"Walk Like a Man"

Wow, maybe one of the best all time Sopranos shows ever tonight. Can't gripe that nothing happened tonight. One of the biggest shocking moments easily at the end of the show. Great, stuff just one of the best shows in TV history easily. Last weeks show was big let down for me in many ways, but this one was an out of the park homerun.

Awesome, just awesome. Kind of made me really sad that the show is ending.

"Bad Luck Tucker"

I have been to three Phillies games this season, granted the one game was a pre-season game against the Red Sox, but still 3 games. My record is 0-3. If you are keeping score its 21 "The Other Guys" 12 PHillies. I could be on pace for a new record in hurting my team.

"Rat Packing It In"

SCott Mellanby the last remaining member of the Flyers 1987 cup finals team has hung up his skates. Scott was part of the team that faced off against the great one and those Oilers, many feel were the best team ever in hockey. The 1987 Flyers came from behind and went 7 games with that team.

During his stay here Scott build a rep for being touch and scoring that ugly goal when he was needed the most. HE may not have created the concept of crashing the net, but he sure was a good example of it. Watch the highlights of him back in the day as he fires towards the net, with sticks in his face, and people trying to drag him down. Many times he would get one from standing in front of the net and by pushing his way around in the crease. Never afraid to drop his gloves, which is likely why his nose and face look so different now than his Flyers days.

He was delt to the Oilers, and eventually taken by FLordia in the expansion draft. One season there was just magical. It was that season where before a game, a rat ran out in the locker room. Scott killed the rodent with this stick. He would go on to score two goals that night, and it was dubbed a Rat Trick.

That season the Panthers shocked the hockey world by going to the finals.

Scott went on to play for the Lanche, and the Blues but never wont a cup. Which is a shame considering all he gave up for the game.

For the past two seasons he was the captain of the Atlanta Trashers. He was a good choice because the young players looked up to him. His work ethic, grit, and leadership skills made him the perfect role model for the younger players.

He won't make the hockey hall of game, and didnt break any records. But he was a hell of a players, and they don't make them like him anymore. Just too bad he never got his name on the cup.

Just think he was playing in a time where there were no ads on the boards, Crosby was just born, and Reagan was the prez. Over 20 years of hockey in him, he was one of those players I watched as a young kid. It was really a good run.

"Gore in '08!"

One step closer to it becoming official! Clinton thinks a Gore 2008 bid is not out of the question!Clinton and Gore are still close, so its not like its just anyone saying this. Gore could be a dark, horse. He became a movie star last summer, and the young people just love Gore. Gore plans to have concerts all around the world to promote global warming awareness. Although, he joked he about running during the oscars (he got one for his movie) keep in mind despite the media coverage the election isn't actually this year it is next year. Gore has plenty of time to throw his hat into the game. I certainly hope he does, if he does I will have to register as a democrat just to get his nomination, because that will be the only time voting would count. Considering he gets the noimination for his party, the state will go to the democrats anyway, but I think he would have a harder time getting the nomination than winning it all if that makes sense. Honestly, I think he might be better off as just running as an indepedent if he fails to get the nomination. A person like Gore would be invited to debates and what not, unlike Nader or Al Sharpton or whoever. My cut paste is not working but, trust me there is a good article on it in USA TODAY online.

"Roll For It"

Growing up on the show the transformers like many other kids my age, for whatever reason its one of the cartoons I can still watch and care about as an adult. I have all the original cartoons on DVD from the 1980's. But, its not just me most of my friends still love the series (though many of them like me have not watched the different verisions more modern additions on the cartoon network that have aired since the 90s) and I guess the people in hollywood realize that because they are making a new movie this summer.

Even times with guys I don't know the movie will start being talked about a 30 mins conversation about the show will start. Talking about the time the bad guys almost drilled through the earth, the impact the first movie had on you as a child(if you really loved Wheel Jack, I don't maybe you were close to tears as a 7 yearold seeing it for the first time over Craig MOffitt's house. I am not saying that was me or anything though). I guess it doesn't usually appeal to females all that much, but for some reason this series has stuck with most guys all these years. If guys needed another reason to see this movie (I still think it might suck). The girl in this picture is in the movie, and if you want to see a less work friendly picture of her click here.

