My favorite mayor presents: Around the Horn

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-Friends recall Napoleon’s cowardly fight with cancer.

-Happy Anniversary to my favorite mayor in world history, Marion “Bitch Set Me Up” Barry. It was on this date in 1990 that, well, that bitch set him up. Here are some hilarious Marion Barry quotes.

-Remember last week, when there was still a chance that we might have a home playoff game, so they told us that those wildly swaying “fun ramps” were safe? Well, now that we’re not having a home game, they can let the cat out of the bag: they’re, um, sort of safe but not THAT safe, so they’re gonna make ’em stronger before next year.

-Congrats to the Sixers, who pulled off a very important loss last night. The Memphis Grizzlies had a worse record than us and could have gained a two game advantage on us in the Greg Oden sweepstakes. But with our backs against the wall, we came out sucking like we’ve never sucked before, and were able to fend them off and take the loss.

It’s coming together!

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I woke up this morning grumpy. Here we were, less than three weeks away from QB3, and I still had no halftime show and no headline performers. So I met with the lovely Ginger today to get some work done, and let’s just say that after screaming at each other for several hours, we somehow ended up very close to signing an extremely sexy halftime act. Then she had a brainstorm about a band, and I’m meeting with the leader of said band tommorrow. It sounds PERFECT, but I gotta see if they’re available before I give out any details. I’m starting to get really excited about this. Stay tuned!

Spam presents: Around the horn

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-If any big time drug dealers in Tennessee are reading this, remember that it’s that time of year again: time to apply for your Drug tax stamp.

-Oh yeah, my review on Rocky: It’s very sappy and melodramatic, but he also pays loving homage to both the character and the city of Philly. I thought they should have made the match between he and Antonio Tarver 3 rounds, which would have made the whole thing a lot more realistic. And you can see the Bards in one of the scenes. I would definitely recommend it, if only to see all the spots in Philly.

-Don’t you hate it when you are watching porn at night and you see a window shot and there is light out and it reminds you that the porn was taped and edited days earlier and it just ruins the whole fantasy? No? Well, who cares, you’re gonna watch live porn anyway.

K-Fed is set to appear in a Super Bowl commercial! Man, I hope he’s rapping in it! That would mean that K-Fed and I would be rapping on back to back days! Like Blood Brothers! Uh, no wait, nevermind. I almost forgot that I’m retired from the rap game.

Quizzo Bowl Tickets are on sale tonight!

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I will have tix to Quizzo Bowl 3 on sale all week. First come first serve in terms of picking your seats. You can also purchase them online, but they are $15 if you buy them from me and $18 if you buy them online. Still putting together my line-up, but you know if you saw the first two that it will be awesome and well worth the money (Ok, besides the freaking bellydancer at QB1. Can we just move past that?). I am also raising the stakes. In the past, the winners got $300. This year, the winner gets $500 and 2nd place gets $250. I will also have lots of free stuff to give away. This is the Quizzo event of the year. Do not miss it! Doors open at 6;30 p.m. and quizzo begins at 7:30 p.m.

Congratulations Chip!

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Wheel of Terrific co-collaborater and local comedian Chip Chantry was unable to do the Wheel last night because he was involved in a competition at Helium Comedy Club (Ginger and Pat House filled in and did a fine job.) The Purina Pet Challenge called for local comedians to do their best pet jokes. Well, Chip not only entered but he won. He got $1,000 and will be flown out to St. Louis in March to compete for $10,000. Congratulations Chip!

Happy Birthdays.

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FIrst of all, Happy birthday to quizzo cutie Sada of “The Number of Men I’ve Had Sex WIth Is…” Her 25th was Thursday. Today would be the 106th birthday of Frank Zamboni if he were still alive. He invented the, well, I think you know what he invented. The Frank. Hahahahaha. Whew. Man, that was good. You thought I was gonna say Zamboni and then I said Frank. That just totally messed with your head. Yesterday was Philadelphia boxing legend Bernard Hopkins b-day. He turned 42.

Wow

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That is piano playing, Andy Reid impersonating quizzo regular Steve Odabashian above with, yeah, that’s right ladies. Fabio. Only in America. Oh, and vote in the new poll to the right.

Around the Horn

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-FIrst of all best wishes Danny (above). He bartended his last quizzo on Thursday. He got called up to the big leagues, and will be working the floor at the Good Dog on Friday and Saturday nights.

-Lonely? Well how about getting yourself that perfect gift that just screams “creepy loner.” It’s the one man see-saw.

-Fun time waster. Here’s a bunch of completely random old newspaper articles from Philadelphia, from the 1700s to now.

-I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: johnnygoodtimes.com is your K-Fed headquarters.

Great MLK Quotes

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I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.