Hey gang, got a cople of pretty kool quizzoes coming up in the next few weeks. First, a return engagement at the Constitution Center this Friday at 6:30 p.m. American history (with American history once again being used in a liberal sense) will be the name of the game. Quizzo is free with museum admission. I’d suggest getting there early to check out some of the museum before we get started, especially the Freedom Rising multimedia exhibit. Each member of the winning team gets gift certificates to Stephen Starr restaurant of their choice.

Then, on August 10th, I’m headed to the Franklin Institute for a science quizzo with a little Egyptology thrown in. The event is free (no admission for museum or for quizzo), and the winning team will walk with free tickets to see the King Tut exhibit, which has been an enormous success. The event is part of the golden ticket promotion. I like the concept of “Visiting Tut After Dark”. I kind of envision Tut in a silk jacket holding a martini and smoking a cigar and regaling the crowd with stories about the curse he put on Howard Carter.

–Trivia Art’s column in today’s Metro.

–Phawker has the entire new Common album on their radio. Just click “Play radio” in the upper left. Good stuff.

–Only in Philadelphia.

–Several people have remarked how funny they thought a certain comment under the Keats story was, so peep it.

-Our State Department would never involve themselves in human trafficking, tricking foreign laborers into working in Baghdad against their will. Would they? In the words of my buddy Toby, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way.”

-The Daily News is doing their sexiest singles this week (thanks for nominating me, jerks). Anyways, they’re doing videos and they look like those hilarious Comcast Dating On Demand features, with the guys videos being a lot funnier than the girls ones. This is by far the unintentionally funniest one. Anybody know where I can get a tank top like that?

-Remember when the mainstream media showered itself in glory by providing minute by minute flight coverage of the guy who falsely claimed to kill Joan Benet Ramsey? Well good old Jon Mark Karr recently got interviewed. I direct your eyes to this sentence: CBS46 will talk to Karr Tuesday at 11 p.m. about his life now, his time in Atlanta, his fiancée and his father. Yep, Jon Mark Karr has had more luck dating in the past year than I have.

-Turkey Chipotle BLT, who have quite an impressive collection of last place prizes, held their latest lead ever last week (in 1st place after round two at O’Neals last week), and therefore get the honor of today’s ATH photo.

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Ok, so I threw my little hissyfit on friday about the lack of quizzo in this years Best Of…edition. Well, it’s time to move on and turn the page, and see what they got right and wrong. Alright, they start with Food and Drink. I’ve gotten old and predictable in my old age, so I haven’t been to a lot of hip new spots. But Philafoodie says that they got a lot of stuff right, and we’ll take their word for it. A weak award for Cheap Eats: Wegman’s. As many good cheap eats as this city has, and you give it to a chain grocery store out from Rochester? Lame. However, Steve’s, Prince of Steaks, has a really great steaks. Good call. Alright, enough of the food. Let’s move on. Fashion. Uh, yeah, whatever. This line from Philly’s Best Tableware: “Glassware, dinnerware, and that teacup you saw on Oprah? Yes, yes, and heck yes.” I think that’s all we really need to know about fashion. Let’s move to FUN.
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So I’m at Chaucers with Trivia Art the other night (which is kind of like being at Cheers w/ Norm. Or like being at Grace’s with Triva Art. But I digress.) And there is a very cute girl with a tattoo of a vase of some kind on her arm. I ask her, “What kind of urn you got there on your arm?’ and she says, “Grecian”. Now, where this knowledge came from, I have no idea, but before I even recognized what I was saying, I said, “Oh, so you’re a Keats fan?” Brilliant, right? How can a girl not be impressed when a guy instantly recognizes a 19th century Romantic poet who died at age 25 of tuberculosis that she is such a big fan of that she gets a giant tattoo of his most famous poetic symbol on her arm? Anyways, she smiled, said, “Yes” AND WALKED AWAY. Not kool! I’m afraid I’m going to have to call shenanigans. That’s not playing by the rules! If you get a freaking tattoo of a Grecian urn on your arm, and I correctly identify the author of “Ode to a Grecian Freaking Urn”, you owe me a sentence. No phone number, no date, but damn if you don’t owe me a sentence. You owe me, “Oh, what’s your favorite Keats poem?” or “Are you a Keats fan too?”

Now fair is fair, I would have had nothing to say, because the only things I know about Keats are that he wrote Ode to a Grecian Urn and that he died of tuberculosis. I mean, I probably would have said something stupid, like, “I’m not a big fan of Keats, but I am a big fan of tuberculosis.” And then it would have been more than acceptable for her to walk away. But NOT UNTIL I BLEW IT. Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just play by them. The women of Philadelphia need to play by them too.