"Sopranos Season 6 Trailer"

If you havent seen it yet. Here it is. The trailer for the season 6 opener.

"Port of Problems"

Over the weekend it became public that a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based company control of ports of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Miami, and New Orleans. Bush says that UAE is big partner on the war on terror.

The big stink that two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers were from the UAE. To make matters worse, according to the Justice Department and the 9/11 Commissionmost of the hijackers received money channeled through various sources based in the UAE.

Was Bush just a sleep at the wheel when this happened? Or will he prevent it from happening?

I doubt either. Since I doubt such a huge move that would effect the country would not be brought to the president's attention. Also, the White House went on the defensive by the middle of Sunday.


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I can only hope they come to their senses and prevent this from happening. Maybe I am just being paranoid and my general concern of this company running our ports is offensive to people. However, I think we should really in this day in age of terrorism letting a company based in an area of the world where its confusing enough trying to figure out who wants to blow us up and who doesn't have access to where all our food comes in and access to an easy way to destroy most the major cities on the east coast just might be a bad idea.

For someone who ran his election campaign on keeping America safer Bush at the very least has a lot more explaining to do here. This is a fairly large contradiciton to anything he has stood for if you think about it.

"Port of Problems"

Over the weekend it became public that a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based company control of ports of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Miami, and New Orleans. Bush says that UAE is big partner on the war on terror.

The big stink that two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers were from the UAE. To make matters worse, according to the Justice Department and the 9/11 Commissionmost of the hijackers received money channeled through various sources based in the UAE.

Was Bush just a sleep at the wheel when this happened? Or will he prevent it from happening?

I doubt either. Since I doubt such a huge move that would effect the country would not be brought to the president's attention. Also, the White House went on the defensive by the middle of Sunday.

I can only hope they come to their senses and prevent this from happening. Maybe I am just being paranoid and my general concern of this company running our ports is offensive to people. However, I think we should really in this day in age of terrorism letting a company based in an area of the world where its confusing enough trying to figure out who wants to blow us up and who doesn't have access to where all our food comes in and access to an easy way to destroy most the major cities on the east coast just might be a bad idea.

For someone who ran his election campaign on keeping America safer Bush at the very least has a lot more explaining to do here. This is a fairly large contradiciton to anything he has stood for if you think about it.

I never understood why everytime the olypimics fool around all the other networks that are not airing the winter games just roll over and die. They usually take place right in the middle of sweeps too, and traditionally networks will just throw reruns on of all their popular shows.

Anyway looks like some of the networks are finally saying the hell with it. Lets see what happens, and it is paying off. FOX is still running new American Idol, CBS is still running new Surivor and ABC is still running new Desperate Housewives and Lost. FOX won the night with American Idol and NBC is feeling the sting.

Read this article for more http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060216/ap/d8fqf40g0.html.

Oh yeah and I thought of this idea years ago. So, if I worked for a network I would be getting a huge bonus and could buy robots with lazers and lots of other cool stuff.

"Is Netflix Shafting Frequent Users?"

Apperently the more you rent the more you wait with Netflix. The internet movie rental company that has given Blockbuster a run for the money the last two years. Will loyal supporters jump ship? Will Drew ever want to be my Netflix buddy?


Check it out folks! http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/10/netflix.renters.ap/index.html

"Old Man Winter"

Finally Old Man Winter has arrived. He was about two months too late, but anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow is expected in much of south jersey tonight (saturday) through tomorrow. My final prediciton is that it will max out around 8pm. Just getting back from being away for a week, the timing of the storm couldnt be any better since I have little desire to do much.

"Sounds Like a Classic"

Now with no hockey for a month I have more time to watch movies off Netflix. I came across the new release Gingerdead man. Evil never tasted so good! When Sarah Leigh (Robin Sydney) testifies against three murderers in a death penalty case, she never expects them to return to life in the form of delicious desserts. But that's exactly what happens when their cremated ashes accidentally fall into a batch of batter and are baked into a trio of gingerbread men. Now, the adorable yet evil cookies will stop at nothing to find the woman who sent them to the electric chair. Sounds like a winner....the cover is classic.

