as long as there’s ill-advised making out, i am there
anyone want a “do not disturb” sign with wolf blitzer’s face on it? because i have like 6. it’s perfect for when you’re fucking wolf blitzer in a hotel.
aka “tuesday”
I vote we make reservations for 10 at J. Paul’s, dress up, act like complete pricks and make lots of toasts. Ring a ding ding, Kofi Annan.
ZR’s tuesday takedown safety bitch revealed
anyone want a “do not disturb” sign with wolf blitzer’s face on it? because i have like 6. it’s perfect for when you’re fucking wolf blitzer in a hotel.
hi dere.
internet, sometimes you worry me
otto, come to dc, i’ll give you one.
dang. memphis, san diego, nyc are my next trips, maybe dc in the spring. save me one, ok?
We should have a DC ILX corporate christmas party where we take up a small private room at a bar and have a bad buffet and decorations and thank people for their hard work and look forward to 2007.
— Brian Miller (brian.mille...), December 13th, 2006.
YES I DO THIS
Mark that is lame, we’re not going to have a “mid-January party”. I was thinking the Fri or Sat before Xmas. Or we can just say fuck it, whoever is around we go to bar and thn just worry about the Super Bowl party and make it extra extravaganzaous.
— Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (garance8...), December 13th, 2006. (Allyzay Eisenschefter)
i cant do friday or sat before xmas, but id definitely like to still have xmas dinner on actual xmas. is anybody feelin that?
seriously let’s wear ties and shit and get a big table at some terrible dickhead gtown/downtown place where they give you country club airline rewards points for ordering the appetizers or some shit
YES YES YES YES I WILL YES
^^^ cannot remember if this is just a diamond ad slogan or a lit reference as well?
uh who is paying for this again?
J Paul’s party menu!
it’s from james joyce’s blood diamonds
“These ain’t conflict diamonds, is they? Jacob, don’t lie to me, man.”
blood diamonds, bro
ha ha ha. no zr it’s from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end of Ulysses and I hope Leo does part of it in Blood Diamond
A buck fifty for a single chicken wing!
oh riiiiiiiiight! yeah cool, it was also used rather prominently in a set of engagement ring ads over the summer.
or we could just wear bad suits and ties and go to Big Hunt.
yea yeah it’s pretty funny to see that shit on the sides of buses.
also, i think people have the right idea about xmas parties so i renounce my grinchiness
THERE AIN’T NO CHRISTMAS PARTY LIKE A HUNAN CHRISTMAS PARTY
AW FUCK YES
please to photoshop “Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk” on the side of a bus
i sorta want an unironic nice-ish dinner! doesnt need to be expensive at all, but i really want some trad-cheer with dudes...
oh that would be fun too. you guys are getting me in the spirit.
best RSS feed ever:
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well I was all set to offer up our apartment as a venue but it seems like once again we get stuck at the basics. Unless somebody wants to pony up $100 to deposit on the rental I doubt we’re actually going to get a party room?
“we” get stuck at the basics? “We” do? Oh really?
guys let’s look at it in terms of any room we get is a party room
i guess i figured it wouldnt be necessary, since presumably not everyone would be able to or want to do it—i mean, i know already that zack and alex cant make a 12/25 dinner...
I am t’internet t’wit.
are christmas night reservations impossible to get this late?
no, why woudl they be
i think a lot of people in the city probably go out for xmas dinner—brian, any experience?
ok basics such as which day are also making this impossible. Pete why are you suggesting actual christmas? I thought friday/saturday was plan
I have lived in cities almost my entire life and have never been invited to nor have I arranged a Christmas night event in a restaurant. They’re always at people’s houses.
maybe if they have a party upstairs we can crash that
You’d be a fool to try it over here all public transport stops at about 9pm and they take the roads in at 10.
these people i know went out for christmas once, though. these dogs broke into their house and ate their christmas turkey, so the father took them all out to dinner at a chinese restaurant and they ate duck.
yeah and then they shot their eyes out with bb-guns, right?
no, that’s the end of the story. like i think the waiters sang to them or something, but that’s it.
- i suggested christmas to ally like two months ago, and she seemed interested, so i figured id see what everybody else thought
- i cant do friday/saturday, and im more interested in dinner than a party
- i know youve lived in cities your whole life, ally, but brian knows more about restaurants than you—i wasnt trying to say you didnt know what you were talking about
if anyone is interested in having a nice-ish dinner on christmas night, just email me—on-board planning is awful!
