I’m getting a lot of interesting comments, links, and emails from people who have only discovered the blog now that it’s all over. Hi, new people! Sorry that my life is boring now. I need a break.

However, I couldn’t quite leave Taco Tuesday behind… there are brave new frontiers of weird food to try. So I’ve moved it over to my “personal” blog at Heyitsopus.com. Check out the all new episode.

Also I want to give big props and thanks to Alaskan singer/songwriter Marian Call, who was touring through Los Angeles and came by my All New Year Wrap Party. She was moved to write a song for the All New Year, of which she has yet to record, but sent me the lyircs, which I find hearbreakingly charming. This is Marian’s song:

A poor girl on her own in
the city, bemoanin’
The troglodyte males who molest her
Found welcome relief,
reinforcing belief
In good breeding, when her host impressed her –
At a very fine party
Not snobbish, but arty
And full of the finest of folks –
With wit and panache
And a grand ex-moustache
And punchy yet civilized jokes.
Oh, heaven preserve us
from louts who unnerve us
And bastards who pinch us and grope us
Here’s to the hepcat
who brook have none of that –
Our very own maaaaaaaaagnum Opus

Wow. Nobody’s written a song for me before (and I am guessing they won’t from here on out) so I am speechlessly thankful to Marian. Thank you to her, and everybody who has supported me in this crazyass project.

–opus