does everyone have today off
no im at work
whew! I thought I sucked for a minute :(
you comin out tonight??
probably not, now. Where/when again??
dunno exactly—alex will be back, and we’ll be done band practice by 10 at latest—probably just big hunt for artichoke dip and beerz
hows yr finger btw?
well it depends on the time, give me a call! if yr going to big hunt or similarly close venue I might stop by but it depends on time + whether or not Tom and ZR decided to lite it up at jam session today.
finger is ok though it just bled a little again (can see thru band aid). It seemed to be knitting up last night but now I dunno.
i am hella bored
me too—i was so productive yesterday, and now all i can think about is drinking a yoo-hoo with lunch
so dudes what are suggestions for NYE? Not necessarily all together, I was just wondering if pplz heard about anything fun going on. I just been told the BIG HUNT is going to charge $70 a head for entry—WTF? THAT PLACE IS A SHITHOLE!
I have resolved not to drop more than a fiver on entry to anywhere on NYE, ever.
Well a friend just sent a thing that sounded...not necessarily cool but at least vaguely fun in a LNS kind of way, and it would’ve had unlimited ANYTHING bar and food and it was at the French Embassy! DOWNSIDE: COSTS 8 JILLION DOLLARS PER PERSON??? What on earth. At least they give you very high quality drink and food. Big Hunt is $70 for unlimited rail vodka and their house beers??? Fuck you, I’d have to really be in for getting trashed as shit to make that worth my while considering your house beers are $3 each. I mean I’d have to drink 25 beers. And even I would be unable to procure a result with that goal.
25 beers to feel like I’m breaking even, I mean. I’d have to shoot for 30 to really feel I got my money’s worth. Then I’d have to be carted to hospital with alcohol poisoning, I’d reckon.
Fuck that shit. I in a quandary between going out to Cheltenham for a chilled out dinner and a pissup, poptimism, going to norfolk with my dad or a dirty warehouse party. Looking back over the last few years I think I’ve spent more NYE’s with my parents than anyone else, which, I think says a lot about how I feel about NYE.
I’d like to go somewhere with girls, where I can show off my sale purchases.
embassy parties rock, btw, but i hate paying money for, well, anything
i will get press passes for dc thread. zr should work on this too.
That would be great.
I’m starting to feel that NYE is the most overrated of holidays, I mean why is it such a big deal?
It is so overrated. It is the holiday of the huge cover charge and crap line up. It hink I’ve only paid 1 cover charge in the last 8 years. Low key is the way to go, (although free passes to whatever sounds good too).
NYE in Japan is really nice. Quiet and reflective. Eat special food, watch pop singers on TV, and then go to a shine and throw coins over peoples’ heads.
I will be in NY this year. Hopefully I can convince Carey’s dog, Peter Jennings, to give me a kiss at midnight.
that is the tradition in much of Europe. A nearly endless meal punctuated by throwing fireworks at each other at midnight.
LOL did Carey really name her dog Peter Jennings??!
I think it is only in America where the tradition is to spend thousands of dollars, rent limos, dress in ridiculous formal wear and then vomit on each other.
Shall I by these boots?
I don’t see why on earth you wouldn’t.
Will they match the blaze-orange boilersuit?
only if I modify it so that it is cut like plus fours or jodhpurs
the only websites that are working for me today are this one and gmail. everything else is refused. wtf.
How about some blaze-orange knickerbockers? Zoolander wardrobe mistress to thread.
OMG did any of you in DC, none of whom seem to really be around today, see the ad in Express by the DOH for smoke free DC??? It’s like a pile of douchebags, really explicitly!! Lobby dude bitching about his suit being smokey, girl with LNS super-flatted hair going on about how much she spent and now she won’t have to have her expensive hair smell (uh do you not shower?), and best, a TOTALLY DRUNK LOOKING SORORITY TYPE bitching about respiratory problems (while talking to a man who, quite honestly, looks like cgi superimposed into the picture??). HAHAHAHA it is pretty much awesome.
