Take a look up tonight Jersey City

If you're out and about celebrating the Lehigh overtime victory over hated Lafayette, look skyward. Of course you can see the crescent moon in the south but if you look up to the left that bright 'star' you're really seeing is the planet Jupiter.

Late night open thread

Well, what does Johnny want tomorrow college football-wise? He wants these three things:

A HUGE Spartan victory in Spartan Stadium over Penn State to improve Sparty's bowl fortunes. The Spartans are going somewhere, somewhere warmer with a win.


Lehigh has had less than a spectacular season but some sting would come out of it with another consecutive win over arch-rival Lafayette. Nobody really wants their mascot to be a Leopard for god's sake now do they? Mountain Hawks are where it's at. These are some good looking well educated football fans obviously


And one last thing in Ann Arbor tomorrow. If Michigan loses its no bowl game for them and RichRod Super Genius and another entire winter spring and summer of consternation in Ann Arbor. Quote Mongomery Burns "Excellent!" That being said, there is only one thing to show to get all Buckeye and anti-Michigan fans riled up

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ELTON JOHN!

Come on, every time this part comes on 'Almost Famous' you sing it at the top of your lungs. Here's another chance for you.

Elton John with the beautiful and timeless 'Tiny Dancer'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SUPREMES!

Ah yes, the Detroit boy in Johnny sometimes shows through. Did you know then that the Supremes hold the record for knocking The Beatles out of the #1 Billboard slot more than any other act in history?

The Supremes with 'Stop in the Name of Love'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BRONSKI BEAT!

A very tender song of growing up gay in a small town with small minded people and knowing something bigger and better out there somewhere awaits you.

We're going to run with a beautiful acoustic version of this song for your listening pleasure...

Bronski Beat with 'Smalltown Boy'

50 Cent will be signing copies of his new CD at the Jersey City Best Buy--what could go wrong?

As in what if a thousand people show up to have 50 sign their new CD's and he's only got time for a couple hundred? 50 Cent will be at the Jersey City Best Buy tonight to celebrate the release of his new album, "Before I Self Destruct.". The store is located at 125 18th Street and the event kicks off at 6 p.m.

OK, here's the issue, 50 Cent is also supposed to be at the Union City Best Buy at 9 pm.

He all shall see if this was a very good promotion or one we're ridiculing tomorrow.

Late night open thread

It was a mere 5 years ago tonight basketball fans. My how time flies...


Time for Jersey City, After Dark

From this moment on, Hoboken High School is on double secret probation

Well make that ALL Hoboken schools. Here's the crux of the matter--In nine out of 14 exams, passing rates in the district were at least 15 points lower than the state average.

Quoting liberally from the Jersey Journal article on these shocking numbers:

*At Hoboken High School, passing rates in language arts fell from 81.8 percent in 2008 to 70.1 percent in 2009 and in math from 66.2 percent to 53.2 percent.

*The biggest drop in passing rates was at Connors in third-grade language arts, where rates went from 95.5 percent passing in 2008 to 31.9 percent in 2009.

On a happier note, many parents were thrilled, that the scores were being shared with them at all. Maybe an underlying reason these Hoboken kids are so far off track, a lack of communication with the school district and the mommies and daddies who live in Hoboken because it's "Better there than surrounding areas".

Uh huh

Late night open thread

So, Johnny is entertaining some friends in town tonight and decides to take them to Marco and Pepe's for dinner. The food itself was sightly above average but when dessert rolled around, the entire restaurant had a breakdown.

Johnny asks for a dessert like everyone else at the table and got utterly stiffed for it even after a friendly reminder, well that's service just a bit too lackadaisical and just plain rude. Of course the missing dessert found it's way onto the bill.

johnny can in no way shape or form recommend Marco and Pepe's Resturant for dinner or busy times in that establishment until they begin to employ a staff that does what they are supposed to be doing, service customers. Epic Fail on the back end of dinner tonight Marco and Pepe's, Johnny's requests wasn't all that hard. Look, if Johnny does have to go eat in in NYC he'll do just that and Jersey City restaurants can starve for the service they seem to have issues with.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Anybody wanna put an over/under on the day that turkey at exit 14B becomes crow chow?

Yes, everyone seems enchanted by the story of so dubbed "Tammy Turkey" seen running in and out of the toll booths on the New Jersey Turnpike there and sitting on employees cars. Officials have tried to catch Tammy but to no avail and now they figure they will simply allow Tammy to continue to live wild and free, until the inevitable happens which is where the Jersey City Desk comes in.

This gobbler gets run down by a car or truck on or before December 1st. Whadda ya got, the over or under?