Scores on the doors

Trivia roundup: We lost by three or four points, which we weren't horribly unhappy about given that there was a big gap between us and the people at the bottom. We were unhappy to have changed a bunch of right answers to wrong ones again, but there were a lot of true/false and multiple choice questions this week (for the Love, Sex and Romance quiz) so there wasn't much way around that.

I was cranky from lack of sleep and could probably have been nicer to newbies John and Donna and returning visitor Rafi (who, it turns out, is a regular at Googie's). But I'm pleased with my contributions, notably my insistence that castration and not lobotomy was the traditional treatment for epilepsy before the 19th century. I also got his "cryptic" clue by myself, though I just stumbled onto the answer. ("Tripped in front of the Prime Minister's door" is "fellatio," or "Fell At #10." I thought it was some variant of "fell at Tony's.") And I very nearly got a second important point by guessing that the currency of Vietnam was the "phuk;" it was in fact the "dong," but no one would have known that either.

Donna won the big prize, though, by correctly guessing that the name of a sadomasochistic heterosexual practice involving urine was "queening," and convincing me to write it in against my objections.

The low point of the evening--the music round, given over to a guest quizmaster. It's standard practice, but this girl had no idea what she was doing. She included sixteen fairly obscure music clips (the standard number is eight to ten), and made each about a minute long (the standard length is thirty seconds at most). It took the bitch half an hour to get through a single round given that she had to play the clips over to give people a second chance afterwards. I think E was the only person who applauded after she was done; she made the evening end much later than usual and ensured that Pablo, E and I would drop out of the Veselka run for reasons of exhaustion.

But it was a fun night other than that. I'm very happy to have seen Keri again before her departure, and I wouldn't have missed an all-smut trivia night for anything. Next week Liam will be on vacation, so I might be sitting home alone on Thursday. Alas. Well, it couldn't have come at a better time, given that I seem to be living in the Valley of the Dolls this week.