New Cartoon!

New Cartoon over at FG Cartoons. Thanks to them that have commented. I would post more here about funny things in the news, but I'm too tired.

Gotta go to bed now. Enjoy the cartoon. I should have one this Sunday, and one every Sunday thereafter. Hopefully with some weekday mini-strips thrown in now and again.

Any way, I hope yo....... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A Few Thousand Words

At the prevailing exchange rate these pictures should be worth a few Thousand!

Another picture should also be available today at FG Cartoons.

The Reason for the Red Carpet (and the Traffic)

Gotta Love the web...

This is why the streets were closed in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre when we were there. The Asian architecture of the place was, of course perfect for the premiere of "Kung-Fu Panda" If we had been real stalker-y, we could have seen Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, and Lucy Liu in person, as well as in wax.

(if this post makes no sense to you, click here)

Also - The MTV Movie awards were in town, too!

A Great Day in L.A.

My wife and I spent yesterday afternoon with my brother and his girlfriend in Hollywood. The main event, the Hollywood Wax Museum, was a bit of a letdown, with models ranging from eerily realistic (Samuel Jackson, Anthony Hopkins as "Hannibal" Keanu Reeves as "Neo") to - Well... to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My big question on that one echoed so many other figures in the museum. How can you tell if a "Lifelike" model of a fictional creature is "Realistic"?

We did too much too encapsulate everything here, but here is the "Cliff's Notes" outline.

Things that were awesome:

• L.A.'s visibility and weather. In Smogtown USA, we could see the city's skyline perfectly from Hollywood Blvd. Even with Universal Studios on fire at the time.
  
• Standing around 3 stories up lookin at view; see above) eating awesome Ice Cream from one of those places where they mix ingredients into your ice cream on a refrigerated stone countertop. Banana Ice Cream with Fresh Strawberries and Graham Cracker Crumbs.. $6.07, and worth every dime!
• Getting to re-experience with my wife the things that I had seen last time I came to Hollywood without her.
• Brunch/lunch/dinner or whatever-the-heck meal it was (we woke up early, 2 timezones away), at the Mel's Diner on the corner of Ventura and Kester. Our waiter was such a stereotypically polite young Japanese woman, we expected her to perform a Tea Ceremony right there at our table. She said "thank you " about 100 times during our short meal, and I swear I could tell she was fighting the urge to bow deeply each time.
  
• Getting to finally give my brother a present that he hadn't already gotten himself. I got him an action figure of Walter, from "The Big Lebowski". (John Goodman's Character For those of you not in the know) To say it was well-received might be an understatement. I felt like Santa Claus. I felt bad for not bringing Valorie a "half-birthday present", though. (It's an old family tradition, and is exactly what it sounds like.)
  

Things that kinda' stunk:

• Not being able to go to the Grauman's Chinese Theatre to show Becca all the handprints/footprints of the stars, due to some opening, or premiere, or other red-carpet spectacle that they were either setting up for or breaking down from. We think it may have been the premiere of Hancock, but that's not for sure.
• The road closure from the aforementioned event forced my brother onto a circuitous, road-rage inducing route to the parking garage where we could finally get out and go enjoy ourselves
• see opening paragraph re: wax museum

Things that really stunk

• Having a persistent and worsening sore throat through the whole thing.

There's lots more, but I am not gonna spend my whole vacation blogging.
I'll have more blog (and pictures) soon. And twitters until then.
Swimming pool is calling to me...