"Goosebumps"

Although they are tied for the least amount of wins in Major League Baseball right now, I am not ready at all to give up on the Phillies 2007 season. Well, not yet anyway. They have dug themselves a pretty big hole. The problem is here, that two teams in their divison the Mets and the Braves are pretty decent. The phillies won today, but they need to get hot pretty much right now, or I too will be forced to write off the season. As odd as that sounds in April. But, at the very least they have already put themselves in the same situation they did the last two seasons, which resulted in no playoffs for the Phillies at all. They have dug themselves a pretty big hole right out of the gates, and there is little sign that the bull pen problem will correct itself anytime soon. Thoughts?

"Spiderman Lookout!"

Spiderman 3 comes out fairly soon, and I think someone just ruined it for me. He reminded that in Spiderman 2, pretty much everyone and their brother find out that Peter Parker is indeed Spiderman!


So, in Spiderman 3 the arch villan could easily get revenge on Spiderman by just going to his place of business and shooting it up right? Or taking MJ or Peter's aunt and killing them.

I don't really see much of a sense of him wearing a mask anymore. Maybe he will quit his low paying job and try to get paid at by the City of New York to fight crime or something.


I wonder how they will paint themselves out of this corner!

"Mike Seaver"

Okay, I have seen this episode of Scrubs twice now, and both times it really bothered me. Over all it was a great show, but they put a pop-culture re fence in there that was flat out wrong. Sadly, I knew this with having to look it up.


JD (Zack Braff) for whatever reason is trying to make his late 2oish brother not look as sad living at home with his mom, so he talked about the mid 80's to early 90's sitcom Growing Pains.

He said that in the last season that Mike (Kirk Cameron) moved above the garage of his parents house, with his friend Boner. His friends didn't remember Boner, so JD just got strange looks.

Okay couple of things wrong here.


1. Mike moved into the apartment disconnected from his parents house many seasons before the final season.
2. I don't think it was actually supposed to be a garage. Because they would always play basketball in the drive way where there was a garage door. The door was not where Mike lived it was perpendicular to where he lived.
3. Boner and Mike never lived together anywhere
4. Boner left for the army the season after him and Mike graduated highschool which was in the middle of the series run. Not only did they never live together at any point, but Boner was never seen again after leaving for the army. Or even mentioned from what I recall.
5. There could be no confusion here, Mike never had anyone live there with him at any point. So, it is not like they confused characters. We all know Leo came in the final season, but he lived in the house with the rest of the family, and I pretty sure he got Mike's old room.


What is the point on doing this when you are way off? They could have made the joke work, instead of making me remove myself from the show for so long both times that I watched it that writers didn't bother to brush up on the Growing Pains before making the reference. Whatever....

"Walk Into the Future"

I went to the Ecehelon Mall this weekend, and they have already start remaking the area into the Voorhees Town Center. The mall, as I reported is to be cut in half, altough it seems to me more like cut to 1/4 the size. The mall ends at that cool sports store down when you go right out of the foot court.

Well there is a long torn up hall way now that leads you towards the only two other stores down there now Radio Shack and Macy's. Eventually they will have an all new entreance to the mall there. The rest has been torn down for the most part. J C Penny's empty building is no longer connceted to the mall but still there. Sears is gone.

If you go left out of the food court the floor has been total ripped up. I guess the good thing is what is left of the mall is already almost full. Execpt for where the theater was and handful of other stores. They have many signs with the new catch phrase, walk into the future.

The mall as usual was pretty empty as usual once you left the food court (which oddly enough has a jewery store in it now) and even the new store Pay/Half didn't seem to have started any kind of buzz with the employees outnumbering the customers (people there out of boredom and to blog material included).


Where one store once stood is now as time capsule to Echelon, the name will soon be dropped but the display case has all kinds of stuff from back in the day. THey have the shovel that first broke ground in the 70's, pictures of when it was an airport, and boxes from Kimbels (my parent told me about that I don't recall that place). THey also have old Courier-Post newspapers about the mall. One from 2001, when the rumors first started that it was going to close. Yes, that's right its been 6 long years and counting since this whole thing started. I was thinking on printing up a blog article and giving it to them, but I am pretty sure they would not put it in the case.

Many people, have their doubts that a new grocery store, townhouses, and a main street like set up will fail horribly. At this point I am glad they finally just did something. Empty Businesses lead to loss in property value, which result in shady people moving in, which result in crime going up. That part of Voorhees, and many of the towns in in that area of Camden County including my home town ( any man of my readers)have seen a huge many businesses bail out in the last few years and crime increase. The mall itself from what I have heard is a victim of a jewelry robbery on a pretty much weekly basis. In addition to almost every office building around the mall being totally empty.

