tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28032321479816708582024-02-02T03:18:28.841-05:00Jersey City DeskJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06065184289870125389noreply@blogger.comBlogger8799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-4950928377608308462018-11-25T22:00:00.000-05:002018-11-25T22:00:16.087-05:00Late night open threadSo here we are at last Jersey City, the final late night open thread. In some odd way Johnny hoped it would somehow bring each day in Jersey City to a close with a hope for something better tomorrow. He wished this for Ypsilanti at the old Ypsi City Desk and he'll wish it at the new <a href="https://oscodacitydesk.blogspot.com/">Oscoda City Desk.</a><br />
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You've all proven to be such admirable Hobbits to live amongst and Johnny is happy to have shared ten years of his life with all of you if only through this website. He wishes each and every one of you who read this today, perhaps in a month or even years from now the very best. You don't have to make Jersey City yours friends, it already belongs to you. Take ownership of it and never settle for the stewards of your city giving back half-measures or slapdash work.<br />
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If you're ever up north on the Lake Huron side of Michigan, give Johnny a shout, he might just buy your dinner.<br />
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Until then...<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-68946503296248560622018-11-25T10:27:00.002-05:002018-11-25T10:27:49.751-05:00The Red Bulls kick off their conference final tie with Atlanta todayThe one New Jersey/New York team Johnny really pulled for starts the conference final tie (Americans and Canadians call them a 'home and home' series) with the Atlanta Braves, er Hawks, um, no, Falcons? It can't be the Thrashers, they're gone. Anyway, the Red Bulls play at Atlanta United at 5:30pm. It would be so Red Bulls to get this far again and lose but something tells Johnny they can win the Eastern Conference. If the Red Bulls play an in your face style against Atlanta and force them into giveaways and less possession, like they did previously this season, maybe the South Ward will still be chanting, “You can’t beat us,” in the return match at Red Bull Arena on Thursday.<br />
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NYCFC fans can go put on their Red Bull hats now.<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-5822456574741463422018-11-24T20:36:00.000-05:002018-11-24T20:36:10.921-05:00Late night open threadJohnny's last Saturday Night Scoreboard Show in Jersey City on the last big Saturday of the season. Funny how that works out.<br />
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Ohio State 62<br />
Michigan 39<br />
This just in, Ohio State just scored again<br />
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Syracuse 42<br />
Boston College 21<br />
A great season by the Orange. 9-3 should draw interest from a top bowl game<br />
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Alabama 52<br />
Auburn 21<br />
Your turn in the cage, Georgia<br />
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Eastern Michigan 28<br />
Kent State 20<br />
The Hurons are going bowling for the second time in three years. All hail Chris Creighton<br />
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Northwestern 24<br />
Illinois 16<br />
The little purple engine that could<br />
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Minnesota 37<br />
Wisconsin 15<br />
Remember at the beginning of the year when Wisconsin was in the top 5<br />
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North Carolina State 34<br />
North Carolina 28 OT<br />
Overtime in the last regular season game really starts to cut into NCAA hoops watching for these fanbases<br />
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Florida 41<br />
Florida State 14<br />
No soup bowl for the Seminoles, their first losing season since 1982<br />
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Michigan State 14<br />
Rutgers 10<br />
Rutgers took a 10-7 lead with 4:00 to play but Rutgers gonna Rutgers<br />
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Tulane 29<br />
Navy 28<br />
Tulane wanted one thing, bowl eligibility. So when they scored late to pull within 1, they got power up and went for 2. Charles Jones caught the trickeration and for the first time since 2013 the Green Wave are going bowling. For his catch and conversion, Charles Jones may loot and pillage New Orleans for the next 24 hours<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-8697063195481164912018-11-24T10:05:00.001-05:002018-11-24T10:05:24.417-05:00Remember Jersey City, we're shopping small todayIt's a Small Business Saturday Jersey City so let's get out there and support our friends and neighbors who have invested in our town to make their mark and make Jersey City a better place. Try and remember these stores are there the other 364 days of the year as well. Don't just make today a one-time event.<br />
