The City vs. City Smackdown will be going down on Monday, May 14th at 7:30 p.m. at Rembrandt’s (23rd and Aspen). I will be inviting teams officially to play this week. Once we see how much room we have left, I will open it up to everyone else. Tix are $10 a piece, and winner will walk with $500, plus more once if they also beat teams in other cities.
Jams Win
What popular resort town in Maryland boasts 11 miles of beaches and Phillip’s Seafood?
Young Old and Restless win at O’Neals
In what town does the famous annual pony penning take place, attracting tens of thousands of skeevy Jerseyites, who apparently love ponies?
Howdy
I’m hangin’ out in the Dirty South this morning, after I headed down here on Saturday. The house pictured above is the one I grew up in, though my peeps no longer live there. I am currently right across the street, though, in the Nassawadox library. My folks live down a long dirt lane where they don’t have access to high speed internet, so I went to the library (there are no coffee shops w/in 30 mile here). Anyways, questions with the photos this week will be about the DelMarVa peninsula. One guess per person. No looking up answers.
Anybody figured this out yet?
If so, could they get back to me and explain it?
Tearful Goodtimes Fleeced, Apologizes to Ewe
I know you guys turn to this website for one reason: the Facts. Most blogs out there are full of knuckleheads self righteously throwing around their two cents worth w/o sticking to the cold hard facts. But not me. Nope, everything I post on here is only written after careful consideration and exhaustive fact checking. But yesterday I was fleeced. A news story that appeared in a trusted Australian publication about sheep being sold as dogs in Japan turned out to be a hoax. And so I apologize for once giving you bad information. I take my job as a relayer of all that is Fair and Balanced very seriously, and I ASSURE that there will never be a mistake on this website again.
Scrapplefest
Hey, here’s my latest article in the Metro, about last Saturdays scrapplefest. The pic above is of the scrapple wedding cake. I’m running out the door right now, but I’ll have more pics and stories later.
UPDATE: One thing I wasn’t able to fit into the story. There was a guy named Tom in the Beergarden who was not at all pleased with the Scrapplefest. According to him, there had been a scrapplefest at the Troc many years earlier that was “awesome. Just a bunch of fat people getting wasted and eating scrapple. Now they are doing this stuff for the tourists, and not for the real scrapple fans.” Also, wanna send a shout out to Anthony and Koob, who I went to Scrapplefest with and who really did some serious scrapple testing. Koob told me at one point, “That guy’s Scrapple is a little too mushy. I think he’s cracking under the pressure of Scrapplefest.”
To read more about Scrapplefest, you can click here to hear from one of the celebrity judges who writes in the Inky.
Attention Japan: This is not a poodle
This is downright hilarious. A scam in Japan resulted in hundreds of Japanese people buying sheep because they thought they were poodles. The story contains this incredible line: One couple said they became suspicious when they took their “dog” to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.
What? The Japanese, who are known for their technological prowess, are only “suspicious” when they discover that their pet dog has hooves? And did the vet they took the “poodle” to not recognize that it was a sheep? Of course, the best part is that poodles totally suck and sheep are kind of funny, so these people were better off with sheep anyway.
Phils questions
Maybe all it took was Charlie Manuel going after Howard Eskin for this team to turn it around, but they have been hitting the tar out of the ball ever since. Which leaves a couple of questions. Shoud they move Rollins back, since he is leading the NL in homers, so he can start hitting homers with runners on? Should they trade Aaron Rowan while he’s hot? Is Pat the Bat really as good as he looks? And will Matt Smith ever play in a major league game again? Your thoughts, concerns? Oh, and even better news: the Braves totally choked last night, in one of those games that can really start a team on a slump. Let’s hope so.
RELATED: Beerleaguer weighs in on Phils game last night.
Around the Horn
-In 1990, somebody at ABC had an idea. “What if we took a cop show and turned it into a heartwarming musical?” And the top brass at ABC said, “It’s so crazy, it just might work!” And Cop Rock was born. It didn’t work. It was just too artistic for American audiences.
-Pretty fascinating and scandalous history of American Bandstand.
–Sal Fasano could be called back up to the majors. The Blue Jays need a catcher, and they just picked up Fasano. We play the Blue Jays next month. And it would be cool if, in the 9th inning, Sal stepped aside and let a ball get past him with a runner on 3rd in a tie game and the runner scored and then Fasano pointed up at Sal’s Pals, who have reunited one last time, and says, “That was for you guys.” That would be awesome.