I knew D-Mac was doing a story on Steve-O, but I had no idea it was a cover story. Damn, congrats, Steve. Speech! Speech!
UPDATE: Steve O. will be on WIP at 7 a.m. manana (thursday), so be sure to listen!

I will be giving one point for each member of a team that dresses up for quizzo tonight and manana.

-I took a friend to Astral Plane a few months ago on their final weekend b/c she’s a foodie and I wanted to show her one of my favorite restaurants before it closed. Well, now it’s reopening-sort of.

-SInce I’ve been on a Canada kick lately, here’s your chance to learn a little bit about Halifax. (NSFW due to cussin’). Funny stuff.

–Scientists discover 400 year old clam, which raises the question: did this clam kill Christopher Marlowe?

-The “Are they Porn Stars or Fox Business Anchors round”? (SFW) I got a 9 out of 10. Does that mean that I know my FOX anchors…or my porn?

-Coming this afternoon: my Halloween adventure (which included some jackass in a swat team outfit kicking me out of his table) and my review of Dr. Strangelove.

Well, the 5th annual Halloween Spooktacular is on the way, and I’m gonna warm you up with a few Halloween questions posted under the pics of last weeks winners. One guess per person.

Dr. Strangelove edged Casablanca, 22-20, and I will thus be watching it this weekend. I’ll have a review early next week.

Well, things in the “What classic movie should Johnny watch this weekend?” poll are looking pretty interesting. As of this writing, we have a tie between Casablanca and Dr. Strangelove. Who’s gonna take the title? We’ll know at 5 p.m. In the meantime, Chip and I are finishing up a little film we worked on last week. I’ll be posting the movie on Monday.

Edgar Allen Poe, Allen Iverson, and I all followed similar paths from the streets of Virginia to Philadelphia. And as the sole remaining torch bearer of our little triumvirate, I feel it is my duty to inform you that the band Glass Prism is performing manana at the German Society in a benefit for the EA Poe National Historic Site. They are best known for taking the poem The Raven and setting it to music. Anyway, should be a fairly intriguing Halloween party.

In the 7th grade, I memorized the entire poem The Raven for a middle school oratory contest. I got dressed up like Poe, put a plastic raven over an actual door, and performed the poem splendidly without a hitch. And when I didn’t win 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or honorable mention, my mom was pissed. Especially when J.D. Outten got Honorable Mention for doing some dumb “radio broadcast with an alien” sketch. And judges, if you think that I or my mother have forgotten this little slight, you are wrong. Dead wrong.

-Inky scribe Inga Saffron pulls no punches when describing the hideous Symphony House on Broad Street.

-In better Broad Street news: With the 425th anniversary of William Penn coming to Philly being tomorrow, the gang decided to clean the old fella up a bit. Here’s some pretty cool photos the cleaning job, including one from inside his face. Here’s a bunch more photos from Philly Skyline. These are even cooler, but there are a lot more of them.

-Sugarhouse doesn’t have time for community activism, democracy, etc. It needs to get people hooked on gambling right freaking now! Therefore it is suing the city to stop dilly dallying and get out of it’s f****** way.

-Any Glengarry Glen Ross fans out there? If so, this is a must see. Hilarious (but Not Safe For Work!).

Trivia Art got the sweetest high def TV ever last weekend for the crib, and with the Eagles being unwatchable, I need something else to watch on that giant beauty on weekends. So I got to thinking, and realized that I have not watched a lot of the so-called “Greatest Movies Ever”. I thought a good way to motivate me to do so would be to watch some of these films and write my reviews of them afterward. And I want you guys to help me figure out what to watch. So I’m posting a poll below of some great movies I’ve never seen. Let me know which one I should watch this weekend. I’ll check the standings at 5 p.m. manana and watch the one with the most votes by then.

-Finally, a convenient place to keep that shotgun. I’m pretty sure this is real.

-Philly gets dumped on by Sports Illustrated twice this week. First, the NBA preview issue comes out and the Sixers are declared the worst team in the Eastern Conference. Then, they do a piece on Top 10 cities in a sports slump, and Philadelphia comes in first. It’s raining, we’re ugly, and our sports teams suck. There’s only one person that can break us out of these doldrums: Billy Ocean!

-As many of you know, I drive the sweetest ride in town, a 1997 metallic blue-green Crown Victoria. It scores me a lot of leg. But if you wanna be as awesome as me, you better hurry. They ain’t gonna be makin’ Crown Vics much longer.

–Manayunk is being bombarded by toolbags relieving themselves in public, proving once and for all that Manayunk is the open air outhouse of the Philadelphia Metro Area.