Sir Clement Freud, grandson of Sigmund, Liberal Member of Parliament, chef, scribe, and deadpannist extraordinaire, has died at 84, reports the BBC, the Guardian, and everybody else.
To me and to many of my British classmates, Freud was that disembodied, side-splitting monotone that punctuated the best moments of the hit radio show, "Just a Minute." [...]
*INDOGURATION UPDATE: Yesterday afternoon, following the President's latest round of cautious optimism, Ted Kennedy presented the Obama famiy with Bo, a six-month-old Portugese water dog . The Post has video, a bombastic lede, and some Us Weekly-worthy niceties:
About 10 minutes later the First Family emerged again, racing up the hill, with the president doing a [...]
*PRETTY SOON THEY MIGHT START REPRODUCING: After victories in Iowa and Vermont, "[gay] momentum...could spill into other states," the New York Times speculates. Closer to home, the D.C. Council voted resoundingly to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. Jason Cherkis has some comments on that, as well as some intriguing internal polling, here.
As you may have noticed, Washington Huffington City Paper rolled out a spankin' new site design this a.m. This required some ad shuffling, which in turn created some unfortunate juxtapositions. To wit:
Courtesy of I.T. Director Jim Gumm, who titles his screengrab: Mommy, what's a dildo?
Happy Wednesday, D.C.! You might remember City Paper's kind-of-a-big-deal Inauguration Photo Contest, whereby we elicited "dope" photographs from readers across the land. Two weeks later, we announced the winners. Recently, we even decided to send the winners their super-special swag, inspiring fourth-placer Aziz Y. to photograph his pooch in our delightful knit [...]
I understand that every publication on the interwebs is trying to crack the whole 'monetizing' nut, but these scrollovers really take things too far.
Take Slate. This a.m., I stole three minutes from actual work to read up on the essentials—you know, my daily dose of counterintuitive rhetorical questions and columns on the best way to [...]
*Big presser from the President last night. The New York Times says, basically, farewell orator, hello professor; the Post has video and the transcript; Wonkette live-blogged; I just watched.
*10 months after the brutal murder of Jasmine McCray in the 4800 Block of G Street SE, D.C. Police announced yesterday that they have made an arrest [...]
Well, perhaps not exactly. From the New York Times:
Speaking with reporters, Mr. Holder provided few specifics but said the Justice Department’s enforcement policy would now be restricted to traffickers who falsely masqueraded as medical dispensaries and “use medical marijuana laws as a shield."
In the most heated bracket-based throwdown since Man Madness, Holy Taco has launched its 2009 National Douchebag Tournament, whereby d-bagz compete against other d-bagz in four categories (sports, entertainment, politics, and business) en route to the ultimate prize (as yet unspecified).
Notable matchups include A-Rod vs. Bellichick and Beckham vs. Bonds in the sports division, and [...]
Top o' the morning, folks! Hope everybody enjoyed a whomping St. Patrick's Day. Lotta environmental news out there, so in honor of the collective hangover, City Paper presents a mean, green batch of news.
*WHAT'S HARDER TO SELL THAN A HYBRID? A three-wheeled, fully electric supercar from outer space.
*AMSTERDAM GOES GREEN! NO NO, [...]
Ciao, D.C. Hope you're staying warm & enjoying the recession! Now, some "news":
*Oh noez! Barista at the U & 16th Starbucks shoots self in leg, accidentally.
I don’t want to see my father’s picture near any picture of a guy I am attracted to, especially if we haven’t even had dinner yet.
From Meghan McCain's Daily Beast confessional, "Looking for Mr. Far Right."
(Second place goes to the same piece:
Any guy that has a fetish for older women in pantsuits and large pearls [...]
What ho, D.C.! And, er, Happy Lent. Here's what's new:
*The Hill: Obama speaks before congress; gets a big treatment from the Washington Post and a weird, semi-positive lede graf from the Washington Times.
*Crime: WUSA9 reports that D.C. Police are searching for Alice Raffner, a 56-year-old white female who is "5'2" tall, weighing approximately 140 pounds, [...]
More footage from the National Zoo, where Baraka and the other gorillas got involved in a bit of a dust-up!
Some very special footage from our visit to the National Zoo.
