Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

yeah, i'd totally be down on friday!

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.

Only '80s temperature wise today on Thursday!

how did the audition go??
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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.

^_^

haha rad

btw my cal is free tomorrow!

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)

I could do with a few pints right now.

Cold out there.

haha yeah i opened my front door and just went "yeaaaaaaaaaaaah"

it's AWESOME

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/

I am down for this fap today. Do these things get coordinated via email?

mookie emailed me last night and said he probably can't make it due to car issues :(

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?

i'd be interested for sure. tons of beer places have mad cool guest drafts due to SAVOR going on

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

"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

"blindingly liberal" lol

Showing up at the conservative one could be amusing (or frightening)

i think i accidentally crashed one of those at duffy's during the ncaa tournament (coincidentally it was a duke game)

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.

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

cool!

where is that? anyone free tomorrow?

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, June 8, 2011 3:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

my friend ally put this together. it was pretty rad.

lol wait

anyone free tomorrow?

― tehresa, Friday, June 17, 2011 11:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

am + wld attend

donuts you say

except i googled and could not find

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.)

u playing anywhere else y/n

mostly here in nc these days, though i think we're gonna try and make it back up to nyc relatively soon

cool -- i am dling yr ep and am looking forward to learning what the safe word is

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?

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.

yay :)

i was unable to learn the safe word -- too noize

is the one singer your gf?

mookie you should just come to this gig

you left work at one today maybe *you* should have come *here*

(i know i should; my sched is supposed to change next month)

i'm still trying to recover from you standing me up a few weeks ago! not to mention i went to nyc in feb; when have you come here? hmmmmmmm?

;_;

so sad

OMG ZR so want to see you, am gonna do this Mr. BBQ unless for some reason bbqing in rock creek this afternoon takes a fatal turn!

C'mon DCers: it is DC FAP time!!!

well there are donuts involved

Missed ZR's band! Next time Pretzel Walrus.

Unrelated:

ashigtonian critics's 5 fave new places to eat:

Your five favorite new (opened in the last six months) restaurants. Go!

Todd Kliman:

In no particular order ...

Mala Tang in Arlington, Freddy's Lobster + Clams in Bethesda, Fiola in DC, Shake Shack in DC, Kao Thai in Silver Spring.

or "Washingtonian" if you prefer

Been to Mala Tang twice. Individually sized Chengdu-style hot pot, nice modern atmosphere but really excellent. The hot pots are good but oh man just get a bunch of the appetizers because they are FANTASTIC.

Fiola is the new restaurant of the chef who used to be at Maestro - I think he's probably the most talented chef in DC, really extraordinary pastas and fish especially. High end place but not crazy like Maestro was.

Shake Shack is Shake Shack, I went and it's a very good fast food burger if that's your thing. Better than Five Guys for sure. Not worth waiting in line.

and on a very important note, REN'S RAMEN has reopened, moving from Bethesda to Wheaton. Just a couple blocks from the metro and holy shit it's so delicious. Only real deal ramen in the area, I think.