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Thank you for the link, iceberglettuce.

We forgot to mark the first anniversary of our discovery of Chloe! From July last year: Monday Morning Genius: “Chloe Sevigny”. Birth-dees is still our favorite.

The winner of our Apology for Gurgliness contest is jaime!

The question was: What would our guest Mike do if a victorious tennis player tossed his/her sweaty towel at him?

jaime’s answer: “If it’s Sharapova, he would wring the towel and put it in a vial. Then he would wear it on his neck.”

He added that if it were another player he would have the towel laundered and have it framed, but we’ll accept that answer. Congratulations! Your prize will be delivered to National Bookstore in Rockwell on Monday.

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Marat Safin is now in the Russian Parliament. Someday he will be president. Good or bad for humanity? We say great.

It’s the Tennis episode with guest, filmmaker, director of commercials, tennis trivia-head Mike Alcazaren. We cover the year in slams, tennis tantrums, future Russian president Marat Safin, the ideal length of tennis shorts, and why there are no tennis movies. Then we launch our campaign to get Filipino tennis great Felicisimo “The Mighty Mite” Ampon into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Ampunin si Ampon!

The weekly podcast is available for streaming or download here. You can also subscribe to it on iTunes.

Thanks to JT’s Manukan for treating us to dinner!

Massive apologies for the sound quality—we were so busy yakking, we didn’t monitor the recording or check the playback. Just think of it as the Spongebob Squarepants episode, recorded in a pineapple under the sea.

Thanks to Ricky and Manny for tweaking the sound file, and to our podcast site manager Ren for uploading the episodes every week.

By way of an apology for the gurgliness, here’s a giveaway.

You can win these Ancient Aliens seasons 1-3 DVDs by answering this question:

What would our guest Mike do if a victorious tennis player tossed his/her sweaty towel at him?

Post your answer in Comments. All correct answers qualify for the raffle.

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Obviously the theme song should be by Tito, Vic and Joey.

Read our column at InterAksyon.com.

Physicists say they have “teleported” quantum information farther than ever before.

A team of scientists from Austria, Canada and Germany say they beamed the quantum state of a particle of light from one island to another 89 miles (143 kilometers) away.

Read Distance record set for quantum teleportation.

Finally got around to watching The Possession. How scary was it? Well, when the Jewish exorcist said they had to know the name of the dybbuk so they could cast it out, we cried, “Mxyzptlk!” and Manny called, “Rumpelstiltzkin!”

And the whole day is passed watching Sesame Street videos. The Alligator King! It’s a lovely 11 morning! Melon with mophead singing the aria from Carmen!

Yeah, that’s how scary it was. When the dybbuk exited its host and crawled back into the box, it looked exactly like a tiyanak. We recalled Mary Walter saying, “Maligno ang batang yan” and scared ourselves.

Kltpzyxm!

We had our reservations (Naku baka mag-reunite for a farewell concert na naman yan) but they’ve been wiped out totally. Watch it watch it watch it! I Do Bidoo Bidoo is now on its second week. Our review later.

Post your own reviews. We notice some I Do Bidoo love in the top 10 movie lists—express it.

To rewrite the famous movie studio line: If it’s from Chris Martinez it must be hilarious!

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Chris Martinez wrote Feng Shui, Bridal Shower, Bikini Open, Babae Sa Septic Tank and Here Comes the Bride among others, making him the go-to guy for comedy. With I Do Bidoo Bidoo he establishes his musical cred. We want more musicals. Why don’t we have more when everyone around here randomly bursts into song and no one even blinks?

(We thought that given the popularity of Glee the audience would be accustomed to seeing actors burst into song. Apparently not. The woman sitting behind us kept going, “Ayan, kakanta na naman. Kakanta na…” Lady, that’s why it’s called a musical.)
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