Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE MONKEES!

Ah yes, the Monkees. What to make of a band that at one point had Jimi Hendrix open for them even though they didn't write their own music or play their own instruments 99% of the time. They did have a few catchy hit songs like this one here that was written by the guy who played Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family and we'll bet you didn't know that.

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The Islanders are now in first place, second in the east and are 10-2 at home.

No, really.

We're not kidding.

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An open letter to Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan Jr.

Dear Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan, Jr.,

You fucked up and you fucked up in a way that's going to follow you in what's left of your career. You gutless piece of shit. It's a brave new world out here now Friend-O. People aren't afraid of you and your racist slow-walking of cherry picked evidence anymore. Your types are gonna move aside or be tossed out. Don't think so? Better have some donuts and good coffee on Monday morning when the Justice Department stops by for a visit.

Ladies and Jellyspoons I give you Staten Island Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan, Jr., the man who quite intentionally brought you all this by his lack of interest in doing his job. It belongs on his doorstep. "Officer" Daniel Pantaleo acted rashly, and stupidly, and like an out of control cowboy with no brain in his head. It's then your JOB Mr. District Attorney to hold him to account. You didn't which can only lead us to think you have even fewer brains. The coroner ruled it murder. The chokehold was banned. Are you telling us you saw something the entire globe did not or is your nose so far up the NYPD's ass you'll simply say yes, Black Lives Don't Matter when it comes to protecting rogue idiot cops in my conservative district which then means Black Lives Don't Matter at all to you.

A clearly broken system will be respected and neither can this farce of a grand jury decision.

Again, Daniel Donovan, Jr., you're an inept, gutless piece of shit.

Love,
Johnny

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Johnny just saw one of those cute animated gifs

Then he realized in looking at it how really well it sums up the UBER business model; definitely cheaper than a cab, no insurance worries and a free cold drink.

If you're considering a concert or sporting event at Madison Square Garden DO watch this first

Last night the homestanding Knicks were getting beaten by the basketball team formerly known as New Jersey. The Nets have a superfan named Jeffrey Gamblero who cheers for the team as superfans do. He also has a prosthetic leg. Last night with the Knicks losing, the Madison Square Garden Security team of basically thugs told Gamblero to, and this is at a major sporting event, to quiet down as he was cheering wrong. He asked what the problem was according to eyewitnesses at MSG and they told him to simply be a fan.

Nothing ambiguous about that is there? Be a fan. He was, he was cheering for his team who happened to the be the visiting team. After a while the MSG security thug taskforce came to where Gamblero was sitting and dragged him up the stairs to eject him while Gamblero screamed in pain and WITHOUT his prosthetic leg. They left that down at his seat for him apparently out of respect for the disabled.

So if you're planning a concert or event at MSG think again, do you really want to support James Dolan's goon squad who would do such a horrific thing basically because, and let's face facts, because the Knicks were losing is why this all happened, think again. Don't support this kind of 'customer service'.

The video at the link is very disturbing but so is dragging a one-legged man screaming in pain up stairs.

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It's a BOLD statement Tuesday

Johnny is man of this world. He gets out, he talks to people, he knows the dirt the powers that be have on each other (and keep those emails a-comin!) and he eats his way through Jersey City and New York City quite well thank you. In his time pounding the streets, whether just out and about or walking the dire wolf, a man can get hungry. A man knows food trucks have come a long way in haute cuisine and in different styles of nosh. Johnny has sampled a fair amount from food trucks in both Jersey City and NYC.

The food trucks in Jersey City are better.

NYC trucks seem to be too cliche and too much of the same thing. Jersey City trucks are trying new and exciting styles and some almost tasting-menu type stuff all up in your neighborhoods.

Discuss...

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Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
 -- John Wayne

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Damn you meddling kids-Your years old technology is outwitting the NYPD!

You're confounding and outwitting the NYPD you "techie brats."

With the recent protesting dating as far back as time, or the Occupy Wall Street protests and more recently the protests over the murder of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Missouri PD, the NYPD are admitting they are merely reacting to the situation on the ground. The NYPD says they're not controlling the fluid situation because they are being outmaneuvered by Twitter and disposable cell phones. Never ones to give credit to anyone for using such ten-years-ago-technology to outwit them an NYPD insider whined to the New York Post:

"They wore me out," said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. "Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven't dealt with before to this degree."

While the NYPD actively monitors Twitter, Facebook and other social media for intelligence, sources said the official chain of command keeps squadrons of cops from moving around as quickly as protesters.

Sounds like the chain of command is the problem there Skippy, but yeah of course blame others for your failings. Also, they're using counterterror technology to monitor Ferguson Missouri protests. No, no overstepping boundaries there. We're certain when the billions for monitoring equipment was being spent and the place on the form said what will this be used for it simply said EVERYTHING. What toolbags. Billions in the ability to monitor and follow persons of interest and they're bitching to the NY Post.

If you're a protestor, keep on doing what you're doing. A lot of the time in this here America you have to break a few windows to even get anyone to stop counting the money. America itself was born of protest, violent protest. The British no doubt called Washington and Jefferson and Franklin "spoiled brats" from well heeled families who had nothing better to do than agitate. Good thing they kept showing up to the protest meetings using age-old codes to move about secretly in looking back isn't it?

A lot of people won't get no supper tonight
A lot of people won't get no justice tonight