March 27, 2008

Win Free Quizzo Bowl IV Tickets!

This Saturday is Quizzo Bowl IV, the annual masters-of-quizzo competition hosted by none other than Johnny Goodtimes.

As part of a promotion for that, yours truly will be hosting a round of quizzo tonight on Philadelphia history at Bards (20th and Walnut) at 10 p.m. I'm pretty sure the Philadelphia Will Do readership pretty much overlaps with the quizzo-playing population, so come down and hear me stutter through a few questions about my favorite topics. (If you read this blog, you should get at least a couple of them easily.)

And the headliner of this year's Quizzo Bowl is Black Elvis. Black Elvis! There's no reason to miss this, except that my team is going to win so you're not gonna.

And, hey, you can do it for free: After the jump, Johnny has graciously provided three free pairs of Quizzo Bowl tickets that you, the reader, can win, if you just answer a question.

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December 20, 2006

Leftovers: Nude Protest Somehow Awful

• There was a nude protest in front of the Burberry store today by PETA. As intrepid quizmaster Johnny Goodtimes shows in the photograph at right, though, it was the worst nude protest ever, not even including any nudity. Those girls must be cold, though. Somebody throw a bear rug over them to keep them warm, or something. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• We Americans love our crap, but apparently we have a limit! The Inquirer's Madhusmita Bora reports today that business is extremely slow for those who opened carts and kiosks at malls for the holidays. Your pre-paid phone cards and cheap jewelry just don't have the same pull they used to. [Inquirer]

• The Flyers made another trade today, sending a draft pick and a player you've never heard of for another player you don't know. I don't know about you, but I'm prepping for a Stanley Cup parade already. [The Phanatic]

• Premarital sex is normal. Thank God. Unless he's pissed. Then I don't know what to think. [AP/CNN.com]

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September 15, 2006

Leftovers: Go Westbrook!

• Brian Westbrook misses practice today; team says he'll play Sunday. Let's hope so. [Inquirer]

• JGT thinks Larry Mendte has a dark family secret. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• Earlier this week, super-hip/super-awesome Fishtown bar Johnny Brenda's opened, and here's a 411 with how it went from hip dive bar to seemingly awesome music venue in a fairly short amount of time. [Philebrity]

• I have no idea what prompted this quasi-hit piece on Enrico "The 700 Level" Campitelli in the Inquirer from Frank Fitzpatrick today, but I do have an idea of what the Inquirer doesn't get: EVERYTHING. [Inquirer]

• The best part about mocking self-published authors on your blog? Sometimes, they write in the comments. [Citizen Mom]

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July 21, 2006

Blogicized: Money Woes?

• Is the Delaware Republican Party going broke? Would make sense. After all, they're supposed to be the more fiscally responsible party, right? [Delaware Watch]

• Hey, guess what? There are rats! In the city! And not just in the subways! [Metroblogging Philadelphia]

• Remind me that, if I ever get into an argument with my cell phone company, not to write a missive as long as most PW cover stories -- 3,396 words -- about it. [Phillybits]

• Wait, I'm supposed to make fun of this, too, aren't I? Right? Well, a commenter took care of it for me: "Um, I don't even know where to begin. You kids make it that much easier for me to move. Oh well, good luck with what may very well be the sweat pants of all -ists." Ba-zing! [Phillyist]

• JGT Update: In Chicago, heading to storm-damaged St. Louis soon. [Traffic.com Roadtrip]

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July 12, 2006

Leftovers: JGT's Big Top

• Be sure to check out Johnny Goodtimes' Roadtrip Blog, which he's doing for Traffic.com as a part of some promotion. You may remember that I posted this early last month. If this isn't the strangest thing to come out of my blog, I don't know what is. [Traffic.com Roadtrip]

• What's scarier in this story: That Penndot managed to put up a sign that says TRUKC, or that said sign costs $3,100. Mhmmm, let's go with the latter. [AP/NBC 10]

