“The Color of Tucker”
A new Bin Laden audio tape has released boasting about his escape from the bombing of the mountains where he was hiding in Dec. 2001. (or dodging a PR campaign as Drew would say). He talks how Iraqi troops should rally against America if we go into Iraq. I guess that’s why the alert was raised to Red. Many thought a War with Iraq would an increased chance of an attack.
In reference to the color, coded terror alerts I am going to gage my frustration working my current job at Sears after graduating from Rowan. For those of you taking note I have gone one two interviews witb not luck yet, although the second is not dead in the water yet. I have turned down two job offers because of distance and they sounded like they would suck.
Color Level:
White: Happy Go Lucky. I love Sears, who cares if I spent 4.5 years in college. I LOVE THIS JOB. I went on my Razor’s Edge Experience and I found that working at the Outlet until I die is what I want.
Green: Sears: Where Else? I want to become the next Willie Borders. I want to raise in the ranks of the retail chain. I plan to do this by being dumber and dumber the older I get.
Blue: Rational level. I am going to keep this job for a source of income while I try to land a better paying job. I have to sit in front of the computer and check the papers. I must not get disheartened and remind myself I will be out of there soon. I have to call people and company’s for connections and chance. I will not grow lazy. I will not falter. I will not fail.
Yellow: Frustrated. I HATE every minute at Sears it is pure hell. I wish death upon almost every customer I come in contact with. I NEED a new JOB NOW..or I will soon go crazy. I plan to do things pretty half-assed.
Orange: Disgruntled. I am going to go and be the worst Sear employ ever. Maybe they will fire me and it will make me more desperate for a job. So I can dedicate my whole day to getting a new job and be poor. I am going to make a complete mockery of my horrible paying job.
Red: Highly Irate. I am going to go into Sears and quit and take my chances having no source of income. I am going to leave there and quite possibly curse everyone out as I leave. I might even punch a customer or two.
Today’s code is a code Blue. I hope that this stupid joke runs no longer than a month. The level can bounce back and forth like the Terrorist color code. I have to finnish duct taping my home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey for kicks why don't my readers email me at Mstkeith@aol.com to tell me if you had to pick one person to be sealed in a bunker for a long period of time after an attack who would that person be?! I will post them on here when I get enough in! Anyone is fair game from Ben Affleck to Avril to Rip Torn.
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
“The 700 Club and the Money Pit”
Brett Hull reached a milestone last night when he netted his 700th career goal. Such an exclusive club in the hockey world it only has five other members. Wayne Gretzky ( 894), Gordie Howe (801), Marcel Dionne (731), Phil Esposito (717) and Mike Gartner (most recently with 708).
Hull had gone 7 games between 699 and 700. Brett won a cup with the Stars and last year with the Redwings. Best known for running his mouth, and his ego, which resulted him in butting heads with various coaches including current Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock.
Meanwhile a big trade was pulled off between the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins that have more hockey fans shaking their heads than debating on who got the better end of the deal. Since the Penguins are in a total void of cash they had to unload their star player Alexi Kovalev ( 4th in the NHL in scoring) simply cause they could not afford him. This comes with two years of losing super start Jarmior Jagr and defensemen Bob Boughner due to lack of funds. Not only that they sent a capable d-man in Janne Laukkanen and Mike Wilson to the big apple in this uneven trade. The Penguins pretty much got a band of losers in return. The pack was lead by Mikael Samuelson, who is a good third line player. The rest of the bunch are mostly no-names or fringe AHL players. D-man Joel Boucherd, Richard Lintner and forward Rico Fata (who?) and what they needed the most 4 Million bucks.
Its sad to see such big team like the Penguins have to pretty much write off all their assets. The Penguins could go the way of the Buffalo Sabres, and Ottawa Senators who can’t afford to pay their players. Although Buffalo was somewhat a result of corporate corruption, many other small market teams are on the verge of disaster, including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Carolina.
The trade bulks up the horrible New York Ranger’s payroll even more. But look at the standings the Rangers aren’t going anywhere. Vancouver has almost 20 more points than them, kind of makes you wonder if all those players are even worth it.
Brett Hull reached a milestone last night when he netted his 700th career goal. Such an exclusive club in the hockey world it only has five other members. Wayne Gretzky ( 894), Gordie Howe (801), Marcel Dionne (731), Phil Esposito (717) and Mike Gartner (most recently with 708).
Hull had gone 7 games between 699 and 700. Brett won a cup with the Stars and last year with the Redwings. Best known for running his mouth, and his ego, which resulted him in butting heads with various coaches including current Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock.
Meanwhile a big trade was pulled off between the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins that have more hockey fans shaking their heads than debating on who got the better end of the deal. Since the Penguins are in a total void of cash they had to unload their star player Alexi Kovalev ( 4th in the NHL in scoring) simply cause they could not afford him. This comes with two years of losing super start Jarmior Jagr and defensemen Bob Boughner due to lack of funds. Not only that they sent a capable d-man in Janne Laukkanen and Mike Wilson to the big apple in this uneven trade. The Penguins pretty much got a band of losers in return. The pack was lead by Mikael Samuelson, who is a good third line player. The rest of the bunch are mostly no-names or fringe AHL players. D-man Joel Boucherd, Richard Lintner and forward Rico Fata (who?) and what they needed the most 4 Million bucks.
Its sad to see such big team like the Penguins have to pretty much write off all their assets. The Penguins could go the way of the Buffalo Sabres, and Ottawa Senators who can’t afford to pay their players. Although Buffalo was somewhat a result of corporate corruption, many other small market teams are on the verge of disaster, including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Carolina.
The trade bulks up the horrible New York Ranger’s payroll even more. But look at the standings the Rangers aren’t going anywhere. Vancouver has almost 20 more points than them, kind of makes you wonder if all those players are even worth it.
Friday, February 07, 2003
"A Crew World Disorder"
Well if I have anyone reading this who was directed from TERMINUS you are about to get lost in a sea of inside jokes and "crew" news. Well not that it has to do directly with crew members but there are a few things I want to address.
As I write this snow is falling outside my house. I figure this is a good time as any to let all know that the bounty is still out on Lima Beanz (alias Jay, Alais JV, alais Sparky). Its 5 bucks if you hit him in the face or the groin area.... 5 bucks! If he bleeds 10 bucks. PLus you need to snap a picture of this event. In order to help you out I have created a mini-profile
Where abouts: Sterling High School, Duke's apartment, Starview Diner.
Drives: Um.....a Grand AM I think I dunno I hate cars.
Hobbies: Farting, working out, science, and being openly initmate with his girlfriend in public places.
Weakness: Jenna using her as a distraction or a way to let his guard down might be the key to striking him and cashing in. He often calls her "The One" or his soul mate.
Meanwhile. I got an e-mail from Mike Price (aka harry the horse). He seems quite lonely over seas and from what I told pissed off a higher up who damned him to the mess halls. I am not quite sure where he is but he is close to enough to Iraq that he might actually see some action if we go to war. I have his e-mail address and his mailing address for anyone interested in contacting him. For that information you can contact me at mst3keith@aol.com.
He said he hopes to have a kick ass party when he returns and that he misses the crew.
My third thing to bring up is about my father's book. People ask me a lot about it. Its actually almost done and if you want to read about it go to this link here.
Mr. Hughes' Civil War Book
If that doesnt work cut and paste...I have been having trouble
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/action.lasso?-db=Promodat.fp3&-lay=Viewing%20Layout&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-recid=32838&-find
Finally I would like to address my dissappointment that Ed (aka Crew Stalker) no longer works along side with me at the dreaded Sears Outlet. One of the few co-workers I actually enjoyed working with. I dislike most of my co-workers. We had an equal amount of misery when we worked together. I think he is one of the few people I have ever met that hates that place more than I do. Although I saw his tour of duty ending soon. I certainly didn't expect him to peace out without a swan song. I had quite a few moronic pranks I wanted him to pull if he would have given his two weeks notice. It was a fun couple of years.....well not really, but I we did have some good laughs amongst the lameness. Who is going to hound me for the smallest details of my mundane life now? It won't be the same not seeing his lanky figure creepily lurking in bettween dinged appliances. Good luck Ed, at least you will never have to answer what USED AND DAMAGED means again. FREE AT LAST>>>FREE AT LAST >>>>>DEAR GOD ALIMIGHTY ( sorry Drew) ED IS FREE AT LAST!
Well if I have anyone reading this who was directed from TERMINUS you are about to get lost in a sea of inside jokes and "crew" news. Well not that it has to do directly with crew members but there are a few things I want to address.
As I write this snow is falling outside my house. I figure this is a good time as any to let all know that the bounty is still out on Lima Beanz (alias Jay, Alais JV, alais Sparky). Its 5 bucks if you hit him in the face or the groin area.... 5 bucks! If he bleeds 10 bucks. PLus you need to snap a picture of this event. In order to help you out I have created a mini-profile
Where abouts: Sterling High School, Duke's apartment, Starview Diner.
Drives: Um.....a Grand AM I think I dunno I hate cars.
Hobbies: Farting, working out, science, and being openly initmate with his girlfriend in public places.
Weakness: Jenna using her as a distraction or a way to let his guard down might be the key to striking him and cashing in. He often calls her "The One" or his soul mate.
Meanwhile. I got an e-mail from Mike Price (aka harry the horse). He seems quite lonely over seas and from what I told pissed off a higher up who damned him to the mess halls. I am not quite sure where he is but he is close to enough to Iraq that he might actually see some action if we go to war. I have his e-mail address and his mailing address for anyone interested in contacting him. For that information you can contact me at mst3keith@aol.com.
He said he hopes to have a kick ass party when he returns and that he misses the crew.
My third thing to bring up is about my father's book. People ask me a lot about it. Its actually almost done and if you want to read about it go to this link here.
Mr. Hughes' Civil War Book
If that doesnt work cut and paste...I have been having trouble
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/action.lasso?-db=Promodat.fp3&-lay=Viewing%20Layout&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-recid=32838&-find
Finally I would like to address my dissappointment that Ed (aka Crew Stalker) no longer works along side with me at the dreaded Sears Outlet. One of the few co-workers I actually enjoyed working with. I dislike most of my co-workers. We had an equal amount of misery when we worked together. I think he is one of the few people I have ever met that hates that place more than I do. Although I saw his tour of duty ending soon. I certainly didn't expect him to peace out without a swan song. I had quite a few moronic pranks I wanted him to pull if he would have given his two weeks notice. It was a fun couple of years.....well not really, but I we did have some good laughs amongst the lameness. Who is going to hound me for the smallest details of my mundane life now? It won't be the same not seeing his lanky figure creepily lurking in bettween dinged appliances. Good luck Ed, at least you will never have to answer what USED AND DAMAGED means again. FREE AT LAST>>>FREE AT LAST >>>>>DEAR GOD ALIMIGHTY ( sorry Drew) ED IS FREE AT LAST!
Monday, February 03, 2003
“Deconstructing TERMINUS”
Well it appears that a fellow web writer has taking issue with last weeks’ entry “Chewing Fat” and I actually got some other in person feedback from one of my readers. If you don’t know my liberal counterpart then click below to his link ( I think its working this time) and read for his two cents on the Burger issue. http://terminusblog.blogspot.com/
First off as far as I know the claim was A. McDonald’s food has made people fat, after mass consumption. I can’t imagine anything could be widened to actually alter that basic claim. And yes the judge did toss this right out of the court. However like a bad Owen Wilson movie it is spawning sequels. We have claim that the super size concept has made people eat bigger portions at home. Now there is even a more bizarre claim that McDonalds like the big tobacco companies has put something in their food that makes their customers (mainly children?) addicted. Despite that restaurant, the fact the chain lost millions of dollars in 2002.
So that’s the issue unless a plantiff was going to tell him how some guy dressed as a burger grape slammed him to the ground and shoved Big Macs down his throat or the hamburgler stole all their fruits and vegetables I feel their claims are pretty cut and dry. I mean am no law expert but you cant bring something to the courts, than completely change the whole case mid-stream huh?
I am not sure what Drew is trying to claim here. Maybe it’s my “ignorance” but I have heard about this story since past July. Is Drew claiming they have more underneath the blanket statement that has become water cooler conversation for half of a year? If so didn’t they think they should clarify their claim when other laws to prevent such claims were starting to be pushed for. Are they just pranksters? I have seen lawyers on cable media outlets discuss this topic and they didn’t bring up this point. I really wish I kept an article I saw few months ago about dumb lawsuits. One was when a girl threw a beverage at her boyfriend, slipped on the ice that she spilled and successfully sued the restaurant. There are many lawsuits out there like this that tie up the court system. I still think the Coffee lawsuit was a load of crap. Maybe you should get famous on this one Drew call CNBC or something and turn the nation on it’s ear.
As for the shoe bomber the point I was trying to make was that money from AMERICANS who he hates are paying to keep him alive. I was pointing out the irony. Actually if you scroll back I never said it actually cost more to make put him up. I just said we pay to keep him alive with our money. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. You had me convinced all day long that I actually wrote those words. You are going to make a good lawyer Drew. Granted I would have said the other way around if I did spell it out.I still don't see how that is true, unless it comes from all the appeals to save the person's life before he meets the reaper..
As for the punches thrown to him he deserved as he was leaving the court room he was carrying on like a maniac. They needed several people to get detain him. And yes I hope a terrorist got a shot to the lips and maybe a punch in the gut on the way to his life incarceration. I’m sorry it that makes me a bad person. I would think it was hysterical is someone beat the shit out of him in prison. He is a freakin' terrorist.
The story of the shoe-bomber became that of a goofy one because of the absurdity of the story. I guess it is kind of funny trying picturing an inept terrorist trying again and again to ignite his sneaker. However its likely that the plane would have been destroyed and everyone on it killed. However it could have been another nightmarish tragedy. Just because he didn’t succeed its already a distant memory for most people. I am sure some of my readers never even heard of him. Lets just say the 2nd plane was over taken before hitting the 2nd tower of the WTC on Sept 11th. Would you honestly just want them in jail? Or would you want them to pay the ultimate price for their crimes? Would you want your money going to a roof over their head and food in their tummy, tum-tum? Does it make me a horrible person for us to think the right think as a collective society is put an end to his existence? I mean this incident certainly would not have been another 9/11 but it was would have been a total tragedy. Perhaps one that was never solved.
Before anyone makes the argument about me being a hypocrite since I am pro-life (A topic I hate talking about and refused to bring up the other week) please at least respect my logic that they are two totally different things. One is a mother choosing whether or not she wants to have child (exclude the rape argument and all for this point). The “Choice” as I see it is if the baby is ever born or not(or killed from some points of view). Before the fetus ever had a shot to get out of the womb, its fate is decided. I wish real life was BLACK AND WHITE, but there are more shades of gray in life than licks it takes to get the center of a tootsie pop (not 3 like the stupid cartoon OWL used to say,..stupid OWL…he had better get his facts straight). The crazy dude wanting destroy a bunch of people and a tiny living organism that doesnt know the concept of killing are totally unrelated.
Now Mr. Shoe Bomber had his chance in society and he blew it. I am not saying I should decide who lives and dies and people should be killed for crimes left and right. I do however think in such extreme cases as terrorist who admitally wants to destroy the country (no lack of evidence here at all) and tried to blow up an entire plane with everyone on it is extreme enough. I don’t see many more crimes above this one. So let me get this straight the message to terrorists over seas should be, either we will never catch you, catch you than release you out of fear of violating your civil rights, catch someone innocent guy, or catch you and prevent your crime than give you better living condition than you ever did at our expense. I just don’t see anything wrong with me pondering why society can’t deem him (or anyone) not longer fit to be alive in such extreme cases like this. Sorry if that makes me a bad guy. I wonder if the Shoe Bomber and the guy who drove a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993 will be on the same prison basketball team.
How the heck do you get a life sentence plus a couple of a 100 years on top of that? Are we going to have to pay for his funeral too?
"On a Lighter Note"
So I was reading about Groundhog day some more today. Apperently he is off the mark 40- 72 percent of the time. Sadly I think this still makes him slightly more reliable than most of the local weatherman.
Also when the holiday started back in the first decdade of the 1900's they would not only make him predict the weather, but they would murder him. Ya they would murder him, cut him up cook him and gobble him up. They would make a big party about eating him. Today they just have the party and he chills.
Wait a second...I just wrote about murdering a groundhog and eating him. That poor little furry guy...thats not a LIGHTER note...thats not a LIGHTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER NOTE!
Well it appears that a fellow web writer has taking issue with last weeks’ entry “Chewing Fat” and I actually got some other in person feedback from one of my readers. If you don’t know my liberal counterpart then click below to his link ( I think its working this time) and read for his two cents on the Burger issue. http://terminusblog.blogspot.com/
First off as far as I know the claim was A. McDonald’s food has made people fat, after mass consumption. I can’t imagine anything could be widened to actually alter that basic claim. And yes the judge did toss this right out of the court. However like a bad Owen Wilson movie it is spawning sequels. We have claim that the super size concept has made people eat bigger portions at home. Now there is even a more bizarre claim that McDonalds like the big tobacco companies has put something in their food that makes their customers (mainly children?) addicted. Despite that restaurant, the fact the chain lost millions of dollars in 2002.
