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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 …

Shia LaBeouf is allowed to throw coffee on anyone he wants because he’s a big-time Hollywood actor. h/t Gavin Reaction from the Twitterverse: @BBWags: @FamousDC some days you can’t help but spill coffee on yourself; on the less clumsy days, Shia fills the void. @jordanndavis He’s running from the decepticons …

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 …

Whoever sent Sarah Palin to the John Kerry School of Campaigning should be commended. Bob Lowry: Sarah Palin strays from politics in $1 million fundraising speech for Montgomery school The former Alaska governor tried a takeoff on the importance of college football in Alabama, but it backfired on her, likely …

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 …

BlainR Enjoy it while it lasts … RT @marcadelman: Photo from the best view in Washington. Speaker Pelosi’s balcony! http://yfrog.com/jwxntfj

And a stabbing at Foggy Bottom Metro gives D.C. the trifecta: bank robbery, drive-by, & stabbing. Stabbing outside Foggy Bottom Metro shuts down station A stabbing outside of the Foggy Bottom Metro station shortly before 11 a.m. shut down all three escalators into the station, a Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman …

How many folks will link to this CNN story on Facebook today? [take a look at me now] CNN: America’s brainiest places to live Ever wonder what happened to your high school valedictorian? He or she might just have wound up in Washington, D.C. That metro area has the nation’s …

37% Say Marketers Play Role In Childhood Obesity Ongoing, in-depth attitudinal surveys conducted by Resonate Networks, Inc. confirm not only that such issues are on the minds of significant percentages of U.S. adults, but that many believe that companies and government are key in addressing them.

First we have a drive-by shooting during a teen’s funeral and now we’ve got mid-day bank robberies in Georgetown? TBD: 4 armed, masked men rob armored car in Georgetown Four armed, masked men robbed an armored car across the street from the Georgetown branch of BB&T bank at approximately 2:20 …

Still. No. Hoverboards. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson:  High-Speed Rail By 2040 Amtrak presented its 30-year plan for high-speed rail in the northeast corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston. The plan will cost $120 billion. It will take 30 years to complete. It would shrink the travel time between D.C. and …

Fortune is out with their annual list of the Most Powerful Women in Business. Washington’s Power Players: #1 – Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State; #2 – Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House; #3 – Mary Schapiro, Chair of the SEC; #4 – Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services; …

Mashable’s Geoff Livingston: Social Media: The New Battleground for Politics Control of the House of Representatives hangs in the balance of the 2010 Congressional election. A recent forecast published on The New York Times website anticipates a two-out-of-three chance for a change in power. The election has become a war, …

WTOP: Rains today bring 1 to 3 inches WASHINGTON — The heavy rains and chance of storms in the next two days are a welcome relief from the recent summer drought for farmers and gardeners, but the area will remain far short of the average rainfall for this time of …

Are you ready for some football?! …this chick is and although the football season is well underway, I love picking out my favorite spots to watch the games! Couch surfing is fun but nothing beats cheering on your beloved NFL and college teams over beer and wings. So where to …