You might even say that the public forum was sent down the rabbit hole …

A snake fell out of a tree on Porter Street NW. Everybody panic.

A rant against sunbathing Georgetown students both exemplifies the how crazy some neighborhood listserv postings can be and how hard classifying their members is.

The Cleveland Park listserv is currently hosting quite the lively debate over the leashing of dogs in public. While that’s hardly a foreign topic for a large D.C. listserv, one post which branched off from the main conversation certainly grabbed our attention.

Auto theft isn’t funny — after all, thousands of vehicles are stolen in the District every year. But this reminder, sent by Metropolitan Police Department Commander Kimberly Chisley-Missouri to the department’s Fourth District listserv led us to chuckle a little bit.

On October 29, the National Zoo put on Night of the Living Zoo, an evening of rock and roll combined with some harmless Halloween revelry. It sounds like it a rollicking good time — there were palm readers, fire eaters and illusionists, and DCist was on hand to check out the set performed by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (which we rather enjoyed). But some of the Zoo’s neighbors weren’t too thrilled about the noise being made at the show, so they took their gripes to the most captive audience they knew of. To the listserv!

Photo by LaTur. I was all prepared to write about the unabated decline of retail in the heart of Cleveland Park (even the 7-11 is closing, people!), but a much more interesting topic about the area was thrust into the public eye yesterday: implications of latent racism on the neighborhood’s listserv, which will, no matter what, always take precedent over the unfortunate disappearance of Go-Go Taquitos. Frequent readers of the Cleveland Park listserv will…

> Photo by missmaya. Nothing breathes a little life into a slow news week like some neighborhood listserv drama. The comments and tips line have been buzzing about the Cleveland Park Citizens Association turning the area into a “banana republic.” How? Well, let’s start from the beginning. A while back, there was a proposal for a new Giant to move into the west end of the neighborhood. As any reader of DCist knows, fights…

It’s understandable that the Metropolitan Police Department would be frustrated that a robbery suspect whom they have arrested three times has been continually released with little reason. But does that frustration warrant an email carpet bomb of newly confirmed D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles? The Post reported yesterday that Inspector Edward Delgado asked recipients on the 3rd District Substation listserv to send emails to Nickles asking him not to release a juvenile who is allegedly…