A few weeks after Alec Baldwin stood up Washington Post readers expecting his chat-room take on 30 Rock, answering-machine etiquette and other topical news, the actor finally — and dramatically — upheld his commitment.

Baldwin prepped for his SAG rager last night in New York by taking on some of the Beltway's heaviest hitters, a spectrum of inquiries demanding to know if he liked kissing Jennifer Aniston a few weeks back on 30 Rock, if Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon might ever hook up, if he plans to buy a New York Mets casket, and the legal philosophies guiding joint-custody divorces. There's not a wasted word on the page, although a few of his more trenchant asides remind us how glad we are Baldwin finally agreed to meet his public:

Washington, D.C.: Good Afternoon Sir, If confronted with the situation in which you were in a knock down, drag out bar brawl including Val Kilmer, Tom Selleck, and Phil Collins, who wins and why?

Alec Baldwin: Although I could never envision myself in the same room with those three people, I have to give it to Phil Collins. From what I've seen, he's pretty fast with his hands.

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Bennett Point, Md.: I polled my six children about their favorite Thomas the Tank Engine narrator and they rank you behind George Carlin and Ringo Starr. Do you consider them to be hard acts to follow?

Alec Baldwin: Yeah, it's never easy to follow people in any job when you're part of a series, and I was a great admirer of Carlin, and though Ringo Starr isn't known for narrating children's programs, I was a great admirer of him also.

"Was" a great admirer? Oh, fine — Ringo's dead to us, too.