WASHINGTON, DC, 03:19 AM, TUE NOVEMBER 10 | Advertise on Wonkette | tips@wonkette.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS

Posts Tagged ‘dc ’

AMERICA'S MAYOR

Marion Barry’s Life Continues To Be Gross Public Joke

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

It seems as if the bitch set the fellow up.It had been a while since Marion Barry’s name cropped up in the Police Blotter, and frankly we were beginning to get worried — worried that he was dead in a dumpster somewhere, and that we’d never again have such easy material. But, hooray (?), America’s Mayor is alive and well. He was, of course, charged with Stalking over the July 4 weekend. And now the Washington City Paper has some super-gross vulgar audio recordings to share with everyone! MORE »


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

Join In America’s Rich Literary Tradition, Vicariously!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

There are going to be so many classic literary feuds, literary and otherwise, resolved this week on the DC book tour circuit. MORE »


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

Celebrate the 4th of July By Reading Books On the 3rd and 5th

Monday, June 29th, 2009

How are you celebrating Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman’s victory over the aliens? Wonkette recommends indulging in such earthly freedoms as “third parties,” hallucinogens, and atypical products of M.F.A. programs! Ralph Nader will be around to answer your questions, and Reif Larsen will be around, to tactfully evade your advances. There’s also more, so much more. MORE »


TRAIN WRECKS

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Yikes.METRO CRASH KILLS 2, 6, 9, INJURES 55 76: Red line trains smash up and stack up near the Ft. Totten Metro station, and emergency teams have reportedly just finished the “extraction.” Traffic jams, ambulances trying to get in and out, just avoid the whole area. Ugh. [WTOP/DCist]


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

Here’s The Catch: You Must Choose Between Joseph O’Neill And Cokie Roberts’ Socialist Realist Classic-To-Be, “Ladies Of Liberty”

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Recall last summer: it was the summer of Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, the most important book liked by people wearing the most important-looking glasses. It seems O’Neill has journeyed from that wire-rimmed menagerie of the psyche to Politics & Prose, where all such odysseys of the soul must, and do, eventually terminate. Plus, David Makovsky is a gentleman who will be arguing that some of the US’s terrible Middle East policies really came about because of “miscommunications.” Obviously this is terrific news, as it is written in the Social Contract that if a problem occurs because of a Miscommunication, alcohol or a lack of cell phone reception, then no party can be held accountable, for anything. Twitter.com/socialcontract (1762), by Rousseau. Look it up. MORE »


MYSTERIES

Dirty Traffic Signs Too Dirty For Local Media

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This is just an example of a dirty sign.Hey DC-area commuters, help us out! We hear that two of them roadside “Expect delays now until forever due to construction”-type electronical signs were HACKED by HAXXORS, and displayed vulgar words to drivers this morning. (The signs are on the Virginia side of the Key Bridge and on eastbound Hain Bridge Road at the George Washington Memorial Parkway.) Here is the question: What were the naughty words? Because your local Fox News refused to show anything other than the mysterious word “MUDKIPZ!”. [MyFoxDC]


BETTER THAN IRAN

A Children’s Treasury of Gay Pride DC Parade Photos!

Monday, June 15th, 2009


This is what the Ark would have looked like, if Noah had been an out gay man. MORE »


BLOGSPOT IS THE NEW TWITTER

Some People Offended Or Whatever By MTV Show Being In Washington

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ....Since the early 1960s, there has been an annual rumor about the teevee program The Real World doing a season in Washington, which is a city known as the capital of America. And this year, FINALLY, the important MTV grunge “camgirl” show is really for real being videotaped right here in DC. But not everyone is thrilled beyond belief — one person, in fact, has bravely launched a free blog account about how maybe it would’ve been vv good had the entertainment cable show The Real World done a season in Washington maybe during some earlier year but definitely not this year because what is even up with that? [Anti-Real World DC]


IT'S YOUR TURN WASHINGTON

Fighter Jets Will Attack D.C. Tonight & Tomorrow

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Here’s some service-y journalism for you, so you can enjoy everybody else screaming and otherwise going nuts after midnight, when Air Force fighter jets begin a two-night assault on Washington’s fragile psyche. “A pair of F-16 fighter jets are scheduled to make periodic passes over downtown Washington at relatively low altitudes early tomorrow and again in the predawn hours Wednesday as part of a military exercise,” the Washington Post reports just late enough in the day for nobody to hear the news. Luckily nobody ever freaks out when huge scary low-flying roaring jets just pointlessly scare the shit out of everybody in the middle of the night. [Washington Post]


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

Susan Sontag, David Ignatius, And Brooklyn, Right Here In DC

Monday, May 18th, 2009

It is like college here in DC this week: there is an opportunity for free food that can be capitalized upon by pretending to be interested in the publication of something—plus a bonus Susan Sontag salon. Plus, that quintessential collegiate particular: fictitious tales about Brooklyn! MORE »


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

George Pelecanos, Colson Whitehead, And Bonus Other People Stop By DC

Monday, May 11th, 2009

BIG THINGS on the DC book circuit this week. For instance: your third-favorite Wire personality George Pelecanos (after David Simon and Omar), in addition to Colon Whitehead! Plus, go check out the Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim Worlds, the hotly anticipated fan-written prequel to Barack Obama’s bildungsroman, The Marx-Engels Reader: Die Träume Von Meinem Vater. MORE »