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Morning Roundup: After the Snowfall Edition
- The Silver Spring Penguin covers the annual Silver Spring Thanksgiving parade, complete with local politico spotting.
- NPR's Carl Kasell to retire at the end of the year, Fishbowl DC reports. 'He will continue his second role as official judge and scorekeeper of the weekly NPR news quiz "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!",' though.
- WashTimes runs optimistic article about Howard Theatre renovations, despite reality reported therein: they've only raised $1.6 million of the estimated $22 million needed to get it done.
- Examiner covers D.C. Council proposal to abolish the oft-criticized Board of Real Property Assessments and Appeals and replace it with something more "professional."
- A D.C. man was shot and killed in Temple Hills, Md. Sunday evening, the Post reports. Deandre Smith, 22, suffered from a gunshot wound to his body and died later at a nearby hospital.
- One idea for Tuesday night: you can get $14 Wizards tickets, courtesy D.C. United. The Wizards are going to honor United's Ben Olsen, who recently announced he will retire.
- New blog, Anacostia QUE, to watch (via Congress Heights on the Rise.)
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As long as there's still a chance to win Carl Kasell's voice on my answering machine, it's all good by me.
I think it's about time Daniel Schorr retires as well. And I'm not just saying that because he's a longstanding member of my "Enemies List."
Really? Daniel Schorr, Jack Anderson... Hey, this is Richard Nixon's enemies list! You just crossed out his name and put yours.
Gimme that list!
[Adds cminus]
D.C. Council proposal to abolish the oft-criticized Board of Real Property Assessments and Appeals and replace it with something more "professional."
More professional than BRPAA? I think a team of 3rd graders with a serious sugar buzz would be more professional. Is the incompetent joker Towanda Paul-Bryant still in charge over there?
Please stop running the soft-core pornography pretending to be ads for American Apparel. I know it when I see it, and today's ad featuring a model opening up her winter coat to flash the viewer definitely crosses the line into obscenity.
+1 Definitely NSFW.
+1
I read DCist at work, as I imagine a lot of other people do.
agreed, the 'winter layers' ad would get me fired if i was reading this at work.
gothamist needs to lay off the american apparel ads. this is getting to be too much.
Whoah! I just saw that ad - and yes, it is nsfw (despite the photoshopping.) Not cool!
Prude.
Pig.
IT has been blocking these ads for a while. This is probably the first time I actually agree with them.
These ads may fly in Shelbyville, but you're in Capital City now. The rods up our asses have rods up their asses.
I sent an email to:
CONTACT
Publishing and Ad Sales
Jake Dobkin: jake(@)gothamist.com
telling him exactly how I feel about these ads.
I didn't realize you were such a delicate flower.
Indeed. Our Liz is an unique and precious snowflake that must be cherished. She's no snowblowing sicko like Yeti-rotica, who's into having guys pee their name on him.
Hey - I have enough problems with guys staring at me all day at work. Having these floosie girls on my monitor steals my thunder, ya know?
I made sure the publisher saw all of your comments, and I'm told those ads have already been taken down.
THANK YOU.
Thank you everyone for confirming DC's reputation for being a stick-up-its-a$$ town.
thanks, sommer. i'm no prude, but c'mon, there's a line some of us can't risk crossing in an office environment.
"Dear Jake Dobkin:
Please quit copying my wardrobe with the ads on your site.
XXXooo!!!
WizzyLiz"
I'm pleased to report that Jake and I are contemplating embarking on a sorrid affair. Well ... actually, he doesn't know about it yet.
I just keep getting ads for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and some outfit I've never heard of that combats autism. I'm not sure whether to be proud that my computer's cookies are apparently telling the ad server that I'm not the kind of guy easily manipulated by sleaze, curious as to what the ads actually look like, or disappointed that my computer's cookies are apparently telling the ad server than I make Lisa Simpson seem like Michele Bachmann.
I really dig those AA ads. They give me a good idea what my imaginary, somewhat good looking, slutty girlfriend would look like wearing those outfits. Don't change a thing, gothamist!
This is what happens when you don't have enough pictures of FEET.
If the Howard Theater's finances are as poorly managed as the Lincoln Theater's, this project is doomed from the get-go. The Lincoln has to be bailed out every year because they always operate in the red: they're closed most of the year and most of their programs operate at a loss. If Shaw can barely sustain one public-private-funded theater, what are the chances with two?
