Whoever has the most votes when I wake up tommorrow morning will win the “Worst Musical Name Contest.”

Hey, I’m heading home this weekend for my sister’s wedding, so I might get a little backed up on stories and pics, etc. I’ll be back on Sunday night, and will get everything caught up then. Wanna say thanks to everybody who came out to see Super Diamond last night, I hope you had fun. I hope everybody has a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing you next week! Take it lite-JGT.

Despite the fact that Johnny’s career is skyrocketing (last week Rock paper scissors, this week Neil Diamond cover band, the sky is the limit?) and he won’t be able to host quizzo tonight, the show will go on. Oh yes. Pedro Mays will be serving as your amiable host at both the Good Dog and the Bards.

Johnny’s handlers have announced that he is listed as “doubtful” to rap at tonight’s show. “Johnny suffered a bruised larynx while rapping at the RPS tourney on Saturday, and we feel at this time, it would be folly to push it, push it good,” said his physician, Dr. Bartleby McDowell. “He needs to give the old rap voice a rest.”

One of my favorite people in American history, Joshua A. Norton, was the only emperor in the history of the United States. It was on this date in 1859 that he ordered the United States Congress to dissolve. Sadly, they did not. There is talk of an emperor coming to Philadelphia, but all we’ve heard thus far have been whispers. We’ll let you know if anything comes up.

As many of you know, I was fortunate enough to host the 1st Annual Rock Paper Scissors Keystone Classic on Saturday night. If I had to describe the event in one word, that word would be…intense. There was an intensity brought by the stars of the sport, such as the Midnight Rider. The complete drunks who yelled throughout the contest brought a certain intensity. The bachelorette party, complete with the bride-to-be showing her t*** on stage, brought a certain level of intensity, as did the fans who came to see the heavy metal band that took the stage following the tourney. Yep, it was one of those nights that is magical, as much for the reason that no-one got killed as anything else.

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People act as if gang violence is always a bad thing. Well, w/o it, one of Philly’s greatest groups would never have been! That’s right, Darryl Hall and John Oates met while running from gang violence. This from Wikipedia: Daryl Hall first met John Oates at the Adelphi Ballroom in Philadelphia in 1967 while attending Temple. Both were heading their own musical groups – the Temptones (Hall) and the Masters (Oates) – at the time. They were there at a band competition when gunfire rang out between two rival black gangs, and in trying to escape, they ran to the same service elevator. Because of their similar musical tastes, they quickly became acquainted.
Why is this important? Because today is Darryl Hall’s birthday! As for the pic above, well, that was a little gem I found inside an album I discovered at a yard sale and bought immediately. Here’s some totally kool H & O trivia!

There is little debate that George Bush has not been a succesful president. Almost everything in America is worse off than it was when he took office, with the notable exception of religious extremism. But where does W rank among the worst ever? This was a question posed to a number of historians in 2003, and their conclusion were interesting. Over 80% rated him as a failure, and most thought he was the second worst ever, besides Nixon. Here’s a typical assessment:
“My assessment is that George W. Bush?s record on running up debt to burden our children is the worst since Ronald Reagan; his record on government surveillance of citizens is the worst since Richard Nixon; his record on foreign-military policy has gotten us into the worst foreign mess we?ve been in since Lyndon Johnson sank us into Vietnam; his economic record is the worst since Herbert Hoover; his record of tax favoritism for the rich is the worst since Calvin Coolidge; his record of trampling on civil liberties is the worst since Woodrow Wilson. How far back in our history would we need to go to find a presidency as disastrous for this country as that of George W. Bush has been thus far? My own vote went to the administration of James Buchanan, who warmed the president?s chair while the union disintegrated in 1860-61.”
It would be interesting to see what they thought now, after it was discovered that his office outed a CIA agent, the war in Iraq has taken a turn for the worse, and the embarrasment that was the Katrina rescue effort.

But a recent poll done by a professor at Northwestern and the Wall Street Journal has him doing a little better, finishing as the 19th best president. Here is an article claiming he is the worst ever written this past May. Another claim of him as worst ever written last week.

Our second mysterious death in the past week! Meriwether Lewis died on this date in 1809, and people have speculated about the cause of his death ever since. Most people think it was suicide, and a University of Iowa professor recently concluded as much. But there are those who remain convinced that it was murder. Mysterious deaths in the 19th century rule!