Michael Rennie Told You So: The Washington DC Metro Area Thread

I like DC, but trying to buy a condo (never mind a house) here is depressing.

Also: it is FUCKING COLD right now!

And it is very cold. Pointless unsolicited anecdote: I usually bike from Metro to my office. Over the weekend, my bicycle seat had gotten wet, then (of course) froze in the 20-degree weather. So it was both very cold (a seatsicle) and very hard. As I rode, it melted a bit, so when I got to work, my butt was a) cold, b) sore, and c) wet.

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I like the air and space museum.

Don't get me started on the real estate situation. Post ran a story like two weeks ago with the head of Long & Foster saying "we can't sustain this" like whoa.

the reef is sucky unless it's summertime and a weekday and you're on the roof and have a table before it gets way too crowded and they let too many people in and then bitch at them for being in the way.

i liked the wonderland, though i am lame because it's too loud for me to hear anything downstairs. good sausage sandwiches though!

Chez Antoine (crepes + homemade ice cream) in Adams Morgan is awesome, but otherwise.. hmmm.. I like the Ethiopian and West African places there, mostly. Also, go to the Steak & Egg!!! Steak & Egg = tiny 24-hour greasy spoon diner on the left side of Wisconsin Ave right before AU. Awesome. It used to be the one guy there all the time with a hat that said "I don't speak English" and made fun of you if you didn't finish your cheeseburger. Now they've spiffed it up and hired a full staff who all wear "I don't speak English" hats.

The Brickskeller: I enjoy it when I am there (though the nothing on tap thing makes it less than perfect).

Where was it where folks were talking about the old 9:30? I do miss it. But the new Black Cat is an improvement.

Unfortunately, I have to work on Thursday and my office is at 17th & M. Luckily, I walk to work, but I just got an email saying there's no FedEx service that day in my area. No FedEx!

North Bethesda. I ask you.

Why stop at North Bethesda?

Rosslyn shall now be called "South Georgetown."

Anacostia will be "East Capitol Hill."

McLean will be "North Falls Church."

Seconded re: Chief Ike's. I'm a fan.

Rockville is cooler than Bethesda. That's not saying a lot, but it is true nevertheless.

Thirded: Rockville is cooler than Bethesda.

"Rockville"'s commercial core is the stretch of 355 that encompasses Dave & Buster's, Anthropologie, the Vegetable Garden with its fake-meat Chinese food, Timpano with its Sinatra brunch, Guitar Center, an outpost of the absolutely excellent Lebanese Taverna, Niwano Hana, a mildly funky thrift store, the graves of F. Scott, Zelda, and Scottie Fitzgerald; and some other things I'm forgetting.

(Sigh. I miss having a car and working in Rockville, with its myriad lunch possibilities. I'm presently stuck with a bike in Merrifield watching the snow fall.)

The Swansen Apts. fucker stood me up this morning and didn't answer EITHER of his phones. Nice going, asshole! I looked at your building and it was ugly anyway! Ugliest building in the entire neighborhood! Also it's COLD, HOLY SHIT.

Don't forget the guitar center in Rockville. That was like the only reason we ever went there. No guitar center in Bethesda, so fuck that joint.

Where is this Rockville thrift store of which you speak? Oh, and I hear that Joe's Records (on E. Gude) is not bad.

TOMBOT there is a pricey (so I hear) guitar store on Old Georgetown in downtown Bethesda. I know nothing of these things but it looks impressive to my unschooled eye.

Bethesda Music has changed its name but I think it's still small and overpriced.

The Upscale Resale thrift store is, um, just north of whatever country club that is. Opposite, um, Best Buy. It is the upstairs of one of those many many interchangeable shopping centers with a dry cleaner and a deli and not much else.

Bethesda is cooler than Chantilly.

Does anybody else do the Zipcar thing besides me?

;_; = my costume

<i>So who else wants to stay out tomorrow night for a while and keep me company so I don't have to wait around and ration out the last of my duty-free mini toblerones to random strangers' kids?</i>

Where and when?

i can't i have class ;___;

I like Hoban's. They have a good pale ale from wisconsin and excellent pub food (fries not so awesome though)

I did not like that place it felt like hanging out in a Barnes & Noble without books. Biddy's is the only irish pub on the circle I can support.

haha I think Hoban's kills biddy's honestly. biddys has like what, guinness and sam and cheese fries? Hobans has cheeseburgers with real dubliner cheese and jalapeno confit. The atmosphere is pretty blah, yes, but I have low standards for atmosphere when in good company and barnes & noble also does not have teevees showing the football.

bump, children

i have a massive project to finish for class :( due sunday. can i learn some javascript by then? will visual studio stop crashing all the time? UH

sorry bros, im borderline-sick, and i cant be in a bar. i really wanna be at my record-buying best this weekend, so i have to conserve strength.

http://remixmag.com/performance/dj_tips_techniques/703shopTalk.jpg

I would put on eyeliner w/ you, Tom, it would turn out something like Performance.

