To the hundreds of people standing outside the Covention Center last Saturday, MORE »

As if it wasn’t bad enough that his Saturday night inaugural ball had a cash bar, recently sworn-in DC mayor Adrian Fenty rubbed insult into injury by inviting everyone in Washington and then only letting a couple thousand in to the Convention Center. Wonkette’s weekend inbox filled up with Blackberried complaints from DC denizens stuck outside in the merciless 60-degree January weather.

While the Washington Times makes it sound like an enjoyable time was had by all, embedded Wonkette operatives tell a different tale:

Subject: Fenty’s Balls

The fire marshall has lblocked thousands of ticket holding dc residents from going in. While standing in line for about an hour they let 300 members of the mayor’s family in through the side. They were in the vip reception and apparently don’t count in fire marshall math.
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More complaints and pictures, after the jump.

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* Reliable Source: Nancy Pelosi fails to attend party for Nancy Pelosi. Adrian Fenty made it to a lot of parties… “Laura Bush, Condi Rice, Mary Matalin, Margaret Spellings and Harriet Miers [spotted] at Cactus Cantina for a surprise birthday party for Karen Hughes. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: “During a standing ovation for Pelosi, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., easily won the prize for “first Republican to sit back down” … “According to Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., what the job really calls for is not a whip but ‘kneepads.’” [Examiner]

* Mayor Elect Adrian Fenty leads meeting at the Kennedy Recreation Center (1401 7th Street, NW) about Shaw: “Whether you want to see dog parks in the neighborhood, more police on foot, more financial support for affordable housing, more green space,” tell him, blah blah blah, activism. 6:30-8:30PM. [Life in Mount Vernon Square]
* Maryland Police release photo of escaped NE robbery suspect. Hurry, put it on your MySpace page and get out of work tomorrow! [stop, blog and roll]
* Guest blogger Dan Snyder says, “Go Redskins!” [The DC Universe]
* Frenchie news channel debuts in DC today. [alternative hippopotamus]
* Washington Improv Theater has new holiday shows, fruitcake jokes. [CREATIVE DC]

* Adrian Fenty turns 36, celebrates by baking weed brownies and seeing The Fountain. [DCist]
* We agree, Rep. Kingston, spending time here eats away at families, libido, syntax. [Alligators on a Party Barge]
* Hot 99.5FM morning show needs a sidekick for DJ Kane. This is a dream job. Send Kane your craziest clip, but try hard because he’s from Florida. [Hot 99.5]
* Bloggers describing their breasts as spectacular. Score another one for citizen media! [Yeah, so I'm...]
* Just what Capitol Hill needs, now that Foley is gone. [Barzelay]

• “Wow! Fenty hasn’t even taken office yet, and he’s already fixed the DC schools, eradicated crime, housed the homeless, and in general, turned DC into a utopia! Because, really, how else would he be able to waste his time with something like this?” [The DC Universe]

• Latest from DC’s #1 web novelist SethJ: “The air becomes thick with manure. The driver loves it.” [American Night]
• Someone found her blog by googling: “I’m wasting my life away”. [DC Katastrophe]
• Six year old writes awesome lyrics: “I am a rockstar, and I pee everywhere with my penis.” [Freewheeling Spirit]
• New family-owned Ethiopian coffee and tea house on H street. No turbos. [Frozen Tropics]

• Fenty, fifty. Fifty states. If Fenty gives DC voting rights the whole country will fall apart and people will poop from their peeholes and pee from their poopholes. [The DC Universe]
• “I like being friends with my dad. I know I sound like a kindergartener when I say it, but I do.” Nah, bro. You don’t sound like a kindergartner, but you spell like one. [Fictional Rockstar]
• “Esther Phillips has has an album and a song called ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes.’ Dude, what a difference a designated driver makes! So for real… I’m slightly hungover at work right now typing this.” [Panama's Proposition]
• OMG this is insanely disgusting. But safe for work. Commenter says: “Jesus Christ Jeff, it’s gonna take about three hours of cuteoverload.com to get over this one.” [And I am Not Lying, For Real]

• Rhode Island’s 15 minutes of fame are up as maverick Senator Lincoln Chafee wins GOP primary. [WP, NYT, USAT]

• Michael Chertoff tells congress that the US cannot “defend ourselves against every conceivable threat.” Nation’s petting zoos and popcorn factories now totally unprotected. [NYT]
• Hillary Clinton wins primary in a cakewalk, eats no actual cake. [NYT]
• Democrats feel NSA is inappropriately advocating it’s own spying program. [WP]
• Maryland elections display DC levels of logistical incompetence. [WP]
• States taking it upon themselves to increase minimum wage, “for the first time, a majority of states could require higher pay than the federal rate.” [USAT]
• Diplomacy now so obsolete reporters forced to write about who’s doing Condi this week. [NYT]
• Adrian Fenty will be next mayor of DC. [WP]

• Adrian Fenty wants to see the city’s people “get lifted.” [Fenty '06]
• “Why is it that I became almost offended at JR’s on Sunday by being called “exotic” not once, not twice but three times…. like I’m half peacock or something….. next time somebody’s going to get a fresh one in the pie hole.” [DC Gays of Our Lives]
• Fuck you, August. “Ann Frank wrote her last diary entry in August, and it was August when the first A-bomb was dropped…Babe Ruth, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley all died in August.” [Till Human Voices Wake Us, and We Drown]
• Coyote Ugly has closed. “Don’t Just Get Drunk, Get Ugly” didn’t work out in Atlanta, Boston or Philadelphia either. [Diary of a Mad Asian Woman]
• “I may have to move to Louisiana and become a flood victim” in order to schtup Senator Mary Landrieu. [Media Concepts]

• “Rolling Hurricane Revue” tour heads to Mississippi and Louisiana to mark today’s one year anniversary of Katrina. Blame game still on, reconstruction in MS faring better than LA. [WP, NYT]

• Tropical Storm Ernesto is weak, but FEMA Director David Paulison’s “No More Fuckups” doctrine has an army of personnel in Florida. [CNN]
• Kofi Annan wants in on the cool kids “disaster touring club,” heads to southern Lebanon. [BBC, NYT]
• Bill Clinton in Africa visiting AIDS patients, finds warm reception: “George Bush has actually delivered more resources, but Clinton is ten times more popular in Africa.” [NYT]
• President Nursultan “The Friendly Kleptocrat” Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan to visit White House in September. [WP]
• Indiana Republican congressman Mike Pence no longer the “perfect conservative” as he tries for compromise on immigration issue. [NYT]
• Fenty vs. Cropp televised debate yesterday — no steel cage, just a really small table. [WP]

• Linda Cropp debates Adrian Fenty next Monday at 4PM. News Channel 8. [Dcist]
• Mad DC Cabbie doesn’t smoke weed, is naturally high person. [Diary of A Mad DC Cabbie]
• me (1:37:19 PM): lol sweet
  me (1:37:26 PM): anyone dead yet?
  “VA Tech guy” (1:37:30 PM): 2 [Last Stop Surburbia]
• Taberna del Alabardero celebrates Flamenco festival with a special menu and Flamenco dancing. [Metrocurean]
• “Imagine “Chappelle Show” mixed with “Jackass” mixed with “Luke’s Peep Show” mixed with “In Living Color” mixed with “The Man Show” mixed with “Dr. Phil”. If you actually can envision that conglomeration of randomness, then you can imagine what I’m like when I’m out in public and I know people are watching.” [Listen To Leon]