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Good morning, Washington. We pestered you yesterday about your Memorial Day plans. Today, a word of warning: make sure they don't include flip-flops. As FOX5 helpfully warns us, the sandals can lead to sprains, broken bones or even the dreaded Flipflop-Induced Foot Failure Syndrome (aka FIFFS). We had no idea we were in such peril. Bad Day For Bobb: Yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Mayor Fenty's school takeover plan. Rest assured, we'll have...

>> More than 302 vehicles, most of them with Maryland or Virginia registration, currently have 26 or more outstanding parking tickets in the District that add up to more than $1.1 million in fines. A testament to the inefficiency of the city's ability to collect, or the aggressive nature of our parking laws? [WashTimes] >> A judge dismissed a lawsuit by Robert Steinbuch (he of Jessica Cutler/Washingtonienne fame) against former Wonkette editor and current...

>> After a wet, gray day, we're happy to report the sun is peeking through and you can probably skip the "standing at the front door and debating whether to bring an umbrella" part of the evening. Enjoy!

Courtesy of our friends over at Fishbowl DC, today we discovered that Time had quietly launched a new blog on national politics. Called Swampland and featuring the online musings of Ana Marie Cox, Joe Klein, Karen Tumulty, and Jay Carney, there really isn't anything about this blog that sets it apart from the many other notable blogs on national politics, either independent or MSM-run. Except the name. Oh, the name.

Yesterday was the day that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams took his annual cannonball plunge into a local public swimming pool, marking the start of summer and the last time he will participate in a tradition he started during his first year in office. But much like everything else this election year, Williams managed to turn the cannonball into a matter of politics. According to WJLA, Williams challenged his successor to continue the tradition, forcing...

Yesterday morning at Mount Vernon, the cornerstone for a new George Washington museum was laid. The Post takes us through the Masonic rituals involved in the process:At yesterday's consecration, members of the Alexandria-Washington Masonic Lodge No. 22, dressed in tuxedos and white aprons, poured corn kernels and cruets of canola oil and red wine over the cornerstone. An architect and other officials inspected the rock. Then prayers were read aloud. Number 22 was the first...

Looks like Butterstick has some competition right around the corner -- formerly confined to the indoors, today the National Zoo will unleash their four-and-a-half month old sloth bear cub into natural sunlight, according to WTOP. We see some joint merchandising opportunities arising, like Butterstick and Baby Sloth Bear visors, water bottles, and stuffed animals. Network of Animal Hospitals to Help Detect Bioterrorism: How will you know if a bioterrorism attack is occurring? Look for...

TUESDAY Tonight: a major opportunity for baseball buffs. Join Lawrence D. Hogan, author of the new National Geographic book Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball, for a lecture with Hall of Famer Monte Irvin and current Negro League Baseball Players Association President Stanley Glenn. At the Grosvenor Auditorium of the National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW. For tickets and pricing, head here. For literary snooty-pants types, two highfalutin...

We’re guessing that our readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Ana Marie Cox and at least one of her two millennium straddling web-based glories: Suck and Wonkette. Well, Cox is leaving it all behind for content that won't be found in your RSS feed: her debut novel, Dog Days, is out and she will be dishing and signing tonight at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m.

Good morning, Washington. As you've probably heard, a commuter train derailed yesterday in Prince William County. Impressively, VRE says that its trains will return to a full schedule today. Riders were initially warned to expect delays as long as forty minutes, but it now looks like things are more or less back to normal. Agreement Reached On Howard Hospital: Mayor Williams and Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert have reached an agreement surrounding the...

The Post's Reliable Source confirms today the news that Ana Marie Cox will be officially leaving her gig as the voice behind Wonkette to better focus on writing a follow-up to her debut novel, Dog Days, which is due to be released tomorrow. Wonkette will live on, jointly helmed by David Lat, who earned notoriety through his Supreme Court blog Underneath Their Robes, and Alex Pareene, a 20-year-old NYU dropout. Cox's book, which is published...

There have been quite a few interesting photos on DCist Photos in the past few days. People have posted a photo of the dugout after the congressional softball game, a scene from last night's show at the Hirshhorn, a couple photos from Sleater-Kinney at the 9:30 Club, this photo of the opening of a show organized by the D.C. user group on Flickr, and even this snap from the Ted Leo concert. Ok, enough about...

We noted yesterday that Ana Marie Cox's novel "Dog Days" was pushed to an early 2006 release date. At the time, Cox had not responded to an e-mail from DCist; after having our post forwarded to her, she sent us a clarification:

The book was pushed back because I am a much slower writer than anyone thought possible. It turns out that making things up is harder than you'd think.

Thanks to a friend of DCist, who passed along the info that "Dog Days", the debut novel of Ana Marie Cox, has been moved from an October 2005 release back to January 2006. The word from Riverhead Books, Cox's publisher, is that she is "behind." But given the timing of the normal publishing cycle, "Dog Days" should have been sent to the printer some time in the next four weeks -- with the complete manuscript delivered for editing a month or so ago. Perhaps Riverhead are more liberal with their deadlines, but we wonder if the final draft turned in by Cox needed heavier editing than expected. Another possibility is that Riverhead have delayed the book's publication in order to drum up publicity independent of that other D.C. blogger-turned-author. Everything about this seems a little fishy, especially given Ana Marie Cox's month-long hiatus to write back in February. DCist emailed Ms. Cox directly, but has not received a reply.

