Well, at least one former Santa Monica mayor took that Person of the Year award on the cover of Time magazine to heart. Mike Feinstein, he of the Rollerblades and styling pomade, has posted a video on YouTube showing off his city to the world. It’s a riveting 40-plus minutes of mayoral elections staged by City Council members in bad lighting, the latter 37 minutes of which saw your FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ PICKING TOE JAM, contemplating a cupcake and searching for spare vintage bicycle wheels on Craigslist... hey, maybe Mike is onto something with this whole Web 2.0 thang. The Buzzman felt more organized and interactive after peeping the pols at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNcikd GvuE...
The celebrities have been out and about through Samolicious, and not just that unshaven guy that looked like Adam Corolla sitting outside at Barney’s Beanery (his voice wasn’t nasal enough). There was CUBA GOODING GETTIN’ HIS RHUBARB ON at the Arizona Avenue Farmers’ Market, posse in tow (lest he be stopped by people still wanting their money back for “Boat Trip”); there was Donatella Versace being sashayed after on the promenade by fashion-forward women with poor credit ratings and men with really, really tight T-shirts (Buzz likes that little belly overhang an untucked shirt allows); Ben Harper trying to grind out comeback lyrics at the Coffee Bean on Second Street; with Elliot Gould trying not to look like Wayne Rogers while shopping nearby. We’re living in a proverbial supermarket checkout line, my friends, and the woman in front of us with a fistful of coupons has had work done...
In-our-humorous-site-that-has-proven-to-be-more-disturbing-in-time-because-it’s-burned-into-Buzz’s-consciousness-item-of-the-week: That goofy Bubba Gump mascot making its way about downtown took the opportunity to TRY OUT THE IGALLOP VIBRATING ABS EXERCISER out in front of the Brookstone store on Third Street. Watching a bloated six-foot pink fish wriggle with excitement (its smile never wavered) should’ve prompted mothers to shield children’s eyes and Buzz to try and drink the horrible scene away...
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 8, 2007. Read the original PDF.