Good morning, Washington. We pestered you yesterday about your Memorial Day plans. Today, a word of warning: make sure they don’t include flip-flops. As FOX5 helpfully warns us, the sandals can lead to sprains, broken bones or even the dreaded Flipflop-Induced Foot Failure Syndrome (aka FIFFS). We had no idea we were in such peril. Bad Day For Bobb: Yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Mayor Fenty’s school takeover plan. Rest assured, we’ll have…

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into…

Flickr user vicbel’s perfectly framed shot of a Maryland movie theater almost makes us want to stay outside and enjoy these bold colors, too. But…don’t they have air conditioning in those things? I’ll suffer through Miami Vice for some of that….

The -ist world has not made its way down to South Florida yet. But that doesn’t mean the blogging world hasn’t. DCSOB, who has been on vacation in Miami the past week or so, returns from the land of Marisleysis Gonzalez, “Miami Vice”, the NBC power sit-com trifecta “Empty Nest,” “Golden Girls” (above) and “Nurses” and the “pathetic Metromover downtown circulator system” to report that things are better here in the nation’s capital –…