Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

... just based on my experience in talking to many more restaurant and bar owners than were interviewed in this article.

i want to run into her and be like "maur33n who? sorry i don't even know who you are"

also ESPN2 is replaying redskins-niners 1983 NFC title game dudes! john riggins! darrell green! the hogs! JOE MONTANA

daria sundays thru tuesdays are cool there still. No guarantees after inaguration blowout 2k9.

yes! Brasserie Beck. I was going to say that clearly has the best Belgian beer selection in town - but was blinded by my rage from this asinine use of column space. and that is a very high bar to cross on any day with the NYT.

http://www.dcfoodies.com/2009/01/beer-news-good.html

this really sucks for me and Tombot as we enjoy many single beers from a variety of craft brewers. Argh. I live in Ward 1 and not exactly sure which parts of the ward are covered by this.

btw when Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont moves to its new home a block east it'll have a 10 tap birreria!

Wuz reading on the city paper young and hungry food blog about a New York writer for politico.com I think, who was supposed to come up with 10 DC restaurants worth eating at, and she listed only 8. She said that was all that she could come up with that met her NYC standards.

she writes one of those every couple years, no worries

sucks about the single-beer ban. i bought 750ml bottles quite a lot when living in dc. though usually from chevy chase liquors on conn. ave. that's ward 3 right?

i might move back to dc later this year. i miss it more than i thought i would.

yeah that's ward 3

Is that roller derby girl art exhibit at a gallery (forgot the name)worth seeing? How about the Jubilee exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum? I haven't been there in years. Heard Texas Fred talking about the Jubilee exhibit on WPFW and the NY Times just mentioned it.

Cory Oberndorfer’s paintings combine the visual language of graphic design with the subculture of flat track roller derby. Oberndorfer elevates roller derby players to iconic status with bright colors and simplified, stripped-down forms. While having the look of mass production and silkscreen, these paintings are actually meticulously hand-painted. at the gallery at flashpoint

http://www.flashpointdc.org/venues/art_gallery.html

Is it quiet enough yet to go to Ben's or Ben's next door?

No on Ben's but you can get lucky at Next Door. I was able to poach a couple of seats from a young couple that were on their way home Monday night. Ben's is pretty much our Wailing Wall or the Kaaba at this point.

like, you circle the structure seven times, and then you get a half smoke.

Bill Burton, the press secretary for Mr. Obama’s campaign who is following him to the White House, predicted changes in the Washington restaurant scene’s pecking order.

Already, he said, Cork, a relatively new restaurant in the Logan Circle area of town, is becoming a popular spot for young, incoming administration hands, many of whom have moved to the neighborhood in recent weeks. 1-14 NY Times

please don't get me started again

lol terps

DUKE SUCKS

note - ben's chili bowl has calmed down a little bit, uh.. only about a 20 minute wait to get (vegetarian) chili fries around midnight? i couldn't really eat too many of them. it was nice stopping by though, i used to go there a lot in 01-02. they have a big obama picture on the wall now.

Visiting from 27 Jan-7 Feb, mostly working/compulsory worksocialising but if anyone's free and wants to have a coffee/drink would be great, esp on 30th/31st. Moving out properly at the end of Feb, if the human resources dept manages to work out what I'm allowed to ship before I have to get out of my house. Feel a bit weird announcing my impending arrival since I'm about 9/10ths lurker and 1/10th poster, so consider this spam from some random Britisher.

SOME NOTES

1. a surprisingly good brunch option is sette osteria next to the benetton/G-STAR RAW on connecticut/20th - go there, get the poached eggs on toasted bagel, order a side of mozzarella and a side of proscuitto and stack your own benedict, plus, excellent hot bloody mary and no crowd

2. marvin is okay, I recommend the allagash tripel since their price for it is pretty comparable to what you'd pay in a store. Momo's still has the best burgers around U st for some reason

3. I think everybody officially knows about Next Door now, oh well, more room at the saloon?

4. Carson from Queer Eye was hanging outside Busboys & Poets this afternoon. No idea.

Welcome ljublajana; would be lovely to get a drink with you upon your arrival, just post with your availability/approximate location as the date gets closer. Please note also that ILXDC prefers the term "britishes" to "britisher" and thus expect to be addressed accordingly.

