...the tritone of DOOM!

Time:

7:52 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

Time for another installment of "These are a few of my favorite things". In no particular order, just as they come to me and until I think I've said enough.

Favorite Ninja Turtle: Mich(a)elangelo. Apparently there's some confusion over how to spell it, but whatever.

Favorite Final Fantasy: VI, obviously (III American).

Favorite Final Fantasy VI character: MOG THE DANCING MOOGLE SHIT YEAH LADIES *dances, causes a cave in, pwns n00bs*

Favorite Mario Bros. Character: Yoshi

Favorite Kind of Yoshi: Blue Yoshis

Favorite SMB2 Character: Peach

Favorite Hero of the Lance: Tasslehoff Burrfoot by FAR. By so far it's ridiculous.

Favorite Disney Movie: Beauty and the Beast (this is honestly in the running for my favorite movie ever)

Favorite Non-Bugs-Bunny-or-Daffy-Duck-Looney-Tune: Marvin the Martian

Favorite Animaniac: Wakko

Favorite Sequence from Fantasia: Rhapsody In Blue

Favorite Dance Number To Perform: Turkey Lurkey Time.

Favorite Dance Number To Watch: The Music And The Mirror (but only when it's Donna McKechnie)

Favorite Episode Of Glee: The one with Cheno. I love the music numbers, the one-liners, and the shirtless Puck.

Favorite Sondheim Musical: Sunday In The Park With George.

Favorite Act of Sunday In The Park With George: SURPRISINGLY THE 2ND ACT. Theater nerds will be shocked, everyone else will say "Uh, okay I guess I should be surprised."

Favorite Song On iTunes: Movie version of "Dreamgirls".

Favorite Pokemon: Squirtle

Favorite FPS: Portal (I vastly dislike the FPS as a basic genre, I like Portal because it's a great puzzle game that happens to also be an FPS)

Favorite Avenue Q Character: Rod

Okay I'm done. For now.

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Subject:	FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Time:	1:09 pm.

So, there's this creepy part of the whole Twilight thing, where it turns out that the werewolf that is SO IN LOVE WITH BELLA isn't actually in love with HER, he's in love with the egg that will be come Bella's daughter. Or something like that.

And I seriously wonder how on earth they're gonna portray that in the inevitable movie, because GODDAMN is it creepy.

But more to the point, me and some of my roommates got to discussing. Apparently Jacob (the werewolf) can somehow SENSE on some level that inside Bella is the egg or genetic material that contains his future soulmate, right?

But an egg is just one half of a person. So wouldn't Jacob ALSO be able to sense that Edward (the vampire dude) has the other half sitting in his nuts somewhere? Or if not in his nuts per se, some sort of mystical sense that it will APPEAR in his nuts at some future date?

Think about it.

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Time:

5:33 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

There's nothing that I enjoy quite as much as noticing borrowed choreography. Like the now semi-infamous "Single Ladies" dance, and how half of it was stolen from a Bob Fosse routine of some sort.

Fosse is really easy and obvious, but I also notice a lot of Michael Bennett choreography similarities, mostly in his big Donna McKechnie numbers (lots of arm swirls, head rolls, usually a high kick with the right leg, etc).

Also Lady Gaga is a big fan of the Charleston. Just saying.

Anyway, I just wanted to a) point out that I really enjoy seeing that, and b) bring back this image I made a while ago of Will Kemp in a Gap Commercial and Adam Cooper in Swan Lake (Will Kemp was one of the first people after Adam Cooper to play the role).

Given that the Will Kemp Gap Commercial was essentially generated by him freestyling in front of a camera for a couple of hours I guaran-fucking-tee you that he got the one from the other and that knowledge makes me feel very observant.

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Time:

11:54 am.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

(that's not it)

Anyway, my daily trivia is that the very, very, very, VERY first book that I ever read was the novelization of An American Tail, Fievel Goes West.

Tiny, tiny book. And I had seen the movie so I knew what it was about. I remember that getting through it was kind of a challenge, but BY GOLLY I WAS DETERMINED to do it. And I did it. And it was awesome.

My first full length novel that I read I am PRETTY sure was "A Spell For Chameleon" by Piers Anthony. Sadly, I did not realize until much, much, much, MUCH later how creepy and hacky that guy really was.

Now I'm embarrassed every time I recall having read "The Color Of Her Panties".

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Time:

5:18 pm.

I cannot, for the life of me, come up with a Daily Trivia right now. I don't know why!

So I'm just gonna go through my photobucket account and wing it.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

This is probably my favorite picture of George Bush. It's the one that, every time I see it, makes me think "Okay, maybe he wasn't EVIL, just stupid and willing to obey the wrong (evil) people."

