Welcome to the worst day of the year! Ready, set, be miserable! In honor of this glorious day, I would like to open up the forum to you guys. What is the most depressing song ever? “Eve of Destruction” and “Alone Again, Naturally” are up there, but my nomination is above. That being said, I kind of like how peppy the song is at the same time it is so depressing.
Good News
Finally got a call from The Man this morning. He’s in for March 29th. I have a meeting with the venue tomorrow morning. Hopefully, at that time, I can finalize, and I’ll be able to announce the venue by Monday. There is one little wrinkle with the venue I need to work out tomorrow, and if that is ironed out, It’s On. After some early delays, I really think this is going to be the best Quizzo Bowl yet. And since we have a venue with more seating that the World Cafe Live, even more of you will get to see it. Sweet.
What are our friends up to these days?
- Trivia Art of Foobooz fame was selected as judge for a Bobby Flay show a couple of days ago. If you’d like to hear more about it, just stand in his general vicinity for the next several days. He’ll tell you all about how close he and his “good friend Bob F.” are. But he won’t tell you who won.
- Ginger (above, with her despised Budweiser) and I had the same New Years Resolution: Be classy. So we grabbed a drink at XIX a couple of weeks ago and today we had lunch at Amada. It was plenty classy, at least until I asked the server if I could get some more french fries. Hey, I’m still learning! Anyways, she’s having a women’s beer club meeting tonight at the Standad Tap at 6 p.m., and there’s a rumor that she’s gonna be hosting the wild card round tomorrow at the Good Dog.
- Our good friends at the Metro were featured in a cover story at Philadelphia Weekly, where fellow American Gladiator gambler D-Mac plies his wares. And the article randomly contains a sentence about Steve O. Why, this whole city is just one big happy family! Now let’s all hold hands and sing “Do You Believe” by Cher!
Mixed feelings
There is much talk about Philly Live!, the entertainment venue that is being proposed down by the sports arenas. On the one hand, it would be a lot of fun to have somewhere to hang out after a Phils win (or a Sixers loss) besides McFaddens, but something tells me this place is probably going to offer me a Hard Rock and a TGI Fridays as my other options. One of my favorite things about this city is that usually for a business to survive here, it needs to have some Philly favor, and I see this thing as a homogenized corporate behemoth filled with the GAP, McDonald’s, and Starbucks. Of course, I’m not the demographic they are hoping to reach, so maybe this thing will work out after all. And hey, they’ve done a nice job in the stadiums of promoting local spots (McNally’s at CB Park, Johnny Brendas at the Linc, for instance.), so they could prove me wrong. I hope so. What are your thoughts?
Quizzo News
The stock market crashed must have gotten people too scared to leave the house last night, cause we had our slowest night in months. Nonetheless, the match at O’Neals was determined by a coin flip and at the Bards two teams went into the final round with a perfect 64. For those playing tonight, the trend is this: the first three rounds are pretty easy, but the impossible round is damn hard.
Also, gonna start a new quizzo at Draught Horse up by Temple on Monday. I won’t always be hosting it, as have hired a new man, named Doctor Sandman. More on him later this week. Anyways, the details are as follows: Monday nights at 8 p.m. at the Draught Horse (1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave.) Ifou know anybody at Temple law school, please let them know. Thanks!
Finally, just need to hear from one more member of the band and we’ll be good to go for QB4. However, he’s the star of the show, so I can’t really do anything until I can confirm him for March 29th. Hopefully today.
No Mention of Goodtimes in Alycia Lane Novella
Ok, first of all, when you search google images for Alycia Lane, Eric B. and Rakim come up on page 2, which is awesome because Alycia is one of my favorite women ever and Rakim is one of my favorite rappers ever. Secondly, Philly Mag wrote a short book about Lane in their upcoming edition, which you can read here, and which does not contain a single mention of me at all. Why? Simple. Because the love between Alycia and I is forbidden, and our secret would be revealed if I discussed it in some glossy mag. The only people who truly know how Alycia and I feel about each other are Alycia, myself, and you, the loyal readers of this website.
Who Are You Rooting For?
Question of the week
This man played Lurch in the Addams Family and did the opening narration for the Incredible Hulk.
MLK
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?‘” -Martin Luther King
I highly encourage you to consider honoring King’s legacy by getting involved in your community, whether it is by joining Big Brothers or by joining any of the dozens of local charities that are always on the lookout for volunteers. Know you want to volunteer but not sure what for yet? Go to Philadelphia Cares.
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- Spent my Saturday night lying on my couch watching the Buddy Holly Story (and you thought I didn’t have an exciting life!) Anyways, great movie. Did a little research after it was over and stumbled across something pretty incredible. Peggy Sue (the inspiration for the Holly song) and Holly’s wife, Maria Santiago, have never gotten along. Well, Peggy Sue recently decided to release a book in which she says that Holly was planning to divorce Santiago and marry her. Santiago is not pleased, and is suing for the book to not be released. I wish two women would get in a catfight over me 50 years after my death. That is my main wish. My 2nd wish is for a time machine.
- It was on this date in 1950 that George Orwell died. Here is his obit in the BBC. One of my favorite Orwell shorts is “Shooting an elephant”. The correlation between this story and our current foreign policy is striking.
- Sex with robots is on its way. Finally! Levy, however, foresees dolls imbued with artificial intelligence to give them personality and charm. The first talking sex robots, he says, could just utter a few stock phrases. (“You’re huge!”) With my luck with electronics (and women), I’m sure I’d order a defective one. “Wait, before we do anything, I’d like to…beeedie, beeedie, beedie…rehash that argument we had last night. “
- Ram It! Just Ram It! Man, I hope the Patriots put out a rap song before the Super Bowl.