Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
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Saturday Thanks Don't End At Thanksgiving Photo: November 28, 2009
- The Washington Business Journal reports that the NoMa BID has picked three finalists for its big public art project at First and M Streets NE.
- Heh. Princess Sparkle Pony on Michael Steele: "It's true that you can't really be a good top until you've been a good bottom."
- Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown today announced a release date for his new book, The Lost Symbol, which is reportedly set in D.C. and focuses on Freemasonry. In other words, get ready for Tom Hanks to run up and down 16th Street come 2011. Also of note: Amazon got a preorder page up almost instantaneously.
- Politico, Us Weekly-style: First ladies! They're Just Like Us!
- Don't miss today's updates from the Harold Brazil trial, from both WaPo and City Desk. Closing arguments wrapped up today, with a verdict yet to come.
- Montgomery County residents: don't forget to vote in your special election tomorrow for the District 4 County Council seat primary.
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I think Tom Hanks will be running around that hideous temple in Alexandria. And finding out what really goes on at the top level...
Insert Monty Python skit mocking the Masons.
They'll probably split their shooting schedule between the Alexandria Temple and the Scottish Rite Masonic "library" on 15th, where they can "check out" some "books" on "ritual cannibalism and necrophilia." Except it'll only be exterior shots in DC; all the interior footage will be done in some aircraft hangar studio in Burbank. Not nearly enough room in those masonic temples for proper ninja wire work or stunts involving running away from fireballs or nunchuck fights between the Dreaded Cthulhu and rogue architect and international playboy Hiram Abiff.
My life story reads just like a Dan Brown novel. Though the fact that I most closely identify with the murderous albino probably explains the lack of girlfriend.
My life story reads just like a Dan Brown novel. Though the fact that I most closely identify with the murderous albino probably explains the lack of girlfriend.
let me guess. Robert Langdon will be awakened by a phone call in the middle of the night about a brutal murder that has taken place somewhere in DC. using his cryptography skills he will figure out who the killer is and in the process he'll prove that in fact Jesus was really just a bearded camel farmer who smoked weed and had a harem of hookers, not the lord our savior as so many believe.
there ya go. sorry to ruin the book for some many of you.
I hope the new Brown book features morlocks and chuds. Except not really, since I've never had any interest in his books.
Are you one of those snobs who make me feel all defensive for reading and enjoying Dan Brown's books despite them not being literary genius?
I resolve to buy this new book and not take the dust jacket off in embarrassment!
Not at all! I like Daniel Silva's books, and he's just as bad as Brown. Maybe. I guess I'll never know since I haven't read Brown.
And monkey will probably never want to speak to me again, but I enjoy Laura Lippman's books. And I was an English major! At UMCP!
I never spoke to you in the first place. Besides, you still need to give me back my copy of "Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Nocturnal Emission." And I better not have to chisel the pages apart.
"Hello. I'm Harold Brazil. You may remember me from such fiascos as the "The 1990s City Council" and "Let's Bankrupt the District!." You may not know that I am one of the millions of Americans who suffer from irritable bladder syndrome. That's why I've come to talk to you today about new charcoal-activated Depends®. Since I switched my drawers, I no longer have to take thirty bathroom breaks a day and the smell is almost tolerable."