Homer is my favorite Simpson. I admire the consistent and dense beard stubble and his passion for donuts, cheap domestic beer and cheese slices. Regardless what Fox pays the dream team of Harry Shearer, Julia Kavner, Nancy Cartwright and Dan Castellenata – the voice actors that bring the Simpson to life – the benefits of their hard work are beyond equal.

The Simpsons humble beginning also impress me. The series grew from a sketch on the Tracy Ullman Show. Matt Groening, author of the cult comic strip Life is Hell didn’t want to corrupt his beloved characters. So when Fox asked for a short piece for television, he crafted a new family on demand. The Simpsons were in a fact a throwaway piece of work. Seventeen years later, that “throwaway” still brings home the Benjamins.

Which sure proves the old saying, future value is impossible to predict.

Meet the driver next door.

Parking a car, even a large sedan isn’t that wonderfully complicated. Is it?

Went to the warehouse today on Buddhapuss Books business. Between the repeated seventy-five step walk from the car ( yep, felt everyone last one ) and three flights of stairs, I am, as the great magnet in the sky said, wrecked. A thousand bucks of books at wholesale prices is heavy.

Master Buddhapuss returns Friday.

Thanks to everyone for commenting this week. It may be a coincidence but lately traffic has increased.

Tired of your father’s tomato catsup made with child labor in distant lands? Maybe you are sick of contributing to Mrs. Carole Heinz ( John Kerry to those who voted for him ) billion dollar retirement fund with each dollop of 57 varieties at the local greasy spoon. Good news, the invisible hand that drives the free market brings us…

W KETCHUP! W Ketchup is made in America with ingredients grown in America. According to the website, W Ketchup is America’s ketchup and the W stands for Washington.

So the next time you order a side of Freedom Fries, demand W Ketchup. Because children working long hours for slave wages in dangerous bottling factories is just not nice. In fact, it’s downright mean.