A Mayoral Cannonball, Connie and Interns
STOP THE PRESSES! Tomorrow, call in sick, watch World Cup on replay. The real action will be up in Brookland at the swimming pool at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams is doing one final mayoral cannonball at 1 p.m. to kick off summer.
As you might recall, we said last week that last year's mayoral cannonball was "probably the last time we'll see Williams do such a thing." To our delight, we were wrong. Hizzoner is doing one more.
From a mayoral announcement:
Mayor Anthony A. Williams will hold his weekly press briefing, kick off summer season and perform his final trademark cannonball "dive" on Wednesday, June 21 at noon at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center. Activities for children will last from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. including live entertainment, games, sports, and arts and crafts.A cannonball isn't exactly a "dive," but since we're filled with pre-summer joy, we'll give the mayor's office a pass.
Photo of last year's cannonball by James A. Parcell/The Washington Post
» SONG SUNG BLUE? Does Connie Chung regret her swan song this weekend on MSNBC? Not exactly. " "I sing off tune so perfectly. ... I just find it's a great way to capture the audience," she told Jacques Steinberg of The New York Times. (She claims she didn't have any alcohol before her serenade was taped, but told the Times "I should have had a drink before I went on."). And The Post's Lisa de Moraes reported this morning that ...
... [a]s of press time, the performance had attracted about 320,000 views on YouTube.com. That is considerably more than the show's average audience in its Saturday 10 a.m. time slot on MSNBC — which explains why it only lasted six months.For the record, we predicted that on Friday. [NYT; WaPo; Free Ride]
» MORE ON INTERNS: We talked about fitness for interns earlier today, but we aren't done with 'em yet. (This could be a theme for the summer season ...) Wonkette today treads into dangerous territory with its Hill Intern Hotties contest, which is perhaps the greatest nightmare for any Capitol Hill press secretary and, naturally, the interns in question. But we're sure that certain interns, bright-eyed and drunk on perceived power, are going to eat this up, fueling this summer's Hill gossip circles with the best of what the Facebook and MySpace could draw to the surface.
In honor of this, we'd like to revisit one of our favorite intern scandals — that of Paul Kelly Tripplehorn Jr. and the steamy summer of 2003. Tripplehorn, an intern in the office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, fired off a nasty e-mail to a female intern who he didn't really like all that much ... an e-mail that got forwarded around Capitol Hill. Click here for the full report (but be wary of Tripplehorn's bad spelling and potty mouth ...). But here is an excerpt that'll stand the test of time in the annals of stupid intern tricks:
Well, as of this afternoon, I was planning on ruining your career by making phone calls to all of my parents [sic] friends and have you blackballed from the workplace as well as every prestigious law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because you are a sad sad person and I will just let your life self-destruct right before my eyes.Quite a charmer, Mr. Tripplehorn is. We wonder where he ended up ...
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