Puzzlemaster Will Shortz still did NOT call me, the answer to his little puzzler was “Grace Kelly” and “grape jelly.” My clues on Sunday were “I'll spread the word that I solved this before breakfast” and, “If this actress liked this food item (and who doesn't), principally, she could afford the best.” Because Monaco…

You'll have to ask Zombie Friedrich Nietzsche about that.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900)

I am I, Don Quixote the Lord of La Mancha
My destiny calls and I go
And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward
Oh, whither soever they blow
Whither soever they blow, onward to glory I go

Yes, that was a "Jeopardy!" game.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. - Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923)

I did one of these; it says "Rockin PHAT Dictation." My Facebook friends liked it a lot.

I saw that episode. The girl who'd voiced Nala as a cub in "The Lion King" was then a young woman and among the Actor's Studio students in the audience. I think in was in late 2005; that is when I was staying with my mother post-Katrina.

How is the Godzilla sound spelled?

People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline, right back of J. Edgar Hoover. - Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966)

Yeah, there were a few shots of him from behind; he wore his Jedi trousers well. Also he drove Yoda's getaway, uh, pod?

Jimmy Smits!

Oh, it was anything: a band we knew did Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" and when The Pretenders did "Back on the Chain Gang", he asked "Is this the song [band] does?" He's been in bands (he is a bass player), so it's not like he's just some doofus.

I was very vocal during last night's game.
"Friday! Friday!"

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

There can be, like, 100 clowns in one windowless van!

I mentioned the "Rosebud" situation to Osiris. I also said "Yahoos, Yahoos!" like some kind of Yahoo.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962)

My Pop was a Burger Chef manager in Crowley, LA in the late 1960s - early 1970s.

A pretty horrible one.