Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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.

Woah, you're right about Baltimore. The tickets are significantly cheaper. I got the $10 left side tickets and the seats weren't bad, but it was also the first MLB game I've been to since the Braves played at Fulton-County so I probably would have been impressed with anything.

It's a shame because there's something depressing about watching them on TV and seeing the stadium only a quarter full.

the stadium was poorly designed and is bland looking

I disagree - I think the stadium is well designed and bland looking.

And actually the DC waterfront urban planning hasn't been too bad with the exception of the stadium - it's the rest of the development that's going to make it a successful urban area, not the stadium itself.

Nats Park is fun! I went like 10 times last year but only like 6 this year, and the only time I've ever paid more than $10 is when I went to see Strasburg's first game (I paid $18 there, it was worth it). I generally end up getting the $5 walkup seats and spend more money on a half-smoke from the Ben's stand than I did for the ticket.

I don't really care about the Nationals, but it's cheap enough that if you just like baseball generally, you can go burn a night (or a Sunday afternoon) watching it without feeling like you're wasting money. I lived near AT&T Park in San Francisco for a year, which is obviously way way nicer, but also was a park I never got into for less than like $35.

yeah, i'll never forgive the construction of the stadium re: demolition/whitewashing of surrounding area and killing dc nightlife.

I posted this re the Sunday W. Post Arts section over on the ILM Capital Swamp thread re another DC waterfront area (my focus is on the sidebar articles about the SW waterfront area and not Arena Stage itself):

So the whole Wash. Post arts section today is about the new Arena Stage in SW. There is also a side-piece re planned SW development. I know it is a big deal architecturally. Noticeably absent to me: any mention of Zanzibar OTW, or Hogates/H2O in any of the sidebars. As much as I dislike how those places were and are managed, the arts they have presented (i.e., Latin, Caribbean, African, RnB, Go-go) are as worthy as uh, Arena's upcoming revival of "Oklahoma."

― curmudgeon, Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:45 PM (2 days ago

http://dcist.com/2010/09/rendering_of_potential_hotel_at_800.php

Is this huge hotel really going to be built at 9th & U?