So that’s the issue unless a plantiff was going to tell him how some guy dressed as a burger grape slammed him to the ground and shoved Big Macs down his throat or the hamburgler stole all their fruits and vegetables I feel their claims are pretty cut and dry. I mean am no law expert but you cant bring something to the courts, than completely change the whole case mid-stream huh?
I am not sure what Drew is trying to claim here. Maybe it’s my “ignorance” but I have heard about this story since past July. Is Drew claiming they have more underneath the blanket statement that has become water cooler conversation for half of a year? If so didn’t they think they should clarify their claim when other laws to prevent such claims were starting to be pushed for. Are they just pranksters? I have seen lawyers on cable media outlets discuss this topic and they didn’t bring up this point. I really wish I kept an article I saw few months ago about dumb lawsuits. One was when a girl threw a beverage at her boyfriend, slipped on the ice that she spilled and successfully sued the restaurant. There are many lawsuits out there like this that tie up the court system. I still think the Coffee lawsuit was a load of crap. Maybe you should get famous on this one Drew call CNBC or something and turn the nation on it’s ear.
As for the shoe bomber the point I was trying to make was that money from AMERICANS who he hates are paying to keep him alive. I was pointing out the irony. Actually if you scroll back I never said it actually cost more to make put him up. I just said we pay to keep him alive with our money. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. You had me convinced all day long that I actually wrote those words. You are going to make a good lawyer Drew. Granted I would have said the other way around if I did spell it out.I still don't see how that is true, unless it comes from all the appeals to save the person's life before he meets the reaper..
As for the punches thrown to him he deserved as he was leaving the court room he was carrying on like a maniac. They needed several people to get detain him. And yes I hope a terrorist got a shot to the lips and maybe a punch in the gut on the way to his life incarceration. I’m sorry it that makes me a bad person. I would think it was hysterical is someone beat the shit out of him in prison. He is a freakin' terrorist.
The story of the shoe-bomber became that of a goofy one because of the absurdity of the story. I guess it is kind of funny trying picturing an inept terrorist trying again and again to ignite his sneaker. However its likely that the plane would have been destroyed and everyone on it killed. However it could have been another nightmarish tragedy. Just because he didn’t succeed its already a distant memory for most people. I am sure some of my readers never even heard of him. Lets just say the 2nd plane was over taken before hitting the 2nd tower of the WTC on Sept 11th. Would you honestly just want them in jail? Or would you want them to pay the ultimate price for their crimes? Would you want your money going to a roof over their head and food in their tummy, tum-tum? Does it make me a horrible person for us to think the right think as a collective society is put an end to his existence? I mean this incident certainly would not have been another 9/11 but it was would have been a total tragedy. Perhaps one that was never solved.
Before anyone makes the argument about me being a hypocrite since I am pro-life (A topic I hate talking about and refused to bring up the other week) please at least respect my logic that they are two totally different things. One is a mother choosing whether or not she wants to have child (exclude the rape argument and all for this point). The “Choice” as I see it is if the baby is ever born or not(or killed from some points of view). Before the fetus ever had a shot to get out of the womb, its fate is decided. I wish real life was BLACK AND WHITE, but there are more shades of gray in life than licks it takes to get the center of a tootsie pop (not 3 like the stupid cartoon OWL used to say,..stupid OWL…he had better get his facts straight). The crazy dude wanting destroy a bunch of people and a tiny living organism that doesnt know the concept of killing are totally unrelated.
Now Mr. Shoe Bomber had his chance in society and he blew it. I am not saying I should decide who lives and dies and people should be killed for crimes left and right. I do however think in such extreme cases as terrorist who admitally wants to destroy the country (no lack of evidence here at all) and tried to blow up an entire plane with everyone on it is extreme enough. I don’t see many more crimes above this one. So let me get this straight the message to terrorists over seas should be, either we will never catch you, catch you than release you out of fear of violating your civil rights, catch someone innocent guy, or catch you and prevent your crime than give you better living condition than you ever did at our expense. I just don’t see anything wrong with me pondering why society can’t deem him (or anyone) not longer fit to be alive in such extreme cases like this. Sorry if that makes me a bad guy. I wonder if the Shoe Bomber and the guy who drove a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993 will be on the same prison basketball team.
How the heck do you get a life sentence plus a couple of a 100 years on top of that? Are we going to have to pay for his funeral too?
"On a Lighter Note"
So I was reading about Groundhog day some more today. Apperently he is off the mark 40- 72 percent of the time. Sadly I think this still makes him slightly more reliable than most of the local weatherman.
Also when the holiday started back in the first decdade of the 1900's they would not only make him predict the weather, but they would murder him. Ya they would murder him, cut him up cook him and gobble him up. They would make a big party about eating him. Today they just have the party and he chills.
Wait a second...I just wrote about murdering a groundhog and eating him. That poor little furry guy...thats not a LIGHTER note...thats not a LIGHTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER NOTE!
Sunday, February 02, 2003
“Happy Groundhog Day”
I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Groundhog Day. If you are wondering the furry little weatherman saw his shadow which means that 6 more weeks of Winter will come upon us. Of course, he sees his shadow 90 percent of the time, but who am I to stand in the way of a furry rodent.
I think we as Americans underrate this holiday. Why not make a bigger deal of Feb. 2 . I think we should exchange gifts or something or at the very least take stock of our lives when we see that furry little trooper come out of his warm home into the cold winter air in order to predict our future. I tried telling people happy Groundhog Day, but they just looked at me like I was a freak. Like they didn’t even know that it was this weekend. What a shame.
Like when holidays are over, you are bound to feel empty and sad after reading this. I hope that you aren’t feeling too blue. Just think about that furry little creature all warm in his home and remember the Groundhog day that was. Don’t worry it will be a year again before you know it.
Well for you those of you that want to keep the holiday magic going check out these two links.
http://www.briansbelly.com/recipes/game/groundhog.shtml (for you with a hearty appetite )
http://www.dobhran.com/gopher/GRgroundhog.htm
(for you “gamers” out there)
I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Groundhog Day. If you are wondering the furry little weatherman saw his shadow which means that 6 more weeks of Winter will come upon us. Of course, he sees his shadow 90 percent of the time, but who am I to stand in the way of a furry rodent.
I think we as Americans underrate this holiday. Why not make a bigger deal of Feb. 2 . I think we should exchange gifts or something or at the very least take stock of our lives when we see that furry little trooper come out of his warm home into the cold winter air in order to predict our future. I tried telling people happy Groundhog Day, but they just looked at me like I was a freak. Like they didn’t even know that it was this weekend. What a shame.
Like when holidays are over, you are bound to feel empty and sad after reading this. I hope that you aren’t feeling too blue. Just think about that furry little creature all warm in his home and remember the Groundhog day that was. Don’t worry it will be a year again before you know it.
Well for you those of you that want to keep the holiday magic going check out these two links.
http://www.briansbelly.com/recipes/game/groundhog.shtml (for you with a hearty appetite )
http://www.dobhran.com/gopher/GRgroundhog.htm
(for you “gamers” out there)
Friday, January 31, 2003
“Chewing Fat”<i>
Ah, just when I thought the fast food lawsuit was yesterday’s news. It lurks back into the news. If you don’t know what I am talking about some lawyers are trying to become famous and make money by bringing down a major corporation.
They claim that the McDonalds is responsible for their customers becoming fat. That the heartless people who run the company are at fault for customer’s diet. Although no one has ever put a gun to my head or to anyone’s head that I know of to eat their food the lawyers think they have a case here. Toss common sense out the door for this one and if the lawyers can find a loophole they will.
I guess its time to start making the kids behind the counter like bartenders and cut off anyone that appears to have eaten too much food. If this is not enough they are blaming the good old fashion Biggie Meal concept for Americans eating more at home. That makes no sense. Just because a restaurant ( I use the term loosely here) gives you big portions it means you will eat more when you make your own meals now? Uh……what about all those buffets should they be sued too? I guess those chains are not big enough for the lawyers to cash in on.
If even let this case get a serious chance its simply just rewarding ignorance everyone can tell that eating McDonalds every day or anything everyday for that matter is not good for you. Why don’t these jack-offs try running around the block instead of complaining about a place that sells cheap meals. Why didn’t these people start ordering the salads when they couldn’t see their feet anymore? Its not like they couldn’t have noticed they were gaining weight. What about schools that have ice cream parties as rewards for their kids? Should the teachers have to pay dental bills?
Its just pathetic how Americans never want to blame anyone but themselves. It’s always someone else’s fault. An example should be set and block this nonsense from the courtrooms before our judical system gets any more comical.
Meanwhile the “Shoe Bomber” just got life in prison plus another 100 years or so. This is when I don’t understand why we don’t just oft the criminal. Why don’t lawyers try to get him for the attempted murder of every person on the entire flight? This is why Id like to see death penalty these cases. Instead, we give him a sentence over a century long. That way the people of the country he has so much contempt and hatred for don’t have to pay for a roof over his head and his meals. I honestly hope the guards got some good shots in on him as he struggled to escape leaving the courtroom. However, if they did I bet they all get sued for beating up a convicted terrorist. I just hope his meals are made out of low fat, because I smell another lawsuit and am sure there is a scumbag lawyer hoping to cash in on this one somewhere.
Ah, just when I thought the fast food lawsuit was yesterday’s news. It lurks back into the news. If you don’t know what I am talking about some lawyers are trying to become famous and make money by bringing down a major corporation.
They claim that the McDonalds is responsible for their customers becoming fat. That the heartless people who run the company are at fault for customer’s diet. Although no one has ever put a gun to my head or to anyone’s head that I know of to eat their food the lawyers think they have a case here. Toss common sense out the door for this one and if the lawyers can find a loophole they will.
I guess its time to start making the kids behind the counter like bartenders and cut off anyone that appears to have eaten too much food. If this is not enough they are blaming the good old fashion Biggie Meal concept for Americans eating more at home. That makes no sense. Just because a restaurant ( I use the term loosely here) gives you big portions it means you will eat more when you make your own meals now? Uh……what about all those buffets should they be sued too? I guess those chains are not big enough for the lawyers to cash in on.
If even let this case get a serious chance its simply just rewarding ignorance everyone can tell that eating McDonalds every day or anything everyday for that matter is not good for you. Why don’t these jack-offs try running around the block instead of complaining about a place that sells cheap meals. Why didn’t these people start ordering the salads when they couldn’t see their feet anymore? Its not like they couldn’t have noticed they were gaining weight. What about schools that have ice cream parties as rewards for their kids? Should the teachers have to pay dental bills?
Its just pathetic how Americans never want to blame anyone but themselves. It’s always someone else’s fault. An example should be set and block this nonsense from the courtrooms before our judical system gets any more comical.
Meanwhile the “Shoe Bomber” just got life in prison plus another 100 years or so. This is when I don’t understand why we don’t just oft the criminal. Why don’t lawyers try to get him for the attempted murder of every person on the entire flight? This is why Id like to see death penalty these cases. Instead, we give him a sentence over a century long. That way the people of the country he has so much contempt and hatred for don’t have to pay for a roof over his head and his meals. I honestly hope the guards got some good shots in on him as he struggled to escape leaving the courtroom. However, if they did I bet they all get sued for beating up a convicted terrorist. I just hope his meals are made out of low fat, because I smell another lawsuit and am sure there is a scumbag lawyer hoping to cash in on this one somewhere.
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
“I Want to Believe”
The phrase go Eagles remains outside the Somerdale Taco Bell. Remains of a shattered dream however it appears the good people of South Jersey are jumping the next sports bandwagon. Farther down the pike right before you hop on to 295 to go to the game a liquor store hangs the phrase go Flyers. Many local columnists tired to cheer up their loyal readers this past week trying to convince disheartened Eagles fans especially that there was another winner in town.
The Flyers record puts them in the top five in the league believe it or not. If you hear the coach talk you hear the same words echoed by the last four guys that have been behind the bench. How their system is great and everyone is buying into it. How they are up there in the league. I want to believe I really do. But it seems the Flyers are hoping to take their annual mid-season nosedive.
Of course the Flyers wanted to wait till the local sports fans start paying them more attention to start sucking. For many fans the season doesn’t start until the Eagles are ousted. Since the spotlight has spun to them (do we still have an NBA team?) they have lost three straight. Listen to the coaches crunch their numbers to make them appear like they are good like the standings if you want to blindly hop on the bandwagon to no where. If you are a realist look deeper. Look how they have no one who can score constantly. Look how the all important power play sucks ass and has been literally 30th at times this season.
Read the quotes in the papers the same lame excuses. Oh we thought we would just have a home game and not try at all and we would magically win. Oh we played against a bad team so why bother trying at all? The minute one play goes wrong they all go completely retarded and regress to the mentality of pee wee hockey players. For God sakes how hard is it to realize to they have to shoot the freaking puck on the power play. You have one more player than the other team. All they do is pass it like a hot potato and at times they are the weakest most obvious plays that anyone with a quarter of brain can see coming. Their favorite lame pass is point to point so the opposition can easily pick off the puck. When the do shoot the puck they make sure that the player who shoots it is at a horrendous angel that could only result in a goal if it was a video game. Either that or their shots from the post miss be a mile. They have zero ability to overcome and kind of adversity. Something they have lacked for years, and that’s why they are losers.
I drug my sick ass out to the game last night and all those heartless pricks did was skate around like zombies. I think the only shots they had on call was accidental from the dumping and chasing. No wonder people show up late and skip games now. Something considered a sin in years past in these parts. All I ask is lose a good game in a fun. Like good down swinging. Every game they lose you know they are going to lose from the drop of the puck. You can tell when they skate in a daze and apathetically pursue the puck. You know when the ice it 100 times in the first period its going to be a game to write off.
I know I know it’ a long season. But you know damn right well that they are going to lose a bunch in a row again right before the end of the season. That way they are in the same mental state they always are to get ousted from the post-season like a bunch of zombies. I want to buy into what the coach is saying how the team has improved, but it still looks like the same team. Many fans think they wont make it past the first round again. The sprit at the FU center was really low last night. Even if they do manage to past the Devils in the standings (look for a good old heartless lost to the NJ tomorrow night) they won’t impress me until they win four freaking games in the post season. I don’t think that’s even asking much really.
The All-Star game is this weekend, and that’s when a bunch of GMs get together and make deals. I pray Clarke will make a big trade to rejuice the team. However I know he will just get some asshole who has being playing in Europe cause no one in the NHL wants his has-been ass. Luckily those type of players can always find a home in South Philly. Does anyone know what Esa Tikkenan is doing these days?
The phrase go Eagles remains outside the Somerdale Taco Bell. Remains of a shattered dream however it appears the good people of South Jersey are jumping the next sports bandwagon. Farther down the pike right before you hop on to 295 to go to the game a liquor store hangs the phrase go Flyers. Many local columnists tired to cheer up their loyal readers this past week trying to convince disheartened Eagles fans especially that there was another winner in town.
The Flyers record puts them in the top five in the league believe it or not. If you hear the coach talk you hear the same words echoed by the last four guys that have been behind the bench. How their system is great and everyone is buying into it. How they are up there in the league. I want to believe I really do. But it seems the Flyers are hoping to take their annual mid-season nosedive.
Of course the Flyers wanted to wait till the local sports fans start paying them more attention to start sucking. For many fans the season doesn’t start until the Eagles are ousted. Since the spotlight has spun to them (do we still have an NBA team?) they have lost three straight. Listen to the coaches crunch their numbers to make them appear like they are good like the standings if you want to blindly hop on the bandwagon to no where. If you are a realist look deeper. Look how they have no one who can score constantly. Look how the all important power play sucks ass and has been literally 30th at times this season.
Read the quotes in the papers the same lame excuses. Oh we thought we would just have a home game and not try at all and we would magically win. Oh we played against a bad team so why bother trying at all? The minute one play goes wrong they all go completely retarded and regress to the mentality of pee wee hockey players. For God sakes how hard is it to realize to they have to shoot the freaking puck on the power play. You have one more player than the other team. All they do is pass it like a hot potato and at times they are the weakest most obvious plays that anyone with a quarter of brain can see coming. Their favorite lame pass is point to point so the opposition can easily pick off the puck. When the do shoot the puck they make sure that the player who shoots it is at a horrendous angel that could only result in a goal if it was a video game. Either that or their shots from the post miss be a mile. They have zero ability to overcome and kind of adversity. Something they have lacked for years, and that’s why they are losers.
I drug my sick ass out to the game last night and all those heartless pricks did was skate around like zombies. I think the only shots they had on call was accidental from the dumping and chasing. No wonder people show up late and skip games now. Something considered a sin in years past in these parts. All I ask is lose a good game in a fun. Like good down swinging. Every game they lose you know they are going to lose from the drop of the puck. You can tell when they skate in a daze and apathetically pursue the puck. You know when the ice it 100 times in the first period its going to be a game to write off.
I know I know it’ a long season. But you know damn right well that they are going to lose a bunch in a row again right before the end of the season. That way they are in the same mental state they always are to get ousted from the post-season like a bunch of zombies. I want to buy into what the coach is saying how the team has improved, but it still looks like the same team. Many fans think they wont make it past the first round again. The sprit at the FU center was really low last night. Even if they do manage to past the Devils in the standings (look for a good old heartless lost to the NJ tomorrow night) they won’t impress me until they win four freaking games in the post season. I don’t think that’s even asking much really.
