I’ve been watching Boardwalk Empire for the past few weeks, and I gotta say it’s the best show I’ve seen in a while. (Even better than the Jersey Shore). Started a little slow, but has quickly picked up, and the scene this past week with Al Capone bringing Jimmy those steaks was terrific. If you haven’t been watching, I highly recommend it. You can watch it On Demand if you get HBO. Anyways, I spent some of the day looking at some photos, reading some stories, and looking at some video of AC in the 1920s, and thought I’d share.

• Here’s a bunch of old AC photos put together as a montage by the AC Visitors Bureau. You’ll notice plenty of the landmarks from the show.

• Recently Philly Mob guru George Anastasia has gone out to Atlantic City to do a couple of shorts about Nucky Johnson. Here’s one of them.

• Meanwhile, though it’s not from exactly the same time, you’ll see many of the landmarks from the show in this family video taken in 1932.

• A short but informative piece in the AC Weekly about all of the entertainment that went on in AC in the 1920s.   Among the nightclubs that existed back then were the Paradise Club on Illinois Avenue, which was billed as the oldest nightclub in America and the first to host “breakfast shows.” The talent was largely black (and the audience largely white), and many of the artists who performed would take their place among the greatest in history like Count Basie, Ethel Waters, Nat King Cole, Lena Horne and Duke Ellington. The Paradise later merged with A.C.’s famed Club Harlem, which was created in 1935. Babette’s was a club established in the early 1920s by singer/entertainer Blanche Babette, and featured such stars of that era as Velma and Buddy Ebsen, Rudy Vallee, the Three Stooges and Milton Berle.

• A great gallery of 1920s AC photos from the NY Daily News.

The first two nights contained a perfect score, a bad call by the referee (me, at O’Neals) and a hot streak continue at the Vous. More wild action tonight at the Ugly American at 8 p.m. A great chance to get your team in the mix, and eat yourself some one dollar corn dogs. Also $2 Lagers and $3 Kenzos. Then on to the Bards at 10:15 p.m. Tonight’s questions will be very loosely based on Halloween. Expect more plays on Halloween words than anything. However, I did hear a complaint the other night that there weren’t enough serial killer questions. I will do my best to correct that tonight.

That’s right folks, gonna be great to see all of your shining faces again this week after a week off at Locust Rendezvous and Black Sheep. And what better way to reacquaint ourselves with each other than through questions about ghouls, ghosts, and horror films? Gonna be a lot of fun, and everyone gets Halloween candy! We kick it off at the Rendezvous at 6:15 p.m. Then we move to the Black Sheep at 8 p.m. Play the Spooktacular tonight…if you dare. Brawhahahaha!

Geek Bowl isn’t until January, but that doesn’t mean those idiots our friends in Denver haven’t started talking trash already. Several of our regular teams are called out here. But good news, Philly. As you saw last week when a writer in San Fran dissed our city, I am a badass when it comes to flame wars. I mean, seriously, I was raised on hip-hop and pro wrestling. I can talk some s***. You can expect a heated response by early next week. It will be ruthless, and people will cry.

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In case you missed it over on isportacus, here’s the poem I wrote after Saturday’s devastating loss, based on Casey at the Bat. I think it’s pretty good.