February 10, 2005
I scream, you scream, we all scream...
...for bobbleheads?
I never thought Drudge would be a source of useful (or truthful) information, but here it is, something I read about and then took advantage of: you can get a Howard Dean Bobblehead doll for a $5 charitable donation and a rendition of his famous Iowa speech (a.k.a. "the day the Democrats learned the downside of unidirectional microphones going straight into the mult box").
Expecting a mob scene, I went down to the Trover Shop bookstore on Pennsylvania Av. SE to find the store mostly empty and only four of the bobbleheads sold, according to the cashier. The Hill probably has the largest concentration of Drudge readers in the country -- does he lack credibility to the point that nobody believed that there would be a Howard Dean bobblehead, or is poor Howie past his merchandise-moving prime?
Anyway, I turned this:
into 
Walking across the mall, I couldn't help but get a photo of Howard, still in his plastic, worthy of a postcard.
Posted by rj3 at February 10, 2005 1:52 PM
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