Thursday, January 06, 2005

"Top 5 Robert De Niro Flicks"

Well trust me. Just trust me. I had some really witty and important stuff to write about. HOwever, its 11 pm and my eyes are all heavy. As any blog writer will tell you there is a difference between having the blog in your head and actually writing it.

Well tonight I watched Mean Streets for the first time and it was pretty cool. Some slow parts kind of Diner meets Good Fellas.

So why not rank De Niro flicks, and don't be lame and say I LIKE THEM ALL!

Also, where is Lima Beanz?


Here is my list. Keep in mind I never saw The Godfather Part II, which pretty much means all my movie nerd friends should hit me in the balls. Heres my list.

1. Goodfellas 2. Casino 3. A Bronx Tale 4. Raging BUll 5. Mean Streets. Also he hasn't made a good movie (aside from Meet the Parents) since 1997's Wag the Dog. I never saw Brazil and only saw the first part of the Deer Hunter (I asume every thing worked out ). List them.

"In Search of Old Man Winter"

Note to Old Man Winter: YOUR LATE!


Now most of you might be just really enjoying this weather we have been having. Well if it was not raining every single day you might be. It has felt more like spring than the middle of winter with highs in the 50s and even breaking 60 for the past week.

However, I am in the minority who actually likes cold weather and snow, and so far this winter has been fairly lame in both departments. Our Deep Freeze was merely 72 hours at best of actual cold weather, and despite a few cold nights the days have been hitting highs that are way above the norm.

Now next week it's going to be mostly in the 50's and 60's yet again, so wipe that week off for a shot of snow. The winter is slipping away already and we haven't had to brush more than a dusting of snow off.

Now as most of you know that I mainly trust FOX Philly's Rob Guarinos weather call. For the most part he was dead on in December. Rob seems to think it will be till the 16-18th before we see any cold weather, and there is shot of a storm around then.

Now, some of you would be like why dont you like it being 60 degrees in January? Well nothing is open that is warm weather related anyway. Its not as if I can go sit on the beach or anything. It gets dark early, and was Jason Lee once said the sweet is never as sweet with out the sour. So, really what is the reward in spring if it never got cold to begin with?

Maybe Old Man Winter is locking us snow lovers out this year, or maybe its because my dad bought a kick ass snow blower. All I know it is there is no winter weather and its kind of lame. Just gray skies and rain. How very lame.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

"Be Back Soon"

Sorry, no for the lack of blogging. Be back soon with a flurry of blogs. I promise.
Feel free to personally attack one another or try to see how many kinds of fish you can name in the comments untill I blog again.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

2004

Tucker's World Person of the Year: Duke

The Tucker's World Person of the Year for 2004 is Duke.

Aside from Price who got married this year and finnished his tour of the duty with the marines the rest of the competition was drawfted by this year's winner.

Duke's 2004 story had more life changing events then most people have in several years. He moved, got a new job, got a new car, broke up and suffered a huge loss with the passing of his father.

A huge fight exploded between Duke and some of his friends over comments made about his girlfriend. Now some really nasty things were said and more petty person would be able to still hold on to this grudge. Despite everything else Duke put it behind him.

The breakup itself was a bit of a shock, and I imagine it sucked. It came right when he got a new job, and apartment. The job he has now pays much better than his last and has limitless growth potential. I never really had a problem with his girlfriend, but I guess sometimes it just isn't ment to be.

Now as goofy as it is for me to name a person of the year on a blog no one reads, I never really imagined that I would have to touch on serious subject matter when naming the person of the year. However, it can't go without mentioning the Duke losing his father. I knew the man since I was a kid and it was quite a shock to everyone. The two of them were really close, so one can imagine the impact.

Duke has remained strong and has been there for his mother. Around the same time his car broke for good, he moved and he got a new job.

So being the fact that his was a big part of the crew war that raged last spring which would persumably be the biggest event that would affect the state of the crew.

Despite it all, Duke still went out and had fun in 2004. He is quite a lot going for him still and even got offical possesion of Mr. Boots one of the coolest cats you will ever met. He is almost done school and should finnish in 2005, and the year could lay down the ground work for the 1st repeat of this honor.

Drinks up in the air, congrats Duke.

Later this week:

Crazy stuff, and I will cast actors to play my friends if there was a movie about us.


"Bye-bye 2004!"

Well Happy New Year everyone!

Sorry I was um, not blogging for awhile. You know how it is.

Since everyone is doing the look back in 2004 here is a quick run down.

Movies: Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ made lots of people pissed about movies.

Spiderman 2 and the incredible made truck loads of money.

Ben Affleck's career officially died.

Books:

Jon Stewart's Mock history book and the 9/11 commission report became unlikely best sellers.

Big Stories

President Bush won four more years, and plans to spend flex his muscles now that he has a lot more people on his side. Tons of people are going to move to Canada now because of the out come of the election which is great news, because there will be less people applying for the same jobs!

Anyway, the election was a fun and heated ride. Blue State, Red State, Swift Boats, Flip-Floopers, fake CBS documents, Michael Moore, "Moral Values (can someone explain to me how all those reality shows about marrying strangers are so high rated if Americans cherish marriage so much?), MIA WMD's, windsurfing, mispronouncing words, and those crazy debates.

4 Hurricanes with in a few weeks slam Florida.

Sports

Smarty almost won the triple crown, T.O. came to town, Veteran's Stadium fell, The PHillies sucked, The Flyers were oh so close and then the NHL died. The Sixers, ah who cares?

Famous People who died:



Marlon Brando
Ronald Reagan
Christopher Reeve
Rodney Dangerfield
Reggie White


IN

Bush Bashing
Blogs
ABC
I-Pods
Lost and Desperate Housewives (and I'm sure other shows I never watch).
Lasers
Cicadas
facial hair on crew members
Low Carbs
Being Gay
PA Slots

Out
carbs
Sex and the City, Frasier and Friends
hockey
Dan Rather
NBC
The Tempo

Annoying Stuff:

Ashlee Simpson: She's just awful everything about her.

The Village: I want my money back, this movie was so goofy and stupid.

Paris Hilton: Shes ugly, talentless and annoying.

The Cell Phone Ban: Only because I feel like I am the only idiot actually using my "hands free mode".

Modest Mouse: I bought the CD, they are okay, I guess.

Scott Peterson: Can someone please tell me one reason why I should care about this case? Its awful and all, but I am sure that stuff happens to other people. You would have thought this guy was the President's son or something. Am I the only person who could give a damn?

Delaware River Oil Spill:
Don't we have radar equipment that can pick up giant pieces of jagged metal in rivers yet? We can send robots to Mars, but we can't can figure out if there is stuff in our rivers that can rip open holes in boats.

Comcast's Bitching:

They really want a giant sky rise in Center City Philly. Well there are close two 200 vacant office floors in Center City right now, because companys are bailing because of the high taxes. So, why do they feel PHilly needs another skyrise? Oh, and they want lots of tax breaks on the building, and plan to raise cable rates.


The NHL lockout:

note from the FCC, the notes regarding those involved in the hockey lockout have been deemed. "indecent" they writer is bound and gagged in and undisclosed location.