Even if you’re not attending the inagural, here’s info on road restrictions in the DC area.
Including a whole collectibles shop from Cafepress.
Party hearty!
It’s not easy being green, cars & couture version
Two funny items:
Via Ed’s podcast:
Eric Massa’s Wild Ride, or It’s Not Easy Being Green (in 4 Cars)
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard mathematician turned satirist, reportedly retired from the latter profession because politics had become a satire of itself in the 1970s. Eric Massa, the Congressman from New York’s 29th District, decided to demonstrate Lehrer’s continuing wisdom. He wanted to promote hydrogen-fueled vehicles as an answer to ending greenhouse-gas emissions, and so planned to drive himself to Washington DC in a GM model for publicity. However, Massa’s green ride got a big-time boost from two enormous SUVs
It went down from there. Or should I say, uphill from there?
The second item, via Memeorandum, ‘Trashion’ Trend: Dumpster Couture Gets a Boost at Green Inaugural Ball
Designer Judd Will Be Showing Off a Coat of Many Colorful Obama Posters. I wouldn’t wear a coat of many colorful Obama posters, but at least they’re not hazardous. Some of the creations require a tetanus shot. From the captions in the slide show:
1930s-style red evening gown from the previous slide. The dress is made from upholstery fabric and 12,000 glued-on pieces of crushed glass. The dress occasionally sheds, so it might be smart to bring Band-Aids on a night out.
Wouldn’t want to sit wearing that dress, but that’s nothing compared to this one:
One of her favorite creations is a short dress made from canvas scraps and hundreds of rusty nails. She said the clicking nails on the dress remind her of a percussion instrument. The sewed-on nails came from a local import-export business.
For inagural formal apparel, attendees with lots of money and better taste might want to consider this elegant gown from Carolina Herrera.
Judd also made
a coat from stiffly lacquered Obama campaign fliers. Ms. Judd got Mr. Obama’s measurements online, in the hopes that he may wear it someday.
But hopefully not in public.
Give an egg for Obama!
Want to go to the inagural ball? Don’t have the connections or the money? Give an egg, then!
Woman Offers Ovary For Inaugural Ball Ticket
An ovary for a ball: Fair trade, no? A 27-year-old Cleveland lawyer and Barack Obama enthusiast thinks so. On Tuesday, Lisa F. posted a Craigslist ad offering her ovary—and that of a friend—in exchange for two tickets to an inaugural ball. “We’ve exhausted all my legitimate means of finding a ticket by begging our campaign staffer friends, so we thought we would try this,” says Lisa. “Also, neither of us are currently using an ovary.”
The ovaries, which range in age from 26 to 27 years, come with no strings attached. “Today, you can get an ovary from two separate, progressively minded women who are willing to part with their internal organs for a chance to wear a party dress in the same room as President Elect Obama,” Lisa wrote in a posting under Craigslist’s “for sale” section. “These women . . . will not require an explanation of your purpose. Do you wish to procreate? Use them for science? Macabre hackey sack?”
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Lest you think she’s so fervent about Obama that she’s giving away parts of her reproductive organs for him alone, Lisa is willing to part with her ova for others:
“I’m prone to melodrama, so I might have said I’d give up my ovary for a couple other things, too—meeting Harrison Ford, for example.”
And why not? After all, he’s not a President but he played one on screen.
UPDATE, Saturday 10 January
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Via Instapundit, Inaugural Rentals Begging For Takers
Plans Dashed For Easy Money
Save your eggs, Lisa.
Update 2
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This came from Denny, too:
