–Trivia Art talks about Buy Fresh Buy Local.
-Al Gore celebrated his daughter’s wedding by Buying Threatened Buying Foreign.
-A column Willie Gee would love! Is ESPN racist?
-Hey, don’t look now, but Pat Burrell is calling July his b****. He’s batting .520 since July 4th. Now, if we can just teach him how to pitch…
We’re going to be raising money for the Red Shield Family Residence. Each year, they have a summer camp for homeless children. They need art supplies for the children and money to help pay for tokens to go on various field trips they are taking this summer. So we’re going to help. It costs $1 to play this week, with 100% of the proceeds going to this charity. I’ll have more info on the charity shortly.
Not much going on today, but the classics never really go out of style, so how about a little summer short story reading? Here’s former Philly resident Edgar Allen Poe’s classic, the Cask of Amontillado.
When prison guards killed her husband on July 17, 1762, she gave them promotions. Who was she?
-The bowling party on Saturday was a huge success. Well, not for me, but for the guys who put it on, Badminton Stamps and Emily and Lee from Narcotyzing . Nice show, though I was nine pins away from winning a date…again! I was extremely disappointed by my performance and acted like a spoiled rotten child the entire night.
-Steve O. is performing at the Khyber tonight as part of Die Actor Die, Don Montrey’s monthly show. Check him out. It’s at 8 p.m. and tix are $5 cheap.
-A few quick questions with Bill Maher.
-Philebrity wonders: Is the reason that the media cares so much about the weekends murder of a 14 year old bike rider because it happened near tourist mecca Pat’s and Geno’s?
-And Bob T. and Darth Ern’s hero, Tom Delay, is gonna speak at the Constitution Center tonight. Following his speech, Delay will be sacrificing live puppies.
It took overtime, but the Hurtin’ Bombs knocked off the Champs at the first ever Quizzo at the Constitution Center. It was an interesting quizzo, as the booming acoustics of the building rendered the mic needless, and the life sized bronze statues of the Founding Fathers looked on from a nearby room. There were a few things that worked out great, a few things we need to tweak (if the weather’s that nice again, we gotta do it outside!), but for the most part it went pretty well. A crowd of about 45, which wasn’t bad considering the fact that there was no time to advertise anywhere besides my website and that most of the regulars couldn’t make it (No Kingdom, no Minions, no Duane’s World, no Jams, though Darth Ern put up a damn impressive 83 playing by himself.) We’ll do it again on August 3rd, and it’ll be even bigger and even better. I’ll post the Constitution quizzo questions shortly.
I was at the historic game and it was, well, really not that fun. I mean, baseball games are always fun in a certain sense, because they are a good excuse to spend a little QT with your peoples. But the action on the field was terrible, and it was humid enough that the crowd didn’t really seem to get excited about the 10,000 losses And to be honest, it was one of the most pathetic performances I’ve ever seen this team give on the field. It was the first time I’ve ever left a baseball game before the final out. With it 10-0 in the 7th, after the Cards 6th home run, I couldn’t stomach anymore. However, I do think it’s worth noting that the following people were part of the 10,000th loss: Jose Mesa, who pitched a perfect inning. Scott Rolen, who still gets booed loudly every time he bats. And home plate umpire Jim Wolf, who is Randy Wolf’s brother, called balls and strikes for the 10,000th. And for the first time probably ever, a used Phillies ticket will be worth something on ebay. Final little fun fact: The Phillies 10,000th loss was the first Phillies loss in Lucia Marie’s life. It’s been reported that she cried and cried all night long after the loss.
RELATED: My column in the Metro about 10,000.
Corey and River both starred in Stand by Me. Can you name the guys who played their two best friends in the movie?
In what movie, directed by Joe Dante, did Corey Feldman play a character named Pete Fountaine?
-Have you heard about ghost riding the whip? I highly encourage you all to ghost ride the whip yourselves, just to see what it’s like. I particularly think Darth Ern will enjoy it. What could go wrong?
–15 worst music ideas ever. Me performing “Flashdance” at Quizzo Bowl 3 did not make the cut, surprisingly.
-Did you know that there were porno games made for the Atari 2600? Did you know that one of them was called “Custer’s Revenge“, in which a visibly aroused Custer dodges arrows to have sex with a Native American woman tied to a cactus? Should I repeat the second half of that last sentence? “A visibly aroused Custer dodges arrows to have sex with a Native AMerican woman tied to a cactus.” Thank you.
