On the YouTubes: We Watch the Reston Association Videos So You Don't Have To

My word, Andy Sigle gets more and more casual every month in these fancy videos from the Reston Association, foregoing the summer casual look for a spiffy polo shirt in this September edition. By the time winter rolls around, he'll probably be shirtless and wearing body paint, just like all those morons superfans you see at football games in December.

"Have you ever wondered why Reston Association is permitted access to your property for inspections?" Sigle asks. No, we haven't, but that's kind of creepy when you get right down to it. Covenants Advisor Julie Loy explains that you signed away your rights when you bought your beige house or townhouse or condo or whatever, due to some easement of "ingresss or egress" or something that was in the 974 pages of documents the closing agent thrust vaguely in your face during the closing process. Tough break, suckers! Fortunately, the video shows that any such agent of the RA will wear a snazzy green jacket with the words "Reston Association" on the back as they creep around your backyard, taking pictures and generally lurking about in search of illegal light fixtures and other threats to our ability to Live, Work, Play and Get Involved (tm) in perfect harmony.

On a lighter note, there's lot of awesome treepocalypse footage of people dragging dead tree limbs and greenery around the Old Westbury Recreation site in South Reston, which was part of AOL/Monster's day of charity this summer. Apparently the goal was to eradicate Japanese Honeysuckle, one of eight VERBOTEN pants in Reston, and watching the invasive menace get hacked out of the primeval forest from the comfort of your computer is a lot like sitting in the cheap seats at a NASCAR race when a wreck goes down. Yeaaaaaaaaaaah!