Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Oh, that's the protest march at 6 against the Koch Brothers conference at the Convention Center.

x-post--wow, McGarry was hosting that show for 3 or 4 decades ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-academic-host-mac-mcgarry-retires/2011/11/02/gIQAfIksgM_story.html

50 years

I had no idea you had an interest in It's Academic!

^^^^a show I have never seen btw

yeah it was kind of impossible to be a nerd at a nerd high school in the DC area and not have at least some interest in the show

Behind the name Foggy Bottom

totally gutted that "Funkstown" didn't survive

George Clinton woulda loved it

Damn, to think we could have ended up with Funkstown and Swampoodle.

Fotoweek, Warhol exhibits, Callahan photos, various gallery shows, Dean & Britta at NG of Art Saturday and other music--it's a busy town culturally right now

I'm thinking I need to stick with cultural events since all the sports teams (pro or college) seem so lame at the moment(I stick with Terps anyway but its painful). Yes, the Caps are frequently winning in the regular season, but tickets are nearly always sold out and expensive.

I was on It's Academic a few times during my high school quiz bowl years

Mac McGarry basically seemed like a half-dead quiz show hosting zombie

good news is as far as we know he didn't cover up any child abuse

legacy untarnished

No need for rioting

The Laotian food at Bangkok Golden in Falls Church was so spicy

http://www.yelp.com/biz/bangkok-golden-falls-church

i watched it's academic last weekend!

Is I Died the new host?

He'd be good at it, really.

i was on it's academic, my team lost
i'll be in DC for xmas btw

I will not :(

I will be in Tuomasland. Does Tuomas still live in Helsinki??? Must I board-stalk him???

N/a if you&S&E would like a crash pad you are welcome to ours!

quincie will you be around the 7-9th??? SAY YES

CHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOPCHALLOP

Tried Mala Tang (Sichuan Chinese hot pot) in Arlington the other night. Not wowed, but maybe I did not pick the best ingredients for dipping or the best sauces to apply afterwards

Is there another hot pot place in the area that you'd recommend? I was just talking about going to one of those 2 weeks ago

Mala Tang and Uncle Liu's are owned by the same guy and are good, but yeah choice of meat & veg at Mala Tang has a huge effect on the outcome and I've made some bad choices too. The spicy Sichuan broth is great though!

Mala Tang (in Arlington) has tables where each person has their own hot pot, while from what I have read, at Uncle Liu's (Falls Church) they just do it the traditional way where everyone is at a big table and uses the same hot pot. I think.

Thanks!

the online debate continues on whether DC is a good places for artists and musicians

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/01/how-good-dc-artists-musicians-and-writers/856/

hmm seems like Richard Florida's numbers aren't really relevant to the argument, he's working outside the Yglesias and City Paper definition of artists as white indie rock musicians.

hahah

And many of those indie-rock musicians from the 1980s and 90s were living in Arlington and Bethesda

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/01/05/h-street-playhouse-priced-out-of-h-street-looking-for-new-spot-to-open/

What will be the next neighborhood that arts outfits with little money will have to move into...

whoever figures that out is gonna be a winner

The next real estate king. Perhaps Joe Englert who owns so many H St NE places is already looking elsewhere. I think the Theivery Corp empire is staying in the U st area

guessing upper Georgia Ave and North Capitol

arts organizations have never really been the real estate bellwether in DC that they've been in other cities due to the limited building stock here - there are really only so many areas of town that have a history as commercial corridors and the spaces to match.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/historic-theaters-buildings-in-dc-are-resurrected-as-entertainment-spots/2011/12/23/gIQAZL9xQP_story.html

Then there are the new attempts at slightly upscale presentations of music-- the Clydes-chain owned Hamilton at 14th & F that is charging $100 for Mavis Staples but otherwish so far has been just having aging DC roots rockers for cheap. Don't know how the food is.

And the eventually to open Howard Theatre that is being reconfigured.

I think the Theivery Corp empire is staying in the U st area

their french bistro thing is supposed to open at georgia and randolph really soon afaik - i live like six blocks away

(to quote prince of petworth: "Between this and the approval for the new Petworth Safeway across the street – we are not going to recognize this stretch of Georgia Ave in the near future. Sweet!")

I wish they were doing more to make it like the old Billy Simpson’s, but having ANY place to get something to eat without having to shout through bulletproof glass in that war zone is a real Godsend. I can’t wait to try it!

i mean who among us hasn't caught a slug walking from domku to the yes! organic market etc

hey it's a serious risk, there was a slug in the leeks I got at the Petworth farmer's market.

As long as Chez Aunty Libe's, the Senegalese restaurant at 6115 Georgia does not lose their lease, I will remain happy

http://chezauntylibe.com/

So Hoos is gonna Occupy Congress today?

yah sorry everybody if we fucked with your traffic and whatnot

<3

awesome fucking day btw

good job on organizing/media-ing/not getting arrested/keeping everyone alive HOOS!

W. Post buried it on the Metro page of the newsprint this morning not the front page

GQ likes byt

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201202/50-most-powerful-people-in-washington-dc#slide=42

W. Post buried it on the Metro page of the newsprint this morning not the front page

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

at least we made the front page of the examiner.

i love that we keep making the cover cause they hate us, but somehow didn't notice that the beat reporter they put on us just happens to be an ACTUAL JOURNALIST. she covers us fairly, shine and warts and all, instead of the hack jobs we get any time another of their writers does a piece on us.

page A 18 of Washington Post newsprint re no more Occupy "camping"