Go Home Already, 2008!

Posted by in DC Life on 12 31st, 2008 | no responses

Happy New Year’s Eve, bammas! Hook ‘em 2009 woo!

» McClatchy ran a public service announcement earlier that month about the real reason for the season. “Right before New Year’s Eve is our highest sales peak,” testified a rep from Trojan make condoms. Stock up before you get your NYE on, ’s all I’m saying.

» NBC4 reports that the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has finished repairs on some 80 feet of pipe along River Road in Bethesda. The beleaguered lane is gonna be all flossy for New Year’s Eve, which is all that any of us can ever hope for.

» A Golden Triangle trade committee hopes to give the Midas touch to bicycle racks around Farragut Square. The Washington commerce Journal reports the story, but blogger Philippa Hughes has the images for what you might expect.

» The WaBizJo surveys a band of local entrepreneurs and comes up with a list of awesome trade ventures that won’t materialize in 2009 due to the credit crunch. That comedy/dance/yoga/cafe complex you have always dreamed about for 14th and U Streets NW? Still a twinkle in Constantine Stavropoulos’s eye.

» Does anyone have a flask I can borrow?

» The Obamas will be staying at the Hay-Adams for two weeks. But you knew that already, considering you read all the DCist comments. For that rare unfaithful reader: FirstRead’s account.

» DCist wants to thank you all for an excelsior 2008. Check out some of your favorite items from the year that was in the District Of. A quick refresher: Stephen Colbert’s portrait, Dave Weigel’s awesome post on Obama birthers, Murky Coffee’s battle with teh Internet, scofflaw bicyclists, the debut of le BoltBus, the woes of the D.C. quarter, Megan Carpentier’s guide for interns, a dance dance revolution at the Jefferson Memorial, and final — but by no means least — the greatest gift of all: metered cabs.