"Leaving on a Jet PLane"

Gone on Business for a week. See you Saturday!

"superbowl Predictions"

Any last minute predicitons?

"Exxon Mobil Corp. , the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Monday reported a quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices. The results pushed up Exxon's profit for the year to a staggering $36.13 billion -- bigger than the economies of 125 of the 184 countries ranked by the World Bank. Profit rose 42 percent from 2004."---From Ruters.com


Wow, the same company that charges almost every other gas station more money per gallon. They must really be hurting by the whole Katrina deal. You know its amazing how the minute the hurricane hit the prices sky rocketed. Yet, the even when all the transportation issues were fixed it took months to go back down.

Also for almost no reason at all prices have spiked again in the past 3 weeks. Its to the point that oil companies barely come up with a reason why they are up. I hear because of the winter oil prices were up. Its the warmest winter that I can remember in the entire north east. It barely gets cold at all except for at night. Besides, shouldnt they catch on by now that people run the heat in the winter and try to catch up with it.

The sad thing is, there is nothing we can do about it at all.

"The Whale"

We have talked about this many times at the bar. But here it is the official list on this site of all the players that have played for the defunct Hartford Whalers. I also breaks down all the netminders.

Duke and I were talking I couldn't recall the two goalies from the 90s that I that were going to be awesome, so I looked them up it was Mario Gosselin and who could forget Mike Lenarduzzi? Of course neither them were Sean Burke who not only still plays today but shut out a certain Philly hockey team this afternoon.

A quick count I came up with 14 players in the league still playing that were once Whalers. Glenn Wesley was the only player left on the hurricanes who played for the Whalers even though he was gone for awhile. Jeff O'Neil left this summer who at that point played his whole career with the team.

So, check the site out. I enjoyed it. How could I have forget the CVS line?

"My Secret Phone"

So Duke and I were at the Flyers game a few weeks ago. Afterwards we went to Chickie and Petes for a post game dinner/drinks.

93.3 WMMR was there, and they gave out cell phones for some contest. Of course it was too loud in there to hear what the rules were. ALso, no one seemed to be pay any attention. They handed phones out and I thought it would ring or something if I won.

Who knows.

All I know is the phone actually works, from downloads, to text message to making actually calls. I have no idea why, but its been weeks and it seems like I have a free phone with no bills of any sort. Perhaps the service will be cut off one day or something. But right now it works just fine. I can even play mrs. pacman.

From what I gavered from the contest is that you are supposed to pass the phone on or something so other people can enjoy it. That really dosent make sense if they cut off the service or you have people calling you from the previous friend.

As anyone heard of this promotion?

If a man commands me to do stuff on the phone one day should I do as he says?

"So Long, Super Mario"

Mario Lemieux has retired again and with recent health problems and his age. It will be for good this time. Lemieux retired once before and was away from the game for almost 4 years. He shocked everyone and came back. That year he led the Penguins to the final four.

Super Mario also became part owner of the team and has kept the Penguins in Pittsburgh. Without him they would have moved years ago.

Mario said he is ready to go and pass the game onto the young players like Sid Crosby.

Do you consider Mario's final years after his retirment a success?

Also to read more go here.

"IMDB & Sopranos"

So I was bored the other day and was on the internet movie database as usual. I was floating through the Sopranos page and found something interesting.

If you click on some of the regular guest stars it tells what actors appear in epsiodes of season 6, along with the epsiode title.

For example you can find that the character Rosalie Aprile apears in the episode 6.5 "Mr. and Mrs. Sacramoni Request"

Also Capo Vito will be in the season opener "Members Only" and at least live to espisode 6.6 "Live Free or Die"

One possible clue could be the fact that the Benny charcter is only in the first show at this point. Benny was the low level wiseguy who portected the Soprano family from the black bear last season. He ended up in the hospitial after almost getting beaten to death. Also there is someone credited as doctor. Perhaps he never got out of the hospitial.

