Linda Blair Is My Aerobics Instructor: DC Metro Area V

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

1000+ posts in under a month? Way to waste time, people! OK, so to wash the unpleasant taste of discussing whether GwynJen qualify as "hot moms" (answer = ew no), we should redirect into...uh...hm...cherry blossoms! I think I'm going on Friday night, to avoid crowds and deadly UV radiation.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ohh...I didn't see this one. Fuck some cherry blossoms, DC hotels shoot up their rates 18x higher whenever someone says the word "cherry blossoms." I'M SORRY CRAPPY CITY THAT THIS IS ALL YOU GOT BUT FUCK'S SAKE.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i've actually never been, so i figure it'll probably be lame and then i'll go drink beer instead. but i like the cap. area at night a whole lot more than during the day, so it's worth a go.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I will leave the hot moms discussion where it was.

I HIGHLY recommend going to see the Cherry Blossoms, Zack. Go once in the daytime and once at night - both times are really pretty. The view from the FDR Memorial accross the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson is pretty amazing with the trees in full bloom.

But, man you wanna talk about crowded? Jeesh.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh the blossoms are nice but yes, CROWDED. I had a v. bad experience the first time I went to see the blossoms, not because of the crowd but because of PEOPLE I WAS WITH, leave it at that. So Tom and I went back on a weekday and it was much better.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out one of the most awesome pieces of pop trivia EVER:

Re: Linda Blair

During the early 1980s she had a passionate relationship with singer Rick James, but left him when she could no longer handle his drug addiction.

Yes, I had a brain fart and had to wiki her name.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wait so is she really an aerobix instructor in the Exorcist?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.horror-wood.com/EXORCISTHEADTWIST.jpg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right. Is the answer to my problems MORE or LESS coffee?
I was busy reading about "Eternal September."

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

More. Its still before noon.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, everybody who has posted here so far has slept on colonial terrace!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

(zack's the sucker on the couch)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

that's a shame.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

not at this part of colonial terrace though:

http://www.bovislendlease.com/llweb/llc/main.nsf/images/content_news_colonialtce01.jpg/$file/content_news_colonialtce01.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't slept on colonial terrace.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sitemaps.com/Custom_Map_Design/Web_Maps/index_map/ROSSLYN/ROSSLYN.gif

if you look closely you can see the street. I had no idea there were so many...hotels.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn virginia

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

get that chi-town fucker out of our thread before he starts talking about tomatoes on a hot dog and shit

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

NO NO I DIDNT BRING UP COLTERR TO EXCLUDE PEOPLE!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh jesus speaking of colterr, i want caltor so bad.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell are you guys even talking about?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

hot dog stuff = read one chicago thread
colterr = colonial terrace
caltor = california tortilla

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

why would I read one chicago thread? I never even been there.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

So, check this out....CUA Law, the fine institution from which I will be graduating in just under two months, has decided to have Rep. Rick Renzi from AZ as our commencement speaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi

The best quote I read in there is

Due to the various ethical charges that have been raised by Renzi's opponents, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington labeled Renzi one of the "13 most corrupt members of Congress"

I am so ready to get the fuck out of that asylum.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I will be doing an official, same-day taste test of Five Guys and In-n-Out. I will consider my results to be conclusive and irrefutable.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i was in DC for a "protest" once, in college. i just walked around and looked at stuff. pretty nice!

i'm just here building bridges, folks.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

im going to chicago for the first time in early june, so ive been occasionally poking my head into their thread. head into thread! im rappin, im rappin, im rap-rap-rappin! rap-rap-rappedy-rap-rap-rap-rappin!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, you're welcome to be here. This, like any other extension of our nation's capital, is national property to be enjoyed by all.

But stand on the right side of the fucking escalators!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

If u want to build bridges you need to agree with us that this city is pretty crap though!!! We should arrange a Chicago-DC summit.

Also, Renzi is a DOUCHEBAG also commencement speaker buh?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

That picture is missing a couple of hotels. There's a Hilton Garden Inn I can see from my office window not on there. IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, I'm graduating from the same law school he graduated from, ergo, he's showing some alumnus pride.

He graduated in 2002. What the fuck? I have more legal experience than he does.

Ugh. This makes me realize that moving to CA is going to be a GREAT move in the end.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

earthquakes, dude

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just thought it was pretty, like a park. I was only in the capitol area, though.

any summit would have to be in a neutral location. Cleveland?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I want to find some thread for good time-wasting conversation again since the rest of iLx is pretty useless.

I have been to both Chicago and DC several times. Which thread do I take up?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Earthquakes, yes. And mudslides, bad traffic, smog, and orange people.

But damnit if Feb. in the high 70s didn't just make SENSE.

I would be in support of Cleveland. We could go to the Rock-N-Roll Hall three times, and then leave.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

here on the dc thread, we let you get a word in, edgewise.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

but only edgewise

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sam, we seem to be attracting a few non-DCers lately so this is as good a place as any!

I dunno about Cleveland...what is there to do there? Does it indeed "rock"?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cleveland = The Flats = DRINK AND BE ACCOSTED BY HOMELESS.

Also strippers if you go to the West Bank.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

dude cleveland totally rocks
http://musik.antville.org/static/musik/images/pere%20ubu-the%20modern%20dance.jpg

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

ok I'm sold.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Homeless Strippers?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Look Out for it (xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Renzi spent $436,590 of his own money on the election, in addition to large donations from Mantech International executives, who were the largest single source of outside money for the campaign.

FUCKBAGS
you people think LM, GD, NG and Boeing are bad...

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Cleveland rocking:

http://www.uttertrash.net/rocket.jpg
http://www.scatrecords.com/images/eeruw1.jpg
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artists/The_Styrenes-image.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/pagan_pages/pbasemt.jpg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever been to Cleveland.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I might've driven through it, once. But I'm not really sure. I've been to Buffalo. That place was fairly crap, TBH.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Cleveland a bunch, actually. My brother and sister in law used to live there while he was a pilot for Continental.

I could see myself having a good couple of days there, but it just seems to be...kind of sedentary and dull. Beer, sports, food. Repeat.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Beer, sports, food. Repeat.
thats a pretty good life!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS GONNA SAY!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

buffalo, no, albany yes. also crap.

I'd probably like Cleveland. I like the seemingly boring places - it's fun to dig up the good stuff.

Except it's probably cold right? Don't like cold.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

provided awesome rock music is included in beer!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, yeah, until you have a coronary at 40 when the Browns miss that last second field goal b/c you just HAD to have a third helping of potato skins with EVERYTHING on them with dinner four times that week.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wait...that does sound like a pretty good life, minus the coronary part.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm not a fan of cold either, we have to not do this "Cleveland thing" in winter, or spring, or fall or anything that isn't dead of summer I think.

Actually can we just move the summit to Charleston?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Charleston, WVa? Now that I can get behind.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Cleveland once. Drove through on route from NYC to Chicago. I liked it, but we only drove past the Rock N Roll Museum and down some dodgy lake-side side streets before heading on.

Welcome Sam and other out of towners!

Z., how Japanese-like of you to view the cherry blossoms at night! I didn't know that this was even an option in DC. Are there paper lanters or do we merely make do with the lights of the city? To be truly Japan-esque though, you should go during you lunch break in suit and tie, take off your jacket, roll up your sleeves, and have a sake picnic underneath the canopy of trees.

D., I thought of a new option for your viewing situation. Have you looked into the Georgetown library movie selection? If they have stuff, it will be freee. (I'm assuming your job entiles you to a membership?) I'm making do right now with Netflix plus Tivo plus watching all of the BBC miniseries rented from my library but this movie talk is making me think I might have to rejoin Video Vault just to make sure I am not missing any bases.

My main problem with Netflix is that my tastes change faster than the movies can arrive. So by the time Bubble has arrived (yesterday) I've decided I'm now into watching the early Pasolini films, and by the time those have arrived, no doubt I will be into something else.

x-post: Don't be dissing the Buffalo, Ally.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I lived in Cleveland my entire adult life until moving down here in 2000. That pretty much covers it. They've made a lot of attempts at trendifying things to keep yuppies in town, without much success. There's a Hard Rock Cafe, a House of Blues, martini bars, etc. etc. Seeing a ballgame downtown is still fun, though.

Good stuff to do in the 'burbs, too, depending.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

get behind your cousin!

OHHH SNAPPPP-P

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

And, in the spirit of cleveland, off to Five Guys. Huzzah!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

lake-effect snow = classic

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I actually didn't know night-time viewing was an option either.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

PS Ally, Cleveland in summer = death humidity and lots of little flying bugs. To be avoided. Fall is optimal.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

lantern lighting ceremony (4/2)

i lived in dc for 3 years, and never saw the cherry blossoms. maybe next year.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

ick!! Are they like those bugs you get in Phoenix that are very tiny, and you end up breathing them in and they cover your windshield in this thin film of...bugs?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

hey weren't we supposed to FAP in baltimore sometime too? Mary i like yr suit'n'sake picnic idea but casual friday & happy hour means that my equivalent will probably end up as stumbling around drunk on poor quality rail vodka

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah we were gonna go to b'more and beat jess at trivia, or something like that. or our old trivia team, I don't even remember now.

I am going to do this sake picnic idea. But not in a suit. Well only if the weather turns nicer v. soon :( :(

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

i miss trivia

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

YES. They're mayflies, commonly referred to as "Canadian soldiers." They all hatch at once and fly around in enormous head-engulfing swarms and blanket every fucking thing. They used to cover my garage door, so as soon as I opened it every morning the goddamned things would rise up in this huge black cloud . . . gaaaaaaaaaah.

Imagine this x a billion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haft.jpg

HI DERE

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sake picnic-ers: Remember you have to get drunk and sing songs and evoke the truly Japanese spirit of fleeting happiness.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

mono no aware, motherfuckers

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

My best view of the cherry blossoms was totally unexpected a few years ago sitting in the window seat on the left side of a plane as it landed at National from the north - a few hundred feet up from the tidal basin, just perfect.

Isn't there trivia on Sundays at Bedrock Billiards?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

are you in the DC area now Mary?

bubble was a strange movie. I changed my address on Netflix too soon so now the movies are going to our new house even though we havne't moved it yet. bummer.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

At what point do we get to grope underage school girls, cos that's the part I'm interested in.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Mary,

where is your library and can I give you lots of CDs and books that I can't sell on Amazon fast enough?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

actually, yeah, y'all are right. fuck cleveland.

Hawaii!

xp At what point do we get to grope underage school girls, cos that's the part I'm interested in.

me too

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

ooh Hawaii, I never been there either.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Sam, I came to my senses and realized that NYC was indeed for sell-outs.

Ha-ha, schoolgirl groping can be done on the Metro post-viewing, or inside karaoke rooms, or in ill-lit back alleys. It just wouldn't be right to engage in such behavior out in the open.

Tommy, my library is on Duke street. You can drop off CDs and books for us to resell, though it may be more convenient for you to try a DC library. You can also get a tax slip and estimate the donated items at whatever value you wish. Someone dropped a pristine collection of the GTO manga series but we're not sure we can put it in the YA section because parents might not like the teacher-student relationship:(

Maybe Hawaii is the site of your secret honeymoon, A.? I've never been and would like to go also.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

"tommy"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm spending 8 days in Maui this September, in a beachfront condo I don't even have to pay for! JOB PERK SUCKAS!!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

but you guys know that if we did DC ILX goes to hawaii it'd only be a matter of time until tom picked up a tiki thinking it was a good luck charm and then it'd go all brady bunch and end up with vincent price tying us up in a cave or something.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

(hawaii kicks total ass by the way, if anyone ever goes go to the big island and spend a whole hell of a lot of time on the volcano because it's the single coolest place on earth, except for maybe the 4,000 ft. high cloud forest/swamp with giant prehistoric plants and no insects on kaua'i)

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

wait is that supposed to be a deterent or an encouragement?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am planning to go to the big island (and now perhaps kaua'i) circa 2008-9, if I recall correctly. i might go to balto circa memorial day.

the main DC library has lots of movies, i think

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

On the cherry blossom thing, is it cool or not to plug that I'm going to be part of the entertainment at the festival stuff? Still being mostly a n00b I'm not clear on the protocols here.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

no dude, there are no protocols here. what are you doing?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

protocols:
1. drink
2. do not like army of me

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's totally cool if you are going to be playing the taiko drums or dancing around in a funny outfit. So what will you be doing?

DC can't barely manage to get together for dinner, so (hate to be a killjoy) but I have doubts of any such road trips going off.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I've recently taken over a slot playing bass in a band called The Hickories. Folkish-rock, Americana-type stuff, female-fronted, been getting a bit of press lately. Playing on 4/1 as part of the street festival stuff down by the Jeff. Memorial.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, while drinking. And wearing a funny outfit.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

ally and tom are busy that day

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Daerest LEARNING TREE, I don't want to learn any more! ok thnx

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Daerest LENDING TREE, when banks compete for my business I win! ok thnx

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

(what is the dreaded Learning Tree?)

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think the secret honeymoon is going to be... DULUTH.

― Dan (The City Of Lovers!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

DULUTH. I can't remember the last time I went to Duluth. I bet I'd really like it there, now.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

FLY HIGH DULUTH!!!!!!
FLY HIGH DULUTH!!!!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

The last time I was in Duluth was 1986! I bet it hasn't changed.

― Dan (Ah, Stasis) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

duluth, duluth, duluth is on fire

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, I am LA bound, folks. Wife/dog/In-n-Out Burger, here I come!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

so long, The Ape

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

say hi to the hot moms for us

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

have a great time andy! tell ash hey

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Would anyone like to bang out a short article on meth use and HIV risk? I need it in, uh, forty minutes. I'll buy you beers! Shit, I'll buy you METH!

Also: I really, really need help with assembling a warm-weather wardrobe. Without help I fear I will end up at Eileen Fisher, which I once heard very aptly described as clothing for women who have just given up.

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

here, just plagiarize this

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

beer will be fine. or TOMATOES!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

My god if I didn't love my home-grown heirloom tomatoes so much I really would blow up the community garden and hopefully take all of the gardeners with it. Note to self: NEVER volunteer with community-based organization EVER AGAIN.

This is where I get my tomato plants--I haven't ordered yet, so I am open to suggestions (scroll down for variety descriptions). I'll grow maybe six plants this year.

http://www.selectedplants.com/varieties.htm

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

You should try the following, because I like the names:

Zogola Paste F3
Wanda's Potato Top
Tennessee Britches
Super Sioux
Stump of the World
Stupice Cross F3
Pink Ping Pong
Novogogoshary
Explosion
Auspicious 88th birthday

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

CLEARLY THIS ONE???

Big Zac F1

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Or just plant a huge pumpkin patch and some of the giant 14' tall sunflowers.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Fake Accents, I suggest you scour those tomato variety names for song titles. And not just for Big Zac F1.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Brian and Ally both OTM!

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

serious choice: SunGold

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

novogogoshary is pretty awesome

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect you may not find out how 'Explosion' got its name until some fateful day in October.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I read "Dwarf Besser" as "Dwarf Blesser" and was like WHOA where do I buy me some of that one.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

SunGold is a definite--I've grown it for the past three years and it bears so much fruit I have a hard time keeping up with it! I'll also do a Cherokee Purple although the yields on that one haven't been so great for me--but the fruits I do get are INCREDIBLY delicious. Brandywine red was a good producer of tasty fruit, and I love Aunt Ruby's German Green--tart and tasty and gorgeous mixed with red/pink/orange varieties. I'd like to get a yellow/orange in there but Kellog's Breakfast was too hard to grow and I gave up on keeping it alive before I ever got fruit off it.

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

is yr community garden one of the ones that has like 17 year waits to get in?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Zogola Paste F3 = Italian prog
Wanda's Potato Top = Phish cover band
Tennessee Britches = 3rd album title
Super Sioux = 40+ minute version of "The Lord's Prayer"
Stump of the World = Grog and Tankard band, vaguely religious though nondenominational, uplifting "big" feel, one dude has a goatee (bass) another one a lip ring (rhythm gtr)
Stupice Cross F3 = dark laptop experimentalists
Pink Ping Pong = pervy NY dance-rock, fun live show but y'know
Novogogoshary = Latvian punk band, probably in jukebox at the Pharmacy
Explosion = I think someone's used this already
Auspicious 88th birthday = outtake, pretty easy to find on slsk, should have been left on the album

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha those are awesome dude

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Stupice Cross F3 = dark laptop experimentalists

Absolutely! This may, in fact, already be an Autechre track title.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I especially love Novogogoshary as Latvian punk band!

Ally there is a waitlist but it ain't 17 years long--more like a couple months, maybe? If you're thinking about it let me know and I'll get you on--if you decide later you're not into it you can just decline a plot or ask to be pushed down the list for a while.

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to!! I would like to try it out and see if I can manage getting anything at all to grow. I tried to get info online by just typing "DC Community Garden" into google and was frustrated by no central websites seeming to exist :(

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dood e-mail me and I will hook you up!

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Confidential to mookie: I do not ship tomatoes to NYC! Also: your team is gonna lose tonight, causing much joy on 38th street (because I no longer have anything to live for in this tourney except to see duke lose)!

― quincie, Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I no longer have anything to live for in this tourney except to see duke lose

now you know what it's like to be a murrahlander

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

duluth, MN? a close relative of mine was Duluth's Citizen of the Year. it's a fact. my whole family's from around there. the last time I visited they'd spiffed up the downtown quite a lot & it had a couple of trendy record stores. I bought a Bad Seeds album & something else, maybe it was Captain Beefheart, I can't remember. my dad was like, OK, let's get the hell out of here now so I can play golf.

http://www.duluthcurlingclub.org/Labatt.asp

oh yeah.. Duke sucks!

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, who can recommend a good Indian, Thai or Chinese restaurant in the Gallery Place neighborhood? I don't spend much time downtown so I'm less than clueless here.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha apparently Duke does suck! ROFFLE

― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a garden of my own to grow in but have yet to try. What tomatoes should I start with? when do you plant them? What else is good beginner stuff. My guy wants to have a lime tree and a avocado tree. pbbt.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly I cannot help you with yr tomato dilemma, but I can express joy that Duke lost. Rawk.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

and Texas won! Did you see that 0.9 sec basket?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Meanness

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

hey phil - nirvana, the bombay club, and bombay palace are all a quick walk from the farragut north metro (two stops from chinatown). nirvana is vegetarian and delicious, bombay club is swanky, and bombay palace is pretty versatile. is that totally un-helpful?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, very helpful actually! Thanks!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, a new Indian place called Rasika opened a few months back on D st between 6th and 7th. Same owners as Bombay Club, but more hip than swank. Deliciousness! For Chinese try Full Kee or New Big Wong.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sam am I correct that you are in Texas? Although I lived in Galveston for a couple of years I never tried tomatoes there, but I do know that Texas tomato-growing is a whole other bucket of worms. I think there are some particularly heat-tolerant varieties--try the gardenweb.com forums for recommendations (the people on the tomato board are super!) You'll probably get to plant several weeks sooner that I will--are your nighttime temps consistently above 54-ish yet?

