This weekend I’m going to be interviewing Mercury Film Editor Erik Henriksen (Friday at 9pm) and KGW Weatherman Matt Zaffino (Saturday at 9pm) for my talk show Late Night Action with Alex Falcone. Yes, I AM lucky. But I’m also in need of some help.
You see, I’m not sure what questions to ask these two paragons of Portland culture. They’re just so cool and famous! Hit me with your questions in the comments section or by e-mail and I’ll try to work them in. Thanks for helping me do my job!
Ask Zaffino about the TV news tendency to “play up” potential severe weather even when its not likely to occur. Ask if he’s the guy encouraging producers to overhype the weather, or if, as a professional meteorologist who ought to know better, he’s the guy suggesting that they downplay it unless it’s a sure thing.
Is he a guy that tells the audience “don’t get your hopes up” about snow, or “you kids might get a snow day tomorrow!”?
ask erik about testicular disorders in hobbits.
Ask Matt Zaffino if he’s upset that, according to a Portland Mercury Readers Survey, Nick Allard is more likely to get a blowjob than he is.
Ask Erik how to spell “gism”.
Ask Matt Zaffino for Sally Showman’s phone number. And then post it here.
Ask him if he’s aware that when I was a kid his name always reminded me of Zangief from Street Fighter.
Ask Erik for his perspective on being an openly Swedish journalist. Did anyone refuse to work or share a bathroom with you? Were you offered lemon curd at inappropriate times? Did you choose to work at the Mercury because you could be openly drunk?
Ask Matt Zaffino what the major differences are between the Doppler 8000 and the Doppler 7000.
Also ask him if the rates for life insurance for weather men who stand out in the severe weather conditions are equal to those of a motorcycle daredevil.
DOES ERIK OR DOES HE NOT LIKE LINGONBERRIES? THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.
ASK ERIK WHICH STARGATE SERIES HE FOUND THE MOST EROTIC.
Ask Zaffino to lift the Fatwฤs against Carl Click and Dave Salesky.
Ask Matt if it’s true, that retired US Air Force meteorologist, Jim Little, quit KGW when HAARP started manipulating the weather, and chemtrails and Orbs began to appear in Pacific Northwest skies, and he wasn’t allowed to talk about it.
Personally, I think it would be more interesting if you were to interview, Weatherman, and ghost writer of “Deams of My Father,” Bill Ayers.
Personally, I think it would be more interesting if you were to interview, Weatherman, and National Treasure, Nicolas Cage.
Ask Erik if he’s trippin’ or somethin’.
Wow, I see now that Zaffino was most likely to get a blowjob in the Merc 2004 sex survey. How the mighty have fallen!
“How many Mars Bars could Lars Larson force in his own arse on his car’s hood, and would it feel good?”
I think it is ch. 2 that is hyping its’ Viper radar, and I’m not sure if that is just software to better interpret what the doppler radar is showing or what…?
I’m curious where Zaffino learned meterolgy from….?
Is the FMH-1b still used?
Does he ever have to sit down these days and plot a LAWC or Skew-T?
Viper radar is when they slit a snake’s throat and let it writhe to its death on a tabletop containing different weather outcomes, and where it rests is the day’s forecast.
Ask weatherdude what he thinks about climate change?
Is he one of those that says since they suck at predicting weather, there is no way anyone could predict climate?
(You could ask Erik too, but I don’t give a shite what he says. Okay, maybe a rabbit shite.)
That Lars Mars Bars thing is a new column, right?