Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Are long stretches of H St. NE pavement all messed up, blocked off, etc. because of plans to put trolley tracks in, or is this just some other work that needs to be done? Was at the RnR Hotel last night at Gang Gang Dance.

So I do not care about the cherry blossoms, ok.

I like the cherry blossoms! I just dislike the tourists much more. I really enjoy just seeing random cherry trees in bloom around the city. Everyone knows the Arboretum is the good local place to go see a bunch w/o the masses of people, right?

Alright, you make good points

there aren't enough in my neighborhood (columbia heights) but i like seeing them around adams morgan and dupont and elsewhere.

oh man the tourists. it's like someone flipped a switch and made my commute home 70% stupider

Anybody go to Cherry Blast last year? How wuz?

This is from W. Post Going Out Gurus:

This year, Cherry Blast II - the creation of artist Philippa P.B. Hughes - moves to a storage warehouse in Adams Morgan, but the aesthetic remains the same. Artists will have their works displayed or projected on walls in several rooms. Music comes from the funky Fatback DJ crew, Maureen Andary of local folkies the Sweater Set, DJ Alex Gold of the Fridge and the duo of DJ Chris Nitti and multi-instrumentalist Matt Hemerlein. Throw in a sake bar, a "marshmallow arts play room" and other surprises, and it's sure to be a night to remember

I am negotiating tourist DC with two children aged 4.5 and 16 months.

We have already had an incident in the National Gallery of Art. I'm very, very up for a FAP after April 9, no under-6s.

hey, i will be there! please let's do it so i don't feel so sad about moving!

We'll counteract your moving sadness by being very glad we've poached you. When do you arrive?

morning of the 8th

Are you staying with your sis for now?

Would April 9 (Fri) or 12 (Mon) work for people?

yeah i'll be in alexandria for a while, til i figure out where i will live.

I'm likely not available for a FAP (40-something me is gonna be busy watching my son's baseball games) Friday and Monday. Enjoy wherever you go. There's a fun Brazilian band at the Millennium Stage tonight btw.

friday 9th i could come if it's a happy hour thing.

GOOD MORNING QUINCIE

Dukies

Ugh, not that I didn't expect it.

Ok Will and Tehresa, let's do this Friday 9th if that works for T? I'm thinking maybe l'enfant on 18th which has a patio? HH starts at 6. Www.lenfantcafe.com

Anyone tried the sauca van? I was v disappointed with the south-of-border wrap but the 'limonaud' with rosewater is fab

i spoke too soon--friday's no longer good. sorry!

[my brother]: sorry i missed your call my phone is whacked
[me]: DUKE SUCKS
[brother]: i'm not even watching it i hate them so much
[me]: it's their fault i know
[me]: network is wonky sometimes for no reason
[brother]: totally is
[me]: doesn't suck as much as DUKE though
[brother]: hahahaha agreed

haha sorry about yr network

duke sucks

fyi

^^^still pissed about quin snyder

once upon a time there was a dookie dcilxor, then he left and things improved.

the end.

snaaaaaap

[cries]

Tehresa, happy moving! Drop me a line on webmail or on here Friday if you fancy a drink even if it's not a FAP.

Ok maybe as an Arlington resident I shouldn't put my 2 cents in, but it seems like D.C.'s Department of Youth Rehab Services should be getting grilled alot more for the below(taken from a Colbert King column who admittedly has been fixated for a long time in his Saturday column on ripping apart the DYRBS)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040202347.html

There's something about this week's drive-by shooting that left four victims dead and five others wounded on South Capitol Street that D.C. authorities don't want you to know: One of the homicide victims, and two of those arrested in connection with that violence and an earlier shooting, were under the commitment of the city's Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.

yeah and this article just lays out what's going to (not) happen to the minor who drove the car: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704954.html?sid=ST2010040705015

The teen, who has been in and out of juvenile court since he was 9, had twice fled from minimum-security facilities.

Under D.C. law, a juvenile younger than 15 cannot be treated as an adult in the courts, regardless of how serious the offense.

If the teen is found culpable for murder, a family court judge cannot order confinement. A youth can be placed on probation or committed to the custody of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.

The department decides whether the offender should be held at a detention facility and for how long -- a source of frustration for many judges. The teen can be locked up until he turns 21. At that point, the family court and the DYRS would lose jurisdiction, and he would go free.

i've been hearing about the lack of teeth in the juvenile system since i moved here. politicians, judges, prosecutors, police, neighborhood bloggers/commenters, columnists/journalists--all are well aware of it, but i haven't ever seen anyone in a position of power do anything about it. well jim graham said in an e-mail he proposed some legislation but i haven't heard anything else. where is the holdup? who is arguing that the system *should* work this way? is changing it just a nonstarter? are there lots of people out there who prefer it this way? i'm really curious.

I do not understand it either.

hi ljub, apparently sis has something planned here for tonight, but i would love to get together another day this weekend or maybe monday (woah happy hr after first day of work?).

I'm off on a hike Sun during the day (a meetup.com one that's 'full'), but otherwise I'm around this w/e and Monday eve, so pick a day! HH after first day of work sounds like a grand plan to me... Will webmail you my mobile no.

Ha, how about Rhee now saying "Oops there really was not a deficit that required me to fire all those teachers in mid-semester. But I'm not gonna hire any of them back even if we have the money. Plus I was going with what I was told at the time."

D.C. politics...The only thing more predictable is the story with video of the PG Cops beating up a University of Maryland student celebrating the win over Duke earlier this year. There have been decades now of stories about over-active PG cops.

I wonder what Va. governor McDonnell thinks of today being Emancipation Day in DC (with DC public schools and offices closed).

Wow people really like to check out on fridays.

Wow people really like to check out on fridays.

Dude what are you doing tomorrow around 3?

playing hockey. are you in town?

playing hockey. are you in town?

vvv briefly.leaving @ 6.

;_;

Go Caps

Is that the hockey? Sis and husb are going to playoff game tonight.

Yes. Wow, those tickets are impossible to get and trey expensive

I think it was his bday present

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3025/roynit.jpg