Dal's Swinging Book Party

Dal LaMagna having a swinging good time at Comet Ping Pong. Last night's book party for Dal LaMagna (a.k.a. Tweezerman) was something to see. As shown above, there's Dal swinging from a light fixture at Comet Ping Pong. The book is Raising Eyebrows, A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right. "I can't believe what a cross section of friends I have," Dal told the crowd while standing atop a chair. "It's quite remarkable." Remarkable indeed. Take a lesson Michaele and Tareq. No fete is complete without party crashers. And this one had crashers of the leopard and zebra variety. It wasn't even pre-Halloween weirdness. They work at National Geographic (he works in editorial as a coordinator; she's an intern. They say it's consensual.) The animal couple, Willie Schubert and Laura Newcomer, are partaking in a social experiment that will debut Monday on a blog detailing their travails. The point is simple (well, sort of). They don skin tight animal onesies and go out amidst the rest of the human population and see what happens. They go to museums, liquor stores, on the Metro - and apparently to book parties to which they haven't been invited. "You wear a suit like this and you make your way into the party," Schubert says, explaining that reaction to them has been largely positive. "People hand me their children." (Security guards, however, bristle. One in the Metro ordered them to remove their hoods.) Coincidentally, Newcomer admitted to owning LaMagna's famous tweezers. Spotted in the crowd imbibing and eating delectable pizza: NJ's Matt Cooper, FishbowlDC and QGA's Matt Dornic (among the hosts), Juleanna Glover (lobbyist and fellow host), Daily Caller Spokeswoman Becca Glover, FD's Mary Kathryn Covert, Media Consultant Anne Schroeder Mullins, Wahington Life's Kevin Chaffee and John Arundel, CNN's Edie Emery, TIME's Jay Newton-Small, Politico's Patrick Gavin, Michael Steel, press sec to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Host Committee member Glenn Ballard, Washington Life photog Kyle Samperton, American Morning News radio host Amy Holmes, CBS's Christine Delargy, Tim Burger (former Time scribe), Heather Podesta, a lobbyist, and Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin. Glenn Ballard gets kissed by the Social Experiment

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Dal's Swinging Book Party

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