SoulSkin Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 You just reminded me of WHUR... back when it was a jazz station. That's how you get your game up. I forgot that they started the Quiet Storm. That was the .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Excellent! Good on WAMU for doubling down on local news coverage. Glad it's a public radio station instead of some kind of face corp or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Very cool infographic in the Post about the 1968 DC riots ignited by the assassination of MLK. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/dc-riots-1968/?utm_term=.395d28c368a7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 I...I don't even know where to start with this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 I miss these days! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 That METRO spot is great ! Blue, start with... you are jealous of that one guys fro towards the end. I've been on the train systems in other parts of this country. Metro is by far the best and easiest to learn. Heck my wife has only been in DC twice. I took her on the train last trip and I feel confident that she could meet me at any stop without much confusion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 20 minutes ago, Kosher Ham said: That METRO spot is great ! Blue, start with... you are jealous of that one guys fro towards the end. I've been on the train systems in other parts of this country. Metro is by far the best and easiest to learn. Heck my wife has only been in DC twice. I took her on the train last trip and I feel confident that she could meet me at any stop without much confusion. 1.) Ha! Well, I did get my hair trimmed a few months back because I couldn't handle the tangles and I didn't want to spend money on product (picking that out every morning alone added an extra 5-10 minutes to my morning routine) 2.) Metro is easy to get around and I sill love using it when I visit but my folks still living there and using it to commute have been...not so happy with it lately: delays, ongoing infrastructure work, derailments/fires, more delays, etc. They certainly remember when it opened back in '76 and they've made it clear that Metro has seen better days. Also, has there been any new action on that light rail/Purple Line project in the Maryland Suburbs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Hell, not the still the best. We never used the purple. That's because I was taking her sight seeing mostly. Stayed in NOVA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Can't have a thread on DC area culture without "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSkin Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Mussolini era fascist symbolism recently uncovered at the old Italian embassy WaPo link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 (edited) I have this album, saw Grin many times. My favorite! This is the best! Edited April 25, 2018 by LadySkinsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 In honor of Jhoon Rhee's passing: and another one I remember from my youth: Some other DC TV commercials (giving me flashbacks)... This is Baltimore, but I remember seeing these on DC TV as a kid: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 On 4/11/2018 at 2:06 PM, Kosher Ham said: Hell, not the still the best. We never used the purple. That's because I was taking her sight seeing mostly. Stayed in NOVA. You can't use the purple because its not built :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 "These are not passive hockey fans." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Gogo. It's been the heartbeat of Washington DC for over 35 years. In terms of what represents "DC culture," nothing else even comes close. The music, the style of dress, the DC lingo, the cars, the violence. Everything about inner-city DC culture funnels into the gogo scene. At it's height in the mid-late 90s, there were 4 or 5 different gogo shows on any given night across the city. The 808 bass that rattles your intestines, the callout/callbacks between the band and the crowd, the fights, the booty shakin', the drugs, dancing with your friends, the smell of gunpowder outside. That's how DC parties. Flightposites? Check. White T-shirt? Check. Black swishy pants? Check. Redskins hat? Check. You're ready for the gogo! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c slag Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 2 hours ago, thebluefood said: "These are not passive hockey fans." Eagle parking the dancing decibels and Ron Webber the reasons why I am a loyal Capitals fan still This place all though kinda run down was awesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) 42 minutes ago, c slag said: This place all though kinda run down was awesome If your team is winning, playing at a run down venue is always the way to go. RFK Stadium is hideous, run down, and was the first of the unfortunate trend of cookie cutter stadiums. But by all accounts it had one of the best home-field advantages in the NFL because of (not in spite of) its flaws (i.e. the bouncing bleachers). When you're winning, a place doesn't even have flaws - they have "quirks." Edited May 1, 2018 by thebluefood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Mash’s Ham commercials: What’s the extra ‘S’ for? That’s for salt. We throw that away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Local ads? Here's the greatest of all time. Joe "And Yes" Jacoby (and Mark May) for TheatreVision. Notice the jump cut when they had to edit out "Super Bowl" - "and I am Joe Jacoby of the [snip - cut to Redskins logo] Washington Redskins." The awkward delivery. The tight polyester shorts. Revel in its awfulness. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSkin Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I like when Jacoby says: Yeth and too can have this... Classic lisp with the awkward lead-in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 28 minutes ago, pjfootballer said: I like when Jacoby says: Yeth and too can have this... Classic lisp with the awkward lead-in. Also, the staging. There is a “theater sized“ TV on the wall, yet they are sitting in chairs facing AWAY from the screen. It is one of my all-time favorite ads, for many reasons. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 What radio guys are people in the DC area going to remember? I'm thinking the Greaseman from the 1980s, and the Junkies will have a place in the pantheon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) 2 minutes ago, hail2skins said: What radio guys are people in the DC area going to remember? I'm thinking the Greaseman from the 1980s, and the Junkies will have a place in the pantheon. Nino Greasmanelli. Hobble-da-gee! Edited May 1, 2018 by Dan T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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