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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

I swear I watched this about 10 times in a row when my brother first sent it to me.

The Halfwit Belt is the ultimate goal and prize in the greatest trivia game ever invented, and although it wasn't a squeaker like prior years, nonetheless 2008 was an exciting year. Three individuals played enough games this year to qualify for the belt, and although we lost one of them, John Cooper, to a move to Tennessee, we have several up-and-comers who I'm sure will make a charge for the prize next year: the father-son duo of Max Foizey and Rick Sanborn, and the show's producer Becca.

Now, to the results, third place this year with 263.32 belt points was Tony Colombo. In at second was last year's champ, John Cooper at 440.16.

And now, this year's winner...he won the first annual belt in 2006. He lost the 2007 belt on the last day on the last question to a formidable foe in John Cooper. And here, in 2008, he has used that last-minute loss to drive his strength and determination to not only win this year's belt, but to destroy the competition.

This year he has broken and sometimes rebroken the record on every stat in the book. And we know how big this book is with the way I keep stats.

This year he has won as many games as he's lost. And what is more amazing, is not only has he outscored every 2008 halfwit COMBINED by 800 points, but he has answered more questions right, and outscored everyone - including himself - who played during the 2006 inaugural season of Halfwits.

This is why it is no suprise that, whereas the past belts were won with slightly above par scores of 556 and 561 belt points, this year the winning score is an amazing 848. To put it another way, if this were baseball and the past titles were won with a .350 batting average, this year the winning mark was .530.

It is therefore my great honor and privilege to, on behalf of DGS fans everywhere, be awarding the 2008 Battle of the Halfwits Championship Belt to the man who is the Babe Ruth of Halfwits, the Michael Jordan of Halfwits, and the Evil Knievel of Halfwits all rolled up into one strange DNA soup: the nicest guy in St. Louis Radio, 2008 Battle of the Halfwits Champion: Thomas Faron Terbrock.

Who can disagree with this list or this result?

Anyway, keep it here or rather HERE for chat and video coverage tonight. Happy Jihad and I will be bringing you live insight into the election as the night wears on.
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My final prediction: Barack Obama 311 - John McCain 227 with Senator Obama winning the popular vote 50.62 to 46.36 percent (third parties get 4.26%).

Senator Obama should be the first Democrat to win 50% since Carter in 1976, and have the strongest percentage of a Democrat since LBJ in 1964. Electoral Vote wise however he'll lag behind Clinton and be comparable to Truman, Kennedy or Carter. (Or Nixon's first term to throw in a GOP comparable).

How can McCain win? I'm glad you asked....on YayPolitics you will see state by state predictions (final version up around 5:30 pm tonight). But if you assume my McCain states are correct, then you start picking off the Obama states in order of how close they are you get OH [20EV], then VA [13], then CO [9]. Getting these three states will swing 42 from Obama to McCain and create a 269-269 tie. All three states are under 5% so are close to the margin of error. Is it possible? Sure! Likely? Not really.

So get out, vote! And join us here tonight if you would.

Yay! Politics!

It's baaaaack...

The new St. Louis Classic Rock page is up and mostly done. So go take a look, listen in, and WIN!.

Ok there is no WIN part but you know what I mean.

StLouisClassicRock.com

Happy Halloween to all! Looks like there was a glitch with where I normally get my audio for both last night's Halloween show and Halfwits/Sweet Sixteen on Wednesday. But hopefully that will be rectified soon and by Monday I'll have all the audio and updated stats up.

In the meantime, be safe and have a great Halloween!

Congratulations to Mr. Gilmour for winning this very tight battle; I think I had to play tiebreaker more on this bracket than on all other OVOSS's combined!

But we also had the best participation on this one.

As there was no Top 20 done this month, for next month's Our Very Own Sweet Sixteen, I'll be doing a special edition about the site.

Thanks to all who played!

Forget it, it's over. There is just no way for Terbrock to lose this now. I mean he's an even bigger lock than Obama for President on this one. I suppose he could have a total collapse still but face it: he locked it up this week. 1600 points and a record-shattering 33 questions right (previous record was only 28), Tom T. decided to just slam the gauntlet down and once and for all end this match.

So sorry Colombo and Cooper and anyone else who was in the running even for a bit but I'm going to have to say 2008 has been decided, and Tom Terbrock will be our first Halfwit to win the title twice (2006 being his other victory).

Last Friday I joined the gang at the Blues game and had the privilege of sitting next to the Terbrock clan. You should have seen and heard just how proud they were of their Tommy, not just with Halfwits but with everything else. Ok so mostly Halfwits.

So what will the rest of 2008 be like? Who knows, maybe Cooper can call in a few times to keep Tommy humble. But 2009 will look very interesting indeed. Max Foizey and Becca have proven to be formidable opponents, but unfortunately they started the year when it was almost over. And maybe with his time off, Tony Colombo is now rested and recharged for a new fight. So we might see a four-way battle in 2009 plus some Rick Sanborn as well.

The original goal of this category was to name the best album in terms of how it was overall: song-to-song flow, packaging etc. It looks like they went a bit off that as some obvious picks were missed such as King Crimson's
CLICK FOR FULL SIZE"In the Court of the Crimson King" and the multimedia event that was Pink Floyd's
CLICK FOR FULL SIZE"The Wall"

What else do you think was missing?