Even Shadow Senator Paul Strauss had a car in the parade. And a classic one, to boot.

A net importer of fame-seeking twits for the 2008–09 season, the District of Columbia has the opportunity to turn that around today, as MTV is hosting casting auditions for the Real World: [Next City] in Adams Morgan. What then, area douchebag, are you doing at home reading your computer? The auditions are happening now, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Town Tavern. Yeah, yeah, I know, the Real Worlders are real people, too; they saved the world for the short time they lived here; douchebag solidarity and all that.