Right now there isn't much to sell to the public but a mall ripped in half and gutted in side, so I don't imagine they will start trying to win the hearts and minds of anyone just yet. But they got their work cut out for them, because of almost a decade of people thinking the mall was either closing or closed already.

As I was walking upstairs where most the empty spots are.

I heard one guy said to his friend as they past me.

"Dis mall iz shot up, yo, for real!"

That is more a less how most people feel about the place.

"Lets Go to the Mall!"

Going to the Voorhees Town Center this weekend? You might bump into the future Flyers there! I am shocked they didn't say in this article. I am surprised they didn't say something along the lines of, "Man the Malls sure do suck around here!"

"Ma Ma Mia!"

So, for some reason without warning, my car will randomly smell like a pizza. I don't know why, and you might say I must be smelling the cooking of a pizza place or an Italian restaurant some place. But it has happened in 4 different places in South Jersey. Only, once was I near a pizza place, and the odds that that place was cooking up something with the exact same smell it was pretty slim. It was likely years since I had a pizza in that car, and I certainly didn't leave any food in there any time recently. I can't explain it, it comes and goes but every couple of weeks for no reason at all, my car smells like an Italian restaurant. Sure, there is no logical reason, but boy does is smell Delicious.

"You Owned a Phillies Hat!"

So, last season Duke told me hated baseball when the Phillies started to suck. Even though they turned it around he told me he still hated them.

Not one week ago, Duke told me he is starting to like baseball again and is fired up for the Phillies. As I type this the Phillies are simply down by one run in the 11th inning. Granted they blew it and had a 2-0 lead most of the game. I understand, but this is what Duke IMED me

"i guarantee the phils will be one of the 5 worst teams in baseball this yearkeiraorbust: i get true satisfaction out of seeing every philadelphia team lose. It makes me happy"

Not only does Duke's love of things turn on a dime to hate mode, he bails on the philly teams the first sign of trouble. Unreal even if the Phils go 0-2 its not the end of the world, and I think even the normal band wagon jumpers will scratch their head as he leaps off the wagon. Asking, "What was the deal with that dude?"

You see there are two types of fans. Robot fans, like Duke that watch it for the love of the game. They just crunch numbers and watch the sports and take an interest in it. He waches it distant for any emotion.

Well hell, what I don't I just post our IM conversation.

picking up after the first quote...
Keith...er Tucker: seriously.. you have to stick by your teams.. first bump in the road.... duke is out i hope your future kid never brings home a bad grade

Duke: not my team...just because i live in an area doesn't mean that the teams are mine i have no interest in philadelphia teams the only one i ever followed was the flyers

keith: you have a phillies hat

Duke: and i refuse to support losing teams and it's an eagles hat and only because i needed it down the shore.

and it was the only one they were selling (note to readers I was with him, thats true, be he had to get it cause he didnt bring his phillies hat)


keith: you OWNED a philies hat once in your life you wore it all the time.

please.....

Duke: come on

Keith: the phillies were your team

Duke
you take sports way too seriously

DUke:: i'll support winner there is absolutely no point in supporting a loser...i'm not a fanatic

keith: the game isnt over! (it wasnt, but they did lose)
and you OWNED A phillies

Duke: i probably did...and i got it as a gift... losing franchise in sports history

the game isnt even over yet (yeah still wasnt)

keith: you are afraid, cause you have been hurt too many times

Duke: Thats funny

Keith: like a battered bitch

Duke: if you think i ever cared about sports, you're nutskeiraorbust: the only team i support 100% is manchester united

Duke: and they lost today

keith: oh, you better burn your shirt:

Duke: ...and it didn't bother me in the least

keith: oh god, they are the worst team in soccer

Because they're going to win at least 2 trophies this year
something philadelphians will never know

keith: somewhere Neil Little just shed a tear

Duke: i love watching people fail...no matter what it is in... i get more enjoyment out of it than watching people succeedkeiraorbust: probably a little sick, but that's the way it is

keith: did you root for the Russian in Rocky IV?

(no reponse to that one)
keith: you find joy in watching a bunch of people kick a ball around on grass and very little happening for 3 hours?

Duke: skilled athletes passing a ball around is exciting to mekeiraorbust: i could watch it all day every day and i could watch philly teams lose all day every day....

Keith you are the only one that can do that without your blood alchol level at a dangerous level

DUke you'd think someone had stolen their child the way they (philly team fans)react when their teams lose.

