We begin at Ugly American at 8 p.m., then move to Bards at 10:15 p.m. An interesting quiz this week. A fair amount of geography. And yes, I’ll give away some french fries at UA. The wife is also making me get rid of some of my books, so I’ll be giving some of those away as well at both bars. Hope to see ya tonight!

Not too long ago, I read the excellent book “Working” by Studs Turkel. In it, he interviewed people from all different types of jobs, from waitress to fireman to prostitute. I’ve really been wanting to do something similar to that ever since, and feel that I’m fortunate enough to have a ton of friends doing interesting jobs, so it would be cool to learn more about them.

Of course, I’m doing this with a zero budget, so I can’t really follow them at a day on the job or anything, but I can always do a quick interview with them online. So that’s what I’ve started doing, interviewing people with interesting jobs, ask them a bit about what they do, what their day is like, the best and the worst parts of it. So if you have an interesting job and I don’t know about it, just shoot me a line and I’ll try to set something up. First interview is coming soon!

We kick it off tonight at O’Neals. There is no better place on the circuit to get a win, quite frankly. If you’re looking to move up a bit in the rankings, and don’t want to have to knock off Steak Em  Up or Duane’s World, I would highly suggest a trip to O’Neals. $3.50 Mexican beers. Interesting quiz tonight. Music buffs are gonna love one of the rounds, though it is not a music round.

On to the City Tap House at 10:15 p.m. Biggest draft selection in the city and great beer specials every week for quizzo. Great chance for you to try something new, and the first place prize is a $100 gift cert. Not bad. Hope to see ya tonight!

Finally things return to normal, or as close to normal as any of us weirdos will ever get. Start at the North Star at 7 p.m., then move to Sidecar at 9:15 p.m. Hope to see you tonight!

Recommended reading: In 1995, Jeff Lurie tried to get Dick Vermeil to become Eagles coach again. Negotiations ended poorly.

We kick it off at Ugly American. Been kind of quiet lately. Gonna be a great opportunity to get a win and move up in the Rankings. Action starts at 8 p.m., and $2 Lagers are in full effect. On to the Bards at 10:15 p.m. $2.50 Lager Lights. And I’ll give away some fries tonight. Promise (Heidi, remind me at UA. Thanks.) Alright, I’ll see you youngsters tonight!

Holidays are over. Game time. Time to follow through on that New Year’s Resolution to play more quizzo. You can start tonight, with a quiz at the Locust Rendezvous at 6:15 p.m. On to the Black Sheep at 8 p.m. Hope to see ya tonight!

We kick it off at the Ugly American, where it’s anybody’s ballgame. Great chance to get a win and move up the rankings. $2 Lagers, $3 fries. On to Bards at 10:15 p.m. $2.50 Lager Lights and $3 fries. AND YES I AM WRITING A NEW QUIZ FOR TONIGHT SO IF YOU ALREADY PLAYED THIS WEEK BUT WANT TO PLAY AGAIN FEEL FREE. Hope to see you tonight!

IN SPORTS: Been looking at some of the worst Eagles teams of all time.

Did a piece on the 1968 team, the year they booed Santa.

Here’s one on the 1998 team, the infamous Bobby Hoying year.

And here’s one on what was without question the worst of them all.

Due to the heavy pressure coming from socialists and others with an anti-Santa agenda, the JGT Christmas Spectacular has changed its name to the JGT Annual Multi-Denominational Holiday Spectacular Inclusive of All Beliefs, and it starts tonight.  We kick it off at North Star at 7 p.m. tonight with half off hummus and mussels, and $3 Kenzingers. (Oh, and tonight we will be doing quiz upstairs) Can you take down the red hot Happy Birthday to the Ground crew? On to the Sidecar at 9:15 p.m. Looks like 5 Finger Assprint is moving up the charts while the Sidecardigans are in a free fall. And questions will be based on all December holidays (and by “All” I mean Christmas and probably a question about latkes and one about Festivus). Actually there will be at least one round that will have very little to do with the holiday but be based on it. Hope to see you tonight!

As both all of you who have followed this site for a few years know, I am a big fan of the Hotel of Doom (and really the entire country of North Korea. If you haven’t read the interview I did with an American who has travelled there, it’s well worth a read). Sadly, it seemed like Pyongyang’s most remarkable architectural achievement was going to waste away in eternity after the Soviet Union fell, forever crushing the soul of the already fragile North Korean psyche. But then a few years ago, an Egyptian company bought the building and picked construction back up where it left off. And now the building, well, it still looks like a weird ass spaceship, but with the glass put in, it looks kind of badass. But what of the interior? We had no way of knowing, since outside journalists weren’t allowed in and North Korean journalists aren’t particularly dependable.

But a journalist with the Daily Mirror snuck in recently and lived to tell about it. Well worth a read.

I step through a maze of scaffolding and set foot in what will be the lobby entrance. It is quite a disappointment. There is no marble or teak on view to match the brilliance of its exterior, no chandeliers or flunkies in gold braid. When the North Koreans first unveiled their preposterous plans, the Ryugyong Hotel was to have at least 3,000 guest rooms, five revolving restaurants, shops, a casino and eight revolving floors of luxury suites in its pinnacle. There is no sign of them here. In fact, there is no sign of anything at all.

I edge inside to find a cavernous space and walls of bare concrete – layer upon layer of grey concrete shell with scaffolding winding its way up through the vast space at the heart of the giant pyramid.

Where I can see dusty concrete and a tangle of rubble and wires, Kempinski are now promising shops, restaurants and a ballroom on the ground and mezzanine floors.

In the vertiginous space above, there will be 1,500 rooms – a smaller number than first planned – private apartments and business facilities. Even 1,500 rooms, it must be said, is enough to accommodate the total annual number of Western visitors to the country in a single night. It looks as though at least one of the revolving restaurants will survive. And, although the hotel has now been overtaken in height by the Rose Tower in Dubai, in terms of floors – with 105 – Ryugyong looks set to remain the world’s biggest.