The Take-Home Message of this Todd Martens Post: Thank G-d for bad beer. Otherwise, we might never hear good music.

Smurfs Head to Coachella: But their exact location is being kept a secret. Lest non A-listers show up. Or Gargamel.

Here’s That Plagiarized Cindy McCain Recipe Story You’ve Heard So Much About: The thing that gets us about this, though, is that we’re so fascinated with turning our elected officials into standard, everyday folks that these kind of shenanigans are even necessary. Let’s just accept, can’t we, that the McCains, the Obamas and the Clintons likely eat out more often than we do. In the Clintons’ case, a lot more often. (That was a sex joke, by the way. Yeah. It’s that kind of day.)

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Leftovers: True, this story is a few days old. But we just saw it, and this factoid is too good to ignore (plus, with refrigeration, we’re sure it’ll keep):

“Obama’s newsroom visit [to the Conway, N.H. Daily Sun] was marked by another oddity — the candidate was asked to autograph a refrigerator. Producing a magic marker, he complied, adding his name to those of Democrats Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd and Republican Tom Tancredo.

The Sun intends to collect as many signatures from presidential aspirants on the appliance as possible during the buildup to the state’s primary. After the vote, the fridge will be auctioned on EBay, with proceeds donated to charity.”

Reporter By Day, Fanboy By Night: We have to hand it to Geoff Boucher. The guy has a knack for turning his hobbies into great stories that nobody else at the LAT would even think to report.

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