DOH: Let’s not try to entice the homebodies who are avoiding bars, let’s just show the very same people who are in the bars, and are always the people who stagger up to your table drunk off their ass begging for ‘JUST ONE SMOKE, PLEASE, OMG I NEVER SMOKE’
also there is a mandatory little kid panel, a la the NYC smoking ban where all the ads initially focused on how good it would be for the children. Who are in bars for god knows what reason.
Clicked on that. Awesome in Lord Whimsy style. Tie *must* be blaze-orange.
Ally, waht means LNS?
NYE is awesome if you are at a house party. Paying an establishment is a sucker move.
Also HI DERE I HAS XM RADIO *HAPPY-DANCE EMOTICON*
LNS=Late Night Shots, it is a website/club type thing for basically lobby types, sorority/frat types, young Republicans—really bridge and tunnel, semi-subhuman douchebags. They all look like this:
Ah. Every time I come back to the US, I see these people in ALL bars and they’ve paid for expensive “grooming” which only emphasises a certain plasicity. Oh, and teh ugly they’re trying to mask.
They’re just kind of mind-blowing to me. They’re the ones that complain the most about how they “reek of smoke” but they’re definitely the first to consider it totally acceptable to go up to a stranger and bum smokes, sometimes multiples, because they “don’t smoke but just this one time.” So it cracks me up that they are the poster children for the smoke free DC ad.
Those “women” are two of the fugliest things I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know it was possible to crossbreed humans with giraffes/shitzus.
Also, why are those guys all 12??????? Christ I’m old.
One of them is a bit balding, so I’d put him at at least 16.
I can’t believe they left out the photo where they made the “wacky” one fuck a gopher in order to hold onto the right to claim their friendship.
I suppose it could be wrapped up in their tendency to do a dirty stop-out and then roll into work not-so-fresh so perhaps they are trying to cover their tracks, the sluts.
Dan OTM. Also WRT the brahs up there: now I know what happened to all those guys in school who dragged up in cheerleader uniforms and Dee Snyder makeover whenever a camera appeared at a kegger.
DEAR BRIAN MILLER
Please to pay attention to DC Thread, have group of friends trying to coordinate with for NYE but every seemingly good suggestion either has a significant downside or turns really lame after further investigation. Help??
does anyone know if Jaleo downtown does anything on NYE? The Crystal City outpost does, it seems.
NYE plans:
In general, fuck a new year. Amateur night. It’s like an enormous company holiday party except without knowing anyone and having to pay for it.
That said, in DC cabs tend to be so fucked on NYE that I think the best plan is to pick a bar within walking distance of your house with a $20 or under cover and plan on walking home. For me this year it may end up being Bedrock Billiards.
Jaleo does something every year with a few seatings and flamenco dancers and that stuff. I think I randomly ended up at Jaleo last year at midnight, actually! But didn’t get there until 11:45 or so. No ticket, no cover, it was great!
I am basically agreeing with your thesis but have friends in Laurel-ish area who want to come into city and do something. Within walking distance is key; we walked from Black Cat every year we did that, it was just too lame otherwise.
I’m thinking Jaleo would be perfect ie low key and fun but I can’t see anything online for them. La Tasca is doing something for NYE but La Tasca, while ok, is not nearly as yummylicious as Jaleo. Though La Tasca’s “pitchers” of sangria are more like “multiple gallons,” huge plus in their favor.
here’s the Jaleo deal:
http://www.jaleo.com/NewYearsEve2006_000.htm
That says that midnight is part of the later seating, but I remember just going to the bar. Hmm.
(l to r) probably 28 but looks 42 with her friend the illegitimate offspring of jack nicholson and the grinch.
the guy in the white looks like revenge of the nerds-era anthony edwards.
sake club has a $69 (+ tax + gratuity) per person unlimited sushi, sake, and champagne deal.
Also OTTO OTM
unlimited tapas = pretty f’ing awesome
this looks like an arlington dentist with a couple of escorts hired for the evening. and i think he’s hypnotized the one of the left.
representatives of the lobbying firm Drunk, Drunker, and Fugly
hey DCers — have you seen this in yer post? drop a cool $500K-$1M, and you too can have a “hipster” condo above a homeless soup kitchen!
