What’s the best gift you ever got for Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, etc.? That’s a tough one for me. I remember one Christmas I spent the night at my grandad’s house on Christmas Eve and in the morning I received the Atari game Real Sports Football and was tortured b/c my Atari was at home and my grandad didn’t have one. But my sister got a chalkboard, so I commandeered that and spent the morning drawing up plays for my game. Which, considering the sophistication of computer football games back then, made about as much sense as drawing up plays for Pick Up Sticks. I also remember the year I got a Steve Bartkowski jersey. Seriously. That was pretty special. But probably the most memorable was when all I wanted for Christmas was a Junkyard Dog wrestling figure and Santa drove 100 miles away to find one, but the place didn’t have it, so Santa had to write me a poem explaining why I wouldn’t be getting Junkyard Dog that year. (I’ll ask my mom if she still has Santa’s poem stored somewhere. If so, I’ll be sure to post it.) Instead I just got a Rowdy Roddy Piper rasslin’ figure By itself. The Rowdy Roddy Piper figure did a lot of interviews that year, and occasionally had a “midget match” against GI Joe action figures. What about you? What was the best/most memorable holiday gift you ever received?
Month: December 2006
Malia and Popo present: Around the Horn
-New York always has to one up us, don’t they? Our Taco Bells serve bad onions, so they get a restaurant which serves polonium-310. Touche, NYC. Touche.
–What’s the big deal about Nicole Richie driving in the carpool lane? Who, in an effort to get somewhere on time, hasn’t pulled a “fast one” and slipped into the carpool lane for just a few minutes? High on Vicotin? Driving the wrong way?
-I’m still loving hot chicks with douchebags.
-Quick reminder: Carpe Diem, because no-one is promised tomorrow.
-Attention girl at the gym with the pretty eyes that I tried so pathetically to hit on today: If you are reading this, I want you to know that I’m not usually that big of a weirdo toolbag. Nevermind, yes I am. Damnit!
Tuesdays is Foobooz days
As many of you know, my good friend Trivia Art runs a popular local website called Foobooz, where he searches out the best food and drink deals in town. Every Tuesday, he’s gonna come on this website to talk about some of his favorite spots around town that are also a great deal. Here’s his first:
If you’re familiar with Foobooz at all, a guide to eating and drinking in Philadelphia you know it serves multiple masters. On one hand it aims for a place in the foodie’s heart, highlighting what’s new and coming soon on
Philadelphia’s dining scene as well as what’s creating the loudest buzz. On the other hand Foobooz is a frugal boozer’s good friend, putting the spotlight on drink deals around our fair city.
So for my first column on johnnygoodtimes.com, which master to server? Well luckily there are places like Little Fish and their Sunday night prix fixe dinner. Just $28 gets you five courses of excellent seafood, and since it’s a BYOB, no expensive liquor bill.
Question of the Week
Who played the role of Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills 90210?
Deviousness
The lovely Ginger and I are in the midst of something devious. We will let you know what we are up to later this week, but I just thought should know. No, we are not making out with each other. We did that once, in 2003, but it was like when Brandon Walsh and Valerie Malone (played by the lovely Tiffani Amber Thiessen. Meeeow!) started to make out in 90210, we just started laughing and said, “This is stupid.” So we won’t be going there again.
Beerfest tonight at the Trocadero
Beerfest, a film produced by the guys who brought you SuperTroopers, will be showing tonight at the Trocadero (1003 Arch). A film that you should be drunk to see at a place where you can not only drink to your heart’s content, but you can also win free beer! The Wheel of Terrific will be kicking things off at 7:30p.m.
Shananigoats win
Ok, sunshine state is too easy. What is the sunflower state?
Questions this week
Alright, I’m throwing up questions this week about sunshine, since today’s weather has me giddy. So post your answers in the comments section below the pics. ONE GUESS PER PERSON!
Bubbachuck on his way out
Am I the only one one with extremely mixed feelings about AI’s impending departure? On the one hand, this team was going absolutely nowhere with Iverson on the team, and I really wouldn’t mind getting some young talent or some draft picks in return for him. And to be honest, I really haven’t paid much attention to the Sixers in years,so I won’t miss him that much. But he was a lot of fun to watch play, and I certainly appreciated the way he left it all on the floor every night. He reminds me a lot of myself as a player except that he is, uh, really good.
Now that I coach a little league team, I can’t really hold Iverson up as a role model, though. Anytime I want a kid to try harder or show some hustle in practice I can’t really say, “Do you think this is the way AI practices?” because the answer would be “Yep.” And when guys are making fun of a teammate, I can’t really ask, “Do you think that this is the way AI talks to his teammates?” because he doesn’t exactly come off as a team leader. So in both cases I have to revert to Dwayne Wade and Lebron James, who are much better role models than AI.
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THe Week that was
Wow, this was a wild one. Started with the Eagles game at the Troc. The Wheel of Terrific was pretty good, though we did one skit called “What did you ‘Putin’ My Sushi” that was high on concept but came off like a ton of bricks. But the other games went well, and the $100,000 Pyramid is always a huge hit. The game was great, of course, as the Eagles pulled of a win. BeerFest will be showing on Monday.
See if your team made the bold type and see if the Sofa Kingdom got upset in the Bounty Bowl after the jump,.