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QUOTES of the DAY And the Worst-Sounding Breakfast Award goes to... "Easy Sunday breakfast: Cook and drain some frozen peas. Thickly slice and cook bacon. Toss together with lots of salt and pepper. Done." -- Chef Ezra Klein in a Sunday tweet. Professor. Doctor. Blogger. What's next? We're not Food Network experts or anything, but this doesn't sound so good, Ezzy. Maybe add fresh figs? (FYI: Klein moonlights for a food blog called the Internet Food Association. Last year he revealed that he was adding fresh figs to his diet.) White House correspondent en route to Paris "Woke up mid-flight to discover a napkin on my lap on which was scrawled "Kentucky 76-69" Awesome!!!" -- The Hill's White House Correspondent Sam Youngman in a weekend tweet on a flight to Paris. Heads up GQ's Ana Marie Cox: Drinking Game Alert "Libya drinking game. If Pres O says, "let me be clear," turn off the tv and drink half-bottle of Jack." -- National Review Online's Greg Pollowitz in a Monday morning tweet. President Obama is scheduled to give an address on Libya tonight. The Critic "Missing from the NYT profile of Astoria, OR: It was the backdrop for Kindergarten Cop" -- Politico Deputy Politics Editor Sara Libby in a Monday morning tweet. Most necessary part: "h/t Jonathan Martin." Libby links to the piece here. (We h/t Libby of course...) Journo loses her mother "Still, in the wake of my mother's death- rain feels more like tears than luck. So I went inside." -- TIME's Jay Newton-Small in a weekend tweet on the passing of her mother. She also wrote: "Guess it's lucky. My father proposed to my mother during the monsoon. And I was born in a thunderstorm." Our condolences to her. Now this is dedication... "Ha! I've used TBD so much in tweets that my iPhone corrected a typo to tbd. (Was trying to write "the." Looks like I thumbed "tbe.")" -- TBD Community Engagement Director Steve Buttry in a Monday tweet. Ever the observer... "With the recession technically over, the New Yorker profiles Christian Louboutin. It's a fun piece. Loubi practically profiles himself." -- The Daily Caller's "Daily Baller" Mike Riggs in a Monday morning tweet. (We thank Riggs for the excuse to run a photograph of beautiful shoes and note his expertise and ease with Loubi lingo.) Fake Jim V. wants to know what the hell happened... "Juicebox Mafia? James Hohmann still drinks Capri Sun totally non-ironically. Where's our trend piece?" -- FakeJimVandeHei in a Sunday tweet. To return to a dead PoliticoMouse is truly awful. Thank God FakeJimV is alive. Here he (or she) is referring to Politico's young whippersnapper James Hohmann, a former WaPo intern, in reaction to NYT's incredibly softball Sunday Style section piece on Boy Banders WaPo's Klein, Slate's Dave Weigel etc... (More on the death of PoliticoMouse and that NYT Style story later...) Why Gibbs shouldn't take Facebook job.... While the rest of D.C. is commenting on former White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs' potential move to Facebook, WUSA's Angie Goff throws a wet towel on the idea with this Monday morning tweet: "Researchers say Facebook could cause depression." Goff's story link hails from Fox News's website, which runs an AP story today about how Facebook presents a "skewed view" about what's really going on. Oh the irony... Slate's Shafer makes a request "Please subscribe to the NYT so I'll have it to kick around." -- Slate media writer Jack Shafer in a weekend tweet. D.C. journo mentality "Actually having a weekend = long Sunday night of work. :(" -- WaPo Social Media Producer Katie Rogers in a weekend tweet. NPR's Inskeep in Disneyland karaoke hell "At Disneyland: 6yr old too terrified to visit Haunted Mansion, so we stand in New Orleans hearing jazz band play Back Home Again in Indiana." -- NPR's Steve Inskeep in a weekend tweet from Disneyland. He continues: "You haven't lived until you step into House of Blues, adjacent to Disneyland, & discover it's a karaoke bar with $18 drinks." And this: "p.s. Karaoke singer now belting out "Dancing with Myself"- it may take between $36 and $54 to make this right." F&@# Smoking! "I quit smoking almost exactly three years ago. It remains one of the best things I've done. Ever. Seriously, fuck smoking." -- Journalist, author, and media critic Craig Silverman in a weekend tweet. He writes the "Regret the Error" website and works for PBS Media Shift. Mika learns a thing or two from "Playbook" "Thanks to Politico for the reminder that it's my father's birthday." -- MSNBC's Mika Brzezinksi this morning on "Morning Joe" in a silent shout-out to Mike Allen, who included it in this morning's "Playbook." Mika's father, who often appears on the program, is Zbigniew Brzezinksi, former U.S. National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter.

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