"Coyote Ugly"

Coyotes Center Jeremy Roenick was signed over the summer for his 2nd stint with the team. JR hoped things would have gone better after his trainwreck LA season, where he fought with the coaches, and was let down production wise.

This year, JR's new role is that of a leader, but mostly a 4th line player. ALthough he does play on the 2nd powerplay unit the Coyotes who are just about as bad as the Flyers, and he has only had one goal and a handful of helpers.

Earier this week owner Wayne Gretzky told JR he had to sign, because JR was having backspasms. JR, said he was feeling good enough to play, and he wanted to play. The Great One said, nah you got to sit this one out.

JR at this point got pissed off and stormed out the office. He left the arena while the game was played and found sat down a nice resturant for dinner and a beer to watched the game on tv. JR claims he didn't do this, but apperently its a team no-no not to leave if you aren't playing. You are supposed to sit in the pressbox.

"What, do you give your support from the press box? Give support with pom-poms from the press box? ... There's nothing that a player that's not playing can do. If anything, they want players that are not playing away because it's a distraction." JR, said.

Wayne says he doesn't plan to bench him for a long period of time, provided he thinks JR is healthy enough to play. However, with other former Flyer Mike Ricci returning to the line up, JR's small role is even more worthless. At First Wayne was fairly mad though, and said that he needs to act like a man.

The Coyotes are so bad, their season is over already. JR's has claimed that its his last season in the NHL. Some people think there might be teams out there that might want him at the trade deadline, at the very least to fire up the players, faces offs, and in hopes he will get his groove back. But, most fans think his days are numbered.

JR could be the next in a sad trend of players being forced into retirement. Earlier this month the Pittsburgh Penguins waivered John Leclair. No one claimed him. Than he was told he had to report the AHL team. John had no desire to do that. So, finally the Penguins and John split ways rather than suspsend him for not reporting. They gave him a nice hunk of his salary, and said good luck with life.

Leclair said he doesn't want to retire, but at this point someone would have taken him. It doesn't look like he will have much of a choice. JR's rocky relationship with coaches and hot temper aren't going to help him getting traded to a contender come MArch. In fact he could be sat out again soon, and eventually waivered.

I feel bad for JR. He never won a cup, and thats all he wants. That and to be able to play this game for the rest of his life. He doesn't want to let go yet. At the same time its hard to watch how his famous wrist shot is just not there anymore. He struggles for ice time and just doesn't score anymore. A simliar situation happened to Luc Robatile last season with the LA Kings. He eventually got his 2nd wind and scored a bit more. Not like he used to but enough to not be wasting a roster spot. Hopefully, JR can turn his game around and wrap up his NHL days on a good note.

"Peter Boyle, dead at 71"

Sad news, I am sure you all know by now but Philly born actor Peter Boyle passed away on Tuesday as result of heart disease.

Boyle, best known for playing Raymond's father on the long running hit sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" also has a long history of films. I first became aware of him as many people my age did, watching Young Frankenstein on Cable, although as an Adult I don't find the movie all that funny, I loved it when I was a kid.

Boyle also starred in the political movie The Candidate, and"The other Hunter S. Thompson movie" Where the Buffalo Roam. In addition to those he played in many more well known films such as Taxi Driver, Johnny Dangerously, Malcolm X, Monster's Ball and the Santa Clause trilogy.

One of his best roles for me however, was his guest appearance on "The X-files" as a troubled fourtune teller. He actually won and Emmy for that role, and if I ever made a list, that would be in my top ten best X-files of all time.

What I thought was rather classy, (I didn't see it) but I am told Ray came on during reruns of the syndicated sitcom and said a few kind words, as did some other cast members. I can't think of a time anyone ever did that for a show that had ended its run. Pretty nice.

Boyle was 71. Fans can get once last chance to see Peter in next year's Shadows of Atticus due out next spring.

"Christmas Cheer"

I watched this several times at work. Also a few time when I got home. I can't get the song out of my head and I can't stop watching this. Here is the link.

"Not As Seen on TV"

Often times I read the DVD reviews online of movies or tv series that I enjoy. A few weeks ago the first season of How I Met Your Mother was released. My first point is that I hate people comparing this show to Friends, to me it is a lot more like Undeclared (wish HIMYM would ditch the laugh track but I don't think CBS would let them) type of humor.

