• Getting ready to run out and check on a couple of venues. Wish me luck.
• Trivia Art’s latest in the Metro. Sled Wrecker is a great name for a beer.
• Gooch goes to San Diego. No biggie. We’ve still got Wes Helms coming off the bench to pinch hit. No worries
• Did you know that Iran’s president has a blog.? Worth a browse.
• Happy birthday, Oh Great One! Bob turns 84 today.

Here’s a few questions from the City vs.City Smackdown, in case you missed it. (Oh, and Denver and Colorado Springs had a bad turnout. I guess they just knew we were gonna kick their asses, so they didn’t bother showing. If you’d like to rub it in, just click here.):

1. What feminist icon famously quipped, ‘A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’, and then later married Christian Bale’s dad?
2. In what book of the Old Testament would you find the story of the Tower of Babel?
3. The first underwater car tunnel in the US was completed in 1927 in New York. What’s it called?
4. Jupiter is the largest planet. What planet is 2nd largest?
5. In what year did Seattle Slew win the Triple Crown?
6. Who was the star of the Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadadelphia Phenomenon?
7. What popular singer released a song called Albuquerque in 1975 and a song called Philadelphia in 1993?
8. What 1983 movie starring Matthew Broderick took place in Colorado Springs?
9. In Little Miss Sunshine, the family leaves from Albuequerque to attend a pageant in what california beach city?
10. What parent company owns Juicy Couture, Kate Spade, and Lucky Brand Jeans?
11. When George W. Bush graduated from Yale in 1968, he received a bachelor’s degree in what?
12. Richard Henry Lee accused Thomas Jefferson of plagiarizing this philosophers 2nd treatise when writing the Declaration of Independence.
13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is the first film in the Walt Disney Feature Animation canon. What was the 2nd?
14. What two NBA teams each had two players on the 1992 Dream Team?
15. What must the sustained speed be for an Atlantic storm to be labelled a hurricane (give you credit if you are within one either way)?

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• Scores are rolling in, slowly but surely. Geez, in this technological age, this is like waiting for the afternoon paper to find out what happened in yesterday’s baseball game in the 1920s. Looks like it’s tight between us and Seattle this time. Albuquerque did better than Denver. Still waiting on Colorado Springs. Will have scores up later this afternoon.
• Gotta go to my dental appointment soon to get my gums lowered (they’ve been riding a little too high in my mouth, apparently.) In other words, the dentist could just stick a bunch of steel into my mouth for an hour, say “We’re all done. Now pay us $1100.” and there is no way I could ever tell in a million years if a single thing had been done other than cause me a lot of mouth pain. Oh well, my dentist’s name is “Painless Parker”, so I’m sure I’ll be fine.
• You know that really nice old man who dresses in a suit and plays his flute at various spots around the city (I used to see him a lot on South Street)? A member of the Rittenhouse gestapo arrested him in March for playing at 18th and Chestnut, but the flutist struck back, and was recently awarded $27,500 in damages. Hooray freedom! Thanks Hunter for sending this in.

If you are here looking for info on City vs. City Smackdown, click here.

-Anybody wondering why Darth Ern won’t be at his usual spot at the bar at the Vous tomorrow, here’s why: He’s gonna be at the Bill Clinton rally at the Electric Factory.

-On this date in 1935, Jay Berwanger was awarded the first ever Heisman Trophy. Guess what team selected him with the first pick in the 1936 draft? And guess who decided they’d rather be a foam rubber salesman than play for said team?

-It’s looking like we may be doing QBIV on February 15th at WCL. I’m hoping to look at the Hall of Flags and the Armory if I get a free minute later this week, but I asked about it at the Urban Outfitters headquarters down at the Shipyard, which is supposed to be an amazing space, and the lady said that it costs about $15,000 to run electricity in there. What????? Yeah, so that’s out. I also contacted the Diamond Club at the ballpark, and that ain’t big enough.

-Read this great short story by George Orwell having to do with imperialism called the Shooting an Elephant.

Today is the day that will live in infamy, and several local veterans are heading out to Hawaii to commemorate the event. But the question must be asked: Did FDR know that the Japanese were going to attack, and let it happen so that the public would be drawn into the war? The Straight Dope has the answer.

• Leona Helmsley’s dog has had to flee to Florida due to death threats against her.
• What you are about to read contains some of the coarsest, filthiest language you’ve ever heard (you’ve been warned). And you won’t believe where it came from.
• As if snow days weren’t excuses enough to drink, how about the fact that today is official “Repeal Prohibition Day”?
• You know what I’m in the mood for right now? A little Kenny G.
• Wink Martindale turned 73 yesterday, and he’s still looking great!