The Weekly Feed: Experimentation Edition
Morning Roundup: Change Edition
Former Blade Staffers Launch 'DC Agenda'
D.C. Unemployment Rate Reaches 11.9 Percent
D.C. Insurance Dept. Denies Birth Control Coverage Meddling
Photo by Andrew Wiseman
In the run-up to the cast's arrival in July, there was a real sense that Washingtonians were deeply interested in finally hosting the once popular MTV show after so many years. Local photographers staked out the house at 20th and S Streets NW, and speculation about how the show's production would affect the city ran wild. Then, when filming actually started, it seemed like it took about three days for the novelty to wear off completely. You might have seen a stray Twitter update here or there about the cast arriving at this bar or that event, but mostly, the city just stopped paying attention. After all, this is an aging show in a TV environment saturated with new and more compelling reality show formats. When was the last time The Real World actually made anyone famous, anyway? 2004? 1994?
In any event, four months later, they are gone as quickly as they came. The show is scheduled to premiere on MTV in early 2010. Will we watch? Probably the first episode or two. After that, who knows how long we'll be able to keep up interest.
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Who gets the house?
Who would want it? The place still has that weird Doug smell. Hard to describe. Not bad. Just...like Doug.
They're already gone? I didn't even get a chance to fling feces at them after obnoxiously defecating in their Jacuzzi. My dreams, once within grasp, are now…wait a minute, that was never my dream! I only reserve feces-flinging for certain burrito-aborting, greasy-haired, boy toys and drug-lacing, Holocaust-surviving, it’s not “rape-rape” rapists!
Pssh, and here TRWDC thought I cared.
"members of The Real World D.C. were spotted variously loading luggage into large SUVs and driving off"
Take the Metro or the freaking 42 you unsustainable bastards.
Puzzled DC public health officials end search for cause of dramatic decline in reported herpes cases in DC.
You couldn't miss them. They were covered head-to-toe in laser points from all the snipers.
well, from what i've read elsewhere, they were excited to see a side of DC that wasn't the monuments that most of america thinks we are. if they can edit things well and make the real DC, away from the mall, look good and make people around the country think about the real people here, then i'll be happy.
Earnest yet true. And as a long-ago fan of the old-school "Real World," I'd like to see them pull away from the Vegas/Cancun-style 24-7 party storylines (ie, as far from "Real" as we could have possibly gotten) back to some attempt to portray young people doing thoughtful things ... we have enough crap reality TV out there as it is (thanks in part, of course, to this show).
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Between these clowns leaving town and Happy the Hippo shacking up with his whores in Michigan, VD rates are in for a plunge of Christy Canyon cleavage proportions. Of course, Fenty will take full credit and ask the Council for millions in funding for next year's celebration of Christy Canyon Cleavage Day festivities.
You're right. The only good thing to come out of Michigan is General Motors.
Oh no he di-in't!
Helllooo!?!? Do Apple Jacks, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks mean nothing to you? And Eggos too, fer chrissakes? I probably would have slept through my entire childhood if it wasn't for all the sugar Kelloggs (of Battle Creek, MI) put in their breakfast cereals.
I think I read that Milwaukee is really nice now. In fact, I think they had a MTV Real World there a few years before D.C.
You know what I love about Milwaukee? Even at the snottiest places in town you can have an ice cold bottle of Miller High Life for $2.
Shlameel shlamazel hasenfeffer incorporated, that's a good price! On a related not, I can't decide whether vendors who sell PBR for $6 bottle should be the ones that we should shoot, or the *ssh*les who are willing to pay that when less pretentious less crappy brews are available for the same price.
On this we can agree. Yes, we all know DC is pricey. But, really, a beer for $5 during 'happy hour'?
Anytime I'm in a smaller more affordable city I drink three times as much, just for the cost savings.
i actually like milwaukee. make sure you get some kopp's frozen custard next time you're there.
In all those silly livable cities rating systems, where they make up some meaningless algorithm, Milwaukee always rates near the top.
I want to "ride on the float" during the Christy Canyon Cleavage Day festivities.
If The Real World leaves DC, and only DCist notices, did they really leave?
Actually, I spoke to a Real World cast member last week. They said that they were filming for another month and a half. They are probably on their 'vacation' this week.
Maybe they just film the dramatic exaunt scene out of sequence, just like the big movies do.
*Yawn*
Real World DC. Quiet folk. Town'll hardly know they're gone.
Hate on Milwaukee all you want... just remember what Alice Cooper taught us... "In fact, it was originally an Algonquin term meaning the good land."
ah, fucking A, i am not hating on milwaukee. it's a michigan v. wisconsin thing, people. one state rags on the other for just being there. kind of like virginia and maryland. i swear...
What in God's name would a Virginian have to lord over a Marylander?
i have no idea. as a transplant to the area, and a DC citizen, i just figure it's all the same. mirror images of each other exist if they care to look.
HA ! Virgidiots !
Is there a ring of Faustian asphalt connecting Wisconsin and Michigan? No? Until then, the MD-VA animosity rules them all.
i'm sure there's a short road somewhere that connects land o' lakes to some burg in the upper peninsula...
Damn, I never did get to do the redhead.
I have faith in you...
Thank you. Maybe I can make something happen with one of the cast of "Real Housewives of Washington, DC".
HA! I love how the "Locals are..." banner reads "58% BORED." Really, I wouldn't do any of these slackjawed, mongoloidal hausfraus with your di*k. I'm still holding out for "The Real Tranny Hookers of New York Avenue." That, or whenever Liz gets around to shoplifting a bottle of Clairol Fire-in-the-Hole Red to make her carpet match the drapes.
I would do them all with my dick. I am such a star fucker.
And that concludes the teen news for today.