It’s a time-honored tradition that started at the Tune Inn twenty five years ago – now it hosts over 2000 drunk transplanted- Southerners looking for a good time. Back in 1983, well before Vineyard Vines, tickets to TOTS were $15. These days, in order to get a ticket, you’ve got …

Things Younger Than McCain [Shopping Cart] Enjoy the Weekend [bad decisions] Musicovery.com [life-changing] Nats Roundup [DCist]

Bet on black? [NYTimes] The sharp surge in black turnout that Senator Barack Obama has helped to generate in recent primaries and Congressional races could signal a threat this fall to the longtime Republican dominance of the South, according to politicians and voting experts. Some analysts suggest that North Carolina …

Here at FamousDC, we not only get tips, story ideas and other inappropriate electronic messages, but sometimes we’re sent very colorful emails from readers who simply want to rant about something that has them all fired up.  These rants are often times so inappropriately overboard – we wonder why we …

Funny headline of the day [tipster] We.Can.Ask [Obama] FDC book club [buy it]

According to our sources, Capitol Hill’s second favorite blog – will soon be making a comeback.  Apparently, the rumors that the contributors at “Stuff Hill People Like” were all caught, fired and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, are just not true.  Nor was there writer’s block or a writer’s strike. …

The 50 Most Influential US Political Pundits [Telegraph] Top 10 Controgaffes of the ’08 WH Race [the fix] Size Does Matter [on the ball]   When was Brad Pitt on Fox News? [Heye] McCain-Jindal 08? [Kristol]

One of Capitol Hill’s most popular websites has gone silent. If anybody knows what’s happened to one of our favorite blogs, email us at [email protected] -FDC

Superdelegate switcheroo at the Obama camp. McCain camp not movin’ on Clinton dubs herself Goldilocks.

In case you hadn’t heard, former SNL funny man Al Franken is running for the Senate. And while you might find his candidacy legitimate, the IRS begs to differ. And as only his Extremeness could point out, it’s “more like ironic foreshadowing.”

Barack Obama goes Blockbuster and starts selling DVDs [no late fee] “On Monday of this week — timed, purposely or coincidentally, within mere hours of Rev. Wright’s speech to the National Press Club — the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters in which they offered, in exchange for a …

As you read this post, hundreds of cameras are going off right now – each one attempting to capture that perfect (or not so perfect) moment. While Obama, Clinton and McCain crisscross the country, so do the cameras.  While they draw record crowds, hundreds of eager photographers chase them around, …

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