Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

so glad I don't have to wear suits. will have to be doing job interviews prob in the next month & I hate having to find some very boring business casual type of thing to wear. waaah.

I don't like the City Paper list because it's labeled as the 50 best restaurants in DC and it's not - not only are there restaurants that are clearly among the best in the area missing from the list, but there are restaurants that aren't even good, nevermind great, on there.

can i have your old job y/n

xp

I'm gonna just use the CP list as a source of possible restaurants to try, but yea, I can see that it is not definitive as a whole list.

xpost - thanks!

i'm not really looking for suits at the moment. just well-made and -fitting shirts and pants.

my old job won't exist, that's the problem. though i got so mad yesterday i was imagining that i'd just resign. conscience bothering me about direction of things. i guess i can't afford to be all dramatic, though. gotta pay the rent.

sorry. yeah, i'm on the verge of being dramatic

I got the City Paper thing wrong, as flawed as it is, every restaurant on that list is at least decent. They saved the shorty ones for the staff picks on the website.

I think the CP's Carman lives in Silver Spring or nearby and it seemed like to me he used to cover more restaurants from there and from Wheaton then some of the other area reviewers (the same way the Northern VA based Tyler Cowen emphasizes that area). But he's got restaurants from all over so that might be just my perception.

So I'm moving to Takoma Park! Should be signing the lease today.

It's not comprehensive enough, but there are a few funny bits in the latest Onion re restaurant reviews.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/DenverBarry.jpg

yeah, heh, is that actually on the cover of the print ed.?

It is.

The cover quote regarding Marion Barry on this week's City Paper is:

1. Unnecessary and juvenile and insensitive

2. Acceptable and relevant

3. None of the above

4. Who cares

5. I stopped looking at the City Paper years ago

or

6. __________

7. All of the above

"Loose Lips" p. 6

It was out there for little children to see.

7

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/639021.html

"The paper admits it has received many complaints about the issue's cover, including some vendors who have asked to pull the tabloid. By all accounts, the copies of the free newspaper are disappearing quickly."

I can't really say 5 because I moved house three months ago
can't wait for this though http://www.hbo.com/events/ninelivesofmarionbarry/index.html

i think that was at silverdocs? and got meh reviews?

Yep, that's what I thought.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902792.html?hpid=topnews

"Before Barry's news conference yesterday, two women approached a group of reporters and demanded to know which one worked for the City Paper. They soon began shouting at City Paper's Jason Cherkis, waving a copy of the newspaper at him."

looool

Exhibits I saw Saturday that I recommend:

William Eggleston, Democratic Camera Photos and Video 1961 to 2008 at the Corcoran

I didn't like the video. Music fans, his Big Star cover and Alex Chilton Like Flies on Sherbet are included

Jaromir Funke and the Czech Amateur Avante-Garde (photos) at the National Gallery West Wing

Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction at the National Gallery West Wing

Some of the Eggleston photos are bizarre, others are 'hey I could have done that,' but some are special both due to his eye, technique and choice of subject matter. It's an interesting guide to parts of the American South.

http://www.fromkomitomarvin.com/

This woman is eating at all of Washingtonian's 100 best restaurants this year and blogging about her meals.

not trying to be a hater here but i wish more bloggers would EDIT. she does not need that many words to make her points.

this looks cool (tho i can't picture the location), going to check out standing in the shadows of motown tomorrow night: http://www.nomasummerscreen.com

I can't quite picture the location either (and have wanted to go to one of these but have not made it there yet). I got a press copy awhile back of the Shadows of Motown dvd and found it interesting, but am curious how it will work as an outdoors free flick.

