Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

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i mean, ive hung out with a lot of "jambanders", and ive heard them say enough STUPID shit to fill a Thomas Paine (im so sure ive spelled this wrong) style pamphlet, but at least those kids weren't mean, like "faux hipsters" seem to be. but who knows.

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno, i just find it so hard to take those folks seriously. they don't offend me because it's like, eh, ok, you're trying to pull the snobby asshole card, but look at you! you're not cool at all! you're a fucking dork.

i do think there's a difference between the indie rock crowds in dc and those in, say, bmore or philly though. why? good question.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, sorry mookie; should've worn that Romulan battle armor.

Re indie kids, I dunno why they're more prickly here; think it's because they're so thin on the ground? But then the local hippies, goths, etc., don't seem to be so assholish. Hm.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

SMOKING BAN. FUCK YOU. SMOKING BAN. FUCK YOU.

How the fuck does the city council get off? Let's act super pissy about baseball and smoking!! Faux hipsters indeed.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

You know what smoking bans do? Sell a lot of these, that's what they do.
And propane to fuel them. Welcome to motherfucking California.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/rewilliams_1871_27842427

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i do think there's a difference between the indie rock crowds in dc and those in, say, bmore or philly though. why? good question.

http://www.soundoo.com/images/labels/0000034L.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That also explains the smoking ban.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

During Tuesday's discussion on smoke-free legislation, the subject of the water pipe - a popular way to smoke tobacco in the Middle East and India - came up, and most council members had no idea what it was.
Council Member Marion Barry, D-Ward 8, said he had never heard of the device.
"What do you smoke in them?" said Barry, drawing a huge laugh.
Council Member Jim Graham, D-Ward 1, who was hoping to exempt the popular hookah bars from the new law, offered to take Barry to one of the two hookah establishments in his ward.
"I don't want to go," Barry said. "I have enough problems already."

Graham's amendment was delayed, and he said he would take several council members to the bars for "on-site research."

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

(D-Chi Cha)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i read that there might be exemptions for "cigar bars." i bet hookah bars would get the same break. do you think theyd allow cigarette smoking in a hookah bar? probably, i id think.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, i know they do now.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.smokefreedc.org/restaurants.htm

OK seriously tell me if any of these restaurants count as "restaurants" in the real actual open-after-6pm serve-more-than-one-basic-thing not-lit-with-flourescent-bulbs kind of sense?

I love how the economic hardship measure for letting businesses retain smokiness rights if they can demonstrate "significant negative impact" is viewed as a loophole by the smokefreedc douche squad

DC to embassy staff, veterans, and active duty military: Please take ALL your business to Virginia, if you haven't already.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Like anyone wants to go to virginia.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

They are all Thai restaurants.

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the addition of joints with "Hunan" in the name. Like anybody has ever actually been inside a "Hunan" restaurant. Those places are phone numbers with kitchens attached. The whole staff could be huffing opium 24/7 and nobody would ever know.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I like when they try to market competitively. As if their #23 has something the other place's #23 doesnt have. But they like to try to make you think that.

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Hunan #1 is way better than anything with a name like Jade Empress or China Express. Though probably close on par with China Express #21.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Dont forget about the versitile use of the words "Wok" and "Dragon".

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Hunan Dragon Wok Express #29 is probably the best Chinese in the entire world.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Only if their staff works shirtless in the back. Like the dudes that do my drycleaning.

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

since we're kinda on the same topic, General Tsao's Chicken is completely gross. Its really just chicken nuggets soaked in spicy caramel sauce. when i worked in a chinese resturaunt, it would never cease to amaze me just how much sugar the cooks would use to make this diabetic coma.

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never eaten it! It sounded too important for my tastes.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

eat hot noodle, forget stress!
hunan dragon wok express!
you drink tea, feeling fine!
best is number twenty-nine!
very spicy, spicy, yes?
hunan dragon wok express!
watch out, here come seaweed brine
you like? Number twenty nine!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

wow

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, its not your best work. But it'll do.

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

there was never even a general tsao, if i remember correctly. when i started working at the place it was the first thing i wanted to ask my boss, and when i did he just started laughing.

chinese food is such a con.

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It is better than the Steve McQueen song though. Islamic Jihad? Is that what it was called?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

the one god allah and mohammed is his prophet
islamic jihad, islamic jihad!
the one god allah and mohammed is his prophet
islamic jihad, islamic jihad!

well in my dreams i'm steve mcqueen
i move so fast i can't be seen
my fingers smell like nicotine
'cause in my dreams i'm steve mcqueen

repeat chorus.

that's still a lot better than the one lyrics i found in a really old email where the chorus started with "donde estan mis pantalones? soy de alabama!"

