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Oh good gravy there is a special election event at the world-famous giant suburban church somewhere. Let us pray about our purpose-driven liveblogging, which could happen, IF THE LORD WILZ IT. Oh it’s starting maybe, let’s find out if it’s on teevee, and who will be president of 22,000 bored people in “Lake Forest, California,” where there’s no lake and no forest. MORE »

* Kiefer Sutherland will be in town this weekend to close the DC Independent Film Festival. [life off balance]
* Just another Monday night at the National Press Club, talking about Katie Couric’s shoes. [circumlocator]
* We’ll pass on the shirts, but how much for the Petworth DC Raggie-Annie? [Petworth DC]
* ShamrockFest “urb to suburb” music recommendations. [Thong Speed]

Facing the awful reality that Bush will definitely get DC nuked before he leaves office, FEMA and the FBI are among the federal agencies relocating to rural Virginia because it’s “outside the blast zone.” MORE »

What happens when some twee accordion-indie band from Portland, Oregon, plays a NW bar on a dead Monday night before Thanksgiving? Nothing, really, but the group in question (Norfolk & Western) were unhappy enough to share their story on some Internet board. And then it ended up on DCist. And then 7,000 people left comments either dismissing Washington as a dangerous Third World crimeland filled with dangerous black people or dismissing the haters as racists who should all move to the Pacific Northwest where everybody is white and plays in a twee accordion-indie band.

We’ve collected a few highlights, which you’ll find after the jump.

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