• The now ex-Lehigh student who robbed a bank last December has pled guilty. [AP/The Express-Times]

• The hottest fad in Philadelphia is, of course, barbershop. Baby on board, something, something, Burt Ward. [KYW 1060]

• The Tasty Baking Co. has sold out to the Donald. Well, sorta. The Donald paid Tastykake $1.4 million for the option to purchase the site. It's like a personal seat license for a casino! [Daily News]

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July 05, 2006

Blogicized: God Bless America

• For anyone who has taken Joe Vento's "advice" to heart and is interested in becoming a citizen of our fair country, here's some advice: England is also known as Great Britain, and JUDICIAL = JUDGES. [Tinapopo]

• If you're wondering, a post on this very blog has led to noted quizzo host Johnny Goodtimes traveling around on a giant billboard for Traffic.com. Philadelphia Will Do: Changing lives. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• Carlos Ruiz is now the Phillies starting catcher. Let's let him stay there. [Beerleaguer]

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June 30, 2006

Leftovers: Who Woulda Thunk It

• The drought watch is over! I'm sure those along the riverbanks are thrilled. [KYW 1060]

• Apparently, there's a superhero quizzo at the Franklin Institute tonight. Featuring QuizzoMan, who I am sure will be used as a (grade school joke alert) robot boss in Mega Man later this year. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• New Jersey doesn't have a budget yet. And the state's going to shut down all the casinos, beaches, etc., if one doesn't pass. Jon Corzine bought a cot for his office. No, really. [Inquirer]

• Neither does Pennsylvania. Ed Rendell bought 500 hoagies for his office. Okay, not really. [KYW 1060]

• If you ever wanted to hear Chris Webber quote Old School, your wish has been answered. [Mr. Irrelevant's Sports Blog]

• Headline in the Inquirer: "Why not a gay Superman?" [Inquirer]

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June 19, 2006

Leftovers: JGT, RPS Champ

• I got a call on Saturday night when I was heading out the door from a friend. "Hey, we were just at the Rock Paper Scissors championship," he said. "Guess who won?" I asked if he did. "No, Johnny Goodtimes! He won a thousand dollars!" I'm not positive on this, but normal people do not receive these kinds of calls. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• A Montco lawmaker wants to ban cell phone use while driving. Then, he's going to ban riding a motorcycle without talking on your cell at the same time. [KYW 1060]

• Sorry, A.I. haters! Ed Snider did not order a trade of the Lilliputian 76ers guard, although he did tell Billy King to stop signing shitty players. [Daily News]

• A rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation -- as opposed to the ones just floating around -- was moved to the African American Museum for a Juneteenth celebration. Accompanying it were impersonators of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Lucretia Mott. How does one go about hiring a Lucretia Mott impersonator? Are they in high demand? [Inky]

• Oh, yeah: The Yankees are in town this week. Uh oh. [Beerleaguer]

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June 05, 2006

Leftovers: In My Day, Halfballs Cost A Nickel

• Hey, oldies! Remember halfball? No? Oh, wait, no, of course not. Well, to jog your memory, there's a documentary being made about that, kick the can, jump rope, hopscotch and all those other games that we kiddies can't believe actually existed. Photo by Kristin Wolak. [South Philly Review]

• The statue-inspiring film star himself, Sly Stallone, had his 60th birthday bash over the weekend. Sly would watch that halfball documentary and still have no idea what halfball is. (Rimshot.) [AP/Yahoo!]

