Laugh!

Laugh! Originally uploaded by Samer Farha.

Samer has once again been selected as a finalist in the annual DCIst Exposed photo contest, for obvious reasons (see above).

Cause for celebration, indeed. By outsourcing, shedding non-essential staff and deciding not to cover either the US election or the Bejing Olympics peepsNet has saved enough to buy Samer a beer. And we totally would except we have a strict professional code of conduct which believe me doesn't permit that sort of thing at all.

But catch us at the opening reception on March 7 at Civilian Art Projects in Penn Quarter. We'll be live blogging and maybe we can free up one of our Davos stringers.

Douple Play for Samer

Catching up on some way overdue kudos after a busy month. The good news is that Samer won't have to pay taxes for a whole year on this since peepsNet is covering it in 2008. Remember: advance deductions, delay income:

Torontoist, Dec. 3, 2007

DCist, Dec. 3, 2007

The boy's complete collection is here.

Happy St. Basil's Day

There's the author herself, with dad, bro and mom (r-l).

For the Director's Cut, check out cucinanicolina.