Just For Fancy Musings of a self-proclaimed Fancy-Pants.

Okay, seriously — can somebody, please, stop the madness?
We’re going on nearly three months now since the shinola hit the fan. Nearly three months since Henry “Hank” Paulson and Bennie “Boom Boom” Bernanke came a-knockin with their spooky stories of financial apocalypse, and the doom that would befall the universe if [...]

Hot damn — someone’s been working out.

Also, the Bennyhillifier, which has just guaranteed that I will get nothing else done today…

…Getting my latest freelance job online (way to go, Jim & Shelby!).
….Wondering how “authentic Japanese ramen” restaurants get away with charging more than $0.99 for their noodles (I’m looking at YOU Chabuya).
…Oh, and watching this more than a few times:

UPDATE! I’ve been alerted to the possible presence of a new/prospective (?) Dunkin Donuts shop at 20022 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503. Google maps still lists the address as a Togos (and we all know how reliable Google Maps is in this regard, don’t we?), and the “steet view” looks more like a “Baskin [...]

Fred Armisen of SNL has been practicing his Barack Obama impersonation. I vote him 75% improved:

I have shampoo issues. Actually (and anyone who knows me with any degree of familial intimacy knows this) I have scalp issues, but for the purposes of this post, there’s not a lot of difference. I’ve had dry-scalp problems pretty much since infancy, when my chronic flakiness was called “cradle cap.” Now [...]

So, here we are with 92% of the year gone already — just when I’d finally trained myself to write 2008 on checks — and the holiday season is in full swing. Had a great thanksgiving here in LA, with Andrew & Lindsay down from Oakland for some turkey and trimmings. I remain [...]

Happy birthday to Steamboat Willie (aka Mickey Mouse), who is 80 today.

Anyone else feel like they just got done running a marathon?
And like you came in first?

Barack Obama’s beloved grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died early this morning. She was 86.

I only work every other Friday, and since this past Friday, Halloween, was my day off, and it’s looking like turnout for the General Election on Tuesday might be kind of bananas, I decided to trek down to Norwalk to cast my vote early.
Norwalk, you ask? Don’t you live in the Fairfax District, [...]

Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

I’ve been so busy this last two weeks, I’ve neglected the blog pretty woefully, but I plan to get up to date today. I’ve got a serious dust-bunny infestation to deal with before I can sit down and tell my legions of fans what I’ve been up to this month, but I do promise [...]

A million years ago, I weaseled my way through a Minor in Studio Art at a tiny liberal arts college. It was, for me, a matter of supreme importance at the time, because while I was contractually obligated by the terms of my scholarship to obtain a “real” degree (in English Lit, as it [...]

…is neither a “Joe” nor a plumber. Here’s some other interesting things I’ve learned about Mr. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher of Holland, OH since his name was invoked exactly 26 times during last night’s debate:

He is not now, nor was he last week or last night, undecided about his election choice. Despite some spelling [...]

I’m still watching the debate (late), and I’ve got a million other things to talk about & photos and everything, but I just listened to this:

John McCain is an ass. An ass. He gets no more kindness from me.

So, on October 11, I hopped a flight to Chicago, a city that had long called to me, but which I had, somewhat inexplicably, never before visited, there to see the sites, meet the people, and attend An Event Apart, a conference about web design and designers of web content put on by the folks [...]

Yeah, I’m on a bit of a tear today. I just saw this, though, and couldn’t not post it. McCain addressing his audience as “My fellow prisoners.” Really. Really? What on earth can he have meant to say? How did he mix up “Americans” or whatever with “prisoners”? [...]

Earlier today, a friend shared with me the latest nonsense to come out of Fox News, this time regarding the continued liberal elitist bashing of poor every-woman, Sarah Palin. This time Newsweek (that bastion of elitist sentiment and liberal ire) is to blame for — horror of horrors — putting an un-retouched photo [...]

From today’s Cheers & Jeers from Kossak Bill from Portland, Maine:

“…I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say at this point that the campaign of John McCain—once touted as being oh-so-honorable by the Very Serious People who enjoyed his barbeque wings and fluffy cushions on the “Straight Talk Express”—is now one of terror. [...]

The friend I watched the debate with last night just sent me this, and I couldn’t resist:

So okay — maybe it wasn’t quite as excruciatingly boring as last week, but the socks are definitely still on. I suppose both candidates exceeded expectations; Biden was cordial and genuine, and had that touching “moment” when he was talking about his son; Palin didn’t drool on herself and managed to stand upright the [...]

We’ve only got a couple of hours before our national socks are knocked off by what promises to be a real hum-dinger of a Vice Presidential debate*, so I wanted to get some of these thoughts that have been buzzing around my head today out onto the screen — I want to make sure I’ve [...]