The pay it forward umbrella. Malnurtured Snay establishes his credentials as a gentleman.

If you want to know just how big a hole a ground hog can dig, check out these photos. Funny Farm.

Extremely bad, horrible idea: Should Metro Sell Station Naming Rights? The 42.

Sad for a Life I Never Met. RealityBites.

Listen to Leon interviews comedian Rob Delaney.

Time Magazine to DC: Drop Dead. David Klion.

Note to readers: We will be back after the holiday.

Reason expresses outrage over the forced closing of Capitol Hemp.

One method for getting rid of students: Burleith resident puts up fake S.N.A.P. “bus” sign. Vox Populi.

Hine Jr High: Dead Zones and Life Zones. Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six.

Splash of Ashley takes a photo tour of the Maine Ave. Fish Market.

Artomatic: Some Early Reactions. Arts Desk. One artist: Dear Dave.

Successful speed cameras require fair speed limits. Greater Greater Washington.

This is Why I Hate Starbucks People. Brad Kanus.

After seven years in D.C., Salem is getting ready to leave. She makes a list of her favorite things about the District. It’s not the usual list. One item: Shouting at Elena Kagan. No Power in the Verse

Hitherto tries to capture photos of her dog, Zoe, searching for pizza crusts on Saturday morning in Adams Morgan.

29 Reasons We Love DC This Summer. HLG.

Study Predicts “Resilient Walkable” Places Will Lead the Housing Recovery. DC Streets Blog.

This is very cool: Smithsonian history you can participate in. Growing Up in the 50s and 60s. It includes a Flickr Pool. American History Blog.

Half hour Metro headways are not acceptable. Beyond DC.

Last weekend WMATA ran trains 30 minutes apart along the entire Orange Line. Although some reduction in service was necessary due to single tracking between Eastern Market and Cheverly, such extremely infrequent trains along the rest of the line was unnecessary and was a disservice to Metro’s customers. Metro’s job is not merely to run trains. It’s to serve customers who ride trains.

Welcome to the Neighborhood, Mr. President. U Street Dirt. Photo of president picking up his sandwich.

Milon in Washington DC goes back to Sweden.

The Passing of a DC Legend. Wardrobe Oxygen pens a tribute to Chuck Brown.

Adams Morgan Petition Wants D.C. To ‘Stop Treating Record Stores And Vintage Stores Like Pawn Shops‘ Huffington Post.

Metro Rolls Dice with Our Lives. Unsuck DC Metro is on the case about Metro doors that open when the train is in motion.

We are just stories. Writes Hannah Just Breath:

A one-block walk, and you still catch the tourist, the lobbyist, the intern, the homeless, the privileged Georgetown-ian, the radical, the Republican, the high sheriff, the harried staffer, each charging (or settling) into the day with a purpose. Because this is Washington, DC, damn it. We’ve got an agenda!

The passing of Chuck Brown. DC Not Rocking Today by DC Rocks.

Strawberries real and fake. In Shaw writes: Mock strawberries grow all over the place here.

Quarter Life learns how to use a sewing machine and makes a bag.

How to turn off the ladies: Stupid things lonely guys say. Rachel Machacek.

Is this the trend among blogs generally? Your Drop in Comments Explained: The Incredible Shrinking Blog. Stirrup Queens.

A Funny Story About My Mom and a 300 square foot studio apartment. Slinderwink on Daily Kos.

The Secret to Every Successful Relationship. Sassy Marmalde. What she has learned in her 33 years.

Heading into the Unknown. Comparing graduation with swimming in the Anacostia. Deborah Yi.

The Mini Cooper as the car of choice in Alexandria. LIT’s Living on Capitol Hill (Hell!?)

The earliest photograph of Glover Park, Red Hill, 1861. Glover Park History.

Former DC blogger now in NC, writes: It has been a heartbreaking week to be a North Carolinian. Dancing through NC.

Also writing on the marriage issue is the Preacher on the Plaza: I see so many of my pastoral colleagues being afraid to say anything at all out of fear of what their congregations might do to them.

How does this happen? Terrifying Experience. Collective Action for Safe Spaces, formerly Holla Back DC.

Dog Owner Seeks Info on Attack Dog in Glover Park. All Life if Local republishes the story of the incident. The account was originally posted on the Glover Park Listserv.

‘Dark Shadows’ Review: Depp Can’t Save Wounded Plot. DC Film Girl.

Guy steals his bike from the thief who stole it. We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.

Pretty pictures of fish at I Flip for Food.

In the words of the old song, what the world needs now is love, sweet love. Fitting then, perhaps, that Hey, Love brings us this little dose of everyday kindness.

The title of this piece could easily be Suburban Sweetheart, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hamburgers. (Especially that last one…)

Another week, another media controversy about mothering. Stirrup Queens wrestles with this week’s highly inflammatory (and NSFW, in your humble editor’s opinion) Time magazine cover.

Oh, the dangers of suggestion algorithms. Shopping Hungry had one of those rude awakenings when presented with her summer reading list, courtesy of Amazon.

And to take us out this fine spring weekend, a little star-gazing. Or is it moon-gazing? WriteSpell shows y’all what I learned growing up: how beautifully the full moon hangs over the Gulf of Mexico. Hope you all experience something beautiful this Mothers Day weekend!

Observant reporting: A Five Step Guide to Getting a Girl’s Number on Metro. Adventures of a Florida girl in DC is impressed.

From IU to DC shows a little of IU in the post My Brother’s home! From a deployment in Afghanistan.

The short story of a short documentary: ”One Day, They will run the world.” Une francophone à Washington. The blogger’s documentary work on women’s issues.

Affordable to Whom? About the cost of housing in DC. R.U. Seriousing Me?

DC Gentrification Story Goes Global, reports DCentric.

First, The Girl With the Red Stethoscope must deal with the identity theft problem, and then there’s the strange smell in the apartment. That post is called: This Day Just Keeps Getting Better and Better.

Average Blogger writes: Long story short: I had an opportunity, I blogged about it, and that was the end of that.

A Wash of Paint gets past the theft of her iPhone on the Metro and looks at the broader issues and emotions. She writes: You never know how you’ll react in those situations, and I did the best I could. I did fight back, even if I didn’t fight back enough, and at the very least, I didn’t freeze initially.

Sneak Peek: BakeHouse. U Street Girl. A bakery that will open at 14th and T this fall.

DC photos that were used in a marriage proposal. Russell Brammer.

Photo tour of new apartment. Fannetastic Food.

Behind Our Blog Team: Matt Martz. A Q&A with the blogger. Wolf Trap Blog.