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The Real Blog Is In The House

July 9, 2009 by Peter

hi everyone

I’ve been hired by a unique media partnership between two prestigious but widely divergent news organizations to do some in-depth investigative reporting about the Real World finally coming to my hometown of Washington DC. It looks like its going to be an entire website/social media e-semination launching in mid-September once they are fully out of town, but before that I’ll probably be appearing on FoxAndFriends, Rachel Maddow’s Boudoir and various other morning entertainment shows like the View and Meet the Press to discuss–not just to gossip about WHO is in the house, WHAT they are doing and HOW good do they look, BUT like, community reactions, especially in their new neighborhood:

What do the muscle queens think of them?
What do Ecuadorian deliverymen think of them?

Do the camera-men respect the privacy of passersby who might not want to get filmed because they work in sensitive areas like the intelligence community or gay pentagon employee?

Are they tipping their DJs/Barista correct?
Which GW students have they gotten HPV from?
Where are they getting their scrips?
You know, tom wolfe type shit.

DC is in a unique and critical world spotlight right now and it’s important that we communicate to the creatropesphere that we are not a prudish and over-critical tribe of frumpy nerds who would rather blog than do jelloshots like everyone thinks but that we’re really a fun collection of tuned-in early-adopters who are brimming with possibility and idealism and actually we LIKE trivia and adult foosball league and we’d totally be doing those things even if we were in healthy and unadulterous relationships rather than single drinking alone staring every night at the flickering squares of our receding youth.

MEANWHILE:
Through the vigorous journalistic process of crouching outside the RWH for 5 hours last night among the bottles and the discarded hair-weaves of hooker fights I was able to positively determine some characteristics of a few of the residents.

SPOILER ALERT PROBABLY>>>DONT READ IF EP1 IS ALWAYS YOUR FAVORITE  REVEAL>>>>>>KEEP IN MIND I HAVENT SEEN RW SINCE THAT JEWISH GUY SLAPPED THE GIRL WITH LUPUS OR W/E IN SEATTLE OK>>>>>
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SUBJECT A: Henceforth known as “Dawne Wanye,” Gay African-American. I haven’t exactly gotten a bead on his/her sex precisely but such matters are best left to Freepers and Fundies these days doncha think? In this era it is much more important to have a clear Genre than a gender. DW’s Genre is Situational Drama, specifically A Different World circa 1990. Somehow she appears to have a simultaneous Fro-hawk, Mini-dreads and a high-top gumby fade all at the same time (or he). Purple-on-Purple polka dots–it seems impossible but I swore I saw them on [his] body on an identical shirt/short combo to Corey Glover on Arsenio plus gold painted Cross Colour shoes. MTV is going to freak because people’ll finally have a reason to watch them in Hi-Def. Which actually would be another good code name for h/e/i/r/m dang I wish I’d thought of that at the beginning of this paragraph.

How s/he may upset DCites: Buzzing has already spread among the borg of ambiguous teenagers that accumulate in neon colonies around the Gallery Place metrostop that a new High Priest/ess of their hive mind may have arrived. The last thing that the stuffy uppercrust fashionites of Dupont Circle want is a bunch of gay people running around!

SUBJECT B: I saw this guy framed in the side window for a second, he was blond and tan and had some kind of balti haircut. Maybe you don’t know what the Balti is. Because you are a hopeless dorkballs, you probably call it something else. But that shaggy, like, Samberg thing is called the Balti, after Baltimore, because of the way HS kids don’t cut their hair during lacrosse season. I don’t think this kid was from Baltimore, I’m just saying his hair looked like that. Jesus Christ do we have to talk about this right now? I’m writing this article. Yeah, he was probably from the OC literally but that’s what his haircut SHOULD be called. That’s it; I’m calling him “the Balti” now, just to rub in it your fucking passive aggressive face. Great now you’re crying. Oh you’re going to go sleep with the Balti kid, sure that’s likely: he’s only like 20 years younger than you, MOM. Sorry, wait. Sorry. He looked like a bronze statue in that window is all–a photoshopped snap shot of all the beaches and firepits we never went to, all the kegstands we never did, like he emerged right out of the sun in a chariot with chrome wheels powered by chillax and Sublime bong rips. Yes. Goodnight to you too. Sorry. Lose weight. Nothing, I was just talking to myself.


How s/he may upset DCites: No, to the right, stand to the right. Argh don’t stop in the doorway there’s like 30 people behind you. OOF you just elbowed me in the solar plexus when I tried to sneak around your lollygagging stroll down the middle of the sidewalk and now I can’t erf breathe ghhhkkkkkk. Get the. -fuck- .out of the way surfer boy
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More updates once I take a shower and buy some stronger chloroform.

If you have any hot tips, camera phone snaps or visible scars please post them here or email me at:
ROPEDworldDC@gmail.com

or just come find me in the garbage cans across the street from 2000S or in disguise as a chinese waiter at ChiCha where two of the worst chicks will probably be seeking spiritual enlightenment from certain shaggy haired alt it-boys every week.

kim Says:

BRA. VO.

July 9, 2009 at 2:14 pm
eddie Says:

nice font consistency

July 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Michael Says:

Have you ever done anything actually worthwhile in your entire life?

July 9, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Svetlana Says:

this is all about DRA.MA

July 9, 2009 at 2:25 pm
John Foster Says:

I had been waiting for the right forum to present itself for the roped wars of the shitshow to migrate to the big stage. I would be lying if I said I can stand the wait until the next installment. (I also think the bitchslap in Seattle along with throwing the teddy bear in the Sound might be my all-time favorite Real World moment. Am I the only one that remembers when tat girl got a one week tryout as part of the HFS morning team?)

July 9, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Alan Says:

John,

Didn’t the teddy-in-the-Sound moment and Stephen’s slap of Irene happen within minutes of each other?

Also, this post needs fewer commas.

July 9, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Amanda Says:

am i the only one that hasn’t seen them yet? why do i want to see them? do you think they’ll finally figure out the escalators by the time they leave? how many gay dudes are there? are any of them straight without bi tendencies? are the girls prettier than me? or am i going to watch this to boost my ego because i’ll consider myself better looking than them? they’re just going to hang out in georgetown right? with all the other tourists? are the technically considered tourists? none of them are from the area, right? i hope not, that would ruin the show if they had an insider. where is their “job”? i call dibs on the straight/douchey/homophobe from texas.

(i’m going to pretend to not give a shit in public.)

July 9, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I Says:

OH GOD! I’m so glad that haircut has a name (or you gave it a name, whatevs)!! All of the frat boys at my college had that ridiculous hair.

July 9, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Sepie Says:

Long live the BALTI!

July 10, 2009 at 7:08 am
Rw Says:

I think your on to something here- stoopid journalism, I think folks like Perez Hilton have been covering this kind of shit from too high a perch. Just don’t kill/drug/maim anyone for a scoop, unless it’s a member of the real world because I would love to attend that candle light vigil.

July 10, 2009 at 9:36 am
Rw Says:

or You’re but, whatev. p.s. my coworker just saw two of the folks walking down the street at 8:45 am near the dupont metro q st ent one was wearing a I heart Dc shirt with a camera guy about 6 inches from her face keeping it real. that’s the last you’ll get from me.

July 10, 2009 at 9:40 am
ryan m. Says:

maybe balti should get some hair tips from the “alt it” boys at chi cha. they have SPECTACULAR hair.

July 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Bill Bartmann Says:

Excellent site, keep up the good work

September 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm