On Friday I go to Atlanta.
Probably cooler there, too.
― quincie, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
It was indeed cooler in my sc hometown (a few hours north of atl) yesterday than it was here!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
hey it's 96 degrees again! AWESOME
skipped the Shake Shack yesterday because I'm trying not to have too much sugar but today .. must go
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
98. hottest June 1 in over 100 years
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
sweet lord
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
arrived at shake shack just before hail storm broke out. seriously. so weird
― daria, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
dear dcites, might you fancy a pint after work on friday?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
yesss please
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes but I will be in Atlanta :(
― quincie, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'd totally be down on friday!
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Hey since I'm just back to posting this week after being on vacation last week, just want to say thanks to HOOS, Tombot, sarahel, tehresa and Z_S for the beers and talk in Ballston while I was there! Great meeting all of you, and I had a really fun pre-Jeopardy time.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Only '80s temperature wise today on Thursday!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 June 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
how did the audition go??xpost
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I think it went well, but there were some pretty interesting and charismatic ppl in my group of auditioners. One dude had flown over from Yorkshire, UK to audition and another was a Marine Corps pathologist and war veteran. COntestant coordinator twice said she liked what I was wearing, though, so I guess a thanks to Perry Ellis is due if I make it on the show.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
^_^
― tehresa, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
btw my cal is free tomorrow!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
well depending on what time i wake up/how insane the traffic is, i hope to be around by maybe 6pm?
my only serious demand of any location is that it be air conditioned (though cheap is good too)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
I could do with a few pints right now.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Cold out there.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah i opened my front door and just went "yeaaaaaaaaaaaah"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's AWESOME
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Dancers versus the Park Police Round II at the Jefferson Memorial Saturday at noon.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/performance-and-dance/2011/06/03/dance-revolution-etc-part-ii/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I am down for this fap today. Do these things get coordinated via email?
― Eris and Paris Making Dolmas (los blue jeans), Friday, 3 June 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
mookie emailed me last night and said he probably can't make it due to car issues :(
― tehresa, Friday, 3 June 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I can't make it, but I thought others were interested. Los Blue Jeans, maybe you should just suggest a spot and ask here if others are up for it?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i'd be interested for sure. tons of beer places have mad cool guest drafts due to SAVOR going on
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 3 June 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Washington Post on 2 Capitol Hill area happy hours:
Overheard at the conservative happy hour First Friday at Union Pub: “I’ll be over at the Faith and Freedom conference tomorrow. . . . They beat Notre Dame this year. . . . When Snowmageddon happened two years ago, I had a reservation at Minibar. . . . The Weiner jokes are overwhelming me right now.”
Overheard at the progressive happy hour First Thursday at Lounge 201 the night before: “I’m also a PhD student. . . . I’m a lawyer by day but . . . We lost the message war! . . . Libertarianism doesn’t make sense. How can you abolish everything? . . . How drunk do I have to be to say, ‘Hey, Ron Paul intern’?”
First Friday formed in 2006 when a posse of Heritage Foundation co-workers ambled across Massachusetts Avenue NE to Union Pub. They desired a social setting with no strings attached (no guest speaker, no book reading, no dress code or registration or cover charge), so they formed their own.
“At other events you’d be having a good time, mingling, having a beer, and then all of a sudden it’d get quiet and Dick Armey would stand up and pontificate on the future of America — that sucks,” says one of the First Friday charter members, Brian Phillips, 33, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “But if Dick Armey wants to come hang out, that’s great.”
First Friday lassoed big GOP names (Boehner, Steele, Newt) for guest appearances — nothing formal, just: “Oh hey, there’s Grover Norquist” — and word of mouth buoyed attendance until it became a consistent safe house for conservatives adrift in a blindingly liberal city.
First Thursday began two weeks ago in reaction to First Friday’s popularity and to reinvigorate the idling movement that elected Barack Obama in 2008. The organizers of First Thursday have boasted that they can out-network the conservatives. Whatever that means. (How is networking prowess tabulated? By the frequency with which one uses the word “networking”?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/off-the-clock-and-its-still-party-time-on-capitol-hill-with-dueling-happy-hours/2011/06/03/AGkg4lJH_story.html
There's another link with photos also
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
"networking" ugh. I really prefer to hang out with people I like and not ask them for anything related to career stuff, it's so much easier
― daria, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
"blindingly liberal" lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Showing up at the conservative one could be amusing (or frightening)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think i accidentally crashed one of those at duffy's during the ncaa tournament (coincidentally it was a duke game)
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 6 June 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
So the rally for DC Statehood on the West lawn of the Capitol Thursday evening features Chuck Brown performing after the speakers. I doubt any of the First Friday happy hour crowd will wander over, but maybe some First Thursday types will.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
hello dc dudes! i hope you are all healthy and wealthy and watching a lot of tarkovsky. nbd but i'm playing a rad zine release party on saturday at velveeta lounge and it would, of course, be a real treat to see any/all of you fine folks there for hanging, drinking etc. there may (read: will) be free donuts. <3
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 17 June 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
cool!
where is that? anyone free tomorrow?
― tehresa, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 3:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
my friend ally put this together. it was pretty rad.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol wait
anyone free tomorrow?
― tehresa, Friday, June 17, 2011 11:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
am + wld attend
donuts you say
― Gukbe, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
except i googled and could not find
― tehresa, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
donuts. anyway i'm generally outta ilx rotation but it'd be chill to meet the new class + reconnect with old pals in a fun and frisky setting (btw tehresa velvet's at 915 u st.)
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 17 June 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
u playing anywhere else y/n
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
mostly here in nc these days, though i think we're gonna try and make it back up to nyc relatively soon
― pretzel walrus, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
cool -- i am dling yr ep and am looking forward to learning what the safe word is
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
i think i saw you guys at cake shop once if it is same band but i don't know! maybe it is a different one?
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
it is a different one but you did see my previous band at cake shop! 69 moved to sf i moved to nc and now i am playing with some other folks and it's pretty good times i think.
― pretzel walrus, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
yay :)
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
i was unable to learn the safe word -- too noize
is the one singer your gf?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
mookie you should just come to this gig
― tehresa, Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
you left work at one today maybe *you* should have come *here*
(i know i should; my sched is supposed to change next month)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link