By robertisenberg

Robert Isenberg is a writer and actor. He writes about TV and travel for MSN.com. He is co-founder of the Hodgepodge Society comedy troupe (www.hodgepodgesociety.com) and co-author of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project, published last year. Originally from Vermont, he lives happily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

THE DEBRIEFING

– FROM THE ARCHIVE – QAJAOG: Greetings, Captain Zabujek. ZABUJEK: Your eminence, Emperor Qajaog, I am honored by this private audience. QAJAOG: Captain, word of your exploits has reached the farthest reaches of the Federated Republic of the Empire. Is it true that you have ventured to the planet called Earth? ZABUJEK: It is true, Your Sliminess. We have journeyed millions of light years and returned safely to report our findings. QAJAOG: Go on. ZABUJEK: As you know, our study required two simple, working-class humans from a small, remote mountain town. Men, of course, preferably gullible and childless and mildly…