The official Jersey City website says Leonard Gordon Park has the best sledding in Jersey City

Let's put that statement to the test. Jersey City, we're about to have two and a half days of snow and fun. There's no excuse not to get those sleds and toboggans out and and really see if "Mosquito Park" is the best sledding in Jersey City. This is where you all chime in. Have you been there? Is it all that? Do you have a better place in mind? Do you prefer a saucer or something with control?

Johnny adored sledding growing up. The big hill you HAD to ride was in the Mulberry Hills and it had the intimidating name, "Death Hill". It was steep and in order to make a tough left hand slide you had to maneuver around a nice dangerous rock. Many a noob from Glass Rd. left DNA on it while the Fay Rd. Syndicate just coasted on by. If you made it past the rock and got the left alley you could cover a fast hundred yards onto Lake Louise.

So send us those pictures and we'll post them all up in here, the Jersey City Desk Ski Lodge, where you can tell tales of the blizzard, share pictures and relax in the Orbit Room.

Leonard Gordon Park (JFK Blvd. and Manhattan Ave.), because you can see Secaucus from there...

While we wait for the blizzard, a question

Johnny and Mrs. Johnny were asking this question last night of one another; did the results of Superstorm Sandy have any impact on how people prepared for this blizzard? Were you more willing lay in provisions thinking back to October and early November? Have you taken any kind of electrical precautions such as buying a generator?

Color us curious.

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Home movies night:
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OK so it's a blizzard

Yes, this storm has ballooned into a whopper and our fair city will be forced to pay a price. A foot of snow and 40-50 mph gusts starting in earnest tomorrow late afternoon. The storm is expected to last through eggs and bacons on Saturday. That's not what's important right now. The blizzard parade o' photos will no doubt be late Saturday or Sunday as your submissions trickle in. Email Johnny at the address listed down the page under his sassy picture. Who could ever forget Johnny's winner after the last blizzard:

Ghosts Eating Marshmallows in a Snowstorm 2010

Also Johnny suggested via Twitter that Newark SuperMayor Cory Booker get out the flannel cape and tights to save man and beast in this wicked storm because we're all about the caring here at the Jersey City Desk.

A possible 4" of snow is coming -- Time to loot the stores! UPDATE!

Rain and a possible four inches of snow? How will we all survive? Sadly Jersey City, some of us won't make is through this storm. But there is still time to head to Shop Rite or wherever groceries are sold and buy them out of water, milk, bread and eggs.

Here's how our portion of this storm sets up:
Today. Nothing. Today will be fine. That's what you're going to Shop Rite TODAY.

Tonight there will be a chance of snow after midnight  but nothing too bad.

Friday we'll get snow, then rain and it'll be windy. About 40mph windy. Still just rain and some snow.

Friday night is when the magic happens. We'll get upwards of THREE inches of snow which will shut down the city, ruining hundreds of lives.

Saturday we could get an additional ONE whole inch of snow in the morning, the survivors of Friday night will have to put up with this insulting bit of snow, how terrible.

Yes yes we're going overboard here. But then again Johnny has good friends in West Concord Massachusetts and if you were there this would be YOUR weekend:

Friday Night
Overcast with snow. Low of 18F with a windchill as low as 1F. Windy. Winds from the NNE at 25 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. Chance of snow 100% with accumulations up to 20 in. possible.

Saturday
Overcast with snow. High of 21F with a windchill as low as 0F. Windy. Winds from the NNW at 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. Chance of snow 100% with accumulations up to 10 in. possible.

Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clear. Low of -2F with a windchill as low as -17F. Breezy. Winds from the NW at 10 to 20 mph.

Suddenly four inches doesn't sound so bad now does it?

UPDATE 9:31am: NOW (and with weather the chance for an update is always great) NJ.com is saying a possible 8-12" is possible in Hudson County and the surround. Please keep checking for updates or get to a weather channel on your teevee.

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So the voters have spoken, the new Monopoly piece is CAT

The Monopoly game people decided they needed to shake things up and bring attention to a good but now dusty old board game. So to Facebook it was and they asked which piece should they adopt (CAT) and which one should they lose. The answer to that was the lowly iron. All those irons now being tossed away and 30-40% of them will hit Wile E. Coyote. Nobody listened to Johnny once again. He had ideas but no, they asked America a question via the internet and the answer came back CAT. Who would have imagined that? Some of Johnny's better ideas?

iPhone
Prescription pill bottle
Hindenburg
Bar of soap
Sonja Henie
AK societal chaos rifle
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Hungry Hippo (just one use of the word 'hungry' so as not to run afoul of copyright laws)
And of course 8-track player

CAT.

Your thoughts dear readers?

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El Paso Texas is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.

It's a FACT!


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Once again Mayor Dawn Zimmer has cancelled the Hoboken St. Patrick's Day parade

And once again we'd like to invite those who want a real first class St. Patrick's Day parade to come on over to Jersey City for ours. We think you'll find a better parade, a more family oriented crowd and PLENTY of after parade places to toast a leprechaun or two.

It would seem Hoboken has done gone and ruined their parade and since parade organizers are none too keen on a Wednesday afternoon step-off offered by Zimmer once again this year, Jersey City is now your better parade and adult beverage option.

Lepre-Con. Weeeeeeeak.

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Brylcreem, because when it rains your hair should have tributaries.


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