The blogger went to the Virginia DMV completely prepared. It didn’t do him a bit of good. The post: My First of Two Trips to the DMV. Quiet Declarations.

The five things you could learn from Poison Control. DC Urban Dad. Great points.

If anyone has any suggestions of good post-apocalyptic dystopian literature to read, Missives from the Birdcage would like your recommendations.

Greater Greater Washington presents a great idea: combine the Circulator and Metro maps to help out visitors.

Lunch at Makoto. The Foodie Next Door. Photos and comments.

Calm in the midst of Chaos or the Monarch Butterfly in Ward 7. Photo. Life in the Village.

Most relationships end long before people have the conversation that confirms the demise. PoofyGoo discovers this reality and shares her reflections.

State of the Fourth Estate questions journalistic ethics in the age of Twitter and in the wake of some fake tweets from a Washington Post columnist.

e-cation: noun, a physical and emotional break from the electronic tethers one has to the world; usage – “The Hill is Home took an e-cation and wrote about the experience of going off the grid.”

Feast After Famine is “Unsympathetic, or [alternatively, has been] Married for Ten Years”.

Always a Drunk, Never a Bride examines the paradoxical fallacy of “being the Cool girlfriend.”

(photo via [f]oxymoron)

My inner child is skipping to the tune of this unconventional “Back to School” post from Paint It What I Tell You; behold, crayon art like you’ve NEVER seen before.

GoBackpacking divulges his (very thoughtful, albeit detailed) strategy for picking the best seat on a long bus ride.

Living in or near the District, we all come across some brand of crazy on the streets at some point, but Uncomfortable Moments still wasn’t expecting this scene at a Whole Foods on a lovely Sunday afternoon.

Brunette on a Budget has a horrible realization at work: She IS Bill Lumburgh.

Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog informs us that today is “National Eat Outdoors Day”. Too bad it’s during (yet another) DC heatwave.

We are informed: My circus sideshow of a husband was able to devour the Quad Fish in 53 seconds. Photos, too. Dogs & Wine.

A reader takes the blogger out on a date. Date me, DC.

Peace, Love, Nicole: 33 Things About Me for my 33rd.

Powell Play shares the inside photographic story of the time he photographed Donald Trump.

Marie’s Blog Cafe describes the experience of getting a biopsy in More Boob Talk.

A public call for bra designs. ArtDiva. To support those living with breast cancer.

The Slow Cook: We Win for Best Local Food in First-Ever D.C. State Fair.

The snowpocalypse is relived as art in interesting ways. White Out at The Phillips Collection. Dramatic photo work at ReadysetDC.

I Suck at Blogging. Close Encounters of the Me Kind. Excerpt: Blogging is communicating and, mostly, I don’t feel like I have anything of value to communicate.

Note about the photo: This was a random auction find in a collection of photos. Unfortunately, it has no history, but may be late 19th century. The woman’s expression: thoughtful, dignified, yet somehow modern from a life that can only be imagined.

Among all of the joys of the internet, the ability to instantaneously test a social theory (on the micro level most times) is among my personal favorites. The author of the New Ciacada blog decided to ask the boys of the internet “what kind of mix-tape he would put together before meeting [her]” for a potential date.

The Georgetown University Student Blog, Vox Populi, has a flowchart for every conversation incoming students will have at orientation. How much has changed since you were a freshman?

Anyone who is remotely familiar with DC Politics knows that the primary, not the general election, is the one that counts. Greater Greater Washington makes a reasoned case for why that should change.

The DC Blogosphere generally lost their collective [expletive deleted] when Metro announced that they would no longer allow SmartCard holders to have a negative balance upon exiting the system. The MetroVentures blog did an outstanding job of summarizing the outrage, and adding non-histrionic analysis.

Apparently, the FDA isn’t the only organization that can issue egg recalls. The Emergency Egg Recall for Hilarity in Shoes, however, is a decidedly more personal action.

Alice of Alice in Wonderland gets lucky before going to and while in Vegas.