Look What Tom Got For Me!

That Tom guy is the awesomest. He got me this drawing of our fave character from The Rack, Lydia, done all personalized and everything (nice MMJ shirt, right?!). Lydia Park has a sister named Linda and everything, although I swear that's a coincidence because Linda is kind of a slut, to be honest, and I am as pure as the driven snow!!

Anyway, you can get one, too!

I realize I'm linking to the same thing at this point but, you know, in the future it will make more sense. You should follow The Rack if you like the comics and/or cool peeps. Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie make the marvelous (haw haw) geek life enjoyable even for this gal who only knows the Silver Surfer because he's hawt!

Hrm... maybe I'm kind of a slut, too.

Rediscovering Old Loves - Hello, It's Me

How freaking awesome is this video? I had many to choose from for this song but, you know, everything from the intro to the outfit... sigh...

My brother was a big Todd Rundgren/Utopia fan growing up, and I'd like to say I loved him back then so I could seem cool ("Yeah, man, I was into Utopia when I was eight. I'm awesome.) Instead it was more like, "Why do you listen to that creep? Donny & Marie are where it's at!"

But I digress... I do remember when I fell in love with this song I never imagined it was Mr. R. Such a sweetly earnest morsel of early 70s goodness. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

Twitter Polling - No Love For Nickelback

This week I posed the question, "Would you rather listen to Nickelback non-stop forever or be a vegetarian for the rest of your life?"

How I came up with this, I have no idea.

No one voted for Chad and co. Between that and this video, I almost feel sorry for them!

Some comments on this poll:

"Brutal! I would go veg. This poll makes me hate Nickelback even more now! They took away my bacon!"

"Veg, though I'm a little scared I had to think about it. Not because I like Nickelback (vom), but bec I travel 200km for my mum's Sunday roast."

"This is so easy. Vegetarian hands down. First of all you get tofu, and any tofu is better than a dude with a nasty ass perm."

"Vegetarian. When will Modern Rock radio stop considering Nickelback a "new rock exclusive"? Thanks Clear Channel!"

"Can it be Nickelback songs covered by another band? :)"

"Easy-- Vegetarianism all the way. I'd eat shoes for the rest of my life before I'd listen to Nickelback nonstop."

"Whoa, that's tough. I guess I'd be a vegetarian. At least that way I'd live longer. Nickleback would have me dead by my own hand."

"Vegetarian!!! And I love me some steak. There is good veg food out there. There is no good Nickelback for the rest of your life."

Wow. Who knew they would inspire such ire?! Most of these Twitterers are generally genteel, I swear.

When I looked for a video to go with this post I didn't recognize a single Nickelback song. I am impressed with my ability to suppress memories.

I've been wanting to incorporate Creed into one of these polls, but now I think I'll wait a bit. Between the Bono-bashing and this, I'll give the frontmen of the world a break.

Want to weigh in? Follow me @mspark.

On a completely different note, Miss California 2003 spoke out about the current Miss California's views on "same sex marriage or opposite marriage" here. Very nicely done, says I.

Ffffound Objects

This post is four days old now... seriously, I've been trying to post this since Sunday morning... SO HERE IT IS!

First there's the funnyometer at today and tomorrow:

And these things to remember... found via ffffound at funeral face...


On another note, I just finished watching Oprah interview Tonya Harding. That was weeeeird.

Live Blogging American Idol - Disco Night

And only because it's Disco Night. I think I've watched one episode this season. I don't know my Anoop from my Adam and only know that much because of my friend Paula.

8.02 pm - Ryan Seacrest looks strange. Age is catching up to ol Ry Ry.

8.03 pm - The final seven are a motley crew, but unfortunately they are not Motley Crue.

8.04 pm - Is this girl really called Lil Rounds? Really? Really??!! Tom says her figure is like a Barbie Doll. If this is how Disco Night is gonna go, I'm screwed. That version of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" blew. The judges agree.

8.07 pm -Paula Abdul loves her some Botox, apparently. OMG, Vince Neil is in the crowd, and I just made a Motley Crue joke! Kismet!

8.13 pm - A dude is doing Donna Summer. A dude who thinks he's the love child of Jack Johnson and John Mayer is doing Donna Summer. Every time I write this sentence it's going to get worse. Kris Allen is making me cry. I heart this song, and he's RUINING IT. Maybe deciding to watch disco night wasn't such a great idea.

8.15 pm - Who is this new judge? Does anyone like her? I don't think anyone likes her.

