I am so sorry that I haven’t gotten a new Modern World up lately — I meant to do one last weekend, but got hit with a cold, and my voice kind of exploded. First it got all gravelly, which was cool, but would have hurt me to do a whole show, and then it got all nasal, which was just annoying — you wouldn’t have wanted to listen to a whole podcast of it. But it’s getting back to normal now, so next weekend I will hopefully be able to make a podcast. I’ve got some fun things to talk about.

Meanwhile, I thought the last Twitter Q&A was fun, so here’s another one. Plus, I have a lot more followers since I went to BlizzCon a little while ago (welcome to my world, suckers!), so there are some new questioners in the mix, along with some old Twitter friends.

@Sylus had a bunch of quick questions: “boxers or briefs? Football or baseball? The instance or how I wow? @randydeluxe or @extralife ?????”

1) My favorite answer to the “boxers or briefs” question is: Depends. HA!

2) I have been following baseball this year, and really enjoying it (though my choice of following the Cubs has panned out to more depression than exaltation — I should have seen that coming). But football is my favorite sport: Fall is my favorite season, I played football in high school (left tackle, and I was horrible at it), and I love going to football games in November and December — wrapping up in the cold and watching gigantic guys in even bigger pads duke it out over 100 yards. I’ve always been a big guy, and football is the sport for me.

3) Truth be told, I’ve probably listened to more of How I WoW than The Instance, and only one of them has had me on, not to mention that Shawn Coons and I rode rollercoasters at Disneyland last week, and talked religion while waiting for Space Mountain, so I have to go with How I WoW. Though I picked the wrong horse — apparently since Patrick is now working for Blizzard, he can’t do the show any more, and I got the impression from Shawn that he was going to call it for a while. So I guess I’ll start listening to The Instance more now.

4) Randy Deluxe seems like an awesome guy who does a lot of great things very well, but he and I have had only the briefest of contact, so I only know the guy through his tweets and the clips I’ve heard of him on the show. Scott Johnson is definitely an awesome guy who definitely does a lot (a lot) of things very well, so I’m going with him. Plus, as my grandfather once told me, never piss off a cartoonist. Wise words.

@Savanth asks “do you play any non wow games? shooters, rts’s, etc? if so what are they?”

I think this question was asked last time. Lately, I’m playing Henry Hatsworth on the DSi, and really enjoying it — probably liking the puzzle side of it a bit more than the platformer side. I recently bought both ‘Splosion Man and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on Xbox Live, and I’ve determined that I’m going to finish those both before I pick up Shadow Complex, which I heard is great. And though I haven’t yet finished Dead Space, I picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum a few days after it came out, and just demolished it — I blew through normal mode in about two days, and am almost done with all of the Riddler goals, at which point I’ll probably try to get Perfect Knight on all of the challenge modes, and then start over again on Hard mode. I am such a huge Batman fan and I’ve been waiting so long for someone to make a game that features him and is awesome that I’m just eating Batman:AA up.

@cardfrek (who was also with us at Disneyland — we were so much fun we got the guy sick!) asks “are you excited about your impending move to Los Angeles?”

Yes, very. And scared. And weirded out — I am planning to move to LA in a few weeks, and it just occurred to me the other day that I don’t really have any plans after the move. Besides for work and the usual getting up and existing every day, my life is one big blank after I go out to California. Hopefully I’ll find enough cool things out there to fill it with.

@Ninthbatter wants to know: “what is mike schramm’s kryptonite?”

Nothing’s stopped me yet, and I’ve never actually encountered kryptonite, so I’m assuming it’s kryptonite. If I really did have a substance that stopped me in my tracks, I would probably keep that information a very closely guarded secret, no?

@geekgirldiva asks: “Hmmm…What’s your worst WoW experience?”

Probably a bad PuG. Every once in a while you have a group that you know is wrong from the beginning, where you know that you’re wasting your time, but you really want to run this dungeon, so you go on in anyway. And then the warrior turns out to not know how to hold aggro, the rogue is still in blues and isn’t nearly turning out the DPS you’ll need to finish the last boss, and the priest is going /afk every five minutes. It’s at that point that, if you’re a jerk, you just pull the plug on your computer, and then log back in about 1/2 hour later going “Sorry guys, my Internet went down, did you finish the instance?” Or, if you’re a sucker like me, you stick around for the few hours of wipes and eventually call it on the second boss without actually having gotten any loot.

@maryvarn, who makes the terrific NPC comic that as of this writing supposedly features art drawn by kittens, wants to know: “is there fog in London? Mad Men says no, Professor Layton says yes. I don’t know who to believe.”

I have never unfortunately been to London, but most of my knowledge of the place comes from my very old and very deep love of the old Sherlock Holmes stories. I distinctly remember — I believe it was in the Adventure of the Speckled Band, one of my favorites — them talking about a dark fog rolling in at night. So I will say yes, there is fog in London.

Plus, Professor Layton is a smart guy, and Mad Men, as compelling as they are, are usually wrong about lots of things — they all smoke like chimneys, and many of them are racists and/or misogynists. I’ll tell you something that’s never wrong, though: Christina Hendricks dressed up the way she is on the show. I have never wanted to be a pen so much. Her accordion playing is divine, and I hope something bad happens to that jerk of a fiance.

Also, for the Mad Men fans, I am happy to tell you that Mad Men Illustrated is back for season 3. Spoilers if you haven’t seen the show, but if you have, enjoy.

Finally, @dougabbott asks: “PB&J or PB&Banana. You can only pick one!”

I went over to the Lincoln Park Zoo the other day, just a 10-minute walk from my apartment here in Chicago, for two reasons: one, I wanted to get some fresh air after spending the last few days working in the apartment, and two, I figured I should start running around and doing a final visit of the local attractions before I leave. While there, I decided to stop into this little cafe they’ve installed above the main gift shop, and I was surprised to see that, among the way too expensive organic paninis they were selling, there was in fact a peanut butter and banana panini. It was $8, and definitely not worth it, so I just ended up getting a little ice cream to eat, but I was very surprised to see that there, of all places. I’ve never had a peanut butter and banana sandwich, but I think if I ever did try one, an organic panini from the cafe at the Lincoln Park Zoo would not be a bad way to do it.

That said, if I have to choose only one to eat ever again, I have to go with peanut butter and jelly. I don’t always pick the safe choice (in fact, more often than not, I do the opposite, to the detriment of my health, reputation, or public image), but in this case, I’m going with what I know.

Thanks for all the questions everybody, and thanks for following me on Twitter, both new and old followers. Look for a new Modern World episode this weekend.