Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

need to provide them with safe space, Sidwell's too rough:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/10/19/sidwell-friends-plagued-with-young-political-bullies/

I'm gonna lock my doors knowing those thugs are just two blocks away *shrudder*

hahaha

I remember in sixth grade in Arlington, (i.e. 2000) my whole class taunted our social studies teacher when she revealed she voted for GWB. I seem to recall Gore winning our mock election with like 95% of the vote.

Anyone know anything about this movie showing for free tonight/Friday at 7 at the Freer:

Beijing Flickers’ screenplay is inspired by interviews Sixth Generation auteur Zhang Yuan conducted with hundreds of twenty-somethings while he was working on his photography exhibition Unspoiled Brats. Dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man, San Bao descends into a self-destructive spiral and meets a few kindred souls: a drag queen addicted to cosmetic surgery and poetry, a female singer kicked out by the musicians in her band, and a girl…

Didn't make that movie. Saw A.C. Newman & Mynahbirds instead.

Federal government closed Monday. Hopefully Frankenstorm won't be too bad.

No power loss for me in Arlington. Hope everyone else is doing ok

Question for Bradpittsville ilxors: I'm going to be in DC for the first time on election night - where would be a good place to watch the results come in?

Huddled in your hotel room, raiding the minibar. Wear a suit. Pretend you have to give a concession speech.

make sure there's a pool photographer there to get shots of you looking pensively at the screen as results come in

suggested actions (today and tomorrow):

start your own political consulting firm
make a facebook fan page for your consulting firm
make a facebook fan page for yourself
have business cards made up w/your firm's name on it
visit lots of bars and restaurants on cap hill and k street and south of dupont circle
network with everyone -> give them your business card, friend them on facebook

election day:
invite all 1500 of your new facebook friends to your firm's official returns event
don't worry when only 20 say they will attend
network some more
take lots of pictures of everyone at the bar

days after, suggested plan of action:
post on facebook lots of pictures of your wildly successful event
friend the friends of all your 1500 friends
ask them all to "like" your consulting firm's fan page
ask them all to "like" your fan page for yourself
look up the email addresses of everyone you can
generate a mailing list
start emailing them updates about your latest facebook posts about yourself and your firm

etc

^ my god

Ha.

So dj Chris Burns and BYT folks are at Bohemian Caverns/Liv tonight. I think I wanna stay in and sit on my couch in control of my tv remote.

Had yummy Trinidadian "doubles" (pancake/soft taco with curried chickpeas inside) and roti at Caribbean Palace in Langley Park, MD yesterday. Great stuff. Also wandered around and picked up some stuff for home cooking at the Red Apple Market and the Caribbean market.

http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2012/11/13/martin-baron-editor-the-boston-globe-become-editor-the-washington-post/ycJWyd1XOsuvpQAQ3LMStI/story.html

Anyone going to the Magnetic Fields at 6th and I? Saturday sold out, but I'm thinking about getting Sunday tix.

http://maxgif.com/5fk

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2012/09/where_to_eat_in.php?page=all

Village Voice food critic visits DC and likes a few places

I think I saw that article a while ago. Coincidentally, I got a cubano from Fast Gourmet today. It was really tasty!

going to be in DC next week for thanksgiving

dammit, n/a, why are you always here when I am not???

ugh I wanna come visit y'all

My fave new Vietnamese restaurant in Eden Center is now gone. It's a Vietnamese ban mi sandwich joint now. Lots of competition there

Guys I think I'm coming to DC in December but I don't know when. Is there anything awesome happening I should see or do?

hay stevie I'm going to be driving back and forth a couple times in december if you need a ride (unfortunately I'm probably going in the opposite direction, north on fridays & south on sundays)

plus i'm notoriously unreliable

Ah, damnit! Yeah, it looks like I'll be there the 13th-15th. I'll probably just get a Megabus.

I'm toying w/ the idea of bringing a bike. How is biking in DC? Is this a v good or a v bad idea?

biking in DC is certainly a fine idea; putting yr bike on a megabus…maybe not so much? Do you have a folder?

also http://www.capitalbikeshare.com

Megabus actually won't let you bring a bike on; I'd have to use Greyhound or Greyhound Express. I've taken it on a Bolt to NYC/New Haven just fine, though.

Stevie you are welcome to my bike! It needs air in the tires and I have to find the seat, but other than that. . .

I have an extra ticket for Neil Young in Fairfax tomorrow

email bonus (dot) tubes (at) gmail.com; 1st come 1st served etc.

Splurged already for tickets. Will hopefully be a great show

Hopefully someone wanted your extra

Guys.

Seriously, this Nam June Paik exhibition @ American Art Museum is one of the most fucking incredible things I have ever seen in my entire life. There is so much to see and explore; if you miss out on this you will be robbing yourselves of something truly great.

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/paik/

There is so much innovation and inquisitiveness and genuinely awe-inspiring moments in this guy's career and it often has a levity and sense of humor about that allows the viewer to engage in a really intimate way vs. the sort of detachment that one may often feel with Stuffy Serious Artworks.

I was going to wander the museums next week, so I'll put this on my list.

I <3 him and I really want to see that but I just moved to Seattle, hope I visit back home in time to see it. And by "hope" I mean "I'll have to plan to."

Electronic Superhighway is one of my favorite works of art.

8 months, I shd be able to swing that.

As a newly unemployed person I am going to avail myself of ALL of the free museums in Jan/Feb!!! Thanks for the tip Stevie.

Electronic Superhighway is one of my favorite works of art.

Oh yeah mine too. I didn't notice until yesterday that Idaho's video was just footage of piles of potatoes and I laughed a lot harder than I probably should have in a quiet museum

This Vergara photo exhibit at the National Building Museum could be worth seeing also:

http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/detroit-is-no-dry-bones.html

still need to see the lichtenstein before it goes

me too

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/dining-at-level-3-todd-klimans-most-memorable-meals-of-2012.php

tldr but I might later

Saw the Serial Portraits photo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art West Wing the other day (some nice Stieglitz, Friedlander, Nan Goldin and others works) and today, the "Detroit is No Dry Bones" and "Detroit Disassembled" photo exhibits at the National Building Museum in DC. More than "ruin porn," as some naysayers would argue, these are fascinating photos of abandoned Detroit that don't seem too exploitive (some buildings and blocks now covered with trees and growth; others show new life or at least new paint)

Still haven't seen Nam June Paik; Lichtenstein; or that newspapers in collage paintings one at National Gallery

fuck I wish I saw that Detroit stuff