Questions from Wacy, and a sidebar from Omar.

Tell us the story of how you and Sara met?
There’s a long version and a short version.
Short version is we met at The Mark II a local bar.
Long version is Marc Lulkin a resident of Skokie, IL in I believe third grade, had a class project of taking a helium balloon, attaching his address to it in hopes of getting a pen pal out of it. This landed in Stephanie Deardorff’s cornfield in Tefft, IN. She wrote back and became pretty decent pen pal friends with Marc. Eventually when of driving age, occasionally Marc and friends would come to visit Indiana, and Stephanie and friends would go up to visit the Skokie/Evanston area. I became friends with Stephanie and friends during my Senior (their Junior) year of High School at Kankakee Valley High School. I even went to the prom with young Stephanie. I became part of the groups that would go up to see Marc and friends, and would visit Marc and friends when they would come down. Through this all I became pretty decent friends with Marc’s friend John Dibenedetto. I’d often go up to visit when John would throw house parties, apparently I had met Sara at one of these a while back, but neither of us remember this. Well Staci and I got our first apartment well up on the Far North side of Chicago. Right next to Evanston and Skokie. Neither Staci nor I really made the connection that we were that close to John & Marc. One day out of the blue John calls us and informs us that he lives like less than five minutes away. So we start hanging out again. One night like a month after I moved to my condo, I was even closer to John’s house. We went out to the local after-hours (closes at 5am) bar The Mark II we run into Sara and Nifer. Nifer’s parents and Marc’s parents are like best friends. Sara is Nifer’s roommate. So we all hang out and continue to hang out for a few weeks after that, and we started dating and has gone on from there. So in a roundabout way, we’d have never met if it weren’t for Marc Lulkin’s third grade teacher coming up with a pen pal project.

We know your political stance, what is your religious stance?
I myself am rather agnostic. I have no way of knowing what is the correct religion. I’m pretty sure that none of them have it right. I believe religion is a crutch for those with week minds to lift themselves up on at its worst, and a basis to teach kids a good moral standing upon at its best.

What would do/buy if you had a million dollars?
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you a house (I would buy you a house)
And If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd buy you furniture for your house(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car (a nice Reliant automobile)
And If I Had $1000000 I'd buy your love.

If I Had $1000000 I'd build a tree fort in our yard.
If I Had $1000000 You could help, it wouldn't be that hard.
If I Had $1000000 (Maybe we could put a little tiny fridge in there somwhere.)
We could just go up and hang out. (we could have snack and beverages and...)

If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet (Yep Like a llama or an emu)
And If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well I'd buy you John Merrick's remains (ooh all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I Had $1000000 I'd buy your love

If I Had $1000000 We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I Had $1000000 We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I Had $1000000 We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner.
But we would. I like Kraft Dinner. Of course we would we'd just eat more.

If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress that's cruel)
And If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you some art (a Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey (haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
If I Had $1000000 I'd buy your love

If I Had $1000000, If I Had $1000000
If I Had $1000000, If I Had $1000000
If I Had $1000000
I'd be rich.

Omar then also Asks:

What exactly makes people act so damn crazy on Haloween weekend in Madison?
I’m pretty sure it’s all the alcohol, but really I bet is was just a one time occurance, that has escalated and gotten to the crazy mess it’s been.

Info

Well I figured I could also put the info I just sent out in a little mass mail on here so here ya go:

Although it isn’t completely finished yet, I figured I’d let everyone know that on Friday, Sara and I closed on a townhouse in the lovely Northern Suburb of Chicago, Vernon Hills. I figured a quick and dirty little mass email to anyone that wants to update any info you all have for me (us) would be the easiest and fastest way to get this out there.

Ken Dreiling & Sara Monzingo
476 Harrison Ct
Vernon Hills, IL 60061
H: (847) 573-8921
C: (773) 860-0625
Non-work email: maestroken at gmail.com

Moving: Phase III

Well, last entry was Monday at work. Now for an update, Monday night after work I ran to my storage and grabbed a carload of stuff to take to the new place. As I was unloading it, Sara got there, so the timing was nice, and then off to Home Depot to grab some paint. On Behr’s website I can’t directly link to the colors we got or post the pictures but I can tell you the colors and you can look there if you like from this site here.
http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/index.jsp
So for Master Bedroom we have ENDLESS SKY / PPL-24
For Spare Bedroom we have MINT MAJESTY / 480A-3
For the Wall of the bathroom that the mirror is on we have GRAPE PARFAIT / 640B-6
For the other three walls of the bathroom we have INNUENDO / 640B-4
That took over an hour so it was pretty late, so Sara put one coat of the singular bathroom wall up, and I finished taping the rooms.
So yesterday I get there and Dina is there to help. Sara put a second coat on the bathroom wall before I got there, it looks great and is done. After we eat the Portillo’s I picked up, we all put the first coat on the Master Bedroom. Then it was too wet to put a second coat on, and we still have no light in the spare bedroom yet, and it’s after dark so we decided to put together the chairs we got for our Dining room table. (Stefan Chairs in Blue)
This is probably the last update I’ll be able to put up until Monday, since I have the next two days off, and I’ll be working on the place the whole time. Hopefully we’ll be mostly done by then so I’ll throw out the Itinerary.

Tonight: Take my cable boxes back, then go to IKEA To pick up this as well as some doors for it, which will go to the left of Sara’s already owned entertainment cabinet with add-on unit on top, which will have this to the right of it, all in birch. Then put a second coat on the Master bedroom. And a first coat on the other three walls of the bathroom. Then If I have the energy, assemble one of the two new IKEA pieces, if not go to bed.

Thursday: Dina should be helping me on this day too, Sara will be at work. Between noon and 4:00 the gas company is supposed to turn on the gas. In the morning Paint the Spare Bedroom’s first coat, then the second coat in the bathroom’s three walls. Then assemble an IKEA piece as that dries. Then, put the second coat in the spare room. That should finish off the painting. Well at least until we do the kitchen cabinets.

Friday is the day I’m looking at getting my stuff from my place, and out of storage, Sara's off on Friday, so she'll be able to hold doors open for me and things like that, actually either Friday or Saturday, or Sunday for this, depending on if there is a difference in prices on Truck rental. If not until one of the weekend days, Friday will be an unpack Sara's things day, then the rest of the weekend will be acquiring my things, and unpacking then.

Saturday the cable/cable internet is installed between 8:00 and noon. Then we’ve got a whole weekend of unpacking, and setting up to do. I’ll check back in on Monday and let y’all know how it all went.

Hey, I'm tired, and sore.

Welp this was a big weekend so let’s recap shall we.

