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* Shooting at 5th and M Street. [Life in Mount Vernon Square]
* The real origins of “turbo.” [Media Concepts]
* Please note: muggings must now be referred to as “culture exchanges.” [City Desk]
* Draft of tonight’s Presidential Address. [a blog for the rest of us]
* “Don’t let the terrorists win ladies, go have sex.” [Craigslist]
* Wonderland robbed Friday night at 9PM — “patrons continued chugging their Yuenglings even after having pistols waved at them.” [City Desk]
* Photos from Saturday’s Turbo Dance Party at the Rock and Roll Hotel. [Brightest Young Things]
* Dude, this blogger just called you lame. [Sour N Sweet]
* Kids under 10 think being a celebrity is the #1 thing in the world. When we were 10, we wanted to decide who lived and who died. [The DC Universe]
* Lessons from a waitress: Don’t sit down at a dirty table, do not bother her when she is at the computer, do not say “the chef has made it that way for me before.” [Till human voices wake us, and we drown]
* It’s a special Christmas when your therapist says, “just stay away from people right now.” [cocoricamo]
Last Thursday, we crashed one of the biggest, drunkest annual get-togethers of the exhausting holiday party scene — the Chamber of Commerce party. Our report is after the jump, and Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter’s gallery is available here.
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.
The forums at Late Night Shots have been fizzling out lately. They’ve started censoring themselves, and the posters are listless. Spelling still stumps them, however, and just last week someone declared that “Carmen Santiago” was the second best computer game. You don’t know what you’ve got til’ it’s gone, huh? Intern Lauren learns about internet censorship, why ethnic names are bad names, and what charity is really for, after the jump.
