Got a big old rain thing coming our way

Call it what you will, a storm, a front, a leading edge of cooler air, any way you look at it the Tri-state is under a flood watch through Wednesday afternoon. We could be getting over three inches of rain tonight with the rain beginning at about 3:30 EDT. Be careful out there and make sure your flood plans are ready to go. Gonna be a long wet night ahead.

Late night open thread

There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.

If you can't sleep tonight start counting either atom or sand sheep.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Bats in their belfry

Well, attic anyway. In Green Township a local church, the Tranquility Methodist Church, has an issue. Some 350 big brown bats have begun calling their attic home. People gather around to watch them fly off into the night to feed on insects (including mosquitos) and take pictures and videos. Local groups including Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary and Biologist MacKenzie Hall from the Conserve Wildlife Foundation are trying to find a way to move the current tenants in a non-lethal way. These bats really are too cute AND they perform a great service to local areas that have them keeping the flying bug population down. Click here to watch the report.

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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
 -- Mark Twain

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Get your moon boots on and head down to the river later today for some quailty moonwatchin'

Don't forget the camera. Why you ask? It's a SUPERMOON tonight and as you can see there are very few clouds in the sky. The moon rose a while ago at 1:15pm but the great shots will come later this afternoon. The moon is at perigee (closest to us) and will appear 12% bigger and will be 30% brighter tonight into Monday's wee hours of the AM than a normal full moon. So get those cameras and head down to J. Owen Grundy Park and get your urban Ansel Adams on.

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A full evening of design shows has convinced Johnny that it's time to put that new minaret on the Jersey City Desk offices. It'd be unique, a real eye-catcher and the speakers could broadcast Johnny's messages to the good people of Jersey City...and play great music all day. We think this particular minaret celebrates layer cakes.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Hope somebody thought to lock up the offices before we left

Wish you were here...

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Johnny's dad often cautioned him about being in such a hurry to grow up and do things and not wish his life away. However wishing this past week away couldn't happen soon enough. Hello weekend!

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SOPHIE TUCKER!

You remember Sophie Tucker don't you? Hell this recording is only 102 years old and you're saying you don't remember it? Well friends we have a real treat tonight, Sophie Tucker. Here's "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" with 'Knock Wood' from (are you sitting down?) 1912 as played on Thomas Edison's Wax Amberol Rare Phonograph Cylinder. It's worth a watch as well as a listen!

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BECK!

You know, the NEW pollution. Not the old pollution, the kind that made that Indian cry that time. No, the new pollution. Pollution of the airwaves, of fracking, of cell tower radiation, and whatever beck is talking about.

Beck with 'The New Pollution' keeping things rolling.