Your Wonkette associate editor was buying his weekly “groceries” (frozen gravy-flavored bacon sticks and chocolate) at the Safeway on 14th & D sts. SE when suddenly his fellow customers screamed, “OMG IT’S OBAMA.” Then: “I want my picture taken with Obama.” Lastly: “Oh he’s just wax Obama.” Just kidding, your associate editor was the only person to do this. This is the famous Wax Demon, and it will be terrorizing other Safeways in the District tonight, according to the terrorist in charge. This is what feminism looks like!

We cannot be the only ones who’d be creeped the hell out if Madeleine Albright’s ghostly visage popped up on the register while we were paying for our groceries. That hasn’t stopped Safeway, though. MORE »

* 300,000 to 500,000 protesters to show up on Saturday — and on another more important subject, “Where can we go now to flee from Diane Rehm, Marketplace and that atrocious new Saturday food program on WAMU?” [City Desk]
* Union picketing at 19th and N. [Metroblogging DC]
* “Where the great Indie Pop debate has often looked suspiciously like Beatles v. Beach Boys Part II, Camera Obscura are one of a whole host of bands reminding us of Spector’s powerful influence.” [DCist]
* The shopping carts at Safeway have a “security system that makes the wheels lock when they pass a boundary.” But somehow, someway, “Somebody been takin’ them things.” [City Paper City Desk]
* Two Gnarls Barkley tickets for sale. [Just a Nats Fan]
* Aww. [Worth Repeating]