• Crime emergency continues as corn-rolled City-council-candidate-car-killer kicks out window, escapes police, vows Cropp is next. [Stop, Blog, And Roll]

• DC braces for the coming throngs of “an unholy army of undead mice.” [Pie Pants]
• Discovery Channel’s new marketing strategy involves catch phrase “I want a mother fucking shark up on this mother fucking building!” [I Am A Lefty; Silver Spring, Singular]
• “Screen On The Green” begins tonight as soon as the sun stops blazing, meaning you can start. [DCist]
• Wired editor and Web 2.0 ethos-definer Chris Anderson was, like everyone else, in a DC postpunk band. [Valleywag]

Why, HBO? Why? MORE »

wonkette: sarah jessica parker’s exec producing a sitcom about jessica cutler. seriously, i need something to say beyond “jesus fucking christ i hate america”
operative: i think that works
operative: hey, if it keeps her off the streets….
wonkette: obviously, i just wanted someone else to share my pain
operative: also: America needs to know that lobbyists are not, in fact, the lowest form of Washington life
wonkette: clearly. if they were, there would be sitcoms about them.
operative: also: as if flyover country needed more proof that DC is an amoral wasteland
operative: wait til the tourism board hears about this? heeelllllo, cherry pie, indeed!
operative: SHE GOT A BLENDER
operative: not even A REAL HOOKER
operative: BLENDER
operative: the mind boggles what she’d do for a viking range
wonkette: it certainly doesn’t help the whole dc inferiority complex. our most famous whores make out like runners-up on game shows
operative: most famous whores wear fedoras to their indictment
operative: omg
operative: the ABRAMOFF-CUTLER show!
operative: so best
wonkette: !!!
operative: i would totally watch that
wonkette: sharing an apartment, natch. accidental pda switch leads to HILARIOUS MIX-UPS
operative: doing coke together, talking about body image issues
wonkette: clearly a dharma and greg for the post 9/11 world MORE »

• Page Six: Ted Koppel may ink multi-million dollar deal with HBO when he leaves “Nightline”. . . Rush Limbaugh defines himself as an ubersexual. [NYP, NYP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Chuck Todd apologizes to Richard Bradley after The Hotline repeatedly referenced him as “Ex-Dick Blow.”. . . Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey will visit the Clinton Library for publicity. [NYDN]
• Inside Politics: Spike Lee says the government may have destroyed the levee in New Orleans to “displace al the black people.”. . . Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton use U2 concerts to raise money; the band complains. [WT]

When we hear “options” and “Washingtonienne” we usually think, “front or back,” but it turns out there’s more than one kind of option you can sell for cash. New York Magazine reports that Jessica Cutler has sold the television rights for her novel to HBO and that Sarah Jessica Parker is to produce. No one could be more excited than we are for a fictionalized account of hot intern fucking — it would pretty much have to be fictional — but we do have one question: Where’s our ten percent? (Also: Is it too late to change our book cover?) MORE »