Yay Room 11!

Yay CH!

I for one, am very excited about the idea of sitting outside in my neighborhood hanging out with my neighbors eating home made pastries and drinking wine.

(I support the wine bar even though I don’t drin)

Don’t forget, though, that what happened to Adams Morgan is that bars opened that were never patronized by the community but by “tourists” who supported their existence. I used to spend summer vacation in this super quaint Maine fishing village and when I wanted to go back to it I was shocked to see that the docks were replaced with vacation condo sales and the houses weren’t $12,000 (yes, twelve thousand) like they were in the 1970s, these condos were $800k. $800k in an area of complete poverty? Yes, so the best property went to the tourists and the poor locals lost control of their town.

Look at the development of Las Vegas and imagine yourself as a silver miner who lived on a shack over a silver mine your whole life- suddenly the new rules said you had to keep your mules penned in.

What he talks about can happen and is a real economic effect. People do want to keep an area as they like it. The scum of the earth will want to keep Columbia Heights scum-ridden, scummy, filthy and a haven for junkies. Nice people will want to make it nice. This is a battle between nice people and scum. There really is a quantifiable better way and anything that reduces street rapes is better than something that encourages street rapes. Mull that one over.

DCDirewolf is ignoring the true cost of women being forced to move out of their neighborhood due to violence that is allowed to foster when communities do not work with the police.

real life troll, i met him once at a Columbia Heights ANC meeting.

But DCDirewolf! how is that a bad thing? our way really IS the better way. Really! One of my friends in the neighborhood went to college and became a doctor, saving Children’s lives at Children’s Hospital and living in Mt Pleasant. It’s a GOOD THING to bring in the educated because then kids aren’t dying.

(1) He KNOWS that we all know, and have heard his side of the story. Anybody in Ward 1 with any sort of internet access knows DCDireWolf, knows his one-note tune all too well.

(2) He also knows that whenever he chimes in with his holier-than-thou condemnatinon of everyone else on every message board or blog, he starts up a comment war, or changes the subject, or both, wastring huge amounts of time, and going over the same ground endlessly.

Most damning (3) he surely must know that his repeated ad nauseum arguments and thread hijackings serve to not convince others he is right, but they convince others he is even more wrong. In other words, he is driving away any possible allies he could have with the stridency and repetitive nature of his commentary.

(4) There are inconsistencies in his backstory. In one post, a long time ago, he said he has lived in Adams-Morgan for 17 years. In another long-ago thread he said he lived in Richmond until moving here. He has made statements that wouldn’t make sense to anyone who has lived here for years and should know the history and culture of the place by now.

So, I submit that DCDireWolf is primarly an internet troll, and may or may not even live in the area. For all we know, and based on his frequent plugging of his friend/associate’s chocolatier business, he’s really a developer or upscale gentrifier-type just out for some “fun” and to raise hell on all of our local websites. Maybe he’s 12, i dunno. I’m picturing a Borf-like affluent suburbanite here, just messing with everyone with a little message board grafitti.

I applaud DCDW for his posting and responding in what I read as a calm and measured manner (whether you agree with him or not). In contrast, some of these comments are getting a bit personal and rather 3d-grader-ish name-calling.