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Support Jersey City with your dollars!<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-47890418138118440162018-11-23T23:34:00.004-05:002018-11-23T23:34:31.685-05:00Late night open threadQ) How come elephants lie on their backs in fields?<br />A) So they can trip birds<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-84745918766688232732018-11-23T19:44:00.002-05:002018-11-23T19:53:04.985-05:00Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE BOOMTOWN RATS!Well, here we are Jersey City and the surround, the last Music Series. As sad as that is, that's NOT what the Friday night Music Series has been about. Nothing maudlin tonight, hell no. Just great music, it's what we do here. It's what we'll be doing in Oscoda, just a click away or you can drive 600-some miles each week and watch Johnny put it together. Your call.<br />
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Let's step off one more time proper with one of the most underrated songs in the history of songs, 'Rat Trap' by The Boomtown Rats. Edgy guitar, the perfect anti-hero, the nasty sax, and Bob Geldof telling the tale. It's all in here. Like a turducken of music, only good.<br />
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Let's do this thing...<br />
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Turn it up loud enough you can drown out all the car horns ;)<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-37843908362896536122018-11-23T19:44:00.000-05:002018-11-23T19:44:01.469-05:00Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ROBERT PLANT & THE BAND OF JOY!Johnny, a spiritual on the last night even if reimagined in such a hip way? Oh you know it, sinner. It's the music that Johnny loves. This is incredible. Plus it's one more chance to fit Patty Griffin into a Music Series and stick a finger in the eye of the person who said via email twice Johnny played her music too much.<br />
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Like that could happen.<br />
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One.Last.Song. Jersey City, you'll have to click all the way in Oscoda to get the next one in a few weeks. Radio Free Iosco (County) we'll call it. "Move Up' taking us out one last time.<br />
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Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-21782833573932310322018-11-22T22:59:00.001-05:002018-11-22T22:59:11.726-05:00Late night open threadGo on, you can have one more piece of pie before bed. Of course it needs Cool Whip. Stupid question.<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-13023101419226172562018-11-22T10:53:00.002-05:002018-11-22T11:01:05.718-05:00Today Johnny is giving thanks for the great people of Jersey CityWhen Johnny's wife passed in early February, he truly thought he was alone here. He'd worked from home so he didn't get the same types of relationships one builds up in a office setting; dinners, movies, team building trips to Yankee Stadium, and through these outings and events and programs one makes friends. Johnny only really had acquaintances in his building as he worked early and odd hours. His best friend really was his dog walker all this time as he'd see him every day at least and chat.<br />
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He really felt isolated.<br />
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Nobody is EVER going to use any kind of, "Oh, New Jersey, pffft" insult around him and not be called on it. "Oh Jersey people..." Nope, as Bill Clinton used to say, 'That dog don't hunt." Never again will that derisive dismissal go unchallenged. Jersey City has shown Johnny some of the most wonderful people he'll ever meet and will truly miss.<br />
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Johnny's an Atheist, don't worry, just setting up this story of kindness. The first thing one does after getting up off the couch is deal with the funeral home situation however agonizing. Johnny called McLaughlin Funeral Home in Journal Square. He is SO GLAD HE DID. They've been incredible and they helped take care of so much. If you are ever in the same situation as Johnny, you can trust them. Just 4 days after his wife passed Johnny did not feel up to a PATH ride from Grove St. to the JSQ and he called a cab. The ride was quiet and uneventful which was the plan. As the cab pulled up outside McLaughlin's and stopped, the driver, in a thick accent, asked Johnny if he was going to the funeral home. Johnny said yes. He asked if it were someone close and Johnny choked up a little replied 'My wife."<br />
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The driver asked Johnny to hold on for a moment. He fumbled in his jacket for a second or two and pulled out a prayer card and asked if he could say a prayer for her with him. It was the first and one of the kindest gestures in a tidal wave of coming kindness. You better believe Johnny listened to all this good and kind stranger had to say from the card. Simply amazing.<br />
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Johnny's neighbors took his dog for walks, they'd just show up to do it. Dinner was left outside his door like it was some kind of wonderful coordinated effort for over a week. Johnny's college friend Mary who lives in Dallas wanted to make sure he ate something, anything, and ordered a burger and mac and cheese poppers from Left Bank Burger. When it got delivered there was a note from Mary relayed on the receipt but also a note from someone who worked at Left Bank Burger, "We're here if you need us."<br />
