DCist: Morning Roundup: Which Way the Wind Blows Edition

monkeyrotica

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:04:10 -0500

See, that's the beauty of the design: you just open up the levee to wash all the Market Lunch diarrhea out onto 17th Street. It's like a kindler, gentler version of the 18th Street Pizza Mart vomit smell.

deesee

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:58:29 -0500

Excellent idea...a levee market! It'd at least make for some good overheard in DC quotes on dcist each friday. Guy1: "Hey, brah, let's go to that levee market place for lunch" Guy2: "No way, bro. I totally got cholera/lead poisoning/random-water-borne-illness from that stuff last time."

monkeyrotica

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:52:09 -0500

Since they're using Eastern Market money, they should make the levee a market. Something with a nice cheesemonger and a couple of butchers and a nice Market Lunch counter with really expensive crabcakes that give you violent diarrhea.

8th Street

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:21:36 -0500

Sommer, do we know any history of this 17th St. Levee? Seems a levee is a pretty important thing to be built given the floods a few years ago - however, why was this money not budgeted in advance? $2m taken from eastern market is not the way to carry ward 6 in ’10.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:20:38 -0500

But a church is residential construction. Doesn't God live there? No? Alright then.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:18:48 -0500

“[The Office of Property Management] has carefully controlled costs for the project and expects to complete the reconstruction on-time and on-budget without the $2M,” Bill Rice, OPM spokesman, said in an e-mail. It's a real goddamn shame they can't do that with every DC Government program. So they're robbing the Eastern Market fund to pay for levees? What's next? Taking money from the libraries to pay for a meteor shield? You know where this is going? That's right: stealing EMS money to fund dildo sharpeners.

deesee

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:17:47 -0500

Note to Sommer and tothers who are like-minded: it's incredibly stupid to chase after or fight a robber, and chances are likely that you'd get hurt doing so. Best thing is to call the police if robbed, giving a good description; even though it may not seem as rewarding, at least you're not shot, assaulted, or killed after being robbed.

majapa

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:13:43 -0500

Those Smithsonian ice skates reminds me - has anyone ever rented a pair of skates that were actually comfortable? The Smithsonian rink's skates makes it 3/3 for terrible rental skates.

qbert

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:11:32 -0500

"Strictly residential?" Isnt' that area of 16th heavily dotted with churches? I think the zoning the nimbys are seeking prohibits NEW nonresidential construction, but I don't think that area is stricly residential.

monkeyrotica

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:10:41 -0500

"Alright, Devious! Nobody move!" "THE BISHOP!" Jeebus, stealing church collection money? That's colder than a gushot bitch wolfdog with nine sucking pups pulling a beartrap up the hill in the middle of winter with a mouthful of porcupine quills. What's next? Donkeypunching nuns in the taint? This is what happens when you elect a crypto-Kenyan president. IT'S IN THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS, PEOPLE!

IMGoph

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:07:18 -0500

semantic note: the proposed LDS thing up on 16th street wouldn't be a temple (a la the big old thing up there off the beltway in the forest glen area), but would be a meeting house. they only have a few of the huge temples around the country, and certainly wouldn't build a second one that close to an existing one.