Anyway, much to my let down apperently they could not get the rights to a lot of the music used in the 1st season. Not to much of a big deal you might think,but the music is really a big part of the show, and carefully picked out by the writers. Heck the creators of the show are in a band. The show usually uses underated bands, cool covers, or bands that haven't made it big yet. They also use other bands not usually played on the radio like Supergrass.

Anyway, what this means is on the DVDs a lot of the songs from what I read were removed and replaced with generic music cues, because they could not retain the rights to the songs. Now this isn't anything new. In fact it's totally prevented some shows from ever reaching DVD, like the Wonder Years, full of popular rock music. So, I guess I should be happy about it getting to DVD at all.

What, I don't get is how some shows don't have this problem. Scrubs pumps the show full of popular music and has wall to wall emo type music that has a following. Yet, they never ran into this problem. Does it just depend on how much the people releasing the set want to shell out? I mean I am sure The Wonder Years has to be tough with the Rolling Stones songs in it all the time. But one of the songs HIMYM had to cut was a Nada Surf song that fit into the epsiode perfectly. I mean who would have though Nada Surf would give up such a fight or charge so much to hear about 30 seconds of their song to be heard?

If I ever get season one on DVD, I would like to try to introduce the show to some of my friends who dont watch. Which is pretty much anyone. I swear I am one of three people (my friend Rob (not arter) and my mother) that watch this show. Now, if I do introduce this show to anyone I will be doing so with part of the show's heart removed.

Anyone else been frustrated by their TV shows being edited or cockblocked from release? I am sure there are more out there. Also, can someone explain to my how when CBS re-ran the episode "The Slutty Pumpkin" from Season 1 for this past Halloween why they can still air it with the Nada Surf song, but the DVD set can't have it? Stupid laws..

"Getting Strong Now..."

At the end of the month Rocky will take on Mason "The Line" Dixon. Rocky born and raised in Philadelphia it is up in the air if he is considered part of the Philly sports championship drought or not.

We all know that Rocky beat Apollo Creed and won the heavy weight championship in the 1970's, and also beat Clubber Lang in the 1982.

But here is where it gets blurry. Rocky did technically beat Drago in 1985 which would be after the 1983 cutoff for the Philly drought. However due to the fact that it was not approved by the boxer commission and played over in Russia many people don't count that as a true championship for the city of Philly. Granted, Rocky did manage to bring down communism and made one of the most memorable speeches since Martin Luther King Jr., but lets face it was not acknowledged by the very boxing commission that gave him his very belts earlier in his carrier turned their back on this one.

Yeah the people of Philly and America for that matter felt good about Rocky beating Drago because it was the height of the cold war, and after the death Apollo Creed in the ring with Drago it made it feel almost like there was casualties in that war. Rocky's victory over Drago made us all feel about our country and last face it when all those Russians started chanting Rocky, it was clear that he had done more in one night than Reagan had done in 8 years to end the coldwar.

However, I have to side with a rule is a rule, and say that although it was big moment in American History it doesn't truly count as a championship thus keeping our streak going back to 1983. The curse of William Penn was extremely unkind to Rocky.

Years later he strung a rising boxer star, and even stood ringside to Tommy "Machine" Gunn. At this point it is unclear what really went down, but we know from public records that Rocky had fallen on hard times the man who won our hearts when from living in a huge mansion with a robot to living in the ghetto part of Philly on the border of being homeless after losing all his money in a bad business decision on by his longtime friend and financial advisor. At any rate many people saw Tommy Gunn as Rocky's chance at redemption, but before things could come to fold Rocky and Tommy had a falling out. The strained relationship came to blows, literally on the streets outside a Philly bar. Tommy and Rocky never made it to the championship.

So, this December with Rocky (despite the people on 610 mocking him for his age) will go toe to toe with Mason "The Line" Dixon, who was only 8 when Rocky first fought Apollo Creed. But I heard he was in crazy shape and training like man hell bent on a mission. Against all odds yet again, the city desperate for championship is counting on him big time. Some people think its only team sports that count to end the streak. What does everyone else feel? If Rocky wins this fight, in your hearts and mind has the streak been ended? Can the man who when from rags to riches to rags again and once owned a robot lift the curse once and for all?

"Cold Cuts"

So, Friday I attended the funeral of my Uncle John who passed away earlier this week. He has had been sick for about a year or so. In fact his health in general was on the decline for several years.

