November

• Mike:

  What do you think would be the strangest thing that could happen on the eve of the new millennium?

  Hakim Smith, St. Paul, MN
  Hakim::

  God could descend in the image of George Burns, and sing to us the newer, revised Commandments.
• Mike:

  Do you have any NYE resolutions?

  Bert Braxton, San Antonio, TX
  Bert::

  Never again to make my voice get wavy for "blockin' my way-e-a-e-a."
• Dear Mike:

  Do you guys have any free time? If so, what happens with this time? I imagine some kind of bungee leisure device, suspended from the ceiling, that provides a sort of mock weightlessness.

  Sincerely, Trent Flipbeck, Tacoma, WA
  Trent::

  We do have free time. We use that time for drugs.
• Dear Mike:

  You often ride around prior to the show out in the lot on a golf cart. I wonder if you remember almost running me over in Dallas on July 26, 1998? I was in line for the port-a-let and you came zooming by and almost took me out. Am I entitled to some sort of compensation?

  Sincerely, Richard Cook, Lawrence,KS
  Dear Richard::

  Legally you are entitled to $1200.
• Dear Mike:

  What type of setting do you find most inspiring or helpful in the creation of your art, in whatever form it may manifest itself? Are there any special rituals practiced on your quest for inspirato?

  Lisa Wilmossa, Long Beach, CA
  Lisa::

  You can't manufacture inspirato. That would be wrong. It arises from a stillness, a quietude. And the heart and the soul mingle and, oh man, they do the dance.