our football team is awesome
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I get to learn the football rules!Is that a real TV show embedded in that vid somewhere?
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
nah.. DC go go band Mambo Sauce had this song out for a while and finally made a video for it, so.. that's what they did. chuck brown shows up at the end to tell the police to let them go, I guess is the gist of it
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Even your cheerleaders go on tour!
― ljubljana, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain? TOO MANY I DEMAND RECOUNT.
― quincie, Friday, 7 November 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT can you embed the mambo sauce vid at the top of the thread? tks.
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still trying to get my head around 15K ppl in DC voting for McCain?
http://latenightshots.com/
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
who all had logins to there? I miss the roffles ;_;
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
WAU
http://dcist.com/2008/02/06/reality_show_ba.php
― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit
OH SHIT
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I can give LNS invites if anyone wants
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^_^
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
can read such threads as:
- Stolen undergarments on Saturday- Manipulating men into LTRs and marriage- FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?- Is it possible to be super smoke and humble at the same time?- whats the website to order generic Viagra- How did you make up for election night depression?- any hill staffers wanna release some tension?
― I DIED, Friday, 7 November 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
FATTIE, but great in bed. Keeper?
omg
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 7 November 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it possible to be super smoke and humble at the same time?
username on this question was "bho choom gang" right?
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Saturday, 8 November 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
See I always assumed the LNS crew lived in Bethesda/NOVA and thus would not be fucking with DCs polls.
― quincie, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
no much of LNS lives in DC west of rock creek park! Like YOU!
― I DIED, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah actually I think some of them live directly below me. PICK UP YOUR CIGGY BUTTS DOUCHES.
― quincie, Saturday, 8 November 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
who wants to pal around w/ terrorists next week?
Busboys & PoetsMon, November 17 6.30pm Author Event, William Ayers
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
hey whatever happened to stephen x
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
HE DIED
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
well, maybe. I don't know.
― I DIED, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/no_restaurant_for_you.php
sala thai is fine for delivery and take-out? I don't understand the point about mediocrity somehow profiting from the restriction - if a restaurant truly sucks, it goes out of business, no? As pointed out in the comments, Adams Morgan is packed to the gills with bars and restaurants and I wouldn't say it's any kinda amazing dining district. Brains, tell me how it is.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Sala Thai is eh. I used to eat there plenty before Rice and Regent Thai opened. Now I pretty much just do Rice since the last time I went into Regent Thai it smelled distinctly like rat poison.
This overlay needs to get changed but it's not really a problem as it stands - I know plenty of people looking at opening up in that corridor and they don't expect any problems getting a zoning exception.
I think new building in DC should require all retail on the ground floor without restrictions - this would drive retail rents way down and would negatively impact efficiency of new development somewhat, but it effectively translates to having developers subsidize cheap retail. Because of the building height limits DC retail spaces are overpriced and we lack a proportionate population to support retail, so lower rents could do a lot of good.
Mediocrity does profit from restriction sometimes - like with cabaret laws in NY.
I think the biggest factor in keeping bad restaurants open is lack of reliance on repeat business. Woodley Park is a great example of this - it's got the same demographics and a similar streetscape at Cleveland Park just up the street, but it's got a bunch of shitty places and Cleveland Park has, generally, very good ones. The large hotels in Woodley Park mean there are a bunch of tourists and conventioneers coming through who are going to eat at that random indian place or wherever because it's right between the Metro and their hotel - I don't think it's the locals keeping that row in business.
I don't think Yg's argument is valid here given the current state of development along 14th/U St. There are a lot of older struggling places in that stretch that would actually be less expensive for a restaurateur to buy out and remodel than a new space would be. If Sala Thai is able to stay open despite not doing very much business that just means they'll eventually be bought out by another operator that thinks they can maximize their volume in that space.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
our football team is awesome― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Friday, November 7, 2008 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
RIP
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Inauguration Organizers Plan for 4 Million on Mall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111703672.html?hpid=topnews
woah
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
shit is going to be lunacy
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
and fucking cold as hell
apparently i don't care about going to the inauguration, but i still want one of these
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/11/20/obamas-mug-on-dc-subway-cards-for-inauguration/
― gabbneb, Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
#Have they done this for previous presidents-elect? If not, this is a blatantly partisan move by an organization funded with taxpayer money.Comment by Ryan Lile — November 20, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Have they done this for previous presidents-elect? If not, this is a blatantly partisan move by an organization funded with taxpayer money.
