Are you a statehood fan, believing we should have more than “shadow” representation in Congress?

Do you also recycle religiously, separating and rinsing all your Whole Paycheck Foods glass, plastic, and non-ferrous metal containers?

Then skip your previous pool party weekend plans, for its time to rally the troops (and signatures) for the DC Statehood Green Party at their Mayoral candidate mixer today in DC’s first all eco-friendly store, Future Green.

Note that you will not be seeing Cropp or Fenty, we’re talking the DC Statehood Green Party candidates – as in there are actually more than one attempting to win the DCSGP endorsement. Like it would matter.

If you go, do me a favor, check for vegans wearing leather.

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It is the start of a four day weekend. Four days of pool parties punctuated by pyrotechnic patriotism.

You ready for a margarita yet? If you have a pool, DC Metroblogs delivers!

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Well, this is a strange town. Between DCist’s weird rivalries (seriously, bagging on Cake Love & Ben’s Chili Bowl? Do you also stamp on yellow fuzzy ducks?) and all manner of strange behavior in the city this week after the rains, it’s been a rough week in DC, and I think we could all use a break

So, take a moment and read the tale of the circumlocutor who discovered that movie to the lilied-lanes of DC does not necessarily make it always okay to hang out naked. Or, that, if you do hang out naked, chances are, your SUV-driving neighbor will stop and stare at you for a good 15 seconds.

Me, I’m just going to cry in my Guinness that England lost on penalty kicks allowing those nancy boys from Portugal to advance.

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Today, July 1, it is time to celebrate a nation’s founding. No, I am not drunk on cheep booze and off by three days, I am talking Canada Day – the day Canadians try to make folks believe they aren’t just an extension of North Dakota or France of the North.

And what better way to celebrate Canadian Independence Day that on the Mall at the Folklife Festival. The Smithsonian’s annual celebration of all things distant and exotic has an expose on the very striking.. Alberta?

Yes, that Alberta, the one in Canada. The one the Smithsonian gushes over with this riveting prose:

Alberta’s true wealth is its people–a diverse, hard-working, innovative population whose “can do” spirit has transformed a frontier territory into a prosperous province with a vibrant cultural landscape. Celebrating its centennial in 2005, Alberta is the first Canadian province to be featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Yeah, and let us hope it’s the last.

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If there was one “Interim” we could take out of a DC title, it would’ve been Dan Tangherlini at Metro, not Jim Bowden of the Washington Nationals, who is pretty much the mental midget of the baseball GMs out there. Kasten, according to the Post, said:

“Jim is very smart,” Kasten said last night at RFK Stadium. “By smart, I mean analytical.”

If by analytical, you mean doesn’t know the odds on driving drunk and getting caught, or can’t pick a team that’ll win more than half their games, or maybe even doesn’t bother to talk to Soriano about switching positions before trading for him and announcing the change.

Oy. Are we really stuck with this guy?

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