"What I have Learned"

Here is what I have learned since living on my own.


Without George Foreman tons of guys that live on their own would be dead with in the first two months. Also, if they can ever come up with one that self-cleans. It would change my life forever.

Grease down the drain is bad.

Grease in the trash can smells terrible after a day or two.

Cleaning sucks.


You will never buy everything you need for your apartment. Each day you realise you dont have something you need. It never ends.

Used stuff saves money.

I honestly have no idea where my socks go. I have several pairs without mates.

I can actually cook some stuff.

Cleaning really sucks.

It will never stop raining for more than a day in order for me to enjoy my deck.

I can talk to myself a lot more and wear pants a lot less living alone.

My notions on getting a dog have been put off, because of money and time. I do however have a Scooby Chia pet. I guess that is a step in the right direction. Provided the seeds actually sprout this week.

Living alone food can go bad and go to waste. Also, when you grocery shop it seems like everyone else eats better than me.

Without Liza I wouldnt have half of what I do in my apartment.

There is a fine line with apartment heating bettween the artic and a flaming inferno.

"Since Tucker Has Been Gone"

Bid Laden told us that we are all screwed.

Spring started 4 weeks ago in South Jersey apperently.

The Flyers went on an impressive run winning most of their games on the 11 game road trip. The longest in NHL history. Going losing in regulation twice.

Jimmy Carter went to the hospitial.

West Wing was cancelled by NBC. Which was by far my favoriate show that I never watched an episode of.

A smoking ban was put in place for all public buildings in South Jersey. Including bars and resturants. Casinos dodged the bullet. Most people I talked to are actually cool with the notion. Although some bartenders are concerned it will kill business. Oh, and a bunch of strippers are protesting to NJ lawmakers.

Everyone is really big on that gay cowoboy movie. About the two cowboys who love each other.

I went to a Pizza Hutt Itlaian Bistro, and it was terrible.

"The Comback"

In order to put our rumors of the fate of Tucker's World. It is tonight that Tucker's World is going to be relaunched. Easily the longest gap bettween updates in the blog's history comes to an end tonight. I certainly needed the break and plan to return to updating a few times a week.

Hopefully the comeback will last longer than the short lived awful HBO show.

"Merry Christmas"

Well, if you haven't noticed on here the updates have been few and far bettween the past month. Well to be honest its been hard to get on here and update. I have major problems with my computer in my apartment. Also now the new apartment takes up a lot of my free time to clean and what not. But now that obviously all my shopping for Christmas is done, I will have more free time to decidate to the blog. I have had so many rants that just never made their way out of my brain no the the blog. So keept his in your daily routine to check at work or whenever.

As per usual here is my traditional christmas story posting.



"The Gift"Some time around the first week of the year. I took a second look at one of our traditional Christmas decorations; it was a complete and total eyesore. It was a gift some old lady gave my mother 10 years ago for Christmas and I guess she felt obligated to put it on the tree each year. It was a gaudy looking knitted cat. It was one the most hideous things I have ever laid eyes on.

They say its thought that counts well it’s the thought that angers me when I see it every year.That same Christmas like every year an epidemic spread through the grade school. This year it was in the form of Sega, the newest video game system. Over greasy square pizza, pale yellow peas, and flavorless mashed potatoes shaped like an ice cream scoop, I would hear all the kids discuss the latest video games. I would try my best to stay absent from the conversation. I wouldn’t know what to say when they would ask me if I had gotten past the castle board yet.

One day went I went home I sat my father down and tried to tell him how I would benefit from having a Sega game system of my very own. I told him it would give me better hand eye coordination and against the popular notion it made kids zombies, I told him it acutally made them think and make quick decisions. He went on and on about how when he was a kid he would just use his imagination to have fun, and how kids today are spoiled. I think that conversation is had all over America in every family at one point and time. I used to think that my parents and all the other parents would go to secret meetings at night or when all their kids were in school and discuss stuff like this. I pictured a man with a gavel leading the meeting and hammering home the idea of telling children why they are spoiled and to shove vegetables down their throats. One time I actually searched my mother’s purse for a pamphlet when they got home late the night before.That Christmas I was hoping for a miracle.