Friday I had a half day because we’re closing on the house!!!!! So during the morning part of the day I get the loan officer to lower our rate because it was too high due to a mix up. Get them started on that as I head out to get a cashiers check and head out to the closing. Meet up with Sara there about half an hour early. Don’t start the closing until half an hour late, because my lawyer (fellow employee) was tardy. Lots of signing. Twice as much as last time actually, since we did a first and second mortgage (80% for the first, 15% on the second, 5% down). Then once all is done and ready, we still had to stick around for a good 45 minutes waiting for the Lender (Wells Fargo) to accept the new lower rate. Eventually it is done, and we have a townhouse, YAY! We then go out with Joanne, the lawyer, to Bennigans and eat, since none of us had had lunch yet. We then go to Home Depot to get paint samples and keys made, Container Store, to talk to Sara’s friend about closet Organizers (she wasn’t there), then to Sara’s parents house for paint discussions. Call it quits early on Friday because.

Saturday, 10am we start loading up vehicles at Sara’s house for moving her stuff over. We moved all of her stuff (less clothes for the week, computer and other things she needs for work) over by 4:00. We go to Walmart to get some necessities and things (got a cheapie Apex DVD player I hope it plays VCDs and all that crap, gotta check VCDHelp.com once I remember to write down the Model Number) We also grabbed some Chinese food for the first meal in the house. I had Beef & Broccoli and she had Chicken Lo Mein. I’m thinking there is some missing time in there between the moving and Walmart that I might be forgetting, oh yes, I remember. We taped the bathroom and spare bedroom for painting that should occur this week.

Sunday get up to Load my car up with boxes because I’m heading out to Vernon Hills again. But first we stop at Sara’s parents house because they are being kind enough to get us an over the stove microwave. After the electronics store (Abt) Sara and I are going on to IKEA to pick up some things. We know a lot of this will be oversized so we ask to get her parents van for the day. They oblige so we follow them in the van out to Abt. Something isn’t right about me as soon as I sit in the van (of which we filled with the things that were in my car, to also take to the house). I feel nauseous. My stomach is twirling, and I’m on the verge of puking, I haven’t eaten anything since the Chinese the night before, so I’m kind of worried. The Chinese seemed a touch undercooked but, I don’t think this was it. Something in the van was making me nauseous, since I was fine when I put my head out the window. On top of it, something was in my eye and it was hurting, crazy fun day. I’m fine once we’re out of the van though. We get the microwave, (for much cheaper than her Dad expected Win-Win) he also picks up a flat screen TV for his kitchen, and we’re out the door quick. Get the microwave into the van and all is good, until we’re looking to get back onto the street. The retching begins and I’m puking. We were stopped so none got on the van, but I got some on my Homestar Runner shirt and my arm. Then we start going down the road looking for a gas station to clean me up, and I do a 45 mph spraying of stomach acid (remember no food) along the side of the van. We finally find a gas station, luckily they have a car wash. Sadly no Ikea, as we go back to her parents house, me with my head out of the window the whole way. Once I was out of the van I was once again better, but still not quite right. We put the microwave in Sara’s Jeep, and my stuff back into my car, and head on out to the house. We get everything in. Unsuccessfully attempt to remove the hood that is above the stove, to be prepared for putting the microwave in. And then give up. It’s only 2:00 so I say, hey lets go to IKEA anyway, even if we can’t fit anything in my car we can get the 5 chairs we need for the dining room table, and find the price and location of the other things we want for the entertainment center. IKEA rocked as always, and in addition to the chairs we also got one part of the entertainment center, since even though it didn’t fit in the car, it did fit, if part was hanging out the back window. The other piece also fits in my car if there isn’t a passenger, so I believe early Thursday morning I might go pick that up. Or maybe Wednesday Night. After we got everything in the house from IKEA, we head to Target to get Thank you cards for the people in the office that helped in the process of getting the loan, then I head home. I’m too tired to pack up more boxes for me to take tonight to the house, so I just go to bed.

Today and the rest of the week will be kinda hard, Working normally through Wednesday, and in the evenings I’m fighting traffic (35.5 miles, estimated as 55 minutes, but that’s without the fact that it is rush hour factored in) up to the house to, well tonight buy paints and then paint, the next couple of days to paint. Then go back to the condo at what ever hour we finish, then get some sleep for the next day. I did take Thursday and Friday off. So that should help. Then next weekend, I’m looking at renting a truck, either Friday or Saturday, and getting everything out of the house, and out of storage, and out to the place. I need to take some time these evenings when I get to my house after painting to box my stuff up, but sadly I foresee sleep being more important on my mind these mornings. Then hopefully on Sunday, get as much as possible done and set up out of the way as possible. The hardest part is going to be wanting to build and assemble all the IKEA stuff, and set everything up before doing all the work, such as painting, unpacking etc. Yes, this will consume my life for probably the next few weeks. Hopefully it will be less painful than it sounds, and already was, because damn am I sore. No, I mean it, really sore, and tired, and also sore, but also very tired. I'm also tired.

Here we go again on my own.

Well I still have additional Wacy questions to answer, other than that I have no more questions to answer so send me some at maestroken at gmail.com and give me some content. In the mean time I haven't done this in a while so it's the last ten non-torrent searches leading to my blog as of now.
Starting from longest ago to most recent.

9 inch heels
q101 top "300 party songs"
andrew dreiling
daizee haze
iwa mid-south full results
RU
elephants trunk to tail tattoo
"flavor flav" birthplace year
Ryan Mcguinness,stickers
If the south would have won lyrics

Now send me questions so I have some content.
Well I guess I'll probably have some content with the whole closing tomorrow and moving Sara's stuff in this weekend. Painting and Closet Organizer building during the week. Then Moving my stuff in next weekend. But I don't care, I want to answer more questions. Everybody had some good ones, now bring me some more.

Quizzes and stupidness

Your Penis Name is: 100% All-beef Thermometer

Get your own Penis Name

Your Boobies' Names Are: Thelma and Louise

Get your own Boobie Names

Your Porn Star Name is: Jason Jizzy

Get your own Porn Star Name

You Know You're From Chicago When...