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Johnny has gotten more supportive and uplifting DM's on Twitter from Jersey City people than you can count. He's just listed a few moments here where people were kind, there have been many more.<br />
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New Jersey/Jersey City isn't Angry Governors, Snooki's and housewives. It's not. That's TV. The people of Jersey City are wonderful and compassionate and kind and whom Johnny was lucky enough to spend 10 years with.<br />
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Today he's giving thanks for you Jersey City.Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-10624826907382154182018-11-22T09:00:00.000-05:002018-11-22T09:00:15.086-05:00Here's the traditional Thanksgiving Massacree, with the four-part harmony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-22492623632431528052018-11-22T00:54:00.004-05:002018-11-22T00:54:37.968-05:00Late night open threadGuess which song Johnny's gonna post in the morning, on Thanksgiving Day? Guess. Go on, guess.<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-39239151761110098092018-11-21T17:49:00.000-05:002018-11-21T17:49:21.160-05:00Safe travels out there today, tonight and tomorrowTry and make your trip Owen free.<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-48393702465469118602018-11-20T03:21:00.000-05:002018-11-20T13:22:49.585-05:00Late night open thread“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”<br />
-- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-53635222505319007802018-11-19T11:40:00.001-05:002018-11-19T12:36:02.063-05:00Valar Morghulis tonight Journal SquareValar morghulis, you know, the translation for either "All Men Must Die" or "Better Get To the White Castle" will be tested tonight as the man himself, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin <a href="http://xn--his%20upcoming%20novel%2C%20fire%20%26%20blood%2C-2k44acc/">will appear at the Landmark Loew's Theater at 7:30</a> discussing his new book (No, not the next in the series) “Fire & Blood,” which is a history of the Targaryen family and empire.<br />
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Tickets are $40 but you DO get a signed copy of the book. Johnny went to see Mr. Martin discuss his History of Westeros book, the one with all the pictures. He's very very engaging and does take questions from the audience at the end so if you have some gripes with Game of Thrones adaptations, if that is how Hodor dies in the books actually holding the door, or whatever is on your mind, tonight is your chance to ask. When Johnny saw him a couple years back at the 92nd Street Y, Martin did explain some of the differences between his vision and the show's reality. In his vision, THIS is what the Iron Throne looks like. 7:30, see you there Jersey City!<br />
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Oklahoma State 45<br />
West Virginia 41<br />
Know what this is? It's the God of Burning Couches in Morgantown. He will rage tonight<br />
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Ohio State 52<br />
Maryland 51<br />
Maryland's QB decided instead of throwing a winning two-point conversion to a wide open receiver to get power up and win the game he'd take out his frustrations on a security guard who had his back turned 30 feet in the other direction<br />
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Notre Dame 36<br />
Syracuse 3<br />
Wonder how many people this speed bump shook off the Orange bandwagon<br />
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UCLA 34<br />
USC 27<br />
There is no other game in America with better, more appealing aesthetics than both USC and UCLA playing in their dark jerseys<br />
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Utah 30<br />
Colorado 7<br />
Even the fans were bored<br />
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Lehigh 34<br />
Lafayette 3<br />
College football's oldest rivalry renewed. Lehigh finished 3-8 but Johnny will bet it doesn't feel like it tonight on South Mountain<br />
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Wisconsin 47<br />
Purdue 44<br />
The "I Can't Believe Northwestern Is Playing In the Big Ten Championship Game" game<br />
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Maine 27<br />
Elon 26<br />
Maine's Earnest Edwards returned not one but TWO kickoffs for touchdowns in the Black Bears win<br />
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Furman 35<br />
Mercer 30<br />
Johnny told you last week he packed his Furman shirt away already. No impact<br />
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Holy Cross 32<br />
Georgetown 31<br />
Macklin Kortebein wasn't happy blocking just one punt in the 26 point comeback for Holy Cross, so he decided to block two. When Miles Alexander ran it in from two yards out with 42 seconds left, Hoya fans probably had to be told because they'd already changed the channel to Georgetown basketball. For his efforts Macklin Kortebein may loot and pillage Washington D.C. for the next 24 hours.<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-82976609287174275032018-11-16T23:34:00.002-05:002018-11-16T23:34:20.646-05:00Late night open threadState trivia night. Retailer JC Penney started in which state? Answer <a href="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8301/7984940453_6041606c73_b.jpg">here.</a><br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-27631466985899855142018-11-16T19:28:00.000-05:002018-11-16T23:36:47.292-05:00Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BLONDIE!Johnny's gonna bet if you asked 1000 serious Blondie fans what their favorite song by them was 'Union City Blue' would be at or near the top. Everything works in this song. The grind of the guitar, and Debbie Harry simply sings the shit out of this song. One of her best.<br />
