Today, the Los Angeles city council appointed Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as its "Honorary Consul General to the Moon."
Buzz Aldrin: Honorary Consul General to the Moon
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Just wait until they realize that the position covers travel expenses.
Does that mean he gets to lie around getting drunk until he's kidnapped by the natives?
/Graham Greene
Buzz Aldrin is teh awesome. I saw a video of him on a blimp simultaneously using an iPhone and a Blackberry.
The Mooninites have notified him they are desperately in need of quarters.
What Buzz desperately wants more than anything it to be officially recognized as the "ambassador to the moon."