― quincie, Friday, 24 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

They were until this past week then we hit some freezing temps. damn tx weather.

I hate bugs and this has kept me from gardening for awhile. ugh.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

New Big Wong

DUDE THIS IS A FAKE ACCENTS SONG WAITING TO HAPPEN!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

(oh speaking of which we're playing on tuesday night at the warehouse. i think my shit might even work this time - i'm due)

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I tried Oohs and Ahhs today. I really liked the mac & cheese but thought the collard greens were a bit too simultaneously buttery and tart, but what do I know, maybe they are supposed to be that way. I ate downstairs, is there upstairs seating also? I never though the etiquette on U. Has anyone tried Thai X-ing? Oh, tom and ally, ooohs and ahhs has chicken wings.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have to check out Oohs and Ahhs, although the name kind of weirds me out.

Brian, may I have your professional opinion on the new(ish) Katzen Art Center or whatever that AU building on Mass is called? I pass by it every day and have really never had strong feelings about it, but Mr. Q finds it patently offensive and totally spazzes on the rare occasions he's with me when we pass by.

― quincie, Friday, 24 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's not as bad as I would have expected it to be, but it's not exactly a highlight either. It looks relatively dignified because they used nice materials (except for the cheap bowing glass right on the circle). It's not a great place to show art - how can small galleries with no budget get it so right and a $48 million arts center fail? It sort of tries to be a cross between the East Wing, Strathmore Hall, and Bilbao. But, as I said, it's better than I would have expected from AU.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

All the talk of cherry blossoms upthread has inspired me to take a couple of hours off this afternoon to meet Mr. Q downtown and go look at those damn trees already (I have not yet done this in my 4-ish years in the area). Does anyone have suggestions for dinner in Foggy Bottom or downtown or, uh, basically anywhere on way from the Tidal Basin to the Red Line or Georgetown?

Also: TOM AND ALLY IS YOUSE READY FOR SOME MARRIAGE?

― quincie, Monday, 27 March 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Q, try eating at the bar in the back of Notti Bianche, on New Hampshire btween Washington Circle and the Kennedy Center.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://72.224.21.212/epub/pbride/pbimages/IC.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.deanmarkley.com/images/EndArtists/HankWilliamsJr.jpg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

scratch that, found a better one:

http://www.birdsongresort.com/photo_gallery/celebrity_shots/images/6u_hank_williams_jr.jpg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea what is going on vis-a-vis those pictures dudes.

Brian I'm so glad you said that becuse Notti Bianche was on my short list (along with Circle Bistro and Bistro Francais) and my bet is Mr. Q will be happier with Italian than French, so Notti Bianche it shall be! What should I order?

― quincie, Monday, 27 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

z's pics = "are you ready for some..."
my pic = "...mawwaige"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Q, they've changed their menu since I was last there but the pastas have been good and the hanger steak was great. Haven't been crazy about the starters. Nice wine list, esp. the Grappler by the glass. Do not be tempted by the house made limoncello - one of the most foul things I've ever tasted.

Circle Bistro is completely awesome for happy hour (until 8pm!) in the bar area with 1/2 price drinks including all wines by the glass and a nice bar menu. And I think the good bartender is working tonight.

Bistro Francais is only notable for serving shitty food until 4am.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey if you had to choose one (Notti vs. Circle) for tonight early-ish (I mean seriously I don't think I need to look at the damn trees for like three hours or anything), which would win out? I will bend my dinner to your will!

― quincie, Monday, 27 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Brian i don't know if i've ever told you this but i am 100% in awe of your foodism.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

are these places for sure open on mondays?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded! And in my world, foodism is next to, uh, godli-ism

Xpos mookie why you try'n to rain on my fucking cherry blossom festival?

― quincie, Monday, 27 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

also ally, ain't nothin wrong w/a little coug

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

yes there is

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

there's a LOT wrong with it

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post) They're both open tonight - they're both in GW-owned hotels, and hotel restaurants are pretty much always open. That's a lot of pressure on the choice, Q, but I'd say Circle Bistro as you'll be there for happy hour. Get seats at the bar or in the lounge and order away, it's quite a bargain. Two cones of frites for $3, some fish tempura for $4, charcuterie plate, the salad with the egg, etc. I'm very fond of the bourgogne they've got by the glass ($5.50 in proper stemware at happy hour).

None of you would be impressed with my foodism if you'd seen me get lectured by the staff of Alberto's pizza at 3am Saturday - "You come here every night!". It doesn't sound that harsh, but there was scorn in the inflection.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm confident I could ask Brian to plan a Point of No Return-style assassination and rocket-launcher-dodging escape for any restaurant in the metro area.

"Now, as you flee through the pastry department, you'll find twenty half-cup ramekins on a shelf above the yolk brushes; throw these behind you to disrupt foot pursuit and pick up a steel rolling pin--you'll be needing it later. If you spot any finished profiteroles on the prep table, be sure to try one, they're exquisite...."

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

new C/D: blob's park. if it's not too late, ally and tom, you guys should seriously consider moving yr reception there. polka + beer + lederhosen = tres classique.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

OK bye all I'm off to see the purty trees.

Xtra thanks Brian for the recs. I will lift a glass of the bourgogne in your honor!

― quincie, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

dude when are we doing blob's park?? not this week. how about 3 weeks from now? that's enough time for anyone else who wants to come to CLEAR SCHEDULE FOR BEER AND POLKA??

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

OK yeah seriously like i know we've ineffectively floated the idea of Bmore or food somewhere and god knows what else but i demand that our next FAP occur at blob's. it's the stuff that dreams are made of, 4REAL.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I would go to B'more or Blobs Park or anything! I am game. AND STARVING right now. Jesus.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Q., the cherry trees are not ready yet! The parks department has confused "peak" with "buds." Oh well,

What is Blobs?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blobspark.com/

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's like the German rec center Brigadoon!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

We held my mom's 50th birthday party there, it was awesome, and I have seen the mighty Jimmy Sturr's orchestra there as well. They've got delicious snackables, a fine bier selection and you are guaranteed to hear "the Pennsylvania polka" at least once every hour. Words cannot do justice.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

haha the father of one of my high school friends won a grammy for the 1988 (i think) polka song of the year...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Blob's Luau Party

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

ok we need to go to that.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

omfg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

blob's park is great, i agree

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys want to go? right now? I'm pretty hungry and would eat a brat.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that little bastard's been asking for it all day

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ce-review.org/ondisplay/images/brat.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.beatonthebrat.com/pixlar/splash.gif

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

did you guys see the squid and the whale? that movie is saaaad.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

No. Have you seen Brother? That movie is awwwwwesome.

seriously tho what is Squid and the Whale even about? I will netflix.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ally or Mookie, what is the parking situation at Tregaron?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

cherry blossoms = dc really does rule so hard for one week per year. i love the jefferson memorial so so much.

― carly (carly), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, the Hokusai exhibit has tons of interesting stuff, but way too crowded. The Hirshhorn is the only museum that that isn't overcrowded on weekends I guess. Also the Corcoran. DC hates contempo art?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

mary there will be parking available! Like, not street parking but right up by the mansion they have a small side lot area.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah parking's cool, though getting a cab is apparently sometimes a struggle.

you have to exit the other side though (not macomb), so check out a map so you can get back to conn/wisc!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

hi carly, where you been? give me advice on moving to nyc!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

you can't just back back out? Weird, I will have to keep that in mind.

mookie do you recommend I keep phone #s of cab companies handy? I figured you just walk down the street and grab one!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post) I went back to the Hokusai exhibit this weekend and it was very crowded indeed, but I think a lot of that was cherry blossom overflow. Normally the Freer and Sackler galleries are dead on weekends. Always worth stopping by the Renwick after the Corcoran, also usually empty.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was gonna say, I've rarely seen anyone besides myself and the security guards in the Sackler and Freer.

A map? Ha ha, Mookie you think I can read those indecipherable talisman-like things?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

We have moved.

After months of nothing I have a job interview on Friday.

Now, it's margarita time.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tregaronexit8js.jpg

stolen, with minor adjustments, from yet another tregaron couple.

yeah, you can totally get a cab if you walk down to connecticut, but i found that my peeps were awfully lazy at eleven...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

rather
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3219/tregaronexit8js.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

THANK YOU

sam, congrats :)

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

also, it goes by really quickly, and kicking people out at eleven is kind of early. you might think about a place for (the cool) people to congregate afterwards (we went to the irish bar at jurys dupont because that was where many folks were staying--and closed it down at three).

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

THIS JUST IN: my father is brutally insane. that is all.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

story plz

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

we are sort of incapable of trying to have a conversation without screaming at each other

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Cherry blossom time slams the whole mall--even the Hirshhorn! Last year I wandered into the Sackler/Freer and got caught in a crowd of the anime festival's cosplay enthusiasts.

Ugh, sorry Zack; I know the feeling. Hope this is one of those things that mellows out with time.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

does he object to all the effects pedals you buy?

i actually have two dads to please, but as it's turned out i'm bigger and surlier than both of them, so our problems are relatively infrequent...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

I keep hoping my father would've dropped dead but then he keeps turning up like a bad penny.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.innerpurpleline.org/images/Metro-map.gif

dudes we can only hope

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

my parents are both pretty exceptionally cool, as parents go.

a whole pile of the awesome crew at my wedding are staying at the jurys dupont (including my entire side of the wedding party), what's that about? How is that place, is it supernice? That seems like a good idea to go there for drinks afterwards except someone made us a 10am plane flight the very next morning. But everyone else could go drink...

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

jurys is pretty cheap for its location (probably even cheaper since they're doing massive renovations at the moment). the bar is fine, though it was rather more crowded than i expected. we just kind of took over an area. where are you guys staying that night?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

uh ally you are DEFINITELY drinking with people post-reception.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

i dont care if youre going to outer space the next day

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

dude they have to have a little time for, you know, consummation

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha but mooooooommmmm the space shuttle is going to leave without meeeee...

anyway we're staying at our apartment! I need to give my cats an opportunity to fuck up my gown, dude.

anyway I think we should go to that ridiculous Irish pub on the corner of Macomb, since it is closest. Then I MAYBE will be able to sneak away and take the METRO in my GOWN because I really want to do that but my entire bridal party and my mom are all like WE WILL DRIVE YOU DON'T BE STUPID. But I will only go for like an hour.

xpost ha ha yes otherwise I will never lose my virginity.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

for my honeymoon I can definitely just stay up all night and sleep on a damn plane you know I got first class tix and I can nap on some coach class amtrak shit when I gots to so once we get through security I will just whip out my Systems Engineering textbook and snore for 3000 miles, no thang.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

people in first class be all "who is that smelly man with the sleep apnea and the most boring book ever written glued to his chin by drool, he must be a rockstar"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's really not the "getting sleep" portion that is preventing me from wanting to drink til 3am insomuch as it is the "consummation" portion, asshole!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

whew, glad that's over. burning parental resentment is once again back at nice, manageably subconscious levels, drowned out by the bright tone, wide sweep and expanded feedback capacities of the teese rmc picture wah w/foxrox retrofit. thanks again, consumerism, yr a gem!

(if you'd like to see me and said wah in action, and pete hitting stuff hard, there's hot rockin afoot 2nite at the warehouse)

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

hit stuff hard pete, hit stuff hard.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think he should hit YOU hard for calling him the wrong name.

30% of my friends are really lame, dudes.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

on the plus side, 70% of yr friends are total bros. that's a better average than most.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

that's a good point. I just don't understand why everyone is not a bro, I guess.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

wait - did tom call me the wrong name?

also, i had to get onto here by way of NYPLM - could my organization have blocked ILX?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

no, the ilxor.com address hasn't been working too well for me either today, i've just been using wh3rd.net directly

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

niiice

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

no he called zack you. unless he was just directing you for no reason to start beating the crap out of things, which in that case i approve.

guys i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, don't you have bridal type things to be doing?

I'm so bored of home renovations. except for the staining wood. That's pretty cool.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

i need a nap

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I need two.

Guys don't see The War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise.
I am still angry that we wasted a netflix on it. What I mean by that was that the conceivable "waste" involved in watching said film was so negligible as to be imperceptible to any outside observer - but I can detect that this morning, something has been lost, and that something is two hours of my life I could have spent watching the Food Network or one of the Discovery channels, instead of a Spielberg movie that sucked all 31 flavors of ass.

Who wants to pretend to be me at noon and eat lunch with my parents?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

it wasn't that bad of a movie.

grow two (2) balls and tell your parents to fuck themselves.

also I would prefer to be doing bridal things but I'm at work :(

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha despite my new short haircut I don't think I could pull it off!

xpost

― quincie, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was hoping Cruise would get vaporized early on and the rest of the movie would be about his knuckleheaded buddies from the neighborhood.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

That movie was funny bad. Why were the aliens blasting humans in the beginning if they later were wanting to harvest their blood? Dumb

Those basket things were kind of scary though.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh...I didn't even think about that, the blasting humans if they need blood thing. The part that annoyed me the most was that dumbass shot right after the destruction starts that is like some faux-arty picture through a picture thing where Spielberg films the destruction...through someone's dropped camcorder! EXCEPT HELLO ALL THE ELECTRICITY AND BATTERIES WERE KILLED BY TEH ALIENS??? WAHT.

That is still making me mad! Of course the other thing that made me mad was the ending because I actually had no idea how we "defeat" the aliens in War of the Words and that was the most anticlimatic thing THAT HAS EVER BEEN SAID BY ANYONE!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Cry for help: Can any of you dapper creatures recommend me someone in DC who does halfway-decent alterations? I'm not looking for a bespoke suit or anything--just someone to knock a few inches off secondhand trousers etc.

I had the ladies at my dry cleaners hem some pants and I came out looking like a toreador.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

hey when are you newlyweds returning from yr mystery honeymoon (i'm thinking hawaii because ally said she hadn't been and not too many flights to europe leave at 10am)?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

next Sunday...which reminds me I have to find someone to stop by and feed Dr. Roffs and Mr. Kitty.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Please tell me it isn't as nice outside as it looks. I'm considering leaving work to drink tequila at a sidewalk table somewhere.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://local.google.com/local?sc=1&hl=en&q=miserable+failure&near=washington+dc&btnG=Google+Search&rl=1

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://local.google.com/local?sc=1&hl=en&q=bullshit+artists&near=washington+dc&btnG=Google+Search&rl=1

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

also "Bunch of Suckers" netted the Church of Scientology as the 4th result. This is a fun game!!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have a cat sitter to recommend. E-mail me if you're interested and I'll give you the info. She charges something like $15 per visit.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

the center for progress or whatever is both a miserable failure and a bullshit artist, it sounds like a good place.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

The real winners here are the Center for American Progress who come in 6th for Miserable Failure, 4th for Bunch of Suckers and 3rd on Bullshit Artists!!

haha xpost

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

US Senator John Warner is a sexy dude.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

hot.
ihttp://warner.senate.gov/images/warner.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

that's the farmer from Babe, not a senator.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of forgot; do we hate busboys and poets or not? i've never been and i'm supposed to go there for a friend's b-day dinner/drinks tonight before heading over to th b.c. to see destroyer. should i be dreading this?

also, DAEREST INCOME TAX RETURN: i luv u.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm waiting for someone to call me for a phone interview. Do you know how much I hate interviews? Well I hate phone calls ten times more. ARGH!! Why can't I just skip the interview and have the job?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

I dunno, I tried to listen to part of the Destroyer CD at a shop seemingly run by 40 year old raver dudes, and I didn't think it was any good..

I'm sure Busboys is OK. How bad could it be? It's prob not full of bros in striped shirts.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure what busboys and poets is but if it has drinks it can't be that hateable.

phone interviews are the absolute worst.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard Ps&Bs is pretty cool.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i dunno, dest. used to really drive me up the wall because it's pretty much the exemplification of everything that i tend to hate in vaguely indie music, but it's distilled and concentrated to such a ridiculous degree that i ended up really loving it.

phone interviews are k-lame, but not having to dress for one is k-classic

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

i meant dress up for one.

perhaps i've said too much.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have not been to Busboyz & Poetz! Mostly because the same owner operates Mimi's on my block, and they have singing servers and leave the windows open in warm weather, so I've got quite a bit of animosity toward him.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I did a phone interview for a nonprofit last year & then was invited in for a regular interview, only to learn upon arrival that the IT manager was on vacation, so we had to sit in a conference room and do the interview via speakerphone. that was a treat!

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH!! My phone died in the middle of the interview. I am teh moran!!!!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

OK guys I am here to let you know that the new Metro sound FX, to include the lady's voice who won the contest, are goddamn ATROCIOUS.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

They are indeed. I heard them today, and they are awful.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

STEP BACK!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

OK now I'm going to have to figure out a reason to be on the metro tomorrow so I can hear this WHO WANTS TO MEET FOR DRINKS?

― quincie, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

It is unlawful to drink on the metro.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

And what are you doing still at work?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

quincie I am already going out for drinks tomorrow! place not 100% decided right now. I will e-mail you tomorrow or you should call.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

a. i wanna have drinks unless i am still too hungover
b. the ape, i thought you were in cali
c. a guy named THOR served me beers tonight
d. i'd like to buy the BOTS a pre-nup beer

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Ape is back in DC for his victory lap before I leave for good. Keep us posted re: drinks tomorrow. I'm pulling for somewhere Dupont or south.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are any of you all still thinking drinks today? Its GORGEOUS outside.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

i forgot--i am unavailable for drinks tonight. but yes it is lovely out, and the cherry blossoms looked pretty good when i drove by this morning, so perhaps you should all leave work and head for the tidal basin.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

b-boys and poets (i'd definitely like it better if that were the actual name) was all right. the bookstore seems like a total tokenistic afterthought and scanning the titles gave me unappreciated memories of a few terrible american studies classes i took in college, but the food was good.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah dudes - the 4.95 PB/banana/honey sandwich is a GREAT deal. it comes with fruit, and it is totally delicious.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

who else is getting married on Saturday who has work/school for 14 hours today plus post-nasal drip in full effect*? hands up!