8.18 pm - This critique is making me have Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore 2 flashbacks.

8.23 pm - "September." Another song near and dear to my heart. Who is this goofball with the George Michael facial hair? Danny Gokey?!! Is that a jokey?!! I'm going to stick a knife in my eye over this warmed over Michael Bolton wannabe. Gack. Oh look, Vince Neil is impressed.

8.25 pm - Why does Randy Jackson call everyone "dog?" Or is it "dawg?"

8.26 pm - I know I sound mean and snarky-like but really, I would rather be impressed! Seriously!

8.27 pm - Paula is on crack. Thank God for Simon and his ill-fitting translucent t-shirt tellin' it like it is.

8.29 pm - I want to like Allison Iraheta because she's pretty cute and is channeling her inner Janis, but eesh. Sometimes channeling your inner Janis means sounding like a cat being strangled. Still, she's the least odious performer thus far... by far. "Hot Stuff" indeed.

8.34 pm - This Burger King Spongebob "I like square butts" commercial is just wrong.

8.35 pm - On another note, I'm on a diet and these Skinny Cow ice cream things are not great. Boo hoo.

8.37 pm - Oh man, I was so ready to hate on this Michael Damian meets Paul King (yeah I'm from the 80s!) lookalike Adam Lambert, but he kinda did something melancholy and sweet with Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" (another fave).

8.41 pm - Paula Abdul is seriously outer limits.

8.47 pm - Oh look, it's Justin Timberlake without the sense of rhythm. Actually, it's Matt Giraud singing a meh version of "Stayin' Alive." Why do hats that were once cute now signify a certain sense of doucheyness? Douchieness? Kinda bums me out.

8.49 pm - In case you were wondering, yes I do feel sort of guilty being such a snoot machine right after seeing all these people's families. I have a heart! Sort of.

8.54 pm - Oh, it's the Anoop! His outfit confuses me. I can't tell if it's hip hop preppy or I work on Wall Street, and I'm in the Hamptons for the weekend preppy. Someone please enlighten me. Anoop Desai can hold a note, but his voice isn't right for Donna Summer's "Dim All the Lights." AND SIMON AGREES WITH ME, OF COURSE! Simon and me... we're like this.

8.55 pm - I don't know what "this" is.

8.59 pm - What? It's over already?! Well, that was easy! Easiest live blogging ever!

9.00 pm - The end.

Live Blogging Miss USA aka Live Blogging The End Of The World

I've been working on a blog post for two days with some nice images, but Blogger keeps messing with me and won't upload... sooo.... you're stuck with this...

7.06 pm - Oh no, oh God, why did I turn on the Miss USA pageant... getting...sucked... into... the... madness!

7.08 pm - Billy Bush, too? This is a double dose of torture. I hate myself.

7.14 pm - ZOMG, Y'ALL! Miss Kentucky got called first and everything for top 15!

7.17 pm - Okay, all three states I've lived in made it to the Top 15. I think these ladies need to send me a check or something.

7.18 pm - These girls come out of some factory, right? They can't possibly be real.

7.20 pm - Whoever this host is (Nadine Velasquez), she's better looking than all the contestants. I'm sorry she's stuck wearing tacky dresses and hanging out with Billy Bush.

7.22 pm - This commercial for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past makes me nauseous, but I guarantee you I will see this movie at some point.

7.26 pm - Kenan Thompson... is a judge... okay... So is Holly Madison... who scares me. And Perez Hilton??!!!! The world really is ending . I was making a joke in the title, but NOW I AM NOT.

7.28 pm - Boring montage of the girls doing some 40s-esque (decade, not cougar) photo shoot. Miss Utah uses the word "perfect" three times in one sentence.

7.36 pm - Nadine kicks off the swimsuit competition by saying, "I want a swimsuit... and a baby." Yes. Baby.

7.37 pm - Some douchey looking singer named Kevin Rudolph performs a crappy song while the contestants skulk around and pose in white bikinis. I should have bought stock in a spray tan company... Tom just asked me if fake boobs are allowed in the Miss USA pageant. I'm gonna go with yes (Miss California, Miss North Carolina, Miss South Carolina).

Oops, Miss Kentucky only scored an 8.693. Wow, these judges are HARSH. The only contestant to score over a 9 is Miss California.

