Author: Johnny Goodtimes

Hola From Sunny Charlotte

Hey kids, sitting in the Charlotte airport getting ready to catch a connecting flight to Asheville, where I’m hanging out this weekend. I’ll be posting scores when I get into Asheville. One thing I kind of like about the Charlotte airport: there are rocking chairs everywhere. For some reason that seems really cool.

They just announced that maintenance is on board the aircraft and that we may have to wait a few minutes before we board. Then I heard a few people moaning, which totally blows my doors. I mean, would they rather the maintenance people not fix whatever it is that’s wrong so we could take our chances in a faulty aircraft? When a wing blows off at 30,000 feet, are they gonna say, “Yeah, it sucks, but at least we boarded on time.” I just don’t understand people sometimes. Alright, well I’m off. Talk to ya soon.

What’s In a Name?

Here’s my column in today’s Metro. I think you’ll dig it. It’s about best business names in Philadelphia. Most of the best ones are always hair salons. One of my favorites that didn’t quite make the cut was Excuse ME Who Styled That Hair. Sassafrass! I also liked That Guy With the Hair, Smooth Like That, and Style of Man. Then you had your old standards Shear Perfection, Shear Genius, and Shear Pleasure. I also like Next Millenium Two Thousand, the barbershop that sounds like a robot. As for laundromats, the Washing Well was kind of cute. Oh, and D-Mac told me about a doozy, but it was out in Western PA. A day care center called Bring ‘Em Young. Brilliant. As for more terrible names? There is a bar called Castle Roxx in Manayunk. Sounds like a breakfast cereal. I also think Phlamboyant Phaces (hair salon) is kind of atrocious. Looking for more great business names? Click here. Now it’s your turn. What great local business names did I leave out of the article? Let me know in the comments.

Kade Style

In case you haven’t heard the buzz, the man Philadelphians love to hate was featured in this month’s Philadelphia Magazine. It could have been better, but it certainly answered some questions about our hero and painted him in a pretty real light. At that moment, it was possible to see Arthur Kade for everything he is — an unmitigated douchebag, to be sure, the poster boy for all that reeks about contemporary society and culture (the former businessman turned aspiring celebutard, forging a burr-hole through the cacophony that is the Internet), but a character at the same time entirely familiar, one wholly American, a modern-day Tom Joad setting out, sanguine to a fault, westward. 

Personally, I think that Arthur Kade can only be one of two things: a brilliant marketing ploy by someone (Philebrity perhaps?) to write a book about this ridiculous character’s misadventures, sort of a Lazlo Toth style invention, only crazy in a different sort of way. Otherwise, he is severely mentally ill. There is no other way to be that un-self aware. What do you think? Is this guy real or is this some sort of brilliant Andy Kaufmann type stunt?

Quizzo Bowl Round 4

  1. In 1948, he became the first and still only actor to win a Best Actor for a film which he also directed. Who is he?
  2. How many US states share a land border with Canada?
  3. Which of these Mark Twain books was published first?
    a) Prince and the Pauper b) Tom Sawyer c) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court d) Huckleberry Finn
  4. In what year did Melrose Place debut?
  5. This Greek mathematician is known as the father of geometry, as his work elements is the most succesful textbook in math history.
  6. What is the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time, according to box office mojo?
    a) What Women Want b) Sex and the City c) My Big Fat Greek Wedding d) Pretty Woman
  7. What was the last team to lose back to back NCAA championship games?
  8. What is the life expectancy of a baby born in the US in 2009?
  9. Future president Andrew Jackson was one of the founders of this city, where Justin Timberlake was born.
  10. Most of a human bodies mass is oxygen. What element is 2nd, making up 18% of the bodies weight?
    a) hydrogen b) nitrogen c) carbon d) calcium
  11. Penn was the first Big Five school founded. What was the second one?
  12. ***What was Hall and Oates first Billboard #1 hit?

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Quizzo Bowl Round 3

Wild Card Round: China

  1. This movie was released 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident, was about a nuclear meltdown, and starred Jane Fonda.
  2. I.M. Pei was born in this city, also known as Canton. It is one of the largest cities in China.
  3. What band had a hit with the song China Grove?
  4. Both the first and the last European colony in China, this special administrative region was handed over to China by Portugal in 1999?
  5. She’s married to William Baldwin.
  6. What is the longest river in China?
  7. You would have found Ricki Lake on this TV show.
  8. According to the NBA, how tall is Yao MIng? (He’s an inch taller than he was when he came in the league)
    a) 7’2″ b) 7’4″ c) 7’6″ d) 7’8″
  9. Who directed the movie Big Trouble in Little China?
  10. The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different entitites. On what island will you find the Republic of China?
  11. On what reality show would you have found the wrestler Chyna in 2005?
  12. What was the last ruling dynasty of China?

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Quizzo Bowl Round Two

Before or After 1967 (The year Hall and Oates met)

1. Beach Boys release Pet Sounds
2. The first Wendy’s opens
3. Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
4. Malcolm X assassinated
5. Will Smith Born
6. Philadelphia 76ers play their first game
7. Bob Dylan goes elecric at the Newport Folk Fest
8. The Sound of of Music is released
9. Frank Rizzo becomes Mayor of Philly
10. Led Zeppelin releases first album
11. The first Wal-Mart opens
12. Gary Coleman born

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Quizzo Bowl Round One

1. What is the closest spiral galaxy to our own?
2. What nerd fractured his foot and pulled a hamstring on Dancing with Stars, but has remained on the show?
3. The Three Mile Island accident occurred on this date in 1979. What city is Three Mile Island closest to?
a) Scranton b) Harrisburg c) Allentown d) Pittsburgh
4. Who has the Phillies record for career saves?
5. Portland used to be the capital of Maine, and Augusta used to be the capital of what state?
6. The Queen of Country has sold over 55 million albums worldwide and starred in Tremors in 1989.
7. The wildebeest is also known by what three letter name?
8. What singer is married to rodeo cowboy Ty Murray?
9. These Meditteranean fish are business in the front and party in the back.
10. In what magazine did naked photos of Vanessa Williams appear, costing her her Miss America crown?
11.***Which of these first ladies was not a widow when she married a future president?
a) Martha Washington b) Martha Jefferson c) Abigail Adams d) Dolley Madison
12. In 1992, a show called the Golden Palace debuted. It was a spinoff of what popular sitcom?

Answers after the jump

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