Tonight’s Contestants

Edge and Moose will be making an appearnace tonight at the Good Dog, while Jam Master Sean will be at the Bards. I highly suggest clicking on “Continue Reading” to read Sean’s piece. It’s hilarious. As with the other contestants, they had to tell what three people they’d like to have dinner with, and why.
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Moose: Because we are unable to invite the entire Wu-Tang Clan I have tried to make a list of folks who at least will provide me with decent dinner conversation. First I would invite Ralph Ellison because he is my favorite author and one of my favorite books is Invisible Man (if you haven’t read it, DO IT!) This would give me a chance to discuss working a theatrical version of his great work and maybe others. Next I would love to sit down with Japanese great Akira Kurosawa, I love all of his work, and would love to hear more on his process of film making as being the next JGT is not my only interest. Lastly, and this is the most personal to me; Gabriel Union, so that maybe she will spend some time with me after dinner, maybe…

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Finally! (Again)

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A website dedicated to how stupid those “Support our Troops” stickers are on cars. (You should see how many of these ridiculous things I see on cars when I’m in Virginia. Honestly, some cars have like three of them, I guess indicating that the driver supports the troops three times as much as some dolt who only spent the $2 for one measly sticker.) No, I’m not anti-troops, but this is really the most meaningless message ever. Do you think anybody is riding down the road, thinking “Damn those troops, I’ll never support them” and then they see one of these bumper stickers and think, “you know what? I’ve had a change of heart. I think I will support our troops.” I got an idea for a sticker. How about, “Support the Sun.” If you’ve got any good ideas for vague, meaningless stickers, feel free to make a comment below.

Here’s tonight’s contestant

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Krystyna apparently thinks Christian Slater is so dreamy, he constitutes three people, so here’s her answer to what three people she would have over for dinner.
My dream dinner is mushroom pizza and beer on a shag
rug with a small dim lamp in a far corner. On the
boob tube plays Tales from the Darkside: The Movie,
and Christian Slater, my Gleaming the Cube dream boat,
is on his way with Reese’s peanut butter cups for
dessert. Christian and I reminiscence on the good ol’
days of Bones Brigade and Hosoi’s degradation with
drugs and skateboard failure. I sweetly tell my
beautiful Christian to never loose that slightly
annoying Heathers drawl. The rest of the evening is
whimsical mockings about Keanu’s future and if we’ll
see River in front of the Viper Room tonight.
Christian mutters, “His brother should really grow a
mustache” and we giggle in each others arms.

Meet Tonight’s Contestant

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This week our contestants were asked, if they could have three people over for dinner, who would they be, and why? Here is Pedro Mays response.
If I could have any three people in history over for dinner,
they would be my grandfather (my dad’s dad), John Adams, and
TV star Raven (formerly known as Raven Symone and ?Olivia
Kendall? on seasons 6-8 of ?The Cosby Show). I chose these
people not only because I admire them, I am intrigued by them,
or I think they’re just cute as a button- I also think they
would have interesting conversations of their own that I could
listen in on. My grandfather was a history buff, for instance,
and would have a lot of questions for Adams about the colonial
and Revolutionary periods. And like my grandfather, John Adams
was a blunt and assertive man who, despite his love for his
country, was an internationalist who believed in multilateral
cooperation to achieve important ends. And I know that both
would be charmed by the beautiful and winning Raven, as she
regaled us with hilarious anecdotes about zany times on the
set of ?Hangin? With Mr. Cooper,? where she played ?Nicole
Lee? in seasons 2-5.

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Johnny plays quizzo…so you don’t have to

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On Sunday night, a buddy of mine and I decided to play quizzo. We hadn’t played since that Sunday night at McCrossen’s about a month ago. Rumor was, North Third had quizzo, so we went up there. No dice. So we motored over to Nodding Head to play quizzo with Irish John. Irish John is known for being rather salty, and he certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard, regularly inviting various players to go f*** themselves. I’ll be honest. I hated the questions. There were no american history questions, no sports questions, no geography questions, and two literature questions, neither of them being classic literature. There was no thinking through any questions to find answers. Every one was very blunt. And to be honest, most of them were questions I could really care less about learning the answer for (i.e. What’s the only Honda motorcycle that has a reverse gear?). On the bright side, the jambalaya was excellent, as are their beers. Of the three quizzoes I’ve tried other than my own, here’s how they stack up:
1. Quizzo Pat at New Wave (Monday)
2. Goofy but nice guy at McCrossen’s (Sunday)
3. Irish John at Nodding Head (Sunday)

If anybody knows where any other Sunday night quizzoes are, please let me know.