You say "Wanna go with?" when you mean "Do you want to come with me?" You know what Kennedy, Dan Ryan, Eisenhower, Edens, and Bishop Ford, have in common and curse one of them daily. You know what "the Hillside strangler is." You can name three or four extra taxes nobody else pays. You know the difference between Richard J Daley and Richard M Daley. You can use two or three Daleyisms in context. You can imitate the Mayor's whine. You say Chicawgo and not Chicaago. You think going to a Bears game in single digit temperatures with a wind off the lake (and freezing rain) is fun. Da is a proper definite article. You expect corruption in local politics. You go to the Dells in the summer to get away from the other 20 thousand that followed you. You've been caught speeding in Wisconsin because you had Illinois plates. You guard your shoveled parking space with an old chair and unusable broom. You know why they call it "the Windy City." You know dead people who voted. You understand the Democratic machine and don't fight against it. You've never ever considered the idea of hiring non-union laborers. You've never been to Springfield. You know a good gyros joint. You know what Giordanos, Lou Malnati's, and Gino's have in common. You know when the last time the Cubs won a pennant. You know exactly how many cars are "legally" allowed to turn left after the light turns red. You don't know which ethnic "fest" to choose on any given Summer weekend. Your idea of relaxing and getting away from it all is Ravinia (with 10,000 others who have the same idea). You can recite many of "The Blues Brothers" lines and know where they filmed certain scenes. You consider paying someone to watch your car at a sporting event as just another "city tax." The "Living Room" is called the "front room" You don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois. You become irate at people who do You measure distance in minutes (especially "from the city"). And you swear everything is pretty much 15 minutes away You refer to anything South of I-80 as "Southern Illinois" You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake" You refer to Chicago as "The City" "The Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35 played in January of 1986 You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers! You buy "The Trib" You think 35 degrees is great weather to wash your car! You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is You understand what "lake-effect" means You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which station they end up at. You have ridden the "L" You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847,630,773,708, 312, & 815 You respond to the question "Where are you from" with a side" example:"WEST SIDE", "SOUTH SIDE" or "NORTHSIDE." You know what the phone number is to Empire Carpet! You wear gym shoes, not sneakers. Your favorite melody to hum is "Bang,Bang,Bang-Skeet,Skeet,Skeet!!!!" You faithfully attended Lil Louis parties at The Bismarck. You GOT to have spaghetti at your barbecue. You are STILL a Bulls fan........ You think kicking it outside of White Castles parking lot, (79th and Stony Island) is the "Freak Nik" You go to Harold`s and order 4 pc wing, mild sauce, salt and pepper. You have a picture of Harold Washington in your kitchen, living room, family room or basement. You have ever waited in line at Home of the Hoagy on 111th for 30-45 minutes for a steak samich wit cheese You have ever been to the Tiki Room lounge in Hyde Park You have Y made a special trip downtown because you had a craving for Garrett's caramel and cheese popcorn. What!!! We don`t get a Fifty? Oh yeah.... You drink at bars called "Bud on Tap" or "Milwaukee's Best" -- no names, just beer signs out front. It's January and you see someone's kitchen chair in the street, and you know that if you're a responsible citizen and bring it back to the sidewalk you will be shot on sight You live two miles from work and it takes you two hours to drive there You don't flinch when you pay the fifth toll of your 45-minute car ride on the highway When you read a big story in the paper about mob ties in the city government, your first reaction is "So, tell me something I don't know." You know Lincoln Towing is Satan incarnate. You've paid $105 for towing, $30 for more than one "street cleaning" ticket, $58 for a city vehicle sticker, and $70 for a license plate sticker -- and chalk it all up to "neighborhood taxes." You pluralize grocery stores and retail chains: "I'm going to Jewels"; "I bought it at Targets"; "I couldn't find parking at Wal-Marts" You've taken the Red Line past the point where all white people get off and all black people get on -- or vice versa. You've cursed at a cyclist, pedestrian, or in-line skater on the lakefront path. You know the significance of State and Madison. You wonder if the fries will taste the same at Sammy Sosa's Restaurant. You don't miss Planet Hollywood. You're not ashamed of wearing a big fur Russian hat, or a headsock with one hole in it, in public from November through March. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Chicago.

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TPI Weekend

Well apparently I forgot to do one of these for this weekend, it was the TPI tournament weekend, so a two night wrestling tournament and a question and answer session were all to be partaken in the weekend. Wrote a story ‘bout it. Like to hear it? Here it go.

Friday I had an “appointment” so I requested the day off work. So I basically chatted for a bit made wrestling MP3 discs for everyone (that I forgot to distribute) and watch some tapes, then went to pick up Chris and Todd to chill at my house and watch more stuff.
We putz around, watch tapes, DVDs and matches on my computer for a while. Then head off to the city to pick up Phil. We grab him from work a touch early and head out to Indiana. We go let Todd and Chris pick up tickets and decide to go to Round the Clock for dinner. The city boys were excited to be eating at a good old NW Indiana Family Style Restaurant with Soups and desserts coming with the delights they ordered. A new pre-show dining spot has been found. Then in the parking lot before the show a bunch of us gathered for a preshow picture of funness.

The show was awesome with highlights including Roderick Strong almost kicking Samoa Joe’s head off for a false upset finish in their match, Mike Quackenbush and Chris Hero putting on a hold and reversal clinic, as well as Super Dragon giving Arik Cannon THREE curbstomps. Mercedes Martinez won the Ladies belt off of Lacey as well. Not a bad match on the show, all were great. That night I took Phil down to DeMotte for a free stay at my Dad’s house for the evening, and pretty much just fell right asleep at 2:00am when we got there.

Saturday, I wake up shower and start watching Sportscenter. Dad didn’t know we were going to be heading out so soon, so he finished preparing the roast he was making for us, and gave us a good hearty meal to get back on the road with. As well as pressure washing the underhood of my car. We headed back to the Lincoln Center in Highland for the Q&A session, a couple good stories here and there, nothing too earth shattering, but an enjoyable just under 4 hours of listing to Ian and the boys tell stories. Especially the story of (the black) Rainman doing a gimmick in Alabama where he came out in a KKK hood and was a babyface until he took off the hood. After the Q&A we head over to Miner-Dunn for more free dessert with your meal goodness. Then I get a flat tire less than 3 feet out of the parking sport at Miner-Dunn. Stop at the gas station right there and put the spare on, and head to the Lincoln Center. When I get to the Lincoln Center the spare and brakes are knocking like crazy. I fear my not getting anywhere after the show. Luckily later in the show I realize in my hurry to get back in time for the show I forgot to tighten the lugnuts when I took the car off the jack (IDIOT). So all was good for later.
The second night was just as awesome. Every match was good, the opener wasn’t as quality but it was inoffensive and took less than ten minutes of time, so I don’t know why everyone’s mad about it. Highlights included American Dragon continuing his Airplane Spinny Goodness by giving CM Punk an Airplane Spin all the way around the ring. Sadly I didn’t move in time and couldn’t get out of the way, so I just ducked, and they grazed over me, but no harm done. Arik Cannon won the IWA Title, but didn’t defend it in his later matches in the tourney. An emotional thank you between Quackenbush and the fans. And the Situation, if you are reading this because you know me through wrestling, you already know of the situation. My thought process is it is being blown WAY out of proportion, and I didn’t complain when Whitmer tried to spit on the DANK and the guys behind me and got blood all over me. No big whoop either way. I feel bad for Punk because when he started pounding on the mats, I think he wanted the other wrestlers to come around and pound the mats, but the fans stepped in and did it themselves. Great show all around, go buy it. Wait for the DVD that’s what I’m doing. Then came the ride home on the spare. It wasn’t too bad, but still kinda sucked keeping from not going over 45 on empty Lake Shore Drives. (even though that’s the speed limit, oops)

Sunday wake up and get ready to go to Jen & Dave’s surprise Housewarming party.
It was a housewarming but we never saw the house. Kind of odd, but it was fun, great to see them all. Then went and ran a few errands and came home and watched the Emmys. I don’t watch many TV shows anymore so I didn’t know or have opinions on much. Drea and Anthony winning were nice. Kinda stinks that Sopranos win on their worst season, but oh well.

