Adrien Fenty is having hot tea with honey at the bar at Busboys & Poets, and it's honestly taking every ounce of decorum I posess not to yell out "Plow the streets, douchebag!"
11:19 Some chunky fangirl in a gross purple sweater is totally fawning all over him at the moment.
This post would be accompanied by a phone picture, but between the hostess, the chunky fangirl, and the secret service dude who clearly heard me mutter "plow the streets, douchebag," to Mysterygirl! and came and stood in front of me, I've got no sight line.
More as these exciting events unfold.
11:23. Fenty and his entourage just sashayed (yes, that's the only way to appropriately describe the way this man walks) toward the back room, so sadly I won't be able to tell you what sort of lunch the mayor eats while making all his awesome decisions about how not to get the city out from under the two inch blanket of ice that's covered us for almost a week now. The smallest of the three secret service dudes is still stationed in the bookstore--I'd like to think he's watching me, because I'm clearly a subversive.
12:15. With everyone off work for President's day, the restaurant is getting seriously packed. This would probably constitute a serious security threat if Fenty were actually a real political figure who really needed three large bald men with ear pieces following him everywhere, and not just a guy in a funny hat who's nominally in charge of a city without Congressional representation.
I can actually see his bald head from here, and I tried to take a picture, but it came out really blurry. Curse my camera phone and its inadequate zooming abilities!
12:28. Fenty has left the building, after a protracted wander through the main dining room to glad hand a bunch of voters. So those of you busy strapping on your galoshes so you can get down here and either berate or swoon can stay home and watch All My Children. (I hear Babe's not really dead).
Monday, February 19, 2007
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If you do get to talk to him/yell at him, could you add that all of the city-owned trashcans in the Dupont Circle/Adams-Morgan/U-Street area are filled to overflowing and surrounded with piles of garbage since they haven't been emptied in a while?
Is DC money being used to pay the check? Diverting snow removal funds? It wouldn't take much to plow through the circumstantial evidence to the facts.
I think that you were totally in the right!
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BAH! I just wrote a whole comment that Blogger erased. The point of my rant was that I can't believe that they didn't plow the streets. It disgusts me every time I look out the window and see someone fall on their ass. I don't care if they don't do the side streets. But New Hampshire into Dupont Circle? Y'all couldn't plow that???
Snow plow complaints go here:
http://dc.gov/contact/index.shtm?portal_link=fc
Thanks Velvet--between the city not plowing the streets,and bad neighbors not shoveling their sidewalks, getting into work has been a pain. Fortunately, all this should melt by Wednesday or so with the upper 50s weather.
Congrats on the big quote in the Express this morning! And why didn't I think of Busboys and Poets for lunch yesterday... oh, perhaps it was the 2 hr. wait last Saturday night. I keep going back, though.
Didn't Bloomberg do something similar in NYC? He didn't plow, told people to take public transportation or something? Maybe he's trying to model himself after someone who's actually balancing a city's budget. Sheesh.
Or maybe I'm just bitter because I had to work on Prez Day.
jcd: I'll put that on my list of things to scream next time.
kob: I don't know--I've seen him in there often enough that I almost think he's got some sort of deal with the owner.
ma: If only I'd had the guts to go through with it. . .
velvet: I can't believe they didn't plow New Hampshire. I've been angry enough about the side street where my car has been sitting since last Monday.
jcd: it seems to be getting slushy even now.
jrs: it was crazy packed yesterday with everyone off work and all.
megarita: I don't know. I just hate his hat so goddamned much. I want to knock it off his head.
(And to any Fenty forces who are now monitoring me as some sort of quack: I'm full of this much vitriol, and I actually voted for the jackhole in the primaries and everything. Your boy needs to start making better decisions post haste.)
It's all about the sashaying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ltMHhYs5Vk
I love this post! I nearly spit out my tea this morning... well done!
incisive: a good sashay is usually what I look for in my public office figures.
alejandra: you should never waste tea that way. But thanks.
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