Quick heads up. There is no quizzo at the Good Dog this week. Apparently, they want to make “money” (Damn capitalists) so they’ve got a private gig going on. Anyhow, the good news is that this gives me a good excuse to be leisurely and only make one set of questions this week, so you won’t have to deal with the Sofa Kingdom on Thursday (they won by 48 points last night). Also, sold the first three teams tickets last night to Bowlizzo. Three down, nine to go. I’ll have tix on me tonight.

Treach, the lead member of Naughty by Nature, is celebrating his 38th birthday today. Though better known for OPP and Hip Hop Hooray, this has always been my favorite Naughty song. Treach is an absolutely great writer and rapper.

The people have spoken. Let’s do this. Bowlizzo party on Saturday night at St. Monica’s (16th and Shunk, 3 blocks from Oregon stop on Orange Line). Here’s how it will work. Up to 12 teams, 6 players per team (You can have 8, but only 6 can bowl). $20 a head. Winner walks with $200, 2nd place gets $100. I’ll get a couple of kegs and some pretzels. Any extra money will go to my Little League at the Marian Anderson Rec Center. I will sell tickets at quizzo this week. First come, first serve on tickets. After 12 teams, I’m done (there are 12 lanes). I will have tickets for sale at all quizzos this week, so you can buy them off me there. It will go down on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., probably wrap up around 11 p.m. or so, or maybe 2 a.m. Who knows? Here’s how the scoring will work: bowling scores for each team will be averaged after every couple of rounds. They will then be added to quizzo score. So two frames, then Round One, two frames then Round Two, two frames, then Round Three, two frames then Round four, then it will all come down to the last two frames. I think this is going to be pretty wild.

Have a safe and wonderful holiday.

Upon further review, we decided to cancel Black Sheep quizzo tonight, since the night before Thanksgiving is probably going to be a zoo there. As of right now, we are still having it at Locust Rendezvous at 6:15, hosted by the Sandman, so if you were gonna play at the Sheep, just head on down to the Vous instead. If anything changes I’ll let you know.

Hey gang, I was going to do a fundraiser for my Little League at the St. Monica’s bowling alley on Saturday the 6th of December, but we decided to move it back to January. But I still have dibs on the 6th, unless I decide to give it up. I’ve heard some people clamoring for a Winter quizzo event, and this could be possible. I know it’s kind of last minute, but hey, this is me we’re talking about. Anyways, my thought would be this: 12 or so teams, like 6 people per team. Bowl a few frames, ask a few questions, bowl, quizzo, bowl, quizzo until we’re done with four rounds and ten frames. Then we add scores from your bowling to your quizzo scores to come up with a winner. A couple hundred bucks and a trophy for the winner, we get a couple of kegs, we have a big old time. But I gotta make sure people are interested, because it costs $600 to rent the room. So I’d probably charge about $15-20 a head, and that would include all you can drink and any money left over I’ll throw at my League. Let me know if that sounds interesting.

Here’s the deal for this week. I am hosting tonight at O’Neals (8 p.m.) and at Bards (10 p.m.). Same bat time, same bat channel. Then the Sandman is hosting tomorrow at Locust Rendezvpous (6:15 p.m.) and Black Sheep (8:30 p.m.). The questions will have a general Thanksgivingy theme to them, but pretty loosely based.

Gonna post pics of last weeks winners, with a question underneath about people celebrating a birthday today. One guess per person.

This time we went into a creepy old tunnell at 27th and Pennsylvania. We thought we’d find a mystery down there, but mostly we just found trash. It was still fun, though. Enjoy.

Congratulations to William, who squeaked past Benny in the 1st annual Alf Landon Bad Writing contest. William won with the following sentence: Alf Landon had wooden legs, but his feet were real. Congratulations to William, who goes home with 2 tickets to the Academy of Natural Sciences and a $20 gift card to the Bards. Thanks to everyone who played. We’ll do it again soon with a new celebrity.