Academy Awards trivia night. This person has won 26 total Oscars, making them by far and away the biggest winner in Academy Awards history. Can you name this person? Answer in comments.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Autumn just pulled it's 1987 Cadillac Cimarron into our Jersey City driveway
And it'll look so good out there until winter comes.
Johnny has long said that you get two seasons from September through mid-November, fall and autumn. Fall is the time for hayrides, cider, football games in t-shirts, farmer's markets and bonfires. Autumn on the other hand is today. That's not a nip on the air -- that's a bite on the air. Football games in autumn weed out the fairweather fans. Has everything that needs doing before the snow flies been done? One more battening down, overcoats, gloves and hats. Autumn found our driveway today.
Johnny has long said that you get two seasons from September through mid-November, fall and autumn. Fall is the time for hayrides, cider, football games in t-shirts, farmer's markets and bonfires. Autumn on the other hand is today. That's not a nip on the air -- that's a bite on the air. Football games in autumn weed out the fairweather fans. Has everything that needs doing before the snow flies been done? One more battening down, overcoats, gloves and hats. Autumn found our driveway today.
Late night open thread
It's the Saturday night Scoreboard Show!
Nebraska 27
Northwestern 24
The winning Hail Mary proves the football gods prefer corn to Evanston Illinois.
Northern Illinois 63
Massachusetts 19
Jordan Lynch for Heisman!
UCLA 45
Colorado 23
It's nice to see the Bruins good in football again. LOVE those powder blues.
Kentucky 48
Alabama State 14
Kentucky was finally able to beat something with the name Alabama in it.
Georgia 23
Florida 20
The world's biggest cocktail party finds Gator fans draining boxes of wine in the parking lots after the game in sorrow and shame.
Bucknell 28
Colgate 7
What the hell got into the Bison? Bucknell thrashes yet another foe.
Fordham 32
Holy Cross 30
The Fordham undefeated season continues but kind of whistled past the graveyard for a portion of the afternoon.
Incarnate Word 47
McMurry 43
How little is known of these teams? The ESPN box score on this game lists the stadium as "STADIUM_NAME, NOT KNOWN, USA." Know this, Incarnate Word scored 21 points in the 4th quarter to finish the comeback over McMurry. BTW, the game was played at Wilford Moore Stadium. That's in Abilene.
S. Illinois 34
W. Illinois 28
The coveted meth cooker trophy will go to S. Illinois this year.
The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Michigan St. 29
Michigan 6
-48 yards running? Michigan had an entire week off before this game and ran for -48 yards? The MSU defense sacked Devin Gardner (the sorest man in American about now) 7 times, picked him off once and in general treated him like a boxing heavy bag all day. Johnny's Spartans have now taken 5 of 6 from the team from the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, and that's a good thing.
Set your clocks back. Yes, even if you've already done it. You'll thank Johnny tomorrow.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Nebraska 27
Northwestern 24
The winning Hail Mary proves the football gods prefer corn to Evanston Illinois.
Northern Illinois 63
Massachusetts 19
Jordan Lynch for Heisman!
UCLA 45
Colorado 23
It's nice to see the Bruins good in football again. LOVE those powder blues.
Kentucky 48
Alabama State 14
Kentucky was finally able to beat something with the name Alabama in it.
Georgia 23
Florida 20
The world's biggest cocktail party finds Gator fans draining boxes of wine in the parking lots after the game in sorrow and shame.
Bucknell 28
Colgate 7
What the hell got into the Bison? Bucknell thrashes yet another foe.
Fordham 32
Holy Cross 30
The Fordham undefeated season continues but kind of whistled past the graveyard for a portion of the afternoon.
Incarnate Word 47
McMurry 43
How little is known of these teams? The ESPN box score on this game lists the stadium as "STADIUM_NAME, NOT KNOWN, USA." Know this, Incarnate Word scored 21 points in the 4th quarter to finish the comeback over McMurry. BTW, the game was played at Wilford Moore Stadium. That's in Abilene.
S. Illinois 34
W. Illinois 28
The coveted meth cooker trophy will go to S. Illinois this year.
The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Michigan St. 29
Michigan 6
-48 yards running? Michigan had an entire week off before this game and ran for -48 yards? The MSU defense sacked Devin Gardner (the sorest man in American about now) 7 times, picked him off once and in general treated him like a boxing heavy bag all day. Johnny's Spartans have now taken 5 of 6 from the team from the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, and that's a good thing.