What is this "Momo's" and why would I eat a cooked hamburger when I could eat raw hamburger at Dukem?

xpost - thanks, will do that. Approx location will be Dupont. What's the singular of britishes, or will I exist in the plural?

"britishes" is both the singular AND the plural. As in "LOLbritishes be wanking over soccer again especially that one britishes dude MattDC."

Americanses
Americaners
Amerikles
or simply Americas

Magic People of the Eagles

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/34fgmk2.gif

From my predecessor in the job - Hi Ljubljana - I went out for brunch with (future landlady) yesterday and we had a quick chat about things. Firstly, she would like to meet you next week and has suggested a novel outing. Her husband is the executive producer on America's Most Wanted and has suggested dinner on Saturday, plus a trip to the studio to see the show being made - would you like to do this?

Ph - wh - er, yes.

lol a high-school ex of mine used to do re-enactments for AMW

lol yanks

2-3 inches of snow = everyone freaks the hell out, schools close for "winter storm."

welcome to DC, by the way! i will get drinks.

Shortly before a meeting with business leaders on the economy at the White House, Obama said he wanted to make an unrelated comment to the press. In a slightly amused tone, he noted this his daughters' school, Sidwell Friends, was canceled today because of a snow and ice storm that hit Washington.

"Because of what? Because of some ice?" Obama said to laughter around the table. He said Sasha, his 7-year-old, pointed out that in Chicago, not only is school never canceled for snow, "you'd go outside for recess. You wouldn't even stay indoors."

He concluded by saying: "We're going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town. I'm saying that when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."

oh man I'm sorry I disappointed you by walking slowly on the ice on the way to work today, Mr. President :(

gary williams = insecure asshole, exhibit 5369

"Kathy Worthington doesn't speak for me. She has never won a national championship. She has never done anything. She is an associate AD."

wow @ all the quotes!

"Yeah, and it wasn't my fault that they're not here. You know, that was somebody else's call"

"Kathy Worthington doesn't speak for me. She has never won a national championship. She has never done anything. She is an associate AD."

"Why do they jump on me all the time?"

"It's somebody else's call. Who said University of Maryland's call? Nobody. Why can't I say that? This is just giving you guys stuff to make me look bad."

"I don't want to get into that now. No comment."

"Take a look. I coach here. I've got to live here. That's the way it is. I've coached here for 20 years, long before anyone else was here. Nobody was here 20 years ago."

he needs to retire already

3 more years on his contract I think, and the school has no money to buy him out (in this economy).

Sunday anytime for drinks if anyone can make it? I'm at Dupont, but can travel anywhere as long as there's a bus or metro - in fact it would be nice to get to a new area. I only really know Dupont Circle (not even far past the actual circle), bits of Georgetown and the little bit around Ballston metro.

Cultural points so far:

Your cab drivers are friendly but not psycho friendly
People stop and politely offer help if you look lost, this is very very nice
Your hotel breakfasts are extortionate
I do not know what A-1 sauce is
Never inadvertently touch anyone softly with the edge of your coat in a bar

someone take her to a super bowl party

Sorry, forgot about the superbowl! Next week may be fine also one eve.

How's the visit going?

Deeeeeeeeeeee Ceeeeeeeeeeeee. I alway like how Russ Parr says it.

<3 russ parr
did you hear the zodiac sign part?

Nope. I like the friday morning at 8 "wrong song" segment but it wasn't on this a.m.

sorry, I was out of contact. The visit's been going pretty well. New job panic and all that but I've got three weeks to get that under control. I head back to the UK tomorrow and then I'm back here on 26th Feb. Two friends just told me they'll both be in New York that weekend at the end of Feb so even though I'll have just arrived and should be getting ready for work I might have to get that Chinatown bus I've heard so much about...

Yea, and if that one won't work for ya the bus has competition from other bus lines now

just crickets here

I am right now on Skype to Comcast, arguing with them about why they can't just switch the internet service into my name

Good ol' Comcast...Always impressive with customer service