Monday I accepted an offer on the condo. I’m selling it for $99,900 and $3K in closing costs, and they’re looking at a closing date of Oct. 28. Yay! Sara and I close on our place Friday. The closing documents are finished and on my desk as we speak. Yay! So my last payment on my old place=Oct. 1. The first payment on the new place=Nov.1
Not paying two mortgage payments on any month=YAY!!!!

Uh-Oh

I didn't make my bed this morning, or do the dishes last night.
People are coming to see my house at 6:30.
I usually get home around 6:00 with normal traffic.
Traffic north on the Kennedy SUCKS this evening.
SHIT

Questions from Robles aka MrDinger

Whats the worst tasting Alcoholic drink you've had?
Well worst tasting I thought alcoholic drink I ever had was the first time I got drunk, after months of trying and myself being virtually invicible to alcohol, I finally got drunk at a party. They gave me a shot. It was the Papa John’s Garlic Sauce. That’s probably the worst ever. But Ever since one night I got drunk having some 3 Wisemen (Jack, Jim, & Johnnie) and some 4 Horsemen (WOOOO, Jack, Jim, Johnnie, & Jose) I can’t even think about whiskey without feeling a little gross inside.

How long have you traded tapes?
Not really that long. I probably started buying tapes around the beginning of 2002. I first started buying IWA stuff around Fall of 02. The trading pretty much started out then.

Why didn't you buy that piss porno at the wrestling flea market?
I didn’t know there was a piss porno to be purchased. I got there around when y’all were joking about how you had to hide a couple of tapes, I thought it was just because they were porn and there were kids around. If I’d have known there was a piss porn, I still wouldn’t have bought it either.

Why do hotdogs come in packs of 10 and buns come in packs of 8?
Back before I never knew. Just that it took 40 Hotdogs with buns to make it match.
Nowadays with Atkins and the such. Probably 8 buns is too many for 10 hot dogs since noone eats the bread anymore. But really all of this is moot because the real question is how come Sausage comes in packs of 5 when the buns come in packs of 8. I’ll really never understand that.

Questions from Phil

Questions for Ken:

What is your favorite Disney movie? As a sub question, favorite Disney song?
Lady & The Tramp is my all time favorite Disney Movie. On a side note even though made by Disney I refuse to call something like Pirates of the Carribean a Disney movie. Sure it’s great but a “Disney Movie” isn’t just like any other good movie out there, it’s animated, or old school Disney style. Bippity Boppity Boo is my favorite Disney song.

If a tree in a forest falls on a mime, does anyone care?
If it’s the Italian Bros. or whatever that Japanese Tag Team that used mimework in Dragon’s Gate is then yes. Otherwise no.

There is a sociological theory that suggest that women are better in tuned with who they are sexually by basis of the fact that the various parts of their sexual anatomy are in constant contact with each other and that women may even be in constant states of sexual arousal as a result. This pure sexual contact is broken only by, of course, the man’s invading sexual organs thus destroying this pure state of sexual contact so as a result women will always subconsciously resent the sexual advances of a man and hate the very act itself. Thoughts on this?
Hmm I’ve not heard of this theory but it does somewhat make sense, but I would have to ask if this theory holds true, the only way a woman could enjoy sex is just because the feeling would be different than their usual feelings. If this is enjoyable to them, then one would think that women would be on the lookout for more different things to go there, which would lead to promiscuity which isn’t usually that prevalent toward the female gender. I do still firmly believe that men think about sex more because ours is “external” and it’s always out there, in the way, always thought of while the more internal ways of the female is only cared about when maintenance must be performed.

Favorite swear word?
Shit-tit. It flows naturally from my mouth. It’s like my own little made up term too, since rarely have I ever anyone else use it.

Even though you only just recently used the returned to the El for an extended period, what are your thoughts on the vast majority of folks that insist upon cramming themselves in the spaces between the doors and absolutely refusing to move down the aisles?
When noone else is standing it makes total sense, I do not understand the phenomenon myself, except for one small thing. Everyone in the exits area, makes it much easier when you get to a stop and someone from the middle of the train needs to get off. Fighting through the aisle is quite a hassle. Luckily for me I got on at Howard. So I took the much faster and sparsly populated (for my early morning start time) than the crowded ass Red. Plus on my way home, I got on the Purple at Clark/Lake instead of one of the later loops spots, so I had a seat during all of my trips during this no car hiatus.

The question needs to be asked: Is our children learning?
No, kids are coddled too much these days. Johnny might feel bad if we correct his spelling so it’s ok it’s spelled Kat, spellcheckers will fix it when he’s older… FUCK THAT.

A series of Marry, F*ck, Kill questions (You must marry one person, kill one person, and f*ck one person):
Dude seriously the game is Marry, Do, or Die, get it right :)
Marry: Hillary Duff; Do: Brook Hogan; Die:Lindsey Lohan
Marry: Mickey; Do:Lacey; Die:Rain
Marry: Connie Chung; Do: Barbara Walters; Die: Diane Sawyer
Marry: Barbara Bush; Do: Laura Bush, Die: Hillary Clinton
Marry: Jai; Do: Kayan; Die:Carson, (Greatest. Question. EVAR.)
Marry: Debbie Gibson; Do: Alyssa Milano; Die:Tiffany

Which member from these groups do you identify with the most:
The Friends; Chandler, I guess I’m pretty sarcastic, and I’m essentially expendable, but not really.
The T-Birds from Grease: Kinicki, I think I’m funnier and better than I really am.
The Happy Days Gang: Richie, I’m pretty much a dork.
The Smurfs: Arty, since I rarely ever appear. (this one was hard, and my answer sucks)
(This also works great with Winnie The Pooh Characters, and guys from Swingers. Of which I'm a Mikey, and I used to be a Pooh, but I'm not so sure I am anymore.)

Questions from Songs
Do you like Pina Coladas?
No, I dislike Coconut.
Getting caught in the rain?
No, I often skipped going to class in college due to precipitation. I dispise being out in precipitation.
Are you going to San Francisco?
Actually, that’s one of the first Vacations Sara and I want to take together.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Yeah, it’s out west.
Who killed Davey Moore, why and what’s the reason for?
Who?
Why is everybody always picking on me?
Cause you’ve worn velour flares since the late 80s.
Who put the "Ram" in the Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong?
Ryan Boz.

Questions from FMW

Yes, I'm getting of my ass and doing this finally.

1. How is life living in Chicago? I know the stereotype of a tough,
gritty city, but somehow I don't think that's true.
Nah, whenever you live in any city you’re always 5 blocks away from the ghetto, but it’s not bad at all. It’s relatively easy to stay away from dangerous neighborhoods, so no whoop now. The only place you got to be tough and gritty is behind the wheel of a car. You got to be an aggressive driver or you’ll get eaten up out there.