• Could Johnny Brenda's be replacing Johnny Goodtimes as the one and only savior of Metro? Time will only tell. [Foobooz]

• Sorry for being behind on the possible Philadelphia ban on foie gras proposed by Myspace City Councilman Jack Kelly. Here's a big ol' recap. [Politics Philly]

• If you're wondering which senators and representatives are in favor of the anti-gay marriage amendment to the Constitution, here's a helpful list. [AMERICAblog]

• Speedier cheap rail to New York City is possibly coming! Of course, by "cheap" they mean "still expensive, but not quite as bad as Amtrak or a plane." [Inky]

• And, finally, America must not want the world to get too into our own brand of football, as we've sent Ivy Leaguers to Japan to them how it's done. Actually, Ivy football is lots o'offense, not much defense, so this might work. [KYW 1060]

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June 02, 2006

Blogicized: 'In The Itchy & Scratchy CD-ROM, Is There A Way To Get Out Of The Dungeon Without Using The Wizard Key?'

• If you're into this sort of thing, you can wail on some nerds this weekend since the Wizard World convention is in town. Or, uh, you can go to the convention and see Kevin Smith and Jim Lee. Either one. [Phillyist]

• Yes, Philadelphia sure needs a Philadelphia Journalism Review. Perhaps we can staff it with bloggers. [PressThink]

• It's unanimous: Nobody in Philadelphia wants Gavin Floyd anymore. Sigh. [Huge Tiny Mistake]

• And, hey, let's throw some plugs: Johnny Goodtimes at the Planetarium; Philebrity Beach Party in, uh, Northern Liberties.

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May 26, 2006

Enjoy The Weekend

Okay, it's the day before a three-day weekend. (Yeah, I'm taking off Monday, too.) There's nothing going on. Sigh. And the Wi-Fi bill was just signed yesterday. (Seriously, I think Des Moines, Iowa, is going to be bathed in a wireless network before we are.)

But, let's end with this: By my calculations, Johnny Goodtimes has now been mentioned more in Metro than on any other media site, including his own website. (And, amazingly, even more than here.)

Anyway, have a good weekend. Enjoy the holiday. A favor: If you're going to Wildwood, could you let me know if they rebuilt Sam's Pizza yet? Can't believe that place burnt down. (Where else are you going to eat, Mack's? Please.) We'll return you to your regularly scheduled programming Tuesday. We can only hope there are mascots.

Update: Some internet searching has revealed that Sam's might indeed be opening this weekend!

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May 22, 2006

Blogicized: Another Philly Sports Goodbye

• Alex Gonzalez -- call him "A-Gon," and not to be confused with the other Alex Gonzalez on the Red Sox -- got up and randomly retired yesterday, with a stellar 1 RBI so far this season. [Phillies Nation]

• Johnny Goodtimes heads to Intercourse, Pennsylvania, comes home with a second place finish in a rhubarb pie making contest. Eh, you pick your battles. [Johnny Goodtimes]

• This brings new meaning to the term medical marijuana. Still, like most people with a so-ridiculous-it-might-just-work defense, we're all kind of rooting for him, aren't we? [The Trouble With Spikol]

• Barbaro is doing so well he can't remember that he broke his ankle or what horse racing is. Well, that's pretty good, I suppose. [Starting A Landslide In My Ego]

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February 21, 2006

Video: Bill Henley's double entendre

The second video of today is a bit of an old one, but since I finally got everything set up, I figured I'd pass it on. A few weeks ago my friend and local quizmaster, Johnny Goodtimes, happened to co-host the NBC mid-morning talk show, 10! I recorded it, and as such caught this moment.

He and co-host Bill Henley interviewed Miss America Jennifer Berry. She was showing off her crown, and the box her crown came in...

If you listen closely, you can hear crew members laughing after Henley says his unintentional one-liner.

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January 30, 2006

Blogger to co-host NBC 10 show, world to explode

Everyone knows blogging is so hot right now. Blogs have increased respectability, celebrities are blogging (poorly) and there are even professional bloggers.

Yeah, you say. So what? Ahh, my friend, I am getting to that. Fresh off Quizzo Bowl II, Philadelphia Quizzo maven Johnny Goodtimes -- who doesn't pay me for this publicity -- will be co-hosting 10! on Wednesday, according to sources close to Mr. Goodtimes (i.e. him).

