It’s not like we’re approaching Methuselahan standards around here, but it is DCist’s sixth birthday today. On September 7, 2004, founding editors Rob Goodspeed and Mike Grass made things official and went live with the fifth city site in the Gothamist network — and what begun as a humble operation with five bloggers has blossomed into a full-time operation which features the work of nearly 40 contributors and photographers.

Fudgie the Whale doesn’t stand a chance tonight when Storm, of the Arlington-based comedy duo Paul and Storm, will attempt to down an entire 12-serving ice cream cake of the whale (not to be confused with DCist’s whale cake). The event, taking place at ThinkGeek HQ in Fairfax, commemorates their 10,000th twitter follow. Unfortunately the event is already at capacity, but it will be broadcast live on Ustream, starting at 7:45 p.m — great…