• Quizzo Bowl champ Steve O. will be singing Sinatra tomorrow morning on WIP at 7:30 a.m.
• Did you know that the WID hosts quizzo? Yep, tonight at For Pete’s Sake at 9 p.m.
• Played Irish John’s quizzo last night at Tangier. I love me some Irish John, but that “must have the correct spelling” thing drives me freaking insane.
• Fooboozer Trivia Art (above, focused on his beers) is making his TV debut on April 13th, as he’ll be a judge on Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. It’s no rhubarb contest judging gig, but it ain’t bad.
• D-Mac says what we were all thinking yesterday: Nutter looked like a total dork with his Phillies jersey tucked into a pair of jeans. I bet he was wearing a braided belt too.
• One last big name celebrity appearance: Vertical Paper, who finished 3rd in the 2006 World Rock Paper Scissors competition in Toronto, played on the Swayze Express.

Remember Mike Pomranz, the young man who blasted me in a letter to the editor a few weeks ago. Well, in a cruel twist of fate, he got press from the Inquirer last week. (Apparently open mic night at The Fire is newsworthy, but the largest and most prestigious team trivia event in the world is not. Not that I’m bitter.) Here’s my favorite part: So why go to open mic? “To meet people and to find support,” Pomeranz says with a laugh. No wonder he was laughing. “To meet people and find support” is a hilarious line, and it comes as no surprise that Mike came up with something so witty.

Apparently the surge in recognition had all sorts of folks just crawling out of the woodwork to be his Myspace friend, so he changed his status to private. Not just anybody can be Myspace friends with Mike Pomranz, author/signer/letter to the editor writer! No sir, it’s an exclusive club, and only a few are allowed in his inner circle!

Anyways, he has emerged from an important meeting with his well-rounded, intellectual, and extremely urbane circle of Myspace friends to engage us with his thoughts on my last two columns, first the one on the NCAA tourney I did last week, then on the one I did on celebrity run-ins a few days ago. Click below to read Mike’s take on the two columns.

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I am in talks now to get these guys to perform at Quizzo Bowl V.

A pretty interesting video on Philly.com yesterday about Quizzo Bowl sponsor Zipcar and their chief competitor Philly Car Share.

Received the following e-mail this morning: Two years ago you entered the Kitchen Kettle Village “Best Rhubarb Dessert in Lancaster County” baking contest – you did not win, but you gave it a valiant effort. This year I would like to invite you to be a celebrity judge for the event. We are celebrating 25 years of rollicking rhubarb fun. I would love to have a fun person like you as one of the judges. Please let me know if it works in your schedule! It is kind of ridiculous how excited I am about this.

RELATED: Johnny’s Near Monumental Upset Rattles Intercourse Pie Baking Community. (If you haven’t read this already, please do. I really think it’s one of my funniest stories.)

…is absolutely and completely off the chain (though NSFW, thanks to Peedi Crak saying “F*** the Internet” We couldn’t agree more.) I love Dice Raw (I used to go to his open mic at Five Spot) and have always wished he rapped more for these guys. Black Thought is so damn serious all the time he needs a hype man, and that’s Dice. New album drops April 29th. Can’t wait.

RELATED: The Roots on Myspace.

So I’m gonna be emceeing a basketball game that John Dougherty is gonna playing in tomorrow. It’s a fund raiser at the gym where I coach. If you wanna see Johnny Doc’s hoops skills, be at the Marian Anderson Rec Center (17th and Catherine) at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Oh, and if you wanna see my b-ball acumen (or lack thereof), be there at 3 p.m., when the other coaches and I play against the 16 year olds.

RELATED: In a somewhat pathetic move, Johnny tries to show off his glory days by linking to the JGT vs. AI in high school story for the second time in a week.

The hero of morons all over the country is allowed to keep his sign on his window. As a pretty big fan of free speech I totally I agree with the ruling. It was ridiculous that this suit got filed in the first place. Sure, Vento may be so dumb that he makes comments about non-English speakers such as: “You don’t wanna assimilate into dis country and learn our language? Well den you shouldn’t uh came here den. Stay where you was.” But that doesn’t mean that Joey can’t show off what a genius he with a sign in the window. After all, this is a free country. So congrats Joey. You are a hero, a hero to people in jean shorts and Minnie Mouse sweaters who swear they once saw the Virgin Mary on a slice of french toast. But to everyone in this city with an IQ over 40, you continue to be an embarrassment.

I used to have a tradition of getting my best friend retro jerseys for Christmas. But not just any retro jersey, one of players who were bad or on teams that they didn’t stay with long. For example, I gave him a Sean Kemp Cavaliers jersey and a Dennis Rodman Dallas Mavericks jersey. Then, a few years ago, it became impossible to get him said jerseys because the retro jersey fad took off, and suddenly a Sean Kemp Cavalier jersey was actually a desirable piece of clothing to have. Fortunately, the fad came back down to earth, and now jerseys of mediocre players are hilarious again, as is demonstrated by this amazing website. Oh, and Nat, if you’re reading this, I’ve got a Jeff Hostetler Raiders jersey I’ve been meaning to mail you for a couple of years now. I’ll get around to it someday.

Yesterday was Irene Cara’s birthday, and in honor of that I’d like to present a short clip my heartwarming performance of Flashdance at last year’s Quizzo Bowl, complete with leg-warmers, the headband, and the now infamous dumping of the tickets. What kind of horrifying surprises will we find at this year’s bowl? There’s only one way to find out.