A remember as a kid I always remembered him as a chain smoker, and its undeniable that although he lived a reatlivley long life that smoking greatly lowered his quality of life the last 10 years of his life. Really, I think those are options for the smokers, an early grave or nothing but medical problems later in life. But, even still I have many friends who refuse to quit smoking despite every fact in the world about smoking basically states they are a dumbass to suck down cancer sticks.

It's strange sometimes an older relative, you only know him as when you were a kid on. Nothing really about their pass, before they were the person you knew as their uncle. Since my mother married later, most my cousins are older so he was pretty much always a father of adult kids since I could remember.

At the funeral today, I learned more about him than I ever knew. Hell, no one had ever told me he had fought in the Korean War. He was an amateur cartoonist, and over through his work the building of the Casinos in Atlantic City in the early 80's.

If any good came from it, it was a chance to see family I hadn't seen in ages. Including family from Ohio.

Afterwards, we went to a luncheon at the church. Which was nice. They had deli sandwitches and soup out for everyone. It was quite a long day (literally the funeral and the initial service were an hour away from each other) and it gave everyone a chance to talk some more before all parting ways.

I remember the picture of him when he was about 19 or so at the funeral. I just couldn't believe it was him. So, young and so full of hope. His whole life ahead of him. I never saw him that way until I saw that picture.

But not matter what you do in life, what choices you make, what paths you take one day it will be your turn. People will be sitting around eating cold cuts talking about your life. At that point you stay alive on earth only in memories.

"Strings of War"

This is a point of interest for two reasons. First it's pretty interesting story. Secondly, I along with a few other went to High School with this guy. He is currently of in Iraq

Sorry its a FOXNEWS link. Please don't burn my house down. I know some of you will refuse to go on this page, since its FOXNEWS, but I am sure you could goggle it and find another verision of the story.

"Hangover Helpers"

I think I am going to start my own business and its pretty simple.

How many times have you planed to do a lot with your Sunday? You know run errands. Clean your place. Buy food.

But how many times did you bite yourself in the ass Saturday night by getting really drunk the night before? That way you either have a lack of sleep or you simply are too hung over to do any of the tasks you needed to get done?

That's where my business comes in. I just hang out at bars and hand out my card to drunks or at last card. They call me, and pay me to do simply things like, pick up food, blockbuster videos, etc.

"Running on Empty"

Sent to me by some one who has the middle intial of K, without any text was an article about how the end is near for the worlds oil. We are almost out and Bush knows!

Read up on the end here.

"Uncle Tucker 3: The Birth of Jackson"

I am an uncle for the third time. My brothers wife gave birth their 2nd son and third kid altogther Jackson sometime today.

So they have a 6 yearold, a 1 yearold and a newborn. Add their ages and divide it by 6 and I am guessing thats about as many hours of sleep they are going to get per night for, I don't know the next two years.

With 3 grandkids there is really no reason my parents to expect grandkids from me. I think I am offically off the hook.

"Lets Go Flyers!"

Okay we won two and a row. If we win tonight againstNashville. DO you know what that is called? A winning streak!

Okay we have Nashville who is one of the top teams in the NHL right now, but I think we can take them. I know we can beat the Ilsanders if we play a full 60 mins. Than we have the dreaded NJ Devils this Saturday. If we win those two previous games, we win Saturday. I think its now or never.

If we turn it into a 5 game unbeaten streak we are seriously right back in a playoff race. I am disgusted with the way they have played at times but look they are in a 4-2 strech. Not bad. I like John Steven's new system, and the players seem more upbeat lately.

It's still early, and I am not going to give up on this team. We are only (as I type this anyway) 11 points out of 1st place! We got two games in our own divison this week. Time to rally and dig deep season is on the line, but its not over!

I have a strong connection to this team, and I think they will win the next 3 games. I just feel it in my gut. Lets do it for all those wonderfully hot delta denta ice girls. Because we dont want them to be all sad and crying. That would be just to heartbreaking. Look at them all wearing their tight ass pants and their Flyers jerseys!

In fact in order to get Flyered up, lets all pick our fav. DELTA DENTAL ICE GIRL!. Jenna you can play along too. We won't judge.

I have picked Aimee aka AIMDAWG! Aimee so hot she didn't spell her name with a Y.

"Upside Down Grill, Eh....?"

So on my own for a year now, I have actually learned to cook to a certain degree (pun intended). Yeah I started simple with the pasta and hot dogs. Sure, I still visit my parents like twice a week for a good meal. However I realized that I would benefit health wise and taste wise to start cooking more on my own.

