February 4, 2008
Go Home Already: Swish
>> How do you get around a single alcohol sales ban? 4-packs! [Prince of Petworth]
>> Three men are dead after an argument at a Largo-area restaurant during the Super Bowl. [AP via WTOP]
>> Convenient bulleted list of tomorrow's D.C. Council agenda. [City Desk]
>> "The independent candidate opposing Washington DC’s other congressman, Louie Gohmert (R, TX-1, DC), favors a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives." [Notions Capital]
>> And in case you didn't read the Washington Post at all over the weekend, the paper had a number of articles of interest: The folks who live in the Gallery Place condos are fed up with the endless loop of high-volume ads being played on those flat screens outside the Metro entrance ... There seems to be an overblown argument between the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance and Hear Mount Pleasant about the future of the neighborhood ... A reported "misuse of funds" in the payroll unit of the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority is under investigation ... and the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency's caseload has doubled since the Jacks murders. [WaPo]
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Those high-volume ads are meant to augment the big city, hustle and bustle atmosphere of Chinatown (which is a lousy affectation, but that is beside the point). That atmosphere is probably the same reason that the folks purchased the condos. You cannot move in to a neighborhood for its atmosphere, then change your mind because one element of that atmosphere inconveniences you. You can't move in to Chinatown because it's "exciting" and then turn it off and on whenever you want.
You can't move in to Chinatown because it's "exciting" and then turn it off and on whenever you want.
Sure you can!
That's the funny thing about gentrification: you can bleach your butthole until it's whiter than Gandalf's, but that still doesn't get rid of the stink.
If this is a pic of Stevens Elem., I'm shocked that there's actually a functional net on the rim. I was starting to think that all of DC's school budget went to books and computers. Too bad Stevens will be a parking lot in a few months. Gotta say I really enjoyed the (unintentional?) irony in last night's DCist roundup, with a link to a fatal shooting followed by a "bulleted list" of the Council Agenda. In DC, these things just write themselves.
It would be one thing if the video billboards were installed, and then the people moved into the neighborhood.
It is completely different if they moved into the neighborhood and then the ads went up, which is the case here.