Thx for the show great to hear from Amanda

Yayyyyy! I love me some Amanda! :) It was so good to see you the other day. I only wish we got to talk more. But we will… oh yes, we will.

So, really, how many Taco Bell’s are in Chicago? I only know of one: the one across the street from Wrigley Field. Are there others?

There was a Baja Fresh restaurant on Michigan Avenue for a while– I LOVED THAT PLACE! But it closed either late last year or early this year, and I still want to find out why. They had the best FISH TACOS. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!! But nothing compares to Chipotle. The Chicken Fajita Burrito is to. DIE. for.

Maia you crack me up.

Maia,
Living in the land of Christian everything I can report that Christian Wrestling is alive and well in the deep south.

I just finished the show and I want to add one more thing-
When I was a kid, my mom and I were out walking. She told me that Aliens colonized earth. She brought up the Mayans and Aztecs and told me that one day they would return to Earth to see how we are doing. Uh, okay Mom.

Rick, if you like fish tacos, you should make a special trip to Los Nopales (at Western & Wilson)… sadly, they don’t deliver anymore, but they have amazing fish tacos. Mmmmm… fish tacos. (Also, there’s another Taco Bell on Clybourn, west of Ashland. The one near the el stop at State & Lake closed down, but it was a little sketchy anyway.)

I DO believe you guys about the Christian wrestling. I’m sure it traces its roots back to the Old Testament, with Jacob wrestling with the angel. Only now they hit each other over the head with folding chairs. And there’s a lot more grunting.

Cliff, wow, your mom sure knows how to strike terror in a young kid’s heart! I hope you’ve been keeping your room clean… you never know when those aliens will come back to check in. To make you feel better, let me tell you that there has been a big misunderstanding about this whole “end of the Mayan calendar” thing. It was actually a bad translation — it’s really the _Maian_ calendar. And since I’m such a huge procrastinator, I’m thinking I’ll push back the end of time for… oh, I don’t know, another couple hundred years or so. So, no worries. Sorry about all the fuss.

Yay Amanda!!! We missed you in LA, sweetie.

About that golden girl (and I don’t mean Bea Arthur), don’t forget what happened to Buddy Epson who was supposed to play the TinMan in the Wizard of Oz. His lungs got coated from the silver dust makeup they used and he couldn’t breathe. I don’t know if they mentioned it in the Bond movie but I would guess that was what happened to the girl who got painted gold. Was that based on a book? Would be interesting to see if it was based on a book if they went into more detail about the death of the girl and it was the same issue that happened to Buddy.

Here’s an interesting fun fact about the radium glow in the dark paint. There was a factory in Athens back in the 60’s that made these little alarm clocks with glow in the dark hands and the women who worked there would paint the arms with radium paint. Well, between clocks they would dip the brushes on their tongues to moisten the tip and get a good point. It’s obvious what happened, many of them died. The B-52’s wrote the song Private Idaho about this. That’s what Fred is talking about when he sings “Don’t be blind to the big surprise, swimming round and round like the deadly hand of a radium clock, at the bottom of the pool.”

Brain-Fork, you nailed it. Wikipedia is as practical as communism.

PupDon, I did know the thing about the ladies painting with radium. I also know it killed its discoverer, Marie Curie. How rude, right?

Maia, Wiki may not be the be-all end-all of knowledge, but Google is. This was the first thing listed for a search on “christian wrestling:” http://www.christianwrestling.com/

When in doubt, add a .com to anything and see what you get. It’s my favorite way to surf. Er, search.

RocketMan, off the top of my head, there’s a Taco Bell on Addison near Clark, on Western near Sacramento, and on Ashland near Ogden. There’s also one right across from the Wal-Mart in Montgomery, Ill, but there’s no reason for anyone to know that. Last night I saw one in Champaign, and another in Kankakee, but now we’re way off the subject. I suppose I could Google it, but I wanted to impress you with my knowledge first.

There’s also a Pollo Camparo on the far northwest side. That’s new this year. I was at their grand opening and it was HUGE!

-AS

How’s this for a perfect synthesis of the two prominent threads of this discussion: favorite fast Mexican food vendors and wikipedia. Here in San Francisco it’s all about the taquerias and their burritos. My favorites are El Torro, and Pancho Villa. If i actually want a taco though I go to Cancun Taqueria. The obsession about San Francisco burritos is so strong that there is… drumroll please…… a wikipedia entry on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_burrito

Just caught up with this show and was interested in the ‘can you have sex with aliens’ and the ‘panspermia hypothesis’ bit. I wondered what you guys thought of the announcement a while ago from ‘The View’ host, Sherri Shepherd, that she doesn’t believe in evolution?