* “Unless you enjoy flushing $10 bills down the toity, I do not recommend signing up for the Cherry Blossom high tea on the Potomac …. A handful of Hershey’s kisses (whaa?) on the tables and a plate of stale cookies.” [Brunch Bird]
* “I didn’t get to bed until 5:30 on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Laura Sessions Stepp would not be pleased with me.” [hey pretty]
* Photos from inside the new stadium. [Near Southeast Redevelopment/Revitalization]
* New DC slogans, “Washington, D.C.: Less of a target than New York” and “Washington, D.C.: Our subway system is as easy as our interns.” [The DC Universe]
* DC Tech Events happening this week. [Ross Notes]

* Laura Sessions Stepp is a reporter for our own Washington Post. She’s turned her eagle eye on “hooking up” and how it harms a young woman’s ability to experience blushing, Barbie love. Stepp argues that college aged women “should admit ‘the bar scene is a guy thing’ and stay home to ‘bake cookies, brownies, muffins’–after all, guys, she confides, will do ‘anything” for homemade treats.’” She’ll talk about Unhooked tonight at Politics & Prose. This Q&A is not to be missed. Free at 7PM. [P&P]
* “The Changing Faces of Shakespeare” at the Corcoran. The curator of Art at the Folger examines, with images, “the way in which Shakespeare has been depicted over the centuries and how the notion of what he should look like has changed throughout time.” $20 at 7PM. [Corcoran]
* K-OS and Gym Class Heroes After Party at DC9. Free at 11PM. [DC9]

• “LAURA SESSIONS STEPP HAS A BOOK COMING OUT.” [why.i.hate.dc]
• The Maryland Court of Appeals says that if you are all like “yeah, do me” and then in the middle are like, “no wait, stop” then you were not raped. “Hey, why stop there? Let’s criminalize the act of giving someone blue balls.” [Rock Creek Rambler]
• CNN is spending Election Night next Tuesday at Tryst, “a Washington, D.C. hotspot for young politicos.” We will be there, drinking whiskey from a thermos, wearing our “NO WONKETTE” t-shirt, and feeling sorry for CNN. One blogger suggests a DC blogger party crash, and we’re totally cool with that. [TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS]
• It’s been around a bit, but here’s a Jackson Pollack painting game. Forward it around the office as a sign of friendship. [Brunch Bird]
• Lots of DC Bloggers participating in National Novel Writing Month. [The View from Dupont, hey pretty, Circle V]
• No one hates bloggers like other bloggers. [Kathryn on...]

• Brandishing his firm grip on obvious pointlessness, the Post’s Philip Rucker tries to out-do Laura Sessions Stepp - he scores well, but the use of interns for quotes lowers the difficulty rating a tenth of a point. [WaPo]

• Metrosexual envelope-pusher Peter McBride is the biggest douchebag in DC, which puts him high in the running for biggest douche world-wide. [Newsweek via Beauty and the Beltway]
• Vladimir Ilyich giggles in his mausoleum as the US government single handedly keeps Office Movers in business through soviet style moronic inefficiency. [Jaded In DC]
• Tucker Carlson wants you to know he is really light in his loafers. [Blah Blah Blog]
• The Chinatown bus is great for so many reasons, being able to get naked and piss yourself in front of the entire bus is just one on the long list. [Pop Pop Bang]
• Norton vs. Colbert II: The Booze Hounds - live on pay per view! [Winesmith]

Thanks to a tip from a reader still tied in to that old-fashioned thingamabob called “radio,” we can tell you that the Post’s Laura Sessions Stepp, American journalism’s foremost expert on the wingman is RIGHT NOW ON THE AIR TAKING YOUR CALLS. Washington Post Radio: 1500 AM and 107.7 FM. For, like, another half hour or so. Call at 1-877-POST-1077. Ask her the finer points of collar-popping etiquette, or about how she lost her virginity, or SOMETHING. A chance like this will not come your way again! MORE »

• Rupert Murdoch carries heads of state in his pocket, “like so many nickels and dimes.” [HuffPo]

• In order to make “Senator Katherine Harris” a reality, she’ll have to succeed where the Mafia and John Kennedy failed. [The DC Universe]
• Ohio’s centuries of bad luck continues, as billboard with gross-out aborted fetus image gets flown over Cleveland. [Evangelical Right]
• Prince “I’m Never Gonna Be King” Harry enjoys fine automobiles, Red Bull, and horseshit. [Borrowing Trouble]
• Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney kicks off nascent presidential campaign by heading to Iowa and blurting racist comment from his honky mouth. [AP]
• Laura Sessions Stepp immortalized by Great Moments In Journalism, still desperately needs to get laid. [Gawker]

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Circulation plummeting! Costs rising! What to do? The Washington Post has decided to politely ask all its writers to please stop writing. At the moment, the list of people who’ve been offered a buy-out is 70-odd long, and includes some of the best reporters and writers at the paper (cough Kamen cough cough) (and not Rich Cohen cough cough). In the midst of this bad news, Fishbowl DC finds the worst: MORE »