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

sub-Beck.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

The "best" lyrics were the ones you showed me on your old computer when we first met, you were super drunk and going on about them. One of them just listed various nationalities girls could possibly be, like, ALL of them except maybe Asian countries (I don't remember), and asked if they played guitars. I almost broke up with you on the basis of some of the songs you showed me though that's the only one that stuck in my head at all. I couldn't even figure out how you could sing it, it was so unwieldly.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't remember that one either, this is why I keep that thing around! That computer has important shit on it!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

My day was immeasurably improved by walking past a guy at the corner of 17th & M pounding out some go-go on an electrical transformer and singing along. Really makes me miss the paint bucket guys - Mr. Longhair McReverb on the guitar outside the Dupont south metro entrance doesn't do it for me.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone seen the steel drum guy at dupont south recently? i remember walking past him a few years ago--dressed in what can only be described as an asian warlock's outfit--playing/singing u2's "one" punctuated by occasional pointing at the sky and laughing

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

also: a sad day.

Pittsburgh Brewing files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 8 December 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

That is some BULLSHIT

Also, C/D: Bagpipes guy outside of downtown Red Line stations. A big fat "C" from these quarters - and he's improved so much over the last few months!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 8 December 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know what to wear to the Dechede Mode concert. It has to be something that can transition from "conservative library worker" to "aging music fan." Any ideas?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

How about this?

― ng-unit, Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw bagpipes guy the other night, he seemed like he was just trying to tune up, not playing any songs. As I was riding down the escalator I was thinking how in terms of objective listenability it was about on par with korean/chinese opera, but that I found it more enjoyable purely because of some kind of ancestral memory bunkum.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

bagpipes guy > tribes of israel guys (get thee to metro center on fridays if you like being yelled at) > jews for jesus pamphleteers.

are there mice in dc? because i might move back if there aren't mice there.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I have seen exactly TWO subway rodents in my entire time here. We live in a basement and there are no mice there either.

Our old apartment is up on craigslist today! It didn't have rats!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Rat the size of a teacup poodle strolled across my stoop last night, a complete pizza slice from Manny and Olga's locked in its jaws. I think it winked at me.

But overall they don't seem too common.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

ts: an occasional rat on the stoop vs. seemingly infinite mice scrambling around an apartment at night, getting trapped by glue traps, only to drag glue traps around room, squeaking and shuffling the whole time. plus common subway rats, i guess. but it's the invasion of my studio apartment that has me running scared. gross.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Mostly the rats on the street here are too big to fit through cracks in walls, under doors, etc. to get into apartments.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

My old studio in RI had a mouse problem for a while. glue traps are nasty, I recommend the snap traps - you can get these plastic ones that you just click open. because both of these will kill the mouse but the glue ones, very slowly.. I went to a hardware store and got some metal grate type of stuff to patch up the empty spaces where they could get in.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

That sucks, Carly; you've got the makings of a horror movie there.

Worse glue trap ever: Clearing out of a filthy group house a few years back, I checked the top kitchen cabinet and found a huge, ancient molasses spill with furry mouse skeleton embedded in it. No way Willard's dragging that around the room. I haven't had non-relationship roommates since.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

OK where the hell are y'all living in NY that y'all are INFESTED with rats and mice all of a sudden? I have lived in the shittiest shithole buildings, like homeless men sleeping in the lobby, people just leaving their trash right outside their apartment door, an completely inaccessible shaft between the two buildings that was full up of garbage and cigarette butts...and never did I see a rat. NEVER. I have only seen a small handful on the subway as well. Am I just blessed??? This seems hard to believe because I've been to other people's apartments and...no rodents. Maybe this infestation is recent.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how I claimed to be blessed while describing living in a building full of trash and homeless men.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

the rats are certainly not in the apartment. i just see them in the subway a lot.
just little mice in my home. i've caught 5 so far. i'm pretty freaked out. watching Lost and hearing mice are the two things convincing me that i shouldn't live along anymore. and to answer your question, i live near the east broadway F. i was fond of the place til the infestation. mice can squeeze through cracks about 1/4 inch high, which is tiny. so they could be getting in anywhere. i live on the ground floor as well, which doesn't help, though i've heard stories about mice appearing on floors as high as 11 in downtown buildings. do they ride the elevator? insane.

the weird thing is, everyone I talk to about this just shrugs, as though, in fact, other peoples' apartments are simply crawling with vermin, and why am i so freaked out?

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Well I was thinking, maybe it's the ground floor thing...but then I remembered my friend Jus lives on the ground floor of a building and hasn't an issue. I think you are just very unlucky?? Unless you're right and everyone downtown and in Brooklyn is living in vermin city!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

It is a two-pronged attack. The birds will give us flu, and in our weakened state, the rats will gnaw on our flesh. Then nobody will be left to oppose the great arachnid-men when they emerge from the sea.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

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