My brother Adam is currently depleting the ozone layer while scarfing down tomato juice and vodka flying back to Los Angeles as I type this. So allow me to fill the void he’s left down here on the ground with awesome blogtainment!

Last night while hanging with Adam at our ancestral homestead on Long Island I was working my dayjob’s twitter feed, mining it using search terms, when I stumbled upon a rather enthusiastic viewer who happened to be Senator John McCain’s wife.

The story of Cindy McCain watching teevee and name checking our network last night is here.

What I can add to what you’ll find at the link above is that Adam helped verify this was really THE Cindy faster than a hummingbird’s fart by finding an interview with Missus McCain on Real Clear Politics.

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There is an Edith Layton Memorial, Fundraiser, and Giveaway you can get involved in, thanks to the terrific ladies at Dear Author and Smart Bitches.

Click either link to find out more, and by all means, help get the word out there.

One of the reasons for the lack of action around here can now be revealed, and I’m afraid it’s not one of those fun reasons…

My mother, Edith Felber, also known as the author Edith Layton, died early Tuesday, before dawn. She’d been fighting cancer rather secretly but determinedly for quite some time. And only very recently did the disease gain the upper hand.

You can find a wonderful tribute, with her friends and fans sharing their experiences of her right here.

Those of us who knew her by her third name, “Mom,” (or as she liked to style it on this site, “Old Mother Felber”) know that we’ve lost a beautifully unique, strong woman whose talent and wit was matched by a fierce, proud, unshakeable love for her children, her late husband, and -of course - her doggies.

We’ll be heading to New York in moments, but feel free to share thoughts or condolences right here.

This real and really bizarre news from the Food and Drug Administration was the perfect excuse to exploit my adorable nephew (pictured) and his dad (that Adam dude, my brother) in an original slap dash video effort here on my day job’s blog.  Enjoy!

1)  My friend Chris Deluca, of “What Sucks?” fame just had his very own television program debut on SpikeTV, “MoCap, LLC.”  If you’ve ever wondered what life is like inside the fast-paced world of third-tier videogame motion capture companies (and who hasn’t?), well, your show has finally arrived.

2)  My friend Christian Finnegan will be releasing his first DVD next month, “Au Contraire!”  See Christian dazzle (parts of) America with his consummate standup skills.  It will be full of laughs, chills, and a voiceover cameo by yrs. trly. on one of the Extras.

3) My friend Edgardo (above) has just released a new virus.  I can’t pretend to have any involvement with this, nor can I really recommend it to anyone.  But he’s a friend, and if you’re looking for something new and infectious, well, this definitely qualifies.

April 14 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc., buoyed by better-than-expected earnings and a 54 percent gain in its stock price, raised $5 billion in the largest stock sale this year to help repay $10 billion in government rescue funds.

I’m no economics expert, but one thing is clear about this Goldman Sachs thing - it stinks to high heaven!

Okay, first they help run our economy into the ground. Well, not them specifically, or rather, not all of them, but a lot of them, right? And then they had to stop being an “investment bank,” which is just like them, isn’t it? To sort of stop being the thing that makes money that turns out not to be money and instead try to be a thing that makes money that IS money. Sure, nice plan, Sachsy!

Anyway, the real problem is that these guys took our bailout money - just TOOK it! And now they’re giving it back. I’m not economist - but what!? Why? So they can continue to pay out those big bonuses! Not just because it’s money they owe, believe me on this one, though I could be wrong and whose fault is that!?

And what about the bailout money that they got through AIG? That was like $12 billion, but is that part of what they’re paying back or is that money that AIG actually “owed” them because they owed a lot of people money because of the dirty, bad bets that they were making? I’m not an economics professor, but I know that I don’t know the answer to that one, and what does that say about our financial system!?

I don’t have a degree in economics, but I feel pretty safe in saying that this whole damned business of “finance” is geared towards making those fatcats rich. And the only thing more galling than seeing them flounder and drag us down into a recession is seeing some of them STOP floundering. And don’t tell me that this is a sign that we all might be getting out of the recession at some point - I may not be an economics major, but I’m not falling for THAT old line.

So stop telling me that this is going to be solved by bailouts and restructuring and reform, or that MY future is somehow tied to these bloodsucking evil leeches! I may not understand Thing One about the economy, but I know that this is not the time to let “cool heads prevail” and “educate myself” about finance so that I “know what I’m talking about.” No, that time is past - now is the time to get angry! Who’s with me?

First, the comic book has been pushed back to April 22nd. Not my fault, I swear! I’ve seen it now, though, and I think it’ll be worth the wait.

Second, there has been some clamoring for birthday cake photos of young Baz, and I have to say they’d disappoint you - the young man somehow didn’t produce any real messy-faced moments. He’ll have one more shot at the cliche this weekend. Meanwhile, please enjoy this moment, from his actual birthday.

He’d been crawling for days, but it was on his birthday that he realized that he was crawling. As you can see, that made all the difference.

All right, kiddies, I hope you’ve been enjoying the “Real Time.” It’s been strange new world of political comedy writing, to say the least. But at least there’s been no shortage of idiots outside of the White House. They’re America’s most reliable renewable resource.

Me, well, the moonlighting has come to fruition. On April 1st, “Skrull Kill Krew #1″ hits the stores. Learn about it here.

Pretty, ain’t it?  My editor has also passed on this handy resource, for those of you who, like me, would have little idea how to find your local comic purveyor.

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Longtime Friend-of-FanAp Katie Wise, aka “Wisemommy” has a new project. Some might call it crazy, some might call it… well, no, “crazy” about does it.

But in dark times like these, when we all struggle to find hope in an uncertain world, sometimes there comes a cause, a human effort, that can inspire a generation and captivate a nation.

And then there are the times when someone tries to incubate chicken eggs in her cleavage.

And sometimes those are the same things. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Boobbator 2009, The Great Hatching Experiment.

Are you going to be in the Los Angeles area in the next few weeks?

Do you miss the Bush administration enjoy farce?

Then you might want to come see my beloved Jeanne, mother of my wee bairn, as the female lead in Feydeau’s “Paradise Hotel,” directed by Gina Torrecilla. It opens Friday.  It also features my friends Eris Migliorini and Eddie Pepitone.  Longtime FanAp (or Felber) fans might remember Eddie and Eris from my New York comedy yesteryear.  Yes, they’re here now.  I think they’re stalking Jeanne.

[Bonus - yes, that’s the beauty and a familiar beast in the poster below. Plus, I made it (though I can’t take credit for the catchy slogan).]