Ever wonder what it’s like to be a bike cop? Scoutmob features a rather… adventurous ride-along story with DC’s finest.

I told y’all I like you, oh veggie/vegan friends and readers. As Meat Week winds down, here is DC Vegan’s listing of all the fun stuff y’all will have waiting for you as part of DC Meat-Free Week. Mmm. Veggies.

After looking at today’s super-sized slew of pretty pictures of food, I am hoping against hope that Keep It Simple Foods invites me to this party in honor of the football game being played on Sunday. (I’m not even TRYING to get in trouble with the NFL trademark police over what that game is called.) I think once you see these pics, you’ll see why.

Relationship changes bring taste changes. But Always a Drunk, Never a Bride contemplates the darker side of changing jerseys as she changes relationships.

As a historian by schooling, I always found it kind of unfair that the stories of amazing people like Shirley Chisholm are all shoehorned into one month. But that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate her life. Here’s some more information about Congresswoman Chisholm from DCBigPappa’s Blog.

And to take us out this week: Panda Head, with a little reminiscence about one of my favorite songs. Which may or may not be my “song” with the boyfriend. Don’t judge me. Have a wonderful weekend!

Evidence of my lack of intelligence. Abstract Citizen.

Restaurant Refugee is a contributing editor here, but there’s no rule that says another editor can’t point out another editor’s post that he really liked. Dear Dreadlocked Woman Driving the Top-Down BMW* Yesterday.

An Engineer in DC writes about Newt and the cost of space travel in the post: Moon Bases and Other Baloney.

The great silverware debacle. Shall we go boating today?

One must agree: Most Eyebrow-raising headline of the week. The Skeptical Bureaucrat.

One could be forgiven for thinking that a blogger writing about her/his writing is the height of the navel-gazing stereotype. Not So Linear’s introspection about writing, intersecting with blogging, and doing it as a job is a compelling read.

There aren’t too many fashion blogs in my blog reader but Go Kate Shoot stands out as a fashion blog that has great photography, tight writing, and broad appeal. Her summation of “Blogger’s Night Out” is visually stunning.

Pithypants takes a pause from being pithy to ponder perspective… it’s a view of homelessness one rarely sees or reads.

With all of the blog inches? pixels? space devoted to anticipating, recounting, and dissecting DC’s Restaurant Week, it seems on proper that we give some blog love to the restaurants participating in DC Meat Free Week. dc vegan has all the details.

For mature audiences: an erotic romance story Told in Seven Parts by once and future DC Blogger Life Goes On, I Think.

I read somewhere that “‘Google before you Tweet’ is the new ‘think before you speak’.” I suppose this group of British tourists learned that the hard way, article via The DCist.

It seems like something out of a Science Fiction movies, but according to WashingTina, Presidential hopeful Newt Gringrich would like to colonize the Moon. While I’m all for zero gravity golf, I can imagine the influx of new falsehoods that will start cropping up on dating sites. “She said she weighs 110 lbs.” “Yeah man, but Earth pounds or Moon pounds?”

My friends are always going on about how wonderful “meditation” is. I’ve never tried it myself, but Free in DC is offering up details for a free meditation workshop in February.

“I want to carry a pickaxe and collect gems” struck me as funny, and now I can’t stop giggling. Oh, the joys of parenting, as brought to us by Sarah and the Goon Squad

There are two things I love: Nostalgia and Funny Commercials. Punch Drunk Critics has both.

2Bird1Blog writes: My psychiatrist asked me last week if I ever worry about running out of material for the blog, and I said no, because if I do, I just have to take the metro somewhere during rush hour and we’re back in business. The post and it’s long title uneditd: I’m fairly certain I watched a woman discover a mole with irregular borders on the metro last night…

A Tale of Two Pizzerias. The Boca Sola works her way through the Washingtonian’s 100 very best restaurants.

Our world is strange or maybe it’s just Columbia Heights. Le Don Francois draws attention to a rant on Craigs List.

