Double Rainbow Guy Goes Corporate

What Does This Mean?

So who is the last person in the world you would expect to work for an “evil” corporation like Microsoft?

Yep, of course, it’s the “Double Rainbow Guy” (aka Paul “Bear” Vasquez). He has apparently turned corporate. [So Intense]

Today is 9.02.10

Mary Katharine Ham

Today is 9.02.10. We should celebrate by all wearing the same dress & glaring at each other. Happy 90210 Day! 

Famously Tweeted: Diva Treatment

Safe to say she’s not talking about Rep Patrick McHenry.

@karenhanretty I knew a politician who insisted his staff visit hotels in advance to determine the height of the showerhead. Politicians are divas. Period.

We do the Twitter.  Check us out.

Hostage Situation at Discovery Communications Building

Welcome to the wired world: Hostage Taking 2.0

Here’s a link to the gunman’s manifesto. That link is farked, try this one.

Live streaming [Fox 5 News]

And here’s a picture snapped by an employee:

UPDATE: The photo is a picture of a plainclothes officer – not the gunman.

UPDATE: Follow the Washingtonian’s Twitter feed for breaking news on this.

FamousDC Jim Billimoria

Roll Call’s photographer superstar Tom Williams snapped Jim Billimoria at the top of the Rotunda.

Famously Tweeted: Extreme House Makeover

Straight out of the Ramn Emanuel playbook:

It takes a great man to build a barn. Any jackass can kick it down. Campaign ‘10: You with the builders or the asses?

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) uses Twitter Monday to describe the November midterms.

h/t TwitterRoom

Bipartisan Fish Story

Reeled in from Mike Allen’s Playbook:

THE BIPARTISAN ADVENTURES of the DNC communications director and Boehner’s new-media director — @woodhouseb: “With @nickschaper. Were fishing the mouth of the Chester tearing them up. Headed home and ran out of gas. Waiting now for tow boat us. … @nickschaper and I got back across the bay at around 10:30. Never like to be stranded on the water – but this wasn’t a bad night for it.”

Meg Whitman Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Meg Whitman expands the Republican celebrity base beyond the typical Stephen Baldwin, Brooks and Dunne, and Ben Stein by hanging out with Bruce and Kris Jenner…better known as the heads of E!’s “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” household.

No word if Bruce’s son, Brody, or Kris’ daughter, Kim, made an appearance.

Famously Tweeted: We Love You Too, Jake Tapper

Who’s not guilty of this?

@jaketapper raise your hand if while getting off the phone youve ever accidentally said “love you, bye” to someone you didnt mean to

Classic response:

@jimgeraghty @jaketapper That’s okay, after you hung up, I said, “I love you, too.”

h/t Liz Mair

New Media Strategies Welcomes Governor Bob McDonnell

Yesterday, New Media Strategies welcomed Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to the Grand Opening of their newly expanded headquarters. In 2010, NMS created over 40 new communications and technology jobs in Virginia.

We’re told there were champagne glasses everywhere, to which McDonnell said “by the way I hope you’re drinking Virginia champagne.”

According to a few in attendance, the Governor then asked NMS CEO Pete Snyder to take the pledge to only drink Virginia wine, to which Pete said “Before 11 a.m. or after?”

McDonnell went on to tout the success of NMS and said “At least I know the secret. You’re drinking at 1:30p.m.!”

Congrats to NMS.  Now where is our name placard?

TMI Tweeting

There’s using Twitter to tell us what you ate for breakfast and then there’s this:

Jason Chaffetz: Clean bill of health. Prep for Colonoscopy is no fun, but the procedure is worthwhile. 5 yrs and do it again

At least he used an emoticon.

h/t Elise

Things Escalated Quickly

GOP New Media Experts Just Peed Their Pants, Again

According to the latest social media study, [#23,432] it seems that Republicans are more Twitter “genius” than Democrats.

…the study found Republicans have “struck back,” with GOP senators averaging more than 5.5 IQ points higher than their Democratic counterparts. [holy crap]

The top genius? @SenJohnMcCain

John McCain may be in the political battle of his life to save his Senate seat in Arizona — but he’s a Twitter genius, according to a new report released Thursday.

Do Republicans just have more spare time or better new media experts?

Famously Quoteworthy: Question of the Day

Smart questions deserve front page real estate:

Jason Cabel Roe: If Roger Clemens can get indicted for misleading congress, why can’t congress be indicted for misleading everyone?

h/t Swank

The Geosocial Universe @JESS3

The fine folks at JESS3 have been working to accurately depict the size of the key players in the geo / social space.