7.50 pm - And then there were ten... Arizona (hobbies: photography, interior design), California (played three sports in high school, has a chihuahua, wants to be a better person), South Carolina (enjoys reading motivational books), Kentucky! (likes shopping with her mom, doesn't like to worry), Utah (an oil painter who likes to have fun), North Carolina (likes board games), Arkansas (admires Sandra Day O'connor and enjoys paddle boating in her spare time), Texas (likes mystery novels, has crazy eyes), West Virginia (sings in the car, kicks ass in archery), and Tennessee (modeled in Japan for two months and bakes cupcakes).

8.01 pm - I feel sorry for the girls who already lost but still have to perform in these disasterland musical numbers. Apparently The Veronicas are platinum selling artists, but I've never heard of them. Watching the contestants swan about in foufy evening gowns to this pseudo-indie music is totally embarrassing for everyone involved, including me.

Arizona looks like she she's terrified she's going to trip on all that fringe. California is showing off her fake boobs again. I'm just waiting for someone to fall. Kentucky has the best dress so far... but that's not saying much. Utah is channeling a giant canary while Arkansas appears to be competing for Miss Hustler. Texas brings the suck... that see through silver thing is fug.

Kentucky and Utah are the least scary at this point, but the judges seem to love Cali.

8.17 pm - Miss Congeniality goes to Miss Wyoming. She cries. Miss Photogenic is Miss West Virginia.

8.20 pm - Billy Bush is such a tool!

8.24 pm - Ten becomes five... North Carolina (best dress), Arizona (Latina in the hizzy), Utah (looks like she expects to win), California (has a lot of freaking makeup on), and Kentucky! (I can't believe I'm actually pleased that she -- or anyone -- has made it this far.)

8.28 pm - It's question time! Hope no one pulls a Miss South Carolina at Miss Teen USA 2007! Oops, Kentucky just blew it by answering "What do you look for in a man?" with "Well, of course looks are very important in any man, but maybe he should be like my dad." I guess I should congratulate her for her honesty... or something.

8.35 pm - Question time pt 2. This is endless... just like this post! Hrm... North Carolina says taxpayer money should not be used to bail out corporations but should be used for education and welfare! Damn. Arizona never actually answers whether or not we should have universal health care. But at least she does it with "the utmost conviction." Utah thinks spending $40 million to help Afghanistan hold elections is money well spent. Damn x 2.

Okay... California gets the gay marriage question from Perez... and says it's great that Americans can choose between "same sex marriage or opposite marriage" (which we can't in 46 states). Too bad she goes on to ruin it by stuttering, "In my country and in my family I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman" to loud cheers. Vom.

Kentucky gets the Chris Brown/Rihanna domestic violence question and turns it back around for us.

And then... I screwed it all up by accidentally changing the channel on my TV so I missed the end. I am hilariously stupid!

Thank God a friend was watching and told me North Carolina took home the prize (they're having a good year, yeah? First that NCAA basketball thingie, now this). Kentucky came in last. Boo hoo. That's still 5th, though, in the grand scheme of things. It's the year of positive thinking!

Okay, now I'm going to watch Desperate Housewives. Edie's dead. Ding dong.

Twitter Polling - Poor Bono...

U2 - New Music - More Music Videos

I wrote a whole intro to this post and then Blogger or U2 ate it... here are the results for this week's Twitter Polling. Don't worry, the intro sucked. You didn't miss anything... I don't think.

Would you rather control the weather or your co-workers? Surprisingly, co-workers only got one vote ("because the weather isn't a loud and lazy idiot that you have to share a cubicle with"), giving weather the win.

Would you rather travel constantly (not being able to stay in the same place for more than six months) or stay where you are forever? I'm bad at predicting these things and travel took it by two. @TheOtherJeff replied, "Travel constantly. I've never lived more than ten miles from where I was born, for crying out loud. I need to get out," while @beffery asked if there was an expense account involved.

Bono - love him or leave him? Wow, people really don't like the Bono anymore! With comments ranging from "Only blind people and d**kheads wear sunglasses inside" to "Leave Bono in the trash (and everything after Zooropa with him too)," the leave him votes won by a landslide. However, one Bono supporter defended the shade wearing by opining that he has sensitive eyes and "sensitivity needs protection." When I first read this I thought it meant that Bono is so sensitive but now I don't know - does he have some light issue I don't know about?

Foolishly, I asked everyone if they would rather be a zombie or a vampire and well, no one wants to be a zombie (what was I thinking?!). So I amended this the next day with "Would you rather be a vampire or Lord of the Rings style elf?" This time elf took the win by three as Jeff has "always wanted to improve my magical skills" and @jason1749 said, "Definitely an elf. I totally need to lose some weight and while I've seen some fat vampires, I've never seen a fat elf." @sometomguy thinks "pointy ears are better than pointy fangs."