For the longest time it was Foreman Grill or nothing. However, I eventually branched out to throwing stuff in the oven. Of course this resulted in many times of choking down dry food or stuff that was just plain awful.

A few weeks back I was going to the local grocery store to pick up something quick and simple. In the process I found they had Swordfish steaks on sale. I am quite the seafood lover and it sounded like a perfect meal for that day to me. Since, my parents were out of town and out of cell phone range, I figured if I needed to look else where for help before I ruined the fish not knowing how to cook it.

So, I phoned a friend an dialed up Jay who told me I should put it in the broiler. Now I was always afraid to cook with the broiler for any reason. Mainly because I simply never understood the concept of one or how long to cook anything in there for.

Thats when Jay changed my life and told me it was an upside down grill. I stood in the store, and stroked my chin.

"upside down Grill, Eh?" I thought to myself.

This launched me into a vivid day dream. I was standing outside with an apron on with a Grill that was floating upside down. The burgers and dogs kept falling to the ground and the flames started hitting the grass below and ignited it. The entire back yard started to become engulfed in flames. At this point all my friends and family started knocking over lawn chairs and leaping into bushes or near by shubery.

"Who like their's well-done!?!?," I asked as the fire kept getting more and more out of control.

I finally snapped out of it(hopefully no one was watching I am sure I was laughing to myself) and picked up the fish.

So long story short I am throwing everything in the broiler now. Its truly now my new best friend. Its even a much easier clean up than the Foreman Grill.

"Strange Dr. Who Lover, or How I Stopped Worrying and Read the Blog"

Once a blogger always a Blogger. Drew founder of the Message board, the crewblog and TERMINUS is now back with a sequel.

I knew he couldn't stay away from blogging for long. I know some of my readers read this blog, but not the Crewblog, so I am going to provide a link to Drew's new blog. Altough its too late to take credit for the election turning in his favor, I am sure many other people than just my readers are going to be jazzed to see Drew back up and running. Even the Zombie Corpse of Scatman.

Drew, it will be I am going to guess about 48 hours before Dan K starts flamming your blog and starts launching personal attacks and slandering you and most of your readers.

Good luck with that.

"Super Silly"

The Super Duper Extreme Deluxe Ultimate collection coming out next Tuesday of the Chris Reeve Superman films, with a version of Superman II that I am told is almost a different film, both the less popular sequels are also being brought out.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) had its budget cut at the last minute and flopped in front of test audiences. The movie went from 134mins to 87 mins. So, of course the movie didn't make much sense. The plot was about a nuclear man that Lex Luthor made to fight Superman. In the original cut of the film Lex had a failed attempted who got his ass beat by Sups. None of Nuclear Man #1 made it to the final cut of the film. So basically there is about close to 30 mins cut out of the movie. For additional info. on him click here.

All the extra footage has been missing for a long time, but supposedly they are including what deleted footage they "found" as a deleted scenes feature on the final of the Superman films.

The original nuclear man looked a lot different than the blonde haired guy you are familiar with (okay I bet no one watched this film in a long time) he looked like a gay 80s cluber. Very gay.

Anyway a scene has already made it to YOUTUBE. I really hope that the music hear just was in place till the real score was added considering the film was cut to pieces, but than again, why in gods name did they show at test screening with this scene in this condition? What was there an ice cream truck near by?

Anyway, this was one of the many scenes fans of the series have been waiting to see for a long time. But, my god, this was supposed to be one of the cooler ones. Sups throwing down with nuclear man 1. It's just awful! Why is Nuclear Man acting like a gay Charlie Chaplin ?

Anyway I can't wait to see all the extra scenes of both II and IV, but based on this scene here I am pretty sure I could do without a extended 134 cut of IV. Here it is folks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC00OjEIYls

"Happy Thanksgiving"

No real time to write stuff I wanted to on here tonight, but I might have sometime later tonight.

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Feel free to mention on here what you are doing for Turkey Day, and I although I prefer the old school turkey, I know many people have alternate dinners. Just curious if anyone was doing that this year. Also, what is like the one side dish you always go for 2nds for?

I am a sucker for deviled eggs (although I don't know if that is a side dish) I also usually pile on the mashed potatoes.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

"Planes, Trains &Automobiles "

Two reasons to post this. One I thinik it is one of the best all time comedies. I think perhaps John Candy's best film. I view the film every year right before turkey day. 2nd to post a link about the craziness that is the day before Thanksgiving. Here is the link.

"Howard About That?"

