As the Electoral College meets today to formally name our next President, there has been some controversy surrounding electors and people from both sides of the party line trying to sway them in another direction. So just in case anyone wanted to nominate FamousDC to be an elector in the next …

It’s National Lazy Day! And we know what you’re thinking, is that why the metro was so late today and traffic was terrible? Sorry honey, but no, that’s just DC. But now that you know of this special day, let the festivities begin! We’re not exactly sure why the world picked …

Ah, rush hour. There are only two things in the world I hate more than rush hour. One of them being spiders and the other being that notification you get on your iPhone saying you haven’t backed up your iCloud in like 345 weeks. Like sending me an irritating notification …

Nathan Jones photographed one of the most beautiful bridges in DC, framing it beautifully in this awesome long-exposure photo. Nathan submitted this to the FamousDC Flickr pool.

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Pregnant lady fights off an intruder who was wielding [a tiki torch] There’s a Smores Bar in Foggy Bottom [stop everything] More lanes aren’t going to help anything [traffic on I-95] Set of twins are born both minutes and a year apart [new year’s baby] Arlington wants tech start ups …

Blues alley [having a bad time] WEATHER [CAR CRASHES] Dog costume contest [you must click] Mars candy heiress wreck in [nova] Metro work closes stations [womp womp] Cab drivers bad luck with credit card service [abandon cab] Photo by Noe Todorovich

WaPo’s Ashley Halsey III: D.C. Puts Price on Speeding, $29.5 Million. That box and the cameras inside it have generated 61,061 speeding tickets in the past seven months, transferring $8.1 million from the wallets of K Street drivers into the District’s treasury. The cameras, which sit where four lanes of …

As expected, Twitter and SMS traffic spiked last night following the re-election of President Obama. SAP tracked all of the Twitter traffic and identified the Top 5 celebrities with the largest Twitter following who tweeted positively about President Obama. It must be nice to reach 82,461,732 people with 5 Tweets. …

Metro single tracking got you down? Cab driver has never heard of Rock Creek Park? Capital Bike Share all outta bikes? Don’t fear. TRON LIGHTCYCLE IS STREET LEGAL.

This. Makes. No. Sense. According to Reader’s Digest, the stretch of I-95 between Baltimore, MD and Elkton, MD is one of the top 5 best roads in America. [the foliage, like the traffic, is gorgeous in the fall] Clearly no one from Reader’s Digest has ever driven that road. h/t …

Did you know that you can report a pothole via Twitter? Yes, the DC Department of Transportation is on Twitter and wants to “hear your concerns, questions and service requests.” www.Twitter.com/DDOTDC DDOT DC: Pothole report of the day: RT @TallPaulDC 300 block of 6th Street SE is pocked with more …

Paging Angie Goff … The Capital Beltway is the #3 worst commute in America. Daily Beast: America’s 75 Worst Commutes #3, Capital Beltway, surrounds Washington, DC … Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 194 … Worst bottleneck: Southbound, Exit 2A-B … Length of worst bottleneck: 1.26 mi … Weekly hours of …

Tensions are high on Capitol Hill.  Proof is in the tone of this email.  Note the part we underlined. From: [email protected] To: ******** Sent: Tue Jan 20 07:13:40 2009 Subject: Important Message from US Senate SAA …… The USCP have advised us that Independence Ave at 7th St SW has …

We hope you weren’t heading back from Dewey Beach hung-over yesterday. A tanker drove off the Bay Bridge resulting in 10 mile back-ups on either side. “We’re all stuck in the traffic, Hon.” Bay Bridge Accident kills trucker, 2 injured Annapolis, MD — Traffic has built up to an extent …