Pretty mellow weekend. On Friday, went to Helium to watch the semifinals of the Philly’s funniest competition. Congratulations go out to Kent Haines, who took the title on Saturday. Saturday night I stayed in and got a little bit of work done around the house. Sunday, Chip, Aaron and I got to work on Part 2 of the Weather or Not Story. I should have it posted either this afternoon or manana morning. We still need to decide whether or not it’s too gross. Then, last night, checked out Bindi, the Indian spot on 13th and Sansom. Very good, definitely worth checking out. Gonna work on the Weather or Not video a bit more, then I’ll be posting photos of last weeks winners in a little while, so check back in a couple of hours. Oh, and happy birthday Malcolm Jamal Warner.

Off to class, and then we have a field trip to the Constitution Center, so I’ll be out of commission for today. Scoreboard up this weekend. Oh, and we have a Bounty Bowl coming up next week on the Jams at the Rendezvous. They won their 5th in a row on Wednesday. Also, tonight Chip Chantry continues his run in the Philly’s funniest competition at Helium. If you wanna see him and a bunch of other very funny guys competing to be Philly’s funniest, call 215-496-9001 and make your reservations for the 7:30 show tonight.

This week, I asked if Houdini pulled off the Chinese Water Torture Escape before or after 1896. The answer was after (He did it in 1911.) Here he discusses his escape from the Torture Cell. And here the question was came up last year: Was Houdini murdered? Turns out that Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began as good friends, but turned into arch-enemies due to their feelings about spiritualism, and there are some who think that Doyle and his Spiritualist followers may have had something to do with Houdini’s death. Pretty interesting story either way. And here’s something else you probably didn’t know about Houdini: There is a museum dedicated to him in Scranton. Yes, you heard me, Scranton. And their website was apparently built in 1994.

Oh wait, apparently they did, along with just about every WWF wrestler of the 1980s. This is amazing.

A bus driver in Vancouver has been quizzing riders on his bus route since 2003, and given away over 4,000 candy bars since.

As you all know, the Applebees at 15th and Locust is my favorite restaurant in the world. Well, things there just got even more exciting, as they are hosting an open call for models for the Price is Right tomorrow. Try to top that, Good Dog!

Went to see Chikara Wrestling at the Alhambra Center on Sunday. Texted a bunch of friends to see who wanted to go, and April Annie was the only one tasteful enough to accept (What is wrong with you people? Seriously? You can’t even get excited about live wrestling?) So we headed down there and truth be told, we both acknowledged that it was one of the highlights of our collective lives.

The inspiration came a few weeks ago, when we got dinner at Distrito and saw all of the wrestling masks on the wall. I looked up Lucha Libre Philadelphia online and this was as close as it got. Most of the wrestlers wore masks. The wrestling was surprisingly well done. In fact, there were several moves that simply had to hurt, real or not. There was a lot of outside the ring action, with bodyslams and aerial moves on the concrete. There was even a female wrestler, Sara Del Rey, who fought the men. April cheered loudly for her and her teammate, Bobby Dempsey (above). I rooted equally hard for their opponents, the Fabulous Two, who wore feather boas and long gowns, a la my hero, Ric Flair.

The scene was much more Sci-fi convention than meathead. The wrestlers apparently inspire their fans to draw little comics and make paintings, which they then present to the wrestlers after the event is over. After the final event, the two largest wrestlers (Brodie Lee and Claudio Castognoli) started going at it, and the next thing you know a full scale riot involving every wrestler there had broken out. Finally, the Commisioner of the League had to come out to try to calm things down. There was a Chikara regular sitting next to me who kept giving me the backstory to all the wrestlers, and when the Commissioner came out and said “There is only one way to settle this,” the guy turned to me and mouthed the words “cage match.” Moments later, his hunch proved correct, as the Commissioner said, “We’re going to need to have our first ever cage match right here on September 7th.” I am so going to be there.

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After going to wrestling yesterday in South Philly (details and photos to follow at a later time), April Annie and I headed to the Cantina for a margarita. When we got there, we noticed a pretty kickass rainbow dominating the sky of South Philly. It was even more spectacular because there were streaks of lightning crackling through the rainbow and the sky was a strange orange color. I realized this morning that I had caught a little spark of lightning in one of my photos. Thought it was kind of neat.

As if 08-08-08 wasn’t eerie enough, get this: both Drew Lachey and JC Chasez are celebrating their 32nd birthdays today. So trippy. Scoreboard and pics of a couple of quizzo cuties on the way this afternoon. In the meantime, read the story of the German terrorists who were supposed to wreak havoc in the US during WWII, only to completely screw it up. It happened on this date in 1942. And read a bit about the trouble detectives are having solving a sheep sexual assault case-because the suspects are twins, and they only think that one of them is guilty.

…Could Randy “Macho Man” Savage defeat Robin Leach in a game of croquet with a little help from a midget.