This line, which concludes an article announcing UD‘s own ‘thesda as “the next Aspen,” instantly made UD think of a couple of lines from Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
“The saved know each other by their neatness and reserve. He doesn’t have showy ways is how you know a saved person.”
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The Aspenization is happening
in South Bethesda; UD lives
in North Bethesda (the
Garrett Park part of North Bethesda),
which – given what it looks like when
you take a picture off of UD‘s
back deck on January 30, 2015 at 7:50
in the morning – isn’t very showy at all.
Looks downright rural.
January 30th, 2015 at 2:16PM
Mmmm. Possibly. But Bethesda is still suburbia– even downtown Bethesda is a relatively small urban island in a vast suburban ocean– and everything still shuts down around 9 pm. Also, having some really first-class restaurants would make the narrative more convincing.
January 30th, 2015 at 4:50PM
Let me comment only on the restaurant issue, not on its relationship to Bethesda more generally “becomes Aspen or else must” [just a Wallace Stevens joke]. D.C. has such exciting food these days from 14th street to the really high end and sometimes worth it. Rockville and Northern Virginia [without Waze I fear I’d fall off the edge of the earth in Va]: great Asian. Bethesda just has a few very good places. First among them for me Jaleo, unless one lets familiarity blunt the evidence of one’s senses. But what in Bethesda matches Rasika or Little Serow?