"Top Dog is Dead"

As of April 15th Top Dog will be no longer. The nightclub/sports bar will now go after a different crowd according the Courier-Post. The owner will make it another cookie cutter family grill and dinning place. The upstairs club will now be only for banquets.

"To, stay in this business you have to change with the time" said the bar owner.

I didn't realize that going out trying to meet people and getting drunk was out of style. But, I guess I am not in the biz. The place will have a more girly name and be known as "Taylor's Grill". Apperently, there is one in Willamstown already. I recall the owner wanting to open up ap place. I guess I just never noticed it opened since I am not in the target customer age range.

I did enjoy the bands there, and I am sure a lot of people will miss that. But, I honestly only have gone there like 3 times a year the last two years if that. But, still its sad since I went there for my 21st birthday that it will be converted into a lame dime a dozen family place.

HAlf shirts will be replaced by blue hair and early bird specials.

I have to be honest though the few times I ate there I didn't really care for the food, so I hope that if this guy wants to have banquets that he fires all the chefs and hires new ones. Last time I was there was when I had business in the area. The happy hour buffet was pretty decent. Well it was free so.

They say the dinners will cost $10-20 and the banquets can fit over 200 people. Which is I guess where they will make their money. I don't know who would want to have a banquet at Top Dog though. I wonder how much the smoking ban killed this place money wise. Bars and clubs in NJ dropped like flies when it was passed.


Maybe Sharkey's will become the elite bar of south jersey.

Times are changing.

"28 Frozen Days Later"

Tired of the cold you are not alone?Pretty cold stuff. Toronto had the coldest month in almost 20 years. Here are some other cold hard facts. So, Chill out and sit back and read.

The average temperature in February 2007 was 32.9 F. This was -1.8 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 34th coolest February in 113 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit per decade. 1.56 inches of precipitation fell in February. This was -0.46 inches less than the 1901-2000 average, the 16th driest such month on record. The precipitation trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.00 inches per decade.

I bet its Bush and Haliburton doing this to drive up oil prices. I just can't prove it yet.

"Tucker's World Jinx"

Well if you recall my "No March of the Penguins" post you have would think the penguins were going to stay. Not so, almost hours after I posted that it became well unofficial that they were staying and now things are leaning towards moving again, maybe Kansas City again. Stupid, jinx.

"The Thin Yellow Line"

Today's broadcast of the Flyers/ Penguins game on NBC was a joke. They never had a penalty clock up the entire game. So, when players were in the sin bin, I never knew how long they still had to go. I could never tell how much longer a two man advantage was going to be either. All they did was put a yellow bar up under the name of the team that had the power play. Sometimes, that didn't even get that right by putting it under the wrong team. I know the Igloo is an old building and is why the game was not in HD today, but the fact that they couldn't put a clock up for penalties was a pathetic. As far as I know, they never bothered to even tell the viewers why their broadcast lacked a feature that was created in the early 90's. It was a total disgrace, and I imagine the papers might mention it tomorrow since lots of people are bitching, but there was simply no excuse. One of the worst things I have ever seen in all my years of watching hockey from a broadcast standpoint.