Group W was the first team to put major points on the board, with 5 points yesterday. The Champs added 3 and Duane’s World notched a single point. Action kicks into full force tonight with quizzos at O’Neals at 8 p.m. and Bards at 10:15 p.m. See if your team can get on the board early! $3.50 Margaritas at O’Neals and $50 for the winner. WIth a Bounty at Bards, it is a $40 gift certificate PLUS $35 IF YOU CAN KNOCK OFF STEAK EM UP! $75 for winning quizzo tonight at the Bards. That’s tough to beat.

Holy Cow, what an incredible week. Four consecutive shocking upsets. I don’t remember a time there were this many upsets in a single week. The biggest one may have been at Ugly American, where a 2 person squad that won a 98 Degrees CD a few weeks ago for last place shocked a full Diabetics team. But they were hardly the only top seed to fall. The Jams fell on Wednesday by 2 points, Duane’s World finished out of the money at Black Sheep, and even Steak Em Up lost a close one at the Bards to a team that had never played JGT Quizzo before. This leads into what should be a really fun summer tournament. I will have details coming on Monday, I hope. Still have a few minor details to work out, but I am hoping to iron them out this afternoon. If this thing gets off the ground, the rest of the summer is gonna be crazy. In other notes:

Play the sports quizzes I’ve been posting on Comcast.net. The soccer team or cheese one is pretty fun.

My dream of sampling Pee Wee Herman on a rap song finally became a reality. This is just a rough draft, but I think you’ll kinda dig it.

Have a great weekend everybody.

It’s hotter than two hells outside. You could use a beer. And some trivia. And maybe, just MAYBE, a free basket of french fries. That’s where I come in. Quizzo tonight at two locations famous for their air conditioning and ice cold beers. First of all, all beers at Ugly American are a buck off during quizzo. We kick off there at 8 p.m. Then we move to the Bards. It was jumping last Thursday. Let’s keep it going this week. Action starts at 10:15 p.m. and Lagers and Miller Lite’s cost a mere $2.50. Hope to see ya tonight!

We get the party started at Locust Rendezvous at 6:15 p.m. $3 Blue Moons, $2 Yuengling Lights, and $2 cherry vodka shots.We then move to Black Sheep at 8 p.m. Got a very fun mystery round this week. Gonna be interesting to see how many teams get it.

Big money on the line tonight. $100 to beat Steak Em Up at the Bards. You read that right. I am upping the bounty to $60 (plus $40 gift certificate) for a one time only deal. If no-one can claim it tonight, it will drop back down to what it’s supposed to be (which is like $30 or $35). $2.50 Lagers tonight at the Bards. Also, keep in mind that O’Neals has the highest regular prize on the circuit. $50 for first place, $25 for 2nd. That buys a lot of $3 margaritas. And I’ll give you a little heads up: there is a mystery round tonight. O’Neals at 8 p.m. Bards at 10:15 p.m. Hope to see ya tonight!

Doogie Horner, fresh off his hit performance on America’s Got Talent, will be making an appearance tonight on Chip Chantry’s One Man Show. That’s right folks, one moment you can be Amerca’s Sweetheart, and the next you could be telling jokes in front of 20 angry people at the Khyber on a Monday night. That’s show biz. That’s just the way it is. But Doogie won’t be the only TV star performing tonight at the Khyber. Far from it. Steve-O, who you might remember from some VH-1 game show that he won a car on (Name That Video, perhaps?), will also be performing. No, not as Andy Reid, but as a piano player. Gonna be a fun show. Hope you can make it out.

Mike Minion is back in action tonight. I am gonna play and I’m looking for a team, so if anybody wants to play holler at me on facebook. Here’s the deets from Mike:

Quizzo kicks off tonight at 10:30 at The Westbury.  For all you quizzo junkies on the JGT circuit, this offers a THRID time during the week to play.  Rumor had that JGT himself is putting together a team for tonight.  So far, he has been spectacularly unsuccesful in winning one of my quizzez, though there have been some good efforts.  Come out tonight and help keep JGT in his place and out of the money.  The lambics are still on special ($3.00), and the Grand Cru is one of my faves.  Prizes for this evening are $40 for first and $20 for second.  Hope to see you there!

Hey kids, I know you want to see your pics of all of your beuatiful faces. I’ll have them up soon. Dealing with some house related issues today that I need to get taken care of by 5 p.m. I’ll get photos up a little later. In the meantime, check out my latest podcast on Comcast, where I come up with a myriad of insane ideas to make soccer better.

Before you read the following, please take a minute to read what Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson wrote in the City Paper after Sabina O’Donnell’s killer was found.

I am trying really hard to give Questlove the benefit of the doubt. I know that I have tried to write something sometimes and then realized that the words I wrote didn’t match up with the thought I was trying to convey. That is what I think/hope happened here. Otherwise, his post is complete bullshit.

He starts his plea for forgiveness with “I too at one point was an 18 year old black kid from Philadelphia.” And? So what? There is nothing, NOTHING, that Ahmir shares with this kid besides his skin color and a common socioeconomic background when he was 18, and trying to find a common thread is ridiculous. But he seems to think that those circumstances make he and Donte kindred spirits.

Questlove writes: just as all the women in that neighborhood internalized sabina’s murder as “that could have been me or any of us!!!” i internalized donte.” This is perhaps the stupidest segment of the whole thing. Should I internalize Jeffrey Dahmer? After all, we are both white guys from middle class backgrounds. We were both once 18. And while Questlove wants to learn what conditions drove this boy to this ugly act, I could really give a damn as to what drove Jeffrey Dahmer to eat people. “He is a f***ing monster” is a good enough answer to me. There are plenty of remarkable mysteries in our world that our more deserving of our attention than trying to figure out why a sociopath acts like a sociopath.

Questlove seems to attribute poverty and growing up in a dangerous community as the major contributors to why this kid turned out to be a monster. Yes, poverty is a major contributer to many problems in our city and our world. But 99.9% of people who we consider “poor” do not rape and strangle people. To lump them all in as being somehow related to this kid because they share a race or a economic background or even a history of abuse is patently unfair to the tens of thousands of people in this city who overcome racism, poverty, abuse, etc. and lead productive lives…and is in fact unfair to those who are not productive but are still certainly NOT RAPISTS AND MURDERERS.

To try to relate with a person who makes a mistake is a sign of empathy and is a wonderful quality. This was not a mistake. This was a series of sadistic, EVIL decisions made by an adult male. After he brutally raped and murdered a helpless young girl, he tried to break into her house and steal a few of her things while he was at it. He was remorseless and ruthless. This is not someone to try to understand. This is not a baby. This is the very definition of a f***ing monster. They exist, they have always existed, and they will always exist. Try to figure them out if you’d like to waste your time doing so, but do not empathise with them. They do not deserve it. Donte Johnson only deserves one thing, and that is to spend the rest of his worthless life in prison.