Remember Andy Nolan, the guy who wrote all the great obits I told you about a few weeks ago? His latest was delightfully simple, coming with the headline, “Caspar the Friendly Ghost”. It read, Weinberger’s in Paradise.

My nose was stuffed up when i got up this morning, so I took an antihistamine, and I went down like I was shot by a freaking cannon. Anyways, just got up out of bed. Thank goodness I don’t have a job! Well, now I’m going out to Dolce Carini for pizza. I’m still waiting to hear from my pizza partners on Wednesday and Thursday, so I’ll have my reviews of them up as soon as possible. And yeah, I gotta throw up stories for this week’s winners. I’ll get all that stuff done after lunch.

Me and Trivia Art just met up with some of the guys from Sofa Kingdom for pizza at Pizza Rustica. I’ll probably have a review tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass along the following conversation. The topic of Club Wizzards had come up b/c I had a bunch of ones on me.
Sweeney McSweeney: I had a roomate who used to be a stripper there.
Koob: Yeah, she ended up marrying the guy who hosted quizzo at the New Deck. Not Pat, but one of the guys who did quizzo for him.
JGT: So there is hope for a guy like me.
Koob: Oh, no, this was a psycho Japanese chick.
JGT: (deadpan) So there is hope for a guy like me.

Man, sometimes I am just too damn funny.

Things on the DC quizzo scene haven’t gotten much better. Here’s the latest from former Philly playa Hilary Swankie:
So we were pretty excited about this quizzo because it’s just blocks from where we all live. Unfortunately, we are going to need to suck it up and go to places far from home because it was the WORST QUIZZO EVER. They don’t supply pens. We had to ask for a pen and the guy handing out score sheets looked totally annoyed that we would even ask. They rejected our first name because it “wouldn’t fit on the score sheet” that was posted above the bar. The host (not the guy handing out score sheets, scoring, etc) was not funny. Period. (By the way, obviously hosting quizzo is a lot more difficult than I realized in Philly because everyone here seems to have multiple hosts/helpers.) There were 8 rounds. I thought 7 was bad last time. The first round was math questions. Could be reasonable MAYBE if it was multiple choice. But instead the gave us definitions and we had to tell them the mathematical term. We got 4 out of 10. It’s not a good idea to start with a totally impossible round to make us feel really stupid and bitter immediately. I wanted to leave. The host was not funny. (It is worth saying again.) Just totally ridiculous questions. We came in last place. **Things started getting hazy around round 2 already because we started drinking heavily to make up for the miserable 2 more hours that we were about to endure. You need to come down here and do a quizzo hosting training.

OK, so I posted a couple of things about a local rapper named Chase Millionz, posting a couple of funny stories about how the Jams were big fans of his. Click here to read Story #1 and Story #2. So you can imagine my excitement when I went to check my computer this morning and received the following e-mail: Hey man, I saw your two articles on ‘Chase Millionz’. Too damn funny. How did you know that I rap? I’m sending you a few of my songs. If you like them, feel free to play them anywhere you want. If you have any other questions, let me know. Keep doin’ how you do! You’re the best!!!

That’s right, an email from Chase Millionz himself! This makes it official. Johnny Goodtimes and Chase Millionz are hereby joining forces to take over this city, and johnnygoodtimes.com is now your official quizzo and Chase Millionz headquarters. Here’s his myspace profile, on which you can hear him rap! If you scroll down a little bit you can check out some of his other tunes. Johnny Goodtimes: Just Doin’ How He Do. I think I’ve got a new motto.

2nd straight post quizzo shutdown of the Bards. Bad idea. I forgot the plumber(not nearly as cute as the cleaning lady) was coming in first thing this morning. Ouch, I’m exhausted Now, I gotta go study my Spanish and then have pizza with a rather attractive local celebrity. I’ll try to get that review up this afternoon, but if not, I’ll have it tommorrow. I gotta give you my Lazaro’s review today. In the meantime, read here about the confrontation between Alec Baldwin and Sean Hannity. And the Philly Film Festival is coming soon, so figure out which films you wanna see. Last year, Bobby Badtimes saw a collection of experimental short films. Do not do this! It was his worst filmgoing experience ever.

Finally got around to watching Crash last night. Pretty damn good movie, I thought. Was it Oscar worthy? I dunno, what is Oscar worthy? I mean Titanic won 11 Oscars, and that was the most overwrought piece of waste ever put on celluloid. The guy at the Blockbuster (who had the SWEETEST waxed moustache) didn’t find it worthy. He said that other than Matt Dillon, everybody sleptwalked through their parts. I didn’t think so. I thought it maintained a high level of tension throughout, and hell, even Sandra Bullock didn’t suck in this movie, which is a first for her. Yeah, there were definitely some overdramatic moments towards the end, but overall, I would highly suggest you watch this flick. Now, I’m heading over to Lazaro’s and then getting my hair cut off.

Who was the first ever rapper or rap group to have an album go diamond (sell 10 million copies)?

JGT Likes the Gamecocks won the sports quizzo held on Sunday at Barrister’s, missing only one question in the entire game. Of course, you might recognize a couple of the faces. They are members of The Champs, two time Quizzo Bowl champions. “Hey Johnny,” asked Smooth Rob S. after the contest, “I wonder if you could host a quizzo with a theme like ‘Obscure 19th century Bikers’. That way we wouldn’t automatically win. Ah, nevermind, yeah we would.”