Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with JACKIE WILSON AND LAVERN BAKER!

Letting rip with the soul standard 'Think Twice and the added bonus of the artist Shag having his work intertwixed with the music. There is a very very x-rated version of this song if you'd like to hear it for purely, uh, historical purposes. Keep the headphones on for this version. The one below you can blow the speakers out with.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SNEAKER PIMPS!

Let's hear it for originality! Closing up shop on the Music Series for another week is Sneaker Pimps and their original version of the 1996 hit 'Six Underground'

You know the popular version well enough, let us know which one you prefer.

Sounds like Mitt Romney and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg have something in common...

Besides being filthy rich. No, what they also have in common is "binders of women."

Mayor Pithy decided forever and ever he'd never release emails pertaining to why on Earth Cathie Black would be chosen to become Schools Chancellor (She to obtain a special waiver from the state education commissioner because of her glaring lack of background to leads the schools). In the back and forth emails that former Gawker intern Sergio Hernandez finally gained access to it would seem the Bloomberg folks and Cathie Black quickly opened up their binders of women to help turn public opinion in Black's favor (She lasted 95 days). So who is in the Bloomberg/Black binders?

"...Gloria Steinem, Whoopi Goldberg, Diane von Furstenberg, Bette Midler and Nora Ephron. (Ephron and Midler declined.) "Would we want Ivanka Trump?" Black asked Bloomberg's legislative director Micah Lasher. "Think she would do." Lasher replied, "I would skip." Okay, what about Tinsley Mortimer? Maybe Paris Hilton?" 

Bette Midler and Nora Ephron had more integrity than to involve themselves. Know who didn't? Oprah:

"...Oprah did ultimately come to Black's defense, despite Black's complete lack of experience. In a front page story in the Daily News, Oprah described Black as "tough as nails” and “a tremendous champion for the children of New York.""

Binders of women. Sounds like we need a binder for the growing number of people who use binders of women.

The final Jersey City mayoral debate might have seen a turning point

Mayor Healy was hot under the collar and went on about threatening litigation against Councilman Fulop because of the FBI ad. Why he keeps making the crime and graft sweep of 2009 a campaign issue (Fulop is doing a good enough job of that himself) is beyond us but yesterday did show a mayor who is angry, and who might just be feeling this race slipping away. Reports say Fulop scored points on Healy by mentioning the Healy campaign mailers and literature which Fulop said to laughter:

"Not even one mailer that had come from the mayor's (campaign) office has one thing about a vision for Jersey City. Each one has my image distorted and a picture of President Obama on the other side."

For his part in the debate, candidate Abdul Malik seemed pretty pissed off at the other two candidates (Jerry Walker was at a fundraiser):

"It's a dirty fight we have seen, and we are seeing it here," said Malik, who compared politicians to puppets. "Listen my friends, I am not political, I am not controlled by anyone, I don't have big money ... This is time to clean up our politics, and I am asking for your help to support me and we can do this together."

Mayor Healy? He was still threatening lawsuits:

"They are lies and slanderous and we will file a lawsuit."

We just think it would be kind of hard to sue someone using words Mayor Healy himself spoke on the FBI tape.

We're also going to throw in the candidates (all four) and their views on tax abatements for the downtown area from a couple days back. Valuable information to help you decide on May 14. Follow this link and hear and see (in living color) the candidates and their tax break opinions.

Late night open thread

One last 10:30pm start for the Red Wings that goes into overtime? Could be. Eastern Conference teams can never complain about paying dues.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

It's the political silly season in Jersey City

Two days ago Johnny and his dog walked by an Abdul Malik mayoral poster posted near a Healy for Mayor sign at a large Jersey City intersection. The driving point in the Malik poster was about ending corruption. Yesterday Johnny walked by and somebody had taken a knife or some kind of boxcutter and sliced the Malik for Mayor sign right through the word corruption. Down it flipped. Fast forward to today, since the Malik sign was cut down it would seem that meant TWO Healy signs had to go that were on the same fencing. Where does it end people? When does it end? If Johnny sees you doing this sort of thing he WILL snap your picture and post it here. Be ye warned.

Late night open thread

Did you know lighters were invented before matches? It's true.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer takes to Twitter to yell at helicopters

Maybe you follow the Mayor of Hoboken, the Honorable Dawn Zimmer, on Twitter. Then you know about the headline. If you're not into the Twitter that's fine but here is what she said:

Dawn Zimmer ‏@dawnzimmernj 3h
Outrageous number of helicopters flying over NJ & NOT NYC. If NY wants  tourist helicopters then keep them on your side!

She used an exclamation point so it's yelling alright. She does make a point, a point we folk on the sunset side of the Hudson River can discuss. Do the sight-seeing helicopters stay on the Jersey side while coming nowhere near NYC? Don't a lot of these helicopters depart and land from the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan though? Living near there would suck. You'd get 'Nam flashbacks even if you didn't go.

If Johnny were running things in Hoboken, which he is not, he'd tell residents to put really offensive 'greetings' to the helicoptourists on rooftops. Really offensive.

Did you notice the big push by NY to include themselves in next year's Super Bowl at the NFL draft?

The New York groupies and hangers-on sure wanted everyone to know they were trying really really hard to represent and pretend they had something to do with the playing of Super Bowl X2014VIIXMCLII at the Meadowlands next year didn't they? NY actually put their names on signage both electronic and traditional to try and convince America they have a hand in this. The game is in New Jersey. The parking lots are in New Jersey. The trains empty and load up again in New Jersey. The two local NFL franchises practice and play in New Jersey. The Governor of New Jersey will fly the stealth jet over the stadium before the game and then be on the field in time to toss the coin. Cuomo and Bloomie will be in an NFL luxury box knocking big sodas and hot dogs out of people's hands. The touchdowns in the game will all be scored in New Jersey not New York. The teams and fans will fly into and out of the aeropuerto in New Jersey.

First they tried to claim the Statue of Liberty, now they're trying to photobomb the Super Bowl.

It's Jan Brady all over again friends. "Jersey Jersey JERSEY!" We'd put them in time out but you only get three.

Late night open thread

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."
 -- Mark Twain

Time for Jersey City, After Dark