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» Thirty-five-and-a-half months pregnant is very pregnant indeed.
» The Internet Food Association (of which this writer is an Associate) has the official Top Chef D.C. bingo cards for you, featuring hot-spots like “Culinaerie,” “Eden Center,” “Cherry Blossoms,” and “Biden!” Print and distribute them for your watching party tonight! But feel sad that you are not joining @CarolBlymire at the party she’s attending, which apparently features a bunch of D.C. food writers and local Top Chef alumni.
» Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with a look at Pandæmonium, where Satan takes counsel with his demonic lieutenants Mammon, Beelzebub, Belial, Moloch and others. Today, the City Paper’s Erin Petty outdoes Milton with a look at the cast of the Real Housewives of D.C. Whereas Milton’s condemned capital was set in a nether-space designed by the fallen-angel architect Mulciber, the Real Housewives mostly live in NoVa.
» Connecticut fitness center worker Gary Sental Taylor has been arrested for the 2004 rape of a Howard County woman some 6 years after the fact. Taylor’s DNA made its way into a national database following a 2007 felony conviction on child endangerment, which led to his arrest last month, the Washington Post reports. I wonder if I will live to see the day in which the extent of the change DNA collection poses to society is fully realized.
» Read up on your Daily DeBonis regarding Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)’s written request to Mayor Adrian Fenty to improve traffic problems on the National Mall. Webb’s letter kinda rankles DeBonis, but I see Webb as one of those local-as-they-come Congressmen — and the problem is both real, and something D.C. may be able to address in the near future.
» One more reminder that BP gas stations are privately owned, and boycotting them does nothing but harm private business owners. Not that they are owed your business, but still.
» Congrats to ABC7 for picking up the National Edward R. Murrow Award for their coverage back in June last year of the Red Line train collision.