2. It must hurt your back to have that many tapes. ;) Seriously, it
must be nice to have a wide collection of tapes from your great land
(not mine LOLLERSKATES). do you often watch the tapes in your
collection?
Sadly I have come to the problem of having so many unwatched tapes that I feel like I shouldn’t really watch things I already have seen when I have so much sitting there that hasn’t been seen yet. My self imposed slow down on getting stuff has definitely helped me solve some of that unwatched problem, and I’m quietly catching up on all the 2004 Indy stuff that had been accumulating. I think I’m not going to pick up much else until I’m totally caught up on at least the PWG, IWA, & ROH I have laying around. Once we get into the new place I plan on having a massive sale to get rid of lots of old stuff that I’ll never watch again, and also putting up lots of old masters on ebay. I’ll be giving some of my buddies around here (no shipping fees) and y’all at ITVR first crack at most of it all. But I’m going to unload most of the crap, and probably keep just things near and dear to my heart. Rarely do I have trades opening up for the older things I have, so why keep it laying around gathering dust. Someone’ll enjoy it more than I would having it sit there in case possibly someday someone wants to trade for it.

3. I know you enjoy Flogging Molly, but what are your other music tastes?
I dig middle school hip-hop, especially daisy age era type stuff like A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, Black Sheep. I usually dig on white guy funny rap like older Beasties, Kottonmouth Kings, and Bloodhound Gang. I enjoy good old pop-punk like The Vandals, Suicide Machines, & Less than Jake. I dig good electronic dance stuff, mostly big beat like Fatboy Slim, Chemical Bros., & Daft Punk. The Flogging Molly got me into other Irish Rock/Punk like The Kissers, The Pogues, & Dropkick Murphys. I dig Old Third Wave Ska stuff like Buck O Nine, Reel Big Fish, & Skankin’ Pickle. I also dig any crossing over Genre covers. Like Rap covers of old 80s dance songs, and Rock Remake of Rap songs, and crap like that, especially Pop Punk/Ska covers of 80s songs. I pretty much like anything fun that I can tell is fun to perform and has a bit of oomph to it.

4. Speaking of tastes, care to share one of your wiz-bang casserole recipies?
No, my casseroles don’t have recipes. The closest that it comes to a recipe is when I use like box or bag Dinner Creations or something like that as a base for it when I’m lazy. Usually it’s just Whatever meat I want to defrost, whatever vegetables are around, and whatever pasta/rice I want to use in it. Different spices and or sauces depending on my mood and bake that shit.

5. Care to predict the next big star of Pro Wrestling from the indy scene?
Austin Aries is already breaking out, but he will be. Arik Cannon will blow up, as will Matt Sydal if he decides to reign himself in. Ryan Boz and Brad Bradley have what it takes to be big monsters. Brad’s hooked up with NJPW-USA which is a great start. If Ryan Boz can get onto some bigger indy shows than the IWA ones I can see him blowing up too.

6. Play video games often? Like to hear your opinions on your favs.
Not really. Since I was riding the train for a couple weeks, I got in good with my GBA and played more Wario Ware than I ever had. But other than that, no not really. GTA games are played when they come out for a while, then they’re not.

7. Have a particularly funny story and or anecdote to share?
No, not at this time, thanks though.

And yeah, I think that's it.

FMW

Questions from TonyF

Here's some questions from part time indy manager, full time ladies man Tony Farinella

Hello Sir Ken, thank you for taking the time to answer the questions of Tony F.

1) What is your favorite high school memory?

I’d probably have to say when during my sophomore year when me and some buddies of mine won a lip sync contest by doing a choreographed version of Rumpshaker by Wreckx-N-Effect.

2) How did you enjoy the video tapes you purchased from me at Totally Tool Wrestling?

Honestly Tony, I haven’t even gotten them to my house. I left everything I got that day in my trunk overnight, then the next day, I took my car to the shop, so I took everything out at the office so I would have nothing that could be taken. I just got the car back, and haven’t taken anything home yet, because I didn’t want to carry stuff home on the train.

3) What if god was one of us?

OR…What if god was none of us? Did you ever think about that?

4) Have you seen the movie Mean Girls, if so, what did you think about it? If you did not see WHY NOT?!?!

I saw it in the theater, I’m a huge fan of teen movies. Add on the fact that it’s based on Evanston, which is where Sara hung out growing up. Add on the fact that Tiny Fey is funny and HOTT. And the fact that I rarely go to the movies, but Sara loves going. So if she has any reason that she thinks I’ll go, she’ll make me go. It wasn’t as good as I expected going in (I had built it up pretty good, if I thought it was good enough to go see), but was still a perfectly fine and fun movie.

5) What is your idea of the perfect female?

Someone who I can be totally myself in front of, that enjoys similar things that I do, that I genuinely would enjoy anything I would do at anytime and do it by my side, and feels the same way I do. Basically there is no such thing as the perfect female or an ideal mate, but in life the ultimate goal in mating and dating is to just find the person that fits the closest to that unreachable ideal.

6) What do you think of Brooke Hogan?

Do I really have to think of her? I only saw bits and pieces of the VH1 special. I haven’t heard any of her songs, but I have nothing bad to say either, I just don’t know enough to have an opinion.

7) Favorite WWE DVD and why?

Probably a three way tie between:
WMX7-Greatest Wrestlemania and every match was great.
Hulk Still Rules-They did phenomenal with not really showing any of the standard Hulk matches but showing great stuff.
nWo: Back in Black-one of the greatest times in wrestling on DVD.

8) Have you ever been in a spelling bee before and if so, how did you do?

I’ve won some, I’m a dork, all through grade school I was Honor Roll Kid

9) What CD do you have in your collection that you are ashamed to admit?

I’m actually not ashamed of any, if it’s crappy I probably got it cheap and used. The ones many others would be ashamed of are:
Michael Jackson-Jam (Single)
Cover Girls – Wish Upon A Star (Single)
It’s a Sunshine Day – The Best of The Brady Bunch

10) Favorite Hootie and the Blowfish song?

I always firmly believed that Hootie was the luckiest bar band on earth. They were like the perfect band that toured like a 3 county radius doing Bar gigs, that just ended up lucky and getting signed. None of their music was outright bad, but it didn’t really matter either. None of their songs were memorable enough to have me pick a favorite, Only Wanna Be With You is better than Let Her Cry, the only two songs I can remember right now, so I pick that.

11) Favorite Saturday Night Live charachter?

Character eh? I know my favorite cast member was Phil Hartman. My 2 Favorite skits are Eddie Murphy dressed like a white man and Chris Farley trying out for Chippendales. But Favorite Character hmmm. I think I’ll have to go with a Tom Hanks’ half of the loser guys. The two guys that couldn’t get laid pairing him with Jon Lovitz

12) What do you do for a living?

