Sci-fi geek alert: Want to know if you are a Yoda or a Saruman? A Lord Voldemort or a Captain Kirk? Find out when you take the quiz, "Which Fantasy/SciFi Character are You?" (at www.tk421.net/character).

Once you've filled in a slew of personality and ethical questions, the test picks the corresponding character. If you're deemed to be a Galadriel, the Lady of the Golden Wood in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, you're in good company: She's the most popular choice.

— Mary Kaye Ritz

RING UP JOEL'S 5-DISC SET

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine. He gets me my drinks for free. But I'll have to shell out $59.98 retail for Billy Joel's box CD/DVD set "My Lives," in stores today.

Joel personally selected everything in the five-disc set, including 23 never-released songs and scads of rarities. Sure there's junk on it. (I'd do prison time before queuing up "We Didn't Start the Fire" again.) But the rest of it? Sing us a song, piano man!

— Derek Paiva

FINAL WORD

"Wyland was my nemesis!"

Shepard Fairey | the artist joked when asked if his street work would ever get as big as the muralist's whales, at a lecture at the University of Hawai'i last week