Hi All,
What has greasy hair and wants to suck your blood? Enough about Maureen Dowd already. Hahahaha.
Ahem. Anyway, Halloween is almost here and I’m so excited. This is a special Holiday in which we celebrate by asking our neighbors for free candy and then egging their house. Which reminds me of political fundraising!
Anway, I’m here to answer the questions that stick to the back of your mind like bad popcorn kernels. Want to know about Halloween? Have a moral question? Need guidance on relationships? Don’t know how to dress for Halloween to impress a first date?
The Doctor is in.
Post questions in comments. Some of these will get used in the upcoming podcast.

Man, I bet some people wish they had driver’s license photos as good as this mugshot. Rush Limbaugh had been saying that as soon as there was a mugshot of Tom Delay, it’s all the press will ever use as a photo of him – even if he’s cleared of all charges. Luckily, Delay takes a good mugshot.

You’ve probably heard about the NBA dress code by now. Some people say it’s racist, but isn’t saying the dress code is racist a racist statement in itself since white people can desire to dress like an idiot too?
Just trying to open minds.

Millionaire lefty song composer Burt Bacharach has written lots of famous schmaltzy love songs for about 50 years, but the love has turned to hate. Snoop Burty Burt has been working with rap artists lately and now is so angry at George W. Bush that he’s written both the music and lyrics for protest songs against Republicans, Iraqi Freedom, and prominent African-Americans he considers sellouts for not being Democrats like him.
I’m certain Bacharach’s CD will sell. There will always be people that buy something from an artist no matter how poorly conceived or executed just because those fans think the artist can do no wrong.
A good example of that is Yoko Ono. She’s the older woman with marginal talents and a failing career that hooked up with a younger man with some talent that was going places. Most people with any objectivity knew that Yoko Ono was just a parasite on John Lennon, but John Lennon thought she could do no wrong and turned his career over to her. No matter how bad Lennon’s creative output was after Ono entered the picture, there would always be fans of his that would say: “Right on, man. You’re, like, so inspired as artists, man.”

scoff< Hippies!
Of course, if Yoko Oko didn’t have John Lennon’s previous output with Paul McCartney to draw from, she’d be screwed. That’s just par for the course… Burt Bacharach can do a CD full of lackluster protest songs he penned by himself because he’s living off his past glories of the songs he co-wrote with other artists.

Yes, as mentioned at the end of the post of Superego in Baen’s Bar, there is an epilogue to the story. I was planning to maybe do it as a dramatic reading if we were going to have an IMAO Christmas DVD this year, but I’ll post it here on IMAO for free if you all do a little favor in excahnge.
Some background: Baen is a publisher of science fiction (I’ve met some authors he’s published through this site). He’s going to have a new magazine, and, at the suggestion of a reader, I submitted Superego for it by posting it over in Astounding Slush at Baen’s Bar (I reedited it so there are no longer 44 breaks in the story).
Now, I wanted to have a discussion of Superego to help me be a better writer. Since comments are buggy over here right now (it will be fixed soon), I thought maybe we could have a discussion of the story over at Baen’s Bar. It’s already started, and, if you liked the story (or even if you didn’t it), I think it would be nice for you to post a critique over there. Yes, you have to do a very quick registration, but that seems like a small price to pay since you already got a free story. By having the discussion over there, I might get a little exposure, and, as long as a good discussion gets going, I’ll write the epilogue (it’s already written in my head) and post it.
As for the critique, please tell me what you thought were the strengths or the story, any questions you have, and, most importantly, what you didn’t like. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF HURTING MY FEELINGS. I’ve been through critiques where pretty much every sentence of something I wrote got ripped apart. I need honesty to be a better writer.
So, please go over there, register, and join the discussion. Then, I’ll post the epilogue and you’ll for certain know the fate of Rico.
UPDATE: Also, if there’s any part that sticks out as needing being changed, mention that.

Hey, I’d like to give out a shout out to Kevin (a.k.a. cadet happy, a.k.a. lots of other stuff) for the promotional image for the new podcast. I think we’re getting our groove back and should be doing one once a week again.
And isn’t SarahK doing a great job with the editing?
BTW, we have less than a third of the votes for our podcast this month at podcastalley.com than we usually get, and we need to improve our image there to impress the other ‘casters. So, if you haven’t done so this month, please vote.
UPDATE: We’re also on Yahoo now. You can go rate us there and write a review and subscribe or whatnot.

Of all the thousands of lawyer shows current on TV, ABC’s Boston Legal with William Shatner, is one of them.
To boost ratings, the producers of Boston Legal are busy promoting (I don’t consider promoting a dirty word) the fact a big star will be making his return to TV after many years of being away: Michael J. Fox.
I guess the producers of Boston Legal wanted to shake things up a bit…