Keith: the flyers are one of the strongest bonds i have with my father who passed it on(note to readers: I doubt he thought they still would not have won a cup in my life time) to mei i have cared about the flyers since I was like 4 can you think of anything you care about at age 4 and still cared about?

"The Fighting Phils"

Today the Phillies will start the season of high hopes. They don't usually play very well the opening game though. Hopefully a big win will be had, and the team will live up to the expectations set by the sports world.

"Home is Where the 24-Hour Diner Is"

So for about 3 weeks, it looked as if Rick was going to have to move to DC area for his work. Many a night he weighed his opitons without his work giving him any idea how much the position would pay. Of course he could not make up his mind if the paid him peanuts for the move and the job down there. So, the last 3 weeks we figured we would live it up Price usually would join us and we cranked up the drinking a notch. In order to make the most of what was likely to be his final days as a South Jerseyan. Turns out, eh, they likely are going to close the branch they wanted to move him to, and it all fell through. So, all that living in the moment stuff turns out to have just been a bunch of heavy drinking. Sorry liver.

"Bitter Sweet"

It was really warm today. Awesome weather. Okay, I couldn't really take advantage of it since I was in the office all day. Kind of stinks. But, that is not why this is bitter sweet. This really warm day oddly enough reminds me of playoff hockey. This year will be the 2nd time in 3 years the I don't get to see the Flyers in the postseason. One year was a lock out and last year they were out in the first round. It really sucks, I will still watch the playoffs, but I won't live or die by any team. I have to wait till next fall to see if the FLyers can fix this awful mess there are in.

"Bunch of Jerks"

If you recall a few years ago Comcast swapped their sports network from channel 34 to channel 69. Channel 69 came in really fuzzy and was almost unwatchable for anyone that did not have digital cable. Now keep in mind this was a few years ago and not nearly as many people had digital cable as they do now. The timing of this was on purpose, and to make people upgrade to their digital package. They switched channels right before the Flyers and Sixers started. Many bars, even complained that people were bitching about the poor picture.

Comcast is still up to its old tricks. Anyone wanting to watch the final 9 Sopranos which kick off this Easter is SOL. Amazingly comcast will no longer make HBO available to anyone who doesn't have a digital cable box. Amazing, right that it happens right before one of the most popular tv series HBO ever had airs its final shows isn't it?

Now, I am sure there are many people out there that don't have the digital package just yet, more than you would think. Maybe someone could google the stats on it or something, but there will be a lot of people that are fans of the show that will either not get to see it or have their hand forced to upgrade. No doubt COmcast has done this simply, because they are an evil company.

Bunch of Jerks.

"You Smoke Tree?"

So, as I was saying before Price, Rick and I went to a beerfest, and afterwards we post gamed at a bar. While Rick was talking about different kinds off beers to this girl, I got bored and wondered off.

I ended up outside for some fresh air and ended up talking to this girl that was up at the bar. Things went really well with good conversation, and all. Oddly, enough I don't think Price or Rick even noticed that I was gone. Actually, they had no idea what I was talking about when I posted this apperently.

At any rate she was there with her friend and her boyfriend and we all sat and hung out for awhile. Turns out she was only 21, which well I shouldn't make much of a big deal about, but year kinda of on different life stages. But, really I never look for anything serious right out of the gate anyway, so what difference did it make?

She was a waitress someplace (hey you try to recall that info when you have been drinking all day) and actually had the same exact name as a girl I went to highschool with. She clearly wasn't here though. At the end of the night I did get her number. That Tuesday I called her.

Now when I called her I got her voicemail. Which is always akward for a first call, but at least I know she didn't give me a bogus number at this point (one of my females friends used to do that all the time).

Anyway, around 11:15 or so she called me back. Right off the bat I noticed something was wrong. She seemed totally out of it.

I asked if she was working earlier when I called. She replied that she was out "picking up tree" for her friends. Than she asked me in her slurred speech if "I smoked Tree"

Okay, I should state here that the last time up till this point in my life that someone asked "If I smoked Tree" I was muggged by a bunch of hoodlums in broad daylight in Atlantic City.

I told her she sounded tired. She told me she wasn't tired, but her sister brought her home pills to take. She said the name, but I am not sure what they were, but I know know they make you speak like the late Anna Nicole Smith (I can not belive that is the 2nd time I mentioned her on this blog).

I guess there was a bit of indication we are on different life cycles because she told me when she works she doesn't get off "that late" which was 11:30. Now 11:30 for me during the week is usually the time that I am climbing into bed an wrapping myself up in my Gore in '08 blankets.