Street art, Columbia Heights via Park View.

Washington DC Bucket List — with more than 100 items on it by someone who plans to leave DC in two to three years. Once Upon a Child.

Urban Turf: Rents Will Fall in DC, But Not By That Much.

Ooh, did this cautionary tale from Que sera, Sarah make my inner paranoiac all twitchy. Jeez, Google…

From Listen to Leon, an undeniably sassy – and language-NSFW – take on President Obama’s visit to Arizona.

When you lose someone you love, they say that time heals… well, somewhat, anyway. DCfemella meditates on a somber anniversary.

Rock-star elegant pictures of food for you today, courtesy of The Pumpernickel Collection.

I love salads and vegetables of all kinds. I also love all my vegetarian/vegan friends and readers. I really do. But y’all, I am an omnivore. And I am so, so excited to tell y’all that next week is – squee – DC Meat Week. Capital Spice has all the goods.

And to take us out today, skee-ball. Skeeball. Whatever. Something totally fun and light-hearted from Team Wet Dog. Have a smashing weekend!

Making It In The Land of Shakiness and The Unfavorable. Mahoganie at East of the Anacostia River writes about the freelance life. She writes: I’m a freelancer and it’s a straight up hustle. And while I hate to throw in the race card, I have to wonder how much of it is my reality as I try to become published in some of the most highly regarded publications known locally and nationally.

The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle looks at the new people of D.C. and what they want, in the post, Can the Rise of the Internet Explain D.C. Zoning Fights?

Old crime and other stories of DC at the Ghosts of DC.

Team Wet Dog gets up at 5 a.m. to get some photos of the Washington Monument.

Livin Mi Life writes: I think the ability to express deep emotions requires great strength. Especially in our culture. A culture where strength is equated with being cold, calculated and disconnected.

Rantings of a Creole Princess asks a provocative dating hypothetical… do scroll through the answers in the comments.

Among the most vexing problems facing the generation of Millennials is affordable housing in urban areas where they most want to live and work. Greater Greater Washington offers a compelling view on the subject.

A Jersey girl in DC takes issue with a loaded statement from the garden state’s governor. Always a Drunk Never a Bride.

Once and future DC Blogger, Sunshine & Potatoes, has a great idea about re-purposing that old and neglected pair of shoes in your closet.

In the wake of this weekend’s most shocking news – no, not Newt Gingrich’s win in the South Carolina GOP Primary – that Seal and Heidi Klum are splitting after a Hollywood eternity seven years, Peace Love Nicole has assembled a list of seven celebrities who can never break up.

Why an Ex should make the break full, clean and silent… an interesting perspective from DCfemmela.

Breaking up is hard to do, and Ask Miss A serves up some tender advice to “College Sweetheart“.

GLAA Forum posts a rant by the hilarious Jenna Marbles about White Girls in the Club.

Chicken Cacciatore is hard to spell, but it’s delicious to eat. In Kat’s Kitchen has a simple recipe for the wonderful comfort food.

My life long love affair with Christian Dior is shared by many, including Coffee & Dreams, who is sharing a preview of what’s to come later this year.

And because we’re all pinching our pennies, but still looking for something fresh and different to do, Free in DC is sharing info on what looks like a (FREE!) salacious good time in the old town tonight. “Bare” hits the stage tonight only from 8-10 and boasts “comedians, Story tellers, and sex educators.”

How did we get here? A beautiful post by a truly remarkable woman. Toddler Planet.

Babreabtheego shares her new tattoo.

Ok, the Lizardman looks weird. Cloture Club.

In depth look at Logan Circle’s Birch and Barley. Yumma Yumma!.

Dude, Awesome! Raising Genderless Children. Dumb Mom writes about gender. Parenting by Dummies.

This is Me Just Not Caring Anymore. Photo. A journal entry from
For When I’m Bored And Want to Ramble.

The Ruined Capitol. Photos make the point.