August 18, 2008
Go Home Already: All By Myself
Photo by miamabanta
- W Magazine has a poorly researched, hacky story about how Republican staffers who go to the Gryphon Room "dominate" D.C. social life and "hipster" Democrats hang out at Local 16. Since when do they let hipsters in to Local 16? [W]
- More awesome generalizations! A survey of bartenders says that Democrats are better tippers, while Republicans drink more. [Washington Business Journal]
- Some Metrobus drivers are getting more comfortable seats and bright orange seat belts. [WTOP]
- Two teen girls were shot overnight, one fatally, in separate incidents in southeast Washington. [NBC4]
- Apparently the Jonas Brothers were also at the White House today, giving the press corps something to write about while Bush is on vacation. [CNN]
- Penn Quarter is getting another bank. [Penn Quarter Living]
- Mayor Fenty was spotted at the Big Bear Cafe on Saturday. [In Shaw]
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Why is that baby unleashed??? Don't people know we have leash laws here in DC? Just great. Now that sidewalk is going to be covered in poo all b/c some entitled bastard is walking their baby off leash.
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God, I only recent found out that this "Gryphon Room" is none other than the basement of the Guards. The fucking basement of the Guards. That's what these stupid southerners are psyched about? Are you kidding me? That's like finding out that the Angry Inch developed "cache".
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Oh GOD, Haven Thompson. You can't be "hipster" and like Beyonce. No Democrat in town who works in government is a hipster. Have you ever actually gone out in this town??? Pathetic!!
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“It’s this hyper-educated version of West Side Story: the Republicans versus the Democrats, the prepsters versus the hipsters.”
I can't think of any way of adding more douchi-ness to this story apart from mixing it with vinegar and water and pumping it into a hot water bottle. From the writer (who needs to go back to writing copy for Highlights) to W Magazine (like Jet Magazine, do people actually read this?) to a$$holes who think the basement of the Guards is "exclusive" to the Lair of Touchy Feely Liberal: Local 16. This whole spiel is approaching n-th level douchiness. A quantum singularity of douchiness that requires a magnetic bottle just to keep space from collapsing into a warp core breach of douchiness.
Anybody have Dick Heller's number so he can just f***ing shoot me in the head already?
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reading that W article made me feel like they were talking about a totally different city than the one i know.
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That kid better hope she doesn't run into Marion Barry with a napkin and some mambo sauce.
IT'S A TRAP.
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The more this keeps these people (both Reps and Dems) away from places I like to hang out, the better!
But yeah, hipsters at Local 16? I can't imagine why anyone would want to go there, and certainly not hipsters.
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I thought people chose bars because of the drinks... ah well, now I know.
Ok, i'll bite: this article is a bigger douchebag than Hitler. Booyah.
It's polarization begets polarization. Mix with someone different than you and you *gasp* may find you're similar!
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The GR is money as you obviously have not been there. The owner is a great guy and runs a stellar show. Easily the best bar in town for that certain night its open...
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i am dumber for having read that article. democrats = hipsters?
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ThomasCircle, I was getting fall down drunk in the basement of the Guards when you were still in short pants. I even remember when there was a phone by the alley entrance that you could call Medocino and get them to make you a Geppetto's Pizza.
If a bunch of 20-somethings obsessed with a decade they can't even remember want to gather is a third-rate frat bar basement, fine with me. I just can't believe they're making such a big deal out of it.
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Where ">" equals bigger douchebag:
Gryphon Room = LNS -> LNS > Hitler?
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At least the LNS crowd drinks. Hitler was a teetotaler and a vegetarian, so partying with him would be like trying to get some action with a knife at your crotch.
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Hey - I'm an independent. What bar am I supposed to go to? I wish W would tell me, I've been sitting home nights...
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Reid - Everything old is new again. Why, what's this? Marion Barry is positioning himself as the Ward 8 "Candidate of Change!" Fighting the status quo! Friend of the working man! Defending Ward * from "the plan!" A fresh, delicious baby in every pot!
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When was the last time you saw someone who wasn't a lawyer at Local 16?
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"When was the last time you saw someone who wasn't a lawyer at Local 16?"
If you were there two weekends ago, you'd have found me and the Mrs.--neither one of us lawyers--downing some pints at the bar and chatting up Wilmot the bartender, who is a heckuva nice guy.
In fact, I find the vibe at the bar at Local 16 one of the most laid-back and unpretentious in DC. Not getting the hate for it here...
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You too, can pretend to be a writer. Nothing ever happens in DC, so just make it up.
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Douchetastic.
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How does Marion "Donner Party, table for one" Barry square his fight against The Plan with his advocacy of a soccer stadium in Ward 8? On these shores, soccer is a pretty damn White sport. He might as well be advocating for a squash court on every block.
14th and U, I'm glad you've found a niche at Local 16, but my experience with the place has been that it's overwhelmed with the vast unclean masses of lawyers, law students, and professionals taking LSAT courses on the side.
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The soccer stadium is part of Barry's youth violence initiative. The idea being, if they're playing soccer, they're not shooting eachother.
Soccer's also great for building strong, delicious muscles and healthy, robust organs that require only the minimum of preparation. Perhaps a quick pan sear and a deglaze with white wine, a side of fava beans, and a nice chianti.
Why Barry doesn't have his own cooking program, I'll never know.
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That W article should be burned and its author punched in the proverbial junk. The douchiosity is boundless.
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The more I read this article the angrier I get.
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The one time I went to Local 16 is was full of dudes wearing polo shirts with popped collars sipping $6 Miller Lites trying to hit on girls who were so drunk they could hardly stand if it wasn't for being backed shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the bar patrons. I haven't been back and don't intend to on a weekend.
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Ah the H word, the lameness of its clichéd articulation screams “I was a geek in high school.” First off; there are no hipsters in DC, hipsters (i.e. trendy, somewhat vain, more aesthetically focused people, into rarified music, blah, blah) because those people immediately MOVE to a city that is trendy, and perhaps stylish (i.e. NYC, LA, PDX, hell just pick a city with more than 50K people and it has more style cred). By default any person spending more than 48 hours in the DC metro area (other than visiting family- which is exempt) is by definition not trendy, and therefore not a hipster. A hipster in DC would be a like a Fulbright Scholar in Hogansville Georgia- suicidal.
Besides if there were hipsters in DC--@ Local 16? Listening to Top 40 hits? Apparently Haven Thompson has the pop-culture social anthropology skills of my grandmother. He is such a tard that any person NOT wearing a polo-shirt and wrap-around-sport shades at the same time is a hipster.
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Local 16 is only laid back up until about 10:30 Friday/Saturday/Sunday where it becomes douche central and impossible to hear anyone or walk around upstairs. Real hipsters are all at the Red Derby now.
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A popped collar terror is rising in the West. I have gazed into my anal love palantir beads and forseen it: a naked goatse, wreathed in flame, dripping with Axe Men's Body Spray. They have rebuilt their fortress at The Guards from which to launch an assault against Ward 1. Their douchiness cannot be contained to Local 16 or Sequoia.
We must join with the LNS douches, Gandalf. We must join with them...or die.
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My prophets spoketh of the popped collar terror blowing down 66, but I beleiveth them not. But now I see my blindness, is it now time to die under the wrath of country top 40 hits and soaked in Axe? Is there any way we can defeat them?
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I think there might be hipsters in DC, you know the kind that want to work for trendy non-profits.