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For the first time in really forever Johnny tried that retail therapy you've heard of. It works on some levels but for a kid who grew up dirt poor there's always gonna be a guilt to it.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BUDDY HOLLY!

February 3rd yes? Johnny did a write up of the 50th anniversary of 'The Day the Music Died' some seven years ago here so tonight with it being a certain anniversary and all we're going to play one of Johnny's mostest favorite songs from one of rock and roll's most important performers, songwriters, producers and rock stars all rolled into one. Buddy Holly with 'Rave On'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE WHO!

This song all day was going to be 'Eminence Front.' Johnny had been thinking of working that one in actually for a while now. He went to give it a final listen and double clicked 'Slip Kid'.

Guess what, 'Slip Kid' has a far better backstory, a warning to kids to be so careful in holding up someone as your idol from the world of music as you can easily get hurt. Learn from your elders, don't mimic them.

Plus there's that rally nasty/cool guitar through the middle before that timeless grinding of the guitar strings by Pete Townshend brings us back to a Roger Daltrey almost desperate to relay the story.

No easy easy to be free...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with DAVID BOWIE!

Johnny and the Jean Genie both love chimney stacks. So we have that going for us, which is nice...

The Thin White Duke and 'Jean Genie' sending you on your way tonight (no doubt singing the chorus from this song).

Johnny will be on both ABC and NBC News tonight

He will be discussing his heroism in the Bowling Green Massacre where he killed 7 orcs, 3 Russians and a wyvern. Make sure to tune in! Goooood watchin'

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Jebediah, the Jersey City weather telling Wombat sez...

Johnny took the pup over the Jebediah's home, still at the corner of Bay St. and Warren with those piles of bricks that have been there for the last 12 years and asked him all about winter and seeing his shadow and what not. Johnny asked Jeb whether we still had six more weeks of winter.

"Winter, when is it going to start? I have no good idea, you're the people, you figure it out."

So, there you go, right from the wombat's mouth.

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Johnny is pretty sure he and Elvis had this same dream.

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JOKER....JOKER....DEVIL, awwwwwww, go see human resources

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains. But sometimes you lose and later lose bigger and have to go see the boss.

One of Mayor Fulop's first initiatives was no mare taking city vehicles and using them for personal use. Some still probably have been doing it but nobody had any proof...until now. City Recreation Director Kevin Williamson, hired in November 2015, apparently didn't get the memo. Mr. Williamson took his city-owned Ford Explorer home with him.

Then it got stolen.

That'll ruin your day. Knowing you'd taken a city vehicle that was now elsewhere and you have no idea where cannot feel good. So Williamson didn't report the vehicle stolen...right away:

"(Williamson) told police he parked his city Ford Explorer on Sussex Street on Monday, Jan. 23 at about 9 p.m. and when he returned at 8 a.m. the next day it was gone, according to a police report.

Williamson did not immediately report the missing car to police. The police report says he walked into the city's east district police station to report the crime at about 12:40 p.m. the Tuesday it went missing. The report says he told police that when he couldn't find the blue Ford nearly five hours earlier, he "walked around the area" to see if he could spot it."

So once it got reported city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said the matter was referred to human resources. There's more on the story at the link, including the recovery of the vehicle and where.

Johnny knows what happens next