The All-Star game is this weekend, and that’s when a bunch of GMs get together and make deals. I pray Clarke will make a big trade to rejuice the team. However I know he will just get some asshole who has being playing in Europe cause no one in the NHL wants his has-been ass. Luckily those type of players can always find a home in South Philly. Does anyone know what Esa Tikkenan is doing these days?
Friday, January 24, 2003
“My Computer”
I am in the midst of completing an upgrade for my computer. The process began when I realized that my computer would not support the only PC NHL video game NHL 2003 put out by EA sports. A simple fix I would assume. Just get the video card and away we go!
Well my friend (and hater of Jay and Drew) Dan K. reluctantly aided me in my quest to upgrade my PC. However, after the 2nd video card didn’t work he told me it wasn’t the video card. She the “mother board” would not acknowledge the existence of the new video card. He told me perhaps he would have to bend my case. We tried that but nothing happened. He than told me perhaps it was the power supply which had may be lying to me (via its label) how much power it actually distributes through the whole…uh tower. So now I am having Dan K. put the guts of my computer I have now into a new case with a well known power supply. Good luck Dan K. my computer is quite the little rascal.
In the process Dan K. put a new memory chip on in my computer. I guess I am too ignorant to tell the difference, because my damn computer still seems to run slow and crash constantly. I fear it will crash before I finish typing this. It likes to tell me quite often that I am performing illegal operations. It gives me the options of reading details (gibberish) or hit close. Both result eventually in my computer crashing. Another favorite gag my PC pulls on me is the old freeze up for no good reason and lock up every program gag. My PC loves this one because I can do little or nothing to solve it.
Another common joke my PC plays on me is giving me vague errors in computer jargon that would have the e four-eyed dork on TECH TV scratching his head. My computer thinks its even funnier to pull this gag when I am trying to print stuff. Sometimes it lets me END TASK, but won let me open program I am in at the time anyway.
My computer is such a prankster don’t ask me how, but for the awhile my homepage (is that right term?) for Internet Explorer was are you 18? .com. Since I look at porn maybe 3 times a year on here I doubt I was the culprit. That little devil of a PC that I have was snickering I could hear it. Little whirling and things turning over, yeah that’s not a computer shifting through files…its mocking me.
My PC is having trouble keeping a straight face thinking I will actually be playing NHL 2003 before the league has its next lockout. The same computer who likes to play the “Hide the Download” game which its quite good at it. Many a time I down load an “application” and when my computer proudly exclaims…FILES DONE. It sends me on a virtual scavenger hunt and it no where to be found. If the PC is in a good mood will set things up for me it usually likes it when I stoke its CD Racer drive. I guess it’s as close to a G-spot as it has. Not that I know where to find a G-spot on a girl.
My computer’s partner in crime is AOL. AOL likes to not let me online or randomly quick me off. When AOL gets tired of this joke the PC takes over and just crashes everything so I have to reboot my computer. Granted the 56k modem it equal to cups and a string (at least by Dan K standards).
Dan K. has names for all of his computers. If I named mine I guess it might corky after the retard on the earily 90’s movie Life Goes On. Maybe just Silly the Lovable PC clown who always messes around! Perhaps I can call it LAME BOX.
So the next time I am IMING and slam my buddylist door in your face, or the echoing sounds of fists hitting a keyboard echo through the neighborhood. Just sit back laugh slap your knee and say….wahoooooo that’s that whacky computer again!.
“The Barber Shop Remarks”
I just watched the Barber Shop last night for the first time. A solid well made comedy which came out early last year. The movie got some flack last year because of jokes made be Cedric the Entertainer’s character about famous African-American figures.
His character a bit of a bumbling older barber (who never seems to do any actual work) made remarks about how the black culture hypes up Rose Parks too much. He claimed all she did was sit her lazy ass down. He also claimed how annoying Jesse Jackson is and how Martin Luther King was a whore monger.
Now Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr played a big part in the history of civil right and American history. If it wasn’t for the words of King the civil right movement would not have gotten that gigantic push it needed. Not everything he wanted to come true has just yet unfortunately. Rose Parks gives a face and name to that era. Jackson too me is hypocrite and a racist (reverse racism was also a subject of the film).
However Cedric’s claims of King were true. I know this because a than friend of a family member worked for the FBI and followed him around. It would seem every time he arrived some where hookers were ready for him, and they were always white ones. I have read these accounts in other places enough to accept them as fact. But you never hear him and him and all his hookers when his b-day comes around. Just the good he did for the nation. Which I have no problem with. Unlike Columbus’s b-day when we hear what a terrible person he was, or presidents day when we hear how Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner.
The fact is it was liberal knee jerk reaction. First of Cedric’s character was a bit of an idiot. Second off the characters of the movie jumped down his throat immediately. Third one of the films main purpose’s was to bring up topics relating to African-American culture today. That was why the people hung out at the barber shop all day to speak their mind. So big deal. How many jokes about famous figures of history were made in films? 1,000s. Does it make a difference if they make them about black figures? Is that racist? Insensitive? Of course not. This film was made by for and by African Americans (not that its not a really good movie for everyone to enjoy) and I about Cedric meant (or even thought he would have the ability to ) to change everyone’s view of the people he mentioned drastically. Okay, maybe about O.J. but people already have made their mind up about that one.
Meanwhile you have this movie being made about the life of Christ by Mel Gibson (perhaps committing career suicide) who is getting harassed by the media. People are harassing him constantly and family members on a regular basis. Even his father is being harassed who has nothing to do with anything. Mainly because of they find dirt on Gibson they it will be easier to shoot down the film. In this day in age you cant, make a movie about Christ with out him being gay or a movie ripping Christianity. When Gibson shakes down the culprit, don’t gasp too hard when his New York Times press pass comes falling to the ground.
Anyway the film ment no harm by the remark I am sure. It always all about getting along and living together. I don’t see why such figures are not held up the same mockery as every other public figure. Just read a politic cartoon and see how off base some of them can be. Why walk on eggshells and not make a joke if you want to just because the color of their skin? Recently when the film was released on DVD Spike Lee said Cedric’s comments weren’t funny and children will grow up thinking poorly of Parks and King. Well if your kids are getting their education from Cedric the Entertainer you might want to relocate them. I am sure Cedric is thankful for the paths burned by King and the movement. Just ask him if you ever see him before he steps into his limo.
I am in the midst of completing an upgrade for my computer. The process began when I realized that my computer would not support the only PC NHL video game NHL 2003 put out by EA sports. A simple fix I would assume. Just get the video card and away we go!
Well my friend (and hater of Jay and Drew) Dan K. reluctantly aided me in my quest to upgrade my PC. However, after the 2nd video card didn’t work he told me it wasn’t the video card. She the “mother board” would not acknowledge the existence of the new video card. He told me perhaps he would have to bend my case. We tried that but nothing happened. He than told me perhaps it was the power supply which had may be lying to me (via its label) how much power it actually distributes through the whole…uh tower. So now I am having Dan K. put the guts of my computer I have now into a new case with a well known power supply. Good luck Dan K. my computer is quite the little rascal.
In the process Dan K. put a new memory chip on in my computer. I guess I am too ignorant to tell the difference, because my damn computer still seems to run slow and crash constantly. I fear it will crash before I finish typing this. It likes to tell me quite often that I am performing illegal operations. It gives me the options of reading details (gibberish) or hit close. Both result eventually in my computer crashing. Another favorite gag my PC pulls on me is the old freeze up for no good reason and lock up every program gag. My PC loves this one because I can do little or nothing to solve it.
Another common joke my PC plays on me is giving me vague errors in computer jargon that would have the e four-eyed dork on TECH TV scratching his head. My computer thinks its even funnier to pull this gag when I am trying to print stuff. Sometimes it lets me END TASK, but won let me open program I am in at the time anyway.
My computer is such a prankster don’t ask me how, but for the awhile my homepage (is that right term?) for Internet Explorer was are you 18? .com. Since I look at porn maybe 3 times a year on here I doubt I was the culprit. That little devil of a PC that I have was snickering I could hear it. Little whirling and things turning over, yeah that’s not a computer shifting through files…its mocking me.
My PC is having trouble keeping a straight face thinking I will actually be playing NHL 2003 before the league has its next lockout. The same computer who likes to play the “Hide the Download” game which its quite good at it. Many a time I down load an “application” and when my computer proudly exclaims…FILES DONE. It sends me on a virtual scavenger hunt and it no where to be found. If the PC is in a good mood will set things up for me it usually likes it when I stoke its CD Racer drive. I guess it’s as close to a G-spot as it has. Not that I know where to find a G-spot on a girl.
My computer’s partner in crime is AOL. AOL likes to not let me online or randomly quick me off. When AOL gets tired of this joke the PC takes over and just crashes everything so I have to reboot my computer. Granted the 56k modem it equal to cups and a string (at least by Dan K standards).
Dan K. has names for all of his computers. If I named mine I guess it might corky after the retard on the earily 90’s movie Life Goes On. Maybe just Silly the Lovable PC clown who always messes around! Perhaps I can call it LAME BOX.
So the next time I am IMING and slam my buddylist door in your face, or the echoing sounds of fists hitting a keyboard echo through the neighborhood. Just sit back laugh slap your knee and say….wahoooooo that’s that whacky computer again!.
“The Barber Shop Remarks”
I just watched the Barber Shop last night for the first time. A solid well made comedy which came out early last year. The movie got some flack last year because of jokes made be Cedric the Entertainer’s character about famous African-American figures.
His character a bit of a bumbling older barber (who never seems to do any actual work) made remarks about how the black culture hypes up Rose Parks too much. He claimed all she did was sit her lazy ass down. He also claimed how annoying Jesse Jackson is and how Martin Luther King was a whore monger.
Now Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr played a big part in the history of civil right and American history. If it wasn’t for the words of King the civil right movement would not have gotten that gigantic push it needed. Not everything he wanted to come true has just yet unfortunately. Rose Parks gives a face and name to that era. Jackson too me is hypocrite and a racist (reverse racism was also a subject of the film).
However Cedric’s claims of King were true. I know this because a than friend of a family member worked for the FBI and followed him around. It would seem every time he arrived some where hookers were ready for him, and they were always white ones. I have read these accounts in other places enough to accept them as fact. But you never hear him and him and all his hookers when his b-day comes around. Just the good he did for the nation. Which I have no problem with. Unlike Columbus’s b-day when we hear what a terrible person he was, or presidents day when we hear how Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner.
The fact is it was liberal knee jerk reaction. First of Cedric’s character was a bit of an idiot. Second off the characters of the movie jumped down his throat immediately. Third one of the films main purpose’s was to bring up topics relating to African-American culture today. That was why the people hung out at the barber shop all day to speak their mind. So big deal. How many jokes about famous figures of history were made in films? 1,000s. Does it make a difference if they make them about black figures? Is that racist? Insensitive? Of course not. This film was made by for and by African Americans (not that its not a really good movie for everyone to enjoy) and I about Cedric meant (or even thought he would have the ability to ) to change everyone’s view of the people he mentioned drastically. Okay, maybe about O.J. but people already have made their mind up about that one.
Meanwhile you have this movie being made about the life of Christ by Mel Gibson (perhaps committing career suicide) who is getting harassed by the media. People are harassing him constantly and family members on a regular basis. Even his father is being harassed who has nothing to do with anything. Mainly because of they find dirt on Gibson they it will be easier to shoot down the film. In this day in age you cant, make a movie about Christ with out him being gay or a movie ripping Christianity. When Gibson shakes down the culprit, don’t gasp too hard when his New York Times press pass comes falling to the ground.
Anyway the film ment no harm by the remark I am sure. It always all about getting along and living together. I don’t see why such figures are not held up the same mockery as every other public figure. Just read a politic cartoon and see how off base some of them can be. Why walk on eggshells and not make a joke if you want to just because the color of their skin? Recently when the film was released on DVD Spike Lee said Cedric’s comments weren’t funny and children will grow up thinking poorly of Parks and King. Well if your kids are getting their education from Cedric the Entertainer you might want to relocate them. I am sure Cedric is thankful for the paths burned by King and the movement. Just ask him if you ever see him before he steps into his limo.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
“More Movies”
Blackhawk Down **
I feel like I have no heart not enjoying this film. A friend of mine cried. Other people I talked to were deeply moved and couldn’t I understand how I didn’t enjoy the film. I am sure that the battle sequences were realistic and true to what happened. However I was utterly lost by who was who, who I should care about or even any type of character.
Before going to the film, I just knew it was based on articles in the Inquirer about a little skirmish that most of Americans didn’t know about. I knew Clinton knowingly sent unready troops to war. Drew fell asleep during the movie. All I remember about that movie is we had a snow storm around the time I saw it. This movie taught me nothing.
We Were Soldiers **
Thought this murky war flick would be different since one of my favorite actors was involved (Mel Gibson). The first half of the film involved the people before they went to war which is rarely done. We are usually introduced to everyone when they are already in some sort of war. That’s what made this angle some what fresh.
However the move slips into the doldrums after the battle scenes become mundane. Some cool violent moments however there isn’t anything that would merit a 2nd viewing. I guess it seemed cooler on the big screen.
The Comedian ***
A few years after the demise of his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld decided to retire every joke he ever did. including the bits that made him famous. So he went on the road playing in dive comedy clubs with all new material. A once polished performer stumbled over wording of his new jokes and hecklers.
Luckily for us a digital camera was running and a documentary was made about the year he spent on the road. Don’t see this wanting to see anything other than a behind the scenes look at the stand up comedy business. It offers more interesting moments than funny. Not to say that some of Jerry’s asides on and off the stage are not on par.
The documentary also follows an up and coming smart ass comedian who is seemingly as insecure as they come when he is not on stage. One classic exchange involves Jerry laughing at the new comer comparing himself to friends that are actually starting families. He seeks advice from the elder Jerry. Jerry must prepare for his upcoming gig on Letterman with his new material. Some famous stars show up as themselves.
This might not be up everyone’s alley. Die Hard Jerry fans will enjoy it, people who enjoy documentaries, and anyone who actually has a “Dream” could easily displace their own in the message that the documentary tries to convey. Very entertaining for a person like me anyway. Nice Jazz like soundtrack too.
Igby Goes Down ****
A bizarre title makes this movie hard to recommend. However anyone who had seen this one (about 15 people) were in for a treat. The strong coming of age story follows a young man who is surrounded full blown adults who are mostly hypocrites. He spends his days getting kicked out of school after school. Seeing as where he comes from a wealthy (but very messed up family) you would think he would be happy. His brother bought into the whole rich preppy lifestyle. Why shouldn’t he?
Igby goes through his life insulting people and would rather just his mom finally die. The hates this brother, hates most the people he meets, and was obviously effected by his father breakdown when he Igby was just a kid.
His mother is dying, and Igby spends time with a hot ass girl and his uncle (played hilariously by Jeff Goodblum). The story is tight, the acting is strong, and the direction is crisp certainly the most underrated movie of the year. Definitely one of my favorite films of the year.
I hyped this movie enough up that I think everyone will hate it. OH well. Perhaps we can watch when it comes on DVD at Dukes. If Jenna stays away I am sure that she will tell me what a horrible person I am for liking the movie.
Red Dragon ** ½
Remake of the underrated and for the most part forgotten Manhunter. Red Dragon is basically a big grander version of the film since it was made be on a much larger budget. The only thing is I sat through this film knowing what was going to happen and when for the most part. I liked some of the low key acting in the Manhunter better and it’s low budget feel gave it a really creepy feel.
A friend of mine become obsessed with serial killers after seeing Manhunter. Red Dragon although well done was easy to shrug off afterwards. The new ending was more loyal to the book I am told, but I liked the other ending better. Of course more Hannibal scenes were added with the film starting with him, and serving as s transition to Silence of the Lambs at the end of the film. I wonder what ever happened to detective Graham in the later films.
Two Weeks Notice **
Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock allow this movie to propel this movie with their chemistry. Even when the material seems like it shouldn’t work it seems like it does because these two actors are overly familiar with this genre. They both have done better but its not a bad film either.
The movie of course pins both love interests on polar opposites of subject matter. This one has Grant being wealthy (he is always wealthy) and wanting to expand his empire, and Bullock wanting to keep traditional NYC buildings around.
The movie like many over the years serves as a love letter to New York City with many shots of locations and references to life there. This New York City doesn’t seem like it ever had a 9/11.
Gangs of New York ***1/2
After years in the making the film finally got into theaters during the recent holiday season. The epic tale tells about New York City during the civil war. Apparently different immigrants settled in different sections of the city and didn’t like each other that much. To make matters worse the government wants to draft people for the war. Even if they don’t know what the hell is going on, because they don’t speak the same language.
This movie made Casino and Goodfellas look like a Disney film with the graphic violence. The gangs murder each other in the streets, and form alliances to a certain extent. The movie centers around a kid who grew up with this world around him and saw his father killed. When he is an adult will take part in the same way of life? Avenge his fathers death? Well you better rush out to a theater before it gets bumped to find out.