Okay, that's all the results I have. I'm going to start doing this once a week, I think, because, err, I need to start doing some more productive things... like writing a "Rediscovering Old Loves" for Todd Rundgren's "Hello, It's Me" even though it's currently being used in a Tums commercial. I love me some Tums!

Okay, back to Buntopia... if you're interested in participating in the polls or just following my inane inanities on Twitter you can do so @mspark.

Tortured by Nostalgia - Sunshine On A Rainy Day

I'm probably the only person here who's ever even heard this song and honestly, I'm not sure why I'm doing this to you. I was trying to write a "Rediscovering Old Loves" post about The Jesus and Mary Chain & Hope Sandoval's collaboration "Sometimes Always," but all the video I found was just too depressing... they looked like they were being tortured.

Soo... after staring out the window at the 9 millionth cloudy day since I've been home, this song popped into my head. I lived in London for two and a half months in 1991 and everywhere I went I heard "Sunshine On A Rainy Day"... well, Sunshine and Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You." Yes, blaring from the speakers of the High Street Market in Walthamstow, walking behind old ladies with their plastic bag push carts, Zoe's voice carried us through. I don't know what ever became of her, but apparently Baby Spice covered this song a few years ago. Not sure that was necessary, really. My favorite part about this video - her outfit. God, remember when bike shorts were de rigeur? Well, you better, because THEY'RE COMING BACK!

Yes, the early 90s are everywhere again. God help us.

In other news, I'm trying to get back on the blogging bandwagon but I'm currently obsessed with playing Animal Crossing: City Folk. Alternate reality is so much more fun at the mo.

Oh, are any of you watching Harper's Island or am I the only one? Harry Hamlin got his lower half ripped off last week. Good times.

Road Tripping With Jason Voorhees While Listening to The Beatles

Last week I queried the Twitterpeeps about who they would rather go on a road trip with? Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger? I'm actually a little surprised that Jason wiped the floor with ol' Freddy even though I would have picked him, too. I think poor Jason is just misunderstood while Freddy is a pedophile freak show. Most people posited that Freddy would just be way too annoying and several feared him messing up their car's interior with his knife hand.

Christine did get one write in vote (by @usumcasane) with the thought, "If I'm going on a trip with a homicidal maniac, I want one I can drive."

Friday's poll asked everyone, "If you could only listen to one band/artist for the rest of your days who would that be?" My Morning Jacket garnered a few votes (skewed I'm sure because of me). Not surprisingly, The Beatles earned the most mentions with Bob Dylan not far behind. The overwhelming sentiment was that this was a choice people didn't want to have to make, but other nods went to Miles Davis (@sometomeguy), Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Mavis Staples, Me Without You, Tegan & Sara, Radiohead, Elbow and Prince (@thekatalist said, "Prince's music transcends time and covers all genres.").

Polls are every weekday... join in @mspark, if you're so inclined. Twitter seems to have taken over the world but does that include the ville?

Okay, I'm off to see Fast and Furious. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that. I blame Tom!

#AmazonFail - Kevin Church's Open Letter to Jeff Bezos

From Kevin Church's excellent blog, Beaucoupkevin...

"Jeff:

I've been an avid customer of Amazon.com for quite some time now, purchasing between $100 and $200 worth of books, DVDs, games, electronics, and music each month. I think the Amazon mp3 store is a prime example of how to sell music online, and it's obvious that a great deal of thought has been placed in editorial pieces such as your annual ten best lists. I've always been happy to give Amazon my money, and joined your affiliate program because the company offers the chance for people who don’t have good local book stores and comic shops to pick up material I've enjoyed and discussed on my blog. Each month, I send between $1,000 and $3,000 of business your way through the affiliate links on the sites I maintain as well as a Twitter account set up for music, movie, and other geek-friendly deals. I've always had a good relationship with your company.

However, that relationship, which currently means between $13,000 and $26,000 per annum for your business, will be over unless you do not immediately take action to reverse your company's new "Adult Materials Policy," a blatantly homophobic rule that means that Alan Moore's sexually explicit Victorian graphic novel Lost Girls is currently available through the sales rank-oriented search and lists, but not Radclyffe Hill's acclaimed The Well of Loneliness, a lesbian romance set in the same era that features no sex. Some people with more patience than I have crafted a list that includes those two titles and several more egregious examples of this policy.

