I'm the chicken lady. That was from Kids in the Hall, I think . . . I never actually saw this episode but Mia was always talking about it and imitating it. [BACK]

Cat from Catspaw: The novel, Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge. I had a crush on him. :) [BACK]

Lick the palm for guava: Lyrics from the Ween song, "Licking the Palm for Guava." [BACK]

Jizzwater Café: Mia and her friend Molly got water at a Subway restaurant; the water tasted weird and later gave them stomach cramps. They postulated that the guys who worked there had played a prank by jizzing in the water. From then on that Subway was the Jizzwater Café. [BACK]

"Sad Meals": The opposite of Happy Meals. I got this from Pinky and the Brain. [BACK]

Björk: My favorite Icelandic singer. :) [BACK]

"Bruce the Duck": I could have meant the movie or the script here. I think I meant the script. It was a short story I was writing that we later turned into a movie. [BACK]

Upper Class Twit of the Year: From Monty Python's Flying Circus, where upperclass people compete to see who's the best twit. [BACK]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The book, by Douglas Adams, of course. [BACK]

Rob Paulsen: The vastly talented man who does the voice of Yakko from Animaniacs. I'm still in love. :) [BACK]

Boo Radley: It was one of Mia's things, I think she named a girl in our school Boo Radley after a character in a classic book I never read but probably should have. [BACK]

T.J.: An ex-boyfriend of Molly's who supposedly deserved to die. I know not what his sins were, only that my friends hated him. [BACK]

Smuggle cocaine like so many sausages up your ass. I'm not positive but I *think* this is a butchered quote from Dan Simmons's The Hollow Man. [BACK]

Michael Stipe: He's the lead singer of R.E.M. [BACK]

Blurt the merest idea if by random whim one occurs to me. That's a quote from a They Might Be Giants song, which may be a quote from something else. [BACK]

Sneezer: A mouse who always sneezed on Tiny Toon Adventures. [BACK]

Aaron Freeman: Better known as Gene Ween, lead singer of wonderful band Ween. [BACK]

Chiefette: They were the girls who were sort of like a dancing pep squad. It was difficult to attain any status of coolness if you were not on this squad (or a cheerleader). You can tell how much I care, right? [BACK]

The kid on Roseanne with the bitchin' hair: The guy who played the character David. I liked his hair. :) [BACK]

Yeardly Smith: She did the voice of Lisa on The Simpsons; I misspelled her name in my high school years. [BACK]

Ivy, daughter of Queen Irene and King Dor. From Piers Anthony's Xanth series. Everyone in Xanth has a magic talent. :) [BACK]

The Tomorrow People: There was an old show about them, and then they brought it back in sort of a goofy kids' version. They had special powers. [BACK]

Molly: Mia's best friend at the time. [BACK]

Blow Oatie's goats for him. I think there was a band called Oatie and the Goats, I dunno . . . it was one of Mia's things . . . we decided that Oatie's goats needed to be blown. [BACK]

Dolph: A character from Piers Anthony's Xanth again. [BACK]

Daric taMing: A character from Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge! He was not very nice to Cat sometimes and was generally a prick. He needed to be thrown out the window. [BACK]