Not sure why it takes forever and a day for Baseball to come out with this but, earlier today Ryan Howard was named major league baseball's MVP. A great honor for Howard, who clearly earned it. His power hitting kept the Phillies season alive right till the end. He made the team fun to watch for the first time in years. How about that? Got some good news for our teams for a change.

What was it again 12 weeks till spring training?

I am sure Ryan Howard loves to read my blog, so by all means let him know how happy you are for him.

Don't worry I will block any offensive comments Micheal Richard's has in store for him.

"Forsberg Straight Ahead!"

The ship is sinking, and it's unlikely the captain will go down with the ship.

The Flyers lost tonight again. Same old song & dance apathy, lazy play on the blueline.
One has to wonder how much longer the Flyers will wait till make a decision on captain Peter Forsberg. Forsberg will tell you he hasn't written this season off. However, the Flyers front office might be thinking other wise. In fact it might be time to deal the only player that could benefit the team's future. Peter himself.

The Flyers are at a crossroads at this point. Not a crossroads and fans wants to be at. Certainly not owners of a team trying to sell tickets. Anyway its broken down pretty good here. I would like to know who actually remembers all the early 90's players listed in the article. I certainly do. In fact Claude Bovin was my idol for like a year. Last in the Atlantic hanging out last in the entire NHL. Here is the article.

If things don't turn around by the end of December, I am all for the trade. They have to get something for him, before he just retires or signs with another team in the off season.

"Down & Out in Philadelphia"

The Philadelphia Flyers were one game away from sweeping the Cali teams on the their 4 game road trip. This would also string together a modest 3 game winning streak, to bring it home against the Penguins on Monday. Instead the Flyers after taking one step foward by crushing the best team in the NHL the ducks, 7-4, followed up a come from behind win against the kings, took two steps back getting smoked by the Sharks Saturday night.

Flash forward roughly 12 hours or so. You have the the Eagles supestar McNabb go down with a knee injury two plays into the game. In an almost harmless looking play. Not only is he down for the season, but the team sucked today. I am no football expert by any means and in the pecking order it ranks # 3 on my sports list. So, I would like to hear from the more hardcore football fans. Do we have a prayer to rebound from this?

Doesn't look like it to me. Even without #5 for the rest of the season it would be an up hill battle to make the post season after losing today. It is looking pretty bleak for all of our teams right now. Although Rick told me spring training is a mere 12 weeks away. I think it's safe to assume that the Philadelphia Phillies are our best shot to end the drought in Philly.

"Talking Turkey"

Well I had a post written out about how the Friendly's in my hometown has closed, and the memories I had of that place. But after I finnished it, I erased it by accident. Maybe, I will write about it later if I feel like it.

Anyway instead of bidding farwell to Friendly's today. I am going to provide my readers with Turkey facts! Yup, its me just basically cut and pasting text from another webpage. But, hey Tucker's World is free what do you want? Not to mention you should know a lot about this flightless creature before you carve the bastard up and eat him don't you think?

Turkey Facts
At one time, the turkey and the bald eagle were each considered as the national symbol of America. Benjamin Franklin was one of those who argued passionately on behalf of the turkey. Franklin felt the turkey, although "vain and silly", was a better choice than the bald eagle, whom he felt was "a coward".

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving—that's one sixth of all turkeys sold in the U.S. each year. American per capita consumption of turkeys has soared from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds last year.

Last year, 2.7 billion pounds of turkey was processed in the United States.
In 1995, retail sales of turkey reached approximately $4.4 billion. They are expected to reach $4.7 billion in 2000.

Age is a determining factor in taste. Old, large males are preferable to young toms (males) as tom meat is stringy. The opposite is true for females: old hens are tougher birds.
A turkey under sixteen weeks of age is called a fryer, while a young roaster is five to seven months old.

Turkeys are the only breed of poultry native to the Western Hemisphere.
Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears. They can also see in color, and have excellent visual acuity and a wide field of vision (about 270 degrees), which makes sneaking up on them difficult. However, turkeys have a poor sense of smell (what's cooking?), but an excellent sense of taste.

Domesticated turkeys cannot fly. Wild turkeys, however, can fly for short distances at speeds up to 55 miles per hour. They can also reach speeds of 25 miles per hour on the ground.
Turkeys sometimes spend the night in trees.

Turkeys can have heart attacks: turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrier was broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets
The ballroom dance known as the Turkey Trot was named for the short, jerky steps a turkey makes.