Honest Abe…in Cheese?

Really. I don’t know exactly what to say about this, other than the fact that it’s a  statue of Abe Lincoln made of cheese. hahahahhaha!

Oh yeah, it’s life-sized!

Cheez-Its is sponsoring it, so you get free crackers?

(Who thinks of these things!)

There’s a Caddyshack screening tonight behind the DOT building on New Jersey Ave. The theme is “Wear Your Best Golf Shirt”. Gotta love ’80s movie nights.

We’re going hiking tomorrow on the AT to Annapolis Rock. Great way to spend my day off, huh!? Anyone want to come with?

If you can’t make it, LocalHikes has a number of great hikes to explore in the DC area, and you can set it to whatever region you’d like.

Look at all these plans the Gurus have for the Fourth across the region! Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band in Vienna? Yesss!

Have a happy, safe Fourth of July!

John Dillinger Trivia and Public Enemies Screening

Wanna see Public Enemies for free? The National Museum of Crime and Punishment is having a trivia night tomorrow, Tuesday June 30 at 5 p.m. Questions center on John Dillinger, and the winner gets free tickets to an advanced screening of Public Enemies.

To get into the museum you have to pay $17.95 (totally worth it, by the way- it’s a neat place. Wrote an anthropology paper on it, actually), but the trivia is free.

Plus, even if you don’t win, it’s still fun, right? Call the museum at 202-393-1099 for more info.

Soap Box Derby

The SOAP BOX DERBY is tomorrow, June 20th  from 9-4. It’s from 1st St. and Constitution Ave (between Louisiana and Kentucky Aves. NW). I mean, really, who doesn’t want to see a bunch of soap box derby cars in the middle of DC? Awesome.

Cute!

SILVERDOCS

AFI and the Discovery Channel have paired up to present SILVERDOCS, a weeklong series of documentaries at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD (you can get off at the Silver Spring stop on the Red Line). Most of the time the films aren’t free (but SUPER interesting, I loved going last year), but tonight they’re showing a documentary about the first walk on the moon outside that doesn’t cost anything.  Here’s the blurb For All Mankind:

Forty years ago, in July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Breathtaking both in the scope of its vision and the exhilaration of the human emotions it captures, FOR ALL MANKIND is the story of the 24 men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences.

The show starts at 9.

Also, for those of you who are interested, the film festival continues until Monday. Here’s the schedule. Anyone want to come with me this weekend?

Summer Bags

It’s the summer and if you know me at all, I’m definitely a bag lady. I stumbled upon this neat video where you can make your own bag from 105 cm of cloth.

And yeah, we’re in a shopping cart in that header. It was pretty awesome if you ask me.