First of all, be sure to do your voting on MyFoxPhillys Hot List. Once again, best quizzo is not an option, but I’m gonna let it slide. And oh by the way, Good Dog is totally kicking tail for best burger. Be sure to vote for either the Bards or Black Sheep for best Irish pub!

–Play a little boggle.

–Or play the highly addictive Gold Miner.

–“We here at Foobooz love reading Best of Philly almost as much as we love maps. So here is a bit of both.“ Nerd alert.

-There is a new white powder called Blow that you put in your drink and has 4 times as much caffeine as an espresso. Blow sent a shipment of their exciting new product to NBC10. Apprently, Blow thinks that Bill Henley and Hurricane Schwartz are the perfect people to plug their new product.

–A new study shows that woman want sex for the same reason guys do, b/c they are attracted to the other person. Major oversight in the study: “Because I was drunk” not an option.

–It was on this date in 1937 that the Marihuana Stamp Act was passed. Marihuana was a deadly drug, popular in the 1930s, that caused teenagers to have sex with jazz musicians and kill their parents with axes. Fortunately, this important legislation closed the market for the drug and it is no longer possible to find marihuana in the United States.

-Is Stairway to Heaven an homage to sweet Satan? Listen and judge for yourself. Warning: Rumor has it that Dick Cheney got his start in politics after listening to this song backwards, so be careful.

-Dunno if you guys caught the four part series that the Washington Post did on Dick Cheney last month. A good look at the worst vice president in the history of the nation, and probably one of the worst people in this nation’s history.

-Yeah, I got a little love from D-Mac in PW. The first time the Vatican and quizzo have ever been repped in the same paragraph. (The quizzo storyline in Angels and Demons didn’t make the final cut.)

-Old school hip hop heads must check out the new video from KRS ONE and Marley Marl.

–Bush has decided to to send $20 billion worth of high tech weapons to the Saudi Arabians. I hope this teaches those who would inlict “Terra” on America a harsh lesson: If hijackers from your nation attack us, we will give your nation high tech weapons. But if zero hijackers from your country invade us, we will kill hundreds of thousands of your citizens. Amazing.

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.

I’m From Dateline NBC won at a private quizzo for Montgomery, McCracken, Walker and Rhoads, LLP. Click here to learn how JGT to make your next private event more fun

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.
After the jump: JGT responds to Philly Mag’s “trite quizzo” comment.

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