I was interested in dinner, I’m not the person that can’t keep a conversation straight. Forget it, I’m not really that interested in Christmas in general this year, I only asked because Mr. “Let’s rent a party room” wouldn’t shut up last night about inviting people to our house for a party.
CHRISTMAS PARTY BUS, PEOPLE
haha that reminds me that at some point last night i arrived at cafe japone in a limo.
my fam goes out for xmas eve dinner every year, bros! it ain’t that hard to get together.
i still say yes to hangout/party/eating, although not on fri/sat. the only way these things ever work is if dudes just set a date and time, and the people who can come do and the people who can’t don’t and nobody’s feelings get hurt and really it’s not a big deal and hardly worth stressing out over.
That is a fucking lot of pretzels
i think, for the sake of keeping me entertained, you guys should all start eating lunch at your desks.
I should actually, uh, go to the office first. then go out for lunch. :)
afraid I can’t do xmas night dinner, will be out of town trying to get along with my family.. fun fun fun. but outside of 24th to 27th can get together. korean food! dim sum? where is good dim sum?
can we switch this to a confused, million-post tangent about new years plans so i can contribute?
let’s have it at zack’s house, or at charlie palmer’s, with ties, and wings. and ride a party bus. to the raven. or teh big hunt. and we’ll all be dressed like the axe recovery team.
zack’s house where we form double drummer fall cover band alex you are the singer and we cover Eat Yrself Fitter @ Smith Point.
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LOL @ LNS EATING EACH OTHER
dar1a, there are a few awes dim sum places around here—my favorites are in rockville—A&J and joe’s noodle house. oriental east in silver spring is great too. chinatown has a few good ones, and falls church/annandale is like rockville south (or vice versa), but i prefer MD...
Christmas in restaurants usually isn’t too full, but a lot of them are closed and a lot offer special christmas menus. Hotel restaurants are all open.
EAT EACH OTHER
EAT SOME MORE PUSSY
CHARMED TO MEET YA
OMG Al-Jazeera just showed an item on robot camel jockeys. My life won’t be complete until I have one.
in ur situation room, regrettin my willingness to pose for drunk pictures
anyway otto, that’s what they look like. a full body shot of wolf is on the back. sadly, it doesn’t say anything about needing maid service.
who is the lady
1iz g0rm@n, photographer and candidate for “same expression in every photo” .gif
ok because of the green coat I was gonna post “I HAS AN ELF” but then realized that’d be really offensive if that was yr sister or gf or something.
ps
69 What do you listen to?? You look like the top-40 type (but obv. aren’t if you’re on ILX)
— RIYL Christiane F. (MyNameIsActuallyStev...), December 13th, 2006 10:57 PM. (drowned in milk) (later) (link)
hey hey WMATA
yer fare proposal sucks
hey hey federal government
yer paltry support of the public transit system that keeps you alive has forced this upon us
SERIOUSLY WTF? NEVER EVER RIDING THE TRAIN AGAIN. THANK GOD ALL I DO IS USE SMARTRIP TO RIDE BUS!
estimated average tourist time at farecard machine after new rate system: 28 minutes
oh fuck you d.c.
also, tom, alex, and mysterious danny beltway COMPLETELY FUCKING RIGHT ON STUPID WTC MEMORIAL THREAD.
why is that thread only DC and british people
also, 69 totally OTM in the public college thread
lol 69 OTM all the time amirite?
UNH
LOL 69 OTM ATT, BLUE, 42, HUT HUT!!!!
hey—me and ally and tom are going to bistrot du coin for christmas dinner (on the evening of the 25th, natch)—anyone else want in?
dead moon broke up ;_;
yeah das a bummer. they were awesome both times i saw em
i never got to see them. at least they have a doc out.
at least they have a doc out
most indie rock statement ever
YO MR. QUE MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ THREADS BEFORE YOU POST TO THEM HINT HINT
7 wonders of Ohio is quite something
whoa, including TERMINAL TOWER!
How is Blelvis not on the DC list of wonders?
roving wonders
wtf are you guys talking about with the fare hike?
if u don’t get it u don’t get it
I don’t really have a problem with it except HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO CHANGE YOUR RIDING HABITS when the “peaks” are from 5AM TO 9:30 AM and 3PM TO 7:30PM??? That seems an unreasonable length of time to claim as peaks? Also, will I have to pay 2 35c surcharges because that would be retarded.
xpost Brian I don’t “read” your so-called “newspapers” so I needed a “link” to know wtf you are “talking” about!!!
Why don’t they just put up a sign saying TOURISTS NOT ALLOWED TO USE TRAINS, that would actually significantly solve problems.
i love the bus, guys.