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Owel, finally back at work. And its only 9. I thought I had been here for more than an hour. Especially since I was keeping up with correspondence, that usually kills time. Anyways, went to trivia with Bill and Joseph last night. Grant eventually showed up with some friends of his I didn't know. Well, our old roommate Rob ended up coming. Grant also said Nick Black had expressed an interest in coming. He didn't show up until halfway through or near the end, and was sans Marilyn. Alas, he didn't partcipate anyways. I had heard he and the little lady kicked ass at trivia games, so I was wanting to see his wits in action. I mean, since they flaked out at that board game party thrown at the old place before we moved, I haven't had a chance to see if they lived up to the hype, if they could even beat the dream team! I just got an e-mail from psyched_out saying he might be able to get all of the players of the dream team assembled next week. More on that later.

Getting on to the results. We totally got our asses kicked. Even if Krug, Scott, and Sato were there, I don't think we would have done any better. Well, mebbe Scott might have known the music questions. Which were: What did Queen's Brian May get a Phd in? And who wrote "Harden my Heart"? I've heard the song a million times, I just don't know who did it. I think Chris would have known the answer to the military question.

So who is the dream team anyways? Me, Scott, the GMA, and Jbarkle. Actually, I'd put Joseph in there, because he and Bill seem to work off each other, especially in sports trivia. Plus, being a foreigner, he can provide one of those foreign perspectives. Of course, we're still lacking in military/history and sci-fi/fantasy knowledge, so I think throwing in Chris and/or Krug would balance things out. I think that also covers all of the major European languages. And since Scott would prolly bring the wife, she and Joseph could piece together any Asian questions. Granted, someone reading this would say: Okay, so what exactly do YOU contribute? Hey, I know stuff! Not anything that they would usually ask a question on, but I think there are some totally off the wall questions that I could get. I'm the wildcard! Really!

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So as you get ready to read this post, you're prolly wondering, "Is he gonna talk about movies, food, or hot chicks?" It is the first! Anyways, sometimes in the slow periods of the work day, you're forced to surf and drink caffienated beverages! I had heard about that new upcoming film "Hero" a couple of days ago when I was trying to find films, if any, that had Jet Li and Donnie Yen on IMDB. Obviously, there's Once Upon a Time in China 2. But then I also saw "Hero" listed. And not only does it have the two of them, it has Zhang Ziyi. The other listed cast is Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung of John Woo's "Hard Boiled" and "Bullet in the Head". So its an impressive cast. But what is it about, Geebs?! Leung, Cheung, and Yen play assassins trying to prevent Ying Zheng from conquering all of China (Its an oft-told Chinese story). Jet Li plays the emperor's bodyguard and Zhang Ziyi is Leung's maid who is in love with him. But unlike "The Emperor and the Assassin" which tried to go for accuracy, "Hero" is entirely fictitious. So who is the "hero"? Supposedly, one can make an argument for any of the main characters being the hero the way the story goes. Interestingly bit of trivia, in the original story, the head assassin's name is Jing Ke. In Highlander IV, Donnie Yen played the "actual" Jing Ke, who was an immortal in the Highlander universe. Though his character's name isn't Jing Ke in "Hero", he is still one of the assassins. Anyways, this is a film I'm looking forward to seeing. And it comes out here in limited release in December!