Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

There's still time to buy more milk

IF THERE'S ANY LEFT OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE

Yeah every time this shit happens it's right around the freezing point and the heat island effect means DC proper will get less than half what the surrounding areas do, if it sticks at all.

yeah dc proper snow forecasting goes something like: 16" predicted => subtract 4" b/c it will never ever snow more than 12" in dc => subtract 3" due to local news & weather sites hyping storm to drive viewers => subtract 2" b/c temps will be 1-2 degrees higher than called for => subtract 2" b/c the storm moves faster than expected/arrives later than expected/turns to wintry mix or rain earlier than expected = 5" = storm of the century

that said, i like capital weather gang and they like this storm so

all these 'friends' on my facebook 'news' feed like OMG THERE MIGHT BE 'THUNDERSNOW'?!

i don't believe it

Wow, there closing the above-ground Metro stations at 1 today

they're

i feel like if they call for this much snow, we're gonna get it. it's when it's between 4-8 inches that they fuck it up.

looks awesome!

I've got tons of snow in Arlington. Does look great.

well that was fun

http://community.washingtonpost.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/11/571ae95b-fbbd-4342-ab72-2e44af61af9b.Large.jpg

Federal Govt. agencies in the DC area closed on Monday. Wooo Hooo!!!

Shoveling has not been fun. Not sure if I will make it to the Scream show tonight

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

this means a lot of people have a 1.5 day work week - Tuesday+half of Wednesday, NICE

Federal closure is making my Sunday night a pain in the ass as I try to figure out what to do with a bunch of new federal-site contract employees who are freaking out about how they are gonna bill.

DAMN U TOMBOT AND YOUR FED FRIENDS!

So who here other than I has to work tomorrow?

me

I do as well. From home though.

yo

based on my commute this a.m., Maryland wins the prize for the most retarded snow driving.

Like seriously people 270 is CLEAR and DRY so wtf u going 20 miles under the speedlimit in your HUMMER for?

my co-worker, who hasn't had the best year ever and just wanted to get home (see July posts here) sat on a stationary British Airways flight for 7 hours Friday night, then was stuck for 3 days in a hotel near Dulles. I think she finally flies to the UK today. She says spirits are surprisingly high but bodies are smelly.

Oh dear god SEVEN HOURS ON STATIONARY PLANE is like at least six hours too many for sanity.

happy birthday, quincie!

The Senate is working on X-Mas Eve morning for the first time since 1963

Yeah well my office is open (alas, I am not in it!) so least those bastards could do.

Thanks B!

Quincie, did you do a Jewish X-mas? My kid and I saw Avatar in 3d with the grandparents and cousins and then had Chinese food.

This movie is showing for free tonight courtesy of Solas Nua at 7 (doors at 6:30) at flashpoint, 916 G street nw, dc 20001
metro: metro center, gallery place/chinatown. Don't think I can make it.

the wind the shakes the barley
directed by ken loach | starring cillian murphy | 127 mins

as political tensions brew in early 1920s ireland, brothers damien and teddy (cillian murphy and padraic delaney) abandon their civilian lives and take up arms to liberate their country from the oppressive "black and tan" squads of britain. winner of the palme d'or at the 2006 cannes film festival, ken loach's provocative drama examines a microcosm of civil war in cork, ireland. liam cunningham co-stars.

Has anyone seen it?

Free popcorn too!

We did Jewish X-mas Eve! Chinese dinner that included actual Jews!

Excellent. Passover is March 30th 2010.

Oh god I'm not ready to do a seder! I still don't know all my Hebrew letters :(

New DC plastic bag tax in effect (money is to go to cleaning up the Anacostia River). New higher parking meter rates and increased parking meter times on Saturday expected to be operational everywhere in DC by mid-January (money to go to DC government as city deals with the recession and stuff).

In other news, I finally ate at 4-star Rasika's. I haven't eaten at other Washington Post 4 star restaurants and I'm not a hardcore knowledgeable foodie so I can't really say whether or not its 4 star rating is deserved. The food was tasty and it seemed unique--not your standard Indian food.

brrr

dear god in heaven it is cold

days like this remind me never, ever to move to Chicago

Yeah, at this point after this whole weekend I am basically opposed to the idea of wind.

sooo cold. i walked home yesterday from cleveland park and there was hardly anyone out. only what, four more months of bad weather?

still brrrr

Is anybody risking Restaurant week?

nah...maybe it's b/c i was young & naive but when restaurant week started it seemed like all the participants were pretty amazing. and expensive. getting an $80 peter luger steak for $20.02 ruled. getting a $11 app + $27 medium-blah entree for $34 or whatever it is these days doesn't. i'm sure there are still deals but having to search them out and call early violates the rw spirit that flickers on in my y&n heart

Restaurant week lunch rules! Dinner mostly sucks. 3 courses at lunch for $20 is great, and you can usually walk into even a fully booked restaurant at noon and get a seat at the bar no problem.

hmm, i should try that.

Anything new and exciting happening (or same ol' thing got you riled up or just the same ol' same ol' mid-winter doldrums)?

Sally Quinn's Washington Post Style section pieces on how Washingtonians (read elite well-connected politcal types) need to have more parties and need to follow her ettiquette ideas at such parties make me laugh. She analyzes Official Washington parties from Kennedy to the present today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603507.html

Making friends is crucial. I'm only being partly facetious when I suggest that there should be some sort of in-house list where members of the administration (any administration!) are designated to go out a certain amount, in exactly the same way they make the rounds on Sunday talk shows.

This includes the president! Even senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said this week that Obama "likes the rigor of having a conversation with someone who's going to push him,." sShe told The Post, "There's really no point in him wasting time with people who simply agree with him all the time because it's not going to refine his position, it's not going to enlighten his position." In other words, he'll certainly accomplish some of that once he gets around town.

Indulge me for a moment on the topic of our cultural bellwether, "Avatar." In the film, the Pandora natives worship the goddess Eywa, who is the spirit that connects them to their planet. If there is such a goddess in Washington, I believe, it is the spirit of community. Those who live here want to welcome new friends. Washingtonians are open and willing to invite newcomers and make them part of their lives. If they can't do that, there is automatically a distance that is created so that if ¿ no, make that when ¿ the administration gets into trouble, there is too little sympathy or support

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i know right?
how is anything not dull with sally quinn, she is dull. the comments on that article are delightful!

I'm kind of impressed, it takes a special kind of tone deafness to argue that what we really need is closer personal ties between politicians and the media.