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

My good friends treated me to a night out last night, to see one of my favorite bands at the Henry Fonda Theater up on Hollywood Boulevard, which is one of my favorite venues. It’s small, the sound guys aren’t out to make your eardrums bleed, and there’s a lovely rooftop cocktail-garden if you [...]

I’m typing this from my desk at work, partly as something to while away the minutes until I can leave for the weekend, and partly because I’ve been thinking all day (all week, really) about tonight’s presidential debate (I’ve been sneaking peaks at the news all day to see what people are predicting about it) [...]

But less scary than most of the other things I’ve been thinking about lately.
From the web site of the Franklin Institute (a place I visited back in 7th grade and failed utterly to appreciate, despite the walk-through Giant Heart): the story of 18th-century Swiss mechanician Henri Maillardet, and his Auto-Writing Puppet.

Considering Maillardet was able to [...]

I love my Fridays off, and it starts getting good right about now…
Here’s some interesting things I found today:

Barack Obama has a new 2-minute commercial on the airwaves. It’s simple, to-the-point, and 100% substance.
Rave on.
Speaking of thanking God — Liz at The Park Bench Reads Cosmo So I Don’t Have To. And for [...]

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In the September 29, 2008 edition of The Nation essayist Katha Pollitt has some questions for Governor Palin:

Suppose your 14-year-old daughter Willow is brutally raped in her bedroom by an intruder. She becomes pregnant and wants an abortion. Could you tell the parents of America why you think your child and their children should be [...]

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If you don’t know what trifle is, or have never had it (or, as is more likely, have had it but in some sad, half-assed Stop-n-Shop deli-counter version), listen up: trifle might be the best dessert ever invented. Why? Exactly because it is every dessert ever invented. That’s the point of [...]

for fear I may be obliged to weep…

I’m listening to Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech as I type this, and I just realized why I’m having such a hard time paying attention to the GOP convention, and it goes way beyond the fact that I’m opposed to most of the GOP platform policies. I’m opposed to a number of the DNC platform [...]

So, it’s possible you heard that Google sent its brand new contender into the fray of the ongoing Browser Wars today, and perhaps you cared enough to read beyond the headline. Not that Google didn’t make it easy — what better way to snag the interest of the average geek than by documenting it [...]