Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

gov it would be lol if you updated jaymc's thread & mods changed the title to something reflective of having jep with all this ilxors

so Bethesda's some posh-o middle class paradise it seems. still seemed nice enough, and it has the only cinema playing Certified Copy.

bethesda is david brooks' go-to neighborhood for "coastal liberals are like this" iirc

Well, every evening show of Win Win was sold out so...

i used to live at 1623 r, good to see mark and crew've really been expanding cobalt's events to things outside of twink pop sameoldness

Anybody else just get a big wave of smoke blowing past your windows?

Nope, but I'm not in downtown Dc if that is where you are.

saw an alert dc message about a fire near 14th and i.

Yeah, I guess the fire was under control a while ago, but when it started smoke was just rolling down the street.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_litu8qeHbt1qas8z9o1_500.jpg

Yup. Like that!

I'm missing DC a little, even though the weather here in Tel Aviv seems to be a hell of a lot better.

Oh and when I lived in Bethesda I would occasionally see Brooks in the Starbucks on Wisconsin at the corner of Bethesda Ave, so I can vouch that this is where he observes his Bobos.

How long are you in Tel Aviv? Did you also go to Jerusalem?

accidentally put this on nn thread:

momo sushi in old town had the BEST fish going on last night. i've been there before but for some reason this time was WAY better. maybe the best hamachi i've ever had.

So bummed Gillian Clark shut down the General Store. Gonna have to go on a fried chicken strike until she opens her new place in Petworth.

"shut down". She didn't pay rent for 12 months and then at the last moment asked the landlord who was now behind in paying back taxes(and who seemed to rely on her rent payments to cover those monthly taxes) for forgiveness which he chose not to offer without any cash from her. There's also apparently video of her insulting some customers. I haven't had her chicken but you and everyone seems to say its good.

http://dcist.com/2011/03/gillians_clark_restaurant_closing_g.php#

Clark says she has financial backers for her planned DC place.

So are any of the various Cajun, Creole or New Orleans places now open any good?-- Bayou, Bayou Bakery, Cajun Experience...etc.

went to the cajun experience one i think? off 18th? was pretty underwhelmed.

yeah, my office is upstairs from bayou bakery - it's ok, nothing to go to courthouse over

That's what I was afraid of.

Greetings from the land of milk and honey and so much fucking Israeli salad that I think I may not be able to eat tomato and/or cucumber for awhile.

I've been in all sorts of Israel over the past 11 days (including Jerusalem), though I opted out of Eilat (someone described it to me as "the Atlantic City of Israel--no thanks). Head back to DC shortly. Please arrange for nice spring weather-I hear it has been cold and rainy.

Should we FAP or something, for god's sake?

you missed a sunny, 80 degree day yesterday! though yes, the rain is back.

i'm gonna have a jeopardy viewing party (see upthread) at the blue banana in petworth april 12 from 6-9pm, in case anybody would like to FAP @ that

i will be at that iirc

sounds awesome. i love jeopardy!

I know you're not supposed to tell us, but you're really rich now Gov after multiple nights on Jeopardy, right???

i can't say, but by the blue banana let's just assume i mean "the blue banana on georgia ave, the entire 3600 block of which i now own"

lol

OK who else is likely to be on unplanned vacation due to government shutdown next week?

Note: I just got back from 2 weeks off.

TOMBOT will certainly be off--daria-g? You too?

Oh no wait maybe tombot won't be off because he has to keep the internets safe from terrorists like john williams, etc.

zs will be

I'm still waiting to hear if I'm "essential" or not

bf is essential. was told he'll get paid next week, but no one knows when he'll get paid after that :(
i will not be off. our company follows gov't for early closings, etc. - i think we should also follow it for not coming to work!

how is it that ZS lives in DC and I have never met him?

right?

I'm a gonna FIND HIM

i have also asked this

his gifs contain subliminal clues as to his whereabouts

he emailed me once about going to olive garden (lol) but it never happened. such a tease.

ZS is about the only thing that could get me to an Olive Garden

mookie when are you coming back to dc

we have jobs here with the federal govenOH WAIT

mookie plz come!

i'd like to . . . but who will feed my kitty?

you bring him, duh

yeah i'm off if there is LOLSHUTDOWN next week. i think the plan is we take leave time so we will still get paid, until you run out of leave. so i'd be ok for a week if it comes to that. if i knew it would be a full week i'd use the leave to skip town, maybe go to new york or something!

there isn't even an olive garden anywhere near, is there? i hope to not find out tbh

There's got to be an Olive Garden somewhere out in the Virginia suburbs. Like, it would destroy my whole idea of suburban places if there were not an Olive Garden.

(Google Maps says Falls Church & Vienna & Fairfax & Woodbridge &c &c &c)

I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna be pretty jealous if everybody gets a pleasant week in spring off because the government is stupid, because I will not be off. I will be hanging out at Virginia Hospital Center, though, which is pretty clearly the nicest of the Hospital Centers.

i actually took a bunch of artists to one in like bailey's crossroadsish area last year.

it was a joke about his display name tbh. i don't want to go there.

no i didn't think you did, i figured it was some inside joke that i missed b/c of not reading many threads!