What's That You Say?
A big hearty hello out there to all of you in comment-land. Another week of hard-hitting DCist action is in the book, and you certainly weren't shy about sharing your opinions on everything from crispy duck to how Maryland's going to fund a new soccer stadium.
Getting started, it has little to do with Modest Mouse tickets, but I certainly would be interested in seeing empirical data -- as run_for_the_hills suggests in this week's Comment of the Week -- concerning Phish fans' financial elasticity during the current recession:
Sure, but granted lots of Phish fans have jobs, not careers. It's not like you can't deliver pizzas or do landscaping somewhere on the other side of town.
Dude, you holding?
Seriously, there's got to be a local think tank who has this kind of information.
After the jump, Mark Plotkin's favorite jacket, the Obama administration's comprehensive vetting process -- and awards are back!
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The equivalent of DCist water cooler chatter: Monday's Morning Roundup saw demonfafa kick off the always-popular "How D.C. Has Been Geographically Misrepresented in Films" discussion.
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newhampave, on Fairfax's actual pressing problems:
Forget about truck inspections, let's talk about the real issue here: no more mall cops?!? Obviously, Mr. Griffin has not spent any time at the Springfield Mall lately. It's like the Wild West in there--brawls at the Spencer Gifts, gang attacks at the Foot Locker, prostitution in the Hallmark (in the religious holidays aisle, no less)... it's time to wake up and smell the Orange Julius, Tony.
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Woo, breakfast! (Remember, be sure to swing by tomorrow for the second part in our series on the best places to stuff your morning gullet.)
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DCist's Martin Austermuhle might not have shot the lights out at Monday's Council/Media hoops game, but OldPosterKnownAsCranky has a theory as to why:
Wow - Plotkin is like a way older, and whiter version of Teen Wolf.
...and flapjack too...
seems like some of these guys didn't realize they were allowed to wear t-shirts under their jerseys when they really should have.
...and AMDCer...
Why is Plotkin wearing a sweater?
OK, we'll just stop there. The man's a radio broadcaster on the plus side of fifty, guys. (Though I'm sure Martin will be more than happy to use that theory to explain his poor shot selection.)
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Oh, Jeebus help us, Bethesdaist, if the crazies start using advanced technology along with their swords.
It's gotta be some sort of Highlander shit, because I don't think they had GPS. There can only be one, but he's gotta find the other guys, or something like that.
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A fatality at McPherson Square on Friday sparked some fairly high-test commentary, as well as a few first-hand accounts of the terrible incident.
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I mean, let's be fair hillvada, the administration probably checked Wikipedia, too.
Remember the halcyon days of the Obama transition, when the papers were filled with stories about how comprehensive the vetting process for appointees would be? Every nominee would have to go as far as listing their Facebook page!
Maybe a little less digging through Facebook and a bit more talking to the FBI and IRS would be in order.
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Trust me, specialed98, there will always be plenty of people lining up to complain about stuff, including dirty gutters:
Is street sweeping even necessary? I mean, have the streets really been any dirtier since street sweeping was suspended last fall? Has anybody heard any complaints about how filthy the streets are? I haven't.
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In this week's episode of The Magical World of Monkeyrotica, Monkey takes on voting rights and guns, and somehow manages to pull in one of his face-eating namesake:
I told you this nonsense would happen. You didn't really think Congress would get anywhere with voting rights legislation so early in the President's first term? He's not going to waste any political capital pushing this, not with GM asking for $14 billion every couple weeks and the banks handing out money with little choochoo trains on them. Then the economic recovery legislation is going to be put on the front burner and this will be swept aside. DC residents need to put up or shut up. Either you want voting representation or you don't. Just let the NRA have it's free-guns-for-everyone bone. The gun-happy Democrats can tell Cletus and LaWanda back home that they saved America from the gun-grabbing Kenyan Antichrist President, and the Council can go ahead and pass emergency legislation that defines everything with a handle and trigger as "a machinegun" and mandate a 4-year gun safety training program for all permit applicants. Sure, the NRA rider is a poison pill, but it worked for Hitler and Eva Braun didn't it?
Nobody listened to Travis the Face-eating Monkey when he asked for more ketchup and nobody listened to me. Typical. Well, you'll all be sorry when you're getting robbed left and right by kids who've whittled pistols out of a bar of soap and covered them with shoe polish and you STILL don't have a vote in Congress. So you'll have the worst of both worlds: no voting representation, high taxes, and kids sticking you up with bars of soap and the whole town is awash in blood and Neutrogena and Dove Moisturizing Cream. But they won't get MY beloved icecream bar! I know what they want! They coveteth my icecream bar! People always trying to take it from me! WHY WON'T THE LEAVE ME....ALOOOOOOONE!?!
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Award time!
This week, we went with a timely entrant for our Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars. Over the River's profile photo of McGruff -- pre-assault, of course -- shows that the concept of a crime fighting dog will always outshine a rogue Metrobus driver. Take a bite out of that!
For this week's Username of the Week, we're going with all_elevators_out. Sure, it kinda sounds like the title of a Coldplay song or something, but we're just a sucker for underscores.