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This IS the windshield sun shade you're looking for.

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Hey The Morgan, what kind of place you running there?

Johnny has first hand confirmation that if you don't want to pay going hotel rates in downtown Jersey City, you can call The Morgan, Toll Brothers abortion of a building (remember, they themselves slagged the design in a PADNA meeting) downtown and they will rent you, via AirBNB or similar program a room to let. Now, the Morgan is in the business of renting, long term leases, we don't think there was anything in the reading of their abatement language that allows them to turn their place into a de-facto hotel.

Johnny also heard this morning from a source in the building with knowledge of the situation The Morgan, nee Toll Brothers, appear to have rented entire floors out to corporate room finders for short-term stays. We understand from sources The Morgan isn't renting units as fast as they had hoped so it would appear, according to the stories, they have decided to perhaps skirt local hotelier laws and no doubt Marriot and Hilton would be interested in such actions.

Toll Brothers, a bad part of Jersey City.

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We never really get to cover Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet on the Music Series as their songs are usually short or a tad fragmented. By far Johnny's favorite surf guitar band, straight outta Toronto here's a Shadowy Men one-off treat before bed with 'Egypt, Texas'

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Jersey City PD standing around construction sites is a great success; NO buildings have been shot

Unfortunately for Jersey City, more citizens HAVE been shot lately so oh those lucky buildings!

It makes NO goddamn sense does it? Why these guys are standing around a construction site while the city bleeds nightly, and now more disturbingly, daily. No way the city HAS to let these cops stand around. They could be doing something, anything to help. Track down leads or tips, man a phone line, get in a car and drive around the neighborhoods for god's sake. We have all this developer money, how about spending it on something useful and tangible? Mayor Fulop we get so little say over the tax abatements and where the PILOT money goes and you and our so-called leaders can't then have the common sense to up the patrols and pull these cops off the overtime gravy train? Priorities always reveal themselves mayor, they always do.

Johnny defies the JCPD or city officials to give us a time a cop at a construction site did something OTHER than maybe direct a truck in once every 3 hours, play Doodle Jump on their iPhones or just get back in their cars and go to fucking sleep. When have they caught a criminal? When have they been following up on shooting cases or adding something, anything, to the cause?

It's pretty sad when the citizens of Jersey City are begging for help far and wide to what is becoming the dreaded long hot summer and seeing so many resources by those in charge of the JCPD and city hall simply squandered. Come on Mayor Fulop, tell us something on Facebook then go back to running for Governor. Yet another reason this city needs to keep Jersey City elections on a special Jersey City day, in May, as that might be the only thing that gets through to our MIA mayor in all this. Til that happens folks he's checked out.

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Monitoring a "roaming gun battle" through the streets of Jersey City

In what the Jersey Journal is calling a "running gun battle" through the streets of Jersey CIty, Johnny is hopping on the listening station of doom and trying to garner what happens next, AFTER all the shooting dies down. The current story is up here and Johnny will update you if he can pick up interesting tidbits monitoring any and all necessary channels.

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If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
-- Bernard Williams

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When the bedrock shifts

All our lives, those of us fortunate enough to not have been born with an affliction such as blindness, deafness, mutism, it's understood we are our best persons around them because we're lucky the DNA played out the way it did AND you'd never look down your nose at someone with a life-challenge like deafness-- until today. Yes, a deaf guy was a dick and made 911 calls on an iPad app that deaf people use to make 911 calls. One Jason Paul Smith pled guilty to making bomb threats against the Statue of Liberty forcing the parks service and police to evacuate 3200 people from Liberty Island.

That's not cool, at all. The rest of the sordid details and the fact he's done this kind of thing before, can find be found here.

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Johnny is going to be a narcissist and get back to his best numbers night ever on Twitter. Hey. it only happens once ya know?

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Johnny is extraordinarily excited for Game of Thrones tonight

Spawler alert spawler alert! Turn away.

Now.

Last chance.

The Broken Man is the name of tonight's episode. The Broken Man is a famous speech given bt a member of the faith, Septon Meribald in a place called the Quiet Isle in the books. He gives it to Pod and Brienne. If they are doing as Ian McShane says then it's all too clear that indeed one obscure part of the books, the Gravedigger Theory (Seriously a GREAT link for this and all things Gravedigger going forward) will be visited tonight. For those of you with better things to do with your rainy rainy day that sit through an awesome ten minute video, here is who returns as the Gravedigger tonight.

Which can only lead to...