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For those scoring at home the forge that this iron came out of, is in East Jordan Michigan, a tiny town in northwest lower Michigan and this iron found it's way to Jersey City New Jersey. Small world.

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What a Studio Tour weekend!

Oh the hell with the rain, art fans care nothing for rain, baseball fans care about rain. From what Johnny was able to see downtown, in PAD and around Harsimus Cove the art scene in Jersey City is strong and getting stronger. Make no mistake, the new gallery at Modera and with all the associated artist space (look someone really lives up to their commitment to the Powerhouse ARTS District along with 140 and 150 Bay St., talking to you The One and The Morgan) has already and will continue to bring the focus of art back to the PAD. Johnny was actually privy to a discussion between artists and curators of an idea someone had to create a monthly art walk or studio and gallery art crawl on one Friday a month. Those on hand were also very adamant the city would be kept out of planning and implementation after the Monopoly board debacle (Where is your credibility now city hall?). Great idea and more than likely a better idea to keep the city at arm's length.

A few snaps from this tour this past weekend

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We'll have a more complete look at the great Artist and Studio Tour this past weekend on the morrow. Johnny was hosting today and then got all caught up in the debate.

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It's the Saturday Night Scoreboard Show!

Michigan 78
Rutgers 0
Michigan stomped RU like narcs at a biker rally. Last week Ohio State did the same thing 58-0. Scarlet Knights fans, welcome to rock bottom

Washington 70
Oregon 21
Remember not too long ago Oregon was doing this to others

Texas A&M 45
Tennessee 38 2OT
Life sucks when the dice finally come up snake eyes huh Vols? Well that's the thing, they always do, the house always wins sooner or later

Iowa 14
Minnesota 7
Floyd of Rosedale stays in Iowa City for another year. This being Floyd:

Sam Houston State 63
Incarnate Word 48
We're not sure what the Incarnate word was but it sure wasn't defense

Columbia 15
Wagner 13
Oren Milstein was all the offense Columbia needed today with 5 field goals. FIVE! Hopefully he's drunk tonight when he reads this

California (PA) 31
Indiana (PA) 28
You don't need a program at this game so much as a fucking compass

NC State 10
Notre Dame 3
3 players drowned

TCU 24
Kansas 23
Kansas misses a late FG or TCU was going to win the 'Stink of Death' award for, well, losing to Kansas

The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®
Navy 46
Houston 40
The #6 team in the land mounted a furious comeback but when things looked their most dire this happened:

A Navy ship opened up into the Houston sideline taking out quite a few Cougars thus ensuring Navy victory. In honor of this mighty victory the Naval Academy announced no classes til Wednesday

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On this day in history, October 8 in 1871, Chicago got wiped out by a cow. Hard to act superior at things when you got taken out by the wily cow.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LOS LOBOS!

Kicking things off tonight on this Art and Studio tour weekend all over this great city how about a sultry, swingy, spooky song from Los Lobos, 'Kiko and the Lavender Moon'

Johnny thinks you'll approve Jersey City...of the song, the video, well, smoke 'em if ya got 'em we suppose.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BUDDY HOLLY!

A real treat tonight kids, this track, 'Well....All Right' is played here on an old 78 rpm record player. You can hear the scratches and little pops as your, christ, grandparents would have listened to it on.

History and a really great song.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE PRETENDERS!

Go ahead Donald Trump, go walk up to Chrissie Hynde and grab her pussy, go ahead, you're famous, you said you can do it. Walk right up, reach out your hand, and get your teeth knocked out and your throat stepped on.

The Pretenders closing up shop on the Music Series with 'Bad Boys Get Spanked'

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Update on the NJ Transit train wreck in Hoboken

The NTSB is now reporting the train that hit Lackawanna Station, killing one woman, was going nearly double the speed limit. Hope you like story problems in school Billy:

The commuter train accelerated from 8 mph about 38 seconds before the crash, which killed one person and injured more than 100 others. The throttle had been in the idle position but moved to a No. 4 position as the train accelerated. Just before the crash, the throttle returned to the idle position and the engineer tried emergency breaking procedures.

Um, what is, uh, er, 45? What? No recess? Goddammit. For those scoring at home the correct answer was 21, the train was going 21mph.

A good read with more information and more on automatic speed control.