Happy birthday to FamousDC’s favorite photographer, Tom Williams. He’ll ride his bike to your party, talk about Penn State football, eat some cat food and then send you an awesome picture 5-7 days later. Enjoy the day, Tom.

Is this a first of its kind? RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer gets his iPad signed By Mike Allen. [video]

Keach Hagey: POLITICO, Random House to Publish Digital Campaign Random House and POLITICO will team up to produce a series of instant digital books that will tell the story of the 2012 presidential election in real time, with the kind of detail and color normally reserved for traditional post-election tell-all …

He’s back [Olbermann] Ed Henry says goodbye to CNN [hello FoxNews] Chicago has a hipster alderman [Moreno] U St. getting revamped [pedestrian friendly] Ted’s Bulletin serving spam [hell yes]

We uncovered DC’s most influential tweeters a couple years ago, but it’s time to freshen up the list. From Mike’s Playbook: Who are the most influential tweeters in D.C.? Who would be your desert-island feeds, if you could only have a couple to keep you in touch with what was …

…and then used this to record the conversation. Spotted on Eric Cantor’s blog.

Politico’s Mike Allen was spotted with C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman — and Mike didn’t have his trusty blackberry in hand. FamousDC was able to secure the only known photograph of The Playbook sans blackberry taken since January 23, 2007. When asked about the beltway brain trust meeting, both parties provided the …

It looks like Mike Allen is taking advice from The Godfather . Responding to criticism from Obama-supporters (Andrew Sullivan) of his exclusive article outlining POTUS’ decision to release top secret CIA memos, Mike took the high road. He writes : "there’s a certain World Wrestling Entertainment element to these blog slams: It’s …

After writing the Playbook for 454 consecutive days, Mike Allen is taking a day off.  Cal Ripken would be proud. UPDATE: Jonathan Karl, ABC News senior national security correspondent, is today’s GUEST PLAYBOOKER:

JoMa filed this Drudge-tastic story and Mike Allen said it would be late night fodder. He was right. Playbook:  DAVID LETTERMAN, on J-Mart’s scoop about Senator McCain not working weekends: “Here’s what he likes to do on the weekends. He sits on the porch in front of the house, looking …

It appears that not only can lobbyists not get on the guest list at the White House anymore, but they are sweating through their pinstripe suits in preparation for the Congressional Hockey Challenge game – a game played between DC lobbyists and Congressional lawmakers and staff this Thursday at 5:45 …

NY Times Magazine:  Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To Political insiderdom — or the illusion thereof — has moved from Georgetown salons or cordoned-off security zones to a mass e-mail list administrated by a never-married 45-year-old grind known as Mikey. Congratulations to Mr. Allen and the …

Meet Mike Madden, Salon.com’s Washington correspondent. You may remember Mr. Madden from such events as: His overtime #FDC Twitter battle versus Patrick Ruffini … His firsthand coverage of Senator Dodd taking a room full of reporters hostage Luckily he’s decided to spend a few minutes answering five random questions from …

Let the games begin.  *Remember, the competition ends at 3pm. @almacy vs. @briandevine @humanfolly vs. @matthewgagnon @ontheredline vs. @lizglover @mikemadden vs. @patrickruffini @erickaandersen vs. @TheSleuth @robertjameson vs. @GStephanopoulos @jess3 vs. @leslieann44 @levydr vs. @pwgavin **Updated bracket here.

The final results are in for the Twitter Challenge NW quadrant.  Please send all hate mail to [email protected] @almacy vs. @acarvin WINNER: @almacy This battle never heated up like we had anticipated.  At the end,  Almacy had more of a presence and therefore walked away a round one winner. Here’s …