Imagine you live in the Washington, D.C. metro area, and you’re wondering what to do with weekend guests after church on Sunday. Quite sensibly, you turn to the “Local Events” section of the “Going Out Guide” on the Washington Post’s Web site.
So much to choose from … best to rely on the Editors’ Picks – there are only five of them. Two of the five look promising. First, you can enjoy a “Drag Queen Brunch” in Dupont Circle, then it’s off to the African American Civil War Memorial for … “Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting.”
This topless dueling took place yesterday, as part of the “Capital Fringe Festival,” a performing arts festival that bills itself as “Rebellious and adventurous.”
“Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting” was, according to the Post’s “Quick Take,” “A martial whirl of femininity and breasts.”
But an editorial review by Nelson Pressley assured readers that there was more to the event. “They'll show some skin, but this ain't yer daddy's strip club. They're going to play with conventions and make you think about it.” Bare breasted women sword fighting, Pressley said, was “some of the most sophisticated comedy I've seen so far on the Fringe.”
Sophisticated. Got that?
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…that bills itself as
July 27, 2009 - 09:40 ET by nolotrippen…that bills itself as “Rebellious and adventurous.”
Translated: "Boring and pretentious."
No wonder D.C. doesn't want its citizens to carry guns.
Hey, sounds like great
July 27, 2009 - 09:51 ET by msh1973Hey, sounds like great family fun to me...what a moron.
Once I was at a very
July 27, 2009 - 09:56 ET by FreakyBoyOnce I was at a very sophisticated event that involved several ping pong balls.
An enhanced version of an "exclusive salon" event
July 27, 2009 - 10:05 ET by zachlind“Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting”? I bet this activity was originally planned for the “exclusive salon” event at Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth’s home? You know, the event for CEO access to lobbyists and Obama administration officials and other high-ranking Democrats?
You guys don't get it
July 27, 2009 - 10:31 ET by OxyCon...because you're not sophisticated and stuff.
Next week they're going to have a "Mom jean sissy boy ball toss", sponsered by J. C. Penney. (that's the best I could do. The other "sword" related events I came up with were too R-rated to post here).
Sophisticated?
July 27, 2009 - 10:33 ET by V the KAnd if this exact same activity took place in a country-western bar in Manassas, would the WaPo be cooing about how sophisticated it was?
Perhaps they will invite that sophisticated Hahvaad perfesser...
July 27, 2009 - 10:36 ET by R D Helm...Dr. "Yo Mama" Gates.
-Dave
Absurd!
July 27, 2009 - 10:55 ET by onewiseguyWhat a wasteful use of bare breasts!
You are assuming
July 27, 2009 - 11:31 ET by Paul Atreidesthey belong to women, rather than womyn.
July 27, 2009 - 10:58 ET by jessieHWhat's next? Jello wrestling with sheep? D.C.= Degenerate Creeps.
To think
July 27, 2009 - 11:29 ET by Paul Atreidesthese are the people who call Sarah Palin "whitetrash."
Why don't they just go
July 27, 2009 - 12:05 ET by RR GOPWhy don't they just go ahead and change the name to Rome and replace Abe Lincoln's statue with that of Jupiter?
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
Dead white guys are out
July 27, 2009 - 12:18 ET by Paul Atreidesany statues replaced will be replaced by statues of DaWun and his toned-arm missus.
Well, this article about
July 27, 2009 - 13:13 ET by HelenSWell, this article about the continued drivle from WaPo is just proof that they are twits.
I live in Fairfax, VA (which is painfully close to DC and the beltway), and yesterday my husband and I spent three or four hours blissfully roaming the displays at the Gun Show in the Dulles Expo Center.
Too much fun and WAY more interesting than a bunch of buxom ...um (certain language is not allowed, right...?) ...women flailing about.
Also, there was quite a collection of NObama bumper stickers with all kinds of wisdom and opinion. Loved them all!
I guess the point being: The DC/metro area occasionally does offer fun and interesting times but the WaPo just can't seem to bring itself to talk about them.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Next it'll be
July 27, 2009 - 19:30 ET by American.Patriotpuniny piercing on the plaza