I hope that today some of you are inspired to do with your lives what Martin Luther King did with his, which to is leave the world a better place than you found it. JOIN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS. Just a few hours a month can have a tremendously positive impact on a child’s life. Don’t wait for other people to make Philly a better city. It is time for YOU to help make it a better city. If anyone has any questions regarding the program, please feel free to contact me.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” -Martin Luther King

–Pimp my toilet.

-Kelly Clarkson is looking a little rough.

-Don’t worry, they are only enforcing the smoking ban at bars no-one has ever heard of.

-The 2nd round this week was one of the toughest ever. It was, “List 10 of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies.” Here is the entire list.

First the Jets lose. Then the GIants lose. The Knicks are a joke. Then Cal Tech, a school which had not won a basketball game in over 11 years, defeats Bard College. From? New York. Finally, New York notices a foul stench descending on their city, and it takes those morons almost 24 hours to figure out that it was coming from Jersey, something I coulda told ’em in 30 seconds. Hey morons, here’s a quick rule of thumb: the stench is always coming from Jersey.

Got a toothache about a week ago and got a dentist appointment for today. When your cheap ass health insurance doesn’t cover much dental work, you go to the ghetto dentist, the one that doesn’t have a computer or detailed “records”, where you hold your own drool sucky thing (drool sucky thing, or DST, is the actual medical term) during the procedure, and where the TV in the waiting room is showing Jerry Springer. Today’s episode sucked. It was, “I’m a lesbian and I’m having a baby.” Booo-ring. That’s so Phil Donahue 1985. I used to watch a lot of Springer in college, but I must have quit at the right time, b/c it really sucks now.

This dentist office only accepts cash, and you have to pay them before they do the procedure. But it was kind of funny, b/c I was already novocained up when they asked for the money. I guess if I hadn’t have had cash on me, they would have just kicked me out, but I would have gotten a free numb mouth out of the deal. I got a cavity filled ($75), and if I don’t feel a toothache over the next week, then I won’t need a root canal. The dentist was actually a pretty funny guy, and I’m not coughing up blood, so I think it went well. If you have cheap ass health insurance and like Jerry Springer, I highly recommend him.

-I pulled the completely classless move of sneaking a few Doritos into my mouth last night at Doobie’s while Ginger turned her head in disgust. I would like to apologize to Doobie’s for my act. I promise to buy a burger at your bar soon to make up for my rudeness.

–This is off the freaking chain. You gots to peep this. I’ve watched and listened like 4 times. (SFW)

-I was one of those people who always thought that Supreme Court justices were boring old people who were way too normal. Then I read this on CNN.com. “A doctor was cited as saying that (William) Rehnquist, an associate justice of the Supreme Court at the time, tried to escape the hospital in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him.” The Chief Justice was lurking in the shadows in his PJs (preferbly with a tin foil hat), trying to stop the CIA from carrying out their sinister plot! The Supreme Court rules! No pun intended!

–Historical geography of religion in 90 seconds. This is pretty awesome.

Here’s a fun little site. It shows you how popular people’s names are now, and how popular they were in the past. In other words, if you type in “Bertha” the graph peaks in like the 1920s and goes down to 0 today, while there were almost no “Madisons” 20 years ago but there are a ton today (Johnny peaked in the late 40s). So type in your name and see when it was “kool”. The best part about it, though, is that it’s called the “Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager”, which is totally sweet. Enjoy!

At least some of your photos. I accidentally erased the Altar Boys and the Kingdom’s photos before I realized I hadn’t posted them yet. Damn! Anyways, pics are up of the other teams that won the week before Christmas. There are also pics of my Christmas vacation, which include me rocking the mic, my potential future wife, and us busting my mom lip synching.
Check out photos on Flickr.

My New New Year’s Resolution is to not talk about Anthony Dimeo for the remainder of 2007. I have a number of goals set for 2007, and he has nothing to do with any of them, so I am done with this thing we’ve had going for a couple of years. Of course, if he does something completely outrageous, I might have to reconsider.

After getting involved in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in 2006, I realized that so many of the guys who play quizzo would make great role models for the young people of Philadelphia. Then, when I heard that there is a critical shortage of Big Brothers in the program (the waiting list for Little Brothers who want a positive male rodel is rather long), I felt the need to do something. (While we may look for more Big Sisters in the future, it was felt that right now the biggest demand is for men in the program.)

After meeting with several people from BBBS, we agreed on a reasonable goal: I want to get 100 males involved by the end of the year. Of course, it will be impossible without your help. I will have more details on the program and how you can get involved later in the week. This program has become an extremely positive part of my life in the past year, and I want it to be a positive part of yours as well.
RELATED: Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania Website.

Dunno if you read the comment left under the Year in Review November, but I will quote it here, then offer my reaction. It is in reference to this:
Be advised that your above reference to Mr. DiMeo in the City Paper awards was done purely out of humor on the part of A.D. Amorosi of the Philly City Paper and was NOT actually part of the CP Awards. Thus the reason it was not published and only posted online.

For you to state this as if it were a material fact, is not accurate. The City Paper has recently clarified that it was indeed posted online only for humor and meant no harm to anyone involved. It has since been complely removed by City Paper, yet you seem to mislead your audience into thinking it was actually part of the CP awards.

We request that you add clarification to your online statements and remove the innacurate statements completely.

If you wish to discuss this matter, feel free to contact me directly at (215) 399-1346, as I am currently representing, Mr. DiMeo as Plaintiff in other related litigation.

Thank you.

To read Johnny’s response, click below.

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