Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

come back and post after the quake, mmmk?

i know my chill laid-back totally not type-A attitude might surprise you but i was not tryna be facetious! it's like when snowpocalypse hit -- all me and annie talked about was how we wished we were there, trudgin to giant in car-ruts

aw, trudgin to giant in car-ruts was so epic.

<3 you 69!!! Come back to us!

ill be through in october and december!

Yay! PS there will be a wedding on October 15 iirc.

B-D

thats a sunglasses dude AND a very important mnemonic

I am so baffled by the dude at CVS looking at humidifiers today

Tomorrow (Friday): Combining the heat and humidity, it’s perhaps the most extreme day in 15 years. High temperature surge to 99-104, with dangerous heat indices of 114-118. Add bad air quality into the equation, and consider cutting back on any planned time outside.

9pm heat index at the airport was 111

i only took one semester of meteorology in college, but dang

My kid is working outside at a 9am to 2 pm baseball camp today.

Holy crud. Isn't there just a baseball movie they could go watch indoors somewhere?

I think they might be able to use a gym and throw tennis balls around.

wow, that is not safe. literally, alerts say it is dangerous to be outside!

dulles hit 105. highest temp ever recorded there.

from my work zip, around 2:30:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/198785_10150252138876589_506836588_7729548_7753874_n.jpg

lighting and some raindrops around here in Alexandria. should cool it down a bit.

also my a/c, while not totally dead, is providing less cool air. I've shut it down for a bit and am relying on fans.

The severe thunderstorm missed the District by a couple of miles. NWS has now cancelled the Severe Thunderstorm Warning. However, cloud to ground lightning strikes are currently being reported in parts of D.C. Please remain vigilant.

i saw a couple of those cloud-to-ground strikes driving home about 15 minutes ago

Guys I have 2 extra tix for dc united game @ 730. I won them and didn't realize this but they're club level. Anyone want?

The forecast today is really fucking gross.

seriously, just arrived at desk a mess

Despite finally working up the confidence to do so, I decided today was not really a good choice for my first bike commute.

My co-worker decided it was a good day to bike in. She stopped sweating around 11am.

People were dripping sweat just standing in line at the bus stop in Annapolis at 6 a.m.

@capitalweather
National Weather Service says DC "unofficially" hit 104 today - only 4 days since 1871 have been hotter in DC
2 hours ago via web

got home and took off the office garb and my undershirt was basically like i'd showered in it

Heading through Georgetown to my son's baseball game at Guy Mason in Glover Park I saw the usual long, down the street line at Georgetown Cupcakes. Crazy tourists. Thankfully I found some shade by the ballfield

i really don't get that line. they're not even that good and baked and wired down the street is like 1000x better.

Has Baked & Wired been on tv? The fish sandwiches at Horace and Dickies in NE has been on Man vs Food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhFQILmLtE

The tv coverage probably has gotten the fish sandwiches in NE a few new customers...just not as many as cupcakes in Georgetown obviously

Just saw Billy Bragg in the Dupont Firehook. Someone asked him if he had a show coming up in DC and he very loudly said 'no show this time sorry mate, I'm on holiday, it's an interesting time to be here BECAUSE OF THE VOTE ON THE DEBT CEILING AND THE POSSIBLE ENORMOUS CHANGES TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'

I scuttled up and thanked him for his last show in DC then scuttled off back to my seat. He saw I was doing GRE alegbra and wished me good luck with it.

His last show in DC was only so-so. I am a toady in the face of fame.

aw

Horace and Dickie's does a ridiculous amount of business out that storefront... they're the Ben's Chili Bowl of NE.

http://dcentric.wamu.org/

covering edgy issues in a non-edgy way

lol @ "photographer and drummer"

Apparently it was not important to mention that he's a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York

i need to proofread too

eh i guess given the event "photographer and drummer" was the way to go--i didn't even really read that closely, guh--i'm just used to seeing him billed as a poet first and foremost

I knew him for his photos. I can't make the opening tonight, but I do want to see that exhibit.

x-post-Lljub did Bragg have family in tow who were going "oh Dad...do we really have to see these American tea party people talk"

They weren't the perkiest looking bunch...

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2011/08/05/growler-district-dc-brau-paves-way-for-draft-beer-take-out/#comment-89340

Attn beer nerds: growler sales suddenly/unexpectedly legalized in DC!

!!

Not sure if I've asked this before, but does anyone have any favourite bookstores in DC? Looking for a book that I could easily order online, but I thought it would be fun to kill a day by trawling the shops.

I'm not as big a stan for it as some people are, but Politics and Prose is in my 'hood and is large enough/interesting enough to kill some time. There's a cafe downstairs with a badass espresso machine (Rancilio).

both second story locations are pretty chill

If you go to the Dupont Circle Second Story Books, Books for America is also worth checking out.

I just wanna say how happy it makes me that the title for the DC thred is still this and I would like to have it remain that way, forever.