Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

hello EL TB, my schedule is actually somewhat reasonable now and we should get drinks!

and no, curmudgeon, nobody respects the Rammys.

It rhymes with Wammies and Grammys

yeah let's just say it's a lot like the Wammies.

what's everyone think of tyler cowen (profiled, not for the first time, in the post today)? i'm impressed by the scale of his ethnic food guide but unsure of its credibility. his takes on a few places i've eaten at seem accurate enough, though.

It's a lot more useful as a blog where you get an accurate picture of the most recent info rather than as a dining guide. His takes are pretty good, but based on the sheer number of restaurants a lot of places he's reviewed have closed, changed ownership, or gone downhill in the intervening time and it may not be reflected in his guide for years.

Also, most of his takes seem to be based on a single visit, which is dangerous - he may miss out on a place's best dishes, it may be an off night, etc.

Hi TB I live here bow btw and also want to has drinks! Also if you have an apartment up your sleeve I will take that, too.

seems like he returns again and again to his favorites, which is not surprising but yeah, could mean he is missing out on stuff. many of the ones i spot-checked were from 2008-2006.

seen three white tops flying over in the last 30 minutes--over the years i've seen probably hundreds but it still makes me wonder who's flying where and why

now it's six so i figure training exercises

Wow.

The photo of Cowen in that article is at Eyo, an excellent Ethiopian place in Bailey's X-Rds/Falls Church near Arlington and Alexandria (but not metro train friendly). I ate there recently. But you folks are right--some of the information is out-of-date.

Area btw u st and col heights: shady or no? Coworker says it can be... Is that just because he's from indiana?

It can be, but it depends block-by-block, and what street you'd be on. Less shady than Columbia Heights itself, though.

Just gonna live in the damn metro. Those seats aren't so uncomfortable...

block-by-block is right, but i don't know that i'd agree that the streets going up the hill are less shady than CH proper on average.

i've lived in CH for more than two years, with a number of roommates both male and female, and i know a number of other people who live in the area, but i don't know anyone who's been a victim of non-vehicular crime here. a couple friends have gotten mugged around U street, however. personal anecdote, sure, but i think outside of targeted violence CH is about as safe as other central DC neighborhoods.

CH is best if you stick around the corridor btwn 11th and 13th st imo.

on a north/south tip, where does ch begin?

meant to go to dj set at u st tonight but i just remembered and am home in alexandria :\

i think it's like florida (south) to spring (north)

I would maybe put CH starting at Clifton or even Euclid to the south, with the area to the East of Meridian Hill Park kind of being neighborhoodless? It's never seemed like CH to me, but it doesn't really belong to U St. Sort of "U St Heights", I guess.

btw tehresa you missed out on U Hall tonight for sure! The DJs were great, as was the crowd. daria g was there!

I really wanted to go but after last minute stress over an event today it completely slipped my mind when I left work! However, anyone who's up for a drink around 8 tonight, hollaaaaa. I'm gonna need it.

Sorry, I saw that post about a drink too late :-(

hey dc, i was walking home on U street this evening and i found a random drawing on the sidewalk. really:
http://i49.tinypic.com/vzuw4.jpg

HUNTER AGE 3! we missed you!!!

waaaaaauuuuu

i don't even know. it was just there. so weird.

daria did you keep the drawing?

parmazing.

of course i kept it
there's another drawing on the other side

http://i50.tinypic.com/xdy2h2.jpg

Speaking of art, saw the Alan Ginsburg photo exhibit at the National Gallery West wing today. Kinda what I expected--a few photos were interesting in the way they were shot; most of them only of interest if you're into the beat era writers.

Ginsberg

What's happening Deecee folks?

being hungover, going to the Hirshhorn to see the Yves Klein exhibit.

Yep, I wanna see that exhibit. There's special events in association with it Thursday night. I guess you had fun at UHall last night.

Yes, thanks for the write up!

Ended up not going the Hirshhorn, had a fantastic lunch at Sou'wester and walked around the monuments.

Wtf I am going to look at an apt in alexandria bc I am desperate. Intervention time?

I'm away tomorrow pm till late Sun - if you wanted to use this place over the weekend and scour DC for options, email or call tonight.

I actually put in an app bc it was a great place. My whole life could shift to boring suburbanite... At least I'd have a pool?

omg

for all i know i'll end up making a shift to suburbanite sometime this year. just been too exhausted from getting used to the job thing to really spend time thinking in any coherent way about whether/where to move..

Save your money to buy cars I guess, and ugh, pay for car repairs--my Honda puttered out today and I just made it to a gas station and it will be there through tomorrow. Was at least close enough to home to walk from there.

ugh all this bailing to suburbia does not give me hope for finding my own place.

so bummed I stayed in one night this week and it was the night Ronaldinho was at Marvin, if I could have gotten a picture of him holding a bottle opener it would have been an all-time ILX coup.

http://naplesgc.blogspot.com/

Thanks. Some of the older HFS tapes that site offers are likely the most promising. But I wonder where my old WGTB tapes are...

Suggest time-killing activities from approx 7-10pm tonight?

What's new?

That was not in response to Tehresa who I am assuming figured out some fun ways to kill time that night.

After 1 year in DC I went up the Washington monument, unexpectedly. Someone had a spare ticket. Nice thing to do on a Friday evening.

hh spots nearish dupont?
someplace to kill like... 1 hour between 6:30-7:30.