» No good deed goes unpunished, but some supremely annoying deeds win reality television contracts. The Salahis. The Real Housewives. The Real Housewives . . . of . . . oh, oh God, please, no. . . .

» Bad news for Virginia commuters: ABC7 reports that I-66 heading East is closed near the Fairfax County Parkway. Details are scant, but it doesn’t look like an accident that will be cleared quickly.

» Yesterday I mentioned the Battle of Fort Stevens, the only Civil War battle to take place in the District. But did you know that it wasn’t time the first time Fort Stevens has come up on DCist? Concentrate and you can practically hear Ken Burns reading Andrew Wiseman’s closeup look at Fort Stevens. We’re a bunch of regular James McPhersons around here.

» The D.C. Real Estate Guide combs through the numbers released by the Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors and finds that condo demand is up and supply is down from this time a year ago. For single family homes, demand is down and supply is way down.

» The Washington Post’s Rosalind Helderman muses on the fate of the state anthem that dead sausage impresario Jimmy Dean once hummed up for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Apparently it wasn’t as good as his breakfast links, because the state never adopted that (or any) state song. Sidebar: How good are his sausages? Quite good, says one Texan, in very graphic detail.

» The Textile Museum announced that it has named Maryclaire Ramsey, who has served as the museum’s CEO since early 2009 and has been at the museum since 2007, as the organization’s director.

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