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Good morning, Washington. Well, it's been out since yesterday, and we're sure that many of you are already most of the way through your copies, doing your best to grapple with the rallying cry of the utterly braindead masses that, despite their arguably justified prominence in the pantheon of "authentically American" culture, actually represent a grave threat to our society and democracy. I'm speaking, of course, about Left 4 Dead 2. Why, what did you think I was talking about?
Ethics Probe Turns to Gray: A note written by city council chairman Vincent Gray asking Comcast for money has caught the attention of the city Office of Campaign Finance, according to the Post. The note asked for $20,000 to help cover lobbying efforts on behalf of D.C. at the Democratic National Convention, and succeeded in securing a $10,000 donation. That obviously exceeds the $5,000 annual cap on donations to a party from a single donor that's imposed by D.C. law. Gray says that he didn't think the donation was a political contribution, but rather a donation to fund lobbying for D.C. voting rights.
Pena Arraigned: The alleged killer of 9-year-old Oscar Fuentes appeared before a judge yesterday, and as WJLA reports, that judge ordered him held without bond. Prosecutors say that they have five witnesses putting Pena at the scene of the shooting, and a sixth who saw him going into his uncle's house with a rifle, which was later found there. Pena is due back in court on December 1.
Briefly Noted: P.G. cab drivers were on strike yesterday, but it doesn't sound like it was very effective... Five year-old saves mom with 911 call... Virginia's budgetary situation gets even worse... Coincidental Montgomery County sub-roundup: Accusations fly in ethics dust-up centering on transgender protection law; county council seeking lower ICC tolls; restaurants will have to print calorie information on menus starting in July ...
This Day In DCist: One year ago GMU got a new mascot, Metro fired a mechanic over a dirty joke, and Davy DCist reacted poorly to news of snow.
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Can someone tell me why the Mayor is campaigning from door to door? Shouldn't he performing his duties as Mayor, by which I mean dodging questions, riding his bike, and emerging from Rock Creek Park disheveled and handcuffed to the partially dismembered trunk of a man in his late forties?
I see nothing wrong with Mayor Fenty going door-to-door. But why isn't he doing this in the projects and low-income neighborhoods so he can "inspect" these rundown buildings and the failing infrastructure? Why, you ask? Because the voting pool in these areas are quite low compared to oh, Rock Creek Church Road. Plus, he wouldn't be caught dead in a tweed jacket in the hood.
He's knocking on doors city-wide.
Dear Monkey County Idiots, If it's drowned in cheese sauce, deepfried, or contains the phrases "Death by...", "Smothered in...", or "A Sow-La-Bration of Bacon," it probably has a lot of calories.
I see there's a new AA advertisement with a realllllly sketchy guy with a moustache being groped by his lady. I thought the 70's porn star moustache, after a brief revival, was back to being dead? Is it still hip? Can the hipsters hep' me out?
I think the '70s pornstar 'stache is a reaction against the hipster chinstrap douchestache. You'd figure with all the tweed bikers that muttonchops would make a comeback. Anyway, porn has always had a love/hate relationship with body hair. It's gone from Robert Plant hair and steaming jungles of pubes to tasteful landing strips to head-to-toe depilatories. I blame "THX 1138."
Note to area cab drivers: "strike" does not mean "hide around the corner until someone waves a five dollar bill at you."
Unless by "strike" you mean "give someone an STD". Wait, we were talking about hookers, right?
We don't use the term "hooker" anymore. It's "sex worker." Acceptable alternatives include paramour, concubine, fille de joie, or Wizzyliz-in-training.
Man, I don't think I *want* to know how many calories are in heaping that plate of doro wat that I get at Etete. I only need to know that it's good.
I, for one, WOULD like to know that my Donner Kabobs are 100% CHUD worthy.
We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Mosey on down to Cockpunchteria, pardner. "From our fist to your junk, we deliver FRESHNESS!®
I have it on good authority that your Ram's Bladder Cup uses illegal immigrant lark's vomit.
You'll have to go to Russia for that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8360569.stm
So, apparently my roommates heard gunfire last night in our area (P street btw 9th and 10th). How do I follow up and get more info (assuming there's info to be had)?
Also, cops were not in the area until 10-15 minutes later according to one of my roommates. One presumes that this is not much of a deterrent to those that perpetrate or consider criminal behavior...
subscribe to the MPD 3D list serve on yahoo.
did that Mason mascot ever get a name? i was trying to find it online but all i could come up with was the contest entry form!
Looks like they call him "The Patriot." Clever.
http://spirit.gmu.edu/spring09/at_mason.html#mascot
I'm still grieving the loss of Gunston.
I'm actually looking forward to our first snow or bout of bad weather so that we get an update from Davy DCist.
'Most of the way through" Left 4 Dead 2? Not even close, yet. Of course if I didn't have to work I would be much further along.
The bags under my eyes have bags under their eyes due to this game.
Great game, BTW. Possibly better than the original.
Left 4 Dead 2? No love for Modern Warfare 2 on DCist?
MW2 wouldn't have lent itself to a Palin joke nearly as well. And anyway I'm still grinding on Borderlands.
The Washington, DC scenes are pretty epic-(but so so on the geography). I am stuck storming the House.
The real question is whether MW2 multiplayer would appeal to an unreconstructed Doom/Quake/Halo* arcade-style FPS player like myself. Even Gears of War's cover mechanic is mostly too boringly realistic for me; I've never played any of the CoD games, but I suspect I wouldn't really like 'em.
* I'm not a huge Halo fan, but at this point in the market you basically have no choice if you like that sort of game
MW on PC was the greatest multiplayer ever. But IW gimped it in the latest version.