You know the story: Jean Valjean steals the candlesticks, adopts the street rat, is harassed by Inspector Javert forever and dies. The end. Catch the Signature Theater’s production of Les Miserables before it ends on Feb. 22. [Signature Theatre] MORE »

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Hello, everyone! Did you miss Cartoon Violence, last Friday, when you were reading the Internets when you should have been celebrating the day after Thanksgiving by crushing innocent Wal-Mart temp workers to death? You were no doubt alone in the house as you sat in front of your computer screen, your Cheeto-stained fingers typing out the addresses of various porn sites, so you were probably naked. Because this week is a “work week” (for those of you who still have jobs), you’re probably not naked now. But guess who is naked! That’s right: various persons in cartoons! MORE »

Republican Gus Bilirakis is running for his dad’s old 9th District seat in Florida, which has been safely Republican for a quarter century. But Democrat Phyllis Busansky is … well, she’s not the Republican, so the race is competitive. MORE »

• 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]

• DC: a less shitty place to live than other places that are more shitty. [Lawsomnia]
• Redskins’ marketing department great at coming up with ways to, “distract our moronic fans from realizing how we constantly bend them over and fuck them in the ass.” [Why I Hate DC]
• List obsessed Forbes magazine ranks DC 9th in best cities for singles. [Metroblogging DC]
• The ranking would have been higher if not for the fat flasher of 16th street. [Shiftless Badger]
• City Paper EIC Erik Wemple is less of a journalist, more of a crusader against hypocrisy in city government and, ah, doggy day spas. [Circumlocutor]
• The alt-weekly can, however, still be trusted to not miss a single instance of the loony-toon crazy ramblings of Brother Marion.
  [City Paper]

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We like the sneakers.

For those of you in need of a little morning pick-me-up, here are additional photos from yesterday’s “Running of the Nudes,” PETA’s protest against bullfighting.

They’re not quite as exciting as yesterday’s batch, which featured an exposed nipple. And our operative apologizes for the “sub-Ansel-Adams quality” of the images: “From a camera phone, but what can you do?”

But there’s still plenty of exposed flesh for you to ogle. Check ‘em out, after the jump.

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A little bitching can go a long way. After we complained about the dearth of photos from this afternoon’s PETA event, one of you kindly sent a few in our direction. Here’s one (click to enlarge):

We take back what we said earlier about the protestors not being that cute!

After the jump, two more photos — including one with an exposed nipple…

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Alas, despite our desperate plea for photographic evidence, none of you sent in pictures from PETA’s “Running of the Nudes.” The event, to protest bullfighting, took place in front of the Spanish Embassy earlier this afternoon.

KUTV of Salt Lake City has some video footage. But it’s a bit rough, and you can’t see anyone’s naughty bits. The participants don’t look very hot, unlike past PETA protestors, and their Spanish-language chants are inscrutable. Even the cops look bored.

As for eyewitness accounts, we received one — yes, one — lonely email, from a tipster who wandered past the event. Check it out, after the jump.

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Sorry for the short notice. This is happening VERY SOON: MORE »