Hey gang, throwing $20 bonus at any team that can knock off the 5 time defending champs the Jams at the Locust Rendezvous tonight.
Around the Horn, brought to you by Breakin’ 2, Electric Boogaloo
–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…
Quizzo for the Cause
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.
A little light summer reading
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.
Question of the Week
When prison guards killed her husband on July 17, 1762, she gave them promotions. Who was she?
Constitution Center Quizzo Questions
Here are the questons from Friday’s quizzo:
Round One
1. Martin Luther King delivered his I have a dream speech on the steps of what monument in DC?
2. Fill in the blank of this old rhyme: apple pie without the ________ is like a kiss w/o a squeeze.
3. What planet is Superman from?
4. In Philly, you’ll find famous examples of this type of Americana at 1501 Snyder Avenue, 219 South 17th Street, and at 5th and Spring Garden.
5. This artist and illustrator was often derided for being too sentimental and idealistic, but his later works dealing with racism, including the haunting “The Problem We All Live With”, garnered him universal acclaim.
6. WHo played Lieutenet Dan in Forrest Gump?
7. Who composed the following?
8. Who was the winning lawyer in Brown vs. the Board of Education?
9. After bombing onstage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1954 , this truck driver turned musician from Tupelo MIssissippi was told by the Opry manager, “Boy, you’d better keep driving that truck.”
10. How long is four score seven years?
Round Two List 10 (of the 14) vice presidents who later went on to become presidents.
Round Three Name that artist or group:
1. Proud to be an AMerican
2. American Woman
3. American Girl
4. Banned in the USA
5. American Pie
6. American Idiot
7. Name the artist and the person who appeared to sing it in the video: I Am a Real American
8. Young Americans
9. Back in the USA
10. American Music
Round Four
1. 1. Joseph Glidden patented this in 1874, and it had changed the landscape of the Wild West by the end of the century. What was it?
2. Who was Secretary of State during Clinton’s first term?
3. Jackie Robinson earned four varsity letters in college. What west coast school did he attend?
4. What book was prefaced by the author with the lines: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
5. What two Sioux leaders crushed Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
6. In 1964, this 63 year old artist became the oldest to ever hit number one on the Billboard charts.
7. This wild west artist didn’t produce razors or star in an 80s detective show.
8. The first women’s rights convention took place in what town in 1848?
9. After the title, what are the first seven words of the Declaration of Independence?
***10. Of the 42 delegates at the constitutional convention, how many signed it?
a) 37 B) 39 C) 41 D) All of them
Around the Horn
-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.
Hurtin Bombs win First US History Quizzo
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.
A little part of history
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.
Jams Win (Repped by Popo, who just loooooves car rides.)
Corey and River both starred in Stand by Me. Can you name the guys who played their two best friends in the movie?