The movie boasts one of the most impressive sets done in a long time. Not one computer generated building in sight, just a good old fashion world built on a studio back lot. It might go down in history as the last such film.
For those of you avoiding this film because of “Leo” you are missing out on one of the best movies of year by far.
Catch Me If You Can ** ½
An affable entertaining (unless your Jenna securely in the arms with the smartest man alive) film about a kid who becomes a con-man. In the age of innocence (the movie takes place in the 50’s) people could get away with just dressing and acting the part and easily dupe the masses. Leo posses as a teacher, a pilot( most of the time so he can fly all around the country), and a lawyer as he travels the country. In order to fund his adventures he learns how to fake checks from airlines he never worked at.
Will it be just a matter of time will Tom Hanks catches him? The movie was good, but I wanted it to be more fun. Like when Leo banged that hot chick from Alais or the teacher scene. We seem him walking around with a bunch of hot flight attendants who he picked to go over seas with him. But we don’t get to see any of the plane ride.
The movie boggles down a bit when Leo starts falling for a Southern chick, and is oddly dark in the short spurts which messes up the balance of the generally light hearted movie. Hanks is good, but he has been much better in over roles. Kind of strange to see him in a supporting role.
Blackhawk Down **
I feel like I have no heart not enjoying this film. A friend of mine cried. Other people I talked to were deeply moved and couldn’t I understand how I didn’t enjoy the film. I am sure that the battle sequences were realistic and true to what happened. However I was utterly lost by who was who, who I should care about or even any type of character.
Before going to the film, I just knew it was based on articles in the Inquirer about a little skirmish that most of Americans didn’t know about. I knew Clinton knowingly sent unready troops to war. Drew fell asleep during the movie. All I remember about that movie is we had a snow storm around the time I saw it. This movie taught me nothing.
We Were Soldiers **
Thought this murky war flick would be different since one of my favorite actors was involved (Mel Gibson). The first half of the film involved the people before they went to war which is rarely done. We are usually introduced to everyone when they are already in some sort of war. That’s what made this angle some what fresh.
However the move slips into the doldrums after the battle scenes become mundane. Some cool violent moments however there isn’t anything that would merit a 2nd viewing. I guess it seemed cooler on the big screen.
The Comedian ***
A few years after the demise of his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld decided to retire every joke he ever did. including the bits that made him famous. So he went on the road playing in dive comedy clubs with all new material. A once polished performer stumbled over wording of his new jokes and hecklers.
Luckily for us a digital camera was running and a documentary was made about the year he spent on the road. Don’t see this wanting to see anything other than a behind the scenes look at the stand up comedy business. It offers more interesting moments than funny. Not to say that some of Jerry’s asides on and off the stage are not on par.
The documentary also follows an up and coming smart ass comedian who is seemingly as insecure as they come when he is not on stage. One classic exchange involves Jerry laughing at the new comer comparing himself to friends that are actually starting families. He seeks advice from the elder Jerry. Jerry must prepare for his upcoming gig on Letterman with his new material. Some famous stars show up as themselves.
This might not be up everyone’s alley. Die Hard Jerry fans will enjoy it, people who enjoy documentaries, and anyone who actually has a “Dream” could easily displace their own in the message that the documentary tries to convey. Very entertaining for a person like me anyway. Nice Jazz like soundtrack too.
Igby Goes Down ****
A bizarre title makes this movie hard to recommend. However anyone who had seen this one (about 15 people) were in for a treat. The strong coming of age story follows a young man who is surrounded full blown adults who are mostly hypocrites. He spends his days getting kicked out of school after school. Seeing as where he comes from a wealthy (but very messed up family) you would think he would be happy. His brother bought into the whole rich preppy lifestyle. Why shouldn’t he?
Igby goes through his life insulting people and would rather just his mom finally die. The hates this brother, hates most the people he meets, and was obviously effected by his father breakdown when he Igby was just a kid.
His mother is dying, and Igby spends time with a hot ass girl and his uncle (played hilariously by Jeff Goodblum). The story is tight, the acting is strong, and the direction is crisp certainly the most underrated movie of the year. Definitely one of my favorite films of the year.
I hyped this movie enough up that I think everyone will hate it. OH well. Perhaps we can watch when it comes on DVD at Dukes. If Jenna stays away I am sure that she will tell me what a horrible person I am for liking the movie.
Red Dragon ** ½
Remake of the underrated and for the most part forgotten Manhunter. Red Dragon is basically a big grander version of the film since it was made be on a much larger budget. The only thing is I sat through this film knowing what was going to happen and when for the most part. I liked some of the low key acting in the Manhunter better and it’s low budget feel gave it a really creepy feel.
A friend of mine become obsessed with serial killers after seeing Manhunter. Red Dragon although well done was easy to shrug off afterwards. The new ending was more loyal to the book I am told, but I liked the other ending better. Of course more Hannibal scenes were added with the film starting with him, and serving as s transition to Silence of the Lambs at the end of the film. I wonder what ever happened to detective Graham in the later films.
Two Weeks Notice **
Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock allow this movie to propel this movie with their chemistry. Even when the material seems like it shouldn’t work it seems like it does because these two actors are overly familiar with this genre. They both have done better but its not a bad film either.
The movie of course pins both love interests on polar opposites of subject matter. This one has Grant being wealthy (he is always wealthy) and wanting to expand his empire, and Bullock wanting to keep traditional NYC buildings around.
The movie like many over the years serves as a love letter to New York City with many shots of locations and references to life there. This New York City doesn’t seem like it ever had a 9/11.
Gangs of New York ***1/2
After years in the making the film finally got into theaters during the recent holiday season. The epic tale tells about New York City during the civil war. Apparently different immigrants settled in different sections of the city and didn’t like each other that much. To make matters worse the government wants to draft people for the war. Even if they don’t know what the hell is going on, because they don’t speak the same language.
This movie made Casino and Goodfellas look like a Disney film with the graphic violence. The gangs murder each other in the streets, and form alliances to a certain extent. The movie centers around a kid who grew up with this world around him and saw his father killed. When he is an adult will take part in the same way of life? Avenge his fathers death? Well you better rush out to a theater before it gets bumped to find out.
The movie boasts one of the most impressive sets done in a long time. Not one computer generated building in sight, just a good old fashion world built on a studio back lot. It might go down in history as the last such film.
For those of you avoiding this film because of “Leo” you are missing out on one of the best movies of year by far.
Catch Me If You Can ** ½
An affable entertaining (unless your Jenna securely in the arms with the smartest man alive) film about a kid who becomes a con-man. In the age of innocence (the movie takes place in the 50’s) people could get away with just dressing and acting the part and easily dupe the masses. Leo posses as a teacher, a pilot( most of the time so he can fly all around the country), and a lawyer as he travels the country. In order to fund his adventures he learns how to fake checks from airlines he never worked at.
Will it be just a matter of time will Tom Hanks catches him? The movie was good, but I wanted it to be more fun. Like when Leo banged that hot chick from Alais or the teacher scene. We seem him walking around with a bunch of hot flight attendants who he picked to go over seas with him. But we don’t get to see any of the plane ride.
The movie boggles down a bit when Leo starts falling for a Southern chick, and is oddly dark in the short spurts which messes up the balance of the generally light hearted movie. Hanks is good, but he has been much better in over roles. Kind of strange to see him in a supporting role.
Monday, January 20, 2003
“City of Losers”
I wanted to write about why I thought the Eagles would not win last nights game let a lone the Super Bowl amongst a week of hype and belittling our opponents. But people would just tell me how negative I was being. People would tell me I am a horrible person for saying such things. As a casual Eagles fan at best I don’t expect to be an expert on what happened. However, I was surprised to learn that Tampa had the best defense in the league after hearing from fans how weak the team Tampa was.
I followed the season through mostly fragments of games, highlights on the news, and headlines in the paper. I followed the story of the fallen quarterbacks. I followed what was so supposed to be prelude to the team making it to the next level. While watching the opening minutes of the game, which resulted in an Eagles touchdown I thought to myself, it just wouldn’t seem right if they won. Of course, that’s a horrible thing to think. But I just couldn’t imagine the Eagles in the Super Bowl. It’s the norm for them to be a long gone when the Super Bowl is played. The game is played by teams that are not the Eagles, that is the way I always thought it was. My head might explode if they were in the Super Bowl.
Philly teams are usually good, but never winners. When the game comes down to do or die, the team goes belly up. No matter who it is. The last time there was a victory parade in Philly was two decades ago. The Wings and Phantoms both won championships but no one noticed or cared. The Flyers game close in 1997 and choked in the finals. Then they choked again up 3 games to 1 against the Devils in the conference finals in 2000. The Sixers failed to perform a miracle against the Lakers a few years back. The Phillies broke the hearts of their fans in 1993 when Mitch Williams blew the entire season.
Tomorrow people will debate what went wrong, and try to look forward to next season. That’s what philly fans have to do. They never get to celebrate at the end of the season. It always ends horribly. Not only do Philly teams go out, they go out in embarrassing ways. Blow outs, lazy play, and just good old fashion choking. It’s a curse. The city will never win a championship. EVER. Philly it a city of losers. Every minute that goes by adds on to the dry spell. The team with the best shot this season just went down in flames.
In August the cycle will begin a new like every Philly sports team. Fans will always get caught up when a team is making a run. During the playoffs faces will be painted flags will be put on cars, signs in windows, bars will be over crowded with hopefuls. However when the story of a magical Philly season comes to the climax disaster will ensue. The Philly Sport teams are all pathetic. Good but never winners everytime the ending is the same watching some other team win.
Anytime a Philly team needs to look into themselves the falter. No matter how much the team goes through that season, they story ends the same. When it comes down to the wire they fall. Philly teams serve give other times the confidence to reach their goal. When we are the team no one is supposed to beat we become on the wrong end of the David vs. Goliath scenario (sorry drew).
So if you see man in an Eagles jersey wanting to plummet into the ice-cold Delaware River tomorrow. Get him back in your car waving a Flyers flag. Tell him this is the year of years. A parade will be here soon. Tell them the Eagles will learn from their mistakes and win it all next year. Go to the Sixers game and get your free ALF. Just be happy you have an ALF doll and your favorite sports team gives a break from your meaningless life. Just don’t expect to reminisce about the time your team won everything EVER. If you want a team that actually knows what it takes to be a true winner then perhaps you need to move out of the City of Losers territory.
I wanted to write about why I thought the Eagles would not win last nights game let a lone the Super Bowl amongst a week of hype and belittling our opponents. But people would just tell me how negative I was being. People would tell me I am a horrible person for saying such things. As a casual Eagles fan at best I don’t expect to be an expert on what happened. However, I was surprised to learn that Tampa had the best defense in the league after hearing from fans how weak the team Tampa was.
I followed the season through mostly fragments of games, highlights on the news, and headlines in the paper. I followed the story of the fallen quarterbacks. I followed what was so supposed to be prelude to the team making it to the next level. While watching the opening minutes of the game, which resulted in an Eagles touchdown I thought to myself, it just wouldn’t seem right if they won. Of course, that’s a horrible thing to think. But I just couldn’t imagine the Eagles in the Super Bowl. It’s the norm for them to be a long gone when the Super Bowl is played. The game is played by teams that are not the Eagles, that is the way I always thought it was. My head might explode if they were in the Super Bowl.
Philly teams are usually good, but never winners. When the game comes down to do or die, the team goes belly up. No matter who it is. The last time there was a victory parade in Philly was two decades ago. The Wings and Phantoms both won championships but no one noticed or cared. The Flyers game close in 1997 and choked in the finals. Then they choked again up 3 games to 1 against the Devils in the conference finals in 2000. The Sixers failed to perform a miracle against the Lakers a few years back. The Phillies broke the hearts of their fans in 1993 when Mitch Williams blew the entire season.
Tomorrow people will debate what went wrong, and try to look forward to next season. That’s what philly fans have to do. They never get to celebrate at the end of the season. It always ends horribly. Not only do Philly teams go out, they go out in embarrassing ways. Blow outs, lazy play, and just good old fashion choking. It’s a curse. The city will never win a championship. EVER. Philly it a city of losers. Every minute that goes by adds on to the dry spell. The team with the best shot this season just went down in flames.
In August the cycle will begin a new like every Philly sports team. Fans will always get caught up when a team is making a run. During the playoffs faces will be painted flags will be put on cars, signs in windows, bars will be over crowded with hopefuls. However when the story of a magical Philly season comes to the climax disaster will ensue. The Philly Sport teams are all pathetic. Good but never winners everytime the ending is the same watching some other team win.
Anytime a Philly team needs to look into themselves the falter. No matter how much the team goes through that season, they story ends the same. When it comes down to the wire they fall. Philly teams serve give other times the confidence to reach their goal. When we are the team no one is supposed to beat we become on the wrong end of the David vs. Goliath scenario (sorry drew).
So if you see man in an Eagles jersey wanting to plummet into the ice-cold Delaware River tomorrow. Get him back in your car waving a Flyers flag. Tell him this is the year of years. A parade will be here soon. Tell them the Eagles will learn from their mistakes and win it all next year. Go to the Sixers game and get your free ALF. Just be happy you have an ALF doll and your favorite sports team gives a break from your meaningless life. Just don’t expect to reminisce about the time your team won everything EVER. If you want a team that actually knows what it takes to be a true winner then perhaps you need to move out of the City of Losers territory.
Friday, January 17, 2003
“The Ghost and Christopher Arter”
Did you ever hear about things that you had to see or experience to believe? Do you ever wonder how you can hear so much about something to do with supernatural if it is not true? What you are about to read (if you choose the continue) it’s not a work of fiction that I sometimes post on here. Many of my readers thought “Hope” was a true story. It wasn’t. This is, although I don’t know if you will all think I am being straight with you.
To tell the story right let us flash back to last night when a thin layer of snow blanketed South Jersey. I drove over to my good friend Chris Arter’s (look for an upcoming feature story on him) home in Somerdale to meet up with him and Ryan. I was originally going to stay there for a short time, and than go over my girlfriends. However since I didn’t know how bad the roads were going to get, and really felt like some male bonding with my two long time friends I decided to stay in Somerdale.
It must have been literally years since the 3 of us hung out with out any outsider friends or muscular biology teachers nicknamed after a legume. The night was some of the most fun I have had in a long time sitting in the Arter basement. We sat and played Sega DreamCast tennis game for hours, while on a neighboring computer Chris downloaded pornographic video. We scarfed down Doritos and soda. This resulted in a horrifying bizarre noise coming from Ryan’s throat. All the time Chris kept suggesting to dust off the old OIJA board. I dismissed his suggestions several times. Mostly because of religious reasons.
Eventually when our thumbs grew tired and we became bored of the video game (which was actually equally as entertaining as the porn) we retired upstairs. After having to air out the house due to smoke from the fireplace I finally agreed to part take in the OIJA board part of the night of male bonding. I am pretty open minded to think that there are spirits somewhere out there. I am certainly not arrogant enough to claim to know all the answers. I think that’s part of being on Earth, not knowing the full story. If I were an Atheist, I might have killed myself a long time ago. Heck the goofy mood we were in made me think it was not going to work anyway. When I realized the box had a Parker Brothers logo on it and was recommended for children ages 8 and up, that it had to be for kids messing with each other. Okay so I will sit there like a jackass with a piece of plastic over a board.
We could not stop laughing at first( partly cause of Ryan’s throat noise), so I didn’t see it going anywhere. Eventually the piece began to move though. I thought for sure one of my friends was playing a joke on me so it was not big deal. I thought that maybe someone was just moving slightly since the piece was moving ever so slowly while Chris was asking if there was a spirit in the room. He had done before. I thought to myself am I moving it cause I am a little freaked out that it might work and we might summon up and evil spirit? Therefore, I released the piece. For a minute that seemed the case. but it still moved.
Chris asked the spirits name. It slowly picked the letters S,T,U, and at first we laughed until I realized it spelled the name Stu. Oddly, we asked other questions and we went to random letters that made no sense. At least not to us, and I was still thinking someone was pulling my leg. Until when asked when he died. The piece seemed to gain momentum and traveled to the bottom where the numbers were, and spelled a year in the 1865 (I could be off a few years.) This is when I decided to figure out which one of my friends (they both were denying it) was making the night a little more interesting. It certainly wasn’t Ryan who was barely touching it. I was only resting my fingers on it. It had to be Chris. But looking at the muscles in his hands, it didn’t seem plausible that it was just him, or the matter in which it was moving. At times Ryan’s part moved the most.
We soon realized that if we pressed harder the damn thing moved amazingly quicker. As if it took on a life of it’s own. We also realized that it could not spell so sticking to Yes and No answers were the only way we were getting anywhere. I made sure we asked if he was friendly when I really started to think something was really happening. He responded yes. Than we decided to have fun and start asking more questions, and oddly enough if the answer was Yes we would slightly move off of the word Yes, and then back on. If what we interpreted to be a big Yes the pieced would move almost to know making a big circle like b-line to Yes again.
Okay, so we figured we had a spirit’s attention (maybe anyway) we should ask him why he chose us. When we asked him who he was there to talk to we got Yes for Chris, and no for me and Ryan. WE asked him where he was from (before we started doing Yes and No) and the piece moved to the letters S,F over and over and over and over again. That was freaky. We laughed out loud a few time since we kept asking him silly questions once we believed he was from Ireland such as if he grew potatoes (YES), if he liked Irish Music (Yes), if he remembered the American Civil War (yes), if ate only potatoes (Yes, jokingly?), and if he liked Bono (no).
