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July 2008

Live Well Without Owning a Car [CommuterPageBlog] Help Juniper Lane [Absolutely Fabulous] Chick-fil-a Should Prepare [off the grid] Good Stuff Eatery [District Chatter] Princeton Remembers [Tony Snow] Get Your Crazy On [McKinney] Katrina Fatigue? [memorial]

It’s time for advocacy ads. Media buyers know their target audience and they’re drilling home the energy ads during the expensive MTP airing: T. Boone Pickens – The Pickens Plan Southern Company – Powered by Common Sense Chevron – Human Energy SVEZ – Energies of Progress Association of American Railroads …

Please come back….soon. These days a Brett Favre text message will lead off SportsCenter for three days and we’re tired of reading about A-rod. We need end zone dances, QB sacks, fantasy football drafts and Monday Night Football. We hope to see you soon. – FamousDC

Obama to Sponsor a NASCAR car? Nah, not so much according to the L.A. Times: The Barack Obama campaign has reportedly declined the proposal of BAM Racing to be hood sponsor of the No. 49 Toyota driven by Ken Schrader at the Aug. 3 Pocono race.

JoMa: Ya can’t make it up: The New Yorker says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.

Sunday’s Playbook: SPOTTED – Doug Heye, doing the Macarena on the Jumbotron at Nationals Park.

Gilbert Arenas makes it official, signs six-year, $11 million deal with Wizards on Sunday. Congratulations to Agent Zero and the Wizards. We’re glad to see local teams spend big money to keep our superstars in D.C.

The popular conservative community had a little work done recently.  Web 2.0 is such the rage.

Another legendary journalist’s life cut short. [FOXNews]

Quit the day job, Pat.  You’ve done good work here.

Change We Can Believe In [FamousDC] Welcome Back [Summer and the City] Photoshopped Terrorism [wonkette] Is That Really Your Name? [smash] No, it would be awesome [20210] Enjoy the Weekend [Friday] Find us yet? [nay]

We were fortunate enough to get Matt Harding, Internet super star , to slow down long enough to respond to a few of our questions. And while this post has nothing to do with the typical political tomfoolery we generally write about- it is about a young man’s determination to …

Yesterday we posted, “Where the Hell is Matt” – and gave you a glimpse into the fascinating life of one of the internet’s freshest stars. Reported by CBS here. Huff here and the NY Times here. His name is Matt Harding – and his mission, simple – bring smiles to …

DC Needs a Chick-fil-A [20210] Kick them out of D.C. [Bengals] Who Are We? [Gavin] Tangy Sweet [Fro-Yo] Baby Drama [Logan] It is gross [Creole] McFly [shoes]

Introducing the “FamousDC Media Ticket.”  If your favorite journalist didn’t make this list – perhaps they’ll make the next – or perhaps, they’re not working hard enough. President – Mike Allen, Politico The hardest working media personality needs the top office.  He’s moral, honest, and trustworthy – to a fault. …