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Famous Friday Round Up

#WEEKEND

Weather: The heat wave continues with temps in the gorgeous upper 60’s today and Saturday. Sunday will drop to the low 50’s with morning showers. 

Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Ice skating at the National Gallery of Art; For the people that still listen to EDM; Eat your way through U street and Shaw with Carpe DC food tours; Go see stand up comedy at Wonderland Ballroom for FREE.

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Do you work on the Hill? Join the one and only Shaquille O’Neal on December 3 at Holiday on the Hill 2015! Shaq will unveil a new Responsibility.org and Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) law enforcement initiative to significantly increase the number of officers trained to detect drug impaired drivers.

#HolidayResponsibly

 #THANKSGIVING

If The Presidential Candidates Had Thanksgiving Dinner Together

If you think about it, the dissonant personalities of the 2016 Presidential candidates aren’t totally dissimilar from the vast array of characters within families that gather together for Thanksgiving dinner each year.

Imagine if all the politicos got together for their own turkey day feast…

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  • Hillary would finally wear something other than a pantsuit. Just kidding; no she wouldn’t. She would, however insist on carving the Turkey.
  • Donald would be the first to make someone cry. And then flirt with them.
  • Jeb would try really hard to make small talk not awkward.
  • Ben Carson would lead the blessing. Really. Slowly – followed by the traditional Thanksgiving tale – when European settlers arrived on the shores of North Carolina and were greeted by giant pyramids holding grains for the natives.
  • Bernie Sanders would show up with six other guests (hitchhikers) and a tofurkey, then ask for leftover gravy to power his biodiesel back to Vermont.
  • Chris Christie would see the tofurkey and become audibly pissed about it.

#NATIONAL

Black Friday brawls- right on cue; For the low price of just $16 a finger, you too can eat gold Kit Kats; The Rugrats would not be glamorous people grown up; Make British censors watch paint dry; Bobby Jindal: thaw it out; Facebook’s making digital angst during a break up just a little bit easier; Kill us; Google is solving crimes; Learn the secrets of Craigslist missed connections; Are you wearing a clip-in man bun with your family this weekend?; You’re welcome, 90’s kids; 3D printers scare the shit out of us; Gingerbread house game = strong; We challenge you not to like Joseph Gordon-Levitt after you watch this; Thanks to everyone who is keeping Thanksgiving alive, we applaud you; Life Alert meets Furby; Uncle Jesse was sentenced to probation. Childhood is officially over; Pardoning a turkey every year gets old, ok?; But, the President did make his girls crack up; Glitter beards signal the end of humanity; Mistakes on mistakes on mistakes; Churning goals; Kevin Pang shares lessons from 11 years at the Chicago Tribune; NPR = AARP; Thank you to those who make sports possible; Please don’t let complaining about Reese’s Christmas trees be a thing; Dukakis would very much like your turkey carcass.

#LOCAL

White House lawn = garbage dump; Shut down: this DC speakeasy was just too much like a speakeasy; Enough with the White House fence jumping already; Teenagers in Georgetown steal $13,000 in merchandise from Diesel; The NYT took a long, hard look at LivingSocial; Tom Sherwood, Kojo Nnamdi and Mary Cheh are all getting tattoos of the DC flag; Anarchy is dead: Capitol lawn gyrocopter guy pleads guilty; How one of the nation’s most promising basketball players became homeless; You officially have an excuse for not wanting to leave the house; Bryce Harper about to be pretty rich; Hope for better traffic on 95? We’ll believe it when we see it; If you hate snow don’t click this.

#ICYMI

#BIRTHDAY

Betina Inclan; Jacob Wood; Tim Cameron; David Almacy; Shawn Ryan; John Stone; Charlotte Savercool; Bridget Nutt; Colby Nelson; Joe Brady; Taylor Gilliam; Doug Murphy; Harrison Furman; Anna Kelleher; Rod Dean; Jake Townsend; Madison Dyer; Robyn Moss. 

#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK

ktumulty; erickmsanchez; ckmarie; tole_cover; ryanbeckwith; mgsiegler.

#FAMOUSFORDC

Congratulations to Grace and Jameson Ma on bringing a new little boy into the world; Happy anniversary week to Mark and Ivy Malone; Archie Smart no longer checks into the airport via FB and that makes us sad; One of these days Kathryn Lehman will make it to a NJI Media party; Chris Taylor hearts Rex Ryan; Tommy McFly still owes us an email; Our hearts go out to Stuart Roy and his family this week; Is Soren Dayton back in DC?; Feel better Peyton Nedd; Is the Dougan Thanksgiving in ATL going to get nuts?; Katie Miller is going to like this; Bryant Avondoglio needs to share some of his mom’s pumpkin bread pudding with us; Erin Veltman had a very special Thanksgiving; Emily Seidel knows how to cook the best flat turkey; David Schnittger fries turkeys in the front yard… Can we stop by for leftovers?; Charles Chamberlayne is staying warm in CA; Chris Taylor will make sure Pine Mountain, GA is well stocked with Boylan Tonic; Jimmy Walsh lived through Thanksgiving injuries; Steve Inskeep keeping it America classy for Thanksgiving; We want ham by MK Ham.

#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW

John Geddes is headed from Politico to Bloomberg where he will oversee the company’s political coverage; Eric Marrapodi is joining NBC Nightly News as senior producer in Washington, coming from CNN; Emily Goodin is leaving the Hill and heading to RealClearPolitics as managing editor of the D.C. bureau; Elisabeth Hasselbeck bids farewell to Fox & Friends; Brad Dayspring joins Politico as the first VP of Communications; Spotted on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures: Doug Heye.

#BYE

Enjoy the weekend. You can’t use tryptophan as an excuse on Monday.