This Cherry Blossom Thing may attract tourists like flypaper, but it’s good for at least one thing: it really inflates the number of boozey free-for-alls in DC, a service we can all appreciate. The next such event is the Cherry Blossom “Soiree” tonight at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, which will provide the singular experience of drinking your fancy (unlimited!) sake alongside waxen likenesses of America’s sexiest first couple. MORE »

In the English-speaking world, the greatest honor that a well-known human can earn is to be made into a waxen gargoyle by Madame Tussauds. Michelle Obama, our new First Lady, will enjoy this wonderful privilege in a few short months. MORE »

Goo! That’s Barack and Hillary, in the Oval Office, except it’s a fake Oval Office and they are wax “busts.” The vaguely new Madame Tussauds wax museum in DC unveiled this exhibit yesterday in anticipation of today’s Potomac Chesapeake Crabby Primaries. The exhibit features other demonic constructions as well… MORE »

This is just creepy and wrong and weird — we got a press release earlier this morning advising us that “PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON D.C.” today. It’s from Madame Tussauds, whose Chinatown by-way-of-Coney Island (but somehow… not awesome?) wax museum is opening soon. And yes, Abe’s hideous life mask attached to a 7 ft tall mannequin is on the Delta Shuttle to National right now. He gets in at 11:45. They bought him a ticket and they’re posing him on the goddamn seat. Maybe they can bring JFK’s doppelganger in on the Acela. The quiet car, natch. Press release, after the jump! Still time to make it to the National to see the whole gross spectacle, guys!

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