We decided to ask him what he knew about Chris. He told us (at least our hands) correctly picked the number of brothers Chris had. He guessed Chris was 25, which is the age of his brother. He claimed to know one of Chris’s relatives, but oddly enough he claimed he knew his grandfather which could be impossible timeline wise. He told us died of natural causes at age 56 (again I might be off a year). Eventually Chris figured his last name to be Bradley. Stu, seemed to know about Chris’s band and said although he hadn’t written the right song yet that the band would make it big in two years with Jeff as their drummer, not Drew. He also claimed to be a fan of the 90s rock band the Black Crowes.
We decided to ask him what heaven was like since he claimed to be there. He told us it was a great place where you can still interact with others, but wasn’t made up of floating clouds like many people think. He told us God was okay with him talking to us this way, and that was pretty much the only way he could communicate. We told him to say hi for us, and he said he would. He agreed that it was frustrating moving the piece, which he claimed he did with his hand. Oddly enough, he said yes when Chris asked if he had to pay to talk to us. Perhaps through good deeds? I thought it would be strange for heaven to have currency. He said he had none spoken to people this way 9 times this week. He told us that he just enjoys seeing people’s reactions, and does research on his realities from beyond. He also knew for some reason quite a bit about Chris.
He answered yes when we asked if he could see the future. He told us nothing bad would happen to us anytime soon. He however told Chris that his success with the band will not be good for him but live a good life. We asked if he knew the current condition of the world and if he was concerned. He told us the world is not on the brink and won’t end in our lifetime. He also told us that we will not go to war with Iraq or North Korea. We asked him if President Bush will become reelected, he said yes and that it was a good thing.
He knew about Chris’s brothers, and his different bands. He also talked about music he supposedly liked.
He also as it turns out is a BIG football fan, and said the Eagles will win Sunday and win the Superbowl. I don’t know how you could be a fan of sport that you always knew the outcome of, but hey.
The most tense moments came when Chris wanted to see if he could move something in the room to let us know his presence. He asked him to pick push a tissue box, but he didn’t. He asked him to pick up a glove resting on the fire place still nothing. He asked him to move a Christmas Bow. After awhile we realized that he couldn’t do that even though he agreed to try. But waiting freaked me out, because if something happened I would know for certain that someone else was in the room.
What almost sealed the deal was when we realized he was getting weak. We asked him if he wanted to go and he said yes. So the piece moved rapidly towards the words good-bye at the bottom of the board. It slid back and forth erratically (almost violently) again and again. Chris asked if we had to let go of the piece for it to end and it went to Yes quickly. He told us earlier that all 3 of us most touch it for it to move. After answering the question the piece slid to goodbye again. And went back and forth. Untill I let up and it slowed, than we all let it go.
Okay, there was a point that the piece had to been moving on its own it would seem to me. However I am not quite ready to say I know 100 % that we made “contact”. However my theories why it wasn’t a message are relatively thin. It could have been Chris fooling with us. Or perhaps one of us subconsciously was moving the piece. Which would still be a pretty cool trick. Maybe it has something to do with holding your hands in the same position at a certain angle that will make your arms involuntarily move slightly creating the illusion that the piece is moving. Perhaps the designers of the board knew this and put Yes and No at certain places for a reason. Perhaps that was just a coincidence that it was seemingly answering our questions. This would be a stretch when you apply it to the S, and F moment or the Good-bye moment. However some of the answers seemed in impossible.
Although I didn’t feel a “presence” I did feel some sort of force guiding the piece. I can’t imagine one of my friends could make it glide the way it did, but I shouldn’t rule it out. It did seem strange though that the piece would gain strength at times, and move rapidly. At times it almost went clean off the board. One of my two friends might be a really good actor if they pulled it off. I have not yet put a finger on what happened perhaps I am not supposed to understand or perhaps it is simply a fluke. It certainly is unexplainable at this point. All I know is that I will not soon forget that experience that should at the least be chalked up under the unexplained. Trust me I had serious doubts anything would happen before as ready to downplay it, but if you were there you would most likely agree with me that “something” was happening.
The more I read about these things the more I think its better to leave these old games collecting dust in basements. They sound like bad news, so don't go trying it unless you really want to experience something bizarre willing to take a risk. I think once is a enough for me, lets just say there was a Stewart Im glad he was nice. If anyone has any theories please email them to me.
Did you ever hear about things that you had to see or experience to believe? Do you ever wonder how you can hear so much about something to do with supernatural if it is not true? What you are about to read (if you choose the continue) it’s not a work of fiction that I sometimes post on here. Many of my readers thought “Hope” was a true story. It wasn’t. This is, although I don’t know if you will all think I am being straight with you.
To tell the story right let us flash back to last night when a thin layer of snow blanketed South Jersey. I drove over to my good friend Chris Arter’s (look for an upcoming feature story on him) home in Somerdale to meet up with him and Ryan. I was originally going to stay there for a short time, and than go over my girlfriends. However since I didn’t know how bad the roads were going to get, and really felt like some male bonding with my two long time friends I decided to stay in Somerdale.
It must have been literally years since the 3 of us hung out with out any outsider friends or muscular biology teachers nicknamed after a legume. The night was some of the most fun I have had in a long time sitting in the Arter basement. We sat and played Sega DreamCast tennis game for hours, while on a neighboring computer Chris downloaded pornographic video. We scarfed down Doritos and soda. This resulted in a horrifying bizarre noise coming from Ryan’s throat. All the time Chris kept suggesting to dust off the old OIJA board. I dismissed his suggestions several times. Mostly because of religious reasons.
Eventually when our thumbs grew tired and we became bored of the video game (which was actually equally as entertaining as the porn) we retired upstairs. After having to air out the house due to smoke from the fireplace I finally agreed to part take in the OIJA board part of the night of male bonding. I am pretty open minded to think that there are spirits somewhere out there. I am certainly not arrogant enough to claim to know all the answers. I think that’s part of being on Earth, not knowing the full story. If I were an Atheist, I might have killed myself a long time ago. Heck the goofy mood we were in made me think it was not going to work anyway. When I realized the box had a Parker Brothers logo on it and was recommended for children ages 8 and up, that it had to be for kids messing with each other. Okay so I will sit there like a jackass with a piece of plastic over a board.
We could not stop laughing at first( partly cause of Ryan’s throat noise), so I didn’t see it going anywhere. Eventually the piece began to move though. I thought for sure one of my friends was playing a joke on me so it was not big deal. I thought that maybe someone was just moving slightly since the piece was moving ever so slowly while Chris was asking if there was a spirit in the room. He had done before. I thought to myself am I moving it cause I am a little freaked out that it might work and we might summon up and evil spirit? Therefore, I released the piece. For a minute that seemed the case. but it still moved.
Chris asked the spirits name. It slowly picked the letters S,T,U, and at first we laughed until I realized it spelled the name Stu. Oddly, we asked other questions and we went to random letters that made no sense. At least not to us, and I was still thinking someone was pulling my leg. Until when asked when he died. The piece seemed to gain momentum and traveled to the bottom where the numbers were, and spelled a year in the 1865 (I could be off a few years.) This is when I decided to figure out which one of my friends (they both were denying it) was making the night a little more interesting. It certainly wasn’t Ryan who was barely touching it. I was only resting my fingers on it. It had to be Chris. But looking at the muscles in his hands, it didn’t seem plausible that it was just him, or the matter in which it was moving. At times Ryan’s part moved the most.
We soon realized that if we pressed harder the damn thing moved amazingly quicker. As if it took on a life of it’s own. We also realized that it could not spell so sticking to Yes and No answers were the only way we were getting anywhere. I made sure we asked if he was friendly when I really started to think something was really happening. He responded yes. Than we decided to have fun and start asking more questions, and oddly enough if the answer was Yes we would slightly move off of the word Yes, and then back on. If what we interpreted to be a big Yes the pieced would move almost to know making a big circle like b-line to Yes again.
Okay, so we figured we had a spirit’s attention (maybe anyway) we should ask him why he chose us. When we asked him who he was there to talk to we got Yes for Chris, and no for me and Ryan. WE asked him where he was from (before we started doing Yes and No) and the piece moved to the letters S,F over and over and over and over again. That was freaky. We laughed out loud a few time since we kept asking him silly questions once we believed he was from Ireland such as if he grew potatoes (YES), if he liked Irish Music (Yes), if he remembered the American Civil War (yes), if ate only potatoes (Yes, jokingly?), and if he liked Bono (no).
We decided to ask him what he knew about Chris. He told us (at least our hands) correctly picked the number of brothers Chris had. He guessed Chris was 25, which is the age of his brother. He claimed to know one of Chris’s relatives, but oddly enough he claimed he knew his grandfather which could be impossible timeline wise. He told us died of natural causes at age 56 (again I might be off a year). Eventually Chris figured his last name to be Bradley. Stu, seemed to know about Chris’s band and said although he hadn’t written the right song yet that the band would make it big in two years with Jeff as their drummer, not Drew. He also claimed to be a fan of the 90s rock band the Black Crowes.
We decided to ask him what heaven was like since he claimed to be there. He told us it was a great place where you can still interact with others, but wasn’t made up of floating clouds like many people think. He told us God was okay with him talking to us this way, and that was pretty much the only way he could communicate. We told him to say hi for us, and he said he would. He agreed that it was frustrating moving the piece, which he claimed he did with his hand. Oddly enough, he said yes when Chris asked if he had to pay to talk to us. Perhaps through good deeds? I thought it would be strange for heaven to have currency. He said he had none spoken to people this way 9 times this week. He told us that he just enjoys seeing people’s reactions, and does research on his realities from beyond. He also knew for some reason quite a bit about Chris.
He answered yes when we asked if he could see the future. He told us nothing bad would happen to us anytime soon. He however told Chris that his success with the band will not be good for him but live a good life. We asked if he knew the current condition of the world and if he was concerned. He told us the world is not on the brink and won’t end in our lifetime. He also told us that we will not go to war with Iraq or North Korea. We asked him if President Bush will become reelected, he said yes and that it was a good thing.
He knew about Chris’s brothers, and his different bands. He also talked about music he supposedly liked.
He also as it turns out is a BIG football fan, and said the Eagles will win Sunday and win the Superbowl. I don’t know how you could be a fan of sport that you always knew the outcome of, but hey.
The most tense moments came when Chris wanted to see if he could move something in the room to let us know his presence. He asked him to pick push a tissue box, but he didn’t. He asked him to pick up a glove resting on the fire place still nothing. He asked him to move a Christmas Bow. After awhile we realized that he couldn’t do that even though he agreed to try. But waiting freaked me out, because if something happened I would know for certain that someone else was in the room.
What almost sealed the deal was when we realized he was getting weak. We asked him if he wanted to go and he said yes. So the piece moved rapidly towards the words good-bye at the bottom of the board. It slid back and forth erratically (almost violently) again and again. Chris asked if we had to let go of the piece for it to end and it went to Yes quickly. He told us earlier that all 3 of us most touch it for it to move. After answering the question the piece slid to goodbye again. And went back and forth. Untill I let up and it slowed, than we all let it go.
Okay, there was a point that the piece had to been moving on its own it would seem to me. However I am not quite ready to say I know 100 % that we made “contact”. However my theories why it wasn’t a message are relatively thin. It could have been Chris fooling with us. Or perhaps one of us subconsciously was moving the piece. Which would still be a pretty cool trick. Maybe it has something to do with holding your hands in the same position at a certain angle that will make your arms involuntarily move slightly creating the illusion that the piece is moving. Perhaps the designers of the board knew this and put Yes and No at certain places for a reason. Perhaps that was just a coincidence that it was seemingly answering our questions. This would be a stretch when you apply it to the S, and F moment or the Good-bye moment. However some of the answers seemed in impossible.
Although I didn’t feel a “presence” I did feel some sort of force guiding the piece. I can’t imagine one of my friends could make it glide the way it did, but I shouldn’t rule it out. It did seem strange though that the piece would gain strength at times, and move rapidly. At times it almost went clean off the board. One of my two friends might be a really good actor if they pulled it off. I have not yet put a finger on what happened perhaps I am not supposed to understand or perhaps it is simply a fluke. It certainly is unexplainable at this point. All I know is that I will not soon forget that experience that should at the least be chalked up under the unexplained. Trust me I had serious doubts anything would happen before as ready to downplay it, but if you were there you would most likely agree with me that “something” was happening.
The more I read about these things the more I think its better to leave these old games collecting dust in basements. They sound like bad news, so don't go trying it unless you really want to experience something bizarre willing to take a risk. I think once is a enough for me, lets just say there was a Stewart Im glad he was nice. If anyone has any theories please email them to me.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
“Harry the War Horse”
If those of you that don’t know at this point a friend of Tucker’s has been sent to the middle east. I spoke with Price roughly 12 hours before his group was taken on a flight to what he figured would be somewhere in the middle east.
I don’t fear giving away government secrets or anything and I wouldn’t do that I don’t work for the New York Times. It wasn’t exactly secret since cable news network CNBC was lurking about his base for 24 hours covering the story.
Although it would seem there is a pretty good chance that the war in Iraq, has well fallen through I can’t imagine spending time in that area of the world can be all that pleasant. You never know what will happen over in Middle East, or if things will get ugly. Id imagine his crew (not the out of shape South Jersey losers) will likely have a lengthy stay in the desert since they are from what I am told well trained for that sort of thing. Their time might even be longer, since the war has been delayed more than the 5th season of the Sopranos.
Are we going to war with Iraq? I doubt it a this point. Nor am I convinced we should either. North Korea might be a bigger problem than Iraq at this point. I just hope Price is back downing beer with me safe and sound when he returns. Sorry if that sounded gay, but if anyone wants his address to write to him let me know via email.
Oh yeah, he played Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls in a Sterling play once.
“Put a Terrorist In Your Tank”
A recent commercial campaign mocks the anti-drug campaign that launched string of commercials late last year talking about how drug money ends up in the hands of terrorists. They also mentioned that the events of September 11th were paid in part by drug users even as harmless as pot users. Several people tell the camera that they helped knock two large buildings down(I wonder if Jay has and jokes he wants to add about that) and help kill innocent people.
The new commercial campaign attacks SUVs because of their poor gas mileage. Like the anti-drug campaigns, they trace the money. From some white dude pumping his SUV, to the EVIL oil company man in a suit, and ending with an Arabic looking solider. They also have one with various others.
Here is some text from the ad.
'This is George,'' a child says in a sing-song voice. ''This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.''
Now I am trying to guess what the objective of this campaign is. Is it to get the law to crack down on what kind of mileage a car can get to the galloon? Perhaps. Is it to make us feel guilty every time we fill up the tank? Not sure. Should I try to harm Rich Arter (a SUV owner) the next time I see him for being a supporter of terrorism? Is it just using the events of Sept 11th to farther a anti-SUV campaign that has been taking place since they drove off the assembly line?
Well SUVs have always come under fire for their likeliness to flip over (comically known as rubbering up). I was hit by one once, and it almost put the Tempo in the grave. Luckily, it didn’t rubber up. People said the same things about jeeps when they first came on the market. If people want to purchase dangerous vehicles for traveling at for convenience, does it differ from Motor Cycle drivers doing the same for looking cool?
That’s not the point though I know. But what about me? Is it okay that I supposedly support terrorism just a little bit? Last time I was Mobil I didn’t see special tank for the SUV drivers. So, my money went to the same place as George’s did right? So lets say I at least bought Osma Bin Laden lunch with my money at least once or twice. What about the South Jersey residents who commute to New York City (surprisingly more than you would think) even if they don’t have SUVs. They are likely to burn more gas than a soccer mom who zips around the locally. Should we round these bastards up? Lets say two families decide to go to Washington DC to see sight see. What if they could easily fit both in two cars, but take an SUV do they burn the same amount of gas?
I guess I see where they are coming from, but I think the ads are kind of silly. Maybe the drug ones were blown out of proportion, but I certainly didn’t need 9/11 to tell me drug money supported horrible people. A drive to through Camden tells me that.
A more effective ad might have flashed actual stats. up about how much gasoline they use burn up. Or an alternative solution to natural gas. I want everyone to turn his or her heat off during the cold snap in South Jersey. DO IT!
If those of you that don’t know at this point a friend of Tucker’s has been sent to the middle east. I spoke with Price roughly 12 hours before his group was taken on a flight to what he figured would be somewhere in the middle east.
I don’t fear giving away government secrets or anything and I wouldn’t do that I don’t work for the New York Times. It wasn’t exactly secret since cable news network CNBC was lurking about his base for 24 hours covering the story.
Although it would seem there is a pretty good chance that the war in Iraq, has well fallen through I can’t imagine spending time in that area of the world can be all that pleasant. You never know what will happen over in Middle East, or if things will get ugly. Id imagine his crew (not the out of shape South Jersey losers) will likely have a lengthy stay in the desert since they are from what I am told well trained for that sort of thing. Their time might even be longer, since the war has been delayed more than the 5th season of the Sopranos.