I’m a Controller for Anchor Mortgage Corporation, I talked about it a few posts back in Questions from Wacy.

13) Tell us about your relationship with your girlyfriend?

Almost 3 years together. In a couple weeks we’re moving in together. She’s my baby.

14) What is your thoughts on woman's wrestling?

It’s a totally different animal than men’s. I myself am able to understand the differences between the two and fully enjoy a good woman’s match. Sadly I really don’t see other people being able to and I don't see it being able to catch on here in the Midwest, nor anywhere in the US for that matter. I'd have no problem with being proven wrong, but I don't see it.

15) Thoughts on ChicagoWrestling.com?

The website itself is a great resource especially when all promoters know to utilize it. The boards are full of animals just like any boards are.

16) Least favorite teacher of all time?

Probably Ms. Brown. I hated English and Lit classes. She was a Lit teacher that gave no guidance whatsoever. She wasn’t even that bad looking back on it. I guess I was pretty lucky that I didn’t have too many shitty teachers

17) What do you think about rats in pro wrestling?

Any performer that is on any sort of stage is going to have people that are going to give them extra attention whether it’s warranted or not. So rats are bound to be around. I don’t really know much about the rats around here. I don’t pay enough attention really

18) why the nickname?

First couple of weeks at Purdue I was getting my first email account. My buddy that was helping me get it said that most people put their first initial and last name as their name, but you really can call it what you want. As a HUGE Beastie Boys fan back in the day, I listened to them a lot. While getting my email account I had the song The Maestro off the album Check Your Head stuck in my head. Thus my email account became maestro@…purdue….blah. It’s stuck and I threw a Ken on the end when I got an free AOL account back in the day and Maestro was taken. Maestroken has stuck with me throughout my Internet days.

19) Thoughts on Lindsay Lohan?

She’s no Hilary Duff. She’s a dirty skank that probably paid off your friends to win the Duff vs. Lohan contest you had. Really she’s a bit too made up for me, a bit too Hulk Hogan Orange too.

20) Favorite indy show you have attended?

I actually haven’t been to many, but just due to youthful happy thoughts, it’d have to be seeing the AWA as a kid at my highschool. I was a huge Earthquake Ferris mark, and it was good to see him. Too bad The Midnight Rockers were “Snowed In” at Chicago that night and couldn’t make their match and autograph session or else I’d have an old school Midnight Rockers autographed glossy, nonetheless I still have the unsigned glossy somewhere, unless my parents threw it out.

Questions from Hip Old Guy

When you were in High School did you belong to any groups? Were you a Jock etc?
No not really. I was pretty dorky and introverted in high school so I kept to my self. I started opening up Junior year, and got along well with everybody, and could and did hang out in any of the groups, but I didn’t really dig small town Indiana, so I didn’t really relate to many people there. So I didn’t “clique” up with anyone. I’m glad to look back at where I grew up and I see that there aren’t as many closed minds that have no access to the outside world. Internet and Cable TV helps kids learn that there are more people other than all the Aryan Dutch Locals Cruising the Strip out there in the world.

Many of us do things when we are young that we know will be bad health wise when we are older. What do you do now that you feel you need to change to make your later life more healthy?
Same thing everyone does. Eat better, exercise more. I quit smoking a year or so ago, but I was late to the party on that one anyway. I was the only smoker I knew that didn’t start smoking until they were 21 or older.

How long have you been a fan of wrestling and how much are you able to suspend dis belief while watching?
I believe it was sometime between Wrestlemania 1 and 2 that I was visiting my uncle’s house and got into watching it on TV. Watching Superstars, Challenge (no cable so no TNT), GLOW, WCCW, NWA. Then I got taken by them to see a house show in Indianapolis which had the double main event of Bulldogs vs. Studd & Bundy and a Dog Collar match between JYD and Terry or Dory Funk (I can’t remember which) that didn’t happen because JYD didn’t make it so the Funk Brothers wrestled some other people, jobbers I believe. From then on I was a lifer with the Wrestling watching. I may be smarky, but I’m really good at suspending the disbelief. I can get caught up quite easily in a match, especially live. I can get rabid. I’ve found my self edge of seat style often at the shows.

What, of these two, is your favorite cartoon? Family Guy or Futurama?
I really don’t like either. If forced to watch some I’d pick Futurama, but personally I could care less about either.

HEY YOU, HEY YOU Reader of this that hasn't sent me questions.
Send them to me now at maestroken (at) gmail.com
If you don't, I'll hate you forever.

Questions from Wacy

Tell us, your faithful readers, your top fives of: (Ken says: I will do all these in no particular order)
-Wrestlers

Eh this changes daily, but I’ll do old school and current just because it’s easier to separate them. I’ll also save current WWE people for other people with questions to ask.

Old School
1. Sting – I had the pink fluorescent shirt and hat and shit back in the day, I’m like that.
2. Ricky Steamboat – I was at Chi-Town Rumble for the first of his 89 series against Ric Flair and I still giggle about the fact that my Mom kept errantly calling him Ricky “The Steamboat” Dragon
3. Animal – Me and my buddy Kevin Mehok were big Road Warriors marks and since I was two years older and bigger, I was Animal and he was Hawk
4. Ric Flair – I always dug him, and always will.
5. Scott Steiner – Back before the transformation he was the greatest thing in wrestling to me.

Currently
1. Chris Hero – I’ve always dug him especially since Preacher Ian Rotten has indoctorinated him into my thoughts as my wrestling god. But this current run and storyline they are working him with in Highland is showing me sooo much more of him and I love it.
2. Colt Cabana – I’m all about having fun while doing whatever it is that you do. Colt is the king of this. He’s fun loving and still good at what he does.
3. Arik Cannon – Along the same lines with what I said about Hero, the feud these two having going with each other right now is my favorite thing going in wrestling today.
4. CM Punk – The gimmick is what got me started digging him, it was just the perfect heel role, and then the work has kept me a fan. He’s good
5. Homicide – He’s just been on a tear lately and every time I see him I know I’m going to enjoy the next twenty minutes or so of my existence.

-Bands
Flogging Molly
The Kissers
Sublime
The Vandals
Suicide Machines

-Albums
The Vandals – Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
Suicide Machines – Destruction by Definition
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
Cypress Hill – Self-Titled
Sublime – 40 oz. to Freedom

-Video Games (I’m not too into video games anymore)
GTA3
GTA:Vice City
The Legend of Zelda
Parappa The Rappa
You Don’t Know Jack

-Movies
Office Space
Swingers
Army of Darkness
Breakfast Club
Chasing Amy

-TV shows
Raw
Smackdown!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Simpsons
Seinfeld

-Actors/Actresses (eh, I don’t rate actors and or actresses really, but here’s a shot)
Vince Vaughn
Bruce Campbell
Phil Hartman
Kirsten Dunst
I don’t know, I’ll never choose to see a movie because someone is in it, but I won’t see some with other people in it.

