"Chuck Barris claims to have worked for the CIA during his career as a tv-show host."

Jerry Springer was once the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. He's seriously considering a return to U.S. politics.

"Rambo was a man trained for a specific purpose who turned against the world. Blew back, as it were. I thought those pop-culturals might liven things up a bit without being irrelevant."

The novel is much, much, much better than the movie. The John Rambo in the book is a bad guy. He closely resembles the real-life Atlanta Olympics bomber suspect, who has been a fugitive from justice for years, and is thought to be hiding out in the woods, living off the land.

Ed, turning the lunar landscape into a gong was clever.