Pictures, pictures, pictures! That's Leah in her Halloween costume over at the right, and you can see the whole thing in Las Vegas Ground, Part Two today, and find out what I did on Halloween. If you missed Part One check it out too!

Question of the Day: From reader Shermen: "What is your life saying? What quote most applies to the way you live life?"

One night last year I was out with a friend and his roommate from college and I made a comment about having to get my spine pierced right after my clog dancing lesson was over. To which my buddy's roommate replied that he was running late and would I mind taking him over to his Satan worshipping group. I had found another fan.

And all this time we thought we were the only two who happened to be awake when HBO ran the special that one time. Anyways last August they played here, and I went and damnit, it was good.

Just letting you know that the D touches us all. Keep up the good work.

You know what? I didn't think I really had a favorite piece of clothing, but just Tenacious D today I found my favorite jacket in a closet that I thought I had left over at my folks' house. It's not a fancy jacket by any stretch of the imagination, just a green and navy blue cotton jacket. It's hella comfy and warm, and it just gives me a nice feeling whenever I put it on, and that's what's important. I don't know why I love it so much, but I just do.

I'm not really look at porn much, but I'm still only human. I think that's all I really ought to say.

The WORST show on tv has to be Pokemon and all the other lame cartoons eg. Digimon and Pocket Monsters. I'm surprised that no one mentioned that but maybe i'm the only one who still watches cartoons. And the movie, it's sad that it made almost 52 mil. it's first weekend. But that's not what really scares me, its the name Pokemon the FIRST movie. You mean that there's going to be more? Oh the humanity.

The last thing is for my most favorite piece of clothing is really a piece of clothing it's an accessory: My watch. I saved for 6 months to buy me a Movado Museum. I love it cause it goes with anything.

I am insanely jealous of your trip to the Grind, as I know of several of those bands (The Neatbeats have a special place in my heart), and will most definitely make the pilgrimage there next year. (/me daydreaming) Maybe I can make it a deal where my boss sends me there for Comdex and I get to head out 2 weeks early. (/end me daydreaming)

A question of the day for you: I have a special place in my heart for B-Movies (yes, I am a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan), and get a huge kick out of bad plots, horrible dialogue, and poorly shot special effects. I even own Plan 9 from Outer Space (Ed Wood has a special, angora covered place in my heart). My question (*ahem*): What's your favorite guilty pleasure? You know, those bad movies that you can't help but watch over and over. Mine would have to be (and I can't believe I'm telling anyone this) UHF. I laugh my ass off every time I see it. And I can't ever tell my friends on pain of banishment (most of my friends are heavily into film and filmmaking; they'd have me burned in effigy).

And this brings me to your own QOTD: Porno is a joke. At least B-movies attempt things like plot and dialogue. A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters may not create Shakespeare, but I guarantee they've written about half the pornos that come out every month. A killer Italian dinner (I should send you my stuffed chicken parmesian recipe sometime), a bottle of wine, and side 2 of Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms CD (IMHO, the most seductive 35 minutes of music ever written; start at "Why Worry", and hit REPEAT. Trust me.), and you and your significant other should be getting down to business for quite some time. Besides, I prefer real women to those created in a porno lab. Silicone is NOT attractive to me.

I think I've used up my quota on parenthesis, so I'd better run, darlin'. Wow, Texas is affecting me already.

Brett

Porno: I'm not legally old enough to watch it, so I don't.

Worst show on TV: Pokemon! Argh! It's not only a horrible show that I can't stand, but the way it has sucked up the minds of kids! Damn! Everywhere I go, it's Pokemon, Pokemon, Pokemon. Then I have four younger cousins who're addicted too! It's so annoying!

My favorite article of clothing: My Playstation polo shirt! I've been wanting one of these for years, and now I finally have a white shirt with a little PS logo embroidered on it.

My life saying: "Life sucks; live with it."

And finally, I have a suggestion for QoTD: what's your favorite number? Mine is PI, because logically, there should be an end to it. But it would be cool if PI really is irrational. Besides, it works well on chain letters. Heh heh. I can't forward it to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950488... people within 3.14159265358979323846264338327950488... days, so it breaks the chain.

Anyhow, please excuse my long letter, as I have nothing better to do right now, so I thought I'd answer a few QotDs.

As for kids, I think it's horrible! I live in Vegas, and there's a lot of stuff kids can get into(I'm sure you know by your visit). For instance, there's numerous stands near the strip where there's free ads of strip clubs (with nudity and all). There's nobody regulating who gets it and kids can walk away with one real easily (they're free by the way). This is really bad since there's a lot of stuff that attracts kids to the strip now (movie theaters, arcades, amusment parks). There not as rampant any more since the city has tooken most of them off the street. The Internet is really bad and I could probably write a whole paper on this, but I'll spare you and move on...

The worst show on TV has to be Jennifer Love Hewitt's show, Time of Your Life. It's like teen dramas cheesed up with huggy, feely crap and the plot is mainly her jumping around being cute. I think Jennifer Love Hewitt has figured out that being hot want give you a good TV show.

is porn quality entertainment or totally stupid? i think the answer is a little from column A, a little from column B. porn is quality entertainment because of it's total stupidity. i mean, in a purely utilitarian sense, porn can come in quite handy when one needs to rub one out, but there's really nothing funnier than a bunch of drunks sitting around watching a skin-flick. back in college, we used to observe a ritual known as cheap beer and porn night. we'd get a bunch of high life or PBR on a thursday night, sit around and watch a low-quality adult films. the best one ever was Perverted Stories 15, which featured a vignette called "Crazy Skulls." if you can find this video, rent it. it is the most hilariously absurd thing ever. plus there's a lot of scrompin'. there's also one called "The Cellar" which features a midget in a chicken suit who snorts coke, drinks 40s, and eventually gets his head blown off. i think you can see where this is going. if you're watching it by yourself, there's really only one thing to do with porn. But when you're drunk and bored, it makes for some hi-quality hi-laritiy.

mad props to leah, a fellow "D" fan. you reign supreme. i saw them in DC at the 9:30 Club a few months back. funny as hell! as well, my hard drive at work is clogged with numerous Tenacious D MP3s. also, my friend jappy from DC (the one responsible for my nickname) thanks you for posting yesterday's message, as he found it quite funny. plus he's a big slackjaw fan.

Personally, and this is my little rant, people should be a whole lot more open about sex. For that matter, people should be a whole lot more open about a whole lot of things. Like children's literature. But anyway. To take from Dr. Ruth, and an Arnold movie, boys have penises, girls have vaginas. Get over it.