I, as a college sophmore, am just beginning my time at what some
people remember as some of the greatest years of their lives. How do
you remember your college years? Anything especially memorable?
Looking back I remember there being lots of routine. You have your schedule of classes, of course that is routine. But being someone that was always at the bars (College town life, something sadly missing from the NYU experience) Due to the specials the bars had, and things happening certain nights at certain places you really ended up with a routine. Here’s Thursdays for my Senior year:
Class at 10:30, stop at the Chinese place with the cheap Thursday lunch, take it home eat it, while watching the second half of a Sportcenter. Watch the first half of the following Sportcenter. Go to class. Hang in the Union for an hour with Mike and Chris (buddies made Freshmen year on the same floor of our dorm, who had the same major). Go to class with them. Go home. Start drinking and play Madden with Dave for two hours, make Dinner when he left for work. Play Madden for an hour with Doug when he came home from class. Watch Friends. Take a shower, and prep for going out. Watch Seinfeld. Watch Swingers. Go to Wazoos for a few drinks with Devin, since he was working there. Go to T. A. Toms for Penny Beer Night. Come home and either watch Swingers or go to bed. Every Thursday for a year. So I had fun, and I loved the routine. And I’d do it all again in a heartbeat.

We know that you work in accounting. Or, at least, most of us do.
Tell us a little bit about a typical work day for you. What do you,
as an accountant (is that even your job title?), do in any given day
of work?
Well I get to work early, because beating the traffic in is much better than sitting in it. My title is actually Controller. I pretty much do all the accounting for Anchor Mortgage Corporation. I deposit all money that comes in. I pay all the bills. I watch and keep track of the bank accounts. I pretty much do anything money in or out wise for the company.

You've been to many wrestling events, and seen many great matches
live, undoubtedly. What would you say is your favorite live wrestling
moment that you have experienced?
Well I was at the first of the three famous big 1989 Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat matches at Chi-Town Rumble. At my first show I was ever taken to with my uncle I saw Dynamite Kid press slam (yep that’s not a typo) King Kong Bundy. I saw the Buried Alive Match between Mankind and The Undertaker. (The lightning wasn’t really in the arena, when Taker’s hand came out of the grave.) But I’d have to say my favorite moment was at an IWA show. When unannounced Tracy Smothers showed up. He was supposed to be at two of the earlier IWA-Highland shows, and missed one, and had a car wreck on his way to another. CK3 was playing cocky heel on the mic, talking about he was the greatest technical wrestler in the world, and how he was much cooler than all the blood and guts and flippity floppity floo guys in IWA. This had the rest of the crowd booing, but had him as an instant face in my book until…”If the South Woulda Won” by Hank Williams came over the speakers. I instantly jump up and freak out. I’m hyped I’m finally seeing my boy Tracy Smothers, and no one else is moving. No one else recognized the music, and I look around at all these faces staring at me like I’m an idiot. I’m just hyped and yelling “C’mon it’s Tracy! Get Up” and nobody moved. Then Tracy came out of the door, and everyone recognized him, and all was right with the world. So even though the moment had little to do with the actual wrestling, that is my favorite live experience. I don’t have the tape of that show, but I know I was on the hard camera angle for it, so I would like to see that show.

What do each of your tattoos mean to you?
Eh neither have any real meaning, if people ask me about the monkeys I tell them some bullshit story that it’s so I never grow up and I always have my toys with me, but that’s not true, because I came up with that later as an answer to that question. I really don’t know I just always liked the ideas of them. I had both of them in mind for years before actually getting the tattoo, which is the rule I tell everyone to follow, so you don’t end up with shitty ink you’re stuck with for the rest of your life that you regret. Eh, someone at work got me a Barrel of Monkeys and it became like a little gimmick for me. I loved elephants ever since my Dad showed me how to draw an elephant from behind as a kid, they’ve always been my favorite animal, throw them together with my three favorite colors (All of which had been favorites at one time or another) and that’s the elephants. Actually getting the elephants was a spur of the moment thing, when I passed a shop at Purdue when I went down to visit for the weekend, there was nothing going on until later that night, so I just got it. Then the Monkey's were a birthday (or maybe anniversary, but I'm pretty sure birthday) present from Sara.

We know the story of your joining ITVR. Your lurking, and then
finally revealing yourself to be some guy who wasn't the Stro. Tell
us a bit about how exactly you found ITVR. What were your first
thoughts when you found our little community? Why did you make the
decision to lurk for so long?
I found ITVR after I was wondering where all my favorite posters from the CRZ EZBoard went. I posted a few times, but was pretty much a lurker over there too, so I just continued on with the lurking. With all the eliteness and in-jokes y’all can be intimidating too, until you get to know ya. But y’all were funny, and intelligent in your wrestling critiquing and that’s enough to keep me reading.

If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, or one type of
casserole to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I couldn’t eat one food or one casserole forever. I vary it up too much, I never make the same one twice. Even if I use the same ingredients in the casserole, different spices and/or sauces are used. I’d probably keep my current schedule of on Monday and Wednesday either making something Thai or a casserole. Tuesday and Thursday having the leftovers. Then on Friday having some sort of Meat/Chicken w Pasta/Rice/Potato and Vegi Plan that I’m on pretty much now.

You've told the story about how having diabetes has led to forced new
eating habits and such. But how did you feel when you first found
out? Has it changed the way you look at things at all?
Eh, that combined with the forthcoming trip to Maine with Sara’s parents quickened my quitting of smoking. At first it freaked me out, and I bought everything sugar free under the sun. Then I found out through reading and learning about it, that actually to a diabetic, sugars are good for you, you just have to eat them at the right time, and at the right proportion. A diabetic will not die from eating something with sugar, but will die if he doesn’t get any, and that’s something not many people outside of those with knowledge from diabetics know about. The only thing I hate about it is because I have to regulate, and eat at regular intervals, the weight I was losing at a rapid pace got gained back on quickly due to my totally reworking my eating schedules and how I eat. Finally I’ve started losing weight again, and I can just be chunky instead of FATASS in the next coming months.

Bush or Kerry? Disregard any Republican allegiances when answering
this question, you dirty Republican.
Sadly I hate talking about things like this because I find that I don’t have the tolerance to listen to all sources of knowledge to get a full blown view of everything. All I know is I don’t like either as a good representative for their party. See I weigh everything in politics due to importance I feel the issue has. And I personally (surprise as an accountant) think fiscal issues are the most important. I’m very conservative in that nature. My fiscal conservatism leads me towards the like minded thinking of many republicans. But for most everything else I’m pretty much libertarian. Socially everybody can do anything they want as long as it doesn’t cost my tax dollars.