Anyway, she went on to say some other stuff that made little sense, and something about watching BOrat. So, I told me friend Rob about it (not the arter of the year) who told me I should call her and hang out with her even though we both agreed she was a trainwreck. So, I called her later in the week for the only reason to get more stories. But again she wasn't making much sense.

"The Festival of Beer in the City of Atlantic"

This past Saturday Price, Rick and myself went to the 2nd Annual Beer Festival in Atlantic City. The concept is simple you pay 30 bucks (25 if you are smart enough to buy your tickets online unlike us) and there is a bunch of beer distributors there. They give you a cup when you first go in and you just go from one beer station to the next and fill her up. They have all kinds of beers from overseas and some trying out new blends, or small breweries trying to make a name for themselves. In addition to the beer, there is food, Irish music, and gift shops.

We took the train down since it was right in the convention center and the train ends right there. To be honest it was a pretty sweet deal roughly 6 bucks for a round trip. We got there a little early and walked around. It is pretty cool now because when you get off the train you are in the middle of a down town where there are a ton of shops.

The line to get the ticket was long, and the line to get in the door was even longer. Price some how got split up from me and Rick. At this point I was starting to doubt that this thing was going to be worth it. But, when I got in there I was like a kid in a candy store, so much to take in. I just ran off and left Rick randomly getting beer from different stations.

A common theme would be that we split up and try to call each other on the cell phones. At one point Price and I wondered past a massage station. The random Asian women not only offered me a massage but started giving me one. Than suddenly she caught me off guard.

"12 dollar!, 12 dollar!"
"Um, I was really wasn't looking to..."
"12 dollar!, 12 dollar!"
"No, really that's okay.."

Than she shoved me onto the table and started rubbing me up. This was the first professional massage I have ever had in my life. I was pretty good you know its start to finish. Price ended up getting roped in (mainly my fault) to one too. He had a dude touching him, but he swears he didn't touch his butt, like the lady did to me. After she pretty much forced me to get her service, I wondered if my wallet would be missing after the butt rub. Luckily it wasn't.

This was a first also, when the women actually asked me for a tip. I never had anyone ask me for a tip before in my life. I looked in my wallet trying to figure out what the tip on 12 should be, when I realized only had one single and all 20s, out of fear I would not get any money back I gave her a dollar. She started getting loud.

"One dollar?!?!? One Dollar??!?"

I slowly backed away and waited for Price.

We tried it all Beer that tasted like toilet water, beer that tasted like coffee, bear with the word monkey in its name, beer that tasted like cheap whine, beer, beer and more beer. Of course like wing bowl some of the laws and rules became blurred with people smoking in the bathroom like it was no big deal. At one point the overweight middle aged rent a cop chased people out. But 5mins later the cloud of smoke returned. I forgot what it was like to have to wave myself through a cloud of smoke to get to the pisser.

Now there were alot more dudes than girls at this place. I did however bump into an ex-girlfriend(not liza) It was nice to see her I guess. I guess it was like 7 years or so. Hard to get my head around it that it was that long ago. There was some lame MAXIM magazine ripoff there. My god, they must have few readers. The girls they got in binkinis were all fat (litterally fat) and had veiny legs and bad skin. It was as if someone played a cruel joke on us all. I was waiting for some radio DJ to come out and punk us all or something.

We wanted to live a little early and beat the rush. It worked out great cause the train left early anyway. While for tickets (we were to dim to buy round trip tickets) in line there was a random drunk fat British guy.

"You, like Ben Stiller! Ben Stiller is a cunt!" --British Guy

"Um..." Me

"Doesn''t he always play a cunt! You look like him you must be a cunt!"
"I don't really um..."

He kept calling me a cunt about 10 more times.

Than he turned to a guy behind him in line and told him he F****d his mother in Liverpool. Than he banged his dad later. The guy behind him had no idea who he was.

I was so much funnier since he had a British accent, he reminded me of the sidekick in Shaun of the Dead.

The train ride home rivaled that of the "Fools on a Train" story. First off there was a drunk guy that almost fell over in Rick's lap before vomiting all over himself and retreating to the bathroom. He sat on the toilet with the door open. The odd thing is he seemed to be by himself, no one had any idea who he was or where he had to get off.

Meanwhile the front of the train had some older people. For some reason (price seemed to know why) they kept shouting JIMMY!!!!!!

