Yes, it still feels like angry micro-sized road workers are jackhammering inside my jaw. But hey, it’s been only a week and a half. Maybe by next week it won’t hurt because I’ll have placed my head onto the onramp to the 405. That might help.

A big shout-out to my thoughtful thesis student Sandra, who was kind enough to ask about it. Either she remembered, or she saw me furtively tonguing the throbbing blasthole the way a dog licks hopefully at its injured paw. Which is what my wife caught me doing the other night before quietly depositing in front of me an undefined tiny blue pill that proved remarkably effective. No, I have no recollection of anything that followed.

Y’know those celebrity tours where you can see Fred Astaire’s house, or visit W.C. Fields’ gravesite, or whatever?

Now you can go throw up where Charles Bukowski did. And visit the post office where he was infamously employed. And so forth.

And all for the “didn’t know there’s a recession going on” price of 58 bucks — which is about 53 bucks more than Buk ever had until the end.

Irony abounds.

After a full night of fighting crime, there’s one thing you need to do before settling down for a relaxing cup of Nite Owl coffee: Tend to your wounds. If you’re not fortunate enough to have an Alfred or a Jarvis, that means stocking your own medical supplies. Here’s the perfect solution for those little scrapes and cuts: Ouch! Comic Strip Bandages.

The 1st Annual Bukowski Festival is this month in (where else?) Hollywood. Here’s the info:

Part of what that treasonous fathead Rush Limbaugh rails against as Obama’s “tax increase” is simply the sunset of Bush’s 2001 rollback of a decrease in marginal tax rates from 36 to 33 percent. Who designed that rollback? Bush. When this expires, what will be the impact on all those people making about $250,000 a year that McCain and Joe the Plumber were fretting about late last year? About the price of a cup of coffee per day. If you fall in that category, don’t order a daily latte and you’ll never notice.

Drink Watchmen coffee.

Jon Stewart on false populism from, of all places, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Yes, my jaw is still killing me. At this point, I’m considering horse tranquilizers.