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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!

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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.

Books A Million is great in Dupont imo, spend a significant amount of time there the last two weekends in a row.

That's the only bookstore I've been to in DC (excluding VA and the now-gone Friendship Heights Borders). I vaguely recall another bookstore/cafe in that area but I can't remember much of anything about it. Looked nice, though. Will definitely swing by there if I can't get the book anywhere else. Btw, thanks for the recs everyone.

i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again! i don't understand how it has survived while olsson's and borders have gone under.

second story at 20th & p is grebt but do not glance into the cadaverous manager's eyes lest ye be dragged to hell.

kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn) is a neat idea but sometimes seems like an overgrown newsstand attached to a restaurant.

basically you can get cheaper shit online, but politics & prose, for its events, readings and politics (when they aren't too righteous), seems like a store worth supporting.

i have peed on the dupont books-a-million. and i would do it again!

most ringing of endorsements

politics and prose for history/politics/current events, fiction, genre stuff, just hanging out - the cafe is nice

for art/theory/philosophy/weirdness, my favorite bookstore in the area: bridge street books, georgetown. it's pretty small and there's no chairs or cafe or anything, but it's great

busboys & poets for progressive politics/history/current events

there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metro
and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst

i miss vertigo books..

and another worth visiting in adams morgan on 18th street, not far from tryst

ya <3 <3 <3 so much idle times

kramerbooks (just north of dupont on conn)

I think this was the place I walked by. It looked nice from the outside but I guess there wasn't much depth to the collection.

I can always get the book online (and probably cheaper), but where's the fun in that?

there's a pretty good used bookstore in old town alexandria on king st just a few blocks from the metro

This is where I planned to go today but circumstances didn't favour the trek. If the weather is nice tomorrow I'll walk to the metro and drop in on my way.

Kramerbooks is kind of a 'scene' but that's ok. I like their pop psychology stuff. Not the 'how to change your life' stuff, which they have too much of - the 'hard-to-understand end of the popular science market stuff.

btw on that subject i'm reading james gleick's "the information" and it totally fucking rules

I am not-starting Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind. That's because I've just discovered Philip Roth and I'm still into it - it might get a bit overwhelming soon though.

related: how google dominates us, by james gleick

oh dear philip roth

yah that's an awesome piece imo

Kramerbooks is a bookstore/cafe that doesn't do a very good job of either, but it's a neighborhood institution. Pretty good beers.

(btw i wasn't shitting on philip roth necessarily -- he is a remarkable writer, if not a man i can even imagine being married to) /claire bloom

I'm really just looking for that Thirty Years War book that spawned the poll thread. It reminded me that I made a note to get it a few years ago. It isn't obscure or anything, so it shouldn't be that hard to get, but it's also not something that any ol' Barnes and Noble will necessarily stock. It feels like something the Politics and Prose place should have, if I can make it that far north.

ha i didn't see the thread but i did see the ta-nehisi coates posts that likely prompted it

i just got it out of the library and it is pretty awesome, and not least because cvw was 28 when it was published. she wrote lovely sentences.

28?? fuuuck. i'll have to get it soon and read it fast, that way I can tell myself that I still have 5 months to accomplish something similar before I'm 29.

it is also thoroughly footnoted with references to books in every european language possible, leading certain history majors to mild despair

that's fine. i never look at the footnotes, i just need them to be there to add academic credibility.

xp yeah, trying not to think about Roth himself... Didn't an ilxor write a doctoral dissertation on Roth?

So that was an earthquake? TBH it reminded me of when I worked in an office in SW right next to the railroad tracks.

usgs just upgraded it to a 5.9

newbie DC earthquake question: will this affect metro availability today?

top trending earthquake-related topic: what about ME?

they're testing out track lines now

As a result of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in the Washington, DC area:

As of 1:59 p.m., all trains are operating at 15 mph.
Metro personnel are conducting track inspections of the entire rail system.
There are no reported customer injuries at this time.
Customers should expect significant delays on Metrorail until further notice due to the reduced operating speed.

News release issued at 2:34 pm, August 23, 2011.

met a neighbour outside the building afterward. he started preaching to me about alternative perspectives on the Bible. he seemed like a dude tbh.

guy right outside my building was jamming on his trumpet and his tip bucket said "jesus" on it

SO bailed from work (because everyone else at his office did) and is heading home to start an earthquake party.

Which apparently involves planked salmon.

damn hipster salmon with their planking

good luck commuters. so glad i didn't go on my book trek today.

Oh hai it appears I am released to work from home for the rest of the day, if I so desire.

I do so desire, thankyouverymuch!