Simpsons question of the day: In "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13), to Homer, his first kiss with MArge felt like a what? a) A punch in the face by Mr. Clean, b) A cluster bomb wiping out a graveyard full of zombies, c) A tax auditor ringing to doorbell on Sunday morning, d) A dentist drilling deep into a nerve? (previous answer: Carl missed Homer and Lenny leaving Springfield forever.)

Fact of the day: Today is Charles Schultz's birthday. He shares this day with the late Robert Goulet, and Tina Turner. Also today in history Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (read Lewis Caroll) gave a certain book to a 12-year-old girl, Alice Liddell. This green leather booklet with Caroll's own illustrations in the margins was published 3 years later as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Today is also the anniversary of the debut of Technicolor and the opening of King Tutankhamen's tomb (cracked open in 1922).

I think that if my theory that there's at least a little bit of Indiana Jones in all of us is true, then everyone will join me in a resounding, "woah, that's freakin' awesome," at the very idea of discovering a tomb that had never been opened before. Howard Carter would be the first one that got to see the boy-pharoah's undisturbed final resting place. (from history.com) "The dusty floor still showed the footprints of the tomb builders who left the room more than 3,000 years before." Holy shit. Could you imagine being the first through that door? Seeing things that no humans had laid eyes on in over a thousand years?! (yes, I do certainly think it deserves an interrobang.) My inner adventurer is swooning at the thought of it. Just amazing.

Song of the moment (translated into Japanese and then back into English): "I shine, whether me the treetop the whether the white Christmas like those whose it is normal to know somewhere the child hears in order to hear the sleigh bell of the snow look at dream exactly." (previous answer: Last Christmas by Wham!...yeah, I totally went there)