Registered Voters in the District – 83,040 or 22.50% voted:
MAYORMURIEL 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 COUNCILANITA 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 ONEBRIANNE K. NADEAU 5,755 (votes) 58.68%JIM GRAHAM 4,003 40.82%
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD FIVEKENYAN McDUFFIE 8,363 (votes) 78.77%KATHY HENDERSON 1,549 14.59%
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WARD SIXCHARLES ALLEN 7,140 (votes) 57.95%DARREL THOMPSON 5,156 41.85%
― a-lo, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
that map in the post was amazing
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
http://dc.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/enjoy-these-daft-punkesque-petworth-street-signs-for-now.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
literally made me giggle
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 4 April 2014 06:07 (ten years ago) link
gol
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 6 April 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Dear lord what were you doing in Rosslyn? DON'T CROSS THE POTOMAC is a rule I try to live by.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 April 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
rosslyn is weird as f
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 April 2014 04:36 (ten years ago) link
it really is
― Karl Malone, Monday, 7 April 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
I used to work there but at odd hours. Walking to the metro at 11pm every night was eerie.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 7 April 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
"rosslyn has gotten better" isn't incompatible with "rosslyn is weird and terrible" given how low it started
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
if i come back this spring it will be partly for Lincoln's Cottage; wd like to do the Douglass house too.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
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)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
^^^my list of these things is loooooooooong
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
Rosslyn has the Tricky Dick Memorial Garage, yo
http://www.yelp.com/biz/deep-throat-parking-garage-rosslyn
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
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
― take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
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, 10 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
if i didn't have to work i would be there. looks awesome tbh.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 10 April 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
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. :-/
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 April 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Friday, 11 April 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 11 April 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link