“It was okay, we’re okay. We’re all okay. Okay?”

Okay…. that was a little scary. Actually, it’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced, including watching the Exorcist while stoned in high school. That gave me nightmares for days. This I’ll never forget.

Fyona burped, and then Fyona was choking. Her color went from pink to red in moments, then she sneezed a big old snot ball and farted a White Castle caliber bomb. I grabbed her and started doing the burp maneuver, then immediately went to work with a nasal aspirator. She quickly calmed down, gave a little smile, and contentedly fell asleep. Mom and Dad stood over her frozen but with heart rates like hummingbirds for the next hour. Now I say, “immediately” when I refer to my life saving work (I saved MOM’s life; Fyona was always okay) with the aspirator, but that’s not accurate. We had to find it first. Lesson learned: keep that little bastard where it can be seen. 

Everything was okay, and we were right there to catch it. We remained collected and in charge during a crisis, even if that crisis was more in our heads than in reality. In retrospect I know that it actually wasn’t that scary of a scenario, but HOLY SHIT.

This is going to be one wild New Years Weekend.

No fries, cheeps.
“Say Tucker Blogs, how can you like the Billy Goat? Isn’t that Sam Sianis’ place where the Billygoat curse against the Cubs began?”
You better believe it! Thanks to this place (which never carded me in high school) the Cubs haven’t won a World Series in over 100 years!
Go White Sox!
mightyflynn:

Billy Goat TavernLower Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IllinoisJanuary 2011
(by Mickey B. Photography)

No fries, cheeps.

“Say Tucker Blogs, how can you like the Billy Goat? Isn’t that Sam Sianis’ place where the Billygoat curse against the Cubs began?”

You better believe it! Thanks to this place (which never carded me in high school) the Cubs haven’t won a World Series in over 100 years!

Go White Sox!

mightyflynn:

Billy Goat Tavern
Lower Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
January 2011

(by Mickey B. Photography)

Freshly Squeezed: a drunken ramble about Superman and Spiderman

What up, Internet? Exciting weekend ahead? Yeah, me neither. So far it’s been Panda Express and overcast skies. Ever have one of those days where it feels like the whole town is at some sort of meeting you weren’t invited to? I probably wouldn’t have gone had I been invited anyway. I’ve been lazy lately, living in some sort of half conceptualized state of nostalgia. I’ve been playing old video games and consuming a steady diet of classic TV shows and movies. Ah, unemployment being “in between projects.”

That’s what lead me to an early DVD morning viewing of Superman II coincidentally followed by HBO’s afternoon airing of Spider-Man 2. I have watched the same movie twice. More to the point, the Spider-Man movies stole everything from the Superman movies. Yes, this has probably been discussed before, but like I said: I’m feeling nostalgic.

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“Are you my pal, Mr. Scholarship Winner?”

The White Castle Contest is over. The Grand Prize has gone to Mike Blogoff.

(“How ‘bout a Fresca? How ‘bout a keychain? How ‘bout a Slider Scented Candle?”)

This is his winning entry. I was shocked to find out that not only was he once married, but he’s also in reality famed Swedish Actor Peter Stormare. I’ve hung out with him many times in person, and I’m a little offended that he never even mentioned it once. You think you know a guy…

Anyway, congratulations.

I’m the (2nd) Best Around!

Almost nothing’s gonna ever keep me down, Internet. When it comes to contests of strength, wit, strategy, and downright gettin’ the job done, very few do it better. Am I the greatest? Well, no. But I know him, and when he ain’t around there’s nobody else you’d rather have near but me. We’re gonna be just fine, little lady.

The Bearded Jew’s White Castle Burger Blog Contest is over, and I have taken 2nd Place. Tucker The Great? That may be going a little far. How about Tucker, A Great? King of the Castle? Almost. Definitely a Duke, a maybe even a Co-King or something. Those exist, right? If there’s a High King, it stands to reason that there are low Kings. I’m like a low, Vice-King of White Castle. That suits me fine. I was the Vice President of my class in Jr High, and it was great. Not much to do and you still got to leave class early. 

Congrats to whomever the winner is, which will be announced tomorrow on the Burger Blog. I would just like to say to them: I threw it. 

And at least I wasn’t 3rd place! HA HA!

“War: it ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker.” -Edwin Starr

There’s a war coming, Internet. Soon we will all be asked to choose sides, and the only thing that’s guaranteed is that blood will be spilt. The Blog Wars are inevitable, and like a Marvel/DC crossover or that Infinite Worlds junk, it will only make sense to 4 people.

The Bearded Jew has responded to my unwarranted claims of Communism on his part. It’s a well articulated response and further points out the transparency of my original accusations. By all accounts and opinions already offered, The Bearded Jew acted admirably and democratically when dealing with my burger entry. He was right and I was wrong. 

Screw it, I’m starting a war anyway.

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This effects all of us, Internet. It’s our basic freedoms…

Hey-o…. So I had a hangover today, and I had a burger. The burger was disappointing, so I decided to write a review about it for the Bearded Jew’s Burger Blog.

You can find that review here. Also look at this, since I think this entry needs more links.

Here’s the thing: The Bearded Jew compromised my journalistic integrity. He did NOT publish the picture I gave him to accompany the burger review! Is this Communist Russia? Are we living under a Sharia Law Society where the voice of the common man is smothered? No, Bearded Jew, we are not. I for one, will not let your questionable patriotism and utter disrespect for THE BILL OF RIGHTS destroy America. Freedom of Speech is our MOST important right as Americans, followed quickly by our freedom of beverage choice.

Well, Bearded Jew, on behalf of America’s colors, the colors that NEVER run, I present to you my original picture, and glorious, glorious, freedom after the jump.

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Burger Blog

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Exciting news, Blogateers! Tuckerblogs is expanding into new markets, crushing the competition and sending those fat cats on Wall Street a wake up call, amirightfolks?

This is an interview/roundtable that The Bearded Jew, Mike Blogoff, and I conducted last night after a few beers and then a few more beers. The topic is hamburgers. More can be found about burgers here, brought to you by The Bearded Jew (who also recorded/mediated this segment).

Soon, maybe tomorrow, maybe in 3 months, but definitely not today, I will be adding “Tucker Pods” segments to the blog. These will be little-mini radio shows/podcasts with little to no value. It should be pretty awesome. 

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That IS a tasty burger….

So I promised a light hearted blog about burgers, and once again, I can’t deliver. Fortunately, I’m able to default to the expert on this one. My buddy the bearded Jew runs a little Burger Blog over at www.burgerblogging.com. It’s delicious.

(Tucker Blogs enjoys the appetizer size.)

I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french fried potato. Add a big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer, and I’ll plagiarize Jimmy Buffett all day long.