His name was John O’Neill, and I was tooling around on the internet yesterday when I came across him. He was the head of the FBI’s terrorism division that was following Bin Laden. He got so frustrated at the incompetence of the FBI and the Bush administration that he quit, and took a job as head of security at the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 was his 2nd day on the job. He was killed. Here is an excellent Frontline on him. Of course conspiracy theorists have ha a field day with this.
Month: June 2007
Technical difficulties
I’m having some trouble getting the photos to come up for some reason. I’ll have Trivia Art look at it and try to post photos this afternoon. It is important that I get those photos to show, b/c the Rock paper Scissors photos are in there to and the RPS tourney was a classic.
The Week in Review
A week after a wild week of shocking upsets, we had a week devoid of any. The planets realigned this week, starting with a narrow Dork Sided win at O’Neals. They edged the Young, the Old and the Restless, 84-80. It was Dork Sided’s 3rd win in the past 4 weeks.
Onto the Bards, where the Sofa Kingdom held off a formidable new foe, Sporkers of the World Unite, 98-89. Narcotyzing Dysfunktion finished with an 80.
The Jams (aka Paris will be riding a scooter) got a scare from one man team Steve O., who managed to tie them at 100, but fell in the extra frame, as the Jams were only one year off in knowing when A Man For All Seasons was released on Broadway (1961).
Parke Overall was unable to recapture the magic that had propelled them to a win the week before, finishing 5th. The Satan’s Minions finally got a win, their first since late April, and only their 2nd since February. The Eastern Vikings (aka River of Rocks) finished 2nd 94, and Duane’s World finished 3rd with 92.
MAGMA cruised at the Good Dog, knocking off Big Oil Praying For Hurricanes, 104-86. Steve O. picked up a teammate, but struggled in the final round and finished with 79.
Back to the Bards, where Sofa Kingdom did fall, but it wasn’t a particularly huge upset, as the team that knocked them off was the Hurtin’ Bombs, who won for the 2nd straight Thursday.
Other highlights of the week included:
–The poll for best bar in Philly, won by…other. More discussion on this next week.
–JGT asks for festival ideas and the best one he gets is Von Hayes Fest. Nice work, you creative geniuses.
–JGT goes to the legendary Blue Horizon.
JGT Out of retirement
Defending City League Champion Johnny Goodtimes shocked the local R Paper Scissors establishment when he announced on friday that he was coming out of retirement to take part in this years RPS Championship. Goodtimes, who earned a spot in the championship due to his shocking upset victory last year, announced his retirement after the competition, and stood by it for an entire year. But his competitive juices were flowing, and he decided to come back this year, “For the children.” Goodtimes, who is extremely unpopular on the RPS circuit, also threw in some shots at his competitors. In the message posted on the PBRRPS website, he told the other competitors, “The surest way of not being humiliated by a great champion like myself isstaying home tomorrow night, and crying your sorry self to sleep, knowing that you will never be a champion, and I will always be a champion.”
JGT will also be emceeing the event, but he will not be rapping.
Most popular websites
This week, the speed round was name the most popular websites in the US, according to Alexa. They were, in order: Yahoo, Google, MySpace, MSN, Youtube, EBay, Facebook, craigslist, live.com, wikipedia, Amazon, AOL. Some popular guesses? ESPN (14th), CNN (15th), Mapquest (23rd), Weather (24th), NY Times (26th), and Orbitz (80th). Here is the top 100. (Oh, and in case you are wondering, I don’t know my rank in the US, but worldwide I’m holding steady at 791,814th. That’s right, people. I’m in the top million. Maybe we should have a festival dedicated to that.)
Hey Palestra Jon
Don’t feel bad. Pat Burrell is a really tough out, and teams have struggled all year to hit Adam Eaton. Braw-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
RELATED: Phils sweep Mets, will now lose 2 of 3 to the Royals, the 2nd worst team in baseball. Come on, you know they will. Damn this team!
Happy Birthday Eddie
Today would be the birthday of one of the most interesting players in baseball history, Eddie Gaedel. At 3’6″ tall, he was by far the shortest player ever to play in a major league game. St. Louis Brown owner Bill Veeck talks about the genesis of one of his wildest stunts ever.
“Eddie,” I said gently, “I’m going to be up on the roof with a high-powered rifle watching every move you make. If you so much as look as if you’re going to swing, I’m going to shoot you dead.”
Some Random Numbers
Some random Numbers from JohnnyGoodtimes.com.
2,874 – Number a pageviews in the last month for a post about the pornstar Houston sleeping with 620 men in a day.
3 – Number of visitors from Egypt. One of whom found the site by the search term sex + pizza.
80 – Number of people visiting JohnnyGoodtimes.com looking for Jam Master Sean.
86 – Number of times people asked JohnnyGoodtimes.com if Anton Ohno is gay.
Goodtimes Tries Again
Not much luck on the dating scene lately, so I decided to try craigslist again. Let’s hope this works.
The Blue Horizon
Here’s my latest column in the Metro, about my visit to legendary Blue Horizon this past weekend. It was absolutely incredible, one of the coolest places I’ve ever been.