Wonkette
Hey can you believe that after this week you can still afford to even read this website, for free? But still, what better way to spend the remainder of your savings than forgetting that all this economic tragedy happened at all, by taking advantage of “wine tastings” in Maryland. Or, alternatively, there’s German trance music and a pretty Colombian actress.
Friday:
- It’s Sunset Rubdown and the Parenthetical Girls at the Black Cat. 9 PM; $13. Following that, there’s Homo/Sonic, a self-described “alternative co-ed dance party for queer folks and their friends.” Go before Sarah Palin helps this party find its way back to Jesus. 9:30 PM $5 [Black Cat]
- Check out Eli “Paperboy” Reed and his band, the True Loves, at the Rock and Roll Hotel. 8:30 PM; $12. [Rock and Roll Hotel]
- Robert Schiller will be at Politics & Prose, reading from his economic tragedy, The Subprime Solution. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Saturday:
- Join Cheick Hamala Diabate, Head-Roc, Farafina Kan and DJ Nitekrawler at the Black Cat as they celebrate Chopteeth’s CD release. 9 PM; $15. Then, it’s 80s alt-pop dancing with DJ lil’ e. 9:30 PM; $6. [Black Cat]
- Listen to trance with a German DJ, just like real Europeans. Markus Schulz will be at Ibiza tonight. [Ibiza]
- At the AFI Silver, see the Colombia blockbuster Paraiso Travel, plus its star Angelica Blandon will be there too. 10 PM. [AFI Silver]
- Get trashed, in Maryland! Today and tomorrow is the Maryland Wine Festival. This means tastings. 10 AM - 6 PM. [The Maryland Wine Festival]
- Relive the fall of the Roman Empire, more than you already are, as James J. O’Donnell (also the Provost of Georgetown) reads from his book about the subject. 1 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Sunday:
- Birdlips, Person Parcel, and E. Joseph and the Phantom Heart at the Black Cat. 9 PM; $8. [Black Cat]
- Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stax, with Booker T. and the M.G.s (and Eddie Floyd) at the 7 PM at the 9:30 Club. $40. [9:30 Club]
I take solace in the fact that no matter what kind of shit goes down, no matter what financial institutions fail, no matter what party takes the Whitehouse and sees its 73 year old President die of a heart attack six weeks into his first term, leaving a vindictive, paranoid, ignorant bible-thumper-showbilly to bring further ruination upon our country, I’ll still always have my Wonkette.
Hopefully Sunset Rubdown has their act a little more polished down in DC than they did up here in MA. Though, I will have to give mad props to Spencer Krug for all his knocks against Sarah Palin (and for being an awesome musician).
Does anyone else think think the Constitution Voters look like extras from
The Hills Have Eyes II?
Serolf Divad: The Bushmen still have time to kill the internet. Count on them to destroy anything of value that they possibly can.
In 2 weeks all our private bank accounts will have been seized to pay for golden paracutes for CEOs of banks (because they deserve the upside). So I suggest buying Gold or Weed or Partying like its 1999 until then. GO FOR IT. I’ll be working for DA MAN. I mean myself and enslaving all my employees. SUCKERS!
As long as that proposed masturbation tax doesn’t go through, I’ll be alright.
You think they’ll have Wi-Fi on the Spanish front Serolf? You’ll have to get your family to Morse code Wonkette posts over the telegraph. You’ll have died in the siege of Madrid waaaay before then.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Serolf Divad: What do you think a vindictive, paranoid, ignorant bible-thumper-showbilly president might do to dissenters like Wonkette?
I’m just sayin’…
Serolf Divad: V572625694: Oh, the Internets will survive as marketing and propoganda tools. However, I’m sure WE’RE all blacklisted and marked for immediate liquidation upon Palin’s succession. Me? I’m-a headin’ fer … well, maybe northern Italy. Or Provence, that’s nice, too.
Serolf Divad: According to this itinerary, you’ll also always have indie rock. So, uh, that’s something.
V572625694:
Well, when the bushmen do kill the internet I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to find mimeographed copies of Wonkette for free in subway periodical dispensers… it’ll have the twin advantages of being supported by ads for adult escorts and getting you a little high when you sniff that joyous purple ink.
Appropriate that Eddie Floyd is playing on Sunday. His “Knock on Wood” seems to be a perfect segue to praying that the Dow doesn’t totally tank on Monday (that is, if there’s a Dow left by the weekend).
Yeah, us Minnesotans seem to have a disposition to elect the crazies. Possibly because we’re bored or stupid. Either way, it’s a nice place to live accept for that pesky Prince that keeps knocking on my door trying to convert me into a Jehovah’s Witness.
When in Rome, eh? Where do I go in DC to get free money for bail-outs?
Monsieur Grumpe:
Wrong posting idiot! More stupid than bored.
Serolf Divad: It may be distributed as chiseled Courier font in stone tablets, however.
Commenting would be a bitch.
By the way, the ‘Got Rights?’ and ‘I’m a Constitution Voter’ ads bother me. Has Wonkette been bought out by Paultards? I’m afraid to follow the link and find out.
Serolf Divad: If I have learned one thing this week, and I’m not saying I have, it’s that even the 1000-year Reich of Alaska has email these days. Well, Yahoo, anyway.
TGY: They’re ACLU ads. A lot of people like the constitution, not just Paultards!
you can still afford to even read this website, for free?
Well, free, aside from being legally required to accept or provide buttsecks with the editors on demand.
jinmoom: Ah. I’m relieved.
facehead: I think the tax is on the masturbatorium, not the actual masturbating.
There’s a wine-tasting in Merlin, hon? Holy Christ!
Oh, wait. It’s out in Carroll County. I’m one of them dirty melanin-possessors from Bawlmer City. I fear a lynchin’ might be in my near future if I make that I-70 trek. Alright, back to my pre-gentrification Canton corner bar, then. Sigh.