* also if you have fucking insane parents, that too.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Tom and Ally's impending nuptials loom large on the ILX horizon. Framed by cherry blossoms, of course.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Steph X can vouch for Busboys and Poets. I've gone a couple times. I do like it, though I am confused by their set up re seating, ordering, etc. It seems even if you just want a cup of coffee, you are supposed to wait to be seated. Their food is actually really good. And I like their selection of children's books. So, I think you will be fine tonight.

I'm heading in to see the blossoms with my sister right now. But we're kind of confused as how to get exactly to the tidal basin.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god I just had an opportunity to go outside for three seconds and it is GORGEOUS out there! Quick, someone come set the building on fire so that I leave for the day! Corner of Gude and Research kthxbye.

Tombot, how long will it take them to fire me if I start charging up a storm on my new LM corporate visa? Baby needs some new spring shoes!

xpost Mary have fun! Be careful not to be run off into the drink by an errant stroller!

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Take the Metro to L'enfant, walk westwards, follow the crowd!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

The weather! Is causing me! To use! Many exclaimation points!!!

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

WTF you get a corporate visa? We get mousepads and crap pens, occasionaly polo shirts which all the engineers then wear every Friday making our office look like a bunch of idiots.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, but by car--we are driving. 14th street bridge, turn around, go south on 15th till it becomes Raoul Wallenberg place, then, or?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

They made me get a corporate visa to charge "travel expenses." I travel for work like maybe twice a year. Where is my fucking LM expense account? Where is my polo shirt I only have a stupid gym bag and a stupid pin!

xpost oh man Mary by car? Parking was way better by the FDR memorial than by the paddle-boat rental/Jefferson memorial place, so I'd head that way (whichever "that way" is).

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

sounds scary to me. have no idea where to park over there.

anyway so one of my groomsmen has apparently set his phone to no longer accept incoming calls, and I need to find out if he is going to be on the damned plane tonight or not, with the tickets I PAID FOR, and if he even knows how to get to the damn hotel, and pick up a tuxedo.

RARGH WTF

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ya'll got your syphilis cards, right?

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even get a polo shirt. Although my company does own a condo on Maui, and I do get to use it for seven nights at no charge, so there's that.

Also I got a be-logoed water bottle for the gym.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason the only logo-type thing where I work is a bunch of baseballs, which we keep in a bowl as though they were apples. Note that we don't have a baseball team.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, we have logo hardhats, too.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

you put the hardhats on when you go outside to throw the baseballs at people's windows, the hats protect you from the falling glass and redouble the branding efficacy as your targets notice that the logo on the baseball matches the hats.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Now that LM has acquired a bunch of HIV/AIDS projects surely it can be only a matter of time before the company condoms are handed out?

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

ok I totally skipped the word "projects" in that sentence.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

And I thought it was ILM has acquired a bunch of HIV/AIDS".

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was just like, whoa, worst Xmas bonus ever, that's a bummer.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

whatever - then everybody's nice to you

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

You're thinking of cancer.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Except the religious right.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

We get complimentary water, all you can drink! Except for some buildings, where it's got too much lead and will kill you.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

hello beautiful weather! HELLO MASSIVE HISTAMINE RELEASE AND CORRESPONDING DEATH WISH! MISSED U!

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Other branded materials: Each bathroom contains extensive and detailed hand-washing instructions.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

89 on my decision analysis midterm!!!!!!!
FUCK YES THANK YOU JESUS FOR DA BRAINS

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

awesTOMe

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Quick, make a decision to show us what you've learned!

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

tom you do know your score is based purely on how closely your decisions would hew to those made by cheney-rove, don't you?

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm deciding to get off the fucking computer and go run some errands.

xpost yes, most of them were based on the profit motive

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Did you ever find your runaway groomsman?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe that was his errand.

Tom, are you in the IT division? Please say yes. I need help understanding, like, every other word of every other e-mail from Corporate.

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Quincie, how were the blossoms? I'll be schlepping out-of-towners through the throngs this weekend.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i once schlepped this chick through the throngs

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

right through the throngs, yknow?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

pete u r prevert

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i'm listening to "get away" right now and it makes me wanna throw my monitor out the window keith richards-gone-dweebo-like

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

what is get away?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://thetrashcollector.bizland.com/Records/RecordFlipperGetAway.jpg

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Pete you crack me up! ZR too.

Stephen I feel LIED TO by the Park service--last weekend in the Post they claimed peak bloom would be Sunday through Wednesday, so I thought I would be golden going on Monday. WRONG. There were a few isolated trees that had popped, but the vast majority hadn't bloomed yet. Oh well, it was still a beautiful day and a fun outing with the spouse.

Circle Bistro was perfect for an apres-bud dinner BUT: daerest DC restaurants, why you steal from me? This would be three times in the past year or so that the amount a restaurant charged to my credit card was more than the amount I signed for. Another time was at Palena. And it's not like I even really check my statements carefully, these were just things I happened upon rather incidentally.

I'm gonna go back and try the blossoms again at night sometime early next week, when I too will have out-of-towners to entertain.

― quincie, Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

teh wife said it was crazy crowded at yon tidal basin today

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Q - Typically a restaurant will place an additional amount on hold when the charge goes through to account for tip, as the tip won't get processed until afterward (I think it's stupid, but that's what it is). The proper amount should shouw up within a couple days, if not get on the phone with the manager post-haste! Or they just screwed up.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Those lying Park Service bastards! Never trust a grown man in a Smokey the Bear hat.

I hope those restaurant tabs rectify themselves; it's not like those places are bargain priced to start with.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

im listening to get away right now

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

isn't it great?

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

like it's got real feeling! i mean, the secret weapon of flipper songs is that they've all got real feeling, but that one in particular is pretty empathetic for something that hates everyone and everything so viscerally. killer guitar line too.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah - i totally agree - theyre totally closet humanists

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

OK, good to note: Flipper conversations seem to kill other conversations.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

So, drinks? Because this is not a good time for me to be not drinking. Meaning after 4pm.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Fine. Off to The Brickskeller upstairs bar for me.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

fuck it dude if I didn't have more decisionmaking to do for homework I'd see you there.

BTW rental tux coats = built for Chris Farley. God Dammit.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

probably for the best--you'll get lots to drink soon

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 30 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Listen if I were you mr. orange farmer I'd put some gas burners out in that orchard of yours, since we know that the expected loss from a cold snap is $50,000 and the probability of damage is a nice fat even 50/50.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 30 March 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

hey T & A, don't forget about daylight savings or you'll miss your flight on sunday

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 31 March 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning and happy Office Refrigerator Clean-Out Day. Please remove all items by COB or they will be TOSSED. We mean it this time!

― quincie, Friday, 31 March 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Please Excuse Our Appearance--Today Is Casual Day

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

it's friday, it's beautiful, i haven't shaved all week. life is great!

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

hey zack! from the "albums that bend in an incredible way" thread on ILM:

My copy of the Bongos' Drums along the Hudson is so warped that I am amazed it actually plays. The other LP I have that is REALLY bent is Miles Davis Four and More.

mp3s don't bend, do they?

-- mcd (srmcd...), March 31st, 2006.

dude!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah theyre like the feelies/db's!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have an interview in a couple of hours for an extremely well-paying job at a place I really like. I am convinced my notoriously bad luck will prevent any hope of me actually getting this job. I am terrified.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - i saw! goddamn it, my secret side project is now "Zogola Paste F3." tell yr friends!

i too am in interview hell, sam, although i'm probably not gonna take the position i'm up for. is this an in-person joint or the dreaded phoner?

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

good luck, MMxox!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah good luck Sam! The lead up is always worse than the actual interview (at least in my experience), so hang in there!

― quincie, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

hey now, don't worry! look at it this way, no job is perfect and you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you - they have to convince you that you should consider working there. good luck!

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

This is in-=person. I have another in-person monday from the phone interview I had the other day. I really want this one I'm going for today though. *sigh*

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

NO SIGHING! GROWL! BELLOW! THIS JOB IS YOURS!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

well dude if you're making it past the phone stage (even if it's for another job) then clearly you're doing all right so far. pete's right, sighing should be replaced with a loud elephantine trumpet, preferably in place of an introductory handshake.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

when are you interviewing, zack?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've got a phone jazz monday, i think? i don't know, i'm about 99% sure i don't want this - making more buckage, to be sure, but working in arlington, doing more managerial stuff and less writing, and having my gal's old roommate as my direct supervisor don't sound incredibly appealing. i'll probably just end up freelancing for them, which at their rates is really, really, really no bad deal.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

LEVERAGE THOUGH

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

i feel uncomfortable being so mercenary about things, y'know? like, my boss is, well, he's not a bro, but he has broish qualities. i keep thinking that should matter, although it clearly doesn't in the grand scheme of things. dam u, bizness world, and yr cold cold heart.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

i feel you

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

the zendiks are out in force today - i was accosted twice while getting lunch. NO I DO NOT WANT TO BUY YOUR DRAGON "ART" MAGAZINE.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Zack, don't you want to START A REVOLUTION?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i'd rather keep bitching, myself

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

The revolution will not be deodorized.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.zendik.org/Zendik_Farm/zfwv32.html

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

DO YOU LIKE UNDERGROUND ART?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

haha, that's the source of pete's login you know

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zendik.org/Zendik_Store/Store_Images/fest-t-shirts.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

SPIDER-MAN DOES NOT WEAR MAN-PRIS!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

man I haven't seen a Zendick in years. Not that I'm complaining.

Interview went very well I think. I want the job 10X more now than before I went in. I know a couple of people in that office already and one of the interviewers ran some jokes by them ahead of time to see if I would respond well. I think this is a good sign? (e.g. asking about me)

anyway, yeah, growl. keep your fingers crossed for me.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

i know this has been discussed seventy million times, but what's the html tag for an image without using the "i" trick?

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

xp - way to go!

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sam, that sounds like a very good sign; toes crossed.

If I remember right, the Zendiks used to have a public-access call-in show in Austin--it was an hour of their guru, "Wulf", insulting callers and junior Zendiks laughing at his jokes. Those were the days.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so tired i could puke

good on you, sam

(those were separate statements)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha this is the awesomest collage ever!

http://www.zendik.org/new1/arol/collage.html

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

The blossoms were in full bloom yesterday. I know the parks service has been saying peak for the past week: I think it's some evil plan to attract yet more tourists.

Tom and Ally, please take pictures by the tidal basin. It would be so cute.

We totally lucked out with the parking and got a place right away in a little parking lot near the FDR. My sister taught me the "poaching" technique, whereby you block off a whole row of cars, in order to increase your chances of first dibs at the spaces of returning tourists.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/8908/untitled19dm.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

i would actually buy one of those shirts.

mary, that parking technique sounds diabolical and completely genius.

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking forward to the zendik googlers arriving on this thread.

Mary, how do you block off the whole row of cars? Do you have orange cones in your trunk?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, no, what we did was, we pulled into the first little parking lot we saw. But the lot was full (of course) and there was a line of cars snaking around. My impulse was to stay close to the line of cars and follow around and leave the lot and try another one, but my sister, she of more experienced driving savvy, said, as we were going around a curb, poach here. So we had our pick of about 5 spaces. At the very moment, a Karl Rove type on foot gives a secret hand signal tip off that he was going to get in one of the cars, and that we were going to go in. My sister said sometimes you have good parking karma/luck and sometimes you don't. She also mentioned the power of positive thinking.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think your sister has an inspirational/self-help book in her.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I hope the blossoms are still looking good Sunday night because I'm thinking I will give it another go after crashing a dinner reception a rich biotech company is holding at the Natural History museum after hours. Why yes, Genentech, I'd love to get drunk on your dime! Thanks bro!

― quincie, Friday, 31 March 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Zendicks only come out in warm weather. I saw 'em in Silver Spring last summer/fall (right after the City Paper published a related cover story).

― ng-unit, Friday, 31 March 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's so nice out and I'm sitting here marking up a bunch of code

daerest internet exploder, CSS doesn't like you either. why isn't the container div containing my left hand menu? gee, maybe if I don't float this menu to the left that'll fix it? no, maybe it won't. arrrgh

http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/review/data_img/pic_20254.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

That story was kind of disappointing. I've kind of given up on the City Paper in favor of the NORTHWEST CURRENT. Now that is some fine journalism right there, people.

xpost Hi dar1a! What NEW SPRING FASHION should I be adding to my wardrobe this year (and, uh, where do I find it in DC?).

― quincie, Friday, 31 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

If there's any serious rain this weekend it's goodbye blossoms, so see 'em while you can. Or just look at a webcam now.

There's some kind of video art thing at the Corcoran starting at like 7 tonight, for those of you sneaking off to the Tidal Basin after work today.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

img tag is IMG in brackets. mmm, css.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what the bride and groom are up to today.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

probably freaking out, i'd guess

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder what the groom's parents are up to today.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder when the NYC mafia arrives.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 31 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

We'll probably be able to hear it from here.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

what's that? i think i hear some people complaining about not being able to get a decent slice of pizza...

― I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequiet), Friday, 31 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

spring fashion? hmm. I was at the urban chic store in georgetown today (not for me, a friend was looking for a dress).. nice things but in a way whenever I go in these fashion-y stores in DC it's usually fashion-y stuff for looking like you want to be from LA & not my cup of tea at all.. I dunno, I like the bermuda shorts though, lots of grey & neutral colors, and I'm sick of stuff being all fitted so am looking for more loose cut things.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 31 March 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I was killing time at Nana, I think it was, if that's on U street. And this annoying women walks in and asks the sales rep if she knows of those really trendy T-shirts all the Hollywood stars are wearing. And the sales person is like no. And this woman is like, I can't believe you haven't seen them. They are in all the magazines, and they have funny slogans, like I'm with Stupid. And the sales rep is like oh, I don't really read In Touch. And the annoying woman is like, anyway, my friend is out in L.A. and she asked me to sort of scout of if there would be any interest in selling these shirts in DC, because they are so cute and trendy. And this sales person is like, um, here's my manager's card, you can call her.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Internet why am I still at the office? Thx, S

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATULATIONS TOM & ALLY!!!

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS

― Dan (Yay) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 April 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations and best wishes Tombot and Allyzay!

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 2 April 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations!!!!

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

High fives to the happy couple!

I hope they're doing better things than reading this right now. Like sleeping.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

They're honeymooning. I am growing increasingly intrigued by this 'marriage' concept.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Tom and Ally! I hope you're having a great time in SF (which is where Mr. Q and I honeymooned, too!).

Mary, I have been personally involved in the 'marriage' concept for almost four years now, and I still find it utterly mysterious.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations to the rofflesberger-millars! marriage talk reminds me of a iparty the gal and i went to a few weeks ago where we talked to a very, very drunk girl who constantly informed us that "i've been married two years. i've been married two years." apparently after we left she passed out and cut her head on a coffeetable. mysterious indeed.

― I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequiet), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

iparty?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

hm, typo. thank god.

― I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequiet), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am having trouble with this "Springing Forward" business. I can't stop yawning.

Brian or others, any recommendations for dinner near Hotel Helix? I think it is on/near Scott Circle?

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i thought maybe there was some hip new scene I was missing out on.

xpost

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sam aren't you in Austin? I think you probably have 1000x more hip scenes than DC!

OK, has anyone (BRIAN) eaten at 15 Ria? Comments?

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Q, I like the Popeye's Chicken a block away on 14th St.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

yes but I am old and lame. the hip scene for me these days is the home depot.

btw, never buy appliances there. the bastards.

xpost

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Stay away from 15 ria.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Try Rice at 14th & Q for excellent thai (note: very very loud, does not accept reservations).
Viridian at 14th bet. P & Q just got a new chef who used to be at Bistro Bis. I would think it's better now than when I was last there. Very nice space.
Logan Tavern (P bet. 14th & 15th) is basic and fine if you stick to the basics.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Brian! I really hadn't heard much about 15 ria so I'm glad you could weigh in. My "date" tonight (grad school biochem prof in town for a conference) doesn't hear so well, so may be best to avoid Rice, although I have heard good things about it.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I haven't had Popeye's in years and it sounds really really good right now, but I'm thinking if I have 5 Guys for lunch and follow it up with fried chicken for dinner, surely I will die. Also, no booze at Popeye's.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, like there aren't any liquor stores on 14th.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

why *is* rice so loud? it's kind of crazy. there's also thai tanic, and helix is not too far from the tabard inn. or from me!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

How could I have forgotten Thaitanic?!? I was there last Thursday. Not as good as Rice, but better than most thai in the city (though Regent Thai has been kicking ass lately). I'm still more fond of Tabard for a drink than for a meal, but it's really lovely. It's become one of my go to spots on a friday or saturday night when I know everyplace else will be packed.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

popeye's is kind of like long john silver's. You think you miss it until you eat there and realize you were mistaken.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i was sort of obsessed w/ljs's hush puppies for a few years when i was a kid. everyone else in my family was, understandably, totally disgusted by them, leaving me to eat 8 per meal. good times.

― I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequiet), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of login name is that?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

it is from this.

― I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequiet), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

The best thing about LJS for a kid: all the extra crunchy bits you want.

This is also the worst thing about LJS.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

While we're at 14th and P, has anyone tried those walk-up fried-fish lunch counters? I've always admired the leaping-trout art on the one at the corner.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

There's a place in Chapel Hill (mookie, surely you have spent quality post-show drunken times at Time Out?) where you could get a "bucket of bones" (actually a big styrofoam container) for like 59 cents. This consisted of the fried chicken bones left over after the meat was chopped off for chicken biscuits, and was basically just some crunchy bits clinging to the bones. Add on a side of mac and cheese and you were in drunk-and-hungry-at-two-a.m. heaven.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of login name is that?
-- pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmit...), April 3rd, 2006.
it is from this.

-- I speak from the fire and strike heavy with of the sword (teenagequie...), April 3rd, 2006.

dude are you looking for a new drummer or something?

