Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

By Ann E. Marimow
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

During Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's tenure, the District Department of Transportation apparently has gone after only one resident for violating the city's height limit on fences: D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray.

"We didn't find any others," said the department's Freedom of Information Act officer, Diana G. Jordan, in response to a request from The Washington Post to review citations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080204672.html

Shake Shack Coming to Washington, DC in 2011

i believe this is where the fabled 'whatsa bagel' used to be?

Don't remember. Most of the comments about that NY chain don't look that enthusiastic.

nah, it's pretty good. just not worth standing in line for an hour.

The line for Shake Shack should be self-regulating considering the two other new burger places on the same block.

I'm kinda thinking I want to avoid all trendy burger places and cupcake places (but I probably won't).

I am (rather self-aggrandizingly) proud not to have had any cupcakes during their current hype. And I went to Good Stuff a few weeks ago; it wasn't bad but I'd rather go to Five Guys.

I have yet to go to the cupcake places but was thinking of going to the Georgetown one that gets all the hype because its on tv. It's a major stop for DC tourists--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081303858.html

my sister used to work around the corner from it and said that the queue was outrageous.

Hook for rest week lunch today. Good but I'm glad it was a $20 3-course and not actual prices. Wine was a nice deal though!

Going to Blue Duck Tavern Friday for restaurant week.

so Alexandria is nice but, yeah, yuppieville. I passed an interesting looking coffee shop yesterday but I can't recall the name. I haven't braved the bus or the metro yet, but a route planner says it will take 3 buses to get to the nearest cinema, which I think is only about 2 miles away. absurd.

Was Misha's the coffee shop? Great place, been around for quite a while now.

Restaurant week is pretty crappy generally, some restaurants do a better job than others and lunch is usually a better deal and experience than dinner.

aye, that was it. just off king street. good to know it's quality. 'perk up' and starbucks don't really look up to snuff.

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i saw some restaurants touting restaurant week. is it some city-wide festival where the food is cheaper?

Misha's was my guess too. I am appreciating the nature near me (hello wildlife preserve!) but where I live is not convenient for public transport, hence I am getting a car soon (for real this time).

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Restaurant Week is a semi-annual promotion during traditionally slow times of the year where restaurants serve smaller portions of lower quality cooking at a higher volume to people with unreasonably high expectations who don't tip well.

The lunch I had at hook was huge portions... Too much!

well i'm sold. xpost.

sis wants to take me to o'connell's tonight. i'm not convinced.

went for a run down the mt vernon trail this morning and saw a bald eagle perched on a log in the potomac. /this fuckin' city

Alexandria restaurant week from the 20th to 29th

http://visitalexandriava.com/restaurants-nightlife/restaurants/alexandria-restaurant-week/?src=ppc_bing_restaurantweek_alexandria_august

D.C. one ends the 22nd

http://washington.org/restaurantwk/

http://www.borderstan.com/08/dc-restaurant-week-love-it-or-hate-it/

anyone got any recommendations for Alexandria restaurants to try out?

and wtf is Medieval Madness and more importantly how have i noticed it?

restaurants in the restaurant week list, i mean

Bombay Curry Company is a nice small Indian restaurant in the Del Ray section of Alexandria.

The lunch I had at hook was huge portions... Too much!

― tehresa, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:06 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

how is hook these days?? i had some really tight meals there!

It was good but nothing blew me away as being 'omg I've never had anything like this! It's so good!'

Gukbe I love running on mt vernon trail :) eagle's nest is on the west side of the parkway just south of the 95(495?) overpass thing. I think I am going to start detouring into the dyke marsh trail bc it is awesome and not pavement.

weird that when you said "eagle's nest" i went straight to 'they have a bunker nearby?'.

I live right next to that overpass. where is the dyke marsh trail?

nevermind, found it. i didn't know there was a place to run down there.

I mean, it's not a "running trail," per se. Just a trail through the wildlife preserve but I like trails better than pavement :

I also like to pretend I don't live here so not being right next to the cars is nice!

