Here’s a hilarious site I recently came across, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. It reminds me of an old favorite, blackpeopleloveus.com. And while we’re at it, we might as well throw in the top 10 rap songs that white people love.

• Our friends in Denver just had their annual Geek Bowl, and it appears to have been a rousing success. Not to brag or objectify, but I would like to note that the majority of our volunteer staff in the front lobby were HOT LESBIANS. And they were very active so technically our lobby was a cauldron of Hot Lesbian Action. Yes!!!!!!
• The City Paper talked to Ken Jennings last week.
• There is going to be the 6th annual Sports Trivia Bowl in Norman, OK, this weekend. It will be hosted by, are you ready for this, Uwe von Schaman, who I distinctly remember kicking for the Dolphins when I was a kid. Anybody know where I can find a cheap flight to Norman? I want to be with Uwe!

As you might remember I had a decent experience on Ride the Ducks last year, despite my better judgement. Well, Walt Sherman of Shut the Duck Up has had no such experience. He hates the damn ducks, and he’s trying to do something about it. What’s he trying to do? It’s hard to tell from this video, but it looks certifiably insane.

• No sooner are we done talking about Raising Arizona than Tex Cobb is in a great piece by Phil Sheridan. Turns out that he just earned a degree from Temple. Again, a great piece. Read it if you haven’t already.
• You know how things starting going downhill for Britney when she married K-Fed? Well, I seem to remember Michael Jackson started to jump the sanity shark after his hair caught on fire. Or maybe it was when he became friends with Corey Haim. Of course, if he had actually been singing, he woulda put the flames right out. Science is weird.
• Every once in a while, Philly Mag puts out a damn good issue. The current one is that issue. Restaurant rankings, an article about Larry Brown, and an article by Matthew Teague that really does a good job shining the light on the union situation in Philly. And I’m not gonna pretend like I didn’t read the Alycia Lane article. Speaking of her, D-Mac is reporting that she was making out with Booker on the dance floor of the Grape Street Pub over the weekend. That’s it! It’s over for her and I! I will not date any woman that hangs out in Manyunk!

Welcome to the worst day of the year! Ready, set, be miserable! In honor of this glorious day, I would like to open up the forum to you guys. What is the most depressing song ever? “Eve of Destruction” and “Alone Again, Naturally” are up there, but my nomination is above. That being said, I kind of like how peppy the song is at the same time it is so depressing.

• Trivia Art of Foobooz fame was selected as judge for a Bobby Flay show a couple of days ago. If you’d like to hear more about it, just stand in his general vicinity for the next several days. He’ll tell you all about how close he and his “good friend Bob F.” are. But he won’t tell you who won.
• Ginger (above, with her despised Budweiser) and I had the same New Years Resolution: Be classy. So we grabbed a drink at XIX a couple of weeks ago and today we had lunch at Amada. It was plenty classy, at least until I asked the server if I could get some more french fries. Hey, I’m still learning! Anyways, she’s having a women’s beer club meeting tonight at the Standad Tap at 6 p.m., and there’s a rumor that she’s gonna be hosting the wild card round tomorrow at the Good Dog.
• Our good friends at the Metro were featured in a cover story at Philadelphia Weekly, where fellow American Gladiator gambler D-Mac plies his wares. And the article randomly contains a sentence about Steve O. Why, this whole city is just one big happy family! Now let’s all hold hands and sing “Do You Believe” by Cher!

There is much talk about Philly Live!, the entertainment venue that is being proposed down by the sports arenas. On the one hand, it would be a lot of fun to have somewhere to hang out after a Phils win (or a Sixers loss) besides McFaddens, but something tells me this place is probably going to offer me a Hard Rock and a TGI Fridays as my other options. One of my favorite things about this city is that usually for a business to survive here, it needs to have some Philly favor, and I see this thing as a homogenized corporate behemoth filled with the GAP, McDonald’s, and Starbucks. Of course, I’m not the demographic they are hoping to reach, so maybe this thing will work out after all. And hey, they’ve done a nice job in the stadiums of promoting local spots (McNally’s at CB Park, Johnny Brendas at the Linc, for instance.), so they could prove me wrong. I hope so. What are your thoughts?

Ok, first of all, when you search google images for Alycia Lane, Eric B. and Rakim come up on page 2, which is awesome because Alycia is one of my favorite women ever and Rakim is one of my favorite rappers ever. Secondly, Philly Mag wrote a short book about Lane in their upcoming edition, which you can read here, and which does not contain a single mention of me at all. Why? Simple. Because the love between Alycia and I is forbidden, and our secret would be revealed if I discussed it in some glossy mag. The only people who truly know how Alycia and I feel about each other are Alycia, myself, and you, the loyal readers of this website.

• Spent my Saturday night lying on my couch watching the Buddy Holly Story (and you thought I didn’t have an exciting life!) Anyways, great movie. Did a little research after it was over and stumbled across something pretty incredible. Peggy Sue (the inspiration for the Holly song) and Holly’s wife, Maria Santiago, have never gotten along. Well, Peggy Sue recently decided to release a book in which she says that Holly was planning to divorce Santiago and marry her. Santiago is not pleased, and is suing for the book to not be released. I wish two women would get in a catfight over me 50 years after my death. That is my main wish. My 2nd wish is for a time machine.
• It was on this date in 1950 that George Orwell died. Here is his obit in the BBC. One of my favorite Orwell shorts is “Shooting an elephant”. The correlation between this story and our current foreign policy is striking.
• Sex with robots is on its way. Finally! Levy, however, foresees dolls imbued with artificial intelligence to give them personality and charm. The first talking sex robots, he says, could just utter a few stock phrases. (“You’re huge!”) With my luck with electronics (and women), I’m sure I’d order a defective one. “Wait, before we do anything, I’d like to…beeedie, beeedie, beedie…rehash that argument we had last night. “
• Ram It! Just Ram It! Man, I hope the Patriots put out a rap song before the Super Bowl.

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