AT this point we were mingling with a few different groups and we all were puzzled by this but got a real kick out of it. So, we all started yelling back.

"JIMMY!!!!!!!"

Than they would yell back.

"Jimmy!!!!!!!!!!!"

No idea who Jimmy was, or why we were so amused doing this. But, it went on for about another 30mins. As each group of dudes (mainly) got off the train they would pound on my window and yell.

"Jimmy!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Anyway the drunk dude eventually got off. Although I am fairly sure he crapped his pants before doing so. SOMEONE on the train certainly did. It was just an awful foul stench.

We got back to our neck of the woods at 11:30 ish which was perfect because we decided to hit up Harpers. All and all it really lived up to my expectations and anyone that didn't go really missed out on a good time.

Harpers was fun Allen and a bunch of our other friends were up there. I even got some cute 21 year old Irish chick's number. But that my friends is another entry all together. Tune in next time SAME BAT TIME SAME BAT CHANNEL!

"Going the Distance...Going for Speeeeeeed!"

So, it spring again and people are talking about being in shape and living healthy and all that crap. Lots of my co-workers join a gym called riverwinds near my work, because of the town I work in we get discounted memberships. It is supposed to be awesome they have a pool with a slide, lots of places to run, a steam a room and tons of weights to work out with. But, I realized since its in the other direction of my apartment, I would never go. SO, I would not join and not throw money down the toliet.

What could I do? Well my apartment is has a small gym, which has just what I need a bike, a treadmill, because I just want to run and feel like I am more active than I currently am. I know most people like to lift weights and thats the cool thing to do, but the thing with weights is that they are really heavy. Running is also nice and cheap, and I get to be outdoors during most of the year if I commit to it.

Problem is with my gym is the only open in while the office is open. The office closes at 6pm sharp each night. I am lucky if I get home at 5:30, but its usually closer to 6pm. So, there goes that. Now they have been telling me since November that they are getting cameras in there and it will eventually be open late, but I am starting to think that they are just messing with me. Since, you know it is Spring time.

A few Saturdays ago, I was able to get into the Gym and actually did some running. I actually felt great the next day like I did something good for my body for once, instead of trying to drown my organs with beer. Now that we haven extra hour and thanks to global warming with 70 degree weather in March, it was perfect time to start running this SUnday! Well not really, because Saturday I went to a Beerfestival, but more on that later. To be honest a few summers ago, I did run 3 times a week for about two months or so more. I started to see results finally.

I went to run at a the tire park (although there are no tires there anymore making people who didn't live here before 1999 look at me like I am Space Alien when I refer to it as that) and thought to myself. 3 times around the park Keith...er Tucker. Okay, I ran like 50 % of the time and walk the other 50%. Yeah, just starting out right?

Yesterday, I took the day off. Tonight, though I truely had an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. I was invited by the guys at work to go to a happy hour, followed by Rick who was going to the Tank for dinner and a few brews, than by Price who was going to the Stone Grill with a friend I hadnt seen in years, than by Ed who was hitting up Harpers with "HeadCase". I turned all four chances down in order to run.

Oh, yeah I was going to do this!

I started running, and thought to myself a few things.

1. What the hell am I going to do with my car keys? I can't leave them in my car right? In my pants they just weigh me down and annoy me. If I clinch them in my hand, I look less like I am jogging and more like I am fleeing a crime scene.

2. Why are my pants I bought for running years ago big on me now? After years of not running? Maybe bending elbows is a much better way to stay in shape.

3. Damn that cute Italian Girl in front of me has a nice butt.

4. I wonder what drink special is at Harpers tonight!

5. God I am out of shape

6. Of course I kept playing rocky music in my head and a few choice quotes.

So yeah, again I had to stop a few times because of being totally out of breath and wishing I was basically dead. All the while the cutie italian girl was zipping around the park again and again. At this point I started to question the whole "get in shape thing" is this really time better spend than sitting at happy hour? or on my couch watching tv?

I had to dig deep to get around 3 times(I don't even want to know what short distance that actually is), and the third try was more walking and looking around than actually running. But, me blowing off happy hour was a step in the right direction right?

Than again I would have to do this 3 times a week to see any kinds of results and that really takes dedication. Would it be better to just wait till after the 1st heart attack? I mean if anything I am skinny for my height, I am certainly not heavy.

Damn my legs hurt.

Okay readers! How long does everyone give me before I throw in the towel?

"Top Dog is Dead"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Times are changing.