Go Home Already: Shouts and Murmurs
Man Stops Traffic at 17th and K to Demand $200 Million
Compromise Uncertain on Same-Sex Marriage Law
Fire at 17th and L NW Forces Evacuations
Judge Throws Out WTU Suit Over Teacher Layoffs
It's a lovely weekend out there. What better way to enjoy it than by taking a look back at our favorite conversations which occurred within the black space of the sunless internet in What's That You Say? So kick back, put some aloe on that sunburn you cultivated yesterday, and bask in the cool commentalicious goodness ahead.
When it comes to oft-criticized District institutions, Nationals ownership is inching ever-closer to the D.C. Council, the Mayor, and Metro; such a quick rise in their level of disrepute is no surprise, considering the Nats owners have involved themselves in tiffs with all three said agencies this week. Usually, this sort of activity would lead our commenters to a spit-flying hate-frenzy, but most of your responses were surprisingly well measured: take for instance, our Comment of the Week from hillvada, who riffed off the beef between the Nats ownership and Metro to bring an interesting perspective on the overarching discussion about the Lerners' relationship with the city:
True, but one thing the city never realized in this whole thing was that there is not a single team owner in all of sports that actually wants to see development around the stadium. In fact, most owners will fight tooth and nail to keep even a food cart from opening outside of the gates. Concession revenue is such a big part of the overall financial equation that there is simply no way an owner can support a true "entertainment district" outside of the stadium. Every beer consumed in the hip pub down the block, is one more not consumed inside.
I think the city truly believed that whoever owned the Nationals would act like a full partner with their plans to develop the neighborhood. Instead we get too much parking and a refusal to pay even a pittance to Metro.
After the jump, if Obama is number two, what's number one? Also: it was obviously "Leave a Comment on the Photo of the Day" week. Oh, and Monkey takes on Guantanamo Bay detainees. That should be fun.
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What was with the Photo of the Days this week sparking so much commentary? Thursday's featured debate about whether or not the photo's subject was wearing skinny jeans (and whether hipsters wear underwear); Friday, you guys were obsessed about 100 square pixels of booty. Wednesday's took the cake, though -- you're all spectacular lampooners of misspelling, but especially downtown rez:
That should read: "Tea Che Unity"
It's a little known fact that Che was against big agrobusiness coffee plantations. In fact, Juan Valdez was a V1.0 version of a sophisticated corporate media response intended to brand coffee as the product of small farmers.*
*Maybe!
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This anecdote from RJ really captures the Nationals' performance so far this season:
Best part of Friday's game:
Top of the ninth one out and Screech starts to climb up the ladder leading to the roof of the #10 out in right; I guess to wave a big curly W flag in some sort of new post game celebration. Well, as just as he (or she or it) reaches mid way, *crack* homerun tied game, Screech looks to its left sees the Marlin player trot around third for home, then starts back down the ladder.
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After a week away, here's your dose of This Week In Guns and Votes: Wednesday.
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C'mon, boondoggle, with the advent of this internet thingie, I'm surprised that this scoop wasn't obtained via telepathy:
..in a mad rush to break the news first..
Looks like Sietsema got scooped again. And the Post was on such a hot streak too: Watergate, Bo and every Nats loss this season (so far).
I mean, Citronelle might be moving. Stories just don't get bigger than that.
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Green Apple Festival: the consensus? People seemed to have a good time, no thanks to the festival organizers.
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Presented without context:
UStreet: What's reason #1?
Virginia is for Losers: Starbucks!
Kev29: Lauriol Plaza?
monkeyrotica: Junkpunchers!
boondoggle: the inflated sense of self worth based on decades of federal bloat? a minor league baseball team so good they play in the NL East? Marion Barry, who plays Road Runner to the IRS's Wile E. Coyote?
Over the River: The new Harold Brazil Tattoo Parlor?
Henry Krinkle: LNS!
monkeyrotica: This cool new bar called "The Black Cat!" I've never been because it's in a sketchy part of town. I heard someone got mugged there once.
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NewHCE (who is apparently the same as the old HCE, go figure) says all there needs to be said about the World Bank protesters:
These guys crack me up. I used to live by the Hostel on 11th when they were last in town. Saw a couple of guys kick over a news box, which prompted one of the women their to yell, "Stop, the media are our allies!". The BEST was when I saw a bunch of them later on in line at Starbucks.
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Cool! Now we get to argue endlessly about new grocery stores that will never materialize and renovations to grocery stores that will probably take forever!
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Phst, who needs Alexandria? In this week's version of The Magical World of Monkeyrotica, Monkey makes the case for unloading Gitmo detainees into Prince William County:
The Guantanamo detainees should be relocated to a community that welcomes immigrants and embraces cultural diversity: Prince William County. The place is already a kind of sprawling, imploding cul de sac prison of sorts. And since you're an hour's drive from anything resembling civilization, any sort of terrorist threat would be mitigated by the fact that nobody give's a fat rat's fart about what happens to PW County. Really, if you're going to embrace the sprawling Mcmansion lifestyle, while rounding up suspicious foreigners and harvesting their organs, only to have your local economy implode, you have to take what you can get. I suggest a firesale real estate campaign involving teeshirts with the slogan, "GITMO Home For Your Dollar!"
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Way #4,826 for Metro to earn more revenue, provided by Virginia is for Losers:
All they have to do is install turnstiles in front of the restrooms. That way, you could use your SmarTrip when you needed to pinch a loaf or drain the main vein, and folks who took longer to drop the kids off at the pool would have to pay more.
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Wait, people still pay attention to Facebook?
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On the one hand, DreadPirateRobert's comparison of commenters to crustacean bottom feeders is quite apt; on the other hand, uh, eww:
I'm not surprised. We DO troll around the muddy bottom of postings, ripping apart the deliciously tasty inaccuracies and ideological spins our beloved copy writers sometimes partake of. That, and we're all constantly awash in Monkey's poo.
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Melos83, this guy sounds like he could be an indispensable key to any good evening:
In his address to the 2005 graduating class of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Prince Felipe had these words of wisdom to impart: "Some you may know me because of my wife (who is very attractive). I am sorry she is not here today - she is about to bear my child. Now, let me tell you about Spain..."
I can only hope the rest of the family is such a testament to the genetic benefits of hereditary monarchy.
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Let's hand out some awards shall we?
This week's Avatar Award for Achievement in Avatars goes to binklesworth whose inspiring visage of the Brain has us reminiscing of simpler days involving juice boxes, graham crackers, and Animaniacs. Ah, good times.
Our Username of the Week goes to SuperDrew. Up, up, and away!
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