November 10, 2008
Morning Roundup: Urine Trouble Edition
Good morning, Washington. It warms the cold cockles of our hearts that so many of you took the time to send us links to this story over the weekend. In case you hadn't yet heard, Jersey City Council member Steven Lipski was arrested for urinating on some of his fellow audience members from the balcony of the 9:30 Club on Friday night. Lipski had been attending the Dark Star Orchestra show, and was reportedly quite drunk when 9:30 staffers saw him pee from above. If only the councilman had a little more experience with the venue, he might have known that it's rather difficult to get away with taking an unauthorized photo in the 9:30 Club, let alone relieving yourself in plain view. For his part, Lipski told the New York Daily News, which broke the story, that he's going to quit drinking. Probably a good call. So, we have to ask: were any DCist readers on the receiving end of Lipski's golden showers? Let us know in the comments.
D.C. College Students Left Holding the Bag: The Examiner's Bill Myers has a damning report on how District officials appear to have endangered the semesters of 2,500 college students. The federally funded Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership grants are designed to help D.C. high school grads afford to attend a good state college, and are administered by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. But due to the office having missed key deadlines, all of the local students signed up for the grant program are still waiting for their checks for this semester. A spokesperson for the state superintendent said that “invoices are being processed and schools will be paid shortly,” but given that it's now well into November, that's hardly reassuring.
Rash of Shootings in Petworth: City Desk kept track of the rash of shootings in and around Petworth over the weekend. Chief Cathy Lanier has since said that she has redirected citywide resources to Petworth, though not going so far as to institute a "Neighborhood Safety Zone." So far there's no word on whether any of the shootings in the area over the weekend were related.
Briefly Noted: Secret Service officer arrested in prostitution sting ... Dale City volunteer fire fighter killed in training ... Dunbar High freshman fatally shot in Northeast ... D.C. Taxicab Commission started issuing applications for new cab driver licenses Saturday ... Silver Spring man accused of stalking 15-year-old girl.
Photo by D©Bloom
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why did the post go almost a week without reporting the shooting of the dunbar high student?
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So that's what it was I felt dripping on my head.
I just thought there was some bad plumbing at 9:30.
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and bravo to that secret service officer. he had the balls to do that in uniform, with his "company" car? utterly amazing how power can corrupt the thought process.
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There has to be a better term for a multitude of shootings than "a rash of shootings?" Sounds really harsh to the ears. I mean, "a rash of VD" works, but shootings? Shootings don't give you a rash. It needs to be something like "an exhaltation of larks" or "a pride of lions" or "a draft of editors." Too bad "a murder of crows" is already taken. "A self-esteem of shootings?" "A vibrancy of shootings?" "A trinidad of shootings?" Someone help me out here.
And if you think sticking a pee joke in the title is going to make me any less pissed off at axing What's That You Say, you are sadly mistaken.
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As for the LEAP program, it's cute how it's only for DCPS grads when most of the actual taxpayers in this city arrived with Bachelor's degree-in hand. We naturally get stuck paying full out-of-state tuition if we want to go to UMD.
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Maybe we can get Steven Lipski to urinate all over the DC "Officials" that are going to f@#k up the semesters of 2,500 college students.
Isn't it enough that DC screws these kids from K through 12 with a lousy school system? They have to keep screwing them once they're in college, too?
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Funny, I often think how I'd rather be showered with urine than listen to a Dead cover band. I could have had the worst of both worlds last Friday.
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eww. i wouldn't admit to being peed on, let alone even admit to being at a grateful dead tribute band concert.
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Designating a community a "Neighborhood Safety Zone" is pretty much the kiss of death. It's like calling a house a "fixer upper." You're basically admitting it's an unsellable, rat-infested shell that's built on an Indian burial ground and the Welcome mat is a smallpox infected blanket.
But it has it's own bidet!
The bidet is also cursed.
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Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!
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'A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through'
Now if anyone needs me I'll out in the parking lot selling grilled cheese sandwiches and some necklaces I made.
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Drove north along Georgie Av towards Silver Spring this past weekend. Entire area looks worse than Beirut did during its '80s heyday. What a slum...what an insult to the capital of the so-called greatest nation on earth.
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"what an insult to the capital of the so-called greatest nation on earth."
Why do you hate America?
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Golden showers make baby Jesus cry.
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welles is a racist, moonlighting as a commenter on modern society. pay it no mind.
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That photo reminds me of one of my favorite pieces at NGA: Ross Bleckner's "Falling Birds"
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IMGoph, only a true racist would claim racism when talking about the condition of a road and its environs in this city.
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welles: only a true racist would claim that a racist would claim racism when talking about race in the context of race during a road race.
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I can think of at least a half dozen shows at 930 where I've wanted to do the same thing.
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I know, IMGoph.. but it was just a perfect opportunity for the question.
I think I need a diagram for your last comment, though.
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This entire thread is one big pee-soaked hatecrime. I'm blowing my rape whistle on all of you.
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This thread makes me want to go to potty.
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I give up. What's racist about Welles' original post? Georgia Ave does, for the most part, suck balls.
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Hillman: Nothing is explicit in that comment, but welles has a history, so they no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
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my thoughts exactly, politburo.
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I still remember Bill Clinton doing a photo op on Georgia Avenue in '92, talking about how a Clinton administration was going to revitalize the hell out of the neighborhood in between bites of his fish sandwich. I don't think he ever bothered to show his face there again after he got re-elected, did he? Whatever economic development there is on Georgia occurred in spite of Federal meddling, not because of it.
Which reminds me, what the hell happened to the whole BRAC closure of Walter Reed? Is that not happening? Was there some kind of land swap involved? That kind of fell off the radar after the whole veterans-in-squalor flap.
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Will the Councilman from New Jersey kindly take the floor in regards to House Resolution 485: Addressing Trouser Snakes and Grateful Dead Cover Bands?
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Yes IMGOP, but for W's comment today I suppose the logic that even a blind squirrel finds a nut applies. It's a pretty crappy section of DC unfortunately w/i close proximity to my house.
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I'm not familiar with his history, but that post in and of itself is pretty much true.
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They have to build the new Walter Reed at Bethesda (for all branches) before they can close the old one.
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The "New Walter Reed" is indeed being built. Construction has been going full tilt since mid-summer. Nobody is willing to pay for improvements to the surrounding roadways, so getting up or down Wisconsin Ave is going to be increasingly impossible.