Briefcase full of cash! [protest] h/t Hungry Lobbyist Noooooo: K Street AMEX store [closed] Touring the Chesapeake with its [watermen] Your commute may or may not be hellish [truckers] Metro may raise fares next year [shocking] Cabbies still convinced resistance to modernization will help their [business] Photo by Kevin Wolf

We can’t talk for 21 hours – but we’ll try to take 21 shots this weekend Our party rocked; Click Clink; thank you to Microsoft, Resonate, The New Republic, Veronica, Marie, Stefanie, Kelly, Rebecca, Josh, Amos, Brian; We saw Lauren French, Ginger Gibson, Katie Harbath, Morgan Gress, Ashley Summers, Reid Wilson, …

Football week [one] Congrats, grad! [doggie in a cap + gown] Dog swim [public pools] Dennis Rodman = Kim Jong Un spokesperson [baby] Maryland / Maryland [secession] UMD Scholarship for 9:30 [bouncer] Moon probe launch from [Virginia] You’ll have to wait 24 hours to get that leaping dolphin [tattoos] Photo …

We were inspired by Nathan Gonzales‘ sheer August creativity in coming up with 6 Things Losing Candidates Say, passed along by Shira Toeplitz. Here’s another take on his list: 5 things DC interns say: 1. I just won a happy hour at McFaddens! 2. No, I don’t just get them coffee, I’m really an …

I am so sick and tired of explaining myself to my other, less important friends. #DCWeatherPanic — There’s something about weather and D.C. residents that just doesn’t mix. OMG it’s going to snow 30 inches!!! OMG tornados are on the loose! Derecho! Nor’easter! The sad thing is, none of these things ever …

Maryland woman was cited for driving to slowly last Friday. She should know: walk left, stand right. Or blame it on the rain. According to citation, she had been driving 63 mph in a 65 mph zone — but in the left lane. Read the full article

Welcome to the new year. Are you looking for some reading while you nurse that hangover? Get your Caps game face on for the Winter Classic: GQ: Ovechkin With Love His may be the perfect face of the NHL: broad, broken-toothed, misshapen by countless on-ice collisions—an affable Slavic caveman with …

This creative little mailer has been appearing in Maryland mailboxes. [click for full size] h/t Mrs. Lazy Hazy

Reeled in from Mike Allen’s Playbook: THE BIPARTISAN ADVENTURES of the DNC communications director and Boehner’s new-media director — @woodhouseb: “With @nickschaper. Were fishing the mouth of the Chester tearing them up. Headed home and ran out of gas. Waiting now for tow boat us. … @nickschaper and I got back across …

Still Pond is running the Huffington Post. Huff Post Hill Blanche Lincoln is bogarting the spotlight with the derivatives bill she’s rolling out tomorrow. Mitch McConnell thinks Wall Street reform is totally skunked, but is considering one more toke. The D.C. voting rights bill is completely cashed. Oh, and Kumar …

Politico’s Erika Lovley: House aides dish on unhappy meals “Our staff are dedicated employees and they can’t afford to eat every day downstairs,” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) told Beard during the hearing. “We should probably have at least one vendor like a Subway. Five-dollar footlong, five-dollar footlong — whatever.” Whatever …

Frank Warren of Germantown, Maryland set-up a Web site for people to anonymously mail homemade postcards and has since changed the world. His website, PostSecret.com, has won Weblog and Bloggies awards as well as being featured on CSI: NY. Frank’s latest PostSecret book, Confessions on Life, Death, & God, was …

Maybe not entirely… Beth Mazur: 11-f00t wide House listed for $1.125 Million in Arlington, Va.

While politicians sit around and talk about bridges to nowhere, a Maryland man, who’s been unable to get to his house for over five years, would settle for any sort of bridge. Port Deposit resident Willard Heuser has been waiting nearly five years for someone to repair the High Street …

If you don’t follow the FamousDC Director of National Drug Control Policy, Ryan Grim, on Twitter, you’re missing out. He brings the fire … day-in/day-out