What's That You Say?
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monkeyrotica would be an awesome director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine:
The disorganized state of the Army Medical Museum is an example of vicious circle funding: hardly anybody visits the place because it's so out of the way, and they don't give the museum much funding because hardly anybody visits. What they need to bring the crowds in is a decent traveling "theme" exhibit, like, say "Kids Swallow the Darndest Things!" or "Deep Inside Truman Capote's Rectum."
I envision fog machines, lasers, and LOTS of Henry Mancini.
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The Travel + Leisure city rankings spurred a lot of comments, but we enjoyed Reid's rip on San Antonio:
I'm sorry, but there is no fucking way San Antonio is in the top ten food cities. There are city blocks in this town that have more quality restaurants than that suburban wasteland of a "city" has.
Even its tex-mex restaurants are barely any better than Chevys.
I agree with Hoodrat that the question is by whose standards are these ranked. Stupid middle-aged white dudes in S.A. for some telecom convention or something lame like that might just love all those skeezy restaurants on the River Walk, but anyone with more tastebuds than golf-shirts would be able to tell the difference between tourist traps and genuinely good restaurants.
Sexy Condi Rice photo by Sexy Fitsum
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And monkeyrotica again with the win, in the post about old photos:
Little known fact: DC bike messengers in the 1860s used to spend their downtime around McPherson Square passing around a bottle of ether and a rag. By the 1930, jazz musicians introduced messengers to "mary janes" and "reefers" which remain in use to this day.
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drew in adams morgan is not a fan of the AU police:
It takes 10 minutes to walk - yes walk - from one side of AU's campus to the other. Yet Public Safety took 7 minutes to go from one end of campus to the other? With police cars? That's some fine police work there, Lou.
They really are rent-a-cops.
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Tangents are great. After an Urban Dictionary mention on the post about the Dutch magician, thewrongballoon let us know about a funny definition of "flying dutchman":
hahaha,
4. Flying Dutchman
where your having sex with a girl standing up, and you do a cartwheel.
man 1: My girl taught me how to do a flying dutchman!
man 2: Hows your penis doing?
man 1: still broken.
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We enjoyed Jeffrey's DCist poster impression on Overheard:
"Overheard on DCist: I'm a crank!
Everyone's a critic. On the comment section of 'Overheard in DC' this week ... and every week:
Commenter: "Waaaah, these overheards aren't funny enough. Waaaah, the headlines are lame. Waaah, DCist sucks and I'm really clever but instead of starting or improving my own blog, I'm going to post comments here ripping on the DCist people who publish neat stuff for everyone to read even though almost none of them get paid to do it. Waaah!"
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And also on Overheard there are some Strunk and White defenders, like Bill:
Fuck the guy in Barnes and Nobles. Any chick holding a copy of Strunk and White is welcome at my place anytime.
Granted, she doesn't have to have a copy of Strunk and White...
and understatementjones :
Damn straight, Bill. I love Strunk and White so much I fucking registered with the site in order to defend it. Grammar is sexy; style is sexier; The Elements of Style is sexier still.
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indiecognition had a funny diatribe about NBC4's weather forecasters:
I hear that Bob Ryan sat down in the 1970s and divined his daily forcasts for the next 100 years. Since then, he just riffles through his prediction file for the newscasts each day and reads them over the air...which accounts for both the outdated humor and the slight variation between his predictions and the actual weather. Today's forecast was prophesized over 30 years ago.
OK, that's of course BS. But I do think NBC has good weather reports, with one sub-supernatural reason being that their team is located in the DC area, rather than being some national web site that just grabs data from up to a few days back and reads what it seems to suggest. (I believe their weather compilation and interpolation computer is stored within Kosek's hip.) But the NBC4 team has been watching the weather patterns from our region for decades, and in my opinion provide a much more accurate prediction than the national weather sites.
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dc4life is not thrilled with U Street's new honorary street names:
I guess Shaw is supposed to be the black "chinatown" of DC. The streets will be named after famous blacks of DC and the signs will be in ebonics. There will be a Ruby Tuesday's and the sign will read Mo'f*ck'n Chicken...
DC is becoming more disneyfied everyday...
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In an interesting discussion about GMU fraternities, TLB talks about his experiences. Sounds like GW!
I'm with Krisa on this one. I was (briefly) in the Greek system and found there to be a roughly even split politically among members, but that liberal administrators (and nerdy student newspaper writers) were on a crusade to get rid of the the Greek system for various lofty but misguided reasons. Although sometimes they just wanted to do a land grab - they'd shut down a house for some trumped-up reason and reallocate the land to whatever the university wanted at the time.
As with any groups, there are good ones and bad ones. It's a good thing when systematically bad ones get shut down. I have no idea if this chapter of Sigma Chi is a good one or a bad one.
(As a side note - the Sigma Chi chapter at my undergraduate university was one where openly gay members were welcome)
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Mike Licht says what we've all thought about Giant:
If Giant "refreshes" the HR department and hires enough cashiers, their stores might be pleasant places to shop.
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DC1 makes a funny on the post about telling Mayor Fenty what you'd do:
Why do something constructive when I can so easily complain here?
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The post about two gay men being kicked out of Rite Aid spurred a lot of reactions.
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The post about staff-led Capitol tours brought out many different opinions.
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A lot of folks noticed that one of the Georgetown protester interviewees gave his name as "Rusty Shackleford," an alias from the "King of the Hill" TV show.
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kmax and lemonlaug especially made good points about Metro pricing being pegged to inflation.
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And there was good Alaska learnin' in Eric Nuzum's review of 30 Days of Night.
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This Week's Best Avatar: hungeegirl's Homer yelling. Why not try and top it?