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Good morning, Washington. If you ever needed any proof that even incredibly educated individuals have difficulty separating the actions of Congress from the city of Washington, you needed to look no further than the Jeff Jarvis’ Twitter feed. Jarvis, a journalist and influential blogger, successfully kicked off a wide-reaching, “fuck you, Washington” meme over the weekend. But no matter how justifiable such anger with Congress may be, we’d still like to take the chance to remind Jarvis and everyone else that we here in the city of Washington didn’t have any part in electing the group of jokers that’s playing chicken with the country’s financial future — and, in fact, they’ve been toying with us for years. Welcome to the club!

Mayor Gray’s Hollywood Adventure: The District’s chief executive missed the oppressive heat last week, as he was hanging out in Los Angeles, schmoozing with movie types in order to convince them to bring their projects to the District. The city is looking to improve on a $12.5 million take in film and television spending in 2010, but as the Washington Times reports, is constantly fighting off attractive packages from Maryland and Virginia. Gray, film commissioner Crystal Palmer and Councilmember Vincent Orange sat down for lunch with industry folks and also took a tour of a few studios. Based on a this release, the city can expect some big productions, including a House of Cards (starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright), the fourth installment of the Bourne film franchise, and some kind of Ben Affleck vehicle about the CIA and the Tehran hostage crisis. Oh, and Jeopardy!, too — start studying, people.

H Street NE Is Growing In Popularity, If You Hadn’t Heard: The Post follows up on the recent New York Times profile of H Street NE with one of their own. It’s a little more locally sourced, as one might suspect, though its narrative remains the same. “Outside the bar, the music escapes with a heavy thump, thump into the new heart of the H Street corridor. This is not what the city imagined,” writes Elizabeth Flock, before quoting deputy mayor for planning and economic development Victor L. Hoskins and several neighborhood stakeholders on the future of the strip. Of course, it appears as if at least one resident along H Street would like the same things that plenty of the city’s residents would like. “H Street could do a better job of opening places like a small movie theater, bookstore or library,” one resident told Flock. Well, so could any number of District neighborhoods, right?

Briefly Noted: D.C. Historic Preservation Office to hire archaeologist to analyze Archives cache…FAA furlough affects 975 local workers…Plans for new Airports Authority HQ put on hold…Developer wants to turn Old Post Office into the National Newseum and Press Club for the Study of Journalism and Reporting-Type Things…In case you forgot, Washington’s still an attractive target for terrorism…Vacated Borders spaces appear to be filling quickly…Police find missing Baltimore baby, sitter in D.C….John Wall: kickball MVP…What to do with the last dairy farm in Arlington?

This Day in DCist: Last year, a car blaze lit up Kenyon Street; in 2009, we managed to squeeze references to Atari and WarGames into this post about Metro’s train monitoring system; and in 2007, D.C. voting rights legislation had “unprecedented momentum” and a “healthy majority” for passage. (So, uh, yeah.)