D.C. is the New New York!
If you fall into Washington Life magazine, and why wouldn't you, you would know that not only was there recently the Bachelors and Spinsters Ball (which we presume was a feminist take-back of "spinster"? Right?) but there was also a party called The Young and the Guestlist. Which, wow! It's like Sex and the City 3: I Peed Myself Waiting for a Mojito up in D.C. these days! In part probably because the new administration actually now sometimes hires people of color, I think, as well as that peculiar old D.C. standby, the lantern-jawed white man, there's definitely a frisson of fun in our nation's capitol! Too bad they're probably all real estate brokers and far-right policy wonk suck-ups. (Still, that might be better than New York- an improvement over real estate brokers and commodities analysts, am I right?)
Also, Baltimore is the new Brooklyn:
http://www.musicvagabond.com/post/526023843/baltimore-is-the-new-brooklyn-fyi-for-all-you
I thought Philadelphia was the new Brooklyn.
Richmond is the new Astoria.
Both cities should feign umbrage.
Baltimore is the STD capital of America.
DISAGREE. WILLIAMSBURG IS THE INDISPUTABLE STD CAPITAL OF AMERICA.
No. There is no fun here. There is only desperation, sadness, and alcohol.
#EMO MONDAYS
"desperation, sadness, and alcohol."
How do YOU define fun?
That which frissons in my Capitol.
Fun? More alcohol, less sadness.
Courtney Thorne-Smith and that good-looking guy from Melrose Place are still together? That's nice.
They're having a three-way: him, her, and his MASSIVE LENO CHIN.
Only when New Yorkers develop deep-seated and hilarious inferiority complexes will NYC be the new DC.
That is what is happening! It's great!
But, as others have noted, the awful young Republican/Georgetown scene is distinct from the great things that are actually happening in DC. Although actually I hear there's a bit of a douchebag diaspora happening right now as the Late Night Shots crowd spreads out to the country's business schools. Be sure to acquaint yourself with Angela Valdez's classic article on the topic, and do your best to persecute anyone quoted within it that you might encounter.
You can have your swamp, I'll stick with my 24 hour subway system and Fette Sau.
My experience with Washington life is to stay far far away from anything that the rest of the country would consider Washington life. I've had a good time and never found myself stumbling around Capitol Lounge at 2 in the morning arguing health policy and rufie-ing drunk interns. Small victories.
Ahaha this is not some sort of new thing — I went to this party in 2007 (I WAS YOUNG AND GUESTLISTED) and had a memorably unpleasant conversation with the guy who founded "Late Night Shots," which is the DC version of "Guest of a Guest" except it is an explicit instead of implicit celebration of white power and class privilege
Oh god please don't bring up LNS. There's only so much douchebaggery I can handle.
The only part of DC that these people and Washington Life represent is Georgetown…and Northern Virginia. Plus everyone who doesn't live in Georgetown and Northern Virgnia will tell you to never live in either of those places.
I second this emotion. I've lived in DC for a while and steer clear of these areas. Capitol Club is another version of this, lots of white guys with faces that will grow redder and redder as they age.
This is essentially true.
This is one of the zillion and one reasons I'll never move back to NoVA, even though much of my family lives there.
Actually, my family living there may be one of the main reasons for never moving back…
@Bittersweet – Aww, that's exactly how I feel about Long Island!
This is exactly what my life is like!
#SMUGMUG
We have Twitter here now.
No foursquare tho yet :(
Foursquare: Banned in D.C.?
Liquors not selling after 9:45…or else you need to slum it to VA.
If I had a quarter for every time I've gone to that CVS in Rosslyn for beer after 10pm …
DC died with Ristorante AV. Miss u, AV.
oh god, the linguine with white wine clam sauce! proximity to leather daddies outside smoking at DC Eagle.
And that Victrola jukebox! Sheesh.
I heard they sold everything at auction after they shut down. There was this one mirror I wanted, it looked very Evil Stepmother, but I had no where to put it in my shoe box apt.
There is also that article in OUT with photographs of the top 26 wan DC homosexual men. "Bohemian DC used to mean wearing a green tie. Now it's real. It's here. It's OK. Now we can be open. Now we can be counted."
I see no good reason to live in either city.
If I had known DC being "cool" meant every reality show in the country would invade, I may have reconsidered that hopey-changey thing.