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Famous Friday [Round Up]
NPR gave Juan Williams the power to make it rain, the first rule of Fight Club: don’t prank Mike Allen, Shane Harris can’t quit cybersecurity, BREAKING NEWS, blogging observations, Harry Reid doesn’t look intimidated, Mike Allen & friends raised funds for the Cornerstone School, the paranoid self-loathing GOP lobbyist is …
President Obama: “Dream Big” (and hire a spell checker)
President Barack Obama penned a letter for the DCCC titled “Final Countdown.” According to the first sentence, it seems President Obama is now attempting to weigh in on the County Board elections …
Famous 5: The Snuggie Sutra
We all know and love the Snuggie. The commercials are hysterical and the Snuggies themselves are, well, snuggie-rific. And we’re sure that we’re not the only ones who have thought about magical Snuggie Sex (think about the weirdos reading FamousDC after googling Snuggie Sex!). Luckily for all of us, a …
FamousDC Carl Forti
POLITICO: Karl Rove’s Karl Rove Forti, who last year told National Journal “I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight,” declined to comment for this story. And, unlike many political figures who turn down interviews, he also largely resisted the temptation to try to shape reporters’ narrative behind …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Elizabeth Brotherton is following FamousDC on Twitter and crushing on George Clooney, Iris Garcia Grim joined our world, Shia loves pouring coffee on people and running away, Jay-Z wants you to vote, Tweeting on shrooms is the new Facebook status update, Wonderbox, fly like a G6, vote for Whitey, POLITICO’s …
Congressional Blackberry Wars
BlackBerrys have become the face of the dozens of innocent victims, as this humiliating photo demonstrates.
Obama Blames POLITICO for Upcoming Midterm Elections
USA Today: Obama: 24/7 media makes it hard to focus ‘on the long term’ “I’ve been surprised by how the news cycle here in Washington is focused on what happens this minute, as opposed to what needs to happen over the course of months, years,” Obama told the crowd at …
Autobot Romance
Craigslist love knows no boundaries. Autobot Romance – m4w (Downtown (11th & H)) You: About 7 feet tall, shiny aluminum with a waffle pattern. Being pulled around by some chump of a yellow van. I think it had a tattoo that said “District Taco”. Me: About 13 foot 6 (32 …
FamousDC Birthday Wishes
This week FamousDC super fan Jeffrey Ostermayer turned the dirty thirty. Come join him at the Top of the Hill this Saturday to help in celebrating his ability to now tee off from the white tees with a little less embarrassment. Please also be nice to him as his Tigers …
Obama Holds MTV Rally for Pretty People
POLTIICO’s Ben Smith: MTV screening Obama’s audience for views, looks “We’re just trying to get the broadest, most diverse audience possible,” she said, denying that either Republicans or ugly people would be screened out. “We want to have divergent points of view – we’re not looking for a single-view audience.
Photographic Birthdays
Remember to tell CQ-Roll Call’s Tom Williams happy birthday today.
Tweets Over Time
Milestones: Tom Brady gets his 100th win and a day later @notnotgindy Tweets his 1,000th Tweet. These are special times we’re all living in. To mark this historic milestone @notnotgindy created a graphic of his Tweets over time:
NOW at Night [Pictures]
NOW at Night is the Corcoran’s new annual fall event, planned by the Corcoran Contemporaries to support and celebrate NOW at the Corcoran, the museum’s new contemporary art program. On view now is work by Spencer Finch, whose incredible blue cloud installation glowed on Friday night from Corcoran’s central Rotunda …
Eliot Spitzer Found New Job in Yellow Pages
Didn’t Mr. Spitzer get in a little trouble last time he started calling random 800 numbers? The Hill’s Kris Kitto: 20 Questions with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker So how did this duo come about? Spitzer: The Yellow Pages. TV hosts have an 800 number you can call.