Comment by Ryan Lile — November 20, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
my favorite part about this is that if you click dude's name it takes you to a site to buy $100 designer dog bowls
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 November 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I enjoy the fact that this thread is easily found in the search engine by querying for "pitt shit"
I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION FOR BRAINS.
when would you be available to check out PROPERTY with your bro mewhenever is fine 'cause we just started looking and I haven't bothered about a lender yet
but tis the season for getting sweet deals on exposed brick & etc
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 22 November 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Tombot taking the property-ownership plunge OH YEAH.
― quincie, Sunday, 23 November 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got back from a very brief visit to your fine fine city and I am still getting over the fact that I'm going to be living near the fabulous Kramers book store rather than here. Though Kramer's website is a bit self-congratulatory, or at least the video is. ETA now some time in February, so will miss the Mall madness...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Kramerbooks is a fairly small bookstore with an OK selection and decent beers and shitty food. And it's open 24 hours on the weekend. That's all.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 24 November 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT I am on crazy schedule for the next 2 weeks but should be OK to look at some places after.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Monday, 24 November 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I live in Swindon now, so an ok selection and half decent food will do me fine for now :-) I'm afraid I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to cities at the moment...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Recommendations for better bookshops very welcome, thanks in advance...
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Second Story Books in Dupont is pretty okay for used stuff. Other than that. . . Olsson's used to be the other big indie bookstore around here, but they shut their doors. So you're stuck pretty much with Borders and B&N's.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks Mr Que. My colleague whom I'm replacing there also recommended Second Story Books, but she worked in Swindon for even longer than me, so I should not rely on her warped judgement...
I'll drop the excited puppy thing now. I'm showing up provincial England. I'm capable of getting over-excited by Whole Foods as well.
― ljubljana, Monday, 24 November 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh hey, I will be in DC tomorrow
I should have said something sooner, yeah?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
just tomorrow?
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be around! TOMBOT has my #.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i gotta spend the day w/family in the MD suburbs. not really looking forward to it, though prob won't be all that bad. theoretically i would be home about 8, but who knows.
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll probably get called in to work on some bullshit premise as soon as I get dressed and walk out of my house
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
goddamn circus.
tom I told you not to take that job with the circus.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
US-CIRCUS
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 November 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Good news: AFI Silver reopening 5/28.WTF: Cruella and A Quiet Place Part II on the bigger screens?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
So I guess Jim from the office dies in part 1?
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
I hope it's just a case of trying to temporarily fill seats after a tough year and not an indication of what their programming is going to be now.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
They do have AFI DOCS coming in June, and when I see the programmers I will ask them about rescheduling The Lincoln Cycle and the early Fox films. But the Regal barely a block away will also have these titles--even allowing for buzz and pent-up demand, are audiences likely to go to AFI to see these?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
They also announced a stricter no food/beverage policy than Regal, so I don’t know.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
I miss AFI so much
― Heez, Thursday, 27 May 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
http://www.filmfestdc.org/
Filmfest DC is virtual june 4 to 13
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 04:39 (two years ago) link
heard a rumor that the kids are calling adams morgan AdMo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 July 2023 02:21 (nine months ago) link
Sadly they might be, and dc government has already been using it on hanging cloth banners and signs for awhile.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 December 2023 19:11 (four months ago) link
And they’ve introduced “The Yard”, presumably in celebration of Jame Gray, as well as SoNYa because NoMa was too broad
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 00:34 (two months ago) link
Gonna celebrate my 20 year anniversary of living here in august. i fall deeper and deeper in love with this place every year, although i think i'm to the point where the western quadrants are the least interesting. i officially live in PG so NW is kind of a haul, but my old hood in the columbia heights/u street area is pretty awful now. i really like the open air skating rink in anacostia and all the trails. great place to raise kids
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:20 (three weeks ago) link
Lived there for about 20 years, gone for 3. Glad to have been there, glad to have left.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:07 (two weeks ago) link