FamousDC Snowmageddon Photo Contest #snOMG
Well, it has been 48 hours … time for another blizzard in the beltway.
We are all going to be stuck inside for the rest of the week, so we might as well try to have a little fun.
Please send in your best snow photo and we’ll post them on FamousDC. We’ll set-up a contest for the top five and figure out some sort of prize for the champion – as decided by our readers.
Send in your snowmen, igloos or whatever snow design via Twitpics, jpgs or Facebook uploads.
Go on, send your snow pics our way. And stay cooler than a polar bear’s toenail.
Stay Calm [Snowmageddon] #snOMG
San Francisco Just Wants To Help
This was spotted on a sidewalk in San Francisco. Perhaps Liz Glover can help explain.
h/t NR
Rahm Emanuel Offers Up An “Even-Tempered Apology”
This is fantastic.
“You come after me on Facebook? What, are your fourteen? Here’s a status update: Grow the f–k up! Poke me again, and I will write s–t on your wall so obscene your computer will cry. Go back to the tundra, you f–king gimmick!”
h/t Lazy Hazy’s SIL via HP
#snOMG Photos Piling Up
Leave it to CSPAN’s Howard Mortman to capture a #snOMG picture that happens to have a CSPAN ad prominently featured.
Famously Quoteworthy: Matt Labash
When recently asked when he was going to write a “real book,” Matt Labash, one of DC’s funniest writers, had this to say:
What do you mean “real book”? This was nearly 15 years in the making. It has hardcovers, and pages, and even page numbers. I didn’t want to be a prima donna – but I insisted on page numbers, and by God, I got them.
His whole interview with Click seen here.
Alex Brandon’s Capitol Snowmageddon Photo Shoot
Spend a few minutes and check-out Alex’s work from in front of the Capitol Monday.
Snow piled in front of the Capitol
Front loader working in front of the Capitol
Snow Wars 2010: Dupont Circle [Snowmageddon]
Amazing video footage of the Dupont Circle Snow War: 2010.
Thoughts and Prayers [RIP Jack Murtha]
Our thoughts are and prayers are with Congressman Jack Murtha’s family and staff.
Rachel Slajda: Rep. John Murtha Dead At 77
#snOMG “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” [Beltway Blizzard]
CBS News/AP: Buried Mid-Atlantic Faces More Snow
10. More. Inches. Of. Snow
Issued by The National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington, MD
3:04 pm EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR… WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* PRECIPITATION TYPE… SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS… 10 TO 20 INCHES.
* TIMING… MID-AFTERNOON TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
* TEMPERATURES… TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING AT THE ONSET TUESDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
* WINDS… LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS TUESDAY BECOMING NORTHWESTERLY 15 TO 25 MPH WEDNESDAY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS.
Here’s the weather report in Barbados for the week
One Bad App
This is for the thousands of you bored DC residents waiting on the snow plow to show up.
The Al Gore Igloo
Some DC residents erected an igloo in honor of Al Gore, the Ice Prince.
DC Snowpocalypse
Stay warm friends.
Oh, and the Caps are on FIRE.
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures #snOMG
This is what happens when the power goes out during a snow storm. [h/t BS via Don Seymour]
DC Lottery Rocks [Georgetown]
One of our winners sent in this picture from the Georgetown vs. Villanova game today.
Thank you to our friends over at DC Lottery for the tickets. They have contests via Facebook and Twitter all the time, so join in on the fun.
Great #snOMG Photo
Waiting on the FamousDC snow photo…
courtesy of David Almacy
Why Does Brownie Hate New Orleans so Much?
Has he learned nothing? Seriously.
Former FEMA chief Michael Brown isn’t the most popular guy in New Orleans, and his Super Bowl pick won’t help: “I have to go with the Colts,” Brown told the POLITICO Podcast. “I just tend to follow them more and I’ve just never been a real Saints fan. It’s nothing more than that.” [nothing more than a terrible call]
And to make things worse, he said this:
The former Bush administration official admits he has his fair share of callers bashing him, saying that some “can’t get over the whole Katrina thing.”
Can’t get over it, huh?
Goodbye.
Famous Friday [Wrap Up]
Doug Heye got a Drudge bomb and a new gig, Jon Stewart is more powerful than most politicians, a demon sheep stole the news week, speaking of Newsweek, Jim Treacher was struck by a black SUV, NBC continues to leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, Ed Chen saved the day, Metro once again proved that they are slightly inept, Bill Burton makes a great bar-back, where art thou Nora, Virginia declared a state of emergency, John Feehery joined Twitter, Liz Glover is a yoga animal, Facebook got another facelift, Amanda Carpenter landed in the Senate, Patrick Gavin returned from his honeymoon, Michael Landrum don’t take no sh*t from nobody, and yes, for some reason, we’re still talking about a sex tape starring John Edwards.
Facebook is Making Joan Rivers Look Like an Amateur
*Yes, we originally misspelled amateur. That’s the way we roll.
Facebook gets another facelift: [just when we got used to the old version]
Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a new design to its more than 350 million users, with various tweaks to encourage people to use the popular social network in new ways.
Among the changes: “The company has moved the search box.”
Ground-breaking.
Famously Quoteworthy: Ray’s: The Steaks, The Catch, The Glass, The Game
Restaurateur Michael Landrum is cranking out more Ray’s and more great quotes:
“The truth is that rich people suck. Important people suck,” Landrum said. Not all of them, of course, but the “people who define themselves by whether they are wealthy or important. They are the worst to have to work for.”
Read the entire article here.
h/t Lazy Hazy.
What the Hell is Foursquare?
Besides being an enabler for pub crawls, Foursquare technology seems to serve little purpose.
If you’d like to make a case for the application, please email us at FamousDC@gmail.com and let us know why we shouldn’t poop on it.
