I've never been tagged with a meme, and so I suppose it's appropriate that my first tagger is none other than Monstro.

The meme:
1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.
Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Kat (Ontario, Canada)
Cheezy (London, England)
Paula (Orange County, California, U.S.)
Jeff (Colorado, USA)
Fringes (around Houston, US)
Monstro D. Whale (New England, MA)
Motormouth (New England, MA)

2. List your top five local eating places.

OK. Moshi Moshi, because we just dropped a hundred bucks on lunch there Saturday and if you're gonna eat like you're rich, you might as well do it there.

Big Y supermarket will steam live lobsters for you and the cost is considerably less than Moshi Moshi.

Hmm, now it's getting tougher. OK: Burger King (I'm a slave to the Whopper Jr. with extra pickles), anyplace with a play area, and La Victoria Taqueria in San Jose (because New England is just a state of mind). That was hard.

3. (I'm adding here, because a one-question meme seems, well, lame)

List your top five favorite eating places from childhood:

Spenger's, Buttercup Pantry, Nation's Giant Hamburgers, the Italian place on Clayton Road we used to go to, and Skipolini's Pizza. That was easy!

4. Tag five people and let them know they've been tagged:

Anne

Ms. Strega

HeisseScheisse

Steve Sloan

Comtesse Lefty

OK. That's better.

Much has been made of the mold that Hal eats as a baby, and how it opens him to the experience of Pemulis's throwback drug. But John Wayne took the drug and himself had a reaction to it.

Also, I believe that Hal is permanently disabled by the drug, WHICH he has ALREADY taken when he happens across the luckless Ortho Stice stuck to the window. Hal seems fine, but Ortho immediately thinks Hal is crying, or upset. Later, the janitors (i.e. Hamlet's gravediggers) also believe that Hal is mugging in a way Hal never intended — and when Hal looks at himself in the mirror, his visage is composed and demure.

Once Hal reaches the Whataburger tournament (which happens two weeks after Stice's defenestration? Does that sound about right?), Hal believes he is speaking eloquently while the Arizona admissions people only hear horrifying gutteral grunts from him — horrifying enough to call an ambulance.

The day of Stice's window mishap, Pemulis discovers eight ceiling panels on the floor his sneaker / drug mule and its contents are nowhere to be found.

Did the ghost remove the sneaker, give it to Hal, and then bolt whosit's bed to whomever's room (Axelford? Troelsch?) it was? Nobody heard the ghost bolt up the bed, so the removal of eight ceiling panels would almost certainly be a quiet act for him.

Interesting too, that at ETA Incandenza's spirit is a ghost, while Don Gately refers to it as a “wraith.” Of course, Gately might have the advantage, so to speak, as he is able to see Incandenza's ghostly image.

Why read the obituaries?

Because I prefer

my brushes with death

to be vicariousities.

Veronica Mars has been cancelled.

No Veronica next season, no Whedon on the horizon, and no BSG until January of twothousandeight.

De-pressing.

Which Princess Bride Character are You?
this quiz was made by mysti

How convenient that I'm already ordained by the Universal Life Church! Anyone wanna get mawwied?

I have heard back from the PTB at The Make a Death Wish Foundation. He reports that although he doesn't read many plays, he ended mine wanting more.

Which I'm taking to mean that it's not overwritten, yet. Fantastic! I've also sent the fourth draft to TDS (aka Ed), who read an earlier draft and now will read the fourth. Prolly do the same with Illustrious Anne

Gerry, man, if you're lurking: I'm writing this one special, just for you.

Read the rest for yourself.

I've added so much to Count of Three that I decided to send it to another vict fresh reader. Justin of Make a Death Wish Foundation (MySpace) is a buddy from w a y back and he's got a similar celebrity fetish to my own. I hope he likes it but look foward to hearing any criticism, too, especially because he's very eductated as to all things Anna Nicole Smith-ian. (Smithesque?) On a lark, I sent him a PDF of Lindsay Lohan's Birkin, too.

…Mrs. Veal from Arrested Development is Ione Skye.