What, You Didn't Get the Memo...?

11 days left... tick tock tick tock...

The 12 Days (left) of X-mas...

Go to Macy's on Market and see the light show. Walk through the animatronic Scrooge show. Be a kid...

Flyers/Pens = Avs/Wings circa mid 90's

My dad's father, or Poppie, had two televisions at his house in Philadelphia. One had cable and the other had this fuzzy basic antenna feed that didn't offer much more than re-runs of Mamma's Family. It was nearing 7:30, and I began to pace back and forth in his living room. I had become addicted to hockey. It was all Eric Lindros' fault. That, and my uncle had bought me a nerf hockey set that I'd take out back and use to shoot pucks off various fragile objects. The Flyers were off, but a much more attractive game was on my mind. I began to watch any hockey game that ESPN or ESPN 2 (back when they showed hockey) could get my eyes on. I also became aware of the great rivalry between the Colorado Avs and the Detroit Red Wings. A video summary of their heated antics awaits you after the jump.

This very night, the two were squaring off in a revenge game on cable TV. Somehow I convinced my Poppie to turn off the horse races and turn on the game. Within the first 5 minutes, there were crosschecks, slashes, boarding, fighting, blood, guts and I think someone died. My grandfather, in a disgruntled "I can't believe you watch this stuff" manner... picked up the remote and turned it off. Hockey, especially the way it was played then, and the way it was played last night at the Wachovia center betwixt the Flyers and Penguins, isn't for everyone. I have come to realize that our brothers in the middle of this fair Keystone state hate us just as much as we hate them. I predict that the new Flyers/Penguins rivalry will equal and eventually surpass the Avs/Red Wings in intensity, violence and pure entertainment. And to think, we play them 5 more times this season.

Mayhaps He's Lactose Intolerant...

I hear that's going around...

No Means NO!!!

How would YOU define Irony? Would it be like an old man turning 98, winning the lottery and dying the next day? Would it be like having 10,000 spoons... when all you need is a knife? Is Irony like rain on your wedding day? Or is it like a deep fried onion ring in the shape of the "don't do this" symbol held in front of a cigarette?

Paranormal State = ChurchTv

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It was laughable and a complete waste of time. There's a demon following you? Your index finger is a invisible cross force field deploying device? At least the preview kept the door open for future factual phenomena. But as for right now...? DEBUNKED.

Vick: 23 months, Dog Riots break out in L.A.

Michael Vick gets the jail sentence equivalence of buying a new car for 19,999.99. 23 months is really a year. You know it. I know it. Dogs that lick themselves know it. The early word is Burt Reynolds has inquired about Vick's services for his penal football pee-wee team.

O' Little Mall in Bethlehem...

a new scribbles cartoon, with others found here.

Call it, Friendo...

I promised myself I'd never do it. There's been so many times and so many oppurtunities to do so, not knowing if the chance would ever rise again. But I said, "NO... NO, good sir. Its just too damn creepy". That all went out the window last night at the Hiway Theater in Jenkintown, where I stopped in to see No Country for Old Men. Alone. When I envision myself seeing a motion picture alone, it sorta ends up as a cross between Tom Hanks from Philadelphia getting blown at Stallion Showcase Cinema on 21st street or Stanley Tucci from the Pelican Brief feigning masturbation by taking off his rope belt and choking a chief justice with it. But I digress.

If ever there was a movie worthy of "making due" with the actions discussed above, N.C.F.O.M is it. Superb yet simple storyline, an all-star lineup... perfectly cast, violence and drama with a dash of humor, and one of the best characters ("Sugar" pictured above) ever to cross the silver screen with an air compressor, make this film a MUST SEE. On a side note, its end is peculiar and deserves a second viewing in order for me to pass judgment on the Super Coen-o Bros.' ability to finish their films.

For a synopsis, sound clips, video clips, Clipse, buddy icons and screen savers, head over to the official site. That is, AFTER you've gone to see the damn thing. P.S. after the JUMP is a trailer that ran before the movie that I'm dying to see.

There Will be Blood. Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead provides the soundtrack. Daniel Day Lewis owns. That silent kid from "Little Miss Sunshine" is in it, and should've stayed silent. "I can't keep doing this on my own, with these... people."

Alive n' Kickin'...

or Punchin'. My friend Phil is in fact... still alive. You see, after changing his phone number and email I had come to the conclusion that he in fact, was dead. Not the case... so beware all those that cross his path. Show some 'respeck' or get punched the digi-equivalent of 828... IN THE FACE.

How to Put Asses in Seats...

What do you do, when even the tumbleweeds that blow hither and yon along Broad Street won't come to see your 76ers play basketball? You publicize the fact that hometown darling, Jimmy "J-Roll" Rollins, will be awarded with an MVP jersey during the game. Aaaand, it would help to give free club box tickets out to all the faithful fans who USED to own season tickets one year prior. After the JUMP, two more videos and an explanation why no one was there.

Maybe now that Billy King is gone, you'll get one.

Supsended Flyer-Nation!

I've said it about him before. I'll say it again. This is going to be the most interesting game of the year, if not for the debut of troubled rookie Steve Downie, then for the fact that the Flyers have tallied 5 suspensions in a quarter of a season and are being watched by the NHL. How could something NOT happen in this game? There have been detractors who've said he wouldn't see the light of (game)day after his hit on Deano, but here he is. After that hit, the crosscheck, the boarding, the dashering and the elbowing, the Flyers are rolling the dice on Downie tomorrow night in Minnesota. Here's hoping they roll a lucky number (2)7.

My advice? Duck.

**UPDATE** check out downie's score sheet in the game before last:

2 - PHI Downie, 5:29 - Boarding , 2 min (PP)
2 - PHI Downie, 7:58 - Fighting , 5 min
2 - PHI Downie, 16:45 - High-sticking , 2 min (PP)
3 - PHI Downie, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - PHI Downie, 20:00 - Misconduct , 10 min
3 - PHI Downie, 20:00 - Misconduct - Unsportsmanlike conduct (75.4), 10 min

Let Him Eat Cake...

Cliff's Notes version: Dan IMs me at work and tells me that there are these crazy stuffed animals on WhySoSerious, the viral marketing web-site for the sequel to Batman Begins, Dark Knight. These critters are holding addresses to various locations that nerds and such can bike or get their moms to take them to in the hopes of getting a package. He wonders if I, on my lunch break... wouldn't mind scoping the location out. I do mind, his brother does not... And what do you know, he enters a bakery in Germantown and receives a cake with a phone number on it, FROM THE JOKER. Or maybe it was Batman, or Robin... or maybe that Joel Schumaker guy. What happens after the securing of cakes? You'll have to visit Dan's blog to find out. He updated, its great, the world is coming to an end.

If you want to know more about the 6 minutes of exclusive footage from the Dark Knight shown in an IMAX theater yesterday, click here.

If you want to register to see those same 6 minutes at the KOP mall on Thursday, click here.

For someone else's post, this one turned out to be quite long.

Pink Governments on Parade...

It is stories such as these that make me envision pictures such as the one above. How about you...?