Shadowgirls

Actually, it's "I Need a Hero" and it's originally from "Footloose".  I spent last summer assistant directing the stage version of the movie, so I know far more about 80's music than I ever really cared to know.

To answer Pujo's question:

TV Show: Desperate Housewives.  It's a trashy piece of soap opera, but I love every minute.

Movie: The OLD King Kong movies.  They're just so bad that they're good.

Song: Um, I listen to country music.  I think that's enough.

And now, for Valor's question:

I've been to Mexico twice.  The first was a short excursion into a border-town with my parents when I was 12 or 13 (Gorgeous city, but so much want on the streets – I literally saw half-naked children playing in the gutters.  So sad.).  The second was my honeymoon in Cozumel.  (SUCH a beautiful place.  I must go back someday.)

Continue.

@Inara: The song title in the track listing on Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart compilation (© and ℗ 2000, UPC 0-7989-27989-2-0) is "Holding Out For A Hero", including that exact capitalization.  Track 5, clocking in at 5:49.  Amazon's track listing for the Footloose soundtrack album lists the same name and capitalization.  If the song title listed is different in the stage play, well, then it's different, and could just as easily have been deliberate as an error.

Apologies for the Footloose / Flashdance mix-up; my copy of both films is a "Double-Feature" DVD from Target, and prior to getting that I'd only seen pieces of Flashdance, and nothing of Footloose.

Post edited 10:33 pm – May 26, 2010 by Catbunny

Pujardov said:

I discovered about thirty minutes ago that if you let eggs boil dry due to forgetting about them, they eventually explode, peppering your kitchen with molten yolk and flying shell shrapnel.

Heh… I learned that lesson pretty recently myself.  Playing CoH after I set the eggs on the stove… eventually… *BANG*  *sigh*

More recently, I learned what the chemical reaction is that makes matches catch fire – friction causes red phosphorous to change to white phosphorus, which ignites upon contact with air.  (Rerun of Mythbusters that I missed the first-run of… can you light a match by shooting a gun at it?  Yes.)

Keep it going!

It's quiet…  Too quiet…  Where is everybody?

Seriously, it looks like everyone who was going to answer that last one has done so.  So I'll toss in a new one…

ShadowGirls took Monday off for the U.S. Memorial Day holiday this week.  What other comics (online or print) or columns (again, blog or print) do you read (that you'll admit to), which officially also took the day, or the week, completely off with no new material?  (Unreliable update schedules which happened to skip Monday don't count; I'm referring to the missed entries actually being announced by the one of the creators / artists / authors.)

My 21st birthday was celebrated at a great restaurant called Macado's, and had my first (legal) drink.  A friend ordered me … something that I didn't drink because I really wanted my first legal drink to be an Inspired Insanity.  It's about the size of a fishbowl filled with many different alcohols.  It is an odd blue-green color.  Apparently, that was also the color of my face as I ran to the bathroom afterward.  :/  'Course, then I was sober again, and learned the joy of Coca-Cola and Goldschlager. 

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Post edited 9:25 am – June 7, 2010 by DanialArin

I heard from one Defensive Driving instructor in Connecticut you can get a ticket for failing to merge 500 feet before the lane ends.  Funny how that guy seemed to know more about Connecticut than New York when he was teaching the class in New York.

I had another Defensive Driving instructor who'd never heard of a traffic light with a green left-turn arrow that didn't also have a red left-turn arrow.

And then of course there's the standard course question of "Two cars arrive at an intersection with a four-way Stop sign at the same time.  Which one has right of way to go first?"  The real-world answer is "it depends on the type of intersection, which direction the cars arrive from relative to each other, and if either of them is turning vs. going straight."  The answer they expect is, "The one on the right, and then all other cars go after the one on their right has gone through."

What tales have you of teachers who clearly either didn't know their stuff, or insisted that the only correct answer was the covered less than half possible cases?  (Particularly in a Defensive Driving class, or some other class for government-related credit?)