I will mention that this is niether a "straight-edge band" nor "pro-drug" band. We do smoke cannibus but have no expectations for the drummer of this band other than great music. YOUR RECORDINGS, whether professional studio or from a tape deck, will speak for themselves.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

quincie, that sounds disgusting! did you just gnaw on bones or something?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

It was more sucking on bones than gnawing on bones, but yeah, I guess it does sound pretty, uh, unladylike.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god no way would I be the merch girl for those dudes.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i have threatened to eat lunch at the mid-city fish market at 14th & p, but never yet gone through with it. the room upstairs was on fire about ten days ago, making it even less appealing.

my chapel hill post-show dining experience was centered around hector's, and specifically the double brick (ie, cheesburger) on pita, possibly the best thing in the world.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god Hector's! Is that place still there? I have consumed many a Greek Grilled Cheese, but Time Out was closer to the Cradle and 506 and so often won out post-show. Of course, I got to stay in Chapel Hill post-show, while others had to DRIVE BACK TO DURHAM.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

i once drove from durham to chapel hill at 2am for hector's. via the magic of old erwin road at 70mph before they put in the lights.

were you at the cradle before it moved to carrboro, q, you young whippersnapper?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am young enough to be nu-Cradle but old enough that back in my day, you entered via the back of the building, past the bike path and dumpsters. For a couple of years now it's been all fancy-ass front entry!

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

yourjobisyourcredit@eastern.motors

thanks, now I have that song in my head!!!! am I crazy or does the TV version have a bunch of dudes from the Redskins dancing around.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

if that's crazy, i don't want to be sane

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

levar arrington is the only convincing lip-syncer in that ad!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

For all your Eastern Motors media needs...

http://www.easterns.com/easterns/fun_stuff.asp

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Great, now I too have that weird mariachi-type tune in my head.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

AND am now traumatized by the Tittsworth remix.

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Carmello Anthony and Brendan Haywood weave through a weak credit turndown defense!

disappointing!

Washington Redskins’ All-Pro Linebacker LaVar Arrington crushes bad credit!

this one's better..

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

my city
your city
SHOE CITY

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

ok somebody post sugar bear's HOBO gear commercial

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and dar1a you are so OTM upthread about urban chic. They don't seem to have anything over a size 2 and even if I could afford it, I don't think I could really pull off dressing like a character from "The O.C." I have GOT to find some new stuff for work.

multiple xposts

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there's stuff there to fit you quincie, if you find something you really like - I think the sizes for lots of garments are 1, 2, 3 = S, M, L, so a 2 isn't as small as you think it is. they had a lovely navy blue silk charmeuse skirt but do I have $375 for a skirt? no, I don't. there's also a rack in the back of the store where everything is under $50. but yeah, it's a very california kind of style. honestly I wear a lot of stuff from j crew, it's usually well made, good fit, not super trendy. benetton is ok for work (though their color palette is often not my cup of tea). what about trying club monaco on M street, they have some nice trousers and pencil skirts and v-neck cotton sweaters.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Of all the OC characters, I dress the most like Seth. I am currently wearing a button-down with a Penguin on it it. *shame*

Did anyone see Bedford Diaries, Milo V's painfully bad new venture. The entire thing is shot at my alma mater, Barnard College.

(Except for one scene Franz claims they shot at Columbia.)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't spend anywhere near $375 on my WEDDING DRESS, for god's sake! Can't imagine dropping that on a skirt even if I were World Banker.

I've had some success at Club Monaco so I should try there again, also the max studio place (I'm totally screwing up the name) on Wisconsin. I was just pondering ordering some pants from j. crew--they come in tall sizes and are fully lined, which is kind of a must for me (and sadly absent from most club monaco, benetton, etc. stuff).

I like to do more loosely fitted stuff for comfort's sake in the summer, but too often end up looking kinda frumpy and mom-ish.

xpost Hi Mary!

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hi! (I got some cheap preppy-ish Luella Bartley at Target.)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what a Tittsworth mix is, but I know I want one.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO YOU DO NOT!

― quincie, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

quincie - exactly re: tall sizes, if you go in the J Crew store, they don't stock them but you can try on regular & then order a tall size w/the store phone and shipping is free. I sound like a total ad here but what the hell, I got a pair of these in navy and they're super comfy. zara trousers run really long as well, quality not as good, but some decent basics. the banana republic has tall sizes as well (not in the store) but the cut of them makes me feel sorta Ann Taylor-y.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted this jacket, but they didn't have it in my size.

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_10/602-4783413-9711845?%5Fencoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000CSWJIQ

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

um, i bought a shirt yesterday! but if i tell you where, you'll probably laugh at me :(

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Commander Salamander!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

no, much more boring. but i did go into POP with mrs. mookie, even though they have nothing my size.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh I love POP. It's the one DC store with a nice vibe. Did the Mrs. get anything? I'll have to stop in and look at their overpriced spring/summer selection.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone been to the District Line on 18th st in Adams Morgan? It's also supposed to have modish clothing opition.

― Mary Sherman (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

the mrs. did not. she is shopping impaired, sad to say. there's nothing she likes that ever fits, etc. (not that i'm really any better, but as a slouch there's less pressure on me)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I've only glanced into the District Line--they have a lot of Fred Perry about the place, and aren't too big.

I went into Zara with some chick once; it seemed like it was full of eight-foot-tall Turkish and Spanish and Greek ladies rummaging for bargains. I thought I'd stumbled into the Anatolian women's basketball team's dressing room.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

hott!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Well, maybe the antechamber to the dressing room. Still.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shopping at Pop is so easy for easy for me, I just go in, look for the labels that say Ben Sherman, then exit with bank account depleted.

Zara so doesn't work for me. I'd like to be all Euro-chick, but the clothes are just cut way too slim and long.

I did get a pair of pointy-toed Zara shoes though once.

SUMMER FASHION 2006 HERE WE COME

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was looking at the ben sherman boyz' shirts--like a pink and brown bowling shirt for $90. which sounds kind of bad, but might actually be decent on someone who isn't me. i'm sure one of those fake accents could pull it off.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've liked a few of the Luella things I saw at Target but haven't bought anything yet.

I have a second interview for that job tomorrow. arrgh the suspense!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Zare - true that, I've talked to a couple people working there.. a Spanish journalist and a Spanish grad student. the sizes are bizarro & the most wearable stuff gets snapped up fast - they stock on weekends though so they told me try Sat/Sun for best selection. I like their shoes but even the size 41 is too small for me so I give up in that dept. I haven't been to district line, but it looks neat. mookie, loehmann's (friendship heights) sometimes has ben sherman stuff for very cheap, I'm not crazy about the patterns they use (just a personal style thing) but got a neat black top there once.

ok I really need to follow through on my plan to volunteer on some 06 Congressional campaigns instead of spending free time shopping.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

dar1a, how tall are you?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Fake Accents looked very spiffy pn Saturday. I need to spend more time shopping. Actually, I need to spend more time pulling congressional candidates who can funnel their discretionary spending into my clothing budget.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

"That means it's your birthday." And he pulls out this pink and green package, and I just know it's a new Lilly dress.

OMG

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

A pink and green package usually means he needs a trip to the clinic.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

this is awfully bitchy of me, but she is not cute at all. it's weird living on the hill but not working here, I walk around the neighborhood on weekends & it's like visiting someone else's (much preppier) college, tons of people my age and I don't know any of them.

I'm 5'9"

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

the best stuff I've found lately at the goodwill on rt 50 near Seven Corners.. I got a royal blue sweater with giant sleeves (cashmere I think), a beige angora oversized sleeveless sweater that totally rules, and the best thing was a random white T-shirt that some kid wrote on in permanent marker, it says "solid" in front & has a diagram of a particle or something and then what is surely an element from the table of elements on the back. (sorry, I've forgotten most everything from high school science class). rt 236 in fairfax county has a thrift store near a trader joe's, but was closed when I drove by. must investigate soon.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of love Cap Hill. It has a real residential vibe and pretty trees. Might be different if I lived there though. It seems one of the few places in DC free from development at the moment. Wow, I will have to try that Goodwill. Do you mean 236 in the strip mall by the Cinema Arts theater, or elsewhere. Ah, the wonders of Nova.

By the way, is it possible to turn right onto Connecticut from K Street? Because I passed 17th and then 18th but I never saw a sign for Connecticut and then I went into passive decision apnea disorder and ended up on a frewway heading past G'town. Should I have turned on 17th or 18th?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, maybe better to take 17th or 18th? there is a stretch where you can't turn as Connecticut runs underneath a traffic circle. About the thrift.. it's not a goodwill, it's some random shop, and it's in one of those dying strip malls. not the same one as trader joe's but close. the one w/trader joe's also has a record store (Record and Tape Exchange I think) w/actual vinyl records plus a CD selection that is basically every forgotten indie band of the 90's, it's like a time warp. pretty cool. I picked up an out of print soft cell CD & a flyer for some NOIZE collective in richmond.

"free from development" not for long!

Whose H Street Is It Anyway?

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Conn/K thing is very confusing - looking out my window, they're fucked up because of Farragut square and the traffic circle situation as dar1a suggested. Then again, virtually all D.C. directions are a hazy mystery to me. Glad to hear you made it back all right, Mary - I don't know if Amanda and I were much help, sorry about that.

A friend of mine used to manage that Fairfax R&T exchange - they used to have a sister store in College Park that closed in 2002 or 2003. The dude that owns it is a dentist. His store's warehouse is still in CP though, and judging by the shape of that place (my friends and I would hang out there sometimes cuz we were losers) I don't think he's updated his stock in maybe 10 years. It really is a weirdo little time machine - I've nabbed some awesome shit there over the years, though.

Also dudes, I don't know what's the problem here but this is the second day in a row where my throat has been swollen and painey to teh degree where swallowing is something of a Herculean task. I'm also really, really tired. I'm hypochondriacally diagnosing myself with mono.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

bad allergies maybe? half the people in my office are complaining about the same thing..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Are the glands under your jaw swollen? That's pretty classic for EBV infection. Also for like a million other viral infections so, uh, I guess that's not really much help, is it?

Logan Tavern was perfect! What with all the Popeye's talk yesterday I quickly settled on the fried chicken, which in no way resembled Popeye's but was nevertheless very tasty. The prices were incredibly kind considering the quality of the food; I even had leftovers to eat for breakfast this a.m.

Where is this POP store? It's funny, I love hearing about shopping but when it actually comes time to do it I fall into the mrs. mookie camp. I have to do something though because I'm down to a ridiculously small amount of clothing that I can wear to work. Or actually to wear anywhere.

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm sure it's just allergies. pollen must die.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

POP is on the east side of 14th between S and T--the same block as the Black Cat. It's easy to miss, though, 'cause it's upstairs above Pulp and the sign kind of gets lost in the clutter.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I once heard a Hill kid describe that block as "a little dangerous". It's true; go on a weekend and you're in danger of buying a $70 cocktail shaker or joining an all-male choir.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to the jungle

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh OK I know where it is; I'm just easily distracted by Home Rule and those other shoppies so I've never been up!

Today on 270 I saw a bumper sticker that read: "Got Drums?" I thought of Pete.

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You can totally turn North or South on Connectucut from K St. - you just need to get on the turn lane from K st. at the FIRST 17th st. there are TWO 17th Streets on either side of Farragut Square, and Connecticut Ave basically goes from the Northwest corner to the Southeast corner of the square.

Pierre L'Enfant, you diabolical bastard.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

tell me more about the Hill kids! what do they do? where do they hang out? do they ever leave the Hill?

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am also curious about these "Hill kids." AND I would like to know what everyone is had for lunch today. I had triscuits with peanut butter.

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I had a sandwich from home - turkey and swiss on rye with mustard - with a diet root beer.

The definition of Hill kids that I would be willing to put forth refers to those people who are primarily involved in, either working or volunterring, things political. They may, and often seek to, live on Capitol Hill or in the surrounding area, they may work for a House Member or a Senator, or for an NGO, but they are currently and seek to remain part of the Capitol Hill scene, both during and after work. They're kind of the student government members of the DC area.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

from what i understand, working on the hill is a lot like yr freshman year in college, except you have to get up a lot earlier.

i had a cup of green tea and a shrimp tikka w/veggie samosa from naan and beyond.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Wow, I will have to try that Goodwill. Do you mean 236 in the strip mall by the Cinema Arts theater, or elsewhere. Ah, the wonders of Nova. "-Mary

Mary,

maybe the reference was to the Arlington (or is it Falls Church)one around Rt. 50 near Colombia Pike, or the one on Glebe Rd. in Arlington.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Four Famous Amos Oreo-style cookies, two and one-half candy-coated Easter-themed malted milk balls from a stranger's candy dish.

Hill kid:
http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen are you and mookie harboring a little washingtonienne obsession? Dar1a OTM re: dudes you can do (and in fact have done) SO MUCH BETTER.

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

shit, even GwynJen's better than the washingtonienne

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

In truth, I think her "All the legislative assistants on Appropriations want me therefore I must be SMOKIN'" error is kind of a representative tendency of Hill culture in general.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh I managed not to read any of this shit when the story broke and now I've read several entries and it has traumatized me even more than the eastern motors titty mix.

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Washingtonienne vs. Paris Hilton WHERE IS ALLY WHEN YOU NEED HER?

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

for lunch I had one macintosh apple, three spring rolls (vietnamese style, with chicken and shrimp and cilantro), one piece of scharffen-berger extra dark chocolate, and some green tea.

the washingtonienne pisses me off because it's like there's never enough feminism to make up for the fact that girls get tons of attention for being really, really, really dumb

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed. How much of that stuff is likely to actually be true, do you think?

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

washingtonienne? prob all true, making shit up requires using yr brane

xpost - sorry for thrift store confusion. there is a goodwill on rt 50 in seven corners, it's in a shopping center on the same side as the target, just a bit further west (ie away from dc). that's where I found the science fair t-shirt. occasionally they get neat stuff, I found a gorgeous courreges skirt there not long ago (but had moth holes, so i left it) and a sportmax velvet jacket (didn't suit me though). there is also a random thrift store with potential on rt 236, but it was closed when I drove by, only open til 5.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

i had an au bon pain turkey/cran-cheese sandwich - it was awesome...

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

judging by the former and current Hill femmes I've met, either working or at school, this type of behavior is not at all out of the ordinary - Hence, ZR was right when he said that working there is just like the first year of college - except that you don't have to find the sketchy old dude to buy you booze, no RAs to complain that you're having sex too loudly, and there's Cherry Blossoms! (the last one doesn't apply to those who went to school in DC or those from Japan)

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

And those Au Bon Pain sammies are awesome - turkey and cran! It's not just for thanksgiving!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

OBTW ALLY AND TOM ARE ON THEIR WEDDING THREAD DUDES

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I love those sarnies; I'm tempted to sneak out for second lunch. Is Au Bon Pain supposed to be a pun on embonpoint? xpost

Shouldn't they be, you know, celebrating?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah yeah they mention 53x

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Pete T & A were on that thread hours ago! What is with your ILE slacking, man?

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I saw 17th and I saw a big street that looked like it could be Conn but the sign said 17th and I thought the sign should say Conn bc Mapquest said turn right onto Conn and not veer onto 17th which will turn into Conn.

ZR, I actually ended up circling the Iwa Jima Memorial after I dropped you guys off. I wasn't that worried because I figured even with directions I would screw up and go the wrong way and end up having to drive around until I found something vaguely recognizable.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Pete T & A were on that thread hours ago! What is with your ILE slacking, man?

-- quincie (quinci...), April 4th, 2006.

SORRIES ACTUAL JOB/ACTUAL WORK ALERT!!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

UH I DIDNT MEAN TO IMPLY CONTRAST TO ANYONE'S NON-ACTUAL JOB

BUT ACTUAL WORK

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I would be the last person to argue that my job was more "actual" than "virtual," so no offense taken bro!

― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I certainly don't have what I would call an actual job. Its more like a paid study hall.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I hope everyone is excited about the new naming of the Marvin Gaye park.

As I was driving along the parkway on Saturday "Sad Wedding" played on the radio. I don't understand why it was a sad wedding though. They just heard some guests say it was a sad wedding, but everything seemed fine otherwise?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Meet you at the Gaye Park!"

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the Electric 6 will be the new DC Parks & Recreation Department spokespersons.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

btw, I got that job. hurrah!

Mary, I was persuing the Austin Craft Mafia sites yesterday and came upon this skirt:

http://www.hotpinkpistol.com/000oct2005whiteblythe.jpg

not sure how much it actually looks like blythe but it made me think of you.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Sam! This is the one you reallyreally wanted, yes? When do you start?

― quincie, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

yes it's the one I really wanted. yay! I'm speaking on the phone with them in acouple of hours to iron out details. I suspect they'll want me to start on monday.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Sam. That's awesome.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

hooray! congratulations.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Nice going!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

dude, way to go - that's great!

for additional inspiration, ponder this gem of wit and wisdom from de subjectivisten: Queensryche moet DOOD! Ronnie James Dio is een HOMO! Iedereen die Queensryche en Dio goed vindt verdient een NEKSCHOT!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

beefy!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN: Greek Deli of 19th st.
FROM: Zack
RE: You rocking my world
YOU: Rock my world

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN: Whole Foods
FROM: Quincie
RE: Your "Vegetable Soup"

Daerest Whole Foods, why your vegetable soup have only cabbage? Why you no just call it "cabbage soup"?

― quincie, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dear cold front: Where's our goddamn snowstorm?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

q, i envision yr letter being read aloud with a sort of "you toucha my seester, i cut you face" patois

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Home Depot: Where's our fackin' fridge?!?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

OTM as usual, ZR!

FAKE ACCENTS APRIL 19! I put it in my "executive planner."

― quincie, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Bankruptcy Professor:

Am I doomed to be as boring as you after practicing law for 40 years? If so, I would like to apologize to my children and grandchildren pre-conception.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Duke Fans:

Suckas!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN: Zack
FROM: M. Proof
RE: World Rocking

Sir:

Perhaps you should try the Gyro Platter at Georgio's on 20th. Note: you will not need breakfast or dinner that day.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

GYRO RLY?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

bahahahah oh shit I just laughed water out my nose!

― quincie, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

bored. totally burned out on bookworm.

xx nice one z

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

omg, I used to totally love bookworm. it would fry your brain though.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

my best word today: SORGHUM

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Nice Job, Sam! That skirt kind of reminds of a Kahimi Karie graphic image skirt that Suzy convinced me to buy in London. I'm not sure it survived my move back home so I hope that someone in NYC is rockin' it.

Speaking of Blythe, the poor thing's hair has gotten positively natty, and she's been in the same outfit for well on a year. Time to trawl ebay for some new clother for her.

Q, I just can't buy your shopping-impaired stance any longer. Everytime I see you, you look great, and last weekend's electroclash hair+slinky black dress+silver stilettos ensemble formerly forfeits you the right to denigrate your shopping abilities any longer.