Are we going to war with Iraq? I doubt it a this point. Nor am I convinced we should either. North Korea might be a bigger problem than Iraq at this point. I just hope Price is back downing beer with me safe and sound when he returns. Sorry if that sounded gay, but if anyone wants his address to write to him let me know via email.
Oh yeah, he played Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls in a Sterling play once.
“Put a Terrorist In Your Tank”
A recent commercial campaign mocks the anti-drug campaign that launched string of commercials late last year talking about how drug money ends up in the hands of terrorists. They also mentioned that the events of September 11th were paid in part by drug users even as harmless as pot users. Several people tell the camera that they helped knock two large buildings down(I wonder if Jay has and jokes he wants to add about that) and help kill innocent people.
The new commercial campaign attacks SUVs because of their poor gas mileage. Like the anti-drug campaigns, they trace the money. From some white dude pumping his SUV, to the EVIL oil company man in a suit, and ending with an Arabic looking solider. They also have one with various others.
Here is some text from the ad.
'This is George,'' a child says in a sing-song voice. ''This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.''
Now I am trying to guess what the objective of this campaign is. Is it to get the law to crack down on what kind of mileage a car can get to the galloon? Perhaps. Is it to make us feel guilty every time we fill up the tank? Not sure. Should I try to harm Rich Arter (a SUV owner) the next time I see him for being a supporter of terrorism? Is it just using the events of Sept 11th to farther a anti-SUV campaign that has been taking place since they drove off the assembly line?
Well SUVs have always come under fire for their likeliness to flip over (comically known as rubbering up). I was hit by one once, and it almost put the Tempo in the grave. Luckily, it didn’t rubber up. People said the same things about jeeps when they first came on the market. If people want to purchase dangerous vehicles for traveling at for convenience, does it differ from Motor Cycle drivers doing the same for looking cool?
That’s not the point though I know. But what about me? Is it okay that I supposedly support terrorism just a little bit? Last time I was Mobil I didn’t see special tank for the SUV drivers. So, my money went to the same place as George’s did right? So lets say I at least bought Osma Bin Laden lunch with my money at least once or twice. What about the South Jersey residents who commute to New York City (surprisingly more than you would think) even if they don’t have SUVs. They are likely to burn more gas than a soccer mom who zips around the locally. Should we round these bastards up? Lets say two families decide to go to Washington DC to see sight see. What if they could easily fit both in two cars, but take an SUV do they burn the same amount of gas?
I guess I see where they are coming from, but I think the ads are kind of silly. Maybe the drug ones were blown out of proportion, but I certainly didn’t need 9/11 to tell me drug money supported horrible people. A drive to through Camden tells me that.
A more effective ad might have flashed actual stats. up about how much gasoline they use burn up. Or an alternative solution to natural gas. I want everyone to turn his or her heat off during the cold snap in South Jersey. DO IT!
Sunday, January 12, 2003
“More Movies”
Here are some more 2002 flicks I checked out. Man I saw A LOT more than I thought!
½ Star = BRUTAL
*=Awful
*1/2= bad
**= it was OKAY
**1/2= good
***= really good
***1/2= Put it on the top of your list.
****= AWESOME MUST SEE OF THE YEAR
Austin Powers: Gold Member
* 1/2
The franchise takes a nosedive in the third installment of the bumbling Austin Powers. What few jokes work are few and far between or rehashed from the previous two films. All the surprise cameos were cool and for the most part worked. However Austin’s love interest is lame and given nothing to do. It’s nice to see Fred Savage getting work again. However, other additions like the Goldmember himself and the return of Fat Bastard fall flat.
The story blows the shit out of the fourth wall and it makes it simply doesn’t work. Some of the film was just mind-numbling unfunny. It made me just want to watch the other two.
It was nice to see that Dr. Evil finally get his sharks with lasers. Too bad this movie franchise just jumped one.
Full Frontal
½
Good Lord. Sometimes way ahead of time I read about movies in the making, and for some reason this one really appealed to me. Sounded intriguing, and boy was I wrong! The film was a movie with in a movie with in a movie, and I had a hard time keeping track of what world was what. Plus there was a plot line about some guy putting on a play about Hitler that had absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Some good jokes in the movie, and some interesting comments about the movie industry but it was wasted in an ocean of incoherence. Easily the worst movie I saw in theaters in 2002. Everyone involved with this film should have to do charity work or something. I am thinking on writing a letter to try to get my 8 dollars back, or filling a lawsuit against the Ritz. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!! DON’T GO NEAR THIS FILM EVER!
About A Boy ***
For the longest time I have been saying to people that the writer and director of the American Pie flicks could easily write a screen play without bathroom humor or Jason Biggs humping a pie. Since this film made the top ten list of many critics looks like I wasn’t out of my mind. Underneath all the sick jokes both American Pie flicks had heart, attention to friendships and relationships and I could see the potential. They seem to like to write about the transition period in a person’s life. I look forward to American Pie 3 (titled American Wedding) and what ever project they have next, since Off Centre got axed.
Never a fan of Hugh Grant (although I think I might give his work a 2nd look) or British films( although this is like an American British film), I really was surprised that I liked this one. The movie had well written characters, a good soundtrack and was quite well acted.
Hugh was good as the rich playboy. He made millions of his fathers Christmas song, collecting royalties so he could just sit on his ass literally his whole life. He dedicates his days to doing..well NOTHING. He watches movies, reads magazines, shoots pool, tries to manipulate single girls, and listens to CDs. Sounds like what I would do if I were rich.
Under Cover Brother ***
Fresh Comedy spoofing 70’s funk movies, and lampooning the differences between WHITE guys and BLACK guys. Sounds bad, but most the jokes work, and the story tells about a group of black people who fight against the man. Apparently the Man is a real person who tries to discredit black culture with inventions such as Urklee. If that isn’t evil enough he wants to thwart the first black person to actually run for president and keep the white house white.
Jokes about African American culture such as Orange soda, fried chicken, wanting to bang white chicks, afros, and getting funky are in abundance. I loved most the characters in the film, the story progressed, despite the fact the film was only about an hour, and twenty minutes it worked pacing wise.
If I told you there was a movie that had Billy Dee Williams, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser Md), Dave Chapelle, and Denis Richards wouldn’t you want to see it? That alone is worth a rental. I might check out this Eddie Griffen fellow in other movies. I have a feeling a sequel will arrive in about two years. It could get stale like Austin Powers, but with this talented cast …”It Aint NO THANG!”
The Ring ****
I am not going to say anything about this movie for anyone who has not seen it. Lets just say it’s a damn good thriller, one of the best I have thing in a lOOOOOOng time. I knew very little about the film going into it. And neither should you. Just rent it when it comes out, and leave the phone off the hook.
Minority Report ***
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg team up for this slick futuristic flick. Tom Cruise has to catch criminals before they commit crimes. Some freaky stuff going on this film it kind of reminded me of Blade Runner and Dark City at times.
The movie came out in a time when in the war against terror had similar patterns when some suspected terrorists were rounded up before they could commit any crimes. Some innocent and some not so innocent.
If you like a good action popcorn movie with actual depth check this one out. I didn’t even know what was what until the movie ended. I mean that in a good way. Chris Arter hated the movie though.
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones ** 1/2
Months before that strange group of sex freaks claimed to have made cloned baby, a bunch of poorly done CGI storm troopers marched across a big screen. George Lucus rebounds from the horrendous Phantom Menace, but fails to reach the level the original 3 hit.
The plot has to make us see the transition form good to evil for the kid who becomes Darth Vador. It was a tough role to play, and the kid who plays him is awful. But Lucus said he doesn’t care about the acting in his films anymore. Just likes neat effects.
The movie has some incredible sequences, such as the chase scene in the start of the film. Ewan McGregor manages to get a better handle on what his character should be like this in this film. The most talked about sequence was the Yoda which was pretty good. I mean you had to have something to make audiences to understand why people respected him too much. It came close to becoming overkill though. Now that he is computer generated his facial expressions are more advanced.
Some movie magic makes its way into this movie, and makes for fun time. Despite the sub-par acting and the at times confusing plot.
However again some of the CGI effects prove to be no better if not worse than models, miniatures and puppets used in pervious films. For example that illregular looking space ship that looked like it came right out of an X-box game and what ever the heck the kid was riding in the middle of the movie were laugh out loud embarrassing. Some one should have to balls to tell Lucus that CGI hasn’t been totally mastered yet and how horrible they looked. There were more examples of that but I cant think of it off hand.
The film was a lot better than I thought I would be, and I want to bonk Natalie Portman.
Still more to come….keep checking back…..
Here are some more 2002 flicks I checked out. Man I saw A LOT more than I thought!
½ Star = BRUTAL
*=Awful
*1/2= bad
**= it was OKAY
**1/2= good
***= really good
***1/2= Put it on the top of your list.
****= AWESOME MUST SEE OF THE YEAR
Austin Powers: Gold Member
* 1/2
The franchise takes a nosedive in the third installment of the bumbling Austin Powers. What few jokes work are few and far between or rehashed from the previous two films. All the surprise cameos were cool and for the most part worked. However Austin’s love interest is lame and given nothing to do. It’s nice to see Fred Savage getting work again. However, other additions like the Goldmember himself and the return of Fat Bastard fall flat.
The story blows the shit out of the fourth wall and it makes it simply doesn’t work. Some of the film was just mind-numbling unfunny. It made me just want to watch the other two.
It was nice to see that Dr. Evil finally get his sharks with lasers. Too bad this movie franchise just jumped one.
Full Frontal
½
Good Lord. Sometimes way ahead of time I read about movies in the making, and for some reason this one really appealed to me. Sounded intriguing, and boy was I wrong! The film was a movie with in a movie with in a movie, and I had a hard time keeping track of what world was what. Plus there was a plot line about some guy putting on a play about Hitler that had absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Some good jokes in the movie, and some interesting comments about the movie industry but it was wasted in an ocean of incoherence. Easily the worst movie I saw in theaters in 2002. Everyone involved with this film should have to do charity work or something. I am thinking on writing a letter to try to get my 8 dollars back, or filling a lawsuit against the Ritz. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!! DON’T GO NEAR THIS FILM EVER!
About A Boy ***
For the longest time I have been saying to people that the writer and director of the American Pie flicks could easily write a screen play without bathroom humor or Jason Biggs humping a pie. Since this film made the top ten list of many critics looks like I wasn’t out of my mind. Underneath all the sick jokes both American Pie flicks had heart, attention to friendships and relationships and I could see the potential. They seem to like to write about the transition period in a person’s life. I look forward to American Pie 3 (titled American Wedding) and what ever project they have next, since Off Centre got axed.
Never a fan of Hugh Grant (although I think I might give his work a 2nd look) or British films( although this is like an American British film), I really was surprised that I liked this one. The movie had well written characters, a good soundtrack and was quite well acted.
Hugh was good as the rich playboy. He made millions of his fathers Christmas song, collecting royalties so he could just sit on his ass literally his whole life. He dedicates his days to doing..well NOTHING. He watches movies, reads magazines, shoots pool, tries to manipulate single girls, and listens to CDs. Sounds like what I would do if I were rich.
Under Cover Brother ***
Fresh Comedy spoofing 70’s funk movies, and lampooning the differences between WHITE guys and BLACK guys. Sounds bad, but most the jokes work, and the story tells about a group of black people who fight against the man. Apparently the Man is a real person who tries to discredit black culture with inventions such as Urklee. If that isn’t evil enough he wants to thwart the first black person to actually run for president and keep the white house white.
Jokes about African American culture such as Orange soda, fried chicken, wanting to bang white chicks, afros, and getting funky are in abundance. I loved most the characters in the film, the story progressed, despite the fact the film was only about an hour, and twenty minutes it worked pacing wise.
If I told you there was a movie that had Billy Dee Williams, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser Md), Dave Chapelle, and Denis Richards wouldn’t you want to see it? That alone is worth a rental. I might check out this Eddie Griffen fellow in other movies. I have a feeling a sequel will arrive in about two years. It could get stale like Austin Powers, but with this talented cast …”It Aint NO THANG!”
The Ring ****
I am not going to say anything about this movie for anyone who has not seen it. Lets just say it’s a damn good thriller, one of the best I have thing in a lOOOOOOng time. I knew very little about the film going into it. And neither should you. Just rent it when it comes out, and leave the phone off the hook.
Minority Report ***
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg team up for this slick futuristic flick. Tom Cruise has to catch criminals before they commit crimes. Some freaky stuff going on this film it kind of reminded me of Blade Runner and Dark City at times.
The movie came out in a time when in the war against terror had similar patterns when some suspected terrorists were rounded up before they could commit any crimes. Some innocent and some not so innocent.
If you like a good action popcorn movie with actual depth check this one out. I didn’t even know what was what until the movie ended. I mean that in a good way. Chris Arter hated the movie though.
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones ** 1/2
Months before that strange group of sex freaks claimed to have made cloned baby, a bunch of poorly done CGI storm troopers marched across a big screen. George Lucus rebounds from the horrendous Phantom Menace, but fails to reach the level the original 3 hit.
The plot has to make us see the transition form good to evil for the kid who becomes Darth Vador. It was a tough role to play, and the kid who plays him is awful. But Lucus said he doesn’t care about the acting in his films anymore. Just likes neat effects.
The movie has some incredible sequences, such as the chase scene in the start of the film. Ewan McGregor manages to get a better handle on what his character should be like this in this film. The most talked about sequence was the Yoda which was pretty good. I mean you had to have something to make audiences to understand why people respected him too much. It came close to becoming overkill though. Now that he is computer generated his facial expressions are more advanced.
Some movie magic makes its way into this movie, and makes for fun time. Despite the sub-par acting and the at times confusing plot.
However again some of the CGI effects prove to be no better if not worse than models, miniatures and puppets used in pervious films. For example that illregular looking space ship that looked like it came right out of an X-box game and what ever the heck the kid was riding in the middle of the movie were laugh out loud embarrassing. Some one should have to balls to tell Lucus that CGI hasn’t been totally mastered yet and how horrible they looked. There were more examples of that but I cant think of it off hand.
The film was a lot better than I thought I would be, and I want to bonk Natalie Portman.
Still more to come….keep checking back…..
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
I t“All You Need is Love!”
Thank you for everyone voting for the story of the year. The winner by a hair is the story of the two lovers Jay and Jenna. To get the full understanding of perhaps why this story may have struck a cord lets take a journey back my fellow readers….come let us go back in time.
Once there was this boy who carried around a bag of lima beans from place to place. A behavior so particular that it earned him the nickname Lima Beanz by his classmates. Lima Beanz dreamed of one day becoming wrestling coach for young boys. He admired the sport’s homoerotic roots and thrill of boys forcefully trying to get one another flat on their backs. Lima Beanz grew up and went away to college and made no friends, because nobody liked him.
Once there was this girl who grew up not to far from Lima Beanz. She was the girlfriend of a pastor’s son. However, she grew up too and went away to a different college, dated some guys and fell in love with her volley ball coach. Therefore, she decided to kick the pastor’s son to the curb, sending him to a period of private hell and misery.
One sweltering South Jersey summer day the boy and girl crossed paths. Ryan and I whitnessed the start of it all. You see Jenna was on a “break” from her new beau giving the chance to meet other guys that summer while come for school. That day her and Lima Beanz touched lips for the first time. Lima Beanz had to throw out his scientific theory he had worked on his whole college career that girls had “coodies”. It didn’t matter that girls found him repulsive and offensive when he openly degraded them anymore (is he spoke to them at all). It didn’t matter that most girls were turned off about him claiming to be the smartest man alive and God. He didn’t need them.
Because he loves her.
Each summer like the shobies to the jersey shore Jenna came to Laurel Springs. Each summer they did the dance of love under the summer sky. Each time she returned to school she would pull the wool over eyes of her dimwitted farmer boyfriend. While he checked to make sure each chicken was in the coop she quietly shed tears on her pillows.
Because she loves him.
One Summer she did not return, like the summer when the shoobies stayed away from Wildwood due to a sewage leak (thankfully a long time ago and since cleaned, New Jersey and You Perfect Together! ) she stayed away from Laurel Springs for the most part that summer. This didn’t dishearten the now retired scientist. He knew she would have a ring on her finger from him one day. Lima Beanz had ring of his on when he finished college. He spent most of that year sleeping till 4 pm, and sinking into debt. He worked sporadically after getting his education for a couple of years. His one boss even fired him cause he didn't like him. That didn’t bother him one bit.
Because he loves her.
Jenna moved back when school was done. With in weeks she forgot the farmer like Hollywood forgot C. Thomas Howell. She was back to locking lips with now more muscular Lima Beanz. Lima Beanz of course had done little maturing since he was a boy. At the same time Jenna decided to date guy after guy after guy after guy after guy after guy. Even Rich Arter for Christ sakes! Eventually she decided to kick the farmer to the mill. After a creepy sexual love triangle was displayed at Drewiebe 2002-bie (don’t ask) which made everyone who witnessed it uneasy and ready to vomit in Drew’s backyard. Luckily people only urinated in his pool. Despite her roster of love interests Lima Beanz was there like a loyal (or stupid) basset hound. (2 votes) She would always return to him though no matter who or how many guys she was seeing.
