Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Help us. Help your country. Help your capital. Help Washington, DC. Clean it up. Drive into it, drive by the approach, see how rank it is. How murky. How smelly. How putrid. How vile. The area’s a sewer. It lacks only a dead body decaying there.

tbf there probably is a dead body decaying there

more like the STINKIN monument amirite

It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.

"In open areas around gutters, roadways, open deserted lots, it’s discarded soda cans, graffiti, syringes, rotted junk, rubber tires, strewn paper, chalk marks, cigarette butts, dog poop, empty bottles, thrown out plastic bags, open garbage, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needles, filthy rags, needles, junky clothes, broken plumbing facilities, backyards and front yards filled with detritus. Elvis alive is probably in there."

syringes, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needes, and needles all at the same time!

It's like fifteen paragraphs consisting of lists of things and ending with a ridiculous sentence fragment like "And it's shameful." What is she even saying? I'm tempted to fault her for identifying a problem w/o suggesting any solutions but she's not even identifying a problem; basically it's "I saw some urban decay in a major metropolitan area; here's some hyperbole and a lot of misconceptions I have about stuff."

"i drove to washington once"

also lmao @ "geezers"

christ on a cracker has this person ever traveled to a city in a developing/third-world country? After three weeks in Sri Lanka, it took me a while to get over how relatively spic-and-span our city is!

oh god why did I read that. Is that how she always writes? It hardly qualifies as "writing" in the formal sense. Ugh wanna punch her. Hack is too kind a word.

"The Big Crapple"

About 103,000 results (0.28 seconds)

Missed the Forward on Climate rally today. I wonder how big the turnout was? Alas, Obama was in Florida having a golf weekend

in florida having a golf weekend with oil folks, as it happened.

count varies from 35k to 50k depending on who you ask--looked to me like 40.

fan reaction to the dcu carlos ruiz pickup is, uh, muted

whoops wrong thread

fan reaction to Wizards crawford trade to Celtics for injured guy and benchwarmer is whatever

The capital city's DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license plate no-no's that prohibit everything from praising the local baseball team to expressing disgust with the Internal Revenue Service.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/vanity-license-plate-banned-washington-d-c-201629267--politics.html

BSTMEUP is permitted

TAINT is banned

TTAINTT is ok

brb, going to the DMV

TTAINTT is my new chillwave band

13 shot the other night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/up-to-11-people-shot-on-dc-street-corner-overnight/2013/03/11/d7c5197e-8a39-11e2-a051-6810d606108d_story.html

So why doesn't Lanier have cops sitting between Tyler House and the nightclub at 2 am closing time instead of just doing her standard lets just shut down the club routine (especially where as here there were allegations that troublemakers were hassling folks leaving the club)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/03/08/youve-seen-our-list-now-show-us-your-40-eats/?hpid=z9

What's new?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant

Sushi Taro

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

Hi DC. Miss you boo.

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rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/04/26/come-get-some-a-lit-party-without-stale-crackers/

I don't know the work of any of these DC writers. But I still need to read Edward P. Jones first I think.

http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2013/v10i2/olivierassayas.aspx

So which one(s) should I see?

the only advice I have is: not Demonlover

isnt that shit called AUDIDOCS now?

Yep the AFI Silver Docs fest is now sadly called that in honor of Audi of course; I was just asking about the AFI's separate fest:

May 2–July 1
Hailed by many as the most important of contemporary French filmmakers, Olivier Assayas has made more than 20 films across a diversity of genres, including features, documentaries and shorts.

He directed Irma Vep and Carlos and others (and includes Sonic Youth, John Cale & Pixies music on the soundtrack in some--says the blurb), and that controversial one Stevie says to skip (soulds like good advice).

sounds

it's not even controversial it's just boring and poorly made.

you can skip Boarding Gate too. Summer Hours/Irma Vep/Carlos essential.

Thanks.

I missed the mini-golf at the National Building Museum last summer, but I see now I have a 2nd chance. It's coming back. Yay!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/04/30/mini-golf-returns-to-the-national-building-museum-on-may-27/

Gotta do it this summer. In other deadline-related stuff, I wanna see that Gordon Parks photo exhibit at the Adamson before it closes May 31

http://adamsongallery.com/exhibitions/2013-03-23_gordon-parks-an-american-lens/

mini-golf opens near the end of May

oops, duh, says it right there in the link above.

Hoping sequester doesn't end concerts at Carter Barron and Fort Dupont this summer. National Park Service is keeping quiet about the full schedule till the end of the month, although the Washington Post shows at Carter Barron are cancelled, and the 4th of July concert at the Washington Monument is cancelled (but not the fireworks)

last year's NBM minigolf course sucked, it reaffirmed every negative stereotype about architects caring more for aesthetics than function.

But I'm gonna keep up my hopes for this year, since I never made it to last year's...Maybe they'll choose different folks to design them

Gordon Parks photos are imressive at the Adamson. For sale in the $10,000 range!

This year's Building Museum mini-golf opening this weekend. Wondering if I would be throwing my money away, based on I Died's take on last year's. I'm gonna try to be optimistic (although maybe I should wait and see what others think). * #Important decisions in life

Is anyone here going to the Cocksucker Blues screening/lecture at the National Gallery tomorrow without going to the preceding Ornette Coleman documentary?

didn't know about either of those but now i'm going to try to go to both!

I might just go to CS Blues, although I saw it years ago here.

uuuuhhh, cs blues made me nauseous

Yes, once again handheld camera work did a number on my stomach.

I liked best the lecture preceding the film screening. *toddles off to see if Performance is on DVD (legit or otherwise)*

first time I've ever been affected like that, I wonder if it was compounded by something in my lunch.