I mean, thinking about it still makes me wanna do this.

But in a way that involves sobbing AND laughter. I mean, come on, he looks like a frog! A really, really sad frog.

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Subject:	Super quick Daily Trivia
Time:	10:03 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia

I will always, always hate the movie Crash and everyone associated with it (at least a little) because of how blatantly it did not deserve the Oscar it stole from Brokeback Mountain. As at least one of my friends said "I could see the Best Picture going to ANY movie that was nominated.

Except Crash."

And yes, I DID finally make myself watch it (though it was loaned to me from a friend so I did not give anybody money) and I thought it sucked and was way over the top and ridiculous.

Anyway, my daily trivia isn't really about THAT. Or maybe it is, a little. I just wanted to take a trip down memory lane and revisit the time I first saw Brokeback Mountain.

I saw it in Boston, by myself, the night it came out. I remember a lot of things about that, including feeling happy at all the gay couples who were there with me. I remember being excited and nervous, I remember thinking it was really fucking weird that everyone laughed at the scene where Alma (Ennis' wife) sees her husband and Jack Twist kissing fiercely outside her apartment.

Most of all, I remember the slow, steady, searing burn of it all. And how I didn't cry during the movie, but after. I got up, left the theater, walked to the subway station, got on, and then BAM. Tears.

Anyway. Just wanted to share that.

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Subject:	SO.
Time:	4:30 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia

So, let me tell you about Anna Kendrick.

Y'see, way back when, there was this movie called "Camp". 2003! Waaaaay back when, seriously.

Anyway, this movie was about a musical theater camp and featured, among other things, a lot of awesome musical numbers.

My exposure to Turkey Lurkey Time? WAS THIS MOVIE. So it's small but it's powerful in it's influence.

ONE OF THEM was performed by a lady name Anna Kendrick.

This is the girl who, when she 12, was nominated for a frickin' TONY so, yeah, she had talent from way back.

That's her at 13, maybe, outsassying the girls from Caba-fucking-ret.

The song she sang in Camp (we're back to Camp) was "The Ladies Who Lunch."

This is the song that is FAMOUSLY performed by Elaine Stritch.

But ANNA KENDRICK, she sang this song, too. Playing a character who is basically Eve from All About Eve, she DRUGS THE GIRL SHE'S FOLLOWING, and takes over her part.

This is little Anna Kendrick, at the tender age of 18, SOMEHOW MANAGING TO DO A GOOD JOB WITH THIS SONG. This immortal, Stephen Sondheim/Elaine Stritch number that is so, so closely linked to her original singer.

So, Anna Kendrick is in a movie with George Clooney, and she's getting very, very good reviews and may very well be nominated for an Oscar.

Why

Am I Not

Surprised

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Time:

10:02 am.

For various reasons I decided to more-or-less take the weekend off, so I don't think I'm gonna do 3 Daily Trivia's today. But I'll try my darndest do keep them coming for the entire week.

In other news, me and Jon watched "In & Out" again, and I sort of adore that movie but it's kind of amazing how everyone is reacting to the word "gay" and "homosexual" and stuff. Like, who would act like that nowadays? Nobody. Everyone's been exposed to it too much. Hooray, progress!

I think?

Also, I am so into the idea of Tom Selleck and Kevin Kline. GODDAMN are they hot.

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Time:

5:37 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

You guys MAY NOT KNOW THIS, but I have a thing for beards and body hair. Well, chest hair. I'm decidedly more ambivalent on things like back and ass hair, but I also have grown to accept them as the natural consequence of a truly fantastic forward-facing follicle forest.

I don't know if that worked but I had to try. You understand.

Anyway, as a result of this, I've developed a very, very keen interest in being able to tell what kind facial/chest hair POTENTIAL people have from tell-tale clues that I can detect in their everyday, sometimes shaved lives. I pay really close attention to things like 5 o'clock shadows and that tiny, tiny, TINY little puff of hair that some guys have peeking out of the tops of their collars. Also, obviously things like arms.

Most infuriating are guys like David Boreanaz, who can actually grow semi-decent facial hair but is, near as I can tell, almost completely smooth (unless he's been waxing his entire life, but I sort of doubt that. Some guys are just like that). He is also, FYI, the biggest source of hairless representation on my list of "celebrities I would like to bone".

Anywhoo, there's your Trivia #1.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

I used to have TERRIBLE gaydar. Mostly because I was completely oblivious. Nowadays I'm STILL pretty oblivious but my gaydar at least is a little better. I managed to tune it via the following mechanisms. Please note that this does not work for girls as I do not have a particular interest in assessing who is or isn't one. Sorry, ladies!

