-Time Magazine recently did a photo shoot of the murals of Philadelphia. Worth checking out.

-A couple of hours away, a family is raising a pet bear. Pet bears are kool. I wish Celine Dion would get a pet bear and then cover her face in honey.

-Have you ever thought to yourself, “Yeah, I’d love to have a block party, but not unless I could get Foghat to play. But what are the odds of…wait, what did you say? I can get Foghat to play my block party? Awesome! Pick me! Pick me! I know all the words to Slow Ride!

-Happy 32nd Birthday Charlize Theron. Rumors that we here at JGT HQ have a mad crush on Theron are patently false. I mean, once you get past the stunning beauty, rare talent, devilish charm, and remarkable success, what have you got left? Very little.

I first saw my challenger from a distance, and I must admit that I figured I would win at Boggle easily. No-one shorter than me has ever beaten me at Boggle, and neither has a female. This young lady was both shorter than me and, I’m fairly certain, a female. I had this one in the bag. We went to Rum Bar, which has Boggle to offer its patrons (as well as pretty good drink specials: $3 Dark and Stormy’s on Sundays and 1/2 price Mojitos on Mondays). I ordered a Dark and Stormy, and just then it began to rain outside. Fitting, since I was planning on raining on this young ladies parade with a decisive win.

It was about midway through the first round that I noticed that something was wrong. We had been playing for about a minute and a half, and she had never stopped writing words on her paper. “Probably just trying to psyche me out,” I thought. “Those probably aren’t even real words.” But it was unnerving. It became more unsettling when I realized that they were real words, and I was trailing 33-13 after the first round. “Lucky round,” I told myself, unconvincingly. The next round contained a lot of consonants, and not a lot of points were scored. Then round three, and all hell broke loose. Her hand couldn’t keep up with her mind, as she had trouble writing words down as quickly as she could see them. I was starting to unravel. Seeing her write word after word had thrown me off my game, and the letters all began running together, and I froze. I needed something, anything to call off this game. Hurricane, riot, fire, something had to stop this word massacre! But there was no divine intervention, and after the round, we tabulated scores. 79-19 was the final. Oh, well. I’m better at Scrabble anyway.

In case you missed it yesterday, click “Continue Reading Metro Article” below to read the article I did for the Metro. It had to do with strange Atari games. Here’s some more video game weirdness:
-There was Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em, another Atari porno game you need to read about to believe.

-Pac Man, where the ghosts are controlled by crickets.

-Ok, this is downright amazing. An entire website devoted to the dumping of the ET cartridges in the landfill in 1983.

–Custer’s Revenge was one of Seanbaby’s 20 worst video games of all time.

Continue reading “The Metro Article” →

First of all, be sure to do your voting on MyFoxPhillys Hot List. Once again, best quizzo is not an option, but I’m gonna let it slide. And oh by the way, Good Dog is totally kicking tail for best burger. Be sure to vote for either the Bards or Black Sheep for best Irish pub!

–Play a little boggle.

–Or play the highly addictive Gold Miner.

–“We here at Foobooz love reading Best of Philly almost as much as we love maps. So here is a bit of both.“ Nerd alert.

-There is a new white powder called Blow that you put in your drink and has 4 times as much caffeine as an espresso. Blow sent a shipment of their exciting new product to NBC10. Apprently, Blow thinks that Bill Henley and Hurricane Schwartz are the perfect people to plug their new product.

–A new study shows that woman want sex for the same reason guys do, b/c they are attracted to the other person. Major oversight in the study: “Because I was drunk” not an option.

–It was on this date in 1937 that the Marihuana Stamp Act was passed. Marihuana was a deadly drug, popular in the 1930s, that caused teenagers to have sex with jazz musicians and kill their parents with axes. Fortunately, this important legislation closed the market for the drug and it is no longer possible to find marihuana in the United States.

-Is Stairway to Heaven an homage to sweet Satan? Listen and judge for yourself. Warning: Rumor has it that Dick Cheney got his start in politics after listening to this song backwards, so be careful.

-Dunno if you guys caught the four part series that the Washington Post did on Dick Cheney last month. A good look at the worst vice president in the history of the nation, and probably one of the worst people in this nation’s history.

-Yeah, I got a little love from D-Mac in PW. The first time the Vatican and quizzo have ever been repped in the same paragraph. (The quizzo storyline in Angels and Demons didn’t make the final cut.)

-Old school hip hop heads must check out the new video from KRS ONE and Marley Marl.

–Bush has decided to to send $20 billion worth of high tech weapons to the Saudi Arabians. I hope this teaches those who would inlict “Terra” on America a harsh lesson: If hijackers from your nation attack us, we will give your nation high tech weapons. But if zero hijackers from your country invade us, we will kill hundreds of thousands of your citizens. Amazing.

Hey gang, got a cople of pretty kool quizzoes coming up in the next few weeks. First, a return engagement at the Constitution Center this Friday at 6:30 p.m. American history (with American history once again being used in a liberal sense) will be the name of the game. Quizzo is free with museum admission. I’d suggest getting there early to check out some of the museum before we get started, especially the Freedom Rising multimedia exhibit. Each member of the winning team gets gift certificates to Stephen Starr restaurant of their choice.

Then, on August 10th, I’m headed to the Franklin Institute for a science quizzo with a little Egyptology thrown in. The event is free (no admission for museum or for quizzo), and the winning team will walk with free tickets to see the King Tut exhibit, which has been an enormous success. The event is part of the golden ticket promotion. I like the concept of “Visiting Tut After Dark”. I kind of envision Tut in a silk jacket holding a martini and smoking a cigar and regaling the crowd with stories about the curse he put on Howard Carter.

–Trivia Art’s column in today’s Metro.

–Phawker has the entire new Common album on their radio. Just click “Play radio” in the upper left. Good stuff.

–Only in Philadelphia.

–Several people have remarked how funny they thought a certain comment under the Keats story was, so peep it.

-Our State Department would never involve themselves in human trafficking, tricking foreign laborers into working in Baghdad against their will. Would they? In the words of my buddy Toby, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way.”

-The Daily News is doing their sexiest singles this week (thanks for nominating me, jerks). Anyways, they’re doing videos and they look like those hilarious Comcast Dating On Demand features, with the guys videos being a lot funnier than the girls ones. This is by far the unintentionally funniest one. Anybody know where I can get a tank top like that?

-Remember when the mainstream media showered itself in glory by providing minute by minute flight coverage of the guy who falsely claimed to kill Joan Benet Ramsey? Well good old Jon Mark Karr recently got interviewed. I direct your eyes to this sentence: CBS46 will talk to Karr Tuesday at 11 p.m. about his life now, his time in Atlanta, his fiancée and his father. Yep, Jon Mark Karr has had more luck dating in the past year than I have.

-Turkey Chipotle BLT, who have quite an impressive collection of last place prizes, held their latest lead ever last week (in 1st place after round two at O’Neals last week), and therefore get the honor of today’s ATH photo.