Life in DC was exciting for about two and a half seconds when Brad Pitt visited in order to make out with Nancy Pelosi in her private chambers. Oh and then Richard Gere popped by also, which nobody cared about so much. Has Richard Gere been in a movie where he shows his admirable lack of vanity by starting out all gross and warty and gradually aging into a beautiful young specimen of flesh? Nope. Anyway, in lieu of Pitt sightings we bring you word of such handsome hunks as Trent Lott, Jonathan Martin, Patrick Leahy, and Christopher Hitchens.
When you go to your local Harris Teeter do *you* see somebody who looks vaguely familiar, and there you are racking your brains wondering if you should say hello or not, and then you remember you saw them on “Hardball” talking about agricultural subsidies? Send us word of these life-changing events! Write to tips@wonkette.com with the subject line “Wonk’d.”
- Saw Trent Lott at Good Stuff Eatery around 12:45 today. He was dressed like a tourist and very confused about how the line worked. He cut a bunch of people then couldn’t decide what he wanted so he got back out of line, ran upstairs to get a seat, and then ran back downstairs all flustered, probably because the coloreds gave him lip when he told them to move.
- I got in the checkout line behind Jonathan Martin today at Harris Teeter. He was sporting some major bedhead and carboloading for some hardcore blogging with a box of Cheez-its, some yogurt granola bars, and a DiGiorno’s “ULTIMATE PIZZA.”
- I’m not sure if this technically counts, since it occurred in his office building, but I was on the elevator and Patrick Leahy got on with a reporter. You will be pleased to hear that I resisted the urge to say “I loved you in Batman.”
Sen. Leahy asked me what floor I was going to, and I mumbled something about riding up to the 4th floor with him and then going back down, so he wouldn’t be delayed. He said thanks and then went back to talking to the reporter.
This occurred just after the Senate voted to block the amendment that would have taken away Congressmen’s scrillz, so he was probably in a good mood.
- Behind chris hitchens in line at post office at florida and 20th. He looks confused and disheveled but what did i expect?
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Hitchens is such a mess. He’s like Orson Welles if Welles hadn’t got quite so fat, and if he had never made Citizen Kane.
Knowing Leahy’s comic-book fanboy-ness, he’d likely correct the “I loved you in Batman” comment with some snooty comment like, “Actually, ‘Batman’ is not in the title of that movie. It’s the first film featuring the Bruce Wayne/ Batman character not to use the hero’s name. This speaks to the dichotomy of…”
I keep seeing this guy at La Pain Quotidien in Capitol Hill who looks just like Tim Geithner. I’m new to the D.C. area and, if it’s him, this would be my first political celebrity sighting.
My biggest celeb sighting in my home state of California was Timothy Busfield, so Geithner would definitely be raising the bar.
[re=263490]Mr Blifil[/re]: Does Hitch know any good card tricks?
BTW: here’s a picture of Hitchens I’m surprised we’ve never seen on Wonkette. (Caution: not really safe for… well… anywhere.)
I’m surprised dear Trent didn’t go all “Don’t you know who I AM?” a la David Vitter. I mean, that’s what white Southerners do to uppity nigras and damn Yankees, right?
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: That’s hott. *Urp*
[re=263497]Delicious[/re]: No but he’d probably sell his soul, if he had one to sell, for a wine endorsement contract.
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: Aaargh…my eyes, my eyes! (Seriously, who — man or woman because I’m not sure if he’s gay or not — would want to sleep with that trainwreck?)
Someone better tell Jonathan Martin that the cardboard is only packaging–it’s not part of the food item itself. He looks like he’s never met a whale he wouldn’t eat.
I love Barry too, but blackface with the sad, dangling marlboro?
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: Someone’s got the password to Andrew Sullivan’s Flickr account!
Hitch is merely going waterboarding one better by trying to experience a DC post office.
Used to see Andrew Sullivan at the Adams-Morgan blockbuster all the time. He was usually discussing movie picks with his companion. I assume that he now has, as do I, a Netflix account.
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: That takes pale to an entirely new dimension of beached/bleached whaleness.
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: That gives “the Limey soapy one-eye” a whole new definition.
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
[re=263498]Serolf Divad[/re]: I keel you for dat!
Yeah Hitch is a douche and all but I actually enjoyed listening to his audiobook Religion Fucks Up Everything or whatever it’s called. He read it hisself and didn’t sound drunk. And no I didn’t pay for it. Mininova is your friend.
[re=263525]freakishlystrong[/re]: FTW!
jonathan martin? is he the dude from cold play?
Did Hitch get a visit from “Hot” Karl Rove?
Also. If anyone spots Rahm Emanuel, plz sit on him and call me? (I’m in So. Cal., it’ll take me a while to get there.)
[re=263525]freakishlystrong[/re]: Yay! Also, insert obligatory poop joke.
[re=263525]freakishlystrong[/re]:
American history? We can safely blame this guy on the Brits.
Chris Hitchens was in that PO line just thinkin’ and ponderin’ and thinkin’ and analyzin’ and wishing it was legal to smoke at the PO.
Hitchens still uses snail mail??
Hitchens, major woman-eyes-er.
[re=263573]ella[/re]: Probably sold some of his old 80′s VHS porn on Ebay and had to ship it out.
I’m a little confused. Aren’t these among the people that you try NOT to see?
ex-Trotskyist popinjays love fags
[re=263604]Gorillionaire[/re]:
More likely submitting a manuscript for publication. My sources tells me he pens his philippics in poison and bile. You can’t do that with a word processor.
I think I will keep my eye out for that loser Senator from Texas- Cornyn. He has an office down the street from mine. I will massage the economy by buying expensive coffee daily- in hopes of being Wonk’d. BUT- seeing him may cause me to send my post from inside the city slammer.
[re=263846]thetalltexan[/re]: He’s very hard to miss. We attended the same birthday party together several years ago, when he was just a lowly state attorney general. His huge gray melon floats a good head (heh) above all others due to his habit of always walking on stilts. Or maybe he is just tall. I was afraid to get too close to find out. Didn’t want the wingtard cooties to rub off on me.
If only you had pix, you could do a whole installment called, “Politicians and Pundits: They’re Just Like Us!!” …they buy Cheez-its …they wait in line for food …they ride elevators …they go to the post office. It would be so exciting and riveting, just like the original one about celebs. I’ll never forget that AMAZING pic of Katherine Heigel looking at fabric samples. SO FASCINATING.
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