Wonkette
Not in Denver rocking the stadium with Barack Obama and Little Stevie Wonder? Well, lucky you! There’s fun stuff going on in D.C., too, and no ugly media people to muck it up. Enjoy sculpture, deejays, aliens and Dostoyevsky!
Friday:
- Last chance to see J.J. McCracken’s Living Sculpture at Project 4. There will be clay sculptures, some of them spherical. 7:30 PM [Project 4]
- Attend the Tittsworth record release party (sponsored by Brightest Young Things) at the 9:30 Club, featuring Tittsworth (naturally), DJ Assault, Dave Nada, Will Eastman, Gavin Holland and Roll Wit Us All Stars. $15, Doors: 9 PM. [9:30 Club]
- Listen to Daysahead at the National Gallery’s sculpture garden. 5:00 - 8:30 PM [National Gallery]
- AFI Silver is showing Aliens (the pluralized sequel to Alien) and hicksploitation classic Near Dark through Sunday. 9:30 PM and midnight, respectively. [AFI Silver]
- Attend Korathon at the Black Cat, a Kora Records Showcase featuring Mermaid Skeletons, Meredith Bragg, Sean McArdle, and others. $8, Mainstage: 9 PM. [Black Cat]
- Then later, also at the Black Cat, there’s Soulfuck, with 60s and 70s soul and funk, starring Soul Call Paul and Mad Squirrel. This is free and starts at 9:30 PM. [Black Cat]
- See Jon Kaplan’s traditional Friday night acoustic guitar performance at Kramerbooks’ Afterwords Cafe at 10 PM. [Kramerbooks]
- Historic things are afoot at the Canadian embassy: 50 Years of American Photojournalism (1939-1989) closes today. 9 AM - 5 PM, free. [Washington Post]
Saturday:
- Celebrate the birthday to the Godfather of Go Go Chuck Brown at the 9:30 club. $25, Doors: 8 PM. [9:30 Club]
- Check out the film version of A Divina Comédia (in Portuguese) featuring Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky. Also, instead of hell, everything takes place in a mental asylum. 4:30 PM at the National Gallery’s East Building Concourse. [National Gallery]
- See Bellman Barker, Andy Zipt and Corba Collective at the Black Cat ($10, Mainstage: 9 PM) and then hang around for Razzmatazz, which is a Britpop/Alternative/Indie/etc. dance party. $5, Backstage: 9:30 PM [Black Cat]
- It’s Saturday night, which means that at 10 PM, Mike Mulvaney will be at Kramerbooks’ Afterwords cafe playing folk/blues. [Kramerbooks]
- The DC Blues Festival is today, at noon, at the Carter Barron Amphitheater. [Washington Post]
- There’s a Glow party at Ibiza, with trance music and, presumably, glowy things. [Ibiza]
Sunday:
- DJ Dredd’s Prince vs. Michael Jackson vs. Madonna (with exciting visuals!) at the Black Cat. $12, Mainstage: 9 PM [Black Cat]
- The National Symphony is playing a free Labor Day show on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building. 8 PM. [Kennedy Center]
also, Saturday is the all-day world music festival in Arlington. It was great last year.
http://www.arlingtonarts.org/planetarlington/index.php?id=16
…is this the beginning of the “Liberation” of Canada?
Drinking Game! How many “Tittsworth” jokes can we do?
freakishlystrong:
You’ve used “Tittsworth” in your posting.
But can you define “Tittsworth”?
freakishlystrong: …geez, how shitfaced do you want to get?! Just chug a fifth of Jack and call it a day!
Dissapointed - I first read it as 50 Years of American Plagiarism.
I believe it is an adjective describing the volume something can contain.
- A champagne glass holds about a “Tittsworth” of liquid.
Bah. The day we finally annex Canada will be the day I celebrate our achievments at their/our embassy. It will be the first time in my adult life that I will have been proud of my country.
Hi, Juli! Just wanted to let you know that you’re doing a great job! Your writing is excellent, and your posts are great!
hey, this wins for the tackiest event:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2008/08/i_have_a_very_bad_dream.html
Advocatus_Diaboli: Bigger than 2 shots but smaller than Hopey’s dick?
AfghanVet: Ah hooey, beat me, damn co-workers adressing me and stuff…
There’s a band named “Soulfuck”? Does Cheney sing lead?
thefrontpage: Why don’t you just come out with it and ask to see her cootch?
AfghanVet: Win! I could use a tittsworth of something right about now. A tit would suffice.
Remind me, do you Soulfuck a Tittsworth or Tittsworth a Soulfuck?
AnnieGetYourFun:
The way things are going with your financial markets, it’s more than likely we could be annexing US America. Hope you like Tim Hortons and Poutine, eh.
ManchuCandidate: I’m cool with that, but only if every state (er, province) east of the Mississippi River is forced to speak French.
Just ask a breast cancer survivor how much a tittsworth.
“Several vignettes composed by McCracken will incorporate figures and props covered in soft tan-colored clay and will allude to concepts of time, transformation and corporeality.”
Count me in.
Newsflash from the tundra, and I’m sure ManchuCandydate will back me up on this.
