DCist: About Tonight

blittle

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:48:24 -0500

Hmm. The real von Trapp, not really a hottie. That's okay, though. He's dead so it's not like I will be flipping him over anytime soon. Maybe!

Nate

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:35:28 -0500

boondoggle, You do realize that The Sound of Music was based on a true story, right? From Georg Ludwig von Trapp's Wikipedia page: His exploits at sea in World War I earned him numerous decorations, including elevation to the Austrian nobility. Even if von Trapp hadn't gotten his seafaring out of the way before the empire lost its coastline, Austria still had a residual navy (for patrolling the Danube) up until 2006.

erica_me

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:20:44 -0500

excuse my hijacking: The District of Sound, a site promoting local bands, is holding their launch party tonight at dc9. 4 bands, doors open at 8. Check it out! www.districtofsound.com

boondoggle

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:56:49 -0500

Never understood how Captain Von Trapp served in the navy of landlocked country. Plot holes you could drive a tank through.

Sommer Mathis

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:50:53 -0500

Oh thanks Kev29, I'm switching it out for the right MySpace page right now. I bet Little Joy the band was bummed someone else already had their MySpace name locked up.

Kev29

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:57:14 -0500

That Little Joy MySpace page goes to a woman in England named Joy. I think that's probably not the bands page, unless they are being really, really vague hipsters (not completely out of the realm of possibility).

Deep

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:52:11 -0500

Dolemite! Dolemite! Dolemite!

BklyninDc

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:50:27 -0500

"Edelweiss" is about as cheesy a song as they come, but when Christopher Plummer sang it....

blittle

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:48:40 -0500

I would not flip over Captain Von Trapp anytime. Rowar.

FnA

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:47:16 -0500

Ha, oops! I totally f'd up his name, I was so distracted.

FnA

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:46:46 -0500

Captain Von Plummer was soooooooo dreamy.

vote4pedro

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:37:37 -0500

"...where you can get books signed by a slew of famous authors like Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia..." Is his signature a poo stain on a cheap tourists replica of the Constitution?

Sommer Mathis

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:34:21 -0500

Now that you mention it...

IMGoph

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:28:59 -0500

wow, sommer, thanks for opening up and letting us learn a lot about the young ms. mathis! have a thing for eye patches?