September 24, 2008
Go Home Already: Pissing in the Wind
Photo by big-film
- WaPo columnist Courtland Milloy has Officer James Haskell's version of events as told to investigators into the shooting death of 14-year-old DeOnté Rawlings: "Asked by investigators to describe how DeOnté was firing and running at the same time, Haskell said the boy was running with what police later said was a .45-caliber semiautomatic in his right hand while firing back over his left shoulder."
- A Maryland state delegate who called for "DUI" license plates that would be issued to people convicted more than once of drunken driving has been charged with driving under the influence himself. [AP via NBC4]
- A developer plans to put a Fatburger in on Florida Ave. near Howard University. [renew shaw]
- The Arlington County man who killed himself after shooting and injuring an Alexandria police officer who pulled him over last night on I-395 may also have killed his wife. [WaPo]
- "This whole thing about McCain wanting to delay the debates, or suspend the campaign, reminds me of being a kid and watching two dudes knuckle up over some minor juvenile dispute. ("Yo, he was trying to talk to your girl!") Inevitably one would rocked a few times and then hold up his hands and get to stalling--Yo, chill son, chill! Lemme take off my chain. Lemme take off my chain!" [Ta-Nehisi Coates]
- CNN's Campbell Brown calls for the McCain campaign to "free" Sarah Palin and stop hiding her from the press in a seemingly sexist attempt to protect her as though she's a "delicate flower."
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I'd been drinking Steel Reserve since 10am! Where was I supposed to go?
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To my broker...
Flomax.
that is all.
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Photo of the year!
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Somebody please tell big-film to submit this to next year's DCist Exposed photo show.
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we gotta be careful...this guy might get the wrong idea about what "dcist exposed" means
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and bravo to that dui-guy in maryland. the hypocrite-of-the-year awards nominations were closing on friday, so he just made it in under the wire.
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POTD my friend, is pissin in the wind, POTD is pissin in the wind
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Be fair. If he wasn't pointing that up in the air, he'd be knocking chips off the marble and stripping out the grout.
Also, where is "the vacant Popeyes on Florida Avenue?" Florida Avenue in Shaw is kinda long. That's like saying "that El Pollo place on Lee Highway."
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monkey: it's the building that was vince gray's campaign HQ last time around on the northeast corner of florida and 7th/georgia ave.
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Isn't that down the street from Howard U Five Guys? Hopefully, the competition will make them get their act together. The last burger I had there was dryer than Oscar Wilde.
Tried Fatburger when I was in Tampa and didn't think much of it, but the fries and shakes were solid. Didn't care for the rock and roll jukebox gimmick, either. Don't think Poison and Winger will sell well in Shaw. When the hell is that Counterburger supposed to open? Where the hell is the In and Out?
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they sure as heck won't need a jukebox there. just leave the windows open and let the go-go from the big speakers outside the place across the street wash over your greasy fries...
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My concern is that with the new Giant going in the O Street Market site, I won't be able to buy bootleg DVDs, shoplifted DD batteries, or heroin in the parking lot anymore. And where will the O Street Crew go to shoot people? Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?
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In 'n' Out was not sufficiently impressed with my offer to drive my friends anywhere within a 50 mile radius of ye old alma mater if they opened in the Boston area, I don't think they're on board for DC either.
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Fatburger? Eh.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. We need real non-gourmet sliders. Krystals or White Castle. Either one.
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OlyatBrandeis,
They would listen if you had the $$$. My uncle looked into buying an In n Out franchise back in the early nineties in California, and they wanted $1 million cash and 10-15 years of restaurant experience. I expect the cash threshold to be much higher now.
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why not both, joanarkham? a battle of the salty hockey pucks, to the death!
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Problem is DC's too far south for White Castle and too far north for Krystal. How about bringing back Little Tavern burgers? Those were the s**t. Literally. They didn't call them "belly bombs" for nothing. Lower GI half-life of about 35 minutes before....WHOOSH! They'd go through you like a Ferrari and you'd better hope the handicapped rails held or you'd go suborbital. But nothing better at 3am after a night of boozing. I have to settle for the sliders at Hard Times Cafe. Just aint' the same without your "afterburner" kicking in.
Who am I kidding? DC wants its burgers on brioche, made of kobe beef or tuna tartare, and three-for-$22.95, and served by a smug jackass who needs to be given a full coupon booklet for Junkpunchers. This used to be a hell of a country. Damned if I know what happened to it.
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The seat of those trousers. Eww.
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Monkey,
What does it matter anymore, the economy will collapse by noon today and a year from now DCist will be comparing soup kitchens, the best bridges to sleep under, how to cook rat and your dog, and what building rooftops are hip enough to end it all.
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Come on. Like you don't do Number Ones and Number Twos at the same time.
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Speaking of cooking rat and dog, I've got a smashing recipe for cooking rat inside a pidgeon inside a dog. Kinda like a hip urban version of turducken. The trick to keeping it moist is to cook it at 250 degrees over a bain marie, marinade everything in MD 20/20, and smoke a lot of PCP. By the time the cops shoot you off the roof, you'll have forgotten you'd eaten everything including the carpet.
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I don't get what's great about this picture. I mean, that's a public fountain and that's this guy job. DDOT gives him a 50 gallon barrel of water and he pisses it out over the course of an hour. You do that 8 times, you're done for the day. Get paid, go home. Obviously he was classically trained at the Academie Pissoir Francaise, no one's denying that...but besides that, what's so special?
If there were ten of these guys doing it Bellagio style...then, OK, take that picture and I'd be at least curious.
...Clearly!
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RJ,
I find it strange that they responded that way since to the best of my knowledge all the In 'n' Outs were owned by the family that started the chain and that they didn't franchise but I fully admit to not being versed in the In 'n' Out business model. My request for a Boston area location did get a reply from some one with at least a high-up sounding title who explained that their products are never frozen so therefore all restaurants have to be within a days drive in a refrigerated trucks from the processing plant. They would need a new plant to expand past the current geographical market. Or so I was told 4 years ago...
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It was back in the 90's when they just started to expand out of Socal and into Norcal and I can assume that they were establishing a logistical chain to support stores up there. I highly doubt that they will expand further west than Colorado in my lifetime, because they are very selective on whom they give franchises too and the quality of their product. But if you get one of their franchises you are an instant millionaire and have a license to print money.
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National Gallery shaped urinal cake melting...MELTING...GONE!
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they are very selective on whom they give franchises too and the quality of their product.
Unlike certain other overestended burger franchises.
COUGH!**Five Guys**COUGH!