I've been up, I've been down...
Ups in D.C. for the past week or so:
1. Model in a thong posing for a photographer in Dupont circle in the middle of the day. I've got a camera phone picture of this phenomenon, but I'm way to ashamed to share it. I am officially just another douche for taking a camera phone picture of a nearly naked model.
2. Awesome exhibits at the Portrait Gallery:
- Harry Benson: Being There - a study in some fan-fucking-tastic photojournalism that rocked my face off, mixed with a bunch of Vanity Fair-style over-saturated celebrity portraits that left me a little empty, to be perfectly honest.
- Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London - I've got less to say about this one, except that it's cool to see a bunch of 50-something women get their voyeur kicks off looking at a video of a topless David Beckham taking a nap.
3. A new Five Guys location in Dupont Circle. No explanation needed.
4. KRS-1 at the Black Cat. I'm all about the racially integrated music crowds. Note to Dante: Let's book some more hip-hop up in here.
5. Impressing the heck out of out of town coworkers and clients by taking them to D.C. Coast. (I know....D.C. Coast?!?! Does anyone in D.C. get excited about going to this place? Not that I don't love it, but the restaurant gods tend to save their masturbations for different locals if I'm not mistaken).
Downs in D.C. for the past week or so:
1. Art-O-Matic is done for the year. Bummer.
2. Carrying $8,000 in expenses from my trip to Texas last week. Not fun.
3. A really disappointing anniversary meal at Nora. This sucked because I've been looking forward to going to Nora for a very long time. With the exception of a great wine choice by the girlfriend and some truly, truly awesome veggies (no joke -- good veggies), this might have been the most disappointing meal I've had in the past year.
Memo to Nora: If you're going to be shopping a book and doing the Smithsonian lecture series, you really should make sure that all your damned cooks and all your damned servers show up so that we can sit down, order, and be served in less than ninety minutes. Table wasn't ready, service was indifferent (quite a bit of redundant activity from the wait staff, in fact), and the food was slow for every table in our vicinity - and didn't seem to be acknowledged as such. I can forgive below average meat (not much flavor on the just slightly overdone chicken; a hunk of lamb that was a little too rare...even for lamb; a kind of yucky chorizo), and I can forgive below average service. Both in one night? Unforgivable.
(I do like that other restaurant of yours', though).
1. Model in a thong posing for a photographer in Dupont circle in the middle of the day. I've got a camera phone picture of this phenomenon, but I'm way to ashamed to share it. I am officially just another douche for taking a camera phone picture of a nearly naked model.
2. Awesome exhibits at the Portrait Gallery:
- Harry Benson: Being There - a study in some fan-fucking-tastic photojournalism that rocked my face off, mixed with a bunch of Vanity Fair-style over-saturated celebrity portraits that left me a little empty, to be perfectly honest.
- Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London - I've got less to say about this one, except that it's cool to see a bunch of 50-something women get their voyeur kicks off looking at a video of a topless David Beckham taking a nap.
3. A new Five Guys location in Dupont Circle. No explanation needed.
4. KRS-1 at the Black Cat. I'm all about the racially integrated music crowds. Note to Dante: Let's book some more hip-hop up in here.
5. Impressing the heck out of out of town coworkers and clients by taking them to D.C. Coast. (I know....D.C. Coast?!?! Does anyone in D.C. get excited about going to this place? Not that I don't love it, but the restaurant gods tend to save their masturbations for different locals if I'm not mistaken).
Downs in D.C. for the past week or so:
1. Art-O-Matic is done for the year. Bummer.
2. Carrying $8,000 in expenses from my trip to Texas last week. Not fun.
3. A really disappointing anniversary meal at Nora. This sucked because I've been looking forward to going to Nora for a very long time. With the exception of a great wine choice by the girlfriend and some truly, truly awesome veggies (no joke -- good veggies), this might have been the most disappointing meal I've had in the past year.
Memo to Nora: If you're going to be shopping a book and doing the Smithsonian lecture series, you really should make sure that all your damned cooks and all your damned servers show up so that we can sit down, order, and be served in less than ninety minutes. Table wasn't ready, service was indifferent (quite a bit of redundant activity from the wait staff, in fact), and the food was slow for every table in our vicinity - and didn't seem to be acknowledged as such. I can forgive below average meat (not much flavor on the just slightly overdone chicken; a hunk of lamb that was a little too rare...even for lamb; a kind of yucky chorizo), and I can forgive below average service. Both in one night? Unforgivable.
(I do like that other restaurant of yours', though).
Labels: DC coast, Five guys, harry benson, Komi, national portrait gallery, nora
posted by t-o-n at 9:04 PM
