To all the dads out there (and we also mean you father of Jersey City, Peter Stuyvesant). Though Johnny's dad has passed he'd like to share words of wisdom from good old Russ that hopefully you can use in your own lives:
"I want my hash browns crispy, next-door to burnt. If they're not, I'll send them back."
Johnny's sisters can repeat that line verbatim, too. The moral here? Know what you want and make sure you get it.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Wold Cup Today -- Day 4
An upset, referee controversy and a comeback that took all of 100 seconds yesterday, not bad! Costa Rica (As Johnny warned on these very pages) isn't a typical bad CONCACAF (The USA/Mexico/Caribbean grouping for FIFA) team and showed it. England did what England usually does which is what makes them a little dog who thinks they're a big dog. How about the Ivory Coast's 100 second two-goal comeback? Very exciting.
Today brings three games, none of which have a lot of buzz about them. The Argentinians get going today at 6pm and that might be the highlight. Your games today:
Switzerland vs Ecuador noon
France vs Honduras at 3pm
Argentina va Bosnia-Herzegovina at 6pm
As always, feel free to share your thoughts and or disgust with us in comments.
Today brings three games, none of which have a lot of buzz about them. The Argentinians get going today at 6pm and that might be the highlight. Your games today:
Switzerland vs Ecuador noon
France vs Honduras at 3pm
Argentina va Bosnia-Herzegovina at 6pm
As always, feel free to share your thoughts and or disgust with us in comments.
Late night open htread
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
― Oscar Wilde
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Saturday, June 14, 2014
World Cup Today -- Day 3
A full slate of four games today soccerheads and a real firecracker this evening with Ingerland taking on La Azzurri (Italy). Johnny gets to watch the Columbia game in a few minutes with Columbian art curator and style maven Diana Cordoba, and he is looking forward to some real South American passion in his teevee room. Today's schedule:
Columbia vs Greece Noon
Uruguay vs Costa Rica at 3pm
Italy vs England at 6pm
Japan and Ivory Coast at 9pm
Italy will be without their famed style king goalie GiGi Buffon so somebody is gonna have to sing that Italian national anthem in his place. No word on whether Uruguay's Luis "Bitey" Suarez will play vs Los Ticos or be resting his bad knee.
Check your local listings., and Go Columbia!
Columbia vs Greece Noon
Uruguay vs Costa Rica at 3pm
Italy vs England at 6pm
Japan and Ivory Coast at 9pm
Italy will be without their famed style king goalie GiGi Buffon so somebody is gonna have to sing that Italian national anthem in his place. No word on whether Uruguay's Luis "Bitey" Suarez will play vs Los Ticos or be resting his bad knee.
Check your local listings., and Go Columbia!
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with CYPRESS HILL!
Now if Johnny didn't know nay better he'd swear these young men were signing about the marijuana. You know the stuff the kids and hippies like. Johnny even asked Zoltron if this was about teh weedz and he said "What?"
You kids stay off this stuff. You stay in school. Get jobs. Like Bill Maher says, "You can have fun without pot. But why take a chance?"
What?
Cypress Hill with 'Insane in the Membrane'
You kids stay off this stuff. You stay in school. Get jobs. Like Bill Maher says, "You can have fun without pot. But why take a chance?"
What?
Cypress Hill with 'Insane in the Membrane'
A word of warning about the lyrics if you're without headphones or have the kids hanging around. You'd have your choice of colorful words to explain to your kids. Also, you sure don't want the school calling telling you your 8 year old just told the class "A nigger like me is going insane."
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with RICK JAMES!
Bitch!
Rick James and the AM radio version of 'Super Freak'
Rick James and the AM radio version of 'Super Freak'
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PETE TOWNSHEND!
Johnny is a big believer that if you're going to remake a song you should bring your own vision to it with certain different creative ideas than the original. This cover by the great Pete Townshend had eluded Johnny's ears until this week. Townshend's cover of the English Beat's hit 'Save it for Later' is a cut above 99.9% of most covers. The use of those Tommey-esque rapid fire guitar riffs overlayed with piano in lieu of the familiar saxophone on this is fantabulous. Just leave it to the guy who wrote Tommy, Quadrophenia, Who's Next, Who are You, and a Quick One While He's Away could arrange the shit out of an already great song. Wrapping up another Music Series is Pete Townshend with 'Save it for Later'
Friday, June 13, 2014
Mayor Fulop doing the opposite of what candidate Fulop said
As you'll recall while running as a candidate for mayor of our fair city candidate Steve Fulop said he'd stop the handing out of large tax abatements downtown, saying the downtown was fine as far as construction abatements went and he was only offering the tasty 20-30 year abatements to developers who wanted to build in The Heights or Greenville of Journal Square.