Million-Dollar Condos, With a Soup Kitchen Below
the money quote:
DeSantis said the company is well aware that some home buyers may blanch at the prospect of living above a homeless service center. But he said the developer expects to attract buyers who “are fully aware of the urban lifestyle” and will “appreciate the building and the neighborhood for what it is.”
“I don’t think I’m going to have any problem finding 140 families who want to call this building home,” DeSantis said.
!!!!!!!
You’re not convincing me to come to DC you know, where the girls who don’t look like my little ponies at?
tom brady’s less successful younger brother chip
DYING
WaPo has NYE listings:
my picks:
The Buzzlife event at Avenue (18 DJs, $20, open bar 8–10pm, serving until 4am)
Black Cat (same as usual, Peaches O’Dell, $20)
Asylum ($15)
Aroma (free)
Bar Pilar (free)
Bourbon (should be good, but $35)
Galaxy Hut (free)
Taxlo at Sonar (Baltimore, $15)
Wonderland ($10, free mugging on the way home)
Rock & Roll Hotel ($30, damn good DJs, location not working in its favor)
State Theater (Falls Church, $45, Psychedelic Furs haha WTF)
otto were you on the DC thread back in the day, when me and Spencer Chow spotted that Tom Brady dude in Cafe St. Ex? We tried to surrepticiously take his pic while he was entering/leaving the bathroom but he kind of noticed and I think he thought/assumed I just thought he was hot and started staring at me every 10 minutes and freaked me the fuck out :\
xpost LOL PYSCHEDELIC FURS???? WHERE ARE ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN PLAYING, HEAVEN & HELL?
take parts of the three of these “women” and you have one half-way attractive person:
xpost, no but i wish i had been.
hahaha who is that in the middle, Jay Leno?
it’s patti labelle and jeff garcia, partyin’ down!
xpost
With no fashion sense, WTF is that thing with the bath plug chains?
wtf are any of these people wearing:
i dont know actually the left two are totally hot/charming
no comment needed AT ALL:
ACK XXXPOST TO OTTOS PIC
you always go for dudes with mMiller Lites and dudes in shorts :\ xxxxxxxxxxpost
i know what i like
PETE WAHT PIC ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
that place gets a much better looking crowd on st. patty’s day. though that couldn’t be hard.
WAHT??
Why do all these swanky parties have pink plastic cups?
left two girls are really hot
that place gets a much better looking crowd on st. patty’s day. though that couldn’t be hard.
?!?!?!?!?!?!?
guys wacky guy’s gf is miss yvonne.
xpost pete ick no
No they are not.
The invisible man is licking her nipples.
dude esp the far left girl is so earnest-looking. and i had a big crush on this girl in soph yr of college with dead eyes like chick #2, so im into it.
ok it looks like someone photoshopped Chip Brady into this
left two girls are really hot
that one in the middle kinda looks like jennifer anniston. if jennifer anniston looked like marty feldman.
HAHAHAHA sorry!!
pete is hot for expressive eyebrows and dead eyes.
that one in the middle kinda looks like jennifer anniston. if jennifer anniston looked like marty feldman.
right! yes! hot!
“Moooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! You can’t seriously be wearrrrrring that!!! I haaaaaaaate you! I wish I was never born!!”
They are too clean.
OK this halloween costume does actually rule
im totally equal-opportunity wrt clean
“For Christ’s sake Donna, USE A CUP!!!”
TO THE HALLOWEEN GIRL WHO APPEARS TO BE DRESSED AS PEYTON MANNING: HELLO IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING A WIG AND FAKE MOUSTACHE YOU SHOULD JUST GO SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FACE BECAUSE “PUTTING ON A SHIRT” IS NOT A COSTUME
TO THESE...PEOPLE
WTF ARE YOU?
totally hooking up tonight:
pete I think you should marry the Waffle House waitress:
she made an evening wear ensemble out of a rug she found at her parents winter cabin:
the woman in the middle is Rachael Weisz as a man
waffle house waitress is by far the cutest one posted yet.
THAT WH GIRL IS SOOOOOOOOOO BORING-LOOKING AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY
i mean, id take her scattered smothered and covered but yknow
post me one cute DC girl, there must be one?
there aren’t any ;_;
oh wvs there are plenty
best yet (she at least has short hair)