Perhaps you didn't waste large amounts of your youth playing video games in places like Wunderland, the long gone nickel arcade once on Tucson's eastside, but for me, the Flickr photo pool "Growing Up In Arcades" was a fun look back at when another variation on Pac-Man was an exciting gaming development.

Take a minute and just think about this factoid from a poll by Public Policy Polling: While overall, 38% of Mississippi Republicans wish the South had won the Civil War. 41% of those same Republicans believe interracial marriage should be illegal. Sigh.

Have you checked out what's going on at downtown's historic Rialto Theatre over the next few weeks? It's such a jam-packed schedule that it's almost silly. Silly!

Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of "Fast Five"

Seems about right, although I wonder what's going on with that kid that he's writing sex scenes between Jordana Brewster and Paul Walker (or whatever happens in those movies, I've only caught a few minutes of some of them when they're showing on basic cable).

Although I am concerned about detracting from Giorgio Moroder's birthday today, I'm not one to pass up the opportunity to post YouTube videos from the bands I loved in my youth, so here is the unofficial Tucson Weekly contribution to the entirely made up They Might Be Giants Awareness Day, which might celebrate the release of four new tracks from the band on iTunes. Or not. I'm not sure.

"Ana Ng":

"Man, It's So Loud In Here":

Two additional selections, beyond the cut.

Katie Couric's lengthy interview with NASA astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly as Mark Kelly prepares to pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour later this week.

Just in case you were using long-outdated Friendster to store photographed memories of your 2002 family reunion, now's the time to try to remember what email and password you used on that site ages ago:

Before MySpace and Facebook, there was Friendster, a pioneering social networking website for consumers. First launched in 2002, Friendster attracted tens of millions of users over the years, but it never quite grew into the online juggernaut it could have been.

Having raised close to $50 million in venture capital, Friendster was acquired by Malaysian payments company MOL Global at the end of 2009 for a reported $40 million.

Fast forward to today, and it looks like Friendster won’t be so much about sharing with friends anymore. In a message to registered members (hat tip to @Mazi), the company is asking all users to install a custom application to export all their profile data, as most of it will be unequivocally deleted on May 31, 2011.

On the help forum, Friendster encourages all users to use the ‘Friendster Exporter’ app to download or export their profile information, friends list, photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs and groups. Options include porting content to Flickr or Multiply.

On May 31, Friendster will move to wipe out all photos, blogs, comments and groups uploaded or created by its users. The company will, however, keep all accounts alive, along with user friends lists, games details and basic profile information.

[Techcrunch]

I'm a fan of the Daily Show (who isn't, really?), so the news that a crew from the show will be here is cool, but I can't imagine the whole Baja Arizona movement is going to come off as sane or productive when the producers are through with it:

Paul Eckerstrom, co-chair of Start Our State, i.e., the Baja Arizona as the 51st state movement, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Saguaro Eastside Democrats on Monday night. Eckerstrom announced that The Daily Show would be in Tucson Wednesday and Thursday of this week to film an episode on Baja Arizona for The Daily Show.

Eckerstrom did not disclose whom the correspondents are from The Daily Show coming to Baja Arizona.

Arizona has been a target rich comedy environment for The Daily Show because of our lunatic fringe Tea-Publican legislature and governor. The Daily Show has even created an "Arizona" tag for all of its video episodes mentioning Arizona.

So let's be on our best behavior people. Let's be clear that "the crazy" comes from our bullying neighbor to the north, the state of Maricopa. It is the Tea-Publicans who voted for the long discredited pre-Civil War theories of nullification of federal laws and secession from the United States.

Baja Arizona wanted no part of this. Baja Arizonans are loyal Americans. Baja Arizona is following the example of West Virginia in the Civil War and is exercising its constitutional prerogative under Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution for the legal process of partition and separation from the state of Arizona:

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress" (emphasis added).

The non-binding resolution that Start Our State wants to put on the ballot in 2012 is simply a petition to the Arizona legislature and the Congress for consent to establish our own state. it is our way of saying that we have had enough of "the crazy" from our bullying neighbor to the north, the state of Maricopa.

[Blog for Arizona]

Why anyone would pretend to have seen a movie I'm not sure - no one thinks better of you because of a movie related lie, I think that's still exclusively book fib territory - but a British video rental service found that 80% of those surveyed had lied about a movie they claimed to have seen, with approximately 30% saying they had stretched the truth about having seen The Godfather. This was a survey of British people, so who knows what to say about their taste in films, but I'd hope that Americans picked something a little less essential to the history of cinema to fake-see. Titanic, maybe? Forrest Gump?

Written and Produced By Melanie Huonker

Thousands laced up at Gene C. Reid Park for the 13th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Organizers estimated more than 11,000 people participated to honor survivors and those who have died.

“It’s wonderful,” said Sara Richey. “It means dollars are being raised and people are being made aware of what needs to be done, what could be done to prevent it.”

Richey and her friends came dressed in pink bras and wigs to support their friend who is currently battling cancer.

Breast cancer affects one in six women in Southern Arizona, said Julie Evans, development and communications manager for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Southern Arizona. One of those women with breast cancer is Alicia Fraire.

“Susan G. Komen helped me out in the past when I had breast cancer,” Fraire said. “I lost my job and they helped me financially and with medical treatments.”

Seventy five percent of the money raised by participant-fees and donations will go to help more local women by paying for their medical treatments and prevention. The other 25 percent will go to national research to help find a cure for breast cancer.

Susan G. Komen Southern Arizona’s goal was to raise more than $1.2 million