Because she loves him.
Over the years few girls were fooled by Lima Beanz outward looks. Though many become disgusted when they got know him as a person he had a few chances. One girl invited him to a Super Bowl party for a guarantee lay. He opted to spend the day with dudes make sloppy Joes. Another hottie (over rated actually) girl wanted him bad, despite seeing him vomit. Instead of rebounding from that foul, he fumbled. I think I just mixed up 3 sports in that sentence. Good thing no one reads Tucker’s World. Anyway…Lima Beanz even botched up a hook up with Russian Vixen.
Because he loves her.
After dating the equivalent of the population oh Hi-Nella Jenna decides on the day people observe the birth of Christ (sorry drew) that Lima Beanz is her man. She needs a man that who is chronically unemployed., enjoys farting in public places, still finds amusement in playing the penis game while approaching his mid-twenties, checks outs his own body, makes jokes about the events of Sept. 11th, picks on Drew, fears a cigarette smoking man, has blatant repressed homosexual tendencies, is a little girl about his hair, wants retards dead, hated by the vast majority of society including Ryan’s father, has little or no money, has no respect for property of other people, leaves idle cars ignored for months on end, shares a room with this brother, has less ambitious drive than Ryan has a sex drive, socially retarded when talking to authority figures and votes for the same story of the year as her.
Because she loves him.
The odds are stacked against him and their relationship is more controversial than Bush Administration’s relationship with Enron (despite the fact Clinton had an similar relationship) . Jay might only have a pocket full of lima beans and an empty wallet. But he has key to Dukes apartment for nice romantic evenings, and a key to Jenna’s heart. Despite Lima Beanz knowing for years that she is “The One” to the mockery of his peers, and critics pointing out Jennas fickle cold heart and neither them having the job they want everything is going to be okay.
Because all you need is love.
“Rich Men, Poor Men”
I still am not sure about the whole tax cut, because I simply don’t know enough about the economy to know if it will fix the situation. Unfortunately, it is not something I can write strongly about and state a side just yet.
One point of the tax cut (as I understand I could be wrong) would be to cut back on taxing money earned in the stock market, and than cutting back on it when it is passed down after death. I want read more about it before I make an intelligent comment about it. I tried reading TERMINUS but most of it went over my head, and I think it might be more opinion than fact. I would like to see how Drew would fix the economy since he seems to know ahead of time that this tax plan won’t work. I don’t mean that in a mean way. I want him to make up a plan.
Anyway before I get off topic and start talking about gay sheep or comparing people I know to basset hounds again let me get to something that resembles the title of this article. The tax cut has generated belly aching again that I can understand to a certain extent but I don’t really side with. It is a bellyache that has been around since cavemen had more rocks than other cavemen. It will be here when Smell You Later replaces goodbye (Simpsons reference for you people with lives), but I am sick of it.
I’m talking about people picking on the rich just because they are rich. Granted people some people did shady things go earn their green. Granted rich people can be stuck up ( I experienced this before) and not want to associate with blue collar people and can be pricks about the company they keep. But there are a lot of mid income pricks and low income pricks who hate people unlike them just as much. Just work in retail for awhile. I don’t see many people in the middle class hanging out with homeless people. Most people don’t even feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for very few of them. Not that I am a prick. I am aware of the poverty problem. Actually I am currently gathering clothes I don’t wear for good will.
Anyway, people bitch about the tax cut saying rich people are getting too much money back. Do you know why they are making a lot more money back than the majority of the demographics of this webpage? Before you say special interests read this comparison. Let us say Tom Tulish and I go to Best Buy. Tom buys an X-Box, and I buy an Avril Lavigne CD. The next day I let Tom read The Philadelphia Daily News when I am done with it, and so he can ignore merchandise being wheeled out. After reading the people paper for awhile he comes across a flyer for Best Buy offering 10 % everything. Because we know how to bitch out retail employees ( I would never do this though) we go back there and demand them to honor the discount. Tom makes back more money than I did because he spent more than I did.
If I actually had a full time job, I would not expect the government to hand me more money back than Dan K would get. I have not gone through the mundane details to see if either of us would get money back this time around. Of course, I would have to work full-time, but even if I did I wouldn’t make much at my current job to merit a truckload of green. Yes, obviously I need money more than Dan since he makes 70 times more than I do. However, it is not about that. It’s about giving money back that was taxed on the money you earned right?
I don’t want to see the gap between poor and the rich widen anymore as much as the next guy. But I don’t have distain for the rich. I don’t feel they owe me anything. If anything I admire the likes of Bill Gates, Ted Turner, John Rockafeller, and Milton Hershey. Granted it would be hard to give money back to the deceased but do you know why you know all these people and they are rich? Because they freaking earned it. All of them worked hard, or had the smarts to foresee the next big thing coming down the white horse pike. For every rich asshole, there is an honest good-hearted man like the late Dave Thomas. Heck when the stock market was booming in the mid-90s people got rich simply from reading about the market and GASP reading a newspaper. I only hate them, because I am like DAMN why didn’t I think of that!
Not everyone can be rich in a capitalistic society. We need the poor to do mundane jobs, and so the democrats can pay them for their votes. If rich people want to manipulate and take advantage of the weak and lazy than so be it. That is just survival of the fittest that exists in every society. They are also providing them with jobs and stuff to buy. It would have been swell if my ancestors hopped on the Oil bandwagon early last century. The people that were smart enough hard working enough and dedicated enough can pass down their loads of cash from generation to generation now (and the government will tax that too so even after you meet the reaper you pay Uncle Sam). So people with “Old Money” can be stuck up I don’t think its their job to close the poverty gap if they don’t want to. Anymore than if I should give a dollar to some drugged up homeless guy ( home dwelling challenged) if I don’t feel the need.
People who scoff the rich act like America is the only place that has class problems. Our poor people’s living conditions are that of envy in some countries where living to 30 is an accomplishment. As much as I get annoyed that most the Indian gas attendants can't understand what the heck I am saying, you have to admire their balls. Not in a gay way of course, but they found a hole in the system and exploit it.
I just graduated college and I feel like Tim Robbins in the Hudsucker Proxy. I am not really sure what my ticket to ride is going to be yet (hopefully there is one) but I don’t want to fully blame others if I spend my life in retail. Granted the economy is the worst in 3 decades making the job search a big fat bitch. I know part of it is who you know and it would help if I had a distinct dream. I would rather blame myself for not having enough direction. Despite that blaming the man on the moon and people who are richer than you is the American way.
I am not saying everyone can just get money and fortune by simply WANTING. You need a marketable skill if you are out to just make money. Some people would rather just follow their hearts and that’s cool. Those people are usually the most good-hearted and the glue of society. But if your out to join the top 1 % if you have and idea, an concept, a product that people will want or need, some sweat, hard work, elbow grease, showing no fear, and a way to sell it than you deserve every cent you earn. If the government decides they take too much money from EVERYONE what you earn and want to be fair about it you should get back based on what you earned. Not what you think you are owed. So instead of scoffing the rich, maybe read about how they did it.
Thank you for everyone voting for the story of the year. The winner by a hair is the story of the two lovers Jay and Jenna. To get the full understanding of perhaps why this story may have struck a cord lets take a journey back my fellow readers….come let us go back in time.
Once there was this boy who carried around a bag of lima beans from place to place. A behavior so particular that it earned him the nickname Lima Beanz by his classmates. Lima Beanz dreamed of one day becoming wrestling coach for young boys. He admired the sport’s homoerotic roots and thrill of boys forcefully trying to get one another flat on their backs. Lima Beanz grew up and went away to college and made no friends, because nobody liked him.
Once there was this girl who grew up not to far from Lima Beanz. She was the girlfriend of a pastor’s son. However, she grew up too and went away to a different college, dated some guys and fell in love with her volley ball coach. Therefore, she decided to kick the pastor’s son to the curb, sending him to a period of private hell and misery.
One sweltering South Jersey summer day the boy and girl crossed paths. Ryan and I whitnessed the start of it all. You see Jenna was on a “break” from her new beau giving the chance to meet other guys that summer while come for school. That day her and Lima Beanz touched lips for the first time. Lima Beanz had to throw out his scientific theory he had worked on his whole college career that girls had “coodies”. It didn’t matter that girls found him repulsive and offensive when he openly degraded them anymore (is he spoke to them at all). It didn’t matter that most girls were turned off about him claiming to be the smartest man alive and God. He didn’t need them.
Because he loves her.
Each summer like the shobies to the jersey shore Jenna came to Laurel Springs. Each summer they did the dance of love under the summer sky. Each time she returned to school she would pull the wool over eyes of her dimwitted farmer boyfriend. While he checked to make sure each chicken was in the coop she quietly shed tears on her pillows.
Because she loves him.
One Summer she did not return, like the summer when the shoobies stayed away from Wildwood due to a sewage leak (thankfully a long time ago and since cleaned, New Jersey and You Perfect Together! ) she stayed away from Laurel Springs for the most part that summer. This didn’t dishearten the now retired scientist. He knew she would have a ring on her finger from him one day. Lima Beanz had ring of his on when he finished college. He spent most of that year sleeping till 4 pm, and sinking into debt. He worked sporadically after getting his education for a couple of years. His one boss even fired him cause he didn't like him. That didn’t bother him one bit.
Because he loves her.
Jenna moved back when school was done. With in weeks she forgot the farmer like Hollywood forgot C. Thomas Howell. She was back to locking lips with now more muscular Lima Beanz. Lima Beanz of course had done little maturing since he was a boy. At the same time Jenna decided to date guy after guy after guy after guy after guy after guy. Even Rich Arter for Christ sakes! Eventually she decided to kick the farmer to the mill. After a creepy sexual love triangle was displayed at Drewiebe 2002-bie (don’t ask) which made everyone who witnessed it uneasy and ready to vomit in Drew’s backyard. Luckily people only urinated in his pool. Despite her roster of love interests Lima Beanz was there like a loyal (or stupid) basset hound. (2 votes) She would always return to him though no matter who or how many guys she was seeing.
Because she loves him.
Over the years few girls were fooled by Lima Beanz outward looks. Though many become disgusted when they got know him as a person he had a few chances. One girl invited him to a Super Bowl party for a guarantee lay. He opted to spend the day with dudes make sloppy Joes. Another hottie (over rated actually) girl wanted him bad, despite seeing him vomit. Instead of rebounding from that foul, he fumbled. I think I just mixed up 3 sports in that sentence. Good thing no one reads Tucker’s World. Anyway…Lima Beanz even botched up a hook up with Russian Vixen.
Because he loves her.
After dating the equivalent of the population oh Hi-Nella Jenna decides on the day people observe the birth of Christ (sorry drew) that Lima Beanz is her man. She needs a man that who is chronically unemployed., enjoys farting in public places, still finds amusement in playing the penis game while approaching his mid-twenties, checks outs his own body, makes jokes about the events of Sept. 11th, picks on Drew, fears a cigarette smoking man, has blatant repressed homosexual tendencies, is a little girl about his hair, wants retards dead, hated by the vast majority of society including Ryan’s father, has little or no money, has no respect for property of other people, leaves idle cars ignored for months on end, shares a room with this brother, has less ambitious drive than Ryan has a sex drive, socially retarded when talking to authority figures and votes for the same story of the year as her.
Because she loves him.
The odds are stacked against him and their relationship is more controversial than Bush Administration’s relationship with Enron (despite the fact Clinton had an similar relationship) . Jay might only have a pocket full of lima beans and an empty wallet. But he has key to Dukes apartment for nice romantic evenings, and a key to Jenna’s heart. Despite Lima Beanz knowing for years that she is “The One” to the mockery of his peers, and critics pointing out Jennas fickle cold heart and neither them having the job they want everything is going to be okay.
Because all you need is love.
“Rich Men, Poor Men”
I still am not sure about the whole tax cut, because I simply don’t know enough about the economy to know if it will fix the situation. Unfortunately, it is not something I can write strongly about and state a side just yet.
One point of the tax cut (as I understand I could be wrong) would be to cut back on taxing money earned in the stock market, and than cutting back on it when it is passed down after death. I want read more about it before I make an intelligent comment about it. I tried reading TERMINUS but most of it went over my head, and I think it might be more opinion than fact. I would like to see how Drew would fix the economy since he seems to know ahead of time that this tax plan won’t work. I don’t mean that in a mean way. I want him to make up a plan.
Anyway before I get off topic and start talking about gay sheep or comparing people I know to basset hounds again let me get to something that resembles the title of this article. The tax cut has generated belly aching again that I can understand to a certain extent but I don’t really side with. It is a bellyache that has been around since cavemen had more rocks than other cavemen. It will be here when Smell You Later replaces goodbye (Simpsons reference for you people with lives), but I am sick of it.
I’m talking about people picking on the rich just because they are rich. Granted people some people did shady things go earn their green. Granted rich people can be stuck up ( I experienced this before) and not want to associate with blue collar people and can be pricks about the company they keep. But there are a lot of mid income pricks and low income pricks who hate people unlike them just as much. Just work in retail for awhile. I don’t see many people in the middle class hanging out with homeless people. Most people don’t even feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for very few of them. Not that I am a prick. I am aware of the poverty problem. Actually I am currently gathering clothes I don’t wear for good will.
Anyway, people bitch about the tax cut saying rich people are getting too much money back. Do you know why they are making a lot more money back than the majority of the demographics of this webpage? Before you say special interests read this comparison. Let us say Tom Tulish and I go to Best Buy. Tom buys an X-Box, and I buy an Avril Lavigne CD. The next day I let Tom read The Philadelphia Daily News when I am done with it, and so he can ignore merchandise being wheeled out. After reading the people paper for awhile he comes across a flyer for Best Buy offering 10 % everything. Because we know how to bitch out retail employees ( I would never do this though) we go back there and demand them to honor the discount. Tom makes back more money than I did because he spent more than I did.
If I actually had a full time job, I would not expect the government to hand me more money back than Dan K would get. I have not gone through the mundane details to see if either of us would get money back this time around. Of course, I would have to work full-time, but even if I did I wouldn’t make much at my current job to merit a truckload of green. Yes, obviously I need money more than Dan since he makes 70 times more than I do. However, it is not about that. It’s about giving money back that was taxed on the money you earned right?
I don’t want to see the gap between poor and the rich widen anymore as much as the next guy. But I don’t have distain for the rich. I don’t feel they owe me anything. If anything I admire the likes of Bill Gates, Ted Turner, John Rockafeller, and Milton Hershey. Granted it would be hard to give money back to the deceased but do you know why you know all these people and they are rich? Because they freaking earned it. All of them worked hard, or had the smarts to foresee the next big thing coming down the white horse pike. For every rich asshole, there is an honest good-hearted man like the late Dave Thomas. Heck when the stock market was booming in the mid-90s people got rich simply from reading about the market and GASP reading a newspaper. I only hate them, because I am like DAMN why didn’t I think of that!
Not everyone can be rich in a capitalistic society. We need the poor to do mundane jobs, and so the democrats can pay them for their votes. If rich people want to manipulate and take advantage of the weak and lazy than so be it. That is just survival of the fittest that exists in every society. They are also providing them with jobs and stuff to buy. It would have been swell if my ancestors hopped on the Oil bandwagon early last century. The people that were smart enough hard working enough and dedicated enough can pass down their loads of cash from generation to generation now (and the government will tax that too so even after you meet the reaper you pay Uncle Sam). So people with “Old Money” can be stuck up I don’t think its their job to close the poverty gap if they don’t want to. Anymore than if I should give a dollar to some drugged up homeless guy ( home dwelling challenged) if I don’t feel the need.
People who scoff the rich act like America is the only place that has class problems. Our poor people’s living conditions are that of envy in some countries where living to 30 is an accomplishment. As much as I get annoyed that most the Indian gas attendants can't understand what the heck I am saying, you have to admire their balls. Not in a gay way of course, but they found a hole in the system and exploit it.
I just graduated college and I feel like Tim Robbins in the Hudsucker Proxy. I am not really sure what my ticket to ride is going to be yet (hopefully there is one) but I don’t want to fully blame others if I spend my life in retail. Granted the economy is the worst in 3 decades making the job search a big fat bitch. I know part of it is who you know and it would help if I had a distinct dream. I would rather blame myself for not having enough direction. Despite that blaming the man on the moon and people who are richer than you is the American way.
I am not saying everyone can just get money and fortune by simply WANTING. You need a marketable skill if you are out to just make money. Some people would rather just follow their hearts and that’s cool. Those people are usually the most good-hearted and the glue of society. But if your out to join the top 1 % if you have and idea, an concept, a product that people will want or need, some sweat, hard work, elbow grease, showing no fear, and a way to sell it than you deserve every cent you earn. If the government decides they take too much money from EVERYONE what you earn and want to be fair about it you should get back based on what you earned. Not what you think you are owed. So instead of scoffing the rich, maybe read about how they did it.
Tuesday, January 07, 2003
"Tucker Looks Back at the Movies of 2002 & Blogs About Them! ”
Well here are the movies that I saw in 2002..ones off this list like the Harry Potter sequel and Lord of the Rings sequel I didn’t bother to see since I never saw the originals. They are in sort of order of releases some I rented others I saw in theaters. I am going to give them a rating. I am most likely going to do this in at least two parts. . This post may seem longer than most….but read it anyway!