I got an e-mail from Tim H. in London who will be visiting DC this June and hopefully we can all entertain him.

BLMA: I'm sure my similarly schooled prof takes the cake for the boredomeness. Last night, she spoke for a good half hour on the importance of a topic sentence!!! I haven't written a topic sentence since I believe, seventh grade?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mary you are too kind! I may manage to clean up OK for the occasional 'event', but the day-to-day, "what the hell am I going to wear to work" thing is beyond me. I do plan to hit some G'town shops on Saturday so we'll see what I manage to come up with.

Anyone up for a drink tonight? Tom's friend Andy is still in town post-wedding and I'm meeting him at Pharmacy at 7:30. If anyone is thirsty come join!

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also: WTF with washingtonienne in the Post today? I opened up to the Reliable Source and yelped when she fixed her beady eyes upon me.

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

after i took the GRE, my friends and i were sitting around, and they were like "dude, all you have to do to get a good GRE writing score is write a topic sentence for every paragraph," at which point i realized i hadnt consciously written ANY topic sentences on the test. true to my feeling, i did pretty well on math/verbal, and totally ate a dick on the writing.

ack - i didnt even put a topic sentence on THAT paragraph.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://senshineko.com/weblog/archive/v19/washingtonienne.jpg

"Well, hello there, quincie. a bit cold out, isn't it?"

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

i saw that in the Style section this morning, please note the photo credit is to "playboy enterprises"

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

That image won't load, which is good because I have the phear about what it is!

xpost

I can't believe that guy is suing her--now I have to go back to that cursed blog and read what she said about him!

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

You think you're tired of her now; wait 'til her sitcom comes out.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

washingtonienne 3: the legend of curly's ghost

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you're kidding!

So yesterday I'm thinking, how exactly does one go about negotiating a sex-for-money arrangement with some old government dude? I mean, was the guy coming on to her and she said "yeah, why don't you take me out to dinner and give me $400 and I'll sleep with you?" Was she that blunt or is there some secret sex-for-money code language to which I'm not privy?

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

People often forget to include topic sentences. This may be caused by a number of things, such as poor organization, a writing style that is too conversational, or failure to edit propertly.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

by "conversational," don't you mean "advanced"?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Only if by "advanced," you mean "lazy."

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

fuck a topic sentence

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Only if by "advanced," you mean "lazy."

SENTENCE FRAGMENT PWNED

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

also, commas when linking the final two items in a list: C/D? i used to be all about 'em, but we don't use them at work and now they look really weird to me.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I still do otherwise I think the last two items could look like they belong together.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

THE SERIAL COMMA IS THE ONLY CIVILIZED METHOD! FUCK AN AP STYLE!

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

isn't that a(n) US/UK stylistic difference?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I will gladly admit to being lazy in my posts here. This can be seen in my frequent utiliztion of sentence fragments, racial epithets, and utter lack of cohesion in my points.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

wait q - does "serial comma" = "comma, comma, and comma"?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

andy - are you gonna use topic sentences for every post from now on? best idea ever!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

You got it, Pete. It is particularly important in medical writing, where leaving off the last comma could totally screw up correct interpretation of the sentence.

In my experience, American written English is much more comma-heavy than British written English. I truly do love me some comma.

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

i sort of look at the serial comma as a remnant of college days now, like double spacing and wake'n'bakes. i don't know, they just seem condescending somehow, as if the writer is saying "oh, you poor little dear, we don't want to confuse you now, do we? here, let's put another comma in just so you don't get all bugaboo. hush, it's all right." but maybe it's just stockholm syndrome.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pilgrimsherborn.org/images/the%20comma.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I also love the comma. It allows one to present several different thoughts in a manner in which their inter-connectedness is more evident than it would be without the use of commas. They also allow for listing in sentence form.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

also serial comma = harvard/oxford comma = will be destroyed by righteous proles come the revolution

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

REVOLUTION = HARVARD

BULLS ON PARADE!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

pete, ka-wit it now, ok?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

TOPIC SENTENCE, MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASE tell me you're kidding!

I wish.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes!

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

uuuuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wait has she already appeared nekkid in Playboy?

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

hey, does anyone want a neko case ticket? i've got an extra

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

PUBLIC REACTION: THAT'S AWFUL AND BORING!
PRIVATE REACTION: OH MAN SHE'S PRETTY HOT MAYBE I'LL GET HBO

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

wait, which news is that in reaction to?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

ZING

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Questions:
1. Will they follow the forumla of SATC and Entourage (which I haven't watched, to be honest) and have an ensemble cast, or will they follow the one person. I vote for the ensemble.
2. Will they be able to avoid this becoming The West Wing, only with titties?
3. Which bar on CapHill will be their hangout, or will they create a new one?
4. What kind of car will the older gentleman from Georgetown who prefers anal and is willing to pay for it drive? I call mid-late 90s Mercedes S class.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

And speaking of women I just can't get excited about. . . KATIE COURIC. I think I may need to start a thread on that one.

x-post Oh god it really will be D.C.'s own Sex in the City.

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

snakes ~~on a plane~~ in the city

arrrgh. why

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sex in the City Paper

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/7152/file7vn.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

You're an evil man.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

DAVID SCHWIMMER OMG THE ROFFLES!

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

OK dcors I'm out of here. Come have a drink with me at Pharmacy, 'K? I'll be there 'till nine-ish.

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

have a grrrrrreat time - i'd make it out tonight but i gotta go to bawlmer to see a show

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of b'more, isn't there some sort of polka thing we need jump on?

Also, please come anticipate the MARYLAND SHEEP AND WOOL FESTIVAL with me! There will be sheep and sheep doggie demonstrations! You can watch the live sheep excitement while eating delicious not-alive lamb sammiches! You can pick out yarn and I will knit you a hat! Second weekend of May, people!

Sam, I've seen you on ILX Knitting so I KNOW you need to come up for this. The yarn is un-fucking-believeable.

― quincie, Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, i now speak "quincie," and "nine-ish" = "one."
MYINTROTOLETYOUKNOW

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

guys in SF McCormick and Schmidt's is called McCormick and Guidoland (paraphrase). DOES SCHMIDT KNOW ABOUT THIS???? plz to let me know.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

As soon as I saw MARYLAND SHEEP AND WOOL FESTIVAL I was all over it.

My guy and I have been discussing an eventual move to the country and raising animals. I want sheeps for their wools!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

wait ally - what kind of paraphrase?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

the sheep 'n' wool festival is teh rock. also oncoming warm weather means relatively soonish moco agricultural fair and DEMOLITION DERBY, a.k.a. the awesomest thing in maryland.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, i now speak "quincie," and "nine-ish" = "one."

More like two-thirty, actually! I don't know why I always lie to myself like that. I mean, at seven I left a note for Mr. Q (who had class until 9:30) that said "Gone to bar. Will probably be home before you but if not I will be home soon. Hope your presentation went well. XXOO Wifey."

And then I come home like eight hours later. Tom and Ally, your wedding celebration continues to rock on in your absence!

I have been to a TRACTOR PULL but never a DEMOLITION DERBY and omg I totally want to go to that!

― quincie, Friday, 7 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Demolition tractor pull!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

great tastes taste great together

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

dudes it is miserably depressing outside today

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am in an ambivalent purgatory between wanting lunch and not wanting to go outside.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

honestly though brian whenever i read yr email address the mariachi horns of ownership opportunity sorta chase the blues away a little bit, so thanks for being a bro.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

hey - is it REALLY only me who thinks jessica cutler is hot?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i gotta tell ya, i don't really see it.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

plus she looks like skeletor: http://perkol.itgo.com/coxandcutler.jpg

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, Wonkette's cheekbone profile in that pic makes it look like she's growing a second nose.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

She kind of creeps me out--she seems like she's already some weird cosmetic surgery, but is still buried under a ton of pancake.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

i mean im not gonna try and justify it.

old-wonkette is pretty hot, too. new-wonkette rules, too, but in more of a "paid-the-right-amount-for-his-shoes" way.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Those two look so EVIL in that photo! I mean, we know Jessica is evil, but Anne-Marie?

I'm all over a big bowl of pho on days like this, rain be dammed!

Also, I find Pete's shoe comment utterly inscrutable.

― quincie, Friday, 7 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

pete -- if you'd met her (cutler) in real life, you'd reconsider.

― shoe pricing expert (Pareene), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

i've always thought old wonkette was rather cuet. tell us skeletor horror stories, al3x!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

she's gonna inspire a recursive starfucking phenomenon!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

i've always thought old wonkette was rather cuet. tell us skeletor horror stories, al3x!

-- ZR (teenagequie...), April 7th, 2006.

this is a dangerous road

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

roads worth travelling usually are

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

i'll talk when we're not on a public internets forum.

hey, you guys going to art brut on sunday? i might have people over to my place before the show.

anyway, i shouldn't start contributing to ile because then i will never get any work done ever.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i was just joshin anyway. i was thinking about going to AB; how bout you pete?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i think i might! t@r1q was asking me about that last night

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Pls what is the Art Brut.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Brut_%28band%29

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

this thread really stopped making sense since the last time i was here.

once, when i had red hair (and glasses and lived in dc), somebody surmised that i was wonkette.

― carly (carly), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, the band! Thought it might be something to do with the Dada fiesta.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

carly i miss and love you

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I was really into Art Brut for a about two weeks after I first downloaded their album, but I think the first blush of love has passed. Also, I have to stay at home and do my homework.

Who writes a topic sentence? I taught college comp 101 and the wicked concept never reared its head.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 April 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

teaching for state-standardized writing tests forbode things such as topic sentences.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 8 April 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, Ana Marie did not look like that in college.

― ng-unit, Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

upcoming and FREE at the National Gallery of Art:

Ute Lemper
Saturday, April 29
Cabaret concert, presented in honor of Dada
4:30 p.m., East Building Auditorium

Billy Wilder film series
Weekends now through May 29

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Billy Wilder. I saw most of these at Film Forum one summer after I was fired. There were a lot of double features involved. Long hazy Wilder days.

Ally, thank you for not having a shower.

High school friend, thank you for having a shower and convincing me it probably isn't worth my while to drive three hours for more of the same at the weding.

God, now I have to go wedding party for a family friend. No one should ever get married except Tom and Ally. And the people who are already married, like Q.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so after I've lived down here for five years now, can someone PLEASE explain to me this whole driving-slow-in-the-rain thing that people engage in? Like, driving 40 on the Beltway just because OH NOES WATER FROM THE SKY OMG WTF?!?!?!?!?

I had to drive from Fairfax up to Wheaton today, and the freaking inner loop was going 30-40 almost all the way there; and I could see how bad the outer loop was and figured no way am I sitting in that on the way back, so I came home via Georgia Ave. - 16th Street - K St. -- 66W and again with the 40mph thing. GET ONE DRIVING LESSONS, PEOPLE.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

presented in honor of Dada

i might be there the weekend of that thing

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

presented in honor of Dada

They really would have had a great cross-promotional opportunity if this event was on Father's Day.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I was driving 60 to 70 on the beltway and I was in the slow lane. I do like to reduce the speed a bit under torrential downfall, because like, I don't try an SUV and I don't want to die, particularly.

If you're Peruvian and you want to have a wedding party, that's okay with me, as long as you have me over for bbq.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 April 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

You must have been totally in a different part from me, Mary. It's cool if someone wants to stay a little under due to weather conditions, but 40 in light rain = plz excuse me whilst I rearend you.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

I went on the beltway from Alexandria to Tyson's Corners then on to Ashburn. (I never know what the inner and outer loops are.) The cars were zooming along. At one point I was hydroplaning like crazy.

My main problem now that I am a bit more of an experienced driver is drivers who insist on driving in the left lane and going sloooow. I'm not very zippy, but I know enough to get out of everyone's way. In the morning I try to glide down Route 1 and I have to weave in and out through the pockets of traffic, when it would just be so much easier if the pokies would get to the right.

I am not really into zippy driving in DC though. One, because I don't know my way around all that well, and am never sure when the lane will turn into a turn lane, when a car will be parked in that lane, when a pedestrian will dash out in front of me, when a bus will stop in front of mine, when a loading truck will block off the lane, etc. Consequently I don't think a lot of DC drivers are that happy with me, but then again I don't see the point of speeding and passing people only to stop at the next light with everyone else.

My main road rage problem is that I hate everyone on the road driving an SUV or similarly oversized vehicle. In suburbia, I have a lot of opportunities to hate on this point.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hello DC Area. I hope there will be drinking, in June. I don't drink as much as I once could, but I will do my best, for you. And we can talk about commas, if you would like to. I'm sure there are other fascinating cultural differences, too, like those funny stickers which you people seem to like to have on the top of your CD cases. That sort of thing.

In June will DC be excruciatingly hot? I mean realy horribly sticky swampy hot? Or am I worrying for no good reason?

― Tim (Tim), Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, 'excruciating' is unlikely, but very hot and mostly humid is certainly possible/probable, and unless the advance forecast makes clear otherwise, I would certainly be prepared for the worst. The standard american tourist uniform is sort of ideal here - loose clothes that breathe. And bring a lot of sunscreen.

But remember that DC has a river (though that helps with the swamp part) and big open spaces like the Mall (where the swamp used to be) for wind to blow through, in the event that it chooses to do so. And most of the attractions are indoors and very-well-air-conditioned (and filled with tourists). And if it's really intolerable, there are lots of great places to escape to in the country or by water.

what are your dates, Tim? I can provide some specifics.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dates are rounghly NYC 15th-20th June, DC 20th-24th, though the latter will include 1x foray into Pennsylvania for the purposes of country and also western. these dates aren't as firm as they should be, I'll work on that.

― Tim (Tim), Sunday, 9 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

that looks like a good trip. will you still be in DC on the evening of the 24th? Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys will be at the Birchmere in Alexandria (a great venue, but you'd need someone to drive you there and back). for other kinds of american-roots music, modern division, you might consider heading to Wolf Trap (sort of a national trust semi-outdoor arts park, and one of my favorite venues) for Los Lonely Boys and Susan Tedeschi on the evening of the 21st (or BB King on the eve of the 19th).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Freddy Adu and DC United play at home at RFK on the 21st and 24th

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

and your visit also coincides with the appearance at the Kennedy Center of one of America's best theatre companies, doing a DeLillo play

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Thanks! I imagine I will be indulging in some of the above. Cor, it's all very exciting.

I think Tina Arena is very mean and nasty for not taking wee Freddy to Germany. I mean, no disrespect to Eddie Lewis but need another Adu on the world stage, now Sade is past it.

― Tim (Tim), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever been to NYC in June? DC will be about the same. It's a little hotter and more humid, but a little more manageable somehow. It'll probably be pretty hot and sticky, but the weather could be fickle and it could be a bit cooler. I'll be happy to drive you to the Birchmere or other suburban destinations of your choosing. Should I put a bumper sticker on my car? What should it be? Fellow DCites will probably check in tomorrow--they tend to post more during the work week.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Tom and Ally's cats are very friendly BUT DESTRUCTIVE! So far the following things have fallen victim to their terrifying rampage: onions, vases, DVDs. I'm 90% sure I'm going to show up tomorrow only to find the place in flames.

― Zackariahmekalekahai, Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

After today my number one pet peeve has officially moved from slow drivers to people who stand instead of walk on the lefthand side of the escalator.

― Also, Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckin' cats. Which vase? I'ma have to choke a bitch.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Sunday, 9 April 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

ONIONS? Did they not realize that cats don't even EAT onions??

We're trapped in Phoenix after missing a connecting flight by 5 minutes!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Sunday, 9 April 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

xp - i really hope i'm not that bitch

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU ILX FOR EATING THE LENGTHY MESSAGE I JUST TYPED! NOW I MUST TRY AGAIN!

― quincie, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's not like I was doing any real work anyway. . .

OK, here we go again:

I hope there will be drinking, in June

Unless I suffer some sort of head injury that knocks the drunkie out of me, I can assure you there will be drinking, in June. That said, shall we compile a list of preferred outdoor drinking venues (ahem BRIAN)?

In four straight hours of g'town shopping this weekend, I managed to procure 5 (five) new articles of clothing. 3 (three) are spring items, while 2 (two) were scored off ridiculously marked-down fall clearance racks. 1 (one) was ordered on the j. crew red emergency order phone--thanks for the tip, dar1a! A few observations/requests for clarification:

1) Why so much brown for spring? I mean I like brown, but I've been wearing it for months now--how about something different, please!

2) By different I do not mean an abundance of LAVENDER and PEACH, neither of which I can pull off (can anyone, really?)

3) Oh beautiful green cotton blouse at urban chic, why you cost $198?

4) Oh salespeople at benetton, why you ask my name, shake my hand, and proceed to call me "Kat"?

4) Oh zara, why none of seven tops I tried on fit?

4) Oh everyone, why is your in-store soundtrack so eurotrashtic?

― quincie, Monday, 10 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh tom, don't hurt your poor kitties. they were just enraged by your absence.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

awesome, bossman's kicking us out early b/c of protestor metro congestion

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

The marchers are going by my building right now. Are they chanting "U.S.A!"? Are there any estimates of how many people are marching?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

my evening commute is going to suck.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to go over there & join in for a while & take some photos. my boss left early for some unspecified reason, I hope he is protesting.

quincie, I guess the safari thing is all over.. I am not crazy about it.. seems like the kind of look that has to be very very expensive in order to be good?

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

That said, shall we compile a list of preferred outdoor drinking venues (ahem BRIAN)?

OKAY

THE REEF
SOUSSI
CAFE BERLIN
CANTINA MARINA
BOURBON (GLOVER PARK)

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

SKY TERRACE

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

WASHINGTON HARBOUR

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

(YACHT ROCK FAP)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, the back patio at Temperance Hall should be open by then...

Also, Hotel Helix.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

STRAITS OF MALAYA (ALSO FOOD)
MY FIRE ESCAPE (OCCUPANCY NOT TO EXCEED 2. MIND THE CLIMBING RATS)

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

OK DCILXORs where we gonna do the first outdoor FAP of 2006? I am up for any of the above-named places on any day except this THURSDAY because I will be DOING MY FARKING TAXES.

Anyone else not yet DONE his/her/their FARKING TAXES?

― quincie, Monday, 10 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait I just saw this on irs.gov:

Tax Deadline Approaching
Taxpayers in most of the country will have until Monday, April 17 to file and pay, because the 15th falls on Saturday. Due to the Patriots Day holiday, residents of Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and the District of Columbia will have until Tuesday, April 18.

