Answer

Well, no one actually answered the last one, so I've taken it upon myself. Here ya go.

Adrian Paul was in Highlander: Endgame with Christopher Lambert; who was in Highlander with Sean Connery; who was in Rising Sun with Tia Carrerre; who was in Wayne's World with Christopher Walken; who was in King of New York with Laurence Fishbourne; who was in Higher Learning with Michael Rappaport.

To Make J.N. happy

Try this one - and I'll try to pick actors whose hair resembles nothing like my own.


Bruce Campbell to Rodney Dangerfield.

Agh, Ronald Reagan!!!

So Comfest is done and over with. We actually had a lot more fun this year than last - the day started earlier, our lives were endangered by a drunk/stoned/pharmaceutically-modified cab driver, and we were smart enough to bring our own drinks into the park.

I'm really starting to feel like I live here now, instead of still being the 'new' guy - I ran into at least half a dozen people I know through various channels and circles, all inside the giant crowd. You really live somewhere when you start running into people you know at humongous outdoor hippie fests.

More on that later, however - we just got new computers at work, and although I can now access blogspot, we're still having some new tech issues. Back to the grind.

Try This One

The last winner goes to Leonard. Keith's was good, but his was in less steps.


Adrian Paul to Michael Rappaport.

Family Ties, Michael J. Fox and You

So I just spent basically the entire weekend with my sister. I think that's the first time we've done that in years - after I picked up stakes and left home for college, and then her subsequent foray into higher education, we've just sort of lost touch over the past five or six years. But she was in town for a two-day conference, and instead of wasting money on a hotel, she just crashed at my apartment.

Sometimes I forget that we actually do have things in common. Although she just graduated from a Christian college, and her faith is a major part of her life (and I've sort of left mine to the way-side) we basically still have similar senses of humor, we both have the same love for good books and movies, and, of course, we have the same set of family members to bitch about. Good times.

So Court and I drove around downtown Columbus Friday night, just shootin' the breeze and looking at the skyscrapers. We haven't actually talked for several years, and it was nice to get back into it and catch up. Apparently the latest update on Operation Get Courtney Married includes she and Craig possibly moving to Denver! Well, at least I'll have a free place to stay the next time I venture west. But that's an entirely different topic, for a different posting.

The Old is the New

Way back when I first started up MMNIE, I had a regularly, on-going facet to the jewel, which I've so-far left behind. But I think it's time to start it back up again. Just so you know, Brody was the champion of this game. Keith also excelled.

It's the same as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, except you can take any two actors and try to link them together in as few movie-steps as possible.

Example: Bruce Willis to Johnny Depp: Willis was in Armageddon with Liv Tyler; Tyler was in Lord of the Rings with Orlando Bloom; Bloom was in Pirates of the Caribbean with Depp.

Not too hard to figure out. Well, here's the latest re-installment. I'll make the first one easy.

STEVE CARELL to NICOLE KIDMAN.

Have fun, kids. I expect at least four comments to this post.

Hey Dubliners!

Bloggin' 'Bout Blogs

Eating lunch with some friends today, the topic, as it usually does, revolved for a little while about what we were blogging about. Is it kind of sad that we share stories about what's going on in our lives in our blogs instead of in person? Or am I reading too much into it...

As for some of the crew, I knew more about them by reading their blogs than I learned in person. And my friends that blog on a more regular basis than me... I feel shamed by their productivity.

I never know what to write on this damned thing. Most of the topics end up being under-developed ideas for essays or magazine stories. I still have trouble doing the 'this happened to me today' thing that some of my fellow blogg-ites do. Oh well.

Any ideas? So anyway, I was driving to work this morning and I saw a dead deer...

What Superman Does In His Spare Time

Sometimes I have to emphasize to my non-reporter friends that I do, indeed, have a real job. Sure, I don't have the same hours from one day to another, and regularly sleep in until 10 or work until 11 at night. I can pretty much show up and leave whenever I want/need, and I do a lot of crazy, fun stuff for my job.

It is still a job, however, as the rest of you writing hacks are well aware. For the readers out there that don't cover a beat (which I think is a minority) I thought I'd throw together a list of the pros and cons of being a reporter, in no particular order.

PRO #1: There's always updated reading material in the office's bathroom.

CON #1: It's always information you've either written yourself, or heard your friends talk about.

PRO #2: You can work (or not work) basically any time of the day you choose.

CON #2: The people you need to call for work (sources), well most of them are on a 9-to-5 schedule. If you want them to talk to you, guess when they're going to call you back.

PRO #3: You get to meet some really interesting people. I've interviewed a blind toy maker, a presidential candidate, rock stars, and even zombies.

CON #3: They're not all that interesting. I've also interviewed a woman who grew a pineapple in her living room, for a real news story. I'm not kidding.

PRO #4: Usually as a reporter you'll end up on good terms with the local police and fire department, which can come in extremely handy when you lock your keys in your car behind city hall after a council meeting on deadline. Or so I've heard.

CON #4: If you get caught doing something you shouldn't within your coverage area, odds are the competition (if they don't like you) will pick up on it and slap your name in their right-to-know section. In other words, don't live in the area you cover.

PRO #5: From reading police reports, you know the parts of town where you shouldn't park your car at night.

CON #5: As a grown man, you're now afraid of the dark.

PRO #6: If you're lucky, you can work from your own home.

CON #6: It's hard to get work done at home when HBO is having another Star Wars marathon. And there's laundry to do. And oh yeah, you're cell phone bill will be outrageous.

PRO#7: You can take hour-plus lunches the day after deadlines.

CON#7: You work 12-hour days and don't eat lunch the day of deadlines.

PRO#8: Once you've been on your beat awhile, people start calling you up with story ideas.

CON #8: Once you've been on your beat awhile, people start calling you up with story ideas. All the time. About their cat show.

PR­O #9: As a reporter, you have easy access to public records. If you have a blind date with a public employee, you can find out how much she makes before you go out.

CON #9: As you're a reporter, odds are she'll have to pick up the tab at dinner.

PRO #10: Sometimes you get thank-you notes or other letters of gratitude from readers, or story subjects, thanking you for doing a good job.

CON #10: If you happen to spell a kid's name wrong in a high school sports or graduation story, you will receive 500 angry phone calls, emails, faxes, letter bombs, telegrams, smoke signals and telepathic memos from a legion of angry parents. Hell hath no fury like a soccer mom scorned.