Archive for March, 2010

TriviaNYC Podcast #29: Cities Of Cheese, And Other Mythical Places

In which I make maybe one too many Catholic Church Jokes, but make up for it by talking about places that don’t exist, except in your minds. And maybe your hearts. Or your gall bladders. I don’t know, it’s your body, I’m not a botanist. There are tons of great imaginary places out there, in [...]

 
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Monday, March 29th, 2010

TriviaNYC Podcast #28: Alex Chilton Upsets Boehner & McGee To Win The March Madness In The Sky Edition

Among the people I know, this has been a week of mourning about Alex Chilton. Here’s a longish, annotated remembrance of him & his legacy I wrote last week. And with the release of this podcast, which honors him at the beginning and the end, I feel I can move on. It’s a busy news [...]

 
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Tonight’s Your Trivia Night

(This was the text of an emailer that went out this morning. Get on the TriviaNYC email list by subscribing in the box at the upper right.) Dear bookish bombshell,Just a heads-up: tomorrow night, March 17th, the Drunken Smartass Olympics Trivia Night at Dempsey’s is taking the night off for St. Patrick’s Day. We figure [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

TriviaNYC Podcast #27: Haimageddon, Crystals, and “Throat Yogurt”

We picked a busy week to return: The Oscars, the death of the most screwed up child star most of us will probably ever see, and in New York, a storm that made us all believe, if just for one magical moment, that we had taken our vacation to Bangladesh in exactly the wrong season. [...]

 
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010