A federal judge delivered mayoral hopeful Adrian Fenty a disappointing blow in his quest to ban the sale of malt liquor and other single-sale alcohol in certain parts of the District. Last year, Fenty, the councilman for Ward 4, pushed a measure through the city council that would have banned such sales. But a federal judge, Rosemary Collyer, intervened before the ban would have gone into effect and this past week, "struck down the law," the Post reports, saying that there wasn't enough public notice on the so-called Fenty Amendment.

There's been a flurry of speculation and rumors spinning about in New York and D.C. over the future of Gawker's Wonkette politics gossip blog. With Ana Marie Cox, the site's editor off writing a novel, Gawker has propped the blog up with a series of guest editors. According to a source close to the Gawker family, it has been a forgone conclusion that Cox would be leaving Wonkette permanently after she finishes her book this summer. Her ambitions? Television and punditry, which doesn't seem so shocking. So who would take over for Cox? Word on the street over the weekend had it that Gawker would tap deep-pocketed Kelly Ann Collins of the Washington Socialites to take over. But that sounded like crazy talk, but talk that wasn't necessarily out of the realm of possibilities.

Taking cues from New York Press' 50-Most Loathsome New Yorkers, DCSOB (with the help of DCeiver) evaluated, rated and put together a list of D.C.'s most loathsome people. There are a few surprises among a list of some more obvious candidates. DCSOB picked Ward 4's Adrian Fenty for the No. 1 slot. But on the list include Washingtonienne aka Jessica Cutler (No. 25); James F. of why.i.hate.dc (No. 21); Carol Thompson, the former Riggs Bank...

Nationals Mascot Announced: In a surprising move, the Washington Nationals presented the team's new mascot to reporters this morning. The choice? A giant walking bow tie. Meant to memorialize the efforts of D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams in bringing baseball back to the District after a three-decade absence, the "Nat Cravate," as the mascot is to be known, will spin every time a National hits a home run and will loosen slightly during the seventh-inning stretch....

Pew Research Center.

At her keynote address at South by Southwest Interactive, Ana Marie Cox aka Wonkette, the former fulltime Washington-area resident turned bi-metropolitan blogging maven and up-and-coming author, said that blogging is not journalism.

As February draws to a close, we at DCist pause to reflect upon how our brethren in the politically-oriented blogosphere spent another month in the zeitgeist. From the scalping of Eason Jordan and the outing of Jeff Gannon, to the victory lap being taken by the bloggers who forced the imminent departure of several CBS News bigwigs, bloggers are once again back in the news. The tenor of this recent coverage, however, is decidedly...

Any blogger worth their salt should know that the -ist family's executive editor, Jen Chung, loves pandas. So Jen, here you go. We know you can't see pandas at the Bronx Zoo (but there are red pandas there -- our red pandas here in D.C. died after eating rat poison buried in their enclosure), so here's the next best thing. We're sure pandas in their natural habitat don't have to deal with the construction...

What has Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox been up to since she skipped town? Partying with New York media heavies, apparently. Gawker Media, the Wonkette mother ship, called our girl home for a small, A-list bloggers only shindig at the New York home of publisher Nick Denton a few days ago. (Hmm, perhaps our invitation got lost in the mail? C'mon, we're only a train ride away...) So what's the big occasion?

Wonkette's (temporary) farewell:

So it turns out that after a publisher give you money, you have to give them a book. And for some reason, simply printing out dozens of posts about ass-fucking and stapling them together isn't acceptable. (Though we understand that approach works for some. So jealous!) Long story short: For the month of February, this site will be in the capable hands of Choire (KOR-EE) Sicha (SEEE-CHA). He's completely clueless about politics, incredibly shallow, and liable to post things with only the most cursory of fact-checks (and by "cursory" we mean "non-existent"). In other words, you'll hardly know the difference.

Well, Inauguration Week has come and gone. Even now, the last of our out-of-town guests are making their way out of our snowblanketed city, Ana Marie Cox is peacefully sleeping one off, and black bandanna-bedecked suburbanites are planning on returning to their regular jobs waiting tables at Denny’s. It was a week filled with pomp, protest, train derailments and the inexplicable vandalizing of Adams Morgan. Next time, maybe your friends at DCist will get credentialed....

If you thought that the Tucker Carlson/Jon Stewart feud was the only political pundit vs. pseudo-journalist battle going on, think again. Our own irreverent Wonkette seems to be on the outs with Newsweek writer Chris Gasparino. NY Post columnist Elisa Lipsky Karasz tattles that the duo are in the midst of a grudge match that began with their joint appearance on the CNBC show "Topic A with Tina Brown". Following that heated "debate", full-time blogger...

And the winners have been revealed on washingtonpost.com's Best Blog contest for political and election blogs.

During DCist’s server maintenance, we weren't able to post anything about the talk of the blogosphere: Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story with Washington’s very own Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette. (For the record, Cox is "bi-metro," splitting her time between D.C. and New York.) As Richard Leiby points out in today’s Reliable Source, Cox had a birthday party Sunday evening and Cox was nice enough to extend an invitation to DCist. Even Juleanna...

DCist received a tip that Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette officially left the comforts of her Arlington farmhouse for New York over the Labor Day weekend. Her husband, Chris Lehmann, formerly a deputy editor with Washington Post Book World, is now an editor at New York magazine.