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It's the suprise that gets me. Celebrities are supposed to die in threes. This is four. Sure, Ed McMahon and Farah Fawcett were both sad cases because they lost battles with cancer. Jacko was a surprise, but not really when you think about his personality and all the extravagance that was part of his life. Something like this was bound to happen to him. All Billy did was bump his head on a rough landing and that might have been enough to take the "king of infomercials" out of commission.

So who is going to fill his shoes? Vince "Slapchop" Shlomi? I dunno.

Should I go buy a bottle of Oxi Clean or a Big City Slider Station to help remember Mr. Mays?

So, my brother and I went to the kegger out at Sugar Creek Winery Saturday night and had a good time. Lots of people there, some rather drunk by the end of it all, and a great show by the Dave Glover Band with songs ranging from The Beatles to AC/DC to Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin.

Photos have been posted on glovershow.com at:

GLOVERSHOW: 06.20.2009 - Dave Glover Kegger Gallery

This is the final version of the site, missing only but a few forthcoming components: specifically a few more minor stats, the flag on the field catalog, and an online game that's a few more tests away from publishing.

Two big additions however, the odds are now up on the lower left of the site, and I will be posting the notes I give to Dave each week in PDF form so you can see a good summary of whats going on.

There's only 500 available for $20 each, and if they for some reason don't sell out, its $25 at the door.

Event date is June 20th 6-10 pm at Sugar Creek Winery. Keggy the Keg will not be there, sorry.

Dave Glover Show Kegger Page

If you thought G.O.B.'s magic prop was neat, wait 'til you see this!

Yep, you now have the chance to bid on 5 dust jackets for Dr. Tobias Fünke's book The Man Inside Me, a personal favorite of kewag I hear.

EBAY: Arrested Development - Tobias' Screen Used Book Cover Set

So what are you waiting for? Don't let me down or else:

EBAY: Arrested Development G.O.B.s Actual Magic Trick Prop

Every now and then one finds more proof that Commander Riker is nothing more than a more perverted version of Captain Kirk, while Captain Picard cracks under pressure way too easily. And this recut just emphasizes those points.

DEADSPIN: Alex Rodriguez Admits to Using A Banned Substance

After Colombo's three-game win streak, one would have thought he was going to walk away with the belt this year. Not so said Tom Terbrock in week four.

Not only did Terbrock destroy the competition that week with a 1250 point game, but he dominated every possible category and stat there was; he, in one week, erased all the work Colombo did in THREE weeks, giving him the belt point lead over all.

The week four match was so dominating, that a Colombo win in match five still only gives Colombo second place thus far, although a bit closer than the week before.

If there is one thing Terbrock can do, it's having a dominant game. As the Halfwits Record book (now up on BattleOfTheHalfwits.com) will show you, Terbrock has scored 1000+ points in a game 6 times in his career and he has answered 25 or more questions 10 times. He also can get into good groves, having won 3+ games in a row 7 times. These feats are pretty rare in the realm of Halfwits. How rare you ask? Well these three things have happened a combined 32 times. There have been a total of 445 players in the game, so thats only 7% of the time will someone make achieve of these milestones. Of those 32 times, Terbrock has achieved a milestone 23 times out of 131 chances, leaving the remaining crew a measly 9 out of 314.

So, in theory, Colombo can continue to win, but so long as Terbrock has an occasional BIG win, he's still in it.

Will this year's theme be a battle of quantity versus quality? Stay tuned!

So what's happened in the last two weeks?

Well, I've added King Crimson, Barclay James Harvest and some more Genesis to the batch, and you can see their affects already. This weekend I added in The Moody Blues, Van Halen, Rush, Yes, The Police and a few others, so look out for them in the next coming weeks creeping on up. This week I think it's time for Jethro Tull and Todd Rundgren to be added to the mix...

The Week 5 iPod list @ Music.JohnSebben.com

Some great ones on this list, but a bit shy of some of my favorite westerns..."Once Upon A Time In The West" in particular, where you have to wait 3 hours (and a good 3 hours too) to find out just why Charles Bronson wants to kill Henry Fonda.

No, really....

Three games, three wins.

He has never had a three game streak. In each of the three previous seasons of Halfwits, streaks have defined the route to the championship and three win game streaks are extremely rare, happening only 11 times - and 8 of those times it was by the eventual year champion.

But let's look at the end of last year. Besides outshining Terbrock in the non-official "team" games against El Monstero or the girls, Colombo has now won 5 of the last 6.

Last year Terbrock indeed had total domination over the rest of the Halfwits - including almost 19,000 points from questions which made up 52% of all points distributed. So far Colombo is on pace for 23,000 points and has earned 60% of the points.

Yes, it's still too early to tell what will happen the rest of the year, but it is obvious that we have an all-new-and-improved Tony Colombo playing this year.

The week three iPod results are loaded up at music. johnsebben.com so go take a lookie there. I changed the categories to be basically just all-time ones plus artist of the week and year/decade stats. This week nothing new except I had recently uploaded Genesis, Head East and Firefall into the database, so they have some effect. Already for next week I've put in Barclay James Harvest and King Crimson, so expect them to make a mark in the next update.

Here are a few that I think should have been included: "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd, "I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles, and of course anything by Brak.

With John Cooper gone, there is a vaccuum in the halfwit arena. Could this, along with a worn out Terbrock who was simply overpowering in 2008, mean that this is Tony Colombo's year?

Next week the 2008 stats will be finalized and posted on the Halfwits site, and this time it will include many new stat categories that Colombo, ever the strategist, could use. Will he be able to analyze the data to see who he should and shouldn't boof, and in what categories?

With all these factors, I'd place even odds on whether it will be a Terbrock repeat or a Colombo resurgence. But don't count Max Foizey, Rick Sanborn or Becca out either. Okay, you can count Sanborn out, but not the two yutes.

Methinks 2009 will be very interesting in the Halfwit world!

Battle of the Halfwits.com site

I didn't have much time to load many new tracks into the SLCR database this week, so this weeks charts are pretty much like last week. David Bowie, Elton John, Queen and Ennio Morricone make their first apperances on the list though.

It's a 3-day weekend however now so besides finishing up the new Halfwits site there will be plenty of time for adding in new tracks.

A decent list, but I think McCartney got short-changed.

But, to show you I'm around, and working on things for the site too, on the music section I will be posting a weekly top 20 of what I've been listening too. Right now I'm retagging a ton of tracks for SLCR's imminent revival so I get to listen to music nonstop in prep for that.

Anyway, CLICK HERE to see what artists have already been tagged and are in my listening queue the most because of it.