We here at Fat Man After Dark are proud to sponsor a World Cup contest known as the Joberg 9. Nine people were invited to participate in this contest based on their interest in international soccer and their knowledge. These nine will compete for an Amazon.com gift certificate and the Garrincha Cup, named after the footballer from Brazil. Their selections begin in the knockout round and here they are:

Papa Oggie
Second Round Winners
Uruguay
United States
Netherlands
Brazil

As the dog days of summer are upon us, we here at the Fat Man After Dark Institute are looking for new ways to entertain ourselves and you, the four loyal people who come to this website regularly that aren't spammers from a former Soviet republic. After a night of drinking Everclear and Oreo Cakesters, we came up with The Band-Aid.

Cameron is Prime Minister of UK

After a tumultuous five days of uncertainty, David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 8.35pm on May 11th, 2010. The event, formally known as Kissing Hands, capped a period of uncertainty stemming from the election on May 6th. But Cameron's elevation does not come without cost; he must govern in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Jason Jorgenson is an old friend of Fat Man After Dark. He is a Brit currently exiled by the Time Lord High Council to the United States and is a proud Scottish Tory. He has a love for parliamentary procedure, buffets, and the non-word irregardless.

Jason Jorgenson is an old friend of Fat Man After Dark. He is a Brit currently exiled by the Time Lord High Council to the United States and is a proud Scottish Tory. He has a love for parliamentary procedure, buffets, and the non-word irregardless.

“I have a better chance of regrowing hair on my head than Smarty Jones does of winning this race” – FMAD Senior (my father) on the afternoon of May 1, 2004. Hours later, Smarty Jones would win the Kentucky Derby.

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Poker pro Annie Duke brought her (and co-founder Don Cheadle’s) Ante Up For Africa charity tournament series to Washington DC last week. Cheadle and Duke founded Ante Up For Africa to assist humanitarian efforts in Africa, chiefly to help stop the genocide in and help rebuild Darfur, Sudan. Cheadle and Duke customarily bring attention to their cause by hosting an annual tournament in conjunction with the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Ron Motta will be the first to tell you that he isn’t good friends with Conan O’Brien but compared to most of us, he was like Conan’s twin. Motta was an intern on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and later served in various capacities on the show before leaving in 1999. He would go on to have a successful career in entertainment journalism and now serves as entertainment columnist at Daily Lounge.

I have a very good friend, someone I could even describe as the big sister I never had. We have had ups and downs like all of us do in all our relationships but it was my honor to join with many others in celebrating her wedding recently. Above and beyond this being a special occasion for anyone, she had become a well-known blogger in the wedding planning world as she talked about her experiences in preparing her perfect day, so the wedding took on added significance for thousands of people who followed her story as The Relentless Bride.