DC can be a tough town to make friends in but more often than not, the relationship gets its roots in business. At FamousDC, we’ve made it our motto to be “in the friends business”, to give credit where it’s due, and high-five the unexpected people who make DC tick. …

Politico recently broke down the numbers from Mike Allen’s 2011 Playbook editions. Apparently there were quite a few baby shout outs. Playbook Babies NUMBER OF BABIES welcomed “to the world”: 55 AVERAGE WEIGHT of Playbook babies: 7.48 lbs. TOP FIVE biggest Playbook babies: 1) Hank Spruiell (10 lbs.) to parents …

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 …

We’re gonna need a bigger boat. Congratulations to Nick Schaper on his new gig with the Chamber of Commerce. From Mike Allen’s Playbook: FIRST LOOK — BIG CHAMBER HIRE FROM BOEHNER: “The U.S. Chamber is bulking up its communications and social media prowess with the hire of Nick Schaper as …

FamousDC has always been a big Mike Allen fan. We even nominated him as our Media Ticket Presidential Candidate in 2008. President – Mike Allen, Politico The hardest working media personality needs the top office.  He’s moral, honest, and trustworthy – to a fault. We need a President who will …

From Allen’s Playbook: David Almacy tweets: “BCAA Reunion w/ @scottstanzel @TonyFratto @KarlRove @DanaPerino @ssiciliano @imjamesdavis @pfeifle & 800 others. (@ Gilley’s Dallas).”

This is how you make the pages of Mike Allen’s Playbook: @CADelargy (CBS News’ Christine Delargy): “Have finally mastered art of blow drying hair w one hand and reading @mikeallen’s playbook w the other.” Nicely played.

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

This was recently posted on a GWU job listserv. We’re trying to figure out which media-savvy sports superstar is looking for a clipping service. Job: Media Monitoring Specialist … A high profile communications specialist is seeking a reliable, self-starter to work from home in a part time media monitoring position …

From Saturday’s Playbook : JMART, CAB THIEF — Politico’s Daniel Libit reports: “So I ordered a cab to take me from office to airport. When I get outside, I see it’s about to pull away with another person, so I tap on the glass. And who is the taxi bandit? …

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 …

We at FamousDC love us some Mike Allen’s Playbook. We love that it cuts our morning reading in half, that it mentions our friends, that it gives us sports updates but most importantly – we love that it saves us the trouble of remembering the birthday’s of our nearest and …

FamousDC’s Nominee for President, Mike Allen, received a glowing write-up in Newsweek. Can we count this a the first official endorsement of the FamousDC Media Ticket? It’s 5 a.m. and Mike Allen has already been awake for nearly two hours. The baby-faced, 44-year-old reporter for Politico, the Beltway-obsessed Web site, …

“Maybe you noticed that all of John McCain’s problems began when he bailed out on this show. Were you aware of that? [Cheers and applause] The road to the White House runs RIGHT through here.” [h/t playbook]

Mike Allen’s Playbook said to ask Cillizza about his 26 women. It got our attention and we’ll work to get answers for you, but we bet Patrick Gavin beats us to it. Playbook:  ASK FIX ABOUT HIS 26 WOMEN