How did you first discover the wonderful world of indy wrestling?
Reading Confederate Mack over at DVDVR. I had heard of this Tracy Smothers riot, but he uses such beautiful southern metaphors for things he made the riot sound like a thing of beauty. He made it sound so splendid I had to see it and the order was places with Smart Mark Video.
Which was the first indy fed you watched?
IWA became the thing to watch for me, and the tape trading began.
What first struck you about the indies?
The thing I loved was I always was a big fan of Bret Hart and early Scott Steiner, so I dug the more technical side of wrestling. And here it was blended with the southern styles I grew to love watching WCCW, NWA, and UWF back as a kid. It was glorious.

Jimmy Jacobs or Alex Shelley?
Alex Shelley. He’s flat out phenomenal and is one of my favorite wrestlers to watch grow as a wrestler. I’m infactuated by the guys that can blend the wacky European work with standard US Indy work, and it’s one of my favorite styles to enjoy, thus my full out marking lately for Nigel McGuiness, Alex Shelley, & Chris Hero.
Subquestion: HUSS, or Say Anything/Fraggle Rock?
As for the old BH/AH (Before HUSS/After HUSS.) Although the HUSS was fun, it really limited Jimmy and he was forced to do the HUSS spots all the time, now he can go and show how much he’s grown as a wrestler without having people just focus on the gimmick.

What is Brew going to do when he finds out he's not really married to Trish?
Ignore it probably, I mean we’ve been telling him for years, but has he acknowledged us? NO.

Why is the sky blue?
The Sky is Blue? Or Is It?

When will I find a girl who can appreciate the awesomeness of
professional wrestling?
If you do she’ll just be a rat. Be happy if you can find a girl that can tolerate your love of wrestling. That’s the best you can hope for and have the girl still be worth dating. I mean there’s a reason why all girl fans love Jeff Hardy.

Are you Rivers Cuomo?
No, but people can pretend I am, I don’t mind.

When will I find time to post on The Wacy Bo-ard?
Eh, apparently we have Snooge’s to play with all we want now.

I can't think of any more questions, but thank you for your time.
No thank you for asking me these questions.

100th Blog Post EXTRAVAGANZA

W00T~!
It's my hundredth post here on Blogger, so that means that I'm going to make it the
100th Blog Post EXTRAVAGANZA
To commemorate this exciting occasion I will now give you a standard weekend post!!!.

Friday I get my car back from the shop, it looks all nice and pretty, and the trunk now closes correctly and all is good, and it is nice. A little dinner in, and a viewing of City of God completes the now regular calm Friday night in.

Saturday we head out to run errands upon awaking. We buy my neice some presents for her birthday party the next day, and we go to the market to get vegetables for both that party and the visit to Ravina for her Dad's birthday later that night. So we chop vegetables and make some sandwiches and head out to Ravina, it was the performance of some musical play, but since we had lawn seats we couldn't watch and I kept getting some of the characters mixed up. A quick search lets me know it was Sundays in the park with George. Then back to her parents house for cake.

Sunday we took off for my Dad's house in Indiana. Usual familial suspects in for the birthday party. I managed to weasel the Purdue game to be muted on the TV for the days activities allowing me to enjoy their routing of the Syracuse Orange (Don't call us Men). Then the rest of the evening was spent hanging out with Sara and Dad at his place watching crappy VH1 reality tv, such as Casting the New Partridge Family, and The Surreal Life 3. Flavor Flav and Dave Coulier hanging out is the best show ever.

Monday we hung out with Dad a little more, Sara graded some essays while enjoying the What Not to Wear Marathon. I just lounged. We eventually headed back to Illinois, where Sara promptly had to run home in time for dinner, of which her parents ditched her, so I watched wrestling and played in eternachat. Yay for Wacy being back for WWE. Boo for him not being able to watch Raw.

That's the EXTRAVAGANZA. It's not quite a Tony Danza Extravaganza, but hey what is.

My time for questions

OK everyone else did it a while ago, the statute of limitations on the gimmick has passed, so now it's my turn to do the questions gimmick.

1) Think of as many questions as you want to ask me.
2) Email them to me at maestroken (at) gmail.com.
3) Patiently wait for my wonderous answers.

Next week, Ken's recap of Labor Day 100th Blog post Extravaganza!!!
Then question answering.

Stupid things I do when I don't wanna work

1. What time is it? 3:44pm
2. Name as it appears on your Birth Certificate. Kenneth Andrew Dreiling
3. Nicknames? Ken, Maestro, Maestroken, Mae, asshole (with a lowercase a), Kenny, Spanky
4. Parent's names? Steven (Ron) & Sheila
5. Number of candles on you last birthday cake? Probably 3, bu I'm 28
6. Date that you regularly blow them out? May 18
7. Pets? EVIL
8. Favorite animal? Elephant
9. Tattoo? Barrel of Monkeys ; Three elephants trunk-to-tail (one orange, one green, one purple)
10. Where did you put it? Monkeys are down right calf, elephants are across my lower back
11. Birthplace? Hammond Indiana
12. Favorite vacation spot? Vegas Baby, Vegas
13. Ever been to Africa? I've listened to Afrikka
14. Stolen any traffic signs? I was along for a ride when someone tried to get the street sign for Fargo after we saw the movie, but they were unsuccessful, so nope.
15. Ever been in a car accident? Yep
16. Croutons or Bacon bits? Preferrably neither, but croutons
17. 2 Door or 4 Door car? I rock a 4 door, and enjoy them
18. Salad Dressing? French or Garlic
19. Favorite Pie? Not big on pie, but warm apple pie with Ice Cream and Caramel
20. Favorite Number? 52
21. Favorite Movie? Swingers or Office Space
22. Favorite Color? Purple
23. Favorite Holiday? My birthday because it's all about MEMEMEME
24. Favorite Food? Any that is well made and I enjoy really, I don't really have a favorire
25.Favorite day of the week? Saturday
26. Favorite brand of body soap? Body Wash Dove or Avon
27. Favorite TV shows? Raw, Smackdown! Sopranos, Queer Eye, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Simpsons
28. Toothpaste? Anything Whitening with Baking Soda
29. Most recently read book? I started the Quackenbush book a while back and never finished it. Probably BodySlams & Other Obstacles The Story of a Wrestling Pitchman by Gary Michael Copetta is the last book I finished.
30. Perfume/Cologne? Happy
31. Favorite Smell? Freshly baked Lasagne
32. What do you do to relax? Watch Wrestling
33. Favorite Fast Food place? Wendy's or Taco Bell
34. When was your last hospital visit? last time there was when my nephew was born last month. Last time I was at one was, probably the day in detox when I stayed up for Breakfast Club at Purdue
35. How many times did you fail your drivers license test? Zero
36. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I think I might be going to the mall that day, I'm not sure.
37. What do you do when you are bored? Watch wrestling and play in eternachat.
38. Furthermost place you sent this message? Cyberspace
39. Who will respond the fastest? Your Muddah
40. Least likely to respond? Marilyn Monroe's Mom
41. What time is it now? 3:56pm