To be honest, I usually leave the house before 10! starts, since I like to be at my desk by 10 a.m. But since Lauren Hart left the show, host and meteorologist Bill Henley has been hosting with a variety of co-hosts, including a whole week when random viewers were selected to host.

Johnny Goodtimes immediately moves onto the "biggest celebrities to co-host 10!" list, somewhere in the A.D. Amorosi area (but below John DeBella and Pierre Robert). I'm sure Johnny will do a fine job as co-host, but you know what this means, right? 10! is down to hiring bloggers to co-host the show. Good luck with alllll that.

Side note: Bill Henley's biography contained the greatest thing seen on NBC10.com, like, ever: Bill Henley wallpaper. Not only that, but almost all the anchors have desktop wallpaper: John Blunt! Tracy Davidson! Harry Hairston! Bill Baldini! Edie Huggins! Even Deanna Durante! Sadly, though, NBC 10's Lauren Cohn doesn't have any on her bio page, which is a shame -- since that's the only wallpaper I really wanted. Sigh.

A crowd pleasing Quizzo Bowl 2 [Johnny Goodtimes]
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Jan. 20: Just a little respect, B-L-O-G-S

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January 17, 2006

Status quizzo

Okay, kiddies, gather 'round. It's story time! Let's go back, way, way back to the spring of 2004 -- okay, not really that far back -- when yours truly was a simple Penn senior awaiting graduation, trying to lose weight and sitting around making fun of the local media. So, really, not much has changed, except for graduation and that my missives directed at the local media now reach far too large of an audience.

There's a tradition for Penn seniors called Walnut Walk. You start at City Tavern and go west all the way back to campus, stopping at bars along the way. (If you're really interested, I did a reading about it last year.)

Sometime during that walk, some friends and I stumbled into a bar that had a big sign advertising "Johnny Goodtimes Quizzo." We thought that if quizzo on Penn's campus was fun, then Johnny Goodtimes' quizzo must certainly be fantastic! And then we won a best team name at another quizzo the next day by naming our team "Johnny Goodtimes."

Fast forward to late last September. (I didn't say this was going to be a good story.) I've been to Johnny Goodtimes' quizzo a few times. I'm doing this job for under a month. I'm out, sharing a table with random people at a crowded bar. And who sits next to me but Johnny Goodtimes. Right: Just a stupid coincidence. But funny nonetheless. And who calls me when I'm with the same high school friends just last Saturday night? Right: Johnny Goodtimes.

With all this Dan McQuade/Johnny Goodtimes synergy going on, obviously I have to plug his "Quizzo Bowl II," which is Jan. 29. It's $10, and Johnny says that the top two teams from last year (Where's Johnny, Sofa Kingdom) will be back. The winner gets $300. Local jazzmen Nate Wiley and the Crowd Pleasers and comedian Norm Klar provide entertainment.

Full Johnny Goodtimes release after the jump. For a trivia guy like me, Quizzo Bowl II will be a nice chance to prove how in reality I'm actually quite bad at it.

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December 19, 2005

Blogicized: I'm giddy with anticipation

• An ex-Phillies bench guy played this year for a team in Korea called the "Lucky Goldstar Twins." Geeze, that's almost as ridiculous as Phillies. [Beerleaguer]

• A question from the city's Quizzo master: "Jessica Pressler ruffled some feathers when in a New York Times article she called Philly what?" One of the answers he got: "The Fifth Borough." [Johnny Goodtimes]

• I'll be buying 15 of these t-shirts later today. [Jossip]

• More sports, but come on: Rick Fucking Tocchet is the new coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, at least until Gretzky comes back! Whoo! I'll be growing my hair long and elbowing somebody into a wall in celebration! What's Peter Zezel doing? [Metroblogging Philadelphia]

• And tomorrow, the Dover intelligent design case decision will be announced. A commenter is "on pins and needles already." Uh, okay. [Speaking Freely]

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