Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SPARKS!

Here's one from the vaults of 1982, a song played to great effect in the movie Valley Girl, it's Sparks with 'Eaten By the Monster of Love'.

This song stood out for whatever reason on Johnny's recent road trip and that's how you land on the Music Series sometimes.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with GARBAGE!

Joy! Rapture! Tuesday night at The Beacon Theater it's these fine folks here, Garbage playing with/opening for Blondie and yes, Johnny's got seats (You'll pay for the whole seat but you'll only need the edge) to this once in a lifetime event. Two great bands, one iconic in Johnny's mind. Shirley Manson has said many times how much she's looking forward to this leg of the tour they are on.

If they play this song Tuesday and use this very reverb Johnny's gonna swoon all over himself.

Last stop on the Music Series this week, Garbage with 'Special' begging the question, what's a Letterman?

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The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"
 -- Henny Youngman

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3 more Jersey City cops plead guilty -- friends it's a pipeline

Trying not to spend too much time on this (again) today but three more disgraced police officers from our fair city have pled guilty in the stand around cases where they claimed hours they didn't work, and or didn't pay the IRS on the money they got and or didn't cut the city in on their portion of this ridiculous program. Welcome to the Jersey City Desk wall of shame bad actors James Cardinali, Christopher Ortega and Victor Sanchez. Book 'em Terrence:

Cardinali was in charge of assigning off-duty jobs in the south district, where Ortega and Sanchez also worked.

Cardinali admitted today that he allowed companies to operate without off-duty officers present. He also admitted he approved phony vouchers to the city to make it appear as if officers worked sites they hadn't and accepted cash from the companies and officers who benefited. Ortega and Sanchez, who also worked in the south district, both admitted accepting money for work they never performed.

Funny nobody's going to jail for actually pulling on-duty cops off-duty to get to these stand around jobs.

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"The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns."
 -- Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay

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Do you like ribs Joey? How about movies about gladiators?

Gothamist went looking for the 11 best rib dishes across NYC, not necessarily BBQ mind you but some really delicious sounding and looking dishes are what they found. In a perfect world Johnny would have the time to try them all so if you have already had some of these ribs do feel free t share in comments.

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Jump in and help Marcella take down the office at some point tonight.

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Third Jersey City cop pleads guilty for being on the take over stand around jobs

Sure we do discuss this failure of a program fairly often because the embarrassment it has become to the city as dirty cop after dirty cop pleads as being a part of standing around construction sites doing next to nothing if playing on your iPhone counts. This time is was Victor Sanchez who now faces five years in prison and forfeits over $21K. We want to give this officer his time in the sun so this kind of nonsense is never forgotten.

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Aaaaaand we're back. Johnny drove virtually unmolested from Plymouth MI back to Fun City early this morning through the noon hour making dazzling time through Pennsylvania as always. Watched the sun come up between two thunderstorms in eastern Ohio. One of the best parts is the Maumee River crossing as the colorful new bridge splits a sleeping Toledo at 3:45am. Very scenic view, quite Americana. Still river, docks, smokestacks, yellowed lights along the banks and friends, you can't see that on a plane.

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Well friends it's that time. Johnny is off back to the midwest for the big Hobbit sized wedding of his nephew in Michigan so until which time (if any) he returns, you kids behave. Hard enough to get babysitters for some of you fuckers as is.

Until next week party cats and kittens...

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