Yo, y’all can check me out on MySpace. I’ve been on there for a while, but I wanted to get some friends added before I told you people about it so you wouldn’t think I’m a loser. If you wanna be MySpace friends, just holla!
Congratulations Stacie!
Stacie was the winner of the 2nd annual JGT Bracket Spectacular by virtue of having UCLA in the final game. I don’t think anyone in our pool had Florida in the Final Four, much less winning the whole thing. As for me, I felt kind of bad for winning last year, so I decided I would do really, really poorly this year. Mission accomplished! I finished 28th out of 37 teams. Peep My Popesack finished in last with a 33. She did not have a single team correct in the final 8. My favorite team name of the whole thing was “The Knicks Are an 11 Seed”. Stacie wins a $50 gift certificate to Barrister’s. We’ll have to have some sort of tiebreaker for 2nd, as Niederdeppe and Pauly O both finished with 70.
Question of the Week
For what is former University of Florida student Paul Tibbets best known?
Dolce Carini
On friday I went to Dolce Carini (1929 Chestnut) with Trivia Art and Matt Eison of the notorious WTF crew. I’ve had the cheesesteaks there before, and they’re really good, so I figured the pizza would be good as well. I was right. The had lots of choices. I started with the taco pizza. Beef, sour cream, nacho chips, the whole shebang. The taste was awesome, although it could have been a little warmer coming out of the oven. Then, per Matt’s suggestion, I went back for the cheesesteak pie. Good suggestion. The slice had nice big chunks of cheesesteak, and very juicy peppers and onions.
Here were Matt’s thoughts:
Today, I had the extreme pleasure of meeting up with Johnny and his roommate at Dolce Carini’s for pizza slices. I opted for a slice of the cheesesteak pizza and a slice of the chicken, tomato, and pesto. I’d have to say the pizza met expectations, and may have even been above average. The ingredients were fresh, and the cheesesteak slice was good enough to deserve the Philly name. Dolce Carini makes no pretense about being gourmet, which is actually another reason I like the place. I’d definitely go there again. I’ll give my slices 4 out of 5 pepperoni’s, which is kind of ironic, considering that neither of my slices had any pepperoni on them.
I highly recommend this place. It gets three and a half pepperoni’s!
Where to Watch the Game?
Well, after a terrific tourney followed by the worst two final four games ever, here’s hoping that the final game is a good one. Best place to watch the game? I say Barrister’s. They’ve got $3 Bud Light and Miller Lite drafts, the Miller Lite girls are gonna be there, and there is a drawing to give away a Sirius radio!
The latest from Nolan
Remember Andy Nolan, the guy who wrote all the great obits I told you about a few weeks ago? His latest was delightfully simple, coming with the headline, “Caspar the Friendly Ghost”. It read, Weinberger’s in Paradise.
Damn, yo
My nose was stuffed up when i got up this morning, so I took an antihistamine, and I went down like I was shot by a freaking cannon. Anyways, just got up out of bed. Thank goodness I don’t have a job! Well, now I’m going out to Dolce Carini for pizza. I’m still waiting to hear from my pizza partners on Wednesday and Thursday, so I’ll have my reviews of them up as soon as possible. And yeah, I gotta throw up stories for this week’s winners. I’ll get all that stuff done after lunch.
Quick Bit
Me and Trivia Art just met up with some of the guys from Sofa Kingdom for pizza at Pizza Rustica. I’ll probably have a review tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass along the following conversation. The topic of Club Wizzards had come up b/c I had a bunch of ones on me.
Sweeney McSweeney: I had a roomate who used to be a stripper there.
Koob: Yeah, she ended up marrying the guy who hosted quizzo at the New Deck. Not Pat, but one of the guys who did quizzo for him.
JGT: So there is hope for a guy like me.
Koob: Oh, no, this was a psycho Japanese chick.
JGT: (deadpan) So there is hope for a guy like me.
Man, sometimes I am just too damn funny.
Lazaro’s Pizza
I went into Lazaro’s (flying Han Solo) on Tuesday preparing to be underwhelmed. Nothing against the place, but I always hear great things about it, and my pizza there is always…fine. I mean, it’s good, but it’s nothing special, and extremely greasy. I like grease as much as the next guy, but not when there are giant puddles of it on my pie that need to be sopped up with a napkin. On Tuesday, I went pepperoni style. It was a lot less greasy than usual, and was actually pretty good. The crust is kind of crunchy, and I personally like soft crust better. The ambiance? Well Lazaro’s is definitely a pick up and delivery place, but I do like the fact that they have a lot of Philly sports stuff on the walls. Gives it a nice Philly feel. And then, inexplicably, they have three New York license plates above one of the doors. WTF? That costed them half a pepperoni. Give them 2 and a half!
P.S. When I got hungry later in the day, I didn’t return to Lazaro’s. Instead I got a meatball sandwich from the cart on 19th and South. Damn good sandwich. Give it four meatballs!
Hilary Swankie reports from DC
Things on the DC quizzo scene haven’t gotten much better. Here’s the latest from former Philly playa Hilary Swankie:
So we were pretty excited about this quizzo because it’s just blocks from where we all live. Unfortunately, we are going to need to suck it up and go to places far from home because it was the WORST QUIZZO EVER. They don’t supply pens. We had to ask for a pen and the guy handing out score sheets looked totally annoyed that we would even ask. They rejected our first name because it “wouldn’t fit on the score sheet” that was posted above the bar. The host (not the guy handing out score sheets, scoring, etc) was not funny. Period. (By the way, obviously hosting quizzo is a lot more difficult than I realized in Philly because everyone here seems to have multiple hosts/helpers.) There were 8 rounds. I thought 7 was bad last time. The first round was math questions. Could be reasonable MAYBE if it was multiple choice. But instead the gave us definitions and we had to tell them the mathematical term. We got 4 out of 10. It’s not a good idea to start with a totally impossible round to make us feel really stupid and bitter immediately. I wanted to leave. The host was not funny. (It is worth saying again.) Just totally ridiculous questions. We came in last place. **Things started getting hazy around round 2 already because we started drinking heavily to make up for the miserable 2 more hours that we were about to endure. You need to come down here and do a quizzo hosting training.