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QUOTES of the DAY D.C. blogger chills out in Caribbean "Last full day and night in http://www.mustique-island.com/ then back to cold and real life!"--Washington/LA "Pamela's Punch" blogger Pamela Sorensen in a Monday tweet. She's traveling in Mustique, an island in the southern Caribbean. More importantly: Coburn's beard is gone "Am very disappointed Sen. Coburn decided to shave. Come on senator! The facial hair caucus needs more members." -- NBC's Chuck Todd in a Monday morning tweet on Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Less importantly: Coburn 'disgusted' by media "I've pretty well been disgusted by all the media, right and left, after this episode," Sen. Coburn declared Sunday on NBC's MTP. Networks and outlets compete for preconception "..Americans increasingly customize their information, picking up radically different perspectives from whichever sources they trust - Fox News or MSNBC, Newsmax or Huffington Post. There is very little shared experience in the nation now; there are only competing versions of the experience, consumed in such a way as to confirm whatever preconception you already have, rather than to make you reflect on them."-- NYT writer Matt Bai in a Sunday "Week in Review" piece. Not sex, Twitter followers "Just joined the Mile High Club...by which I mean thank you to my 5280th follower." -- TPM's Brian Beutler in a suggestive weekend tweet. Buttry gets anal "Even I am not anal enough to fix the typo in my last tweet when it was the night before (but still anal enough to let you know I noticed)." -- TBD's Community Engagement Director Steve Buttry in a sequence of words we're sure he intended due to his surname. The stinging mistake? "Excellent piece on violence, not viokent rhetoric." (Considering the sensitive nature of his weekend -- "I just had blood drawn and spat into a tube to contribute DNC for a genetics study" he wrote, citing leukemia and MDS in loved ones as the reason -- we hope things went as well as possible.) Blind quote... "And Pareene? What a d--k..." -- A longtime D.C. journo remarking on Salon's Alex Pareene after we published this item late last week. Reporter contemplates tattoo "I wonder what kind of tattoo I should get now that my story assignment has been changed to the DC Tattoo Expo." -- ABC7 Reporter Mike Conneen in a weekend tweet. Conneen told FishbowlDC that he never wound up with one. "I'm still tattoo-free," he DM'ed me. "But I did get a free bottle of sea salt nasal spray. ...Apparently it has some connection to sea salt moisturizer and other products for new tattoos." WaPo's correction of a correction "Classic: WashPost correction today says that the paper misspelled the Washington Capitals as the 'Capitols' in a previous correction." -- U.S. News & World Report's Paul Bedard in a Monday morning tweet. Scribe meets Roller Derby "First time I've ever been to a roller derby. This is pretty cool, though I have no idea what's going on or who's scoring." -- NJ "The Hotline's" Executive Editor Reid Wilson in a weekend tweet. Journo's fantasy is shattered "Just was FB friended by someone named Lani Anderson. For a sec, I thought it was Loni Anderson, and that my boyhood dream had come true." -- former TBD GM and digital consultant Jim Brady in a recent tweet. (This one fell through the cracks. It's from last week.) NBC reporter claims he handled White House snack drawer "Hey @savannahguthrie @chucktodd @athenajones let the record reflect that on 1-15-11 @ 1641 viq did replenish the snack drawer in WH booth" -- NBC's Mike Viqueira in a weekend tweet. The Sweet'N Low Police "Well-dressed old woman trying to steal sweet'n low at my local deli. 'They fell!' she says, when caught. They didn't fall." -- Digital Producer for CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Steve Krakauer in a weekend tweet. Tschida is so 'DOPE' "Photographer keeps calling me DOPE! but kinda weird. Think it's a term of endearment. Seems to be enjoying himself. laughing a LOT!" -- ABC7's wild train rider Stephen Tschida in a tweet from last Friday. Weird coincidence "'Restaurant critics pay in cash,' the stranger next to me at lunch tells her friends -- just as I'm peeling off twenties for my meal." -- WaPo's Food Critic Tom Seitsema in a Friday tweet. Unnecessary Tweet of the Day "Buying thinner socks so I don't have to go home and change. #tbdnight" -- (M. Rumsey i.e. xmattiusx) in a weekend tweet. (A shining example of why local journalism is working so well.)

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