Look for me at the FMU LP table Sunday, 69.

hey daria Redeem on 14th st is stocking a shocking number of asymmetric garments right now.

lol halloween overstock

ok you bags I'm going to be at hoban's around 9:30. Have fun with EDUCATION and HATING STUFF

As this goes to press I have a functioning car. In the past we've discussed going out to Eden Center for Vietnamese food and bubble tea; is there any interest in doing this in the near future?

Oh yes all that talk of crappy Quizno's/Subway subs on ILX makes me crave an actual tasty ban mi.

Unfortunately I leave for ORLANDO tomorrow a.m. for several 16-hour workdays, followed immediately by a trip to PA for Que's cousin's wedding. Back week after next.

Nice seeing DC folks on the boards again. I miss Stephen X, though! I will e-mail him and try to lure him back.

Ohhhhh who wants to go look at all these asymmetric clothing with me??? Darla? Brian?

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NICE

T-SHIRT

followed immediately by a trip to PA for Que's cousin's wedding. Back week after next.

1. I bought a suit
2. I LOOOK GOOOOOOOOOODDDDD

A leisure suit is nothing, it's nothing to be proud of in this late century

And I'm asking you to hold me, just like the mornin' paper, pitched between your index and your thuuuuuuuuumb

(pitched between your pointer, your index and your thumb)

dudes we gotta work on the Bloomps for Presidetn merchandise as primary season gets going. Pins, yard signs, shirts, etc.

ahahahahahah

So what can DC folks tell me about College Park?

Because months ago I agreed to DJ at a gay rights benefit event in Baltimore, and now I look at the map linked to the party and uh . . . . it's in College Park, which appears to be a suburb of Washington DC. WTF?

This is weird to me but it's too late to turn back now . . .

It's sort of in between DC and Baltimore, and a suburb of neither. It's where the University of Maryland is (but presumably you knew that.)

I've been there hundreds of times but can think of nothing to say about it.

College Park.. uh.. not a lot of personality although the campus is pretty nice.. a strip of bars/restaurants/etc nearby.. then a bunch of crowded suburban roads with horrible traffic. Where at?

BLADE RUNNER

WHO WOULD LIKE TO GO SEE

BLADE RUNNER

AT THE UPTOWN ONE

BLADE RUNNER

SEE YOU THERE, TXT ME

BLADE RUNNER

I WANTED TO SEE BLADE RUNNER @ UPTOWN WHY THE FUCK AM I ALL UP IN ORLANDO BLOOMPS?

Is it a 'Final Cut' screening? Yes, by all means go.

damn florida sux

DONE AND DONE

GUYS THE CHILDE HAROLD IS ACTUALLY CLOSING
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY
IT IS THE END

whoa wtf dc?

My task is done - my song hath ceased - my theme
Has died into an echo; it is fit
The spell should break of this protracted dream.
The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit
My midnight lamp - and what is writ, is writ -
Would it were worthier! but I am not now
That which I have been - and my visions flit
Less palpably before me - and the glow
Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.

nb the childe harold shutting its doors is probably a great, great thing for my continued health and mental stability

still ;_;

GUYS THE CHILDE HAROLD IS ACTUALLY CLOSING

DAMNN

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Louie the bartender.
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the men's restroom.
All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

So what can DC folks tell me about College Park?

Because months ago I agreed to DJ at a gay rights benefit event in Baltimore, and now I look at the map linked to the party and uh . . . . it's in College Park, which appears to be a suburb of Washington DC. WTF?

This is weird to me but it's too late to turn back now . . .

-- Drew Daniel, Saturday, 3 November 2007 04:04 (Yesterday) Link

i totally love college park, but most everyone else hates it. it's got some sweet independent businesses, sprinkled in unassumingly among the rte 1 blight. there are definitely some rad people there, and when i was at the radio station at UMD, it was a pretty good group of people. dont know much about the gay scene there right now, but college park parties range from unpretentious and a little corny to unpretentious and fun-as-shit...

rec fair was RAAAD - sorry i missed you, dr m. i wanna get together a legit hang up there sometime...

GUYS THE CHILDE HAROLD IS ACTUALLY CLOSING

What WHAT WHAAAT?

Although the current combination of still-high real estate values and economic slowdown have taken out plenty of other businesses recently.

I just do not understand this new, Childe Harold- and State of the Union-less DC. ;_;

OK ya'll I just have to report that DC on its absolute most worthless day is approximately 1003 X better than Orlando, FLA.

I WANT TO COME HOME! ORLANDO SUXXXXXX I WANT TO DIE HERE.

lol @ u

Revive because I have a question: Does anyone know an independent insurance agent/broker working in the Washington area? (I'm specifically looking for health insurance.)

I do not.

Hi DC. Are the cherry blossoms blooming yet?

Yes.