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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Washington is turning on all its institutions! The Burgundy Revolution is no longer stopping at Dan Snyder’s door! (Though Sally Jenkins‘ column is.) TO WIT:

1) Washington Post Magazine chat turns into TOTAL BLOODBATH! Readers want to know: WHY DO THE ARTICLES LOOK LIKE ADS? WHY DID YOU USE THOSE FONTS? HOW IN THE HELL DID SECOND GLANCE MAKE THE CUT? Editors stammer, run inside, toss a Chuck Brown feature off the parapets. It’s not gonna work!

After the jump, more evidence the whole town is going Montecore.

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PICK UP A PAPER! We’re trying a new cover design thingy. E-mail me what you think, and CC: the Sexist!

Does anyone now what kind of mushroom this is? E-mail me, and CC: the Sexist! Do you like real mushrooms, or do you prefer mushrooms made of gourds? It is America! You don’t have to choose!)

AMAZING story by Paul Duggan this morning about horrorcore rap, goth, murder, and part-time preaching. In Farmville, Va.! (Hey Spin, 2009 called and it wants 1999 back! Get Mark Schone! Get Mike Rubin to do a sidebar! Get me if those guys are busy! It’s time to get the band back together!)

After the jump: No way lynching this Census employee related to carefully stoked nutball rage; Caps, Nats win; Terry Wogan standing next to a cake of Terry Wogan.

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Says why.i.hate.dc, which has a photo. Legba Carrefour, get yourself down there, my man!

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Photograph by Darrow Montgomery