Famous Friday Round Up
#WEEKEND
Saturday 86 °F with a chance of thunderstorms, Sunday 87 °F and rain;
#NATIONAL
Our hearts go out to the Amtrak riders in the crash this week; You’ve Got Mail … from Verizon…; RIP B.B. King; This week Rick Santorum emailed his supporters, with subject line, “Should I run for president?” The response was just what you would imagine it would be; Find out what your name would be if you were born in a different decade; artisan Target; the NSA is totally cool with Notorious B.I.G; Australia will kill Johnny Depp’s dogs if they have to; This is Obama just crushing it when it comes to mothers; Did you bike to work today?; What if you could just quit your job and be a DJ?; this picture though;
#DISTRICT
A PSA reminder for legislators caught doing dumb sh*t – sadly, this is still relevant; We now have a prescription to POLITICO Prescription Plus; What’s it like to be a woman on Capitol Hill?; NIGHT MARKET; these are the cutest anti-geese devices the National Park Service could have implemented; 50 people got into a fight in a Fairfax parking lot this morning; sleeping in public in Georgetown; best old person bars in DC; District in lego format; tech in Farragut on Fridays;
#FAMOUSFORDC
Michael Steel is taking his talents to South Beach. Damn it PR Newswire you out Tweeted us; Kenny Day knows what’s up in the campaign ad space; Raney Aronson named Frontline Executive Producer; We learned from the KGB File that Jack Abramoff is selling himself again; Ladies and Gentlemen, Doug Heye singing to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Walsh; Pic of the week; John Goodwin agreed wholeheartedly with Donald Trump this week re; Tom Brady’s balls; Rob Saliterman, Google’s political ad guy is headed to SnapChat to be their ad guy — to which his family responded, what is SnapChat?; Bob Honold is the man; Tell Kaleb Froehlich USC football is going to be bad again this season. Give him a hug if you see him; Phillip Stutts is doing BIG THINGS and having a birthday this weekend;
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
Tweets we liked you can RT, @mention, or just enjoy: leighmunsil; StevenEJohnston; jaconi; jdelreal; LeoShane;
#HAPPY
We hope you bought the amazing Louisa Imperiale a really good gift because you are late to wish her a happy birthday; Happy birthday to Anne Marie Malecha, Elizabeth Dillon, Lilia Bruni, Linda Shultz, and Raleigh Bailes; Give Marty McGuinness a high-five this weekend for his birthday;
#MEDIAMOVES by Bryant Row
Ariel Kaminer headed to BuzzFeed News as senior investigations editor (h/t Mark Schoofs); Bloomberg’s Margaret Talev named president of the Washington Press Club Foundation; Tom LoBianco and Eugene Scott headed to CNN Politics (h/t Rachel Smolkin); Aaron Weiner is moving to Mother Jones from Washington City Paper (h/t Jessica Sidman); Cheers for John Helton who is headed to Roll Call Politics as editor;
#BYE
Your weekend begins now.