Set your clocks back. Yes, even if you've already done it. You'll thank Johnny tomorrow.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Saturday, November 2, 2013
MSU 29 The Great Satan 6
WOW, Johnny was very very invested in this game and his Spartans carried the day in a BIG way.
OK, you can carry on and come back for the scoreboard show later tonight.
OK, you can carry on and come back for the scoreboard show later tonight.
Late night open thread
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. Start doing some random dialing and you might get a penguin phone-sex hotline.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE EAGLES!
No, there's no hidden NFL theme with The Eagles and The Lions as bands tonight. Just happy accidents. Johnny rarely prepares any music beforehand unless a certain song really clicked earlier in the week. So, yes, back to the 70's supergroup. Here's a song that while it still got airplay wasn't mercilessly crammed down out gullets during the Hotel California craze. The Eagles with 'Victim of Love' kicking things off tonight.
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE LIONS!
OK reggae fans, this one is for you. As they used to say at the Flint IMA Auditorium, "Smoke 'em if ya got 'em." 'Ethio-Steppers' is the name of this one. Can we invent a sonic reggae category for these guys? Jazz reggae?
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE TROGGS!
Yes THOSE Troggs and the classic 'Wild Thing' wrapping up another Music Series. So, what's a Trogg anyway?
Friday, November 1, 2013
Dear Spectra Energy
Dear Spectra Energy,
You started pushing the gas through your pipeline this morning through Bayonne, Jersey City, offshore of Hoboken and into NYC. Congratulations, you forced your intentions upon a few million people over their protests and despite proof Spectra isn't exactly the safe company they claim. You'll now collect your $30 million pieces of silver.
Know this, this cram-down works both ways. If there are radon leaks from your pipeline, if worse yet there is an explosion and local people die or are made homeless, there WILL be consequences. We as a society cannot in good conscience have something so dangerous pushed upon us with no way to be made whole other than an "We take this seriously" non-apology apology or watch as you go to court to limit your accountability. Don't think we're going to allow you or your workers or those who appeared in your ads to help shill this mess upon us to go unchallenged or yes, unconfronted if YOUR pipeline goes sideways.
You made your promises about safety which you hope you don't ever have to pay out on. Same here, this promise about your workers (at any level of the company tree) and your advertising partners stands, and Johnny prays we as a region don't ever have to pay out on them.
You started pushing the gas through your pipeline this morning through Bayonne, Jersey City, offshore of Hoboken and into NYC. Congratulations, you forced your intentions upon a few million people over their protests and despite proof Spectra isn't exactly the safe company they claim. You'll now collect your $30 million pieces of silver.
Know this, this cram-down works both ways. If there are radon leaks from your pipeline, if worse yet there is an explosion and local people die or are made homeless, there WILL be consequences. We as a society cannot in good conscience have something so dangerous pushed upon us with no way to be made whole other than an "We take this seriously" non-apology apology or watch as you go to court to limit your accountability. Don't think we're going to allow you or your workers or those who appeared in your ads to help shill this mess upon us to go unchallenged or yes, unconfronted if YOUR pipeline goes sideways.
You made your promises about safety which you hope you don't ever have to pay out on. Same here, this promise about your workers (at any level of the company tree) and your advertising partners stands, and Johnny prays we as a region don't ever have to pay out on them.
How about a Saturday night of some excellent music?
Saturday night at NJPAC on the banks of the Passaic River in Newark brings some fine Motown sounds to music lovers lucky enough to have tickets. The Temptations and Four Tops will perform starting at 8pm.
Between them the groups have over 30 Top Ten hits over the past 45 years. Always great songs to sing along to. The very songs you remember from your childhood when AM radio was king. Some of the most recognizable Motown acts to be sure.
Tickets are $79 to $39 and can be purchased at www.njpac.org, by calling 1-888-GO-NJPAC or by visiting the box office at One Center Street in Downtown Newark.
It's not just the same old song, it's a fantastic night in Newark!
(Video does not count against tonight's Music Series 3 songs you lucky dogs!)
Between them the groups have over 30 Top Ten hits over the past 45 years. Always great songs to sing along to. The very songs you remember from your childhood when AM radio was king. Some of the most recognizable Motown acts to be sure.
Tickets are $79 to $39 and can be purchased at www.njpac.org, by calling 1-888-GO-NJPAC or by visiting the box office at One Center Street in Downtown Newark.
It's not just the same old song, it's a fantastic night in Newark!
(Video does not count against tonight's Music Series 3 songs you lucky dogs!)
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