They released this earlier today:

Taiwanese News Animation 2010 Edition

Jerry Brown laser eyes, Aqua Buddha, and The Dirty!

Politico Gods Shine Favor on Meredith Shiner

Meredith Shiner:

Today is the day the @politico gods are coming down and granting me a new BlackBerry. I have been waiting for this day forever.

Andrew Sullivan’s Great Poll Adventure

We report. You decide.

We thought about not posting this awful graph, but then figured it would make good afternoon conversation

Andrew Sullivan: Support For Marriage Equality Accelerating?

The New Gmail. Awkward

It feels awkward … buttons are in different places.

Are my Contacts my Inbox now?

Why must everything always change?

We would compare the new Gmail to:

Driving a stick shift for the first time

Hooking up with your special friend sober … after your last five hook-ups have been booze baths

Seeing your boss in jorts at the office BBQ

Transitioning from belt to suspenders.

Making out with a third cousin, and then learning she’s actually a first.

Walking into TCBY. Alone.

Counting the pictures in your sophomore-year annual that show you sporting the classic “West Side” three-finger overlap.

Toilet overflow in the Speaker’s office

Calling your mother-in-law the wrong name

Adapting to new “ethics” rules.

Dry Erase Board Girl is a #FAKE

We should have known better than to believe everything on the interwebs.

Yes, it turns out that Dry Erase Board Girl is a big ole fake.

Unlike hover boards, dry erase boards are real.

But dry erase board girl is not.

Deadspin’s David Matthews: Hot Piece Of Ass Who Quit Job Was Probably A Stunt

So, it’s probably all a big publicity stunt for some product or TV show that know one will remember a year from now. In an unrelated note, my stock in Amalgamated Dry Erase And Associated Permanent Marker is doing really well today.

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How Nancy Pelosi’s Tweet Ruined August Vacation By: @FamousDC and @JESS3

Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will reconvene because of one single tweet.

This 140 character message, not only ruined thousands of August vacations, but will cost staffers and members thousands of dollars when it’s all said and done.

With the help from FamousDC, the fine folks at JESS3 illustrated how this Tweet rocketed around the Interwebs.

Download the high resolution version.

Stopping to Rest is for Cowards @RealOregonTrail

Thank God for the Interwebs: The Oregon Trail is on Twitter.

If one more person gets cholera, I am turning this wagon around.

I don’t have time to caulk my wagon and float it across #OxenCanTotallyHoldTheirBreathForFiveMinutes

If dysentery was currency, my wagon would be a gold mine.

I don’t need help finding food from indians when the prairie is basically a refrigerator full of buffalo meat.

Stopping to rest is for cowards.

Monica Hesse Deserves Pulitzer

Monica took what might have been a pretty ridiculous assignment and turned it into something wonderful.

She transformed a fringe Republican Gubernatorial candidacy into a 962-word think-piece on the intersection of politics, the Internet and Napoleon Dynamite.

WaPo: Basil Marceaux lost his race, but on Web he won place in public imagination

Bill Haslam, the current mayor of Knoxville, won Thursday’s Republican nomination for Tennessee governor. Marceaux will fade into the annals of Internet memes, leaving everyone to speculate just what he had against gold fringe. And to eagerly await the next vessel into which we may pour our collective ironic support.

Vote for Pedro? Nay, Vote for Basil.

FamousDC salutes Monica Hesse and can’t wait for your next piece.

Her Arnold Schwarzenegger kicker:

He’ll be back, or someone like him — perhaps someone who has been groomed and stage-managed to precisely this level of outlandishness. The Web will be waiting with open arms.

Basil Marceaux will be back.

Famously Facebooked: Night Owl

Facebook Status Abuse:

Chris: Just pulled another all-nighter. It’s what you do when you’re making things happen.

Dear Captain Red Bull,

We’re not impressed.

We weren’t impressed the first seven times you did it and we won’t be impressed next week when you post the same thing and again make some sort of ridiculous comment about “stores not being open to sell you coffee.”

Sleep tight.

Cheers,
the editors

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Congressional Staff Making It Rain in the Blogosphere

POLITICO’s Gloria Park: Next D.C. Career: Blogger Relations

Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and author, credited staff at The Heritage Foundation, minority staff at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and House Homeland Security Committee and staff in the offices of Rep. John Boehner and Sen. Tom Coburn with excellent blogger management.

