* "Good morning, Washington. It's Columbus Day, the least observed of all the federal holidays -- or is that Veterans' Day?" [DCist]

* Alexandria, repazent. [Metrocurean]

* "In case you don't own an Apple product and have been dying to buy one but Clarendon, Pentagon City, Tysons Corner, and Bethesda are just too far away for you, you're in luck..." [Metroblogging DC]

* ... Or can you? [Eavesdrop DC]

* "According to official estimates by the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, more than 20,000 citizens descended upon the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Air and Space Museum, and the city's trendy Georgetown neighborhood on a day many said they would forever remember as being

in the mid-70s with a nice southeasterly breeze." [The Onion]