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A storm worthy of the name storm

Well, that certainly was quite a snowstorm wasn't it? Some really heavy snow for a few hours and a biting wind to blow the snow around. It's well off but a local weather prognosticator said there is the possibility for another one next week, if a southwest wind will oblige.

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Forget this snowstorm nonsense or a minute, let's think summer! THE concert tour of the summer was announced and Johnny pounced on tickets asafp. You know when you really really really are trying to order tickets as fast as you can online because you feel 17 and you'd just die if you didn't get seats? When you finally DO get them you jump around the room, right? You don't do that? Johnny sure did tonight. Used his fan membership to get the early release code and will be in Row C August 1st at the Beacon Theater for Blondie, Garbage and Deap Vally. Johnny would go to see either Blondie or Garbage and Deap Vally would be a nice opener for either but all together? HELLZ yes.

Did you know then, Shirley Manson of Garbage has always been a huge Debbie Harry fan and inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Taking us out tonight, Garbage and 'Special' and that's how Johnny's feeling about August 1st right now.

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Here is the final word on incoming #WinterStormBowlingGreenMassacre

The rain will start now after midnight, some three hours earlier than the experts thought two days ago, and the snow shortly after that. It will be an impressive storm if you consider between say 5AM and 11AM the snow will be coming down from 1-3" an hour. It won't last long but boy howdy it'll be white outside.

Is everyone in? The circus is about to begin...

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Johnny was informed today by his friend Olive it's International Clash Day and you know Johnny, he doesn't need much to post a Clash video. All together now on 'Clampdown'

The judge said five to ten-but I say double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?

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The Jersey City Desk Action Weather Team (and Accuweather) have a better fix on the storm

#WinterStormBowlingGreenMassacre will get to the Jersey City Desk viewing area early early Thursday morning. After a 60+ degree Wednesday, around midnight that starts to change and how. The storm will start as rain but the cold air will arrive now in time to give us a 3-6" of snow by the time it stops late afternoon Thursday. Hold onto your mittens kittens because after the snow leaves so do the clouds and it's going to drop into the upper TEENS. 60º to the teens in just under a day.

Stay tuned for any major changes.

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For this Thursday storm to do anything this coming frigid air really needs to get it's ass in gear.

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The Jersey City Desk Action Weather Team says Thursday might get nutty

A front that will pass through our area on it's way to New England will start as rain before possibly dropping some plowable snow (some models show it having enough gas for 8" of snow, starting as the wet kind) on our area. Stay tuned to this channel for more information on what we're calling:

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
 -- Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE

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Another Super Bowl, whoopiteedoo!

Every year America loses it's mind over the Super Bowl. Everyone but Johnny. He's a Browns fan. Do you know how horrid it is NEVER cheering for a team in the Super Bowl EVER? Sure, you might not like one team, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver and New England all roll of the tongue but they've all won shitpiles of Super Bowl trophies. The Browns (and Lions and Jaguars) have never been. Yes, so "Go other guy" gets real old real fast.

But Johnny. those ads, they're the best. Well, maybe some are but some won't be. Two words, farting horse. Besides, the Super Bowl ads didn't all used to "leak" (no doubt by the companies themselves believe it or not) a week before. Watch them now if you want at your leisure. The Wizard of Oz kind of lost some of it's mojo once it wasn't on teevee ONCE a year around Easter time. That was it. You saw it or you lost. With basic cable it was on TBS and elsewhere all the time. Those 1984 Apple and Mean Joe Greene Coke ads are a bygone era. Ads built for impact not entertainment value to be viewed on YouTube on a loop.

The players Johnny, you've gotta love those players. Johnny's a Michigan State fan and Tom Brady went to Michigan. Johnny is a Browns fan and Falcons starting center Alex Mack bolted the Browns first chance he got. Hall-of-Famer in-waiting Joe Thomas is the answer to the immediate question/statement about leaving the Browns that jumped to the front of your mind.

Some of those halftime shows though, they've been great you cynical Johnny you. What if we, as a nation, see another boob? What if we as a nation have to watch another rock star or band mail in a performance with local kids ambling around on the field while they play the worstest ever thing in music, "the medley." Lady Gaga seems like a great person who truly has her head and heart in the right place but Johnny's not a fan of her sound. Gladiator fights. Now THAT would bring Johnny back for halftimes. Big old Punic War reenactments with flashing lights and great battle music. It's football, and gladiator fights fit that image perfectly. While Johnny's all about improving the Super Bowl while not watching it, here's a suggestion for those in power at the NFL to tune in more viewers (and he simply cannot believe you didn't come up with this yourselves, perhaps too busy molding fake patriotic initiatives eh?) and make the Super Bowl and ever BIGGER spectacle. The camera spends how much awkward time looking for celebrities in the crowd during the game? Screw that. Take the time you spend showing celebrities and use that for a replay or Troy Aikman drawing all over the screen. Why not have a Super Bowl RED CARPET arrival for celebrities? Celebrities LOVE this shit and for some reason people like seeing famous people on red carpets. So, NFL, have a red carpet show for all the celebs showing up before the game and then everyone will already know who's there. You're welcome.

Today however, for the first time in forever, Johnny's not going to a party, Mrs. Johnny is out of town, nobody is coming over. Johnny doesn't have to watch one goddamned minute and doesn't plan to. He may check the score online, he might goad fans on Twitter, but yeah, this Browns fan is done for the season.