In an era where more people are becoming more accepting of those who aren't like them - just look at our last presidential election - it's a shame that the web's largest retailer has decided to take a step back to the past and marginalize a vital segment of our society through rules that seem tailored to enforce a damaging, unhealthy status quo that has left so many leading unhappy lives. What's next, removing black authors and materials about black culture from the sales ranks? If the web as we know it had existed in 1965, people would have been telling you that was the right thing to do, and they would have been as wrong then as your business is right now with this decision.

Yes, Jeff, you're the CEO of just one online retailer, but it's the biggest online retailer. Wouldn't you like to give people one more reason to say that you're the best? Hell, this decision may have passed you by entirely; and I'm willing to give you and those in your organization a chance to rectify this mess. I'm leaving the Amazon affiliate links on my site for another week, but if your decision has not changed by next Sunday, I'll cancel my Amazon Prime membership, remove any and all affiliate links, and walk away from your company entirely.

Yours,
Kevin Church"

Really, Amazon?

[Ed note: Amazon now calls this #AmazonFail a "glitch." However, there is no explanation beyond that.]

Easter Greetings

Happy Bun Day, peeps!

What I'm Listening to Right This Very Second - Apartment Story

The National bring on the best kind of melancholy, wouldn't you agree?

Something probably weird to admit, but I have a lot of daydreams about running as a teenager. Not like running track but running through the night, all free and glossy with the stars exploding overhead... you know, maybe I'm running to some boy, maybe I'm running to the distant lights, but I'm never running from, always to.

This song brings the ground up to greet me.

Twitter Polling - Reese's or Reesies and More

I'm going to run out of "clever" poll (pole) photos pretty fast, methinks.

The Twitter Polling is still going strong and here are some results from the past couple days...

Do you say Reese's or Reesies (in re peanut butter cups, pieces, etc)? This one got started because Tom always says "Reesies" and I always laugh at him (in a kind, wifely sort of way). I thought this was just some sort of Tomism and then we were at, err, Dairy Queen the other night and he ordered a "Reesie Cup Blizzard" and I was chortling away until the drive- thru dude repeated our order and said "Reesie," too. So, maybe this is some sort of Kentucky pronunciation, I wondered, and took to the Twitter to find out. Well, Reesies didn't stand a chance as Reese's won by a landslide with comments such as "Reesies is just plain wrong" and "your hubby and the DQ guy are weird." Okay, then!

Yesterday's "Star Wars or Star Trek?" poll generated a lot of heated Han Solo debate. One thing that surprised me was all the ladies who love the Trek! "Star Trek. Spock. Kirk. Transmission ends," said @GoonrGrrl. William Shatner always kinda freaked me out, I must admit. However, it was one gal (@aw1095) who pushed Star Wars over the edge for the win (sorry @tweetrenee, I know you think Han Solo is a "chump"). Tom, or @sometomguy as he's known in the Twitterverse, said, "Those Kenner toys looked much better under the tree. And Darth Vader is way cooler than Khan" while @jason1749 defiantly remarked, "Han Solo is cooler than Kirk."

Today's poll is still going going on so feel free to @reply or follow @mspark. The poll query is, "Who would you rather go on a road trip with - Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees, and why?" Personally, I think poor Jason is just misunderstood.

What I'm Listening to Right This Very Second - Dreams

Deep Dish remixed "Dreams"and then they made a video of it... with a lot of people walking backwards...

I feel like my brain has frozen today and it's not just the weather. None of the words seem to be coming out in the right order.

I really am listening to this song, though, and feeling just as mad as the occupants of the vid. My internet friend Jason just suggested I get off the internet. What a great idea...

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Passing Along the Pain

If I have to suffer with this image burned into my brain, so do you.

Good God, someone help me understand!

(from failblog)

Twitter Polling - And the Votes Are In...

Good afternoon, ladies and gents...

Some new poll results are in and I know you've been anxious to hear the outcome on the big Golden Girls vs Gilmore Girls battle royale but first...

Thursday's poll (taken from The LP Questionnaire, and not an original query by any means), "What superpower do you wish you had?" garnered some interesting answers. I thought for sure "flying" would win, but it only got one vote! I went through all the past LPQ's and flying won by a wide margin. Some want the power of persuasion, @Lyngay wants the ability to speak all languages (now that is handy!), telekinesis was another good one, but the big winner was teleportation!! Tweets ranged from "Like Jumper, but not as lame" (@poptown) to "with a further range than Nightcrawler" (@tweetrenee).