Are you guys kidding me about the AA ads? You really think they are NSFW?
BTW-I appreciate that AA has branched out from using just Guatemalan child prostitutes to include Russian child prostitutes as models (the blond who pops up every once in a while).
It all depends on where you work. If you work in a Fed building or for a corporation, yeah, they're NSFW. If you work in a Guatemalan or Russian child brothel, then no, they're SFW.
Have you seen the one with the flasher girl? The others are just skeezy or skivey, but the flasher one is straight out NSFW.
I always read DCist posts the following day, so (un)fortunately I tend to miss the occasional over-the-top offensive comment that disappears once Sommer catches wind of it, but a magically disappearing ad is probably a first.
The ads were a woman in a coat, and then she flashed to a see-through/mesh black bodysuit. You can probably see them on the AA website if you are inclined. They were sort of funny in that the critical junk was photoshopped out (like a Playboy merchandise catalogue - huge boobs with no nipples), but really not okay for an ad (not to mention impractical as far as winter layering goes.)
Hey, where's the American Apparel ads. Oh...DC prudery lives. Planet Dowdy.
You guys are a bunch of prudes plain and simple. You will click on the link to Monkey's favorite story (hint: it has the keywords of crack, anal sex, and diapers), but some 'model' shows a little skin and you are worried about losing you job as the PC police roam your office. How about waiting to view DCist at home or telling anyone in your office with a problem with the ads to 'just grow up".
Totally agree. The horror!!!
But the back-alley diaper-sex-for-crack story is clearly labeled "NSFW." And it's totally relevant if you live near an alley where there's a lot of diaper-sex-for-crack going on. This AA slop is just third-rate softcore porn. Every workplace I've been in has an internet usage policy that says no porn, no online games, no torrents, and some say no streaming video/audio content. So unless AA starts tailoring their ads to the more "prudish" DC market (i.e., more diapers, back alleys, and crack), I say, "Hard cheese."
What about the children??? What if some impressionable nubile co-ed reads Bethesdists or Liz's comments and then thinks it is not appropriate to dress like a stripper? What will OTR do then? Ladies, please think about the implications of your comments on others.
This whole pervy banner ad debate makes me long for simpler times; when stroking off to the brassiere ads in the Sears Catalog was as close as you could come to an actual virgin copy of Oui or Penthouse. Pity that this generation will never know the simple pleasures of having to chisel apart the pages of older brother's "used" Playboy. Yes, both money and time behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks: once they're gone, you wonder where they went! Or what the devil you did with 'em! Now get off my lawn and quit getting off on those banner ads!
You got that right. I still remember the pain and disappointment when I learned the Penthouse Forum letters were not real.
By the way, the former editor of Forum was recently killed in a freak junkpunching accident. His last words were, "I never thought this would happen to me."
Sorry for raining on your parade, boys. But feel free to get your jollies from some other website. Please think of me while you're whacking off to "It's a Small World" while viewing hottie women giving themselves breast exams. After you're finished - which should only take most of you three and a half seconds - you might want to "just grow up".
I prefer to think of you dressed like Mary-Anne from Gilligan's Island in the back seat of a peach truck reading "Fanny Hill" and chewing on a piece of straw. You go over a speed bump and squoosh! Your clothes are just ruined! So you end up having to hitchhike home. It gets kinda hazy after that and then you wake up in a basement with a saw. So let that be a lesson to you all: NEVER GET OUT OF THE PEACH TRUCK.
I was kind of keen on that, up until the SAW part.
If it's any consolation, Liz, my mental image of you involves no visuals at all, just a lecture on ways to ensure greater genetic diversity in the cheetah population.
(Which, while a worthwhile cause to be sure, is not a turn-on.)
(...is not a turn-on) unless you're a cheetah!
I'm a caracal, though, so that does nothing for me.
I propose that DCist only carry ads with models with bob haircuts, calf length suits, sensible shoes, and pantyhose in the summer.
yech.
wah wah, we won.
What about ads for skinny jeans, ironic teeshirts, and creepy speed dating where the dude looks like Patrick Bateman trying to figure out whether he wants to flay his date alive or just chase her around naked with a chainsaw?