DCist: Morning Roundup: Pre-Holiday Rush Edition

monkeyrotica

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:29:37 -0500

Ah, the slanderous media campaign against me continues. They pulled my column because it looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.

iAManugget

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:20:53 -0500

"He described the area as a "perfectly safe, quiet neighborhood," where typical crimes are the occasional car break-in or stolen bicycle. " cracks me up every time i read it

blittle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:16:30 -0500

@Connie Dobbs I thought Magical World of Moneyrotica was every Wednesday at your house? Maybe DCist should just dedicate an RSS stream to Monkey's comments.

connie dobbs

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:45:51 -0500

Unfortunately, Disco Stu, DCist seems to have retired "What's That You Say?" Has anyone seen in recent weeks? Without WTYS, there will be no comment of the week. I miss "Magical World of Monkeyrotica." *snf*

Disco Stu

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:25:12 -0500

juanfe, you have my vote for quote of the week.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:26:09 -0500

Surprised that there is no discussion of the police checkpoints in U St/Columbia Hgts this weekend. Why would we discuss it? None of us wants to get arrested for criticising the latest public safety campaign. The last time I criticised the cops for their Thanksgiving roadside body cavity search program, codenamed "Operation Wishbone Dark Meat", I woke up in GitMo with my pants full of Stovetop Stuffing. Yeah. Good luck fixing the Euclid crime problem. Not only do you have a long history of narcotics and prostitution on Euclid, any Euclid, anywhere, you've also got geometry against you.

woodstock

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:21:14 -0500

Nice to see the City Council learning from their mistakes. Oh, wait, never mind me...I forgot: they used the same rollout plan for cable that they intend on using for FIOS. 'cause that worked *so* well.

jmcnrick9

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:48:08 -0500

If you want to go North I recommend as being only slightly insane making taking 270 to 15 and then head east around Harrisburg. I have traveled that way a number of years on Wednesday evening and the only time I thought having a book for the driver to read was a good idea was when there was black ice all the way from Harrisburg to Delaware. That night I literally went one mile in one hour.

Wallenda

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:44:56 -0500

Surprised that there is no discussion of the police checkpoints in U St/Columbia Hgts this weekend. One on eastbound Euclid St. between 14th & 15th, 14th street northbound south of U St. The police state expands!!

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:55:03 -0500

I'm headed north on 95, leaving thursday morning at the buttcrack of dawn or thereabouts. No way in Hades I'm leaving on Wednesday. I did that once and was literally in park while on 95 on that bridge that crosses that big river in northern MD (Susquehanna?). Was rather unpleasant due to my fears of bridges, being stuck on bridges, and being stuck on bridges with lots of other cars. It was a trifecta of terror for me.

blittle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:46:27 -0500

I'm going to the MD burbs for Thanksgiving and plan on leaving the night before. The original plan was to just go ahead and drive up when I get off of work around 530pm and with the SO meeting me later via metro. But let's face it, by the time I get to my folks' place my SO would be there waiting for me. So I'm going to do my favorite thing, get drunk off a box of wine while waiting for the SO to get off of work and drive us to my folks'. Ah, nothing says welcome home more than being stone cold drunk off of cheap boxed wine.

boondoggle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:59 -0500

The double murder in Chevy Chase reflects a new racial diversity among DC homicide victims; we truly have entered a period of racial transcendence.

JoanArkham

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:24:33 -0500

We go north instead of south, but we generally have better luck leaving early (like 7:00 am) on Thursday rather than the night before.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:06:24 -0500

95 is a great place to park, but who want to drive on it? Good luck with that $h!t.

juanfe

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:57:37 -0500

Lilybelle, I-95 will turn into a CF at around 9AM on Thanksgiving Week Wednesday morning and will be a CF pretty much throughout the day. You are guaranteed some soft-core CF action just south of the Mixing Bowl (which will start once you get that feeling that there is not going to be a CF after all); it will turn into a full-fledged, balls-to-the-wall CF with lane switching and perhaps some rear-ending at around Newington, and you'll get the long-lasting pleasure all the way to Middle-of-nowhere Mall north of Fredericksburg, at which point the CF will magically disappear... as if the lights had been turned on and everyone had realized that the Porsche Carrera they thought were tailgating is really a Yugo with a box sticking out the back window.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:46:58 -0500

95 is a fustercluck ALL the time, not just on holidays. If you're going deep south, take 81. Might be out of the way, but it's a lot more relaxing and there's never that hellish backup around Richmond. Is it just me or has there been a recent uptick in the murders, attacks, and overall stabbiness? Good thing nothing lasts forever in the cold November rain.

Henry Krinkle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:37:55 -0500

I don't have Friday off. I'm taking a half day, and "work" that day include an hour or so of actual work and a long lunch, probably at Irish Times.

Reid

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:33:50 -0500

Just take the train. Trying to drive anywhere on the Eastern seaboard this week is an utter nightmare. Plus you can drink on the train.

lilybelle

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:25:05 -0500

this is the first year i've had to leave DC for thanksgiving, so i'm wondering at what point does 95 south turn into a total clusterf*ck? can i get away with leaving on wednesday morning, or should i leave on tuesday night?