Ticketmaster, which is handling the ticketing for the sole official inaugural ball open to the public, goofed yesterday when it emailed invitations to purchase tickets to some people, prompting an early run on some of the hottest tickets of the year.

D.C. firefighters responded Friday evening to a house fire on the 900 block of Ninth Street NE. But it might have been a bit tricky for firefighters to fix their hose to the nearby hydrant.

Bad news right now for anyone who needs a constant chat stream with their co-workers: Google Talk is malfunctioning this morning, and Google, while aware of the outage, isn’t saying when it might come back online.

We were supposed to run an interview with Olek, the artist who yesterday “yarn-bombed” the Albert Einstein Memorial. Unfortunately, our reporter’s iPhone was damaged by yesterday’s rainstorm and lost the recording.

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain—remember him!—came to Washington this week to mark tomorrow’s federal income tax filing deadline, and he tried to bring his friends with him. Fail.

Over the span of the last twelve hours, Love Nightclub has tweeted hundreds of times — at some points, nearly a one tweet every single minute — to promote an upcoming show by comedian Kevin Hart.

UPDATE: Oh, it looks like it’s back up. Go, go, go, local political wonks!

DCist reader John Duckwitz sent us these images of a taxicab driver who appears to have gotten a little mixed up while leaving the the Westin City Center hotel at 1400 M Street NW this afternoon — the cabbie apparently decided to eixt the pickup zone via the pedestrian staircase. Our phone call to the hotel in search of some details regarding how the cab driver managed to pull this off — and how they managed to get the taxi out of there — has not yet been returned.

As the Wizards struggled to yet another embarrassing road loss last night against the Sacramento Kings, center JaVale McGee — who has a penchant for always trying to make highlight-reel plays at the cost of developing a well-rounded game — decided that there was probably no better scenario than his team being down 25 points with seconds to go to try his hand at replicating the immortal Julius Erving/Michael Jordan dunk from the free-throw line.

Speaking of locations near Nationals Park and DDOT, either this sign captured by Flickr user fedward at 7th and M Streets SE misspelled “corner,” or the amount of land that the transportation agency holds parking authority over just got a whole lot bigger….