Go to Urban Dictionary and look up your real answers to find the crazy answers!

Your name?
a. To do something incredibly stupid. To be retarded and look like an idiot at something.
b. A gay prostitute who looks like a gorilla, usually found selling for a few bucks around high schools
c. The most amazing boy in the world. He is quiet around the masses but he opens up around the one he loves. He is extraordinarily protective in the best of ways. Mike can and will make you laugh harder than anyone else. He is the most adorable, cute, nice, sweet, kind, generous, loving, caring, genuine, funny, considerate, awesome person I have ever met. Every moment of my life would be better if I could spend it with him. I could talk to him all day long and we’d never run out of things to say. His smile can make my day; even if it’s from across the room. I love him more than the sun, I need him more than breath it’s self. I can’t imagine my life without him; it scares me more than anything. I will spend the rest of my life in his arms.

Your age?
a. the money equivalent to a gram of cocaine that you would purchase from your local drug dealer. And it comes in a little baggie.
b. What you drink when you wanna get but all the money you have was change found in your couch and/or car.
c. The minimum age to be called an old person.

One of your friends?
a. the only name that can be spelled through 5 months of the year.
b. guy I REALLY want to fuck.
c. A guy that is so god-like you cant even stare at him to long without your retinas burning.

What should you be doing?
a. Killing
b. The only sport women should be allowed to play.
c. Haveing fun with ur partner in a sexual manner.

Favorite color?
a. Irrefutably the best color in the world. End of story, period. This period signifies the end >.
b. Referring to something of the sketchy variety or to a sexual scene.
c. A drink made of Cream soda, codeine, and jolly ranchers. Makes you high and slow feeling. Like a turtle.

Birthplace?
a. best city in the world. surrounded by all the ghettos but is standing strong. where so many movies including "Terminator" were filmed.
b. The Mexican-Beverly Hills of Los Angeles.
c. home to the snobbiest, racist, conservative people on the face of the planet. It's where the phrase "where the high class meets the ghetto ass" is literal.

Month of your birth?
a. A wonderful month when the air smells sweet and the weather is perfect for the girls where to tight little sweaters that show off their curves.
b. The month that babies made during drunk christmas times are born.
c. One of the greatest songs by Earth Wind and Fire.

Last person you talked to?
a. a name given to girls in the Greco-Romanic period of Siberia. Derives from the Anglo-Saxon word, Rebka, literally translated as "one who is simply much too hot for definition, and in all aspects of her body."
b. The most intelligent and stunning girl on the planet.
c. Paying a sum of money at a strip club for a stripper to sit next to you and engage you in conversation.

One of your nicknames?
a. the standard dating system used in space.
b. The best skate shoes ever made. 100000000000000000000000...........x better than any other shoes.
c. A hard drug, but I don't know precisely which one, probably speed.

"Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our
institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any
other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat
them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and
immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But
under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s."

To meet the challenge of maintaining the Holocene state, we propose a framework based on 'planetary boundaries'. These boundaries define the safe operating space for humanity with respect to the Earth system and are associated with the planet's biophysical subsystems or processes.

The state of the Earth

Or just click the earthy to see how we're doing:

The zeppelin railway.

Or, if you prefer, the rail zeppelin (which set the rail speed record of 140 mph in 1931).

with Kirk Cameron, distributing his modified version of On the Origin of Species. But it was probably not a good plan to pick the same day the Regents were meeting on campus to raise fees by 32%.

Alternate Subject: "How is Marion Zimmer Bradley like the Catholic Church?"

Why does the internet insist on telling me things that I didn't know and didn't really want to know?

MZB's second husband was a sex offender. With a record. He served two years in Chino (death commuted his 10 year sentence). And MZB was rather incurious about what was going on.

(I should note that the author of the latter site (SF author Stephen Goldin) is not entirely objective inasmuch as his stepson was molested by MZB's husband.)

Tauntaun costume

Sign the Petition to get it on the ballot. Even if all you can do is to print out the PDF, sign it yourself, and mail it to their offices, that's a stamp well spent.

I've played a little more multiplayer Uncharted 2. It has it's pluses and minuses. There are 'boosts' that add bonuses to your character, but they are only available once you've reached a certain level of multiplayer play. So while I have the boost that allows me to carry more ammo, someone else may have the boost that lets you see enemies through walls. Arg. But on the positive side, you can only have 2 boosts enabled at a time, so that hopefully limits the unfairness to some extent.

On the definite plus side, the multiplayer is still really fun. There is a 'plunder' game-mode in which the two teams try to pick up golden idols and return them to their home base. But when you're carrying a treasure, you're really slow and the other team is blasting away at you.

And the other bizarrely addictive thing about multiplayer mode is that the game stores the games as 'video' files, so you can rewatch your exploits. But it's not just a movie of what you saw in the game; you can detach the camera from your character and just roam around watching the action from wherever you like. If you're of an artistic bent, you can add fog and lighting effects, go sepia-toned and tilt the camera a few degrees for that artsy look. About the only thing I'd tweak on it is that, although the movie highlights your teammates with a username halo over their head, the enemy players don't have them and more infuriating... your own character doesn't have one. So if you wander off with the camera and want to find yourself again, it's not easy.

( Okay, now books: The Hunger & Losing My Religion )

Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years for having sex with children.

I used to see a lot of Alamo tracts around UCLA back in the day, when he was still based in Hollywood. They were clearly the work of a madman. Sadly, there were signs as early as 1988 that Alamo was physically, if not necessarily sexually, abusing children.