“There are some staffers who make the mistake of spamming bloggers with press releases that are not blogworthy,” said Malkin. “What distinguishes the good outreach is having information that hasn’t already gone out to POLITICO, the wires and everybody else. They understand the power of the collective conservative blogosphere and target not just the highest-traffic bloggers but also the second- and third-tier bloggers.”

Famous Birthday Wishes #GetYourPopcorn

Tell Pete Snyder happy birthday.

Also be sure to tell him you’re sorry in advance for the Eagles upcoming season.

And despite what some people think — we don’t work for Mr. Snyder.

Speaker of the House 2.0 @SpeakerPelosi

Just as the Founding Fathers imagined …

Speaker Pelosi just reconvened the U.S. House of Representatives via a Tweet.

Speaker Pelosi:

I will be calling the House back into session early next week to save teachers’ jobs and help seniors & children

Blackberry updates are ruining August vacations at beaches across the country.

And Biz Stone’s head is likely exploding.

UPDATE: Congressional Twitter Wars: Pelosi vs. Boehner

House Republican Leader Boehner Tweeted out his own version of the House’s Summer School Session.

GOP Leader:

It’s official: Dems to call House back on Tuesday to pass more “stimulus” spending, “paid for” with new job-killing tax on U.S. job creators

@JESS3 Takes Their Coffee Famous

C-SPAN, Page Six and now JESS3.

Leslie Bradshaw:

Talking big things with THE @FamousDC. Look for @JESS3 partnership awesomeness soon. #fdc http://twitpic.com/2begp9

Where will the next FamousDC mug show up?

PREVIOUS: Extreme Famous Morning Coffee

PREVIOUS: Page Six Famous Morning Coffee

Birthday Reminder: Barack’s Telepromter

Be sure to wish Barack’s Telepromter a Happy Birthday tomorrow.

According to one tipster’s FB feed, BT turns 49 on Wednesday.

Famously Tweeted: Cranberry Juice Needed

Tweet of the Day:

@pourmecoffee Burning sensation when I WikiLeak. Worried.

Priceless.

Thank You Baby Jebus for the Internets #Remix

Antoine Dodson is back again!

Antoine just dropped the remix on errbody.

He’s climbing in your windows. He’s snatching your people up.

They’re raping everybody out here.

We think it is only a matter of time before Antoine Dodson is on Kanye West’s label.

Famously Tweeted: Multitasking

This is how you make the pages of Mike Allen’s Playbook:

@CADelargy (CBS News’ Christine Delargy): “Have finally mastered art of blow drying hair w one hand and reading @mikeallen’s playbook w the other.”

Nicely played.

Rick Astley Makes Campaign Commercial

And we still don’t have hoverboards

So Ambitious: Meet JESS3

Are we still on for coffee Mr. Thomas?

Mashable: Inside the Mind of One of the Web’s Hottest Designers [INTERVIEW]

So ambitious …

Dan Gainor vs. Alan Grayson #TwitterViolence

Did a staff member of the Media Research Center offer $100 for someone to punch Congressman Alan Grayson?

Did the Congressman Tweet that he would “punch back?”

Did the Congressman then take to his Diary on Daily Kos to explain his threat?

Yes, all of the above are true.

No, you are not on the playground in 7th grade.

You are in Washington, D.C.

Wale, Bob Schieffer & FamousDC

Wale:

Dmv quaken…but never shaken

Famously Tweeted: Shakespeare Would Not Be Impressed

Reminder: This is someone who is interested in running for the President of the United States, not President of the PTA.

h/t Smart

Famously Four-Squared

From MattDeLuca’s Twitter Feed:

Taking over @famousdc ’s world HQ as Foursquare mayor ranks as one of my greatest accomplishments. No. I’m not @famousdc

FamousDC on FourSquare

Mad Men the Lobbying Firm

Mad Men (yes, the TV show on AMC) has taken to Facebook to lobby against AT&T.

Let’s review: a TV show is lobbying on a social network to keep a television channel on AT&T.

And we still don’t have hoverboards.

Mad Men AT&T customers: AT&T is threatening to drop AMC, meaning you won’t see season 4 of Mad Men. Tell AT&T how mad you’ll be: http://ow.ly/29rGj

I Want My TV Channels

We can’t wait to read Mr. Draper’s FEC lobbying report.

And the Academy Award for Headline Pun Usage Goes to …

Eliza Krigman

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Can we use a Tech Daily Dose headline to pivot to a Big Pun video?

Yes We Can!

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