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

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.

"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.

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.

I want to be able to breathe when I go to see bands in DC without worrying about my health, or my cleaning bills. The city needs to find a way to deal with your concerns (more retail) and mine, not to mention improving their methods of entering into contracts be they involving baseball or whatever. The city also has enormous problems with health insurance and hospitals for the poor, education, and so on, not to mention, as you noted the ongoing issue of tax-exempt university and federal property affecting the size of the tax base to address any of these issues.

There's no good answer. So how about that General Tso's chicken Pete mentioned upthread? Covered in gunk, bad for ya, but sometimes tasty...

So how are you gonna do this? Neither political party on Capitol Hill has ever cared about the residents of DC, and you are snearing at the Pentagon that, no matter your thoughts on what it does substantively, provides jobs and money for Virginia (based in part on taxpayers money from DC and everywhere).

Also, PG County in Maryland has complained for years about its retail situation. It's not competitive either. And guess what, they have smoking too.

Is not D.C.'s business situation looking up in parts of town? Or is gnetrification of the U Street area not the kind of business growth you want?

DC's business situation is "looking up" the same way Harlem's does in NY, ie thanks for the Target can we have some real goddamned jobs for these people please. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with smoking (other than bar and cigarette tax revenue has gone down in NYC reducing the number of dollars they can spend on Jets Stadium, I guess) and has nothing to do with baseball (besides all that money could be going, like, somewhere worthwhile). The only point being made here was that they are ignoring real issues in favor of fancy pantsing over stupid crap that should be bottom priority things for a city government to handle.

NOW TO YOU SIR I SAY GOOD DAY.

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anyway. are there any dc residents here who are members of the universal life church? i need someone to vouch for the guy who is performing my wedding.

The outside "courtyard" where we put our garbage was a rat party every night.

Never had any vermin in Brooklyn. My friend's apartment on Sullivan was crawling, and she was a compleat neat-freak, so it wasn't anything to do with her. My friend's apartment on Manhattan Avenue was invested. Most of my Columbia dorms had big scary rats residing within them.

Ally, you are simply very lucky, or blind.

Record stores? Art galleries? I've got my food planned as to me this is the best thing about visting cities (I live in a shitty small town right now). Decent non-yuppie, divey bar recommendations are appreciated as well.

Is Eden Center in Falls Church worth a metro ride and a mile walk for a big Vietnamese food geek?

Though El Pollo Rico almost makes it all worth it.

Eden Center is pretty swell, but I'm not sure it's worth a metro ride and a long walk. But others may differ.

In Fun Workplace News, all but about two government employees showed up today, while all but about two or three of us green badgers are in the office- from Odenton, Stafford, and all points in between. I guess that's why we get paid so much more money, because we don't piss ourselves uncontrollably in the face of slush-on-asphault.

In the previous DC area thread, there was some talk of carpooling to Eden Center for bubble tea. Is anyone still interested in doing this?

Works for me. I remember a few years ago the Post food section did a profile of the various restaurants and shops in the center -- anyone have any leads on which restaurant would be the best?

also peking duck, cherished by presidents, etc