Oh great, Glen Beck is showing up at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of MLK's speech, and some tea partiers have prepared a guide to what areas of the DMV are safe. A portion of NW and a few suburbs (but only North Arlington, not south Arlington)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/08/23/a-glenn-beck-fans-guide-to-washington-d-c/

Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line.

this visitor's guide would put quite a few sights off-limits. Among them:

The National Archives, where—thanks, no doubt, to a socialist plot—the beloved Constitution now resides, best reachable by public transit via the Green or Yellow line;

It's Pho Dog night at Uhall. Google first showed me that "pho dogs" were sculptures of dogs with various international flags on them, but Going Out Guru Fritz spells out the real deal:

But what we were excited about is free pho dogs from the kitchen all night long. We love the pho dogs -- beef or tofu hot dogs that are placed in a spicy pho broth and topped with cilantro, basil, banh mi-style slaw and both hoisin and sriracha. So why are they free? In a few months, U Hall's chef is opening Toki Underground, a late-night noodle spot above the Pug on H Street NE. Consider this a preview of what's to come

What's happening? How about that weather....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Is there a standard time that gigs finish in DC? I've got to get a shuttle and then the metro and am wondering if I'll have to duck out of the gig early.

33-year-old friend just finished the Nation's Triathlon in under 3 hours. Weather conditions perfect for runners, soggy for spectators.

a cop killed a friend's dog over the weekend.

police fatally shoot dog at adams morgan festival

a photo of the officer apparently having subdued parrot before throwing it over the stairwell and shooting it.
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q80/The_Moth/DSC_3074.jpg

the owner's such a nice guy, feel terrible for him.

But no police around Friday night near the Red Derby on 14th Street in Colombia Heights where homeless dude was threatening to break car windows if he was not given money. He told my pals we were "saved by the bell" because my friend parked his car before homeless guy could approach us, and we decided to leave (Derby was too packed and noisy) quickly, when he did approach us.

Earlier in the night went to a movie & wine/cheese thing with music at the Institute of Mexico Studies on 16th street in Colombia Heights. What an awesome old mansion. I wanna live there.

level of press and public attention to "cop shoots dog" is always greater than "cop shoots minority"

How about these cliches from "America's greatest novelist"

“The pedestrians in every neighborhood all seemed to have taken the same dowdiness pills,” Jonathan Franzen writes of D.C. in his new novel, Freedom. “As if individual style were a volatile substance that evaporated in the vacuity of D.C.’s sidewalks and infernally wide squares.”

Every neighborhood?

'infernally wide'

fuck u franzen

He's gonna do some DC appearances. May have to attend and ask about this

i was working at olsson's (rip) in dupont when the corrections came out. he dropped in to sign some copies and seemed like a pretty nice guy, so we were kind of giving him shit about the oprah selection -- and then like a week later he made the ridiculous decision to 'reject' it. maybe it was our fault.

I saw him do an appearance thing at the Smithsonian several years back. Seemed kinda OK but, but he still irks me. But not as much as Tad Friend irks me. THAT fucking guy!

So is it just me or does nobody care about the Nationals in this town? I went to a game and there were less than 12,000 people there. Afterwards my friends asked a lady if there were any bars around and she went on a rant about how that whole area was awful and worthless, and that the supposed waterfront regeneration lacked urban planning and was a gigantic waste of money. She was really passionate about it.

^ all true

Plus the Nationals are not good, the stadium was poorly designed and is bland looking, its much more expensive ticket-wise than Baltimore, the best seats have been bought up at over-inflated prices by lobbyists who often don't use them (and the seats sit empty). Another little thing--in Baltimore you can bring in food; and also sealed beverages in plastic containers. At Nationals Park you can't bring in food, and you can only bring in a sealed bottle of water (my kid had to chug or dump his bottle of gatorade bought near the stadium).

When Strasburg was pitching once, many folks left after he came out of the game. Much of the big crowd was there just for the novelty of seeing him pitch. Also, the Nationals ownership is cheap and hit up the city for all kinds of expenses, but they rarely do anything for the city community relations-wise.