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Three more songs after tonight so Johnny's fitting in songs that he truly loves or mean a lot.<br />
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<br />Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-58849744301305194772018-11-16T19:11:00.000-05:002018-11-16T19:11:00.300-05:00Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS!Is there anybody who doesn't love this song, 'Band on the Run'? Johnny thanks his first best friend in life, Roger, for teaching him about reading liner notes being important and listening to FM radio was a must. This was one of the albums Roger would put on often. For those long-time readers of the Ypsi and Jersey City Desks, no this was not an 8-track in his Buick Regal.<br />
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Great stuff...<br />
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Still a top-tier album cover too.Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-30964041030733589732018-11-16T18:36:00.001-05:002018-11-16T18:36:27.920-05:00Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with JOE STRUMMER!Few, if any, artists have had such an impact on Johnny with their songs, lyrics and public words than Joe Strummer. Johnny can always find a song with meaning, depth, thought or in this case just some sweet-ass instrumental rock and roll. If you're looking for this song, Johnny thinks the only place you can find it in on the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack, which Joe Strummer produced.<br />
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'War Cry' getting you out of here and on with your Friday night party plans.<br />
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Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-31570574956841723132018-11-15T09:44:00.001-05:002018-11-15T09:54:13.913-05:00Johnny's Jersey City Stories Volume 2: Hello Mayor Healy, nice to meet youWhen Johnny and Mrs. Johnny were looking at places in Jersey City, once they decided NYC and FuHo were out, and figured they would rent for the first year or so, see where they were spending most of their time in JC and where might just be a good place to buy. The first home for them was at 75 Liberty, Brunswick Towers, the old Tonnelle Circle as it was, backed right up to the place off 139 and Kennedy Blvd. One couldn't go more than a minute without car horns. Johnny tried many mornings. He'd slide open the glass sliding door a crack when he got up for work around 4am (That is not a typo, 4am for 9 years) and rarely if ever, even at that hour did it go longer than a minute without some aggrieved driver honking.<br />
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The place was nice, indoor pool, cool neighbors and the people Johnny and Mrs. Johnny were renting from, one was the former Parenting column writer in the Jersey Journal, Melinda Vickerman-Lalaoui. Wonderful woman. She and her husband Alex mentioned that the all powerful Jersey City mayor, Jerramiah Healy would be holding a fundraiser for his 2009 re-election right there in building and asked if we'd like to go. The fundraiser in fact was right down the hall from the mayor's opponent in the 2009 race, Lou Manzo. Johnny had gotten to know Mr. Manzo just on a "Hi how are you" head nod basis but even after only being in Jersey City for five months he had a good idea why this fundraiser was being held where it was. Mea culpa, Johnny nor Mrs. Johnny gave money to Healy's campaign that night. Johnny thinks in fact after a night with Healy and all his cronies and what they talked about and how they spoke he realized the Jersey City Desk at the time wasn't nearly ready enough to talk on city issues very deeply The fundraiser changed all that.<br />
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As Johnny shook Mayor Healy's hand the mayor gave him a quizzical look and asked if he'd met Johnny before. He was almost certain he had. Perhaps Healy though Johnny might be some kind of Manzo plant. He wasn't, Johnny and the mayor further talked that Johnny had just moved from Detroit (to which Healy and Bill Gaughan both rolled their eyes, ("Oh Detroit") and perhaps after all the Kwame Kilpatrick malfeasance that had just gone on in Detroit had the Jersey boys feeling a little smug. Of course this was mere days before the big Hudson County law enforcement net snared the Mayors of Hoboken and elsewhere, a few of Healy's top appointments as well (so be careful what you shit on Jerry, it might be days away from biting you in the ass) in the Solomon Dwek real estate scam. Johnny did actually get to talk with Mayor Healy about riverfront development and Johnny told the mayor quite directly he needed recession-proof hotels on the riverfront. More than were there at the time, ie, one. The hotels downtown Detroit Johnny explained weren't going bankrupt, the city was. The hotels downtown near the new casinos had to move money to go to the toilet. Hotels along the river or near the river in JC would be bulletproof. Someone took a notepad out and scribbled some ideas on this. Johnny would never claim to be the reason two more hotels got built by the water in the time he was here after he spoke to the mayor about it, that would be some serious ego shit right there. BUT he will say when Healy heard the Detroit hotels on the river were some of the biggest contributors to city coffers, he looked interested. Again, deep into the discussion Healy swore he's met Johnny before. Bill Gaughan offered to get Johnny a cocktail. It was a nice discussion with a guy Johnny would later go on to realize was pretty much in it for his pals.<br />
