"Signs of Life"

My God! Good news fans, the Flyers are showing signs of life for the first time in weeks. As a matter of fact they appear to be beating the crap out of each other. It looks like Todd Fedoruk is trying to hit Joni Pitkanen, and why not, everyone else in the league is. Fedoruk swings and misses. I don't know Monte it looks like Fedoruk is carrying his left a little low. This could hurt him in the later rounds.


Yeah, Todd "The Fridge" Fedourk hit lazy d-man Joni Pitkanen in the kisser during practice at the SKATEZONE earlier this week. Double points to catch what movie reference that was.

"Mean Streets"

Philly got out of hand this past year, and Mayor John Street didn't seem to care. We were narrowly beat by Detorit last year as far as murders. Also, it is kind of hard to say it was just one section of Philly. Check this link out with all the murders last year.

Its actually a really good break down on what happened. It gives you locations, although all the red dots the mark bloodshed might make it hard to read the words. You can sort, by sex, age time of day, and even what objects were used, which were mainly guns.

Mayor Street gave a press conf. on New Years all proud that the counter had been set to zero again. As, if he solved anything. A week before he was firing back at other city workers, basically saying they aren't doing anything about it. They blasted back saying he his the mayor and should be telling them what to do. It was a battle of the egos, but no one cared it seemed about trying to stop the killings.

Street, doesn't care too much because he can't run again. Even if he did, I am sure he would win, because the democrats have convinced many people that they are the people party. Certainly, not in this case given the fact almost all of his staff were crooks. He is either the most bumbling mayor who can't figure out all the stuff that goes on under his nose, or the most protected corrupt mayor who has his soliders protect him.

"Rise & Fall"

So if you looked at the Philly Skyline recently, you might have noticed there is something rather large in the middle of center city. Well, that is the frame of the soon to be finnished Comcast Tower. It will be the biggest building in all of Philly. I can actually see it down the street from my apartment where you can see the whole skyline.

Here is what it will look like when it is done. RIght now, its not too much to look at just the frame of a building, but its already taller than One Liberty.

Now a recent article I read about the Curse of William Penn, pointed out something I never heard before. I didn't validate this but it claimed there are actually 7 buildings bigger than William Penn. The Philly teams since 1983, when the law to not build anything bigger than William Penn was over turned have gone to the finals and lost a combined 7 times. A building for each heart breaking defeat in the finals. Could this mean the Phils will lose in the World Series this fall? Will the fall into the same fate as the others? Is this rise of this building going to make the Phils fall short? The current time table is actually this fall for the tower to be totally done. Only William Penn knows for sure. Well, also Doc Brown, what with that time machine and all.