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

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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

That's more 3 pronged.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

except for this one agitated drunk animal rights guy who insisted that the mice belong in my apartment way more than i do, everyone has been totally nonchalant. look, i understand city living (and country living for that matter) brings with it some unpleasant creatures encroaching on our space, but creepy/able to squeeze through tiny holes/tiny-poop leaving mammals that look kind of cute until you see them scurrying along your floor are NOT OKAY. GET OUT MICE.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Why would he think mice belong in your apartment more than you do? Are they rent paying? If so, please send some my way, that'd be good.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

that was exactly the joke i made: they should get out because i pay the rent. and the guy was really angry at me, explained that mice can't pay rent, and then suggested that because mice were here before buildings, they should have free reign over the buildings. and that all animals have equal rights as people. which is convoluted and weird, and self contradictory.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey now, why can't mice pay rent? Did you think about asking him that?

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

they can't hold jobs because they are always chewing shit up and leaving tiny poop everywhere.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

If animals have equal rights as people then clearly animals that don't pay rent need to be evicted. Also animals that are too loud, or smoke indoors!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

But then people would start leaving poop everywhere, like that guy with the really messy office. You know he's been waiting for the chance to leave little pellets on a bed of papers in the corner.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry Tombot, but I am for the smoking ban. Black Cat needs less "faux-hipsters" and less people stinking up my clothes with their nicotine. I do not want your secondhand smoke.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

...and it's on.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't worry, curmudgeon, I personally wouldn't be seen at the Black Cat if you paid me so you're totally safe!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh well. If I could only stop those faux-hipsters who smoke...

I guess I better not even bring up the city council and baseball and Tombot's views on that!

Back to mice and rats. Carry on.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats
Each cat will have twelve kittens a year
The catskins will sell for thirty cents each
One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day
We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars
But what should we feed the cats?
We will start a rat ranch next door with a million rats
The rats will be twelve times faster than the cats
So we can have more rats to feed each day for each cat
But what should we feed the rats?
We will feed the rats the carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
Now get this!
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
We feed the rats the carcases of the cats
After they have been skinned
We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing
Rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
And get the catskins for nothing

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

What about the city council and baseball?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"let's not pay for the stadium with DC residents' tax money. Let's pay for the stadium with increased taxes on DC retail businesses. Because downtown is doing so well already, with all those for lease signs.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Huh? I am not clear what you are saying and if you are being sarcastic. First you condemmed the City Council :

"Let's act super pissy about baseball and smoking!!"

So all DC retail businesses, no matter the size, should pay for the increased stadium costs? I guess that's better than making the residents pay, but it's too bad Major League baseball can't pay more, and it is too bad the city, duh, never foresaw that costs would likely go up.

Based on what I have read in the Post and a City Paper cover story awhile back, the new stadium will have not one, but two levels worth of corporate club level suites (all near the infield), plus virtually the entire area behind home plate will be reserved for corporate season ticket holders. Ugh. Someone should be getting pissy about that as well, but alas, that is just the way things are done with stadiums these days.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I just think it would be better for the residents in the long run if DC made itself more economically competitive with the states bordering it. I seriously doubt that the smoking ban or building a stadium mostly from tax increases on district retailers is going to help out the business situation in the city. I think j.lu said it out loud, seemingly apropos of nothing after Mandalay: "DC retail just sucks."

At least our mayor didn't push push push to try and get the Olympics so he could have an excuse to demolish the U street corridor and build a new stadium for the skins, I guess.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the point Tom is making, which I would know because I know him pretty well, is that tax increases should not be used to pay for baseball frivolity, period. Especially since we HAVE STADIUMS PEOPLE CAN USE ALREADY whut whut!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ie the good old lets get our panties in a wad about sports and smoking so no one notices how inept everyone in "power" is and how little is done to actually improve stagnating "improvement districts" and dying businesses, see every other major city in the universe esp NYC right now.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ie smoke and mirrors though replace "mirrors" with "inept baseball team"

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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