GO TO THE EMBASSY. Our Tory Overlords have just cut the Canuckistani arts promo budget by about $45 mil [i.e. ALL of it], so this could be your last chance to savour Canuckistani culture without actually, you know, living in Canuckistan.
WHEN YOU’RE AT THE EMBASSY, DON’T EAT THE MAPLE LEAF COLDCUTS. We’ve had about 15 deaths so far from an outbreak of listeriosis, or whatever the fuck it is that cannot be killed by subzero temps.
WHEN YOU’RE AT THE EMBASSY, GET TO KNOW A CANUCKISTANI: Every second person here has voiced their intent to migrate northward should Hopey not win the general. Bad news, I’m afraid. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, Canuckstan’s warlords are NOT allowing US deserters to reside in Canuckistan. They are being deported back to US military care’n'control for further transshipment to Gitmo. THE ONLY WAY you can now sneak into Canuckistan for more than a weekend is to marry a local. So, get to know a CANUCKISTANI, and save three months salary for an appropriately sized betrothal ring.
[On the good news tip, at least if'n yer queer you can marry a local and it means something. None of that separate-but-equal Jim Crow 'civil union' shit, either. Why won't SOMEBODY ask Hopey why he's down with separate-but-equal for the Queer Nation, but cannot abide it for peeps of culuh??? I've sworn to myself that I won't start raggin' on Hopey until he's fuckin' up in the Oval Office, but Heebus Jeebus that Jim Crow for queers shit has GOT TO GO!]
BTW: It’s cold here, so pack a parka, some woolies and expect your dick to shrink to halfsize until you’re acclimated. The girls won’t laugh TOO much, since we’re accustomed to teenypeenie Yanquis.
You said Tittsworth.
Canuckledragger: it is actually a really cool building and I have always wanted to check it out inside….
I am safe on the cold cuts, being an elitist vegetarian. The WaPo reported 17 or 19 deaths I think. If it had been here, it would be on continuous stream on all the news, and we’d have BE SCARED BE SCARED BE SCARED reports every five minutes.
Canuckledragger: Please, everyone, send your marital enquiries to me: Janey Canuck, Great White North, The World. I guarantee that we will be able to take care of that nasty shrinkage problem, forewith (chewing on whale blubber and quaffing Moosehead is a proven aphrodisiac).
Please bring your dirty greenbacks—and be prepared to sink at least 6 months salary into a rock. We Canadian girls are easy—bt we’re not cheap.
Doglessliberal: It’s a gorgeous building and I got the tour the last time I was in DC. Do ask staff to put you on the embassy party list—or better yet, find a Canadian there, get them on the list and you’ll get the chance to be wined and dined. No cold cuts, I’m sure.
Canuckledragger:
Yup. Overlord Fatbody hates them librul arts and shit. Rather spend that .50 on tax cuts for his Alberta high rollers.
ManchuCandidate: Is it just me or is FatBoy in a VERY sudden hurry to call an election? WTF is up with his newfound interest, given that current polling doesn’t have him in majority range? What’s he affeared of? Parliament investigating his in-out campaign finance scam? Or the Cadman bribery scam? Or the Bernier/Buxombimbo ‘affair?’ Or does he know/suspect that the ascension of Hopey will sound the death knell for his own electoral hopes, so he might as well roll the dice now, rather than later?
Thoughts? [I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention….}
I condemn - CONDEMN! - the Wonkette practice of assigning ridiculous nicknames to its interns.
“Juli Weiner” indeed.
Canuckledragger:
I don’t know either. He’s definitely feeling something. Could be that his backers want him to push all the pro bidniz agenda through parliament. It’s not like Bill C-61 (Digital Rights Management) is going to be passed with only the Tories for it (unless they bribe the Bloc.)
Problem is that when Parliament comes back, it’s not going to pleasant for him at all. Last polls I saw (in June) showed the listless Libs very marginally ahead (1-2%) so I don’t know what the hell he’s thinking.
Even if he wins, it still won’t be a majority.
Canuckledragger: He and the Condservatives actually have a 57% approval rating, but the electorate says a “change of governemnt’ would be a good thing too. Huh? What the hell does that mean? Going from minority to majority (a difficult thing to achieve when both parties are pullimg 33% of the vote this far). I think we will have another minority government, but Dion is such a dud that maybe they see some ridings that will swing. Dion is not working here in BC with his greenhous tax which would be a tax on the tax introduced by our esteemed Premier (now there’s a guy who needs hos arse kicked). My riding here in Vancouver here almost turned during a by-election I the Spring (the Libs won only by 100 votes—that candidate is a not beloved. i think in a general, she will get killed). Actually I think that Cnaucks are too busy watching these US elections to be paying much attention. So far, the economy hasn’t turned, but that is gonna change. As we all know: it’sthe economy stoopid. So getting his licks in now before it goes sideways. Also the Libs and NDP working together? Fuggedabouit…
Sorry for all the typos. One hand on the keyboard and the other…on the channel changer.
Y’all thought I was gonna say something else, didn’t you? Naughty
OK, I’m getting drunk too, in anticipation of the Greatest Speech Ever Given…