½ Star = BRUTAL
*=Awful
*1/2= bad
**= it was OKAY
**1/2= good
***1/2= really good
****= AWESOME MUST SEE OF THE YEAR
Frailty: **
Uneven, but engaging tale of demons! The film is basically about two brothers who had a dark past. Their father thought they were a family chosen to slay demons. Was he out of his GORDE or his the last in the line of defense between good and evil? Now that the kids are grown up is it time to follow in their dads footsteps? The movie was the first film Bill Paxton directed. If you like creepy tales its worth a rental because it will keep you guessing. Certainly a step above some recent attempts in the genre
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder * * ½
Some jokes work some jokes fail miserably. The guy who plays Van Wilder has good comic timing and plays the role well. Van is a cool guy who helps out dorks instead of picking on them like in most college comedies. The movie should have tried too hard at times, and should have keep with the witty dialogue instead of resorting to dog seaman jokes that resulted in many people leaving the theater.Although the huge testacies jokes worked. Since Van is such a cool character its certainly hard to HATE this film. Good one to sit around with some beers and buddies. Good eye candy too.
Spiderman **
The movie is loyal to the original comics that started the series. But watching the film I realized what cheap clone Spiderman is of Superman. Even parts of the film seemed airlifted from Richard Donner’s superior Epic Superman: The Movie. Such as scenes when his father figure gave him advice before dying, being a misfit in high school, having to chose between saving innocent people and his loved ones, the hero going from a small town to a big city, and working for a newspaper.
The first act of the film is good which is important to make the second act work in a film like this. Unfortunately, the movie seemingly derails and becomes too campy. Why the heck does Green Goblin have a beef with him anyway? At least Lex Luthor had a reason in the film, when he figured Superman was on to his restate scam (it a lot cooler than it sounds), and I know that Superman had some major plot holes..but come on. I know it’s a comic book movie but….
The main problem was Spiderman was simply a horribly done CGI, and I felt like I was watching a playstation game not a movie. I don’t recall Spiderman changing form and size as much as he did while navigating against obviously fake backgrounds. I don't hate movies just on effects, cause I can watch movies with dated effects either. However Tobey McCguire didn't really even play Spiderman that much. Again Superman looked bad in some scenes flying against a map painting ..but this was bad. Why do we keep insisting that we master this form of special effects. Give me models and puppets in day.
Some cool explosions and feel good heroism, and I guess we are supposed to be impressed when Macy Gray shows up in cameo role. If you want to see any Spiderman movie see this one, cause the sequels are likely to be campier and crappier. Spiderman’s love interest is a shallow bitch.
Panic Room ***
Well executed thriller that has to make you care about the characters and has to be well-acted the film succeeds in both efforts so that’s why the movie works. The movie’s basic plot has a mother and um..either son or daughter I don’t forget I just couldn’t tell are locked in a room designed to keep out the bad guys.
They don’t resort to home alone tactics, but there are actually a few laughs generated by the dreamy (who said that?) Jared Leto (or is it Ledo?). I don’t want to say too much about the movie though cause I saw it a long time ago and don’t want give anything away. Certainly a movie most people can agree on so if you look to rent something with a person who you usually don’t agree on films with…its neutral enough for most people to have a happy blockbuster night.
Insomnia: **
A well directed, occasionally slow thriller about a man tracking a killer in an artic town. One of the people that I saw this with said it was one of the worst movies they ever saw. I have to disagree with that statement! Not that I am going to hang the poster of the film on my wall anytime soon but its worth seeing at least once.
The movie is well directed with some good sequences, like Al Pacino jumping on ice chunks after the over acting Robin Williams was certainly one of the better chases scenes of the year. However most of the film doesn’t really stay with you. To be honest I don’t even remember why Robin Williams killed anyone for if he even did. I am pretty sure Hilary Swank was in it.
I don’t usually gripe when movies are too long, cause I think that’s a lame thing to say about movies. However it could have used some trimming especially scenes that were repetitive that’s what they make the deleted scenes on DVDs for.
Mr Deeds *
I saw this movie after happy hour with some friends; needless to say the first half of the movie was a lot funnier. Maybe Sandler can’t pull off mindless whackiness off anymore like he did in the mid 90’s. with The stupid but Billy Madison or the overrated but popular Happy Gilmor.
The film could have been better if it would just sit back and tell the story without sidetracking for supposed comic sequences that seem out of place and for the most part are not funny. Even Sandler films regulars embarrass themselves. Good comedy could have just been done by playing the movie straight like Big Daddy kinda did.
Sandler plays a bit more bright waterboy, but making him borderline retarded doesn’t seem necessary. Since they are handed the fish out of water bit thanks to the plot. Sandler is all cartoonish than we are supposed to care about his broken heart. Some actresses just shouldn’t do comedy and Ryder is just awful. The film also manages to waste the talents of Peter Gallagher who is underrated and certainly has better comic abilities than what you see here.
Mr. Deeds made money, but Sandler better find a new bit. I wanted REALLY wanted to see Punch Drunk Love, because Sandler is supposed to be really good in his first serious role. But I never got around to seeing the flipping thing.
MIB II *
The pug is funny. The movie is dumb. The plot swaps Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith’s roles comically from the first one. Jones who shows up late in this oddly short film has to be re trained by Smith. So basically the two actors get paid millions to stare at a blue screen. The plot in the first one was remotely intresting this plot just sucks.
This movie’s only purpose is to put faces on Taco Bell cups. But if you do see it…try not to laugh at the pug singing along to “Who Let the Dogs Out?” just try!
This film made my brain hurt. Thank God (sorry drew) it only takes a lasts about 80 minutes or less before the credits roll and we hear the new Will Smith song. NOD YOUR HEAD!
Signs *****
Its freshly out on DVD so go rent it, although you missed out on a good theater experience! The movie is heartwarming, funny, thrilling (me and several friends hearts were literally pounding), dramatic, and just flat out fun!
Everything in this film works, except that random army guy. Almost perfectly directed and acted. Mel Gibson plays the role well, and I enjoyed the spiritual undertones of the film. The movie proves the age old old point that most the time its what you DON’T see that makes a film like this effective. But since computers out there have the ability of doing cool animation (not believable live action mind you) will be subjected to more CGI mania next year I am sure.
This movie was one of the few that I have recalled to live up to its hype. Although I think the makers are disappointed, that no one started a trend wearing the hats in the film.
More movies to come…also look for a COMCAST update, the story of the year, and various other current events to be pondered.
Friday, January 03, 2003
“Man of the Year”
Okay to recap the person of the year has had the most impact. Oh if you have not been reading in awhile scroll down to the story of the year and you can vote! Email me at Mst3keith@aol.com . The votes came flying in for awhile. But I have not heard from all my readers yet.
The Tucker’s World Man of the Year is Milton Ryan Peiffer. The man who became the leader of the crew after making certain Starview continued the policy of giving us French fires with the chicken tenders.
As the leader, Ryan would often organize events by calling everyone and coming up with ideas for us to do. He also broke up with his girlfriend over the summer, and despite the fact that he wanted to get back with her the very next day he didn’t bother to try for about 3 months.
He lead with passion and even networked us to various hot girls. Okay a few hot girls. He threw a kegger at his house that brought together lots of dudes. We all laughed how Ryan was carefree and single again. However, because we were happy we didn’t realize Ryan’s secret turmoil. I did not even notice he was depressed until August and most friends still did not notice. He did get some flack towards the end from Lima Beanz mostly. The time we decided to go the shore bars (usually a rockin’ good time) and ended up in going to the boardwalk in the pouring rain (despite never going there during the 30 perfect weather days of the summer)was a low point. It ended with us sitting in house we had to be out of by like 12:30.
He had confined in Jenna and various other girls including Noel (CALL HER UP!) about his secret pain. He simply could not lead anymore. At the end of the summer, he resigned and dedicated himself to his 5th year of college and winning his girlfriend back.
It took him about 14 minutes to get her back so….wasn’t all that hard. Things were going well despite not having a leader, because everyone was busy anyway. However, trouble arose when the relationship between his girlfriend and certain crew members hit a snag. Perhaps he is better off. I bet his lungs are pinker than mine.
He still hangs out with us a few times a month (not including the occasional obligatory late night cameo) and when he is not there everyone is shrugging and asking, “Where’s Ryan?”
He even started up two new bands. Aside from Fast Forward he had not been in a band since he left Big Fantastic (due to increasing fame and attention from girls). The Bogg Mummies (sp?) a big bandish type of music re-teamed him with Chris Arter and his girlfriend. TRAP reunited him with Rich Arter, but neither band ever plays anywhere that I know of.
Poor Ryan has gone through some tough times with his girlfriend but always manages to work things out. His efforts to balance time between a girl who loves him dearly and a bunch of losers guys (and one girl) will likely be debated all through 2003.
“Rumor Mill”
Well the Flyers will finish their road trip this weekend. They are playing about .500 hockey but at the same time their special teams are still among the league’s worst. They also continue to struggle to score goals, unless Jamie Storr is in net. Meanwhile they lost Simon Gagne (for awhile) and Marcus Ragnarsson got hurt and sent back to Philly. They added winger Tomi Kallio who the plucked off the waiver wire from the Bluejackets. He played for Atlanta and was just seems like some one who can add some muscle and kill penalties. He seems eager to make an impact an scored a goal already. Could he be the Donald Brasher of the 2002-03 season?
Keith Primeau netted his 9th against the Kings, by far the most emotional game of the trip. However, he recently got a lashing from Clarke that of course the media picked up on. Clarke finally has admitted he is in the market for people that can put the puck in the net. He claims there isn’t much out there right now. Obviously, you will have to give up something to get something. The underachieving captain might as well where a target on his chest.
I am not sure what Clarkie will get for good old keith, but I don’t expect Prims to be with the Flyers at the end of the month. If I know Clarke will likely get someone well over the age of 30, and teach him how to dump and chase. It doesn’t matter who we get it seems we can turn the NHL’s most finesse players into zombies who makes plays a peewee opponent could easily read.
Okay to recap the person of the year has had the most impact. Oh if you have not been reading in awhile scroll down to the story of the year and you can vote! Email me at Mst3keith@aol.com . The votes came flying in for awhile. But I have not heard from all my readers yet.
The Tucker’s World Man of the Year is Milton Ryan Peiffer. The man who became the leader of the crew after making certain Starview continued the policy of giving us French fires with the chicken tenders.
As the leader, Ryan would often organize events by calling everyone and coming up with ideas for us to do. He also broke up with his girlfriend over the summer, and despite the fact that he wanted to get back with her the very next day he didn’t bother to try for about 3 months.
He lead with passion and even networked us to various hot girls. Okay a few hot girls. He threw a kegger at his house that brought together lots of dudes. We all laughed how Ryan was carefree and single again. However, because we were happy we didn’t realize Ryan’s secret turmoil. I did not even notice he was depressed until August and most friends still did not notice. He did get some flack towards the end from Lima Beanz mostly. The time we decided to go the shore bars (usually a rockin’ good time) and ended up in going to the boardwalk in the pouring rain (despite never going there during the 30 perfect weather days of the summer)was a low point. It ended with us sitting in house we had to be out of by like 12:30.
He had confined in Jenna and various other girls including Noel (CALL HER UP!) about his secret pain. He simply could not lead anymore. At the end of the summer, he resigned and dedicated himself to his 5th year of college and winning his girlfriend back.
It took him about 14 minutes to get her back so….wasn’t all that hard. Things were going well despite not having a leader, because everyone was busy anyway. However, trouble arose when the relationship between his girlfriend and certain crew members hit a snag. Perhaps he is better off. I bet his lungs are pinker than mine.
He still hangs out with us a few times a month (not including the occasional obligatory late night cameo) and when he is not there everyone is shrugging and asking, “Where’s Ryan?”
He even started up two new bands. Aside from Fast Forward he had not been in a band since he left Big Fantastic (due to increasing fame and attention from girls). The Bogg Mummies (sp?) a big bandish type of music re-teamed him with Chris Arter and his girlfriend. TRAP reunited him with Rich Arter, but neither band ever plays anywhere that I know of.
Poor Ryan has gone through some tough times with his girlfriend but always manages to work things out. His efforts to balance time between a girl who loves him dearly and a bunch of losers guys (and one girl) will likely be debated all through 2003.
“Rumor Mill”
Well the Flyers will finish their road trip this weekend. They are playing about .500 hockey but at the same time their special teams are still among the league’s worst. They also continue to struggle to score goals, unless Jamie Storr is in net. Meanwhile they lost Simon Gagne (for awhile) and Marcus Ragnarsson got hurt and sent back to Philly. They added winger Tomi Kallio who the plucked off the waiver wire from the Bluejackets. He played for Atlanta and was just seems like some one who can add some muscle and kill penalties. He seems eager to make an impact an scored a goal already. Could he be the Donald Brasher of the 2002-03 season?
Keith Primeau netted his 9th against the Kings, by far the most emotional game of the trip. However, he recently got a lashing from Clarke that of course the media picked up on. Clarke finally has admitted he is in the market for people that can put the puck in the net. He claims there isn’t much out there right now. Obviously, you will have to give up something to get something. The underachieving captain might as well where a target on his chest.
I am not sure what Clarkie will get for good old keith, but I don’t expect Prims to be with the Flyers at the end of the month. If I know Clarke will likely get someone well over the age of 30, and teach him how to dump and chase. It doesn’t matter who we get it seems we can turn the NHL’s most finesse players into zombies who makes plays a peewee opponent could easily read.
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
“ Story of the Year”
Okay most major cable networks and media outlets are reflecting on the year that was. Enron, Iraq, the Olympics scandal, that lord of the rings sequel, Trent Lott, Michael Jackson being all strange, and of course Martha Stewart. Well I am not big enough to cover all those thing in depths so why not let my readers vote on the story of the year from a list based solely on the social aspects of my meaningless life.
Sure, its shallow but who cares? Okay many reading this don’t even know that some of this stuff happened or weren’t impacted but you can still vote on the story that SEEMS the biggest. Keep in mind the story has to have had the greatest impact on the crew, the most biggest story that effected the natural order of things the most. Just send in your vote to Mst3keith@aol.com be sure to put Tucker’s World in the subject so I don’t think that its spam and delete it. Remember these are impact stories, not amusing ones like the Brant and Dan K. stories.
A.
Jenna decides to come back to South Jersey after getting her degree. Eventually she ends up back in her old job at the Sears Retail Outlet much to many drooling associates delight. Her return changes the crew into a co-ed collection because of her constant presence. She does make an impact cleaning up after us, and cooking us food. She also gives us insights when we seek advice on females even if its just to call her a word rhyming with hunt. Anyway its like she never left, but she certainly did change the social order in the crew and mixed things up. Drew thinks the will be the death of the crew.
B.
Superman and Lois Lane, Kermit and Miss Piggy, Ben and J. Lo., Cousin Balki and Mary-Ann all famous couples. But what about Jay and Jenna? These two love birds have been crazy about each other since cell phones were the size of Rick’s cock. The minute Jenna came back we all made predictions on when these two crazy kids would end up in each others arms. Of course they did, than they didn’t, than they did again, than she said she would never touch him again, than she did. Basically they have been on and again off again to point of annoyance. Even when they are off, they seem like they are on. Jenna did see other people while Jay um…….well Jay sat around and farted a lot. ? After dating more guys than the average attendance at Phillies game at last minute Jenna decides to get in a exclusive relationship with Jay. Has love truly blossomed or was it a stunt to get make this a stronger candidate for story of the year?
C. Bored one day Ryan and I decide we need a nickname for one of our friends. We had been calling Jay Sparkey for awhile but it didn’t pan out despite girls enjoying it. I want to name him Boogie like Mickey Rourke in Diner, but we end up calling him Lima Beanz. That’s right with a Z. We even make up a story about how he carried lima beans around when he was a kid for almost no good reason. The name caught on. He also answers to Beanzie, and LB.
D. After losing a year of his life due to massive DVD debts and greasy unhealthy New Brunswick food Drew finally makes it law school. Not only does he make it (I bet against him) he makes it through his first semester. He also makes friend and stars in a play no one sees or cares about. He also reveals that he ISNT gay.
E. Ryan admits that cupid (isn’t his corpse still rotting in Rick’s closet?) has struck him in the previously non-existent heart. Much to our surprise he in a serious relationship with a girl he met at Rowan. She is a cool whacky little chick and kind of cute so he did okay. However things go sour and crew girlfriend approval rating plummets after some controversial incidents. They would have nothing to do with and idiot blogger who has the tendency to run his mouth. NOTHING..okay maybe a little something. Damn Drew. Anyway this relationship has been the round table discussion many a night, some people think he is kept from his friends too much, others think that’s the natural course of things. Ryan’s own mother even takes a shot at the poor guy. A lot of drama has come out of this relationship and a lot of debate.
Other considerations include me actually finishing college, Dan K moving to Mainstreet, Rick and his new love interest, my jealous rage over Duke getting with one of Alyssa’s friends, everyone but me and jenna getting new cars. Jenna breaking up with Arron.
Email me at MST3keith@aol.com you have one week to get your vote in.
HAPPPPPPPPPPY NEW YEAR!
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