Oh cool so now this thursday is open because I will be doing the farking taxes on Monday, April 17.

― quincie, Monday, 10 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Patiriots Day" holiday???

― quincie, Monday, 10 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I never do my taxes until the day before, or week after. It's a tradition.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

And, if you must pay, there is really no purpose in filing b4 the deadline.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am also confused by Patriots Day. I thought RI was the only state with that being an official holiday, and yet, I guess DC and MD will give me an extra day for taxes but RI won't? I keep putting it off... I lived in three states last year. what a pain.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else not yet DONE his/her/their FARKING TAXES?

i just got my rebate today! because i am po! yr dad may give you chocolate cake for breakfast but mine can't afford it!

also brian is too knowledgeable for me because i hate teh reef (well, the roof is good) and don't even know the rest!

ps i'll give you a p1rated turbotax cd if you buy me a beer! i am all exclamation marks 2nite!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

and drunk!

!!!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

This Patriots Day is clearly a work of fiction. Or perhaps Canadian.

Tonight Mookie drinks for me.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

the vase is not badly broken! Still salvagable. No bitches been choked tonite. THO ZR apparently taught the cats how to CUDDLE!!! 10,000 cheers for that, that was the highlight of a long and briefly trying day. FINALLY OUT OF PHOENIX PPL!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back! Time to post-wedding/honeymoon FAP, pref. before mookie leaves for honeymoonin' because I want answers re: the dook lacrosse team.

I'm already set up w/the H&R shlock software but I will buy you a beer anyway!

― quincie, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

i have a headache.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

beer helps that, dude.

― quincie, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Our tax day tradition, launched last year, is to fill out the forms at a bar table 40 minutes before deadline and haul ass to the late-night post office with all the other no-counts. This year I worry we'll try to go for T-20 minutes.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, I'm at Pentagon City, waiting for my apointment at the Genius Bar. Quick: what are the not to be missed Fashion Centre stores?? (I already went into Commander Salamander--they had no Paul Frank OMGWTFLOL).

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there's anything there they don't have in Georgetown.. (checking directory).. hey, Swatch!!! cool! get one Swatch! I want one, I wonder if mine from the 80's still works..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'm kinda religious about getting taxes done within a week of receiving all my w-2's, but that's only because it means i get money faster. this may have been the last year for that, sadly.

ally, are the cats not historically very affectionate? they were pretty damn friendly, really - mainly dr. ben at first, but the other one (mr. kitty?) and i were old pals by the time it was all over. also, the 15-year-old me was seethingly jealous of yr autographed old skool manics picture (even richey!). the 23-year-old me was just regular jealous.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

oh they are affectionate to PEOPLE always. But to each other, no. They have NEVER cuddled up together until last night. If I knew you'd be jealous of such a thing and was also psychic and knew 3 years ago I'd meet you, I would never have got rid of my giant subway-poster-sized Generation Terrorists promo poster that was autographed by all the Manics inc. Richey as well! I gotta call you re: key thang.

Also I too am the person who files taxes ASAP. I don't wanna have to think about that shit.

Re: Fashion Centre, wtf up with no PF in Commander Salamander?????????????

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I will be happy to drink outside with you nice people, but you should be warned that I will grouse about it. Consuming food and drink outside is, it seems to me, appropriate to beasts of the field and not to civilised human beings.

I'm looking forward to it, though.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

oh man dudes, amanda and i watched some pals' little girls last night (2 yrs and 5 mo. old, respectively), and shit made me want some goddamn babies. shit also made me realize i have about 1/10 the energy necessary to care for said babies at the moment, which doesn't bode well for future reserves. still, taking a crying infant and being able to put it to sleep in yr arms makes you feel totally awesome.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I hereby nominate Zack as Nurturer-in-Chief of DC ILX. This should come in handy when my grandma's nascent dementia busts out.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

haha I totally got a swatch! with cherries on it.

still waiting...

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ally: they did have Nicky Hilton's line tho (?)

Mac gods please let my computer survive

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like geniuses take their time.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

While you wait, Mary, are you using your cellular telephone to post? What kind of phone?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Silly, I'm using their computers. They claim my computer is a-ok. Of course it was on best behavior with the masters. I have a crapola Cingular phone because I know/care nothing about technology and break everything I have. But my watch has cherries on it!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

pics of dr ben and mr kitty lezzing up plz

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Stephen, i'm not sure how my proposed role as nurturer would intersect with my already established role as drink dropper, but i can't wait to discover the horrible answer!

i think dr. ben and mr. kitty's newfound friendship is the result of me trying to feed them, dr. ben getting too enthusiastic and ending up with food all over his face, and mr. kitty then eating the food off of his face. bonding, yo.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh god you should've seen him LAST night. I don't understand his fierce enthusiasm for putting his head directly in the way of a can of food. I usually can restrain him with one arm while pouring the food in but not last night. I think he wanted me to feel sorry for him, like I didn't know you had come by and fed them, and he was STARVING. Except both of their enormous guts say otherwise.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kitty porn.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

FATTEY Kitty porn.

― Dan (Niche Market) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Devil in Mr. Kitty

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

guys i hate being sick! tomorrow i hope to rejoin the land of the well

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wait I thought it was ZR who was sick! Have you two been making out again?

― quincie, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Being sick sucks, especially when its so nice outside. Get better dude!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah it's sweet weather. We walked home yesterday!

HEY BTW

ZR, PS, and anybody else who likes old crap that makes noise:

I am basically GIVING AWAY the following to anybody who wants to pick it up from our apartment.

TASCAM DAP-1 - portable toppath'line DAT recorder (and hey, some old tapes besides if you want'em.) no power supply, you have to ebay that yourself.
YAMAHA TG-33 - FM/sample playback tone generator with a joystick on it
YAMAHA TQ-5 - 4-op FM 80s beast
Incredibly old Nakamichi tape deck which is great for really weird fucked up transistorized superdistortion
PEAVEY MIDI-controllable parametric lowpass filter
MAESTRO old barely working parametric bandpass filter pedal
SUZUKI SX-500 tone generator. 80s-tastic.
OBERHEIM MATRIX 1000 nuff said
and some Alesis "nano" fx modules which work great if you need idiot-proof compression or truly obnoxious flange in a pinch
and a DOD distortion pedal

I even have manuals for like 90% of this crap.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL TAKE MANY OF THESE THINGS AND GIVE YOU MONEY FOR THEM I LOVE OLD CRAP THAT MAKES NOISE

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

ill take it all - i can pick it up tomorrow - is that soon enough?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Some of it even has awesome stickers on it

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

eh - give em to zack

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

we'll share

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

haha you dorks are like those guys from Amazon who keep paying me to send them shitty drum n' bass CDs from 1997

but yeah no all of this equipment is great, what a steal for you fellas! Get excited!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

the vulnerable cardigans turn shit to gold

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

basically if there's a piece of equipment that doesn't sound cool put through a fuzz pedal and wah i have yet to find it

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. Thats like an Ark of Sound. Enjoy it doods.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

a trumpet doesn't sound cool put through either or both. It sounds GODLY.

See: Jack Johnson, Bitch's Brew, Dark Magus

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

BTW I will let you guys know ahead of time the best thing to do with the Peavey is to plug in some random source of ambient sound, I used to use film soundtracks, and then trigger it with a MIDI keyboard or summat. I would split my Roland so the bottom octave went to the filter and the top octave made whatever, marimba samples with hall reverb through 2 delays in sequence. College-tastic.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

dude i love you and my roommates hate you

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

OK OK hold the phone, the DAT recorder is on reserve.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

HELLO DC-ISTS. MY ROOMMATE WILL BE DOING HIS FIRST CITY PAPER COVER IN THE COMING WEEKS AND WILL HAVE A 5-ILLUSTRATION SET WITHIN THE RAG ITSELF. DETAILS TO FOLLOW.

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Whoever shows up first at our apartment tonight, 6pm sharp, gets all the shit. Tom won't be there, so I might throw in some CDs too.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jimmy Mod, that's awesome; the City Paper needs some more happenin' cover talent. Will it be a photo or illustration?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit - Amazing Race, DC Audio Geek style!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

illustration. details as they become available.

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Though the wife does not know which AC adapters go to which devices, so have fun with that part of the game!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who fuckin cares, free CDs dude.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

in some ways you two are very different people.

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

It made getting the marriage license easier, I expect.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys - im making my triumphant return to DC-area radio tomorrow night on WMUC 88.1 in college park (www.wmucradio.com). call me at (301) 314-8800 if you want to request anything/hassle me. its probably gonna be a big grab-bag of proto/pseudo/ultra/mega/quasi-psychedelic stuff

ZACK GIVE ME BACK MY JORGE BEN BEFORE TOMORROW NIGHT

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh from 10pm-midnight

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

"ROCK AGAINST ASS"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

OTM also "Hobbit Motherfuckers"

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

hank?
yeah happy tom?
how do you feel about hansa rostock?
hansa rostock? they are POOSIES. HEAVY METAL POOSIES!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

ehhh why do all...american...PUNK ROCK BOYS go out with American new wave hooker girls? I don't know. I don't LIKE it. I'm from NORWAY. In Norway, PUNK ROCK BOYS go out with PUNK ROCK GIRLS. Or...um..with each other. And do homosexual activities.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Computer still fritzing. Is there any sort of Tekserkve certified Mac dealer/repair people in the DC area? Or must I go back to Pentagon City? And how to convince the people there to actually fix computer?

What is everyone doing for Easter? My mom wants me to take her to service at the Cathedral of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception:(

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mary, what exactly is it doing again?

Easter is Tom's birthday!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

TOM IS JESUS

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

JESUS OF MUSIC TOYS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

THE VERY BEST JESUS OF ALL

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

little known fact, guys:

SANTA DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE STORY OF EASTER ("THE PASSION")

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I PREFER SUSHI JESUS

http://www.ryloc.com/blog/images/jesussushi.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Now it doesn't wait until it gets into iTunes to crash--it just crashes from the weight of using word. Today I was using the word processing for one hour when it crashed. And these crashes are like total freezes, can't get the computer to turn off or turn back on. When I start back up again now, there is sometimes just a spinning cursor, forever, like the OS never loads, or just a pale blue screen. I reset pram and pmu and still nadda.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

yo is it true jesus got sonned by groundskeeper willie and fat red buddha in a sushi beef?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

also if jesus were made of sushi i would be so incredibly excited about communion

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

pete, on the other hand, would be sorta lukewarm on salvation

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

is that apple window in the bowels of gwu that i once directed tombot to still there?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mary my only advice to you is be prepared to be in for a long time at the ~~Smuggo~~Genius Bar trying to get them to fix it. Mine had to flat out break (monitor would no longer go on) for them to do anything and it still fritzes occasionally. I think we have the same generation of iBook and despite Jon Williams's impassioned cries elsewise, our version of iBook is notorious for fritzing :(

I do believe the GWU apple-approved tiny center is still there.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

What is everyone doing for Easter?

I have decided to cook and eat rabbit (available at the farmer's market!).

Were I visiting my parents I'd probably be guilted into attending a service. But they're Episcopalian so I could totally go drunk.

― quincie, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Conceptually disturbing and fantasic, Q!

Maybe braised RABBIT with EGG noodles?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha that is so EVIL genius, Brian! I am totally going to do it.

― quincie, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

hey, all.. uh, quick question, is it possible to get cherryblossom flower bouquet at all in the DC area? or not? it's for colleague at work & nobody thought of this until very late, unfortunately. what would they do without me.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea Easter was this weekend. Sorry, Mom.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I saw LOADS of cherry blossoms for sale at last week's Dupont Circle farmer's market, which is unfortunately only on Sundays, probably too late for you. The best bets are probably Greenworks, Flowers by Sidra Forman at Relish, Ultraviolet, or Caruso.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mary, did you back-up your files and try to reinstall the OS yet? This sort of sounds like a logic board problem, tho'.

― ng-unit, Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tom I am already in looooooove w/yr maestro parametric filter

― zsaurus, Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

I am sooooooo hung over

Is the Dupont market gonna be open on Easter? Cos I would like to try to cook this "rabbit" of which you speak. I've never even eaten a rabbit!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think the market will be open, though it's very possible that many vendors will take the day off. There's always rabbit at Bistro du Coin, too.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

i've had rabbit! it's like any other meat only cuter. i am so tired i could puke. drove up to philly (4 hours) and back (3 hours) last night for my aunt's 60th birthday party. my aunt is pretty great but WEDNESDAY NIGHT PARTY WTF. also I-95 south in ne maryland cut down to one lane WTF.

tell me some handy spanish phrases. all i know is esta es basura.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

When my family was stationed in Europe (like, oh christ, 28 years ago) we stayed with a friend's family in the south of France for a week, where I got to eat freshly killed and skinned rabbit. Like, I saw the whole process from "look, a bunny!" to "burp!" That was actually the last time I ever had rabbit, come to think of it.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is the place with the (frozen) bunnies:

http://www.cibolafarms.com/

I'm gonna send them an e-mail to see if they will be at the market this Sunday--I'll report back.

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I keep screwing up actually going to the market for various reasons :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there for sure on Sunday--wanna meet up? I tend to go early because the place that has the most incredibly delicious eggs sells out of them quickly.

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

A confession: I also buy milk from the milk guy to MAKE MY OWN YOUGURT. Which sounds kind of ridiculous but it is so good! Soon I shall stop shaving, because yougurt-making women and hairy-pitted women tend to be one and the same.

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

hey al-bot, wanna lunch with me and ZR?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

-- quincie (quinci...), April 13th, 2006.

one and the same and HOT

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

q: yeah! I would love to meet up. How early is early? How the hell do you make your own yogurt???

pssst: yeah! I would love to have lunch. Where?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I already miss my Maestro parametric filter *cries at desk*

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

The market opens at 9, I usually just roll out of bed and go--and this week I'm due for a not-really Easter brunch in Bethesda at like 10:30, so I have no choice but to do it early-ish.

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

tom i'd make some variety of clever nyah-nyah type remark here but my vicious hangover is sort of getting in the way.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

ok. I WILL BATTLE THRU AND BE THERE AT 9

ugh god the hangover

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

you know those cringe-inducing toenail fungus commercials with the horrible cartoon creature that rips open yr nail bed and then starts scratching your skin to raw disgusting shreds w/all of his evil friends? i sort of feel like that, just in my brain.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK LETS MEET AT THE ENTRANCE CLOSEST TO THE CIRCLE NEAR THE AWESOME EGG PLACE AND THE MILK GUY.

Sorry, caps are probably not helping your hangover and ZRs, uh, tumor. My sympathies.

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

arnold.jpg

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not that bad off, actually, I think it probably helped that the shower water this morning was of the JUST PRECISELY WARM ENOUGH TO NOT BE FUCKING COLD variety

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know what an awesome egg is, I bet!! I will be there!

I feel more like I'm moving in ultra slow motion today. No headache etc, though I did spontaneously spew out all the orange juice I had this morning while I was brushing my teeth. Well played.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hey dude anyway Pete's Brother, Mountain Ape, what were the results of Five Guys vs. In-N-Out coast to coast comparison?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have just learned that the Dupont farmer-market farmers have another market which is open IN THE EVENING, so people who sleep in on weekends (i.e. non-insane people) can still get their arugula on.

Has anyone ever actually been to this evening market? It's supposedly on Thursdays, in Penn Quarter, but it could be a hoax.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I've walked through the aftermath. It's like 4-6pm, seems smaller than the Dupont edition but wtf do I know about farmer markets besdies old guys like to ram them in american steel.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'd get up at 9am for a farmer market if I knew a chase scene would ram through it.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes no bunnies!

Hi. We will be at the market on Sunday, but we no longer raise and sell rabbit. Sorry.

Regards,
Rob
Cibola Farms

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

OK all is not lost. There are lots of bunnies in the community garden

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

oops don't know what happened there.

Now as I was saying:

There are lots of bunnies in the community garden NOW WHO CAN LEND ME A GUN?

― quincie, Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Quincie, there are plenty of nice plump rats in my back yard if the bunnies don't work out. They seem to like pizza crusts, so trapping one shouldn't be a problem.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to let you all know that if the world worked like this diagram I would be happily looking for a new job. ACE.
http://www.vmware.com/img/endpoint_ace_diagram.gif

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost this is weird, I just went & got lunch w/coworker and on the way back was talking about how I'd like to cook up some rabbit. you can get frozen rabbit at the H Mart on Rt 50 in Fairfax, I saw it last week & almost bought some but decided to wait til I finished other stuff in the fridge.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

my computer is insecure too

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hi folks. Tombot thought you guys would dig this little nibble of malice. I don't know if any of you remember me anymore. Anyhow, Bon Appétit

"Dude, I absolutely did not order 2 of the "A Retard Put Tater Tots In My Burrito" burritos and a slightly warmed hostess apple pie. Mountain Dew is correct, however I ordered the 2 steak baja chalupa with a crunchy taco meal. Which probably costs 2 bucks more than 2 Retard Tater Tot Burritos and a Apple El DisgustessertO. Fucking assholes.

Plus, tater tots do not belong in a burrito at all. Google even says so.

Your search - "tater tots in a burrito" - did not match any documents

See. No Documents. That shit ain't even documented. Fucking retards.

If I had the time I would have gone in and complained. Instead I had to hurry up and eat that shit. Except for the Apple Assholenalada or whatever, fuck that thing.

I didn't even want Taco Bell. I pull into the Indian place with the $10 all you can carry carryout buffet, but it was.. not just closed.. "Being Renovated For A New Look". Fuck that shit, I want some Saag Paneer.

Someone should seriously enter a Taco Bell with a ski mask and a MP5 and order the staff at gunpoint to throw out all the tater tots. "

― Helltime Producteau, Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

THE RETURN

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

anyone who was at our wedding remembers you, you big jackass. Yr the huge drunky with the heinekin photo.

you can order bunnies on Amazon apparently! And cheese!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Tom - I'll put it this way -

In-n-Out and Five Guys are two ENTIRELY different animals. Both are equally amazing, however, and, in the event that these regional chains ever occupy the same area, it will be tough to decide:
- In-n-Out's buns are AMAZING. Just perfectly grilled, fluffy and substantial enough without being too much roll
- Five Guys fries are amazing. Period.
- In-n-Out has drive-in.
- Five Guys (often) has beer.