Will, what did you think of the movie and the location?

thumbs up on the location. big screen, not a huge space but not too crowded, good mix of people. they sell bbq for $cheap but we picked up sandwiches and beer from taylor on h street--so good.

movie pretty interesting, though about 25% of it was footage of a reunion concert of the surviving funk brothers (uncredited motown backing musicians) playing live w/ like ben harper, bootsy collins, and joan osbourne (!?) singing the tunes, and all that did was make me want to hear the originals (which i'm listening to now). aside from that, the documentary had strange feel, like it was shot and lit in an atypical style for a documentary at least ime--at points i swear actors were playing what were supposed to be people on the street, or the real funk brothers were sitting in a fake car interior pretending to drive around while they reminisced. strange.

I NEED TO DRINK. Does anyone want to join me?

Damn. I would have done if I'd seen this earlier. I am drinking now, alone. Would pop out for a quick one now though if you're anywhere near Dupont and want to drink with a near-stranger stressed out by tragic events.

no energy to do anything right now.. none. I went for a pretty long walk earlier when it was still about 85-90 and muggy outside and now I feel just completely drained, which is odd - must be the weather. i am sorry because i've recently been uh, saved from the trouble of dramatically resigning from my job (layoffs!), so it's not like i have to be up early.

watching CNN now but there's not much new news at this hour.

Sorry about your news daria.

oh, thanks. it's OK, i wanted to leave, was only a matter of time really.

good grief jakarta

This weather is balls, but unfortunately it is just normal for this time of year, after the reprieve of the last few weeks.

Today was my last full time day at my job. wooooooooo! What's up, stack of unread starting-you-own-business books at the end of my desk...

So I've been by the GAYLORD NATION at "nat'l harbour" a couple of times now, and I've been by the new ATF HQ a few times as well, and I think Maryland REALLY has to go ahead and legalize gambling, because they are sitting on AC Jr. a boat ride from old town, and not even slots to speak of, while the employer of hunter age 7's dad apparently purchased 1/4th of a ballpark just to prove Kenneth Arrow wrong, and having lost the bet, turned the result into offices.

they may as well, it goes on all over the state anyhow. was totally unaware that this thing existed, what is it, oxon hill?

I went to the dueling piano bar there.

you can cab to national harbor for a lot less than you'd think, and if you plan an exit strategy involving the water taxi to alexandria, you get to catch a nap between drunkenings. we did it backwards while the parents were in town, but I'm not losing any sleep.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&view=map&q=Waterfront+St+%26+Waterman+Passage,+Fort+Washington,+Prince+George%27s,+Maryland+20745

lol dirt

dueling piano bar?!

Yea, Bobby Mckeys, Fritz Hahn wrote about it in the Post. They take requests from the crowd and sing them (and if someone shows up later and requests the same song, they'll sing it again.). I think I will stick with old soul groups at Lamont's in Pomonkey, Maryland (not too far away from National Harbor) but it might be worth it once.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/profile/bobby-mckeys-dueling-piano-bar,1154537/critic-review.html

it is totally worth it if you want the opportunity to be like O_o

Not sure how they're working out all the code issues w/ the diner - it it possible to get a building relocated from another state grandfathered? What about accessibility/emergency egress path requirements? I have enough trouble getting regular construction to meet the latest codes so it's hard to imagine how an old diner will.

― sussing out the Slick Hustler (I DIED), Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:39 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/07/14/capital-city-diner-hopes-to-open-for-service-in-september/

Most of the DCRA comments are in, says co-owner Matt Ashburn, and so far the biggest change comes from the folks in plumbing, who want Cap City to add two handicapped-accessible bathrooms.

The only problem with that, Ashburn figures, is that the vintage 1940s-era diner has only about 560 square feet — total. The two bathrooms would take up about 70 square feet alone. “That’s a large chunk of our restaurant, and we can’t do that,” Ashburn says.

I would just like to point out that I have been OTM in this thread.

May that knowledge help you establish your own business...

In more mundane foodie news...Obama in DelRay (Alexandria)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/06/24/dairy-godmothers-owner-doesnt-want-the-obama-bump-that-rays-hell-burger-got/

Oops, that was back in June. The blog post is just getting more comments