#1, assume everyone might be gay or at least into dudes
#2, monitor them closely, while constantly asking yourself "Would a straight guy do this?"
#3, work in other factors

The reason this works is because in a way, your average straight guy is the most fenced-in, limited expression of humanity that there is. In our culture there's that leotarded fear of being anything other than a manly man, and so a lot of straight guys overreact in an effort to counterbalance that.

I'm being SUPER general because I don't wanna spend that much time on this, but generally speaking I find that most confirmed straight guys don't really trip my gaydar up at all. Like, Harrison Ford? Never thought he was gay. I mean, okay so he got that ridiculous earring, but I'm pretty sure that's one of those whims that old people get.

Jake Gyllenhaal on the other hand? Sorry dude, no matter how much press gets put out about how you and Reese Whitherspoon are so in love or whatever, the fact remains that I have seen you squee over Stephen Sondheim. And while I have seen straight guys be very appreciative of Sondheim, you gave a squee.

Not to mention put on drag and sing "And I Am Telling You" from Dreamgirls. Oh sure, you might say "That was SNL, doesn't count" but I'm totally not buying it.

Also? Nate Silver. Pretty sure on that one, too.

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Time:

2:15 pm.

With the return of "Mike walks around and does things for himself" comes the return of "Mike walks into things because he is not looking where he is going."

I'm gonna REALLY have to work on that so that I don't, say, BREAK MY LEG AGAIN.

(I stubbed my toe a little bit and my knee took a tiny knock, but I'm fine otherwise).

That being said, I am seriously kicking ass at getting stuff done right now. Got my doctor's note extending my disability another month, figured out that I don't have to go TO Sacramento in order to pick it up, gonna see if I can't take the bus to the clinic in Davis to do it today.

I asked them if they could fax it, which they can't, but I can do everything else.

Looking at the route, it looks like I would have to change buses 3 times to get to Kaiser =(

Maybe I will just try to go on Monday. It'll be cutting it close as far as the deadline to get all my paperwork in, but seeing as how the EDD is closed today ANYWAY it probably won't make any difference.

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Time:

5:48 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

Remember when I said that I have a very strong visceral reaction against anything that could be considered typical?

MORE EXAMPLES!

My favorite animal is the Echidna.

Lookitdacuteechidna. I first fell in love with it when I went to Australia in 3rd grade. One of the reasons I love Australia so much is because the animals there are SO WEIRD in that awesome way. It's like Madagascar. Been an island forever so everything evolved crazily. And the echidna is no exception!

It's got spines like a hedgehog/porcupine, it's an anteater, and it's a mammal that LAYS eggs. Also, I feel like it's an incredibly obscure animal to love and that makes me feel special. That stupid platypus hogs the spotlight but I see the echidna for what it really is, which is awesome.

I had some more examples but I honestly can't remember what they are right now so I'll just leave you with that one for now.

OH.

I REMEMBER.

Additional Thing 1) My favorite kinds of plants are the carnivorous ones because I feel like they truly stand apart from their fellows. Also Little Shop of Horrors has left me with a soft spot for things that resemble Audrey II.

Additional Thing 2) I dislike birds because so many of them the same. Like the 500 billion versions of smallish birds. I mean, I know that lots of birds look nothing like each other but the flamingo is just about the only one that I think looks truly exotic enough to warrant my affections.

Additional Thing 3) My taste in fish tends towards things like the Angler (because the little light on it's head that lures it's prey? Awesome). In my youth there was book in my library dedicated to all the really WEIRD, fucked up animals in the world and it was my FAVORITE BOOK and I read it cover to cover over and over again.

[EDIT] Upon further consideration, my favorite sea animal is definitely the octopus, because it can do practically anything it wants to. You do not fuck with the octopus.

Oh, also?

CHAMELEONS AND THOSE LIZARDS THAT CAN RUN ACROSS WATER. Basilisks/Jesus Lizards. They rock.

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Time:

8:23 pm.

Mike's Daily Trivia!

If you get me excited about something my voice jumps like, 5 octaves.

Now, let's get something straight. In pure musical singing terms, I am actually, technically, a bass. I sound best when I am singing low, I have a more-or-less acceptable range for a bass. My speaking voice is probably fairly normal, or at least I like to pretend that it is.

But when I am very excited, I squeal, literally. It goes way up and I sound like every teenage girl ever. And because my sense of shame has been beaten into submission over the years AND because I am easily excitable, I squeal quite readily.

Tonight's trivia brought to you by Ana Marie Cox on The Rachel Maddow Show, prompting me to say (normal voice) "Awww" (squealy voice) "I love you Ana Marie!"

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