It was a fun experiment, but it would be like putting a Martin D-28 against a Les Paul - both beautiful instruments, but totally different in abilities and capabilities.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I bought an external hard drive to back up to, but I haven't been able to get my computer to run long enough for me to do so. Average run time is about one hour, before it closes down, not to be resurrected again for about 12 hours. I'm going to visit another Genius tomorrow. I hope they will understand that not being able to use your computer for more than one hour a day is not quite optimal performance level. But yeah, Ally, past visit did not inspire confidence. If they don't help me this time, maybe I'll just drop computer in the bath tub so I can get a new one.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

drunk, applaud. sorry about yr computer mary; i am mac-useless

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 14 April 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost this is weird, I just went & got lunch w/coworker and on the way back was talking about how I'd like to cook up some rabbit.

http://circadianshift.net/images/bunny-steals-cookie_400w.jpg

― nervous.gif (eman), Friday, 14 April 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

crescent fresh

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 14 April 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

cooky-ing up some rabbit.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, springtime. Hundreds of teenagers lined up in row after row, up and down my escalators, outside my workplace, identically attired, full of enthusiasm for learning about the capitol, or at least the part where Abe got his occipitals blown out.

You can always tell the EuroTourists a mile off because they don't dress like they're on vacation at all but yet somehow it's clear that they aren't working!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also who the fuck hauls his laptop all the way to a downtown starbucks just to sit by the window and check his Outlook all day, starting at 8am? Just work from home in your sweats, dude.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

You can spot the Euros 'cause of the way they hold their cigs. Also, they're not orgasming over a 160-year-old building.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

the freedom hating is a dead giveaway, too

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and the crazy gibberish coming out of their mouth

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

You can always tell the EuroTourists a mile off because they don't dress like they're on vacation at all but yet somehow it's clear that they aren't working!

Oh dude, please don't make me GIS for German tourists.

― Dan (Let's Just Say They Stand Out) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Plus the ridiculous sunglasses.

xpost German Tourists are a totally different breed from ambiguously foreign tourists.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

"hey funboys, get a room"

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did u get to fuck with the YAMAHA TQ5 yet fool?

Also I have another request for a cover by the vulnerable cardigans: the speed racer theme.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

He's a demon on wheels.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

And when the odds are against him, and dangerous work to do, you bet you're life he'll see it through.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were going to ask them nicely if you could join permanently. All big talk standing around smoking in front of the Morrocan Embassy, wusses out the next day, I see how this is.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh jesus christ that has to be the first time I've made that stupid yr/y'r mistake in about 6 years.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

BTW everybody: I am getting really fat!

xpost whatever, you can't even spell "Wednesday"

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well yeah but thesis vs. classwork question comes before do I think I have the time to join a band when I have no talent to speak of question

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

not yet, but this weekend's going to be an extravaganza of noizemaking. speed racer theme = approved! and also the whole VC strategy is a) bomb the shit out of stuff on tet and b) anyone who has the vaguest interest in participating is in, so yeah, you can totally guest star

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

(ATTENTION PEOPLE READING THIS THREAD:

I understand that everyone in Germany does not dress like someone took every outfit from all of the John Hughes Brat Pack movies and put them in a blender along with an assortment of zany backpacks/fannypacks; I mean no harm and the only disrepect is intended to be loving and affectionate.)

― Dan (Nu-Disclaimer ILE) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, some people in Germany are Kraftwerk!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

FEAR THE GERMAN-TOURIST BACKLASH!

And you forgot to mention the kaffiyeh neckerchiefs.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

My mother-in-law is German, Dan. You make the funny.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

And you forgot to mention the kaffiyeh neckerchiefs.

I am certain that Molly Ringwald wore a nerkerchief in at least one Brat Pack movie.

― Dan (Or Maybe Lea Thompson) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh man. . .during SXSW I saw numerous young hipster men wearing kerchiefs, bandit-style, around their necks. WTF is up with this lameness? Are dudes going to start wearing belts of ammunition across their chests too?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.riverblue.com/hughes/allysheedy.jpg
How soon they forget.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

xp - wait, explain to me how that would not be cool? kerchiefs must die though.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

BTW everybody: I am getting really fat!

What you're preggers ALREADY?

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes ally u are porky

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Ally I did quite literally gain 10 lbs in 10 days on our honeymoon (in San Francisco, natch!) and Mr. Q had a good laugh when I tried to put on the pants I had intended to wear home on the plane, failed, and had to switch to a loose skirt. I was like "whatever, dude, it's all the restaurant food and wine--it'll drop off within a month."

Three years later: POUNDAGE STILL THERE!

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Co-habiting 'makes women fatter', BBC says.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah well Mr. Q has gained weight, too. So now he's, like, super skinny, instead of just super super skinny.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's crazy, all my clothes are skin tight. Upside: bigger boobs. Downside: OH NOES NOT THE SHE-RA ASS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Time to move: the NYT discovers U Street.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

My co-habitant and I have both been ballooning at a similar steady rate for years. It looks better on her.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I say fuck it, I prefer the poundage to any sort of "healthier lifestyle."

Oh man that article is full of roffle gems:

the caustic sneering of an indie rocker

And that's only the first paragraph!

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

hardcore partying in Georgetown

???

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

It also suggests we "bop" into Meeps.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

that article is one big frowny face emoticon.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah actually there aren't nearly as many roffle gems as I'd hoped.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's a helpful reminder of the hypothetical audience of the travel section. Warning: You may be asked for change by strangers!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

"The area at the intersection of 14th and U Streets has been a center of night life for a decade now. But it's only during the last couple of years that U Street has sprouted enough interesting shops to make a daytime visit worthwhile."

-New York Times, 2002

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys bright side, if U street really finally becomes the OOT'ers & college losers' PLACE TA BE, maybe Adams Morgan will stop being the place to get bricked into a fatal coma over a Jumbo Slice or stabbed over a parking place.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine being able to visit Blue Fin or the Reef on a Fri/Sat night again without dealing with 120,000 pounds of trash and assholes!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

You can just go there early and yr fine.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Or, like, explore other neighborhoods, Mr. Easily Sketched Out.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

google image search for "hardcore georgetown" led me to discover not only several tits and dicks but also a page of great posters including this gem:
ihttp://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/p4l.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

IMG SRC NOT IHTTP LET'S END THE MADNESS RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW ON THIS THREAD PPLS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

"...nightlife seekers migrating over from Georgetown and Adams Morgan for a slightly older, less raucous scene where the patrons have a bit more money to spend." -New York Times

"Arlington Man Dies After U Street Shooting" -Washington Post

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh, wrinklepaws

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

That dead guy was slightly older, to be fair.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Based on my experience last night at The Reef and Amsterdam Falafel I'm willing to say that the 2400 block of 18th St is the hippest neighborhood in the city. At least in terms of poncey beer and falafel topping selections.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love poncey beer

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

based on pete and a friend of ours' experience at the reef last friday (but not mine! enjoy yr ham, fuckers!), eating there can sometimes get you very sick. BUT this must be balanced against DC ilxor aaron's giving you a comp. pitcher of beer, so it all evens out really.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

ham???? Since when does the reef serve something as stupid as ham? That place is dead to me.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hi! I'm back at the Pentagon City Apple. Please to not let me have Abdul Genuis again. Should I buy some Steve Madden ballet flats?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Good news: they let me return my 3 months old RoadTrip that never worked.)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

xp - it was on a pizza, so that's way more forgivable.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

ham is the worst, though. even when still a meato, i found it totally unappealing. how can the same animal have both the lamest (ham) and awesomest (bacon) cutz?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I have always been perplexed by that question, actually.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ham can be awesome, but only if it's left in a shed for a very long time. Dean & Deluca has many products that prove this. Really, though, anybody who describes a ham as tasting great really just means it tastes closer to bacon.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

LEFT IN A SHED?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

hickory smoked & peppered by Ham I Am, I think is specifically what Brian's referring to. It's been a while.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

it is called shed-left ham and costs 27.99/pound

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Well, most places use the term 'aged', but yeah, it's pretty much just left in a shed.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

No. Ham is no good. I don't care if you leave it in a gazebo, much less a shed.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

PONCEY BEER ALERT!

Starting next week, Birreria Paradiso (in the basement of Pizzeria Paradiso in Georgetown) will start a HALF PRICE DRAFT HAPPY HOUR from 5-7pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 16 taps of all great stuff.

IT'S TIME FOR THE CIRCULATOR
IT'S TIME FOR THE CIRCULATOR

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Pentagon City again? I'm beginning to think Mary has a crush on the Geniuses.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1126/ham7ke.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

next ilx wedding:

http://theoriginalsoundtrack.com/art/allywedding/IMG_0318.JPG

http://www.asuwebdevil.com/images/issues/lewh4lzl.jpg

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Who is that?

Ok, so now Abdul thinks it is dc in-board, which is not charging properly, hence causing all the problems that he refused to acknowledge existed last time. Does this make sense? I had to send my computer away for 5-7 days:( Does anyone think it will be okay when it comes back?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_u/300_80/00720642481325_800x800.jpg

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ghostface as best man!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, so now Abdul thinks it is dc in-board, which is not charging properly, hence causing all the problems that he refused to acknowledge existed last time. Does this make sense?

YES. PRETTY SIMILAR TO MY IBOOK!

I had to send my computer away for 5-7 days:( Does anyone think it will be okay when it comes back?

It will be...okayish. You will still have some problems in my experience but mostly it will work.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Starting next week, Birreria Paradiso (in the basement of Pizzeria Paradiso in Georgetown) will start a HALF PRICE DRAFT HAPPY HOUR from 5-7pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 16 taps of all great stuff.

I wanna go Tuesday, or Wednesday before the BIG ROCK SHOW.

WHO IS WITH ME?

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I would be except I don't get out of work til 6 :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

That still leave an hour of good cheap beer, and then we can switch to good expensive beer or just go get some 40s and drink them sitting on the curb.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

ok I'm down, either day

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Brian have I told you how fond I am of you? And not just for the great restaurant and boozing tips and awesome shiny green shoes!

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Say Tuesday and I am there. Bring on the poncey beer!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'm scheduled to give blood on Wednesday so maybe I'd better "double up on fluids" on Tuesday. Hey, I'm just doing what the Red Cross tells me to do!

Oh yeah we're gonna do some hardcore partying in Georgetown.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah tues is better cuz that way i can go

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I can't do Tuesday, but I'm planning on Wednesday. I can use my Wharf Rat ordering technique where I walk away from the bar with 6 beers just before the end of happy hour.

(x-post) green?!? I wish. They're gray, but the're also developing weird patches of tan discoloration so I guess anything goes. Q, I am in awe of your social graces and high tolerance.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Damn all you Tuesdayists.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Obv. my tolerance is not high enough if I can't distinguish green from gray! I am going to be a Wednesdayist for the BIG ROCK SHOW.

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

pete and i can't wait to not meet your expectations, q! dc city paper made it a featured item of the week (for kiss me deadly - we're really getting a good record going opening for canadian bands), and i can't wait to not meet their expections either!

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

wait what is wednesday???????? I am so losing my bro status aren't I!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

dude i don't remember if i said anything about it, but pete and i are playing again on wednesday @ dc9 w/sarah azzara and kiss me deadly. i'm 63% certain i will not have a massive equipment breakdown - those are good odds as these things go. whether that's a positive or a negative is a matter of interpretation.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

and ally, bro isn't a title, it's a fact of life - you're safe.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

OK so my first two new tracks I am going to produce when I get all of my shit back in a semblance of togetherness are going to be GERMAN TOURISTS and HARDCORE PARTY IN GEORGETOWN.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

You can play them at my new cafe/nightlife destination, 120,000 Pounds of Trash and Assholes.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

ok so are we getting some small business grant applications together or what?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm half-minority AND a female, cha-ching @ grants!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4306/cap1fo.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's a very white asshole. Aptly.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Realism is rarely a desired quality in the asshole depiction industry.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what is up with the "now we can hang out at 14th and U St IN THE DAYTIME!" nonsense upthread????

― Dan (Oh, White People) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

is it "now we can hang out" or "now we have a reason to hang out"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Either way, I'm kind of like "WHO CARES? It's a nightspot!"

― Dan (Daytime Is For Museums) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

"The panhandlers have been subdued! Now fewer moments of class discomfort for luxury shoppers!"

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

The following prose poem courtesy the

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, don't know what happened there.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but I want prose poems!

― quincie, Friday, 14 April 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can't meet y'all Tues because I will have the class from hell and the project due that is partly stuck on my computer at the repair shop.

Did they replace your DC in-board, AZ?

Oh no, I hope all the NYC poseurs won't be descending on U Street now!

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

I had the day off today! went to Old Town Alexandria and looked in a thrift store (nothing for me although if someone with very very short arms wants a vintage Burberry trench coat I know where to find it). misha's has very good carrot cake. mmm.

as for happy hour, I'll go.. either day.. maybe both? teh CirculaTOR arrives sort of near my house and I haven't ever taken it. probably better kept up than the D-6 or the 90, I'm guessing. I eagerly await H St NE becoming the new place to be, maybe they will give us cute mini buses to move around drunk college bros

Also who the fuck hauls his laptop all the way to a downtown starbucks just to sit by the window and check his Outlook all day, starting at 8am?

I saw a dude on the red line a few weeks ago with an open laptop doing his taxes. I don't know what else to say about that.

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only one who checked in around 10pm and thought, "Hmm, Mookie's posting a bit early tonight" ?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

i give you one (1) caustic sneer of an indie rocker

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 15 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Mookie are down for some Tuesday/Wednesday happy hour and/or some ROCK SHOW? Mary I am sad you have class on Tuesday, but can you ROCK SHOW?

― quincie, Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

wednesday i'ma be flying over the atlantic, which is too bad because i'd have gone to the last ROCK SHOW if i'd remembered i was gonna miss this one. tuesday maybe--but i really don't want to be hung over on wednesday...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

We'll keep you on a steady regimen of mineral water w/lime slices. In between pints anyway.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

hey Q do you know sean casey, pirate 1b, who grew up in upper st. c?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Q, it's not inconceivable that I could attend a Wednesday gig, but where?

Urban Outfitters is repping the Warhol Factory this season.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 15 April 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

a weekend in MoCo, blehh. hope this go-go cd i found is good. is the walter reed medical atrocity museum open on sundays? o_Ô

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.2pass.co.uk/nervous.gif

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Aspen Hill vs. Derwood

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Incredibly, I find I've volunteered to meet baby-raising friends, who I never get to see, at 9am tomorrow. At the zoo. On, it turns out, Easter Sunday.

I think my only hope is to still be drunk then.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mary the Fake Accents are playing at DC9 (it will be my first time there!) on Wednesday. I had promised to see them the last time they played, but WAS NOT INFORMED FAR ENOUGH IN ADVANCE to work it out. This time I had ample notice (thanks bros!) and will be there for sure.

ZR and Pete--what time are ya'll scheduled to start ROCKING?

Mr. Q is also down for Pizza Paradiso happy hour on Tuesday--I told him he would meet people who could advise him about good record shopping in DC/Baltimore. He was disappointed with his trip to Joe's today and could use some cheering up (i.e., recommendations on other places to shop for vinyl).

― quincie, Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and mookie if you come to Tuesday happy hour I can tell you my SEAN CASEY maybe hitting on me (???) story.

Mr. Q is a huge baseball fan and would love to talk about the stupid YANKEES, etc. with someone who cares (i.e., not me).

― quincie, Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen as I recall you suggested people who got up early for stuff on weekends were CRAZY!

Shit, if you're gonna be up at 9:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday you should be meeting me and Ally (and others??? Ahem BRIAN) at the farmer's market, not joining the fucking stroller crowd at the ZOO!

Also: I have been to neither Aspen Hill nor Derwood, but I've heard there are good eats to be had in Aspen Hill???

― quincie, Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Aspen Hill does not have th good eats, Wheaton does.

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rockville has http://www.jeepers.com/bday.GIF

― nervous.gif (eman), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Q, good tip on they eggs - they were as orange as promised and delicious. Meeting at 9am was still a terrible idea. Bourbon with the spiced grapefruit syrup should work great - it's pretty much like making a whisky sour.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Who is up for Ethiopian near DC9 pre-Fake Accents on Wednesday?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

ME!

― quincie, Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

eggs good.

9am bad.

also YANKEES yay

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Sunday, 16 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ethiopian sounds good. I can celebrate doing my taxes, which I am just about to do right now.

I saw the Canterbury Tales today at the Ken Cen. It was a bit loong.

Happy Birthday Tom!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering about that Cant. Tales production. How many are in the cast? From the ads it looked suspiciously like a three-person show.

Daer My Wednesday Evening: Why you too fucked up for ROCK SHOW? I think I'm going to be the only member of the Fake Accents Appreciation Society to never see them play.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 17 April 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, funny you should mention it. There were about 20 or more in the cast including extras, but the leads tended to play multiple characters, and those tended to be the main characters. According to stagebill, one of the dudes was in Mike Leigh's Naked--I have to research who he played. (It wasn't David Thewlis, sadly.)

If I did my taxes right, and that's a big if, I am getting back upwards of $300 from the Feds. Spring/summer fashion here I come. Now let's see if Virginia is going to suck it all back.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'd kill my uncle to see an all-Mike Leigh Canterbury Tales. I think Thewlis and Timothy Spall could do all the parts between them.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus that would be so awesome. But we have to include Jane Horrocks.

(I'm confused, are their any Virginia-ites out there? Am I supposed to be filling out 760-ADJ, because none of the blanks seem relevant. I would feel a bit better about taking the poverty credit if they termed it something a little nicer, like income-deprived.)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, never mind, I see I need just a plain 760. My library must have been out of them.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

happy birthday tom!

OMG JESUS CHRIST (WHO ARTT RISEN PRAISE) PLEASE STOP EVERYBODY AT MY JOB FROM NEEDING THINGS, FIX MY CAR, AND KNOCK ME THE FUCK OUT UNTIL IM MOVED INTO MY NEW APARTMENT. AMEN.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Pete! Have you found a new place? Where/when (I recall offering moving help, as I am in debt to the Universal Bank of Moving Assistance)?

And happy birthday to my fellow traveller (see also: birthday thread).

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks you guys.

BTW, how do I shot logarithms with my cell phone's calculator?