Wow, there's plenty of crazy still to be found at his ministry's website:

Pastor Alamo has been criticizing the government for forty-five years with the truth and they’ve been slinging false accusations for forty-five years. You have to decide who you’re going to believe--this government which has already been proven to be socialistic and communistic, or Pastor Alamo who is teaching you the truth. Either you believe Pastor Alamo or the homosexual Pope.

North Carolina school simultaneously solves the problems of declining test scores and restricted budgets.

Marine reservist spots suspicious homosexual predator saying "Allahu Akbar!" and puts his tire iron to use on the obvious terrorist.

More about our hero:

Online photo galleries depict him flexing big muscles wearing little clothing.

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Sorry 'bout that Grandpa, Uncle Rick, and Great-Uncle Fritz [it's okay, he was on our side].

Inglewood School Board member Trina Williams has graduated from calling fellow boardmembers 'the N-word' to being charged with "unlawful receipt, safekeeping, transfer and distribution of public money".

Ok, costuming friends, here are some awesome coiffures to go with your late 18th century outfits.

postgoodism was good enough to slip me a copy of Uncharted 2 a couple weeks back, and I finished it this weekend. He denies having really done any work on it, so I'll commend mersh instead. It's definitely a great game. I'm not sure it's the Second Coming, as many commentators seem to think, but it's great. It looks absolutely fantastic; not only are there many beautiful locations, but you'd be hard pressed to find a wall that was just a boring wall. Every wall is adorned, or grimy, or partially blowed-up.
The story is pretty basic: go get the Macguffin in Shamballa before the bad guy does. That said, they pull off a nice in media res beginning, and the whole experience is definitely very cinematic (as the commercial notes). Despite most of the activity being shoot-them-before-they-shoot-you, there is good variety in the game play, particularly if you're a cool enough customer to alternate stealth attacks with full Rambo mode.
I was tickled to see a nod to Nicolas Roerich in Drake's journal, but sad that there was no actual mention in the game, though possibly some of Roerich's Himalayan art was used by the designers. Roerich's mountainscapes were also appreciated by HPL, who refers to them a ridiculous number of times in At the Mountains of Madness.
My sucky Time-Warner Cable connection had a happy period of good connectivity, so I had a chance to play some online multiplayer. It is also a lot of fun. I got my ass handed to me in a competitive team game, but I did much better in a cooperative mode where you fight off waves of bad guys. I can see that becoming the real addiction. I've started a new game on the higher difficulty, but I'm already skipping through the cut-scenes. Cinematic or not, I'm not waiting around to watch it again.

And now in part 2 of stuff my friends gave me, jason_brez lent/gave me Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, by Jonathan Israel. It is quite the hefty tome, clocking in at 720 pages of smaller-than-average text, followed by almost another 100 pages of bibliography and index.
( It is a scholarly work )

The "Hey buddy!" guy trying to sell me a home theater system out of the back of a van, did not have a van but a hatchback.

I've been listening to the soundtrack compiled for the unnamed zorker & postgoodism collaboration. Plenty of good nostalgia there.

I suppose swmartin's choice of HR Pufnstuf was inevitable. We should just be thankful he didn't go for the Bugaloos. I know I watched HRP when I was tiny, but it's all locked up in some inaccessible part of my hindbrain: Witchiepoo and talking flutes... I'm not sure it made sense to me then, and listening to the theme song, it definitely doesn't make sense to me now.

I thought I liked Music Box Dancer, but perhaps it was just the contrast between it and disco. Those drippy strings just kill it [and despite the liner notes, I think that is the Frank Mills original].

"The Cat Came Back" may not be great art, but I must respect a song that includes 'trinitrotoluol' in the lyrics. And it's good to see/hear Rowlf's versatility, playing an instrument other than the piano.

I prefer Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo," but Bill Haley's rockabilly cover from '54 is pretty cool. Oh, and hit the link to find out how CCC helped bring down the Berlin Wall.

Wow, I still love "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"; I don't know if Ian's nostalgia matches mine, but I was introduced to the song in Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates. This was back in the day when the two or three non-network channels on the air would show Three Stooges and A&C and WB cartoons... the solid foundation of my cultural literacy. Probably with the bajillion cable channels, kids today can watch Laff-a-Lympics or Scrappy Doo, but should they? Well, it's probably better than The Magic Glittery Skanky Fairy Show. Anyway, this song started my interest in Big Band. BWBB was nominated for the 1941 Best Song Oscar, losing to "The Last Time I Saw Paris," a song so inferior that it has no Wikipedia page. (Oh, and just for the hell of it, here's a mashup of BWBB and its derivative Candyman.)

Bing Crosby brings his inimitable stylings to two songs. His inimitable styling drives me bonkers. Bing may have made "Mexicali Rose" a hit, but Gene Autry did it better. As for "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," I prefer any version that is not sung by Bing Crosby, including this.

More interesting presentations from the UCLA Film & TV Archive calendar.

They're doing a series on 1939. What did that year give us other than Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz? And Stagecoach. And Mr. Smith Goes to Washington... And Beau Geste... And The Hunchback of Notre Dame... And Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers serials... and...

Among the films in the series:
Jesse James (with edgyspice's favorite, Tyrone Power, in the titular role)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (with George Sanders as an evil Nazi)
The Cat and the Canary (with Bob Hope injecting his schtick into this remake of the silent classic)
Son of Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill)

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SALUTING ROBERT ALTMAN – THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
Friday, November 13 @ 7:30 p.m.
IN PERSON: Elliott Gould, Kathryn Altman and Mitchell Zuckoff.

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ARCHIVE TREASURES – A SHERLOCK HOLMES DOUBLE FEATURE!
Monday, December 14 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Scarlet Claw (1944) and The Spider Woman (1944).

Is this your homework, Larry?