They would have ask me a vampire / baseball question.

So the immediate temptation is to pick a guy that is the best, but that's a difficult thing to determine.  A-Rod makes more money than anyone else, but he's a douchebag, so he's out.  Albert Pujols is probably the best hitter in baseball right now, but he's a Cardinal, and my loyalty to the Cubs ( Read more... )

Two Words:  "Credit Score".

Two more words:  "my nieces".

Heath Ledger's Joker meets Big Daddy Kane, win?

Well, that's two different questions.  My personal motto is "Work smarter, not harder."  But favorite quotation... that's too broad, I have many, each applicable to various bits of life.

For those regarded as warriors... When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and ( Read more... )

I would choose a ninja.

I wouldn't even answer this but for the fact that I have held an opinion about it for a long time already.  Of all the celebrities who've died in my lifetime the only one that I've ever felt for was Brad Nowell of Sublime.  There's something about they way he wrote, played, and lived that was very real to me, and so when he finally lost his fight ( Read more... )

I live in the midwest, so none of those are real threats outside of zombies; and yes I'm very well prepared for that.  Shotguns and a rooftop.  Done and done.

Allen Ginsberg.

I'm going to preface this by stating that I consider myself a pretty serious appreciator of stand-up comedy.  It's an almost uniquely english-speaking art form, though other cultures are getting into it, and I'm really curious to see more of the stuff coming out of countries outside of the "civilized west".  So I think there's groundbreaking ( Read more... )

Poetry, by its very nature, is an adaptive medium.  While we may not always recognize poetry in it's modern incarnation I think that it's alive and well, adapted to a musical format.  In the past the two (poetry and music) were separate and distinct (to a point), but our culture has changed in such a way that the traditional approach to poetry is ( Read more... )