Happy Veterans Day!

To all of you who have served, we thank you! You can have some extra bacon from the grill below...

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Get to bed Jersey City or the Bacon Fairy can't come and deliver the morning bounty, or so legend has it.


Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Who doesn't love a good Twitter fight?

Instead of a back and forth on Twitter, this one is between two NYC eateries named Patsy's. So, who gets the Twitter handle? A judge was tasked with that very issue. To see how it comically/sadly is turning out click that link in the battle of the Patsy's.

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Saturday Night Scoreboard Show

Alabama 38
LSU 17
Nope, the Tide is as good as in the title game.

Pitt 28
Notre Dame 21
The Irish losing just adds a nice tough to any college football Saturday.

Princeton 28
Penn 26
Princeton keep a perfect Ivy record and first place to themselves.

Lehigh 34
Holy Cross 20
Lehigh gets back to winning ways.

Nebraska 17
Michigan 13
Michigan ran for negative yards for the second straight week. Bo Schembechler is rolling in his grave.

Charleston Southern 31
Coastal Carolina 26
Coastal Carolina scored 13 unanswered points in the fourth quarter.....and still lost by five.

Vanderbilt 34
Florida 17
Vandy wins in Gainesville for the first time since 1945.

Eastern Michigan 35
Western Michigan 32 OT
EMU gets rid of Ron English (Finally!) and look at that, a win in a rivalry game.

Syracuse 20
Maryland 3
The 'Cuse gets loose in Turtleland.

The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
St. Joseph's College 6
Truman St. 3
Kirksville Missouri was the place to be if you like 6-3 games football fans. BMOC Gavin Voss got power up and kicked the winning field goal for the Pumas with less than three minutes to go. If the thought crossed your mind as to why nobody could score, the weather was fine, Truman St. just decided to turn the ball over like Halloween candy. That means the St. Joseph's College offense must be worse than the Giants.

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Jersey City awaits it's newest Superhero

Five years is a long wait for a Superhero to arrive in a city the size of Jersey City but the long wait is over. Comic book writer G. Willow Wilson has placed her newest Marvel superhero right here in Jersey City. The crime fighter is named Ms. Marvel (In real life she's mild-mannered Kamala Khan, 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants whose powers include the ability to change shape) and she's a Muslim. Said Wilson:

“Jersey City was a really appropriate place for a junior superhero who’s figuring out her powers and identity.”

Another reason this comic will rock? They're going to use real streets and real imagery when at all possible:

“Everywhere possible, we’ll be using actual street locations in Jersey City,” Wilson said in an email. “No cop-out generic cities here!”

Awesome. Make sure to follow the link to read some nice things about our fair city and to see a few images of Jersey City's newest shield-maiden of the night.

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Nobody's going to bed without watching Cabbage Head!


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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ROD STEWART!

This song (Originally written by Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam) sure hits the nail on the head. When you're a young guy in your first serious relationship and that ends, aye carumba that's the worst. Know what else is the worst? Winning a vital high school football game in Byron one night so the team got to listen to the radio in the bus on the ride home. But get the juniors to sing this song and be off by just a tiny letter and Monday everybody's running wind sprints.

Rod Stewart with 'The First Cut is the Deepest' on the teen memory hour.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PINK FLOYD!

Everytime Johnny hears this song he wants to quit the PR world forever. But since there's good money to be made he doesn't and thus becomes the soulless backslapper and false promoter mocked in this song.

One day he will quit and not feel bad about singing the lines:

Well, I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.

The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

Pink Floyd served with a side of Johnny's soul on 'Have a Cigar'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE JACKSON FIVE!

It just leaves one wondering what the hell happened. You know exactly what Johnny's talking about. The fabulous Jackson Five with 'I Want You Back' wrapping up another Music Series.

The Eye of Sauron will glower down upon Jersey City tonight

OK, yep, Johnny's a geek. That being said tonight is the night many of us geeky photogs have been waiting for. The beacon and spire high atop the WTC will be tested tonight starting at 5pm. Here's the factoids for when you're reading this on your mobile device sounding smart to your friends while looking up tonight:

The 408-foot structure is assembled with 288 50-watt LED modules, which will enable it to be visible up to 50 miles away.