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 [...]