At the end of one of the most abysmal seasons in the history of the Philadelphia Flyers franchise, I scored two center ice seats right above the glass. In the typical scenario, there would be no reason to be excited about watching the 2006-07 Flyers face off against the Buffalo Sabred, one of the best …
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To celebrate the glacial pace of regime change in the Philadelphia Flyers organ-eye-zation, let’s examine some excuses Chuck Fletcher could have made at the NHL trade deadline that would have been more plausible than telling the Philly press that he made a bunch of phone calls. “Turns out my phone was on Airplane mode the …
80. Happy – Pharrell Williams When a song elicits emotions from its listeners, it is typically a dour breakup song people turn to for some empathy, to feel like they are not alone. “Happy” is the antidote to such misery. Do not discount it just because it was written for a kid’s movie; bask …
In the season three opener of The Mandalorian, we see Mando and his little buddy, Grogu, traveling through hyperspace in his sleek, new spacecraft. As Grogu looks out from the ship, he spots a shadowy figure moving alongside him and reaches out to it. Most likely, it is a purrgil. Let’s start speculating. What is …
Everybody hurts, sometimes. So hold on, hold on; well, as long as it’s not during the waning minutes of the Super Bowl. Forget about that call, though. Forget about the fumble, the terrible field conditions, the play of Avonte Maddox, and Quez Watkin’s impersonation of Nelson Agholor. It is all in the past now and …
Remember the war on drugs? How about the border wall? In hindsight, those campaigns seem more logical than the government’s war on women’s underwear. I need Caddyshack’s Lacey Underall to weigh in on this.
Gareth Edwards, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau, and Tony Gilroy have reinvented the Star Wars franchise. They did so by letting go of lightsabers and the influence of the Jedi. Few Sci-Fi characters have bubbled their way up to the pop culture surface as The Child (Grogu) did in The Mandalorian. One could make an argument …
90. Say it Ain’t So – Weezer When the grunge scene emerged from the Seattle area, two factions were born; there was the Nirvana camp and the Pearl Jam camp. As the two sides fought to a futile end, Weezer snuck by and created two magnificent albums that defined a subset of the grunge generation: …
Preface: I created a couple of rules for myself before compiling this list. I decided that only one song per group/artist could be used. However, if a musician was in a different group or had a solo career, it was ok to use a song from that different/solo act. Additionally, the songs on this list …
The Porcini Torchio was one of the first pasta dishes we added to the menu at Valente’s Cucina. At first, it did not sell at all. We decided to run through our supply of it and take it off the menu. Naturally, it began selling like crazy that very night and remained a fixture on …