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Photo: street scene, Georgetown
Tumaini
DC visitors can be sharp critics as well as astute observers of this town. This particular writer, in from San Francisco, has assembled a great, if not stinging and funny take on DC and its people.
…Downtown I ate in automat cafeteria-style buffets that cost more than a three and a half star restaurant in San Francisco. In the Adams-Morgan neighborhood I found a cheap little diner staffed by fabulous gay waiters who will tell you look gorgeous at 7am despite the fact that you may actually more closely resemble sun-baked roadkill. I assume that’s to make up for the fact that their meals also remind one of asphalt.
…So even in my black trousers and white button-down shirt I felt horribly under-dressed. I also felt like everyone was giving me dirty looks and staring at me rudely. That’s because they were… On the west coast we tend to make some attempt at acknowledging the humanity of the other person we pass on the street ….
On Chivarly & In Defense of the CPMC and its Membership
Cleveland Park Men’s Club & Blackberry Debutantes
The always gracious gentlemen at Cleveland Park Men’s Club and the unerringly elegant ladies at Blackberry Debutantes have joined in a debate on what it means to be chivalrous. Thanks to City Sparkle for this pointer.
The Debutantes write: Silly me. In my almost one full year of singlehood (Well, I'm one week shy of my singlehood anniversary), I have, as you all know, kissed my share of frogs. Frogs who opened car doors for me and took quite a few pages out of the CPMC rule book and swept me off my feet with southern chivalry, but who, in the end, were toolbag frogs…
CPMC responds: The modern american man ….. endeavors to treat a woman with
chivalry but is met with charges of misogyny; he endeavors to assume the role of provider but is challenged as an intricate perpetuator of glass ceilings; he endeavors to live by principles such as duty, honor, and country, but is demonized as an insensitive and bloodthirsty warlord of calculation and broken oaths.All of this is a long way around to saying that the contemporary American man’s catch-22 between these two worlds of the Modern and Post-Modern makes him open to assaults on his character from every direction ….Listen Up!
Always Greener Grass
This is a new blog which fits in perfectly with the post above. This blog follows the lives of The Single One and The Committed One with their unique views as young twenty-something females in DC... be it committed or single! They write, in part:
Recently on a trip with two of my close girlfriends, who in an ironic
twist of fate both became single just as I found my man, discussed their “singledom” and relationships during our journey. They complained about how certain boys (yes boys) were acting towards them, and then proceeded to try and convince themselves they didn’t really care … um for something they didn’t care about I find it ironic that this conversation continued for over 2 hours! What bothered me most about this whole “analysis”, was that neither one of them ever stopped to consider their actions and how those actions affected the actions of said boys.
Also noted:
Female gradute students make the best roommates, or so it seems, reports Ivy Lane. Findings from a room search in DC. … female graduate students around 30 tend to be loners so they don't have noisy people over to party all the time. They are also meticulous so they tend to tidy up their living places often. In another words, they are not fun and sociable but they make great roommates!
Pizza review, Radius, by The Red Line. Bear in mind that pizza in DC is terrible, and therefore Radius didn't have to offer much in order to compete for best of status. Even so, the pizza easily stands on its own merits. It was by far the best pie I have had in the seven years I've been here.
posted by kob @ 12:32 AM
6 Comments:
Great post! *wink* :)
you should play matchmaker and incite blog wars more often ;)
Wasn't the intent (maybe), but great fun.
No def not the intent...just an observation - the wars began all on their own!
best regards, nice info » » »
Best regards from NY! » » »
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