If experience is a guide, tickets will be sucked up in mere moments tomorrow for a summertime multimedia show by Sirius radio's Bubba the Love Sponge.

Sponge - who was heard on Q102 for 73 days back in 1990, before he was fired for being too edgy - will bring Bubbapalooza to Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal on July 12.

Sponge hosts afternoons on Sirius' Howard 101 channel and also does mornings out of two stations in Florida. Sponge spokeswoman Elise Brown said she was not certain whether Howard Stern would be in the audience.

The four previous Bubbapaloozas, all presented in the last five months - in Fort Myers, Fla.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; and Chicago - have sold out. Most tickets will be $19.50 to $49.50, but 340 VIP tickets ($149.50) also grant admission to a preshow meet-and-greet with Bubba, Ned, Brent Hatley, Manson, Spiceboy, 25 Cent, Hammil and Miller.

TV people

Meteorologist Rob Guarino, who left Fox29 in December so the station could make way for John Bolaris, is auditioning for the weekend weather job at KIRO, the CBS station in Seattle. He worked there last weekend and will do it again this weekend, he says. Guarino, 44, a Delaware native, started as Fox29's weekend forecaster in 1996 and was promoted to weekdays in January 2001. He recently founded MyWeatherLive.com, a national Web community and weather service in which meteorologists post forecasts.

WHYY-TV (Channel 12) has new hires for half of its news bureau in Dover, Del.: Bureau chief Bill Cook, who grew up in Wallingford and was last an anchor in Binghamton, N.Y., started this week and also reports on Kent County. Reporter Stella Payne, last in Dallas (and hold the wisecracks about how she got her groove back), will cover Sussex County; she'll start June 2, says her agent David Brunner. They'll appear on Delaware Tonight at 5:30.

On NBC's Today about 8:30 a.m. today, Wayne's Shawn Coyle and Natasha Barton, both 27, who recently bought a 300-year-old farmhouse, are one of four couples competing for a yard makeover from the DIY series Desperate Landscapes. Barton says they hope to win because they want to have their wedding at their house.

Briefly noted

The Betsy Ross House in Old City, planning a Flag Day event from June 8 to 15, is partnering with 3M to build what's billed as the world's largest Post-It Note flag. Visitors can write brief thoughts, and the notes will be assembled. The other day, a marriage proposal went up.

Local moviemaking is filling Center City restaurants: Parker Posey dined at Tinto on Tuesday, and in a coincidence, comedian Eddie Izzard ate nearby. Yesterday, Demi Moore and Posey lunched at Tria.

Everything's coming up roses

This weekend is the homecoming of Dana O'Brien and daughters Jessica, 16, Jordan, 10, and Jamieson, 7, to Voorhees. They've been on the road since August, when the girls joined the national company of Gypsy, which ends its run tomorrow through Sunday at the Academy of Music. Gypsy is about a pushy stage mother. But Dana O'Brien insists she's not one of them. "I was involved in the business when I was younger. I try to do what is good for them, and I've learned just to be helpful. I've seen a lot of stage mothers, and I try not to be that stage mother."

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