Yo peeps, heading out to watch USA soccer match. I may be a left wing pinko commie, but believe it not, I’ll still be pulling for Ol’ Glory. I’d love to see us advance. Holla atcha this afternoon.

The people of Philadelphia voted, and the best quizzo in town belongs to…Fado. In fact, Johnny did not even make the top four. This was in a vote taken by Philadelphia Style magazine. The following is taken from Philly Style Mag:
Best Of STYLE | Best Quizo | Fadó
Irish Pub & Restaurant Quizo is close to TiVo on the scale of modern addictions. This pub trivia phenomenon actually originated in our fair city, imported from Ireland by Fergie of Fergie’s Pub. But the Irish-themed pub chain Fadó was voted your favorite place to play the game this year. Bartender Regon MacInnis suggests beefing up on
VH1’s Best Week Ever to have a shot at competing against the handful of teams Fadó attracts on Wednesday nights. The fun and games begin at 9 p.m., and the prize is a $40 bar tab. FadoIrishPub.com, 215-893-9700.
Runners Up:
Fergie’s Pub, Fergies.com, 215-928-8118;
New Deck Tavern, NewDeckTavern.com, 215-386-4600;
Roosevelts Pub, 215-569-8879

Damn, yo. I was the staff pick for best quizzo, but this one still kind of stings. Oh well, those guys might host a better quizzo, but I’ll be damned if they can beat me at rock paper scissors! (Oh, and in case you were wondering what the readers of Philly Style Mag think the best coffee shop is, it’s Starbucks. Seriously. Bitter? Me? Noooooo.)

Yo, peeps, gotta roll to Spanish class. But here’s a few fun things to look at while I’m gone. First off, my man D-Mac found perhaps the creepiest usage of Ben Franklin’s image ever. That’s right, Ben Franklin is using his popularity among teenage females to stop teen pregnancy. Secondly, the good people at Philebrity think that hipsters are getting a bad name, and they are pissed. Which is kind of weird, because I didn’t think hipsters had the energy to be anything other than ironic and mildly annoyed. Angry hipsters are funny. The comment under a recent write up on foobooz is pretty great. Trivia Art writes that the Bike Race weekend is the only time it’s kool to be in Manayunk (which is wrong. Manayunk sucks even during the bike race). As if to prove why Manayunk sucks, some knucklehead writes an angry diatribe in the comments section about how kool Manayunk is, and how he’ll tell Art the great deals going on in Manyunk, but that he’s not gonna give ’em to Art unless he hires him. Yeah, Bub, Trivia Art is gonna hire you to tell him about the kool deals in Manayunk right after he adds a “Best Upcoming Frat Parties” section to his site.

I remember, as a kid, thinking that the Dallas theme song was really cool. I wasn’t allowed to watch the show, but my parents let me watch the opening credits. I also really like the theme song for Wonder Years, which was a cover of “Get By WIth a Little Help From My Friends”. But I gotta go with the theme from Good Times. It’s just such a soulful 70s sound that goes so well with the show, and a certain optimism in the face of trying times that I kind of like. The theme from Mr. Belvedere is my second favorite. Seriously. That is the JAM. “Streaks on the china…never mattered before…who cares?” What’s your favorite?

This rapper from Philly, who is considered a pioneer in gangster rap and who recorded the theme song for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, celebrates his 40th birthday this week.

The USA-Italy match was awesome, marred only by absolutely dreadful officiating. Well, after the match, it was discovered that the referee, who had kicked two American players out of the game, had been kicked off the 2002 World Cup for “irregularities”. It makes it even more interesting that the team we were playing, Italy, is currently in the midst of a major game fixing scandal. One of the charges? The manipulation of referee assignments. Wow, how interesting it is that a team being investigated for manipulating ref assignments just happens to get a ref with a crooked past who tries to hand them the game on Saturday.

Oh, and WTFer Matt Eison is in Germany for the World Cup. Here is his latest report:

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Just tune your television into Univision the entire time the World Cup is on. Don’t ask me any questions or talk back. Just do it. The action between games is absolutely mind blowing. Even Joe Vento himself cannot argue with the quality of Spanish television. (OK, so of course as soon as I posted this they actually started talking about soccer, but be sure to tune in manana! The between game action is an endless procession of sexy Brazilian women dancing while dudes bang on drums and scream. It is awesome.)

Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson. ‘Nova over Georgetown. The Miracle on Ice. Most arguments about the greatest upsets in the history of sports center around these seminal events. But barber shop debates are a little livelier this Monday morning, as a new contender for “Greatest Upset Ever” has emerged: Johnny Goodtimes, a lowly 66 seed, knocked off the top three seeds in succession to walk away as the champion of the Pabst Blue Ribbon Philadelphia Rock Paper Scissors City League Championship Series (or PBRPRPSCLCS for short). The champ, who earned $1000 for his expertise and skill, explained his inspiring win. “It was an almost religious experience, where my mind wasn’t leading my body, but my body was leading my mind. I was in a state of zen, where everything I did seemed pre-ordained, and where I simply followed my destiny to the summit of my awesomeness.”

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Man, this match between the Netherlands and the Ivory Coast is awesome. The Netherlands leads 2-1 after one half first half. A fight almost broke out when a member of the Ivory Coast barely touched the goalie. The Dutch are such whiners. Seriously. They bail to the ground and hold their ankles every tie a member of the opposite team comes within five feet of them. It’s pathetic, and the refs even yellow carded one of them for it. Of course, I’m rooting for the Ivory Coast. The country is in the midst of a civil war (though the violence has died down a bit in recent years, and there has supposedly been a cease-fire since the team qualified or the World Cup) and the team had to spend a week in prison after a poor showing in the 2002 Africa Cup. Hard to root against a team that is dealing with that kind of stuff in their day to day lives. One thing that’s kind of cool about the World Cup is that it gives us a chance to learn a little something about countries that we wouldn’t ordinarily think about. So take a sec and read up on the Ivory Coast.

Trivia Art only began posting on foobooz.com a few short weeks ago, and already he’s been written about in Philadelphia Will Do, Blinq, Attytood, and Gridskipper. And now, today, you can find him in the Metro. And in other food news, the Great Pizza Hunt is back in effect. Yeah, I needed to take a little break, but as of today, it’s back on. Anybody who wants to grab a slice in the next couple of weeks should email me at johnnygoodtimes@hotmail.com.