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Johnny also had two lovely discussions with both then-candidate for Ward C Nidia Lopez-Boehringer who was a very very nice woman and great to talk to and the actual highlight of the evening for Johnny was talking with Healy's wife Maureen out on a balcony of the place holding the fundraiser. She was just wonderful. She told Johnny about great places to shop, things to see and do, a little history of the city, just a true ambassador. For someone new to the city this was such great information. Johnny will never ever forget her kindness.<br />
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Johnny still thinks fondly about this night, he does. Even after all the nonsense that happened with Healy in office he's glad he had this chance to talk with a mayor of a big city who was willing to talk turkey and discuss real issues and not just give it the old "No comment" or "I've released a statement on that" or worse, "You're new here, you wouldn't understand."<br />
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It was an edumactional night for the noob in town.Johnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-68468111600768588992018-11-12T00:32:00.000-05:002018-11-12T08:22:57.406-05:00Late night open threadJohnny the Browns fan was pretty happy when Cleveland selected Nick Chubb in the second round of the draft. He's very fast.<br />
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Time for Jersey City, After DarkJohnny Action Space Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306230012293568971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803232147981670858.post-8710973049826691522018-11-11T08:41:00.000-05:002018-11-11T08:41:05.392-05:00Happy Veterans Day!While Johnny didn't grow up in a typical military family, his dad was a Korean War veteran and so, Johnny has a great great amount of respect for our Vets. <div>
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Eastern Michigan 27<br />
Akron 7<br />
Johnny's alma mater is bowl eligible for the second time in three years under miracle worker Chris Creighton. It was over 30 years since EMU had last played in a bowl game before Creighton arrived in Ypsilanti. This calls for the Go Green song, while not the fight song, it should have been (note the creative lyrical spelling)<br />
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Michigan 42<br />
Rutgers 7<br />
Staying in Washtenaw County, Michigan made quick work of RU today in Piscataway. Johnny knows it looks so fucking bleak for RU football right now. It used to look this way at Northwestern in the 70's and most of the 80's but it CAN change. If EMU is going to bowl games now...<br />
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Oklahoma 48<br />
Oklahoma State 47<br />
Shootout at the OK Corral for real. Our PlayStation Game of the Week<br />
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Alabama 24<br />
Mississippi State 0<br />
This is our shocked face<br />
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Colgate 48<br />
Lehigh 6<br />
Lehigh's QB Brad Mayes was a cool 8 for 31 but also had zero interceptions so Johnny's going to guess he wasn't throwing very close to anybody most of the day<br />
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Furman 49<br />
VMI 13<br />
Johnny's Furman shirt is now put away and ready for the move. It did not help Furman today<br />
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Indiana State 28<br />
Illinois State 23<br />
The Indiana state line moves ten feet into Illinois until the next time Illinois State wins this game then it moves 10 feet into Indiana as is tradition.<br />
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South Dakota 17<br />
Western Illinois 12<br />
Yeah, as hard as he tries Johnny can't squeeze a state line joke out of this one<br />
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Arizona State 31<br />
UCLA 28<br />
At 2-8 UCLA is really going to need to rally to have a chance at the Rose Bowl<br />
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<b>The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®</b><br />
Northwestern 14<br />
Iowa 10<br />
No, no last second get power up heroics, just a gutty season from a gutty team who will now play in their first Big Ten title game. This team is truly a lesson for Rutgers about being underfunded sports-wise and talent-wise yet still finding a way. Northwestern University may now loot and pillage Iowa City Iowa (not the Children's Hospital) for the next 24 hours<br />
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