Metro Section: Oh Great Klaatu! You Have Come To Save Us!

• Crime emergency continues as corn-rolled City-council-candidate-car-killer kicks out window, escapes police, vows Cropp is next. [ Stop, Blog, And Roll ]

• DC braces for the coming throngs of "an unholy army of undead mice." [ Pie Pants ]

• Discovery Channel's new marketing strategy involves catch phrase "I want a mother fucking shark up on this mother fucking building!" [ I Am A Lefty ; Silver Spring, Singular ]

• "Screen On The Green" begins tonight as soon as the sun stops blazing, meaning you can start. [ DCist ]

• Wirededitor and Web 2.0 ethos-definer Chris Anderson was, like everyone else, in a DC postpunk band. [ Valleywag ]