FREQUENTLY QUESTIONED ANSWERS
To Conserve Space, we are only printing the Answers, not the Questions. What do you mean, "How do you know what the Questions are?" Aren't you the one asking them? Yeesh...
Answer #1: No, they're both straight.
Answer #2: After a cartoon character from the 1980 Ruby-Spears Saturday morning cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian. Ookla the Mok is Thundarr's conspicuously Chewbacca-like sidekick, and they run around a post-apocalyptic world that hinges on the moon having been cracked in half by a comet in 1994.
Answer #3: "Filk" is a kind of music that happens at science fiction conventions. It's some original music and some parody and it's usually performed acoustically in a folk-circle setting. The subject matter usually revolves around science fiction or fantasy and related topics. Some is funny, some is very very sad. Although there are many musical flavors to be found in filk, folk music dominates the scene.
Answer #4: Well, sort of. Ookla is most certainly part of the Filk Community, and they are filk in that they go to filk conventions, but often when they play at gen or comic book cons they are booked through the Main Programming Track rather than the Filk Track. Also they're a big noisy rock band, which makes a lot of filkers want to throw things at them.
Answer #5: After cutting the mango in half and removing the pit, slice the meat in diagonal crisscrossing sections and remove the sections with a grapefruit spoon. Enjoy.
