Clearly, if this place blows, I'll look like an ass. But I got a feeling.

I'll write, but with caution: Irish bars in DC attract collar-popping assholes like carrion attracts flies.

On second thought, the specific reference to the coming condos on Duffy's page has kind of creeped me out. What are the odds that Duffy's doesn't end up some godawful McFadden's-esque hellhole? Looking around the DC Irish pubs I can think of, not very good. On the other hand, I hate to see ANCs shut down any business that wants to serve beer... Decisions, decisions....

I think Duffy recognizes that he's on the gentrifying side of the equation—that's all. It's probably his business pitch speaking through: "There's a neighborhood without an Irish pub, but lots of pubgoing drinkers moving in." Maybe he's capitalizing on those gentrifiers, but doesn't that describe us, too? And given the scale of the condos coming up all around 930, if it's not Duffy's, it will be Fado. (Cf. the Ellington Alero, tanning salon)

Judging from the Duffy's storefront, I don't think it's quite large enough to become the next 4 Ps, but I know what you're getting at. But even if goes south, we'll have had our 2–3 weeks of fish n' chips before the Orange and Blue Line crowd sniffed it out, no?

Holy shit...U Street is going to have an Irish Pub!? For a Guinness lover like myself, that's the best news I've heard in..well...ever.

Now, if only I had an address to send e-mails from...

You're right. It's silly for me to pretend there isn't gentrification blood on my own hands. Plus, regardless of who shows up on friday night, having a place to grab a pint on a weeknight would be nice.

I thought the Duff line would grab you for sure.

Ezra: When're you moving over? We can help you find a spot. There's always someone moving out of my friend Sommer's place. . . .

Collar-popping assholes are people too!

The Irish are dirty and low, but I heartily support the rehabilitation of the image of the Irish through opening more Irish-themed bars.

For no reason at all, I present to you one of my favorite passages from Darwin's Descent of Man:

. . .the reckless, degraded, and often vicious members of society, tend to increase at a quicker rate than the provident and generally virtuous members. Or as Mr. Greg puts the case: "The careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman multiplies like rabbits: the frugal, foreseeing, self-respecting, ambitious Scot, stern in his morality, spiritual in his faith, sagacious and disciplined in his intelligence, passes his best years in struggle and in celibacy, marries late, and leaves few behind him. Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts--and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five- sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained. In the eternal 'struggle for existence,' it would be the inferior and LESS favoured race that had prevailed--and prevailed by virtue not of its good qualities but of its faults."

If it was a Scottish Pub, I'm sure there would be no problem.

On an Irish Pub down the street: Awesome.

On drinking Guinness during the day: Awesomer.

On people always moving out of my house: Awesomist. But only because we have now raised the stakes of moving-out parties to include bag pipes. Which are Scottish and therefore don't exactly fit into this whole Irish-pub themed post. But yet, it's all still Awesome.

On letter-writing campaigns: DCist has been talking about doing a little something about how much ANC boards suck and are ruining everyone's good time (Mt. Pleasant apparently has it even worse than us.) I see a tie-in.

On an Irish Pub down the street: Awesome.

On drinking Guinness during the day: Awesomer.

On people always moving out of my house: Awesomist. But only because we have now raised the stakes of moving-out parties to include bag pipes. Which are Scottish and therefore don't exactly fit into this whole Irish-pub themed post. But yet, it's all still Awesome.

On letter-writing campaigns: DCist has been talking about doing a little something about how much ANC boards suck and are ruining everyone's good time (Mt. Pleasant apparently has it even worse than us.) I see a tie-in.

It's a nice quote, Will, but when I visited Edinburgh it struck me, out of all the places I'd been (with electricity) as the one teetering closest to the brink of civilization. Which, I have to admit, made it a lot of fun.

Now that I'm in the neighborhood I'd love a decent Irish watering hole . . . but only if it serves Smithwicks - possibly the best beer ever made.

the Top 5 Reasons To Support an Irish Pub in Kriston's Our Neighborhood:

1. Beer at Duffy's can reasonably be referred to as Duff Beer.

Whoa! See, that reason's so good, I don't even want to show you the other five.

Four, yes, fixed.

I haven't been up to anything today. I've more or less been doing nothing to speak of. More or less not much notable going on today. That's how it is.,