Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Happy Hour on Friday Night
The Gentlemen of the Embassy will be here on Friday evening: http://www.ylfevent.org/. I highly recommend that you join us. It will be hot.
Welcome to the Embassy
If you're reading this, Congratulations. You have just found what we hope will be a valuable glimpse into the minds and lives of the Gentlemen of the Embassy. As we see it, the Embassy is a marketplace created for people of substance to come together to barter with ideas, to trade in experiences, and to enjoy free samples of all that is right and beautiful in this world.
If you're reading this, you're probably just the person of substance that we're seeking. So please, feel free to meander through this market, dabble in the self important prose, inspect the metaphors stretched thin, and share with us through the comments. We're glad you've found us.
There is no telling where this road will lead us, but we are happy to share the path with you.
If you're reading this, you're probably just the person of substance that we're seeking. So please, feel free to meander through this market, dabble in the self important prose, inspect the metaphors stretched thin, and share with us through the comments. We're glad you've found us.
There is no telling where this road will lead us, but we are happy to share the path with you.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Recessions
One of a number of posts relating the travails of the Gentlemen of the Embassy as they navigate the D.C. social scene.
Met a friend for happy hour last night. Tried a different place called Recessions. It's supposed to be a great dive bar with a great happy hour....
It was in a basement. It looked a hotel bar at a $80 a night hotel in Toledo. The sort of places I spent most of Jan.-Feb. of '08. There was small "business center" right next to the bar. But we were nowhere near any hotel. And all three of the bartenders were overweight Pakistanis. I have never had a Pakistani bartender before. The whole thing was odd. But $3 well drinks and a decent cheese sticks so I wasn't complaining...
Until the guy listening to his iPod while sitting by himself next to us at the bar started engaging us in conversation. He told us he was a vegetarian and he thought it was murder to "smoosh an ant" (he said "smoosh an ant about 17 times during the conversation). Then he started telling us about his pet gerbil. And he got emotional when telling us about the pet gerbil and showing us pictures of the pet gerbil on his iPhone. And he said that he and his partner of 13 years would give their own lives for the life of their pet gerbil. Made me wonder about the places they have let the pet gerbil roam.
Met a friend for happy hour last night. Tried a different place called Recessions. It's supposed to be a great dive bar with a great happy hour....
It was in a basement. It looked a hotel bar at a $80 a night hotel in Toledo. The sort of places I spent most of Jan.-Feb. of '08. There was small "business center" right next to the bar. But we were nowhere near any hotel. And all three of the bartenders were overweight Pakistanis. I have never had a Pakistani bartender before. The whole thing was odd. But $3 well drinks and a decent cheese sticks so I wasn't complaining...
Until the guy listening to his iPod while sitting by himself next to us at the bar started engaging us in conversation. He told us he was a vegetarian and he thought it was murder to "smoosh an ant" (he said "smoosh an ant about 17 times during the conversation). Then he started telling us about his pet gerbil. And he got emotional when telling us about the pet gerbil and showing us pictures of the pet gerbil on his iPhone. And he said that he and his partner of 13 years would give their own lives for the life of their pet gerbil. Made me wonder about the places they have let the pet gerbil roam.
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