ANS: You hope you get the extra credit right, instead.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

hey q-k,
i have a new place - it's an efficiency at 16th and shepherd - i have a parking spot for $50/month! i think im moving apr 29-30, so yknow maybe we can have a DC FAP at my new place or something. in any case, itll be a fashionable and relaxing one-room destination for hanging out.
love,
pete

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though I hope my weird reverse-engineering solutions to half of my midterm are acceptable and this guy is not a dick like my old math teachers used to be when I decided it was faster to just plug in 3 sets of nearby integers to figure out the relationships in an equation instead of actually reducing the thing according to proscribed technique

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

happy botday.

hey what time are pints tomorrow?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

dude i just read this PHATTY article in scientific american last night about the slide rule. pretty-hot-and-tempting logarithmic axxxtion.

i love you all, but i have to work and i hate everything.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah dude happy birthday, hope yr celebrations were festivious and such. petey don't let the man get you down.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the Canterbury Tales today at the Ken Cen. It was a bit loong.

Hey, I was there too! It was fun. The actors were very very good. Has anyone seen the Marivaux play at Folger? Worthwhile or not?

Also, what is the origin of the "how do I shot" thing? I missed that one.

Also, happy birthday Tom!

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

xo for not saying 'meme'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

1/2 price drafts are from 5-7; I will have to get my ass down there from Rockville so I will probably not arrive until ~6, at which point I will strive to drink 2X as fast for maximal economy, or something. Mr. Q, too!

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

"meme" = to be avoided because it sounds awful, much like "slough"

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

My (dude) friend in college referred to menstruation as "kicking the slough," which was AWFUL.

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

John Betjeman agrees.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

neat! I think some words sound so terrible, I wonder why they're in the language, could we not find better ones? I should start a thread for these.. "metadata" is another one, I hate it. (er, do most people sort of imagine they hear words as they read them or is this just me)

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i think everyone does that, to a degree...i remember an article i read a few years ago detailing how even as people read things silently, their tongues make little movements that'd correspond with speaking aloud whatever they were reading.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

did anybody notice the Post-Easter parade or whatever the fuck they had going down Pennsylvania this morning? Sounded pretty noise from the eighth floor over here. crowded downtown street reverb, why you sound the coolest of all?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

How do I shot web

Phrase started by Natural Selection players; in NS, one of the alien races can actually shoot spider webs as a weapon. One day, some goons were playing NS when a lot of newbies and clueless people were on the server, and "how do i shot web" was one of the questions that kept coming up. Someone took a screenshot, posted it to FYAD, and it went from there. Most commonly seen on /b/ as an image macro, featuring Spider-Man holding out his arms in an "I dunno..." gesture; this later inspired a series of shopped images, including one with a Japanese newscaster holding out his arms in the same gesture (along with Spider-Man and a number of anime characters), and a meme where a picture of a falling person is shopped to say "Hey Spider-Man, how do I shot web?" (with Spider-Man replying "dunno, lol"). See also "Â¯\(Âº_o)/Â¯" (below).

― nervous.gif (eman), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

omg ¯\(º_o)/¯

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wait I don't know what that thingie is supposed to be!

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

so basically the life of an "internet meme" = gamer w/ no life (redundant) makes joke > SomethingAwful forum adds a pic to it > makes the rounds to rest of interweb

xpost - its a guy shrugging, like the spiderman pic

― nervous.gif (eman), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I see. Now will someone please explain me this "hen fap" business that is all over the board?

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

No one knows what that's about.

― Dan (¯\(º_o)/¯ ) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Daria, were you with a gentleman friend? Now that you mention it, I think that I saw you. I noticed a tall, smart looking lady, but I thought you were this person I met from Harvard, and thought their wouldn't be any reason for Boston person to be in DC. But perhaps, you were you?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

how do i shot hen faps?
¯\(º_o)/¯

hahahaha

uh sorry everyone

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

seriously guys I kind of hate this message board at this point.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I'm hard pressed to discover unpolluted discussions not on this thread at this point. IGNORE OPTION plz get here soon

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

wouldn't be so bad if someone hadn't alerted me to the fact that I'm being ridiculed on BOARDS I STOPPED READING A YEAR AGO BECAUSE OF THIS PERSON still. Get one (1) life already? Psycho gynophobes and hen faps really have made this place a bit of a chore ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

these days i can barely get wound up enough to say something stupid to someone else who said something stupid on ILM. it's sad, in its own way. but in another, realer way, it's not.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

haha well yeah. It just kind of makes the whole excursion of having a msg board pointless though. They should add in some games and links to movies or something to pass time.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh hey did we ever discuss this
http://www.filmfestdc.org/

is anyone going to any of these films or interested in going?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

this picture makes me interested in seeing metal: a headbanger's journey

ps ally i'm using img src in deference to you here so if it doesn't work i'm holding you responsible

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always correct tho :D

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

is that benny hill?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

hey Mary.. I was with a friend from college & a friend of his, she is a very sharp dresser and they are both taller than me! a little awkward, I think every time I see her I'm like "wtf are you wearing heels" & she says (in a nice way) DUH, I'M REALLY TALL.. none of us are from boston though. :)

Film fest! absolutely! I want to see 1. anything French and 2. anything from West Africa and 3. new Hou Hsiao-hsien film and 4. Zozo film and 5. everything else people are going to & I have time for.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

THIS WOMAN FROM NC NEEEEEEDS TO STOP TALKING TO ME ON THE PHONE

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

hey that looks pretty good. i wish i were around for Isn't This a Time. maybe I will go to the Andre Techine.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

shit in a more tolerant country that man would be my future ex-husband

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally go and see that btw. uh xpost I mean that to any of them , I will go see anything I'm bored and sick of bar scene.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i mean i'll go see some movies, sure. i miss peliculas, i haven't been watching many lately - i blame netflix.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm up for filmfesting!

Today's downside: Is it even possible that I owe shitty Maryland two grand in shitty taxes for the six shitty months I lived there in 2005? Please tell me I'm just fucking up my return somehow. Fuck.

The upside: The feds appear to owe me a veritable shitload of money.

The downside: I WILL BE SO PISSED IF I HAVE TO SPEND MY FED RETURN TO PAY MY SHITTY STATE/DC RETURNS!

― quincie, Monday, 17 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I had to finagle like a mf to get my DC tax payment down to $66 additional and I only lived here for one (1) month in 2005! This entire place is batshit insane.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's a measure of my poverty that dc actually owes me a refund (albeit like $5)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Bring on the filmfest. But I'm not bored with the bar scene.

Maryland taxpayers, keep in mind that this is the guy you'll be sending your check to.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

"That's so goddamn dumb I can't believe it," said Schaefer, a former governor and mayor of Baltimore who is seeking reelection this year. "I look at one of the girls as she walked out. Big deal. . . . I look at the girls every time they walk out. The day I don't look at pretty girls, I die."

dude might as well plan on a spitoon-shaped tombstone

― nervous.gif (eman), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

The other message board is the suck-age, but at least it keeps down to a minimum the time needed to browse it (5 seconds).

I want to see the new Hou--this Friday or this Sunday?

Was excited to see Richard E. Grant's name--not so excited to see that he will be *directing* not acting, a movie about Swaziland no less.

That movie about the proto-Soul Train also looks interesting: Teenarama.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe John Waters didn't use that title already! yeah, looks like a good movie.

OK, how about I do like I did last year and start doing my taxes online at approx. 11:40 pm. yay.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, the archive of Robin Givhan's fashion columns (one of the Wash Post's Pulitzer winners this year) is a treat. if only I had this job!
John Roberts & family:

There they were -- John, Jane, Josie and Jack -- standing with the president and before the entire country. The nominee was in a sober suit with the expected white shirt and red tie. His wife and children stood before the cameras, groomed and glossy in pastel hues -- like a trio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three little Necco wafers.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Robin Givhan was on FIRE last year in the political wear category between that column, the one on Condi's boots, and the one on Cheney's parka.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh, yeah, they were all fantastic. shoot, why didn't they link the one on Jack Abramoff's gangster outfit? I guess it wasn't sent for consideration..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot about the Abramoff one! I wish every critic would apply their skills as broadly across their chosen field as she does.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

John, Jane, Josie and Jack? What are they, a Mormon superhero team?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

OK so I finished my fed & VA taxes but TurboTax online is trying to make me owe like $6000 to the District, which is the most constipated bullshit ever, so I skipped them for tomorrow. Jesus Christ.

Also I did actually fuck up my Systems Engineering midterm bigtime! Time to buckle down and make Super A Pluses on that group project and the final so I don't get a broomstick shoved through my pants by ex-NASA beardos. Life = Fun

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Happy birthday TOMBOT, you owe the govt both arms and also your balls"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

I filed fed yesterday but still haven't filed MD or DC. I'll have a go at DC today but I'm filing an extension for MD because I need more time to figure out how NOT to owe those fuckers over two grand!

Meanwhile, Mr. Q keeps getting letters from MD demanding to know why he didn't file a 2001 MD tax return. That would be because HE DIDN'T LIVE OR WORK IN MD, NOT FOR A SINGLE DAY, IN 2001. We moved to Bethesda in the spring of 2002, fuckers, but nice try.

I will be SO ready for a beer(s) this evening!

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Quincie -

A few years ago, they tried this shit with me too. I simply had to send a copy of my federal return from those years or, in one case, just called and asked what documentation was necessary. The Comptroller's Office of Maryland does this A LOT. In my case, I think it was b/c I used my folks' address as my home address b/c the mail in the MS Delta was suspect at best.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

If only Mr. Q actually had copies of his federal return from 2001! There is a reason why upon our marriage I assumed all tax-filing responsibility.

He'll just have to go through the pain of requesting a copy from the IRS, I suppose. But yeah, he probably filed 2001 with the Bethesda address, inviting MD to jump all over his ass!

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly. They won't proceed to a court action or anything until they are sure that you really do owe them money, so just be able to prove that you didn't earn any taxable income in MD that year, and you're good.

I would also suggest gathering up any information for other years that might cause them to get suspicious. They came after me two years in a row, and, on the second occurence, I just plopped my premaide packet into the mail and they backed the fuck off. I may have highly extended credit, but its all good! I pay my bills, yo!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

dude I hate this city so much.
I put in that basically 80% of my income this year was already taxed by VA and they're still fucking me for $2000, I guess because I'm filing as resident of DC vs. a resident of VA. They've really designed this to fuck people who move into the city from another state, AFAICT. you don't get the double-taxed income subtracted from your DC taxable income total, you just get a credit for the taxes you paid to the other state. Which in this case just means I'm still out some atrocious amount of money paid in taxes this year but what I expect from selling a bunch of mutual fund shares to pay off debt.
Fuck all.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

(this is why people who give a shit about their $$$ and not much else ALL live in VA)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

OK Tom so should I be doing my DC taxes before my MD taxes or vice-versa? Note that I am asking this at noon the day both are due.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do MD first and then whatever they tax you, DC will give you a credit for it. Though you're still a DC resident so just go ahead and break all your fingers with a hammer. I have no idea how in the world mookie did it with his $5 REFUND from this joint.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I would still feel a lot better if you went ahead and just finished off that ill-advised mutual fund stock once and for all. I saw your portfolio when trying to figure out wtf you did last year last night, it's going south anyway, and we ain't exactly making enough money to offset the tax burden of every liquidating that money. And having money we can't ever use without massive tax burden is asinine. Rather get rid of it now and then put it in yr money market and then use it to pay off if they knock you again next year (which they might not since you won't be taxed in two places for the same withdrawal).

Or tell your mom to take it, dude, since her name's still on the acct. Her fucking problem.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pffft. I done filed, received my VA refund and spent it all before March. What's important here is that if somebody doesn't finish the goddamned TR Bridge resurfacing soon, we're gonna have a major me+clock tower+sniper rifle incident on our hands.

PS All this talk of money markets and mutual funds and portfolios and liquidating frightens and confuses me. Checking account + 401(k) + student loan debt + overpriced NoVA apartment = I R POOR.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

at least DC didn't tax me for my jury duty money!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha Maryland I showed YOU, didn't I? NOW WHO OWES TWO GRAND OH YEAH YOU DO!!!

Well that was a pleasant surprise. Now on to DC, who will no doubt kick my ass.

I'm never moving again, by the way. This two state thing is really, really aggravating.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Your pain is my pain. I had to file in three states this year. I got HAMMERED. This is the only place I've ever lived where I have to pay "pet rent" and COUNTY taxes.

― ng-unit, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I also had to file in 3 states this year but thankfully made no money so who cares. You guys should all thank god that none of you:

1) lived in AZ for first few months
2) moved to Jersey but worked in NYC
3) then moved to NYC
4) then had your parents "forget" to not claim you as a dependent on their taxes, forcing you to file as a dependent to not get yr ass saaacked at a later date

all in one year. That was the only year in my entire life I've not gotten a really big refund actually.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

last year was the first year I saw a big refund of any sort
mostly because when I was in the military and my permanent address was in ALABAMA the comptrollers of ALABAMA apparently felt that exactly what the military was withholding was what I owed them and any income from interest on my obsolete trustafarian shit was taxorama delight for their plunder

dude I am in the worst mood today over this crap I swear

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so against the idea of even pretending to do work this afternoon I been reading wikipedia articles about HARRY POTTER

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

I to this day am baffled by the NYC tax system, I mean you pay tax to the state and then special taxes to the city even if you don't actually live in NYC. The city one I get but wtf does Buffalo need some poor bastard in CT's $$$ for? Other than the fact that anyone who lives in CT and works in NYC is an ass to begin with.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on hold with the DC tax hotline because apparently I am too stupid to figure out this stupid out-of-state income tax credit. I'm stuck on question 'b' of Calculation K. I'm very close to just making up a number.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

how much did you pay to maryland, total, minus the refund?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I mean you better not have done gone found the secret loophole I missed thanks to stupid fucking TurboTax but that's what I had to do.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

you had me at wikipedia articles about HARRY POTTER

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

MD wanted 1545 for my five months there and I WAY overpaid through paycheck witholdings, so I'm due a fat refund. What I can't figure out is my "income subject to income tax in other states and received while a resident of DC." I mean I got to subtract out my 7 months of MD income received while I was a DC resident earlier in the process, so my adjust MD income reflected the part-time resident thing, so it doesn't seem to make sense that I would get to do it again. I realize I'm not making any sense. The DC hold music is horrible Kenny G shit. Argh.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

severus snape is apparently very good at occlumency and there is a strong theme of bigotry vs. tolerance throughout the series

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

tolerance is some muggle bullshit

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also Tom explain me: "DC taxpayers may claim credit for income tax paid to a state if the income taxed by that state is derived from that state and is of a kind taxed by DC." I mean you paid VA taxes but your income is "derived" from MD (where LM is incorporated), right? So do you really get to take that credit? I DON'T FUCKING UNDERSTAND FUCK YOU DC GET ONE (1) COMPETENT TECHNICAL WRITER!

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

someone recently told my gf wife that she looked like the girl from harry potter--henrietta or something? neither of us knew what to make of this.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

seriously turbotax, you get screwed completely but that's likely to happen anyway and you don't have to think very hard

whatever total you paid to maryland for taxes, that total gets plugged in as a credit for DC.

ignore random clauses intended to prevent people from claiming credits for taxes paid to states on types of income that only certain other actual States tax (though show me a kind of income that DC doesn't tax and I will certainment put my full will into making only that kind)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think it matters where your employer is incorporated (or we'd all be paying delaware taxes), just where you live. therefore, claim that bitch.

xp otm

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I also had to file in 3 states this year but thankfully made no money so who cares.

me too. it was a pain, I made so little I should've been able to efile for free, but then had a 1099 that made TurboTax tell me I had to upgrade to deluxe version ($39.95) to file & too late to do it any other way. however, I immediately sent them a detailed complaint message b/c the deluxe thing was NO help on filling out my 1099 (FIX your SOFTWARE please) and they promptly agreed to refund my money. sweet.

show me a kind of income that DC doesn't tax

http://www.vintagevantage.com/uploads/crack_2.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, if you complain about their fucked up program that doesn't even work properly on Firefox (uh hello drop down menus that don't work, wtf) you get a refund??? Snap!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is up with being charged to e-file? why do i have to pay to make it easier for the irs?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and the cost goes up every year. What's lame is they advertise ONLY $9.99!!! and then when you sign in it's like "Oh but actually YOU suck and need our $50 version" and you're like, I just have a fucking W2 and a couple interest statements, you jackass, I'd rather MAKE my own program. Whatever, as long as it means I don't have to go to the post office ever.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

no what's lame is finding out AFTER you've already done 2/3rds of the process that your bank offers you a 20% discount on turbotax fees but you have to go through their partnership site to get it.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

bittorrent, yo

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, my bank does the discount thing too and I tried logging out and logging back in via bank site to get that, and it didn't work. at which point I was pissed off sufficiently to demand a refund for the $39.95 'deluxe' federal filing because their shitty software didn't work.

I am considering writing them again asking for the 15% off from my bank to apply to the state filing fees.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

You might have to find the 'contact us' link via Intuit.com and not Turbotax itself, they hide it pretty well. ya know it can't hurt to complain and ask for a refund, I was just really really specific about how the software didn't work & thus I couldn't use the popup boxes that should give the info I needed for the 1099 form, and voila, refund. I don't feel like I'm scamming here actually, it's such BS that they made me upgrade mid-return and then the software didn't freaking WORK for the very forms which allegedly required an upgrade. What am I paying you for? Fix your software before tax day. sheesh

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, finally done. Tom, I finally tried to stop reading too much into Calculation K and when I finished the worksheet it was just like you said: what I owed MD I just flat out subtracted from what I owed DC. Why couldn't they have just come out and SAID THAT (obv. this is one of the things you get with TurboTax--decent communication skills). So now DC owes me! But instead of being happy that everyone and their mother owes me money I feel very wary that I have just fucked up my filings and it will all come back to haunt me.

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah dude, either you have hella withholdings or you've figured out the zone or something, because I'd be a little freaked too by that after everyone else's tales of nightmare.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Calculation K sounds like a band I'd go out of my way to avoid

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Deer Beer: I am leaving Rockville now and I'm a-comin' to git you.

Hope to see lots of ya'll soon for some hardcore partying in Georgetown!

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

is Calculation K like K's Choice?

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

more like Preparation H

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's 99 degrees here! WTF it's not even May yet!! :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Time to get your tomatoes in, Sam!

Right, I'm supposed to have left already. . .

― quincie, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

anybody have a clever new thread title?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I keep meaning to rent D.C. Cab.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

i tried to find a good quote from there on imdb today - theres one where mr t gets real agitated at gbusey after he has this nihilistic monologue - i couldnt find the quote though!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Will Smith Doesn't Understand: DC Metro Area Thread 6

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.