Still catching up from my unintended, and unwanted, time away from the keyboard...

• Adam Carolla stays, Danny Bonaduce goes.
• The Virgin Megastore at Sunset and Crescent Heights will close at the end of January, due to a rent increase. Variety
• Fox Sports' Jeanne Zelasko will have surgery for thyroid cancer after the football bowl games. She lives in Valencia and is married to Channel 7's Curt Sandoval.
• Steve Almond is guest editor of Nerve's Winter Fiction Issue and contributes an erotic story of his own.
• Photos at CurbedLA of the new monorail being tested behind the berm at Disneyland. Also, the Rem Koolhaas design for the downtown Caltrans HQ that, alas, didn't get built
• More West Hollywood taxi fleecing.
• The blogger at the Jimson Weed Gazette drew jury duty downtown today — Christmas Eve. Bet he doesn't get picked.