There's almost no time left to board the BANDWAGON...on Sunday, the Skins' one-game winning streak will run smack into a bunch of Cowboys players pissed that they got spanked by Green Bay. The Washington team is an 11 point unfavorite in this matchup, no one thinks their coach or quarterback will return next year, and all the players with popular jerseys are hurt. So obviously we have three more days to fantasize about them running the table. Who's gonna ride the BANDWAGON with me to Miami in February? My tickets are booked, my bags packed, and I can practically taste the sweet coffee and yummy cubanos. Who's in bunk No. 2? You! You! Possibly you?
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I must differ from my great former colleague Angela Valdez, who wrote one of City Paper's most popular blog items of all time about her difficulties buying a ticket for the Bolt Bus.

HOWEVER! I, with 40-some other Washingtonians in stodgy coats often made of polar fleece, rode this bus to New York City yesterday afternoon, and I, with 20 or so New Yorkers dressed in spacey togs that immediately outclassed those of us going home, rode this bus home this morning.

And the conveyance was quite agreeable. There were working footrests, outlets at each seat, seatbelts if you wanted them, and WiFi if you could make use of it. My only gripe was that the seats were slightly too narrow if you didn't want your neighbor's elbow touching yours.

But the price was good, and the ride was fast, and nobody tried to get me to pray with them or screamed about all the cocaine they'd done before boarding. I will take this bus again.

Lou Dobbs has left CNN! Absent the stain of his nativist zealotry, the cable network can get back to journalism. It's too bad Dobbs' immigration obsession overshadows what was often an eloquent, and lonely, concern about America's middle class. I am a member of this group and now have no money, probably because of all those copy editors streaming across the border, but if I did, I would maybe buy this T-shirt, which reminds me of my favorite American football team.

TALK ABOUT BURYING THE LEDE! DR. DREMO'S IS BACK! OR WILL BE. PERHAPS.

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Thanks to reader Wendell Wolff for pointing out that I ran the wrong solution in last week's Ink Well crossword puzzle. The solution should have been for issue 44's "Starting Something," not issue 43's "Action!" Sorry about that, and here's the correct solution under the jump.
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Don your plus-fours and button up your waistcoat! Dandies and Quaintrelles, a mysterious group of District fops, is planning the first-ever D.C. Tweed Ride, during which people who dress like this (though that cycling machine would never pass muster) will circumnavigate notre petite ville, tittering at bon mots and, one hopes, moving quickly enough to avoid ass-whompings.

I reached out to "Sir E. Channing," one of the ride's organizers, with some concerns. The following entrevue took place via electronic letter.
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Real Talk With Andrew Beaujon™: What is weighing on you most heavily this morning: The death of Claude Lévi-Strauss...or the impending release of DROID?

If you picked DROID, keep reading!
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"I love how it's young but at the same time intellectual," he says. "You can walk down the street and you meet 10 different people and everyone has their own cause and purpose." ---Mike Manning of The Real World: D.C., quoted in Dan Zak's piece on the show's house.

Isn't it amazing how someone can live here for such a short time and effortlessly nail D.C.'s essence?
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Every day I think, I can no longer bear to read another story eviscerating Redskins ownership. Then something as marvelous as Mike Wise's profile of John Kent Cooke arises, and I think, I will happily read about this team for the rest of my life!

Ladies and gentlemen, the Kent Cookes! The landed gentry of Middleburg, Va., by way of a Canadian encyclopedia salesman made a United States citizen by an act of congress! They had a town named after them, and then they didn't! Late-night rides through Georgetown with a boy-toy clinging to the hood of a Jaguar! Throwing shoes at cops! Angry wills! John Kent Cooke was supposed to run the Redskins, and then he wasn't!

You can blame Dan Snyder for a lot of things. But foremost has to be depriving us of this family through his "appalling" use of the same free market system that brought them to us.

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(1700 block of S. Eads Street, Arlington, Oct. 17)

With little more than two weeks to go, Virginia's gubernatorial race is the talk of the nation. Actually, it's really not since no one thinks Creigh Deeds can win, but here are some good reasons to pay it no mind anyway:
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Yellow Line in the direction of Huntington, Oct. 13, 11 p.m.-ish. (Click to enlarge.)

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Some marvelous corporation has dropped a gigantic cube into the heart of Adams Morgan. Sadly, it has not landed on and crushed anyone I dislike. But perhaps it indicates great entertainment to come for people who pay to watch TV. In America, there is always hope.

Hey! It's Thursday! Pick up our paper. It has another typo on the cover. Erika, please come back here soon! Otherwise this is an excellent issue, with a great story by Jeffrey Anderson about Peaceoholics' Ronald Moten, as well as all the usual bozos. Please don't forget to patronize our advertisers, especially anyone who can drop a giant cube on your enemies.
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Have you ever wanted to punch any of us in the face? Tomorrow's your big chance! Here's the schedule for ed-staff appearances at the City Paper booth for tomorrow's crafty fair.
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Housing Complex and Cheap Seats are not on the same page. Cheap Seats is on Page 14. This is my responsibility; sorry, all. (Thanks to genius Twitter friend julesdc for pointing this out.)

Outi Tuomaala got in touch. Tuomaala works for L-Soft, which she says is the company that developed Listserv software. L-Soft is a little concerned.
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