Quizmaster and bon vivant Jonathon W. Goodtimes, IV was voted “Best Quizzo” by the readers of City Paper (OK, so it wasn’t the readers of City Paper, per se. It was you guys. Big ups!) for the 2nd straight year. No pomp, no circumstance, and no butterfly shirts like last year, but hey, a win’s a win. A couple of the bars where Johnny works also took top prize. O’Neals got “Best Place to Watch the Game”, Locust Rendezvous won for “Best Poker Night”, and the DIve won for “Best Bar You’ve Never Been To”. Want to thank everyone who voted for me! You guys rock. I’d also like to thank the Academy. And Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

What do Dr. J, David Robinson, Kobe Bryant, and Johnny Goodtimes have in common? After this past Friday, it can be said that they all played at the Palestra. It can also be said that Johnny’s long record of shameful hubris was never more painfully impertinent than in the previous two sentences. Regardless, Johnny hosted quizzo at the Palestra on Friday night, and the contest was won by a group of young Quakers called Monroe Community College, which is where this team of brash young upstarts went to hone their quizzo skills before moving to the big city. If you are thinking abotu a career in Public Safety, then I think I’ve got your college.

Trying to go away for a vacation this weekend. Here’s the problem. There is only one f****** place in North America where it won’t be raining this weekend. That’s right. Philaf******delphia! Maybe I’ll just vacation in Fishtown. I am dead serious. I have looked at every city, town and hamlet between Milwaukee and San Juan, Puerto Rico and it is going to rain in every single f****** one. Except here. In other news, yes, I did briefly entertain the notion of spending my weekend in Milwaukee.

Came across this strange entry on somebody’s blog. I will buy a beer for anyone who can make sense of it.

Will Bunch got all Johnny Goodtimes with us and asked us to pimp his plans to save the Daily News. Bunch wants to scrap all of DN’s various personalities and replace them with personalities.

Speaking of Johnny Goodtimes, we haven’t forgotten about our weekly raffle. The site is decked out in orange this week because of Halloween, which is sort of lame, Johnny. Really, JG, why make such a big deal over Halloween? Anyways, here’s this week’s raffle winner. And by raffle winner, we mean “post we randomly selected that just happens to be at the top of the page when we wrote this.” You’re behind the curtain, people.

At first, it seems like they are bitter about one of my my raffles. Then it seems like they are having their own raffle. Then, upon further review, it seems like they are trying to make two points about two completely different topics in the same paragraph. Apparently they missed that day in 2nd grade when basic paragraph structure was introduced. By the way, if the gifted writer that wrote it is reading this, it’s JGT, not JG. Sucka.

I brought up this point to a friend of mine a few days ago when I saw that Notre Dame had given Charlie Weis a contract extension after seven games. Ty Willingham was 7-0 in his first seven games at Notre Dame. Charlie Weis is 5-2. Willingham was fired after three years, and now Weiss is not only winning with the players that Willingham recruited, he just signed a ten year deal. Here’s a good article calling out Notre Dame on this.

Nice work.

Whose garden grows with silver bells and cockle shells? (Please do not answer below. The question will be asked at quizzo this week.)

Today is the day of the dead in Mexico (Actually, it’s two days, today and tommorrow). Here is a good synopsis of the holiday.

It was on this date in 1950 that two Puerto Rican Nationalists tried to kill Harry Truman. Pretty interesting story. Speaking of Puerto Rico, I was planning on going there friday, but the weather forecast says rain all weekend. Anybody got any bright ideas of where I should go at the last minute? Got Spanish class today, so I’ll have to write more later.