Friday's question, Golden Girls or Gilmore Girls? really surprised me. The Golden Girls took the early lead, as I thought they would, but Gilmore Girls came out on top - by one! There was a little too much Kirk love for my liking and someone replied, "Gilmore Girls because old ladies talking about sex all the time weirds me out." So, err, there you have it.

You can still vote in today's poll, and Kentucky peeps please chime in because I never would have thought of this one if it weren't for you. "When talking about Reese's peanut butter cups, pieces, etc do you say Reese's or Reesies?" Inquiring minds want to know! Answer @mspark... or follow if you want to participate every weekday. (I also Twitter lots of bananalities, which is always entertaining... or not... but, you know, Jason Statham follows me so I am tooootally cool.) You can comment here on this one... basically I'm trying to decide if this is a Kentucky thing or a Tom is weird thing.

Okay, I'm off for now. I have to get away from The Wedding Planner.

("I Think I Voted" pic found at Keith Olbermann Is Evil.)

Oh the Irony - Gay Marriage Mark Twain Edition

I spend a lot of time being a California snob in regards to America's heartland and, I admit it, Kentucky.

However, that all stops today!

Same sex couples in Iowa will be allowed to marry from April 24 as the state Supreme Court unanimously decided to legalize gay marriage today. Yes, it's true, gay couples in Iowa can get married, but they can't in California... thus the irony.

In other great news, Senate Bill 68 died in the 2009 Kentucky legislative session without a single vote on the floor. Though I suspect this may be due more to the fact that the bill included hetero unmarried couples that want to foster/adopt children, I'm still going to say, "HUZZAH!"

Just this week I emailed a friend about how I skip Iowa when Monchhichi's on tour, and I tweeted about a mom bringing her four year old kid to see The Watchmen and, you know, welcome back to Kentucky when really... okay, so I may not be going to Iowa anytime soon, I know that there are idiots everywhere (not just here), and I'm probably often one of them.

Earlier today a woman called Terri commented on my blog so I clicked through to one of hers, Barefoot and Progressive, which features this Mark Twain quote: "I want to be in Kentucky when the end of the world comes, because it's always 20 years behind." Now generally I say ten, but it got me thinking...

Thinking about what a self-centered nitwit I am, actually. Since I moved here I've felt like Kentucky needs to change, and I've often lamented the lack of diversity. However, it's up to me to change, isn't it? I moved here, I've met awesome people, I'm the jerkface for thinking Kentucky should be anything other than what it is.

So, I'm going to live here in our SB 68-less world and be glad of it. The traffic in LA sucks now, anyway.

Hacked

Okay, someone seems to have hacked my blog, or I took a bunch of acid and started writing about Eeyore.

I'm gonna go with hacking... and I can't delete the post.

Eeyore is cute, though!

ps. Okay, after I published this post... Eeyore went away... but I can still link to it. THE GHOST IS IN THE MACHINE! ::creeped out::

Twitter Polling - Daily Scientific Research

I've decided a good way to pass the time is to poll all my Twitter pals every weekday with stupid questions...

Here are some of the stats so far...

Who would you rather be, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Winner: The Rolling Stones by one.

The Beatles voters were, funnily enough, not as genteel as the Stones camp with comments like "I really don't understand this poll. Is this really a tough decision?" and "Ringo is a douche, though."

Who would you rather be, Batman or Spiderman? Winner: Spiderman by three. Batman had the early lead until the tides turned with many mentioning how "f**ing nuts" he is and two replies (one from a cat) saying, "Batman sucks!" @jason1749 mentioned "fun" in choosing both The Stones and Spidey so we should all hang with that guy. Others talked about Spidey's wuss factor (something I considered) but, most interestingly, @Beffery picked him because "Batman's carbon footprint would be huge."

Who would you rather be trapped on a desert island with, Dane Cook or Paris Hilton? Winner: Dane Cook by one although really, are there any winners here? I agree with @jason1749 who asked if death was an option. I thought people would pick in terms of practicality and they did, saying there would be more to eat with Dane. Someone said Paris Hilton is funnier than Dane Cook. Ohh, DC, YA BURNT!

Today's question - What superpower do you wish you had and why? is still going so please follow me @mspark and chime in. I'm also open to suggestions for poll questions so feel free to tweet those or comment here. Fun timez in the Twitter hood, yo! w00t!