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QUOTES of the DAY Last night...Fox News contributor and President George Bush's Press Secretary Dana Perino filled in for FNC's Greta Van Susteren, who said she was going over to PR maven Tammy Haddad's place to celebrate her birthday. When life gets in the way of good journalism "Now my wife's vacuuming. So much for attempting to transcribe audio." -- Conservative blogger and former TWT's Robert Stacy McCain in a Monday tweet. C.S. Lewis causes Monday stir with D.C. journos The saga concerning author C.S. Lewis started like this: Politico's Ben Smith: "5 yr old devastated by ending of The Silver Chair. #cslewis." Then deep thinker extraordinaire, The Nation's D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Hayes, jumped in, saying, "@benpolitico those books changed my life at exactly that age." (Changed his life? Of course at five-years-old, the age when most people really try to find themselves.) The Daily Caller's Mike Riggs, however, jumped into the conversation in a Monday tweet to second the sadness of the books, saying, "@chrislhayes @benpolitico That series serves as a dry run for life's more epic disappointments. Rem. asking mom if all of them were sad." Journo confronts the unexpected "I have mashed potatoes in my hair. What a day." -- WashingtonPost.com Social Media Producer Katie Rogers in a Monday tweet. We love this, of course, but earlier in the day, she wrote, "Scared to leave the building." She told FishbowlDC she was referring to the wind. She thought she left it behind when she moved here from Chicago. Moe Tkacik and Lindsay Lohan "I am about as rehabilitated as Lohan, and less "employable." I keep a lower overhead, at least." -- Former WCP's Das Krapital writer Moe Tkacik wrote Monday when asked if she'd been rehabilitated (not in the alcoholic/drug sense, but on Robert Stacy McCain featured above). Ezra Klein, the movie buff "I feel like Natalie Portman did not take the lessons of Black Swan to heart." -- WaPo's Ezra Klein on news that the actress is engaged and pregnant. Washington Speak in Fort Lauderdale "The Fort Lauderdale airport terminal 4 needs an earmark." -- MSNBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Luke Russert in a geek-filled Monday tweet. Measuring dorkiness "Am I dork or do all people turn off a new album to catch @NPR @Wamu885news ?" -- asked freelance journo Matt Laslo. To which The Takeaway's radio scribe Todd Zwillich assured him, "That first thing." Speaking of, um, dorky decisions... "I'm finally going to get serious about Google Reader. Not a New Year's resolution though; it would never happen that way." -- WCP's Benjamin Freed in a Monday tweet. > Update: A sassy Freed got snappy and declared, "I don't mind you calling me a dork, Betsy, but I wrote that tweet last Thursday." (Fine, Freed, you wrote the tweet last Thursday. We humbly stand corrected. We didn't, however, call you a dork. We called your decision "dorky.") Cream puffs or push-ups: You decide "Roommate Ryan just did 50 straight push-ups. I watched from the couch while eating cream puffs and drinking beer." -- C-SPAN's Jeremy Art in a Monday tweet. F--k you Facebook for fat friend "Old high school peer now so large I'd never be able recognize that person now. It's only been 5 years! #FuckYouFacebook" -- The Daily Caller's Jeff Winkler in a Monday tweet. The critic "Disappointed tonight's HuffPostHill included no animal pictures. For shame!" -- Roll Call's Christina Bellantoni on HuffPost Hill, which usually has animals sneezing, dancing and doing other oddities.

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