| About the page | |
We live in the suburbs of Washington, DC, one of the nation's
cities, so naturally, every time we're looking for some entertainment, we go towards the city limits,
right? Wrong! We respectfully disagree with this, the pervasive viewpoint among our fellow citizens
of Fairfax County, Virginia. Every time we drive around we see some new joint that we haven't been to,
some haunt we haven't haunted. On the other hand, your Adams Morgans and your DuPont Circles get more
and more crowded. But every magazine, newspaper, and online guide around has a fisheye lens centered
on the District. So if the bar scene in Northern Virginia isn't dead, then who's going to map it out?
Consider us the Cartographers of Cocktails, the Explorers of Ethanol. This page is an attempt to dissect Fairfax County and surrounding parts, to not only review but bring to light just what's living in this sprawl. We're a region of transients, a county without much of an indigenous population; you can see it in our ways, that curt sense of temporality we tend to give our relationships. But as amorphous as our "neighborhoods" are, there still exists the "neighborhood bar". After all, everyone save the occasional church diocese needs a bar within a safe distance; one can argue that any space without a bar is a market waiting to be filled. We'll be acting as a means of dissimilation for all these semi-obscured enclaves of sud-slingery. Reviews will be done in a horribly biased, narrative drawl; basically the only style we're capable of. We welcome, or rather actively recruit, guest reviewers; don't you want to waste your life away with us? This is the D.C. suburbs through the alcoholic filter. We'll go as long as our livers hold out... and we've got a lot of good donors lined up just in case. |