Happy Birthday, Marion Berry! The good mayor, whose reputation was sullied when that bitch set him up, turns 70 today. Here’s a good article about his rise to power. And here are some actual quotes from the man, including one of my favorite quotes in the history of mankind, “If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.” Here’s hoping that DC gets exactly what it deserves-a fifth Marion Berry term as mayor!!!

Darth Ern, one of the biggest legends in the history of the sport, is a major movie buff. And so, this year, for the second straight year, I have asked him to handicap this year’s Oscar’s. Here is his report:
Best Picture
In the last 39 years the movie with the most nominations has won Best Picture 35 times. Three of the four that didn’t starred (Bonnie & Clyde; Reds; and Bugsy) starred Warren Beatty. The other was last year’s The Aviator. I thought Crash was the Best Picture of the year. Capote and Munich also made my top 10. Unfortunately, despite it’s good acting, I thought Brokeback Mountain was pretty bad. Once you get past the gay relationship what you’re left with is two deadbeats who cheat on their wives and neglect their kids. But the Academy gave Best Picture to a stinker like American Beauty and they’ll give it to another stinker this year.

Best Actor
I thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman gave the Best Performance (I didn’t see Terrence Howard but I’m sure he was good). I think the Academy will give it to Hoffmann.

Best Actress
Reese Witherspoon. I thought Charlize Theron and Felicity Huffman were better. By the way: Am I the only one that thinks Judi Dench can get a nomination just for reading the want ads out loud?

Best Supporting Actor
I’d give it to Matt Dillon but the Academy will give it to Paul Giamatti. That’ll be their way of saying we’re sorry we didn’t nominate you for “Sideways’ and “American Splendor.”

Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz. Only because SAG gave it to her. I didn’t see Amy Adams but I thought Frances McDormand, Michelle Williams and Catherine Keener were better.

Related: Entertainment Weekly Picks the Winners.

Cheneymania continues to run wild. First off he’s the star of a new music video. Secondly, there is a fun game where you are the VP, and you are trying to hunt quail. Of course, “hunting” is not really the right term when you are talking about what Dick Cheney does. A better way to say it is “animal massacring”, as he often goes hunting in places where people release live animals directly in front of him in a fenced in area and he just walks around and picks them off. He’s not so much into hunting for the “sport”. He just likes to kill living creatures.

Yeah, I said I’d have the pics up this afternoon. So I walk down to the coffee shop after dropping my clothes at the laundromat. Now, anytime I go to the laundromat, I gotta talk to my man Rudy (who runs the place) about the Dolphins, since we are probably the only two Dolphin fans in the city. We’ve both been hurt by this Ricky Williams thing, because we really thought we were gonna have a good team next year. Anyways, that’s not the point I’m getting at. The point is that I got to the coffee shop (La Va, at 21st and South. It’s new) and realized that I had forgotten to bring the cable thingy that I need to put the pics on my laptop. So anyways, I’ll try to post at least some of the pics later. That’s what I was gettin’ at. Yeah.

The Blue Method, Philly’s premiere funk band, is gonna be rockin’ the TLA tommorrow night, and I’ve got four pairs of ticketes to give away tonight for the show! That’s right, four tix at the Dog and four more at the Bards tonight to see the Method, who Ginger tells me put on an amazing live show. I’m finally gonna get a chance to see them for myself tommorrow night, and I’m pretty excited about it.

Many of you have heard the rumor that top NFL prospect Vince Young got a 6 on his Wonderlic test, meaning that while Young may make more money next year than I’ll make in my entire life combined, I will ALWAYS have the upper hand when it comes to word problems. Here is a sample of the test. See how you do. And can someone explain the answer to number six? I don’t get it. FInally, do these tests really prove anything?

Man, I got so wasted last night that at the end of the night, I ended up rapping…in front of black people! Good things my rhymes are so tight (at least that’s what Eve says-true story!). So let me get my wits back before I start posting your photos, which I’ll get started on this afternoon.

Bubbachuck got screwed by the Olympic committee, as he was not one of 22 players invited to try out for the 2008 team. I have the same love hate relationship with AI as most other people do, but after the way he stepped up in the 2004 Olympics when so many other big stars refused to play earned him a shot in 2008. Ashley Fox has a pretty good article about it in today’s Inky.

Psycho Path knocked off Divorce Court to be named the strangest actual Street Name in the US. Farfrompoopen Road finished third. Here are the results. Thanks to Alec for sending this in.