Well guess what, the mayor simply brought some goal posts with him to the mayor's office he can just keep moving when he wants to pretend he's not going back on his word. How often did you hear Fulop say during the campaign "no more tax abatements downtown over 5% UNLESS the developer was willing to:
Build pre-k centers
Contribute 1.5 percent of gross construction costs for various city purposes
Commit 35 percent of the project's jobs to city residents
Purchase 35 percent of their materials from city vendors.
You're damned right you never heard those goal post moving particulars because he didn't ever mention them. No, candidate Fulop said nothing over 5% downtown. His demands to get a bigger abatement are HOLLOW. Tell us mayor, how much money and effort has the city under your stewardship spent and done to go after developers who break the agreements? Toll Brothers agreed to a million things to get in at Marin and Morgan, as soon as they had the permits in hand they began telling the city No, no no and no on things they'd agreed to and the city just shrugged and walked away. Until you hold someone's feet to the fire, Mayor, your words are hollow.
Our guess is you're a smart reader (hey you chose to come here didn't you?) and have heard the city council on a 7-2 vote (with Ward C councilman Rich Boggiano and Ward D rep Michael Yun being heroes and voting no on Fulop's plan) approved the introduction of the 20 year abatement for Hyatt House, but it must also be voted on again. This is one of those votes in council the Jersey City Desk is writing down names and how they voted. They (mostly) all wanted to run on Fulop's ticket, well now comes a time to remind the mayor of his promises.
Well guess what, the mayor simply brought some goal posts with him to the mayor's office he can just keep moving when he wants to pretend he's not going back on his word. How often did you hear Fulop say during the campaign "no more tax abatements downtown over 5% UNLESS the developer was willing to:
Build pre-k centers
Contribute 1.5 percent of gross construction costs for various city purposes
Commit 35 percent of the project's jobs to city residents
Purchase 35 percent of their materials from city vendors.
You're damned right you never heard those goal post moving particulars because he didn't ever mention them. No, candidate Fulop said nothing over 5% downtown. His demands to get a bigger abatement are HOLLOW. Tell us mayor, how much money and effort has the city under your stewardship spent and done to go after developers who break the agreements? Toll Brothers agreed to a million things to get in at Marin and Morgan, as soon as they had the permits in hand they began telling the city No, no no and no on things they'd agreed to and the city just shrugged and walked away. Until you hold someone's feet to the fire, Mayor, your words are hollow.
Our guess is you're a smart reader (hey you chose to come here didn't you?) and have heard the city council on a 7-2 vote (with Ward C councilman Rich Boggiano and Ward D rep Michael Yun being heroes and voting no on Fulop's plan) approved the introduction of the 20 year abatement for Hyatt House, but it must also be voted on again. This is one of those votes in council the Jersey City Desk is writing down names and how they voted. They (mostly) all wanted to run on Fulop's ticket, well now comes a time to remind the mayor of his promises.
World Cup Today -- Day Two
So soccer fans we had a great matinee yesterday except for the referee who has most likely seen HIS World Cup come to an end but there's more games today baby, three in fact with one being a real firecracker!
Mexico vs Cameroon at noon -- Mexico must win this game to have any chance to advance.
Spain vs Netherlands at 3pm -- A rematch of the 2010 Final right out of the box. All eyes on Spain in this one, how strong are they against good competition.
Chile vs Australia at 6pm -- Sorry Soccerroos, you've got the worst draw in the tournament.
And add to these games a Game 5 tonight in Los Angeles for the Rangers and you have a very full day on the couch.
Mexico vs Cameroon at noon -- Mexico must win this game to have any chance to advance.
Spain vs Netherlands at 3pm -- A rematch of the 2010 Final right out of the box. All eyes on Spain in this one, how strong are they against good competition.
Chile vs Australia at 6pm -- Sorry Soccerroos, you've got the worst draw in the tournament.
And add to these games a Game 5 tonight in Los Angeles for the Rangers and you have a very full day on the couch.
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