I rushed down the steps that morning and studied each mystery. I did the shake test, the weight test and the hold them up to the sunlight test. As I tore, open each one my chances of getting the coveted Sega was getting slimmer and slimmer. All kinds of flashes were going off from my mother’s camera capturing images of me, and my reactions to each present. Later that day my family and I went to my aunt and uncle’s for dinner.

I was in a miserable mood the whole time. The only bright spot was that my cousin Robby who was about my age was there. And guess what he got for Christmas? Of course the very same Sega system. He told me he got it weeks before Christmas even came. Robby and I were always highly competitive. So while the sweet smell of the pending ham dinner dissipated through the air we settled down in front of the television. With all those weeks of practice, he had on me he humiliated me. I think he set a record for goals scored in a hockey game, shot my plane down about a dozen times, and beat me all over the wrestling ring. I went home feeling worse than I did when I realized I wasn’t getting the Sega.

On the ride home my father tried to reach out to me. But I just pushed him away. The image of my wrestler I was controlling laying on the floor after about 30 seconds was burning in my mind. I sat in fit of rage in the back seat as my parents were in the front. My father turned the radio down. He told me that maybe one day I would get one. But I didn’t hear it. I wanted to tell him how Robby’s parents weren’t any richer than we, that I was the only kid that didn’t have a Sega. But all that came out at the top of my tiny lungs was I HATE YOU! And instead of saying anything after that. I just repeated I HATE YOU! Because he was driving of course he had his back to me. But we passed a street light that light up the rear view window and I glimpse of his face. Suddenly I didn’t want to yell anymore. I did not apologize either, in fact no one said anything. The car just hummed along the rest of the ride.

About two months later I got a Sega for my birthday. It funny the minute I unwrapped the gift and realized what it was, I almost had to fake excitement. Sure I spend many a night in the glow of my television going to far off lands and winning championships, but I could never take those words back. At least in a video game you are blessed with more than one life. At the time I meant the words that came out of my mouth. I hated my father as much as I hate that stupid knit cat now. One time after coming home from a fishing trip with my father after many years of those words keeping me up at night, it figured it was time to apologize. However my mouth froze, I never did. I like to think that my father knew what I was thinking. Like I said they say it’s the thought that counts. I put the rest of the ornaments in a box, and I carried them basement. I placed them in a closet we hardly used. It was full of dust and mildew. I rested the box right on top of the Sega.

"Super Sunday: The Teaser"

Somehow I pretty much missed this. The Superman Returns Teaser has been out for a weeks. IT was on during Smallville apperently and before Harry Potter in some theaters.

Anyway here it is. If that link doesnt work Simply look up SUperman Returns on IMDB an go to the view trailer section.

It's pretty kick ass. It has music from John William's score (it was used in the very first scene of the first film). It also has a voice over by the late Marlon Brando who played Jor-el in Superman: The Movie. Director Marc Singer (X-men, and X-men 2) said he used the voice over through existing footage and stuff that has been sitting around in vaults.

Thats a good sign if SUperman 2 is going to be released in a directors cut verision next year, because it could mean the scene bettween Reeve and Brando will be restored. Brando was deleted from the sequel when it was released because of a fight with the studio and director Richard Lester who replaced Richard Donner who originally was intended to direct the first two films.

Singer seems like he is pretty excited and proud to be working on a Superman film and wants to pay tribute to the original films series. I have high hopes with the cast and the hype. I can't wait for the movie.

"Richard Pryor 1940-2005"

Legendary Comedian Richard Pryor died of a heart attack in his sleep this past Saturday. He was 65. Here is a CNN article about him. It's sad, but his quality of life was terrible for the last 5-10 years so its also a blessing. Most my friends know that I was a fairly big fan of the actor/comdian. I plan to write up something in my own words going over his film carrer. BUt for now just check out the link. Also, might be a good time to talk about your fav. Pryor films and moments.