December 1, 2008
Go Home Already: Circus Act
- Whoa - the D.C. Council is considering allowing bars and restaurants to serve alcohol until 5 a.m., and to keep doors open 24-hours per day, between Jan. 17 and Jan. 21 to accommodate inauguration tourists. [The Examiner]
- Construction began today on the inaugural bleachers in front of the John A. Wilson Building. [D.C. Wire]
- Did you know there's a neighborhood in D.C. called "Kent"? [Housing Complex]
- Businesses on H Street NE are reportedly planning on decorating with red and white LED lights for Christmas this year. Rad. [Frozen Tropics]
- A helpful early reminder that the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for this Thursday evening, and that "Downtown DC streets always clog up after work the night of this event so plan your commute accordingly." [Penn Quarter Living]
- There's a new Christmas tree lot in Shaw, at 9th and N Streets NW, courtesy new local business Old City Green. [Renew Shaw]
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this is real insanity. Those bleachers apparently cost $2.7 million, and the city has $15 million to stage the ENTIRE inauguration.
This means we're spending almost a fifth of our budget on some bleachers!!!!!!!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?!
Two things
1. How on EARTH can bleachers cost $2.7million?
2. Who approved this, knowing we had such a minimum budget? Even if the budget is doubled to $30m, that still means we're spending 10% on one set of bleachers for the mayor and city counsel.
please, please, please, someone get to the bottom of this.
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Serving alcohol until 5a.m. each night? I bet that's making the MPD feel even BETTER about being able to handle all the drunk-arses that will be treating this like Spring Break 2.0: Inauguration Edition.
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cue churchies going ape$h!t over 5am booze sales. yet they're totally cool with rolling in the aisles, speaking in tongues, and drinking strichnyne. whatevah heathah
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the D.C. Council is considering allowing bars and restaurants to serve alcohol until 5 a.m...
You want to say this is a solution in search of a problem, but that implies the DC Council isn't the problem.
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dear god, please let this 5 a.m. alcohol thing go off without a hitch. maybe then we can convince the city that alcohol sales aren't an inherently evil thing.
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@tenleytownist
the more important question is: are the bleachers going to have built-in buttpads?
i would hope so. i would definitely hope so.
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Oh, yeah. Kent is the neighborhood that thinks of the Pallisades as a bunch of riff-raff to the south.
Although, on the serious, Pallisades actually really did use to have a bit of a hickish vibe, I'm told. You can kind of see it looking at all those little cul-de-sacs south of MacArthur.
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More importantly, how many of those people on the bleachers will be wearing Slankets? This becomes the key factor in whether or not I will watch the innauguration parade. Because if I want to watch visual pollution, I can watch "The Hills."
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Kent? meh. According to an old subdivision map in the Anacostia Museum there was once a subdivision called Sorcerer's Last Stand. I think it might be in the area of present day Congress Heights.
If I were Chancellor Rhee, I'd be working on some geography/gang material for our schools.
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The picture of the man juggling is... amazing.
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I'll build them some rustic seating for only $1.5 million. Folding chairs on varying height cement block stacks.
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Did you know there's a neighborhood in D.C. called "Kent"?
And Google saw it, and said that it was good.
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"Those bleachers apparently cost $2.7 million, and the city has $15 million to stage the ENTIRE inauguration."
Don't worry, the remaining portion of this Obam-ination will be funded with private donations ... all under $5,000 each of course. ;)
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Folding chairs on varying height cement block stacks.
Hillman - Mad props, chalk child. Bring on the picnic tables and white plastic lawn furniture, bitches. At least some of us are tryin to keep it ghetto.
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kent is real. it's just not populated by the dcist demographic.
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Monkey - the best part about cement blocks is you can stash your cheap liquor inside. Trailer trash cupholder. Patent pending.
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Kent folk think they all that and a bag of chips. They don't got what it takes to live in Swampoodle or Terra Cotta or Stronghold.
Archaic neighborhoods monikers REPRESENT!
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Well damn, the introduction was going so very well until it got to the "...to accommodate inauguration tourists" part. Why stop with the inauguration? Let the good times keep on rolling!