D.C. had
Borf. Three years ago, we had "Stop Emo." Whether out of bitter frustration with a music scene that had long overflown the trough of
basement shows, or irritation with the skinny-pants-and-bangs-set that had
taken over Ellsworth Drive, some person or people decided to take their message to the streets. From
East Silver Spring to
Woodside to Kensington
(at Plyers Mill Road and Metropolitan Avenue, seen above), road signs now bore the Emo stamp, inside what I always assumed was a cheeseburger.
The "Stop Emo" signs were a nice counterpoint to the "
Stop Affluenza" signs in Bethesda. So if we could boil Bethesda down to "rich people," what did that make Silver Spring? Sad, but
kind of artsy, if only in a color-by-numbers sort of way. I like it.
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