Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PINK FLOYD!

Hey there, come on down to Crazy Phil Murphy's New Jointsy! Have a puff along the boardwalk in Atlantic City, smoke a bowl in the Pine Barrens, pack that bong tight on Owen Grundy Park in Jersey City, New Jersey is gonna say yes to the recreational weed. In one short month Chris Christie will take his Burgermeister ways with him and a new way of thinking and of making so much money you have to move it to go to the toilet will go into effect.

Those poor people across the river who have built a cottage industry of looking down their noses at Garden State residents will come across the river like little Oliver Twist asking  for some more, please. Sorry Pennsylvania, only Blue States get the smoke, you go back to your meth labs. They will come by the tens of thousands to NJ and we'll all take one big treasure bath at the end of next year.

But first, a Smoke 'Em if Ya Got 'Em theme tonight to get everyone excited about all the weed you can soon smoke legally. We'll try not to be too cliche musically on this tonight but we're darned tootin' gonna start it off with Roger Waters and David Gilmour's gift to smokers, 'Comfortably Numb'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FLEETWOOD MAC!

You probably guessed it right about as you read Fleetwood Mac, the Bob Welch classic vocals on 'Hypnotized' was on the way. Well, it is. Right now.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ANGELO BADALAMENTI & DAVID LYNCH!

When the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me film came out, it had an incredible David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti soundtrack. There was however one song that just put the zap on Johnny's head, one called 'The Pink Room' and just now Johnny found it on YouTube in longform. He can think of nothing better to end a Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em night than with some Twin Peaks magic.

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Rudy can't hoop.

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Johnny had a good chuckle at a local political ad

Rebecca Symes is out with her closing argument ads on the local cable and when Johnny was watching one he got a good laugh. Her ad said Symes is running against the Trump agenda.

You and everyone else and we're gonna call you if we need that or it becomes your job. Nice straw man argument.

What would this town do without someone who noticed this horseshit?

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The Park is indeed open

The lock on the dog areas comes off tomorrow and the park is now open as it should be. Later in December the mayor said the city would hold a ribbon cutting. The hell with that. That's why Johnny has told this story from the beginning, so when the truffle sniffing glory hounds show up in two weeks you'll know who did the work to get the park back up and running, Candice Osborne and Johnny. If not for the combined efforts that place would till be a shitwreck, it would.

By Johnny's reckoning the people who live at The One should be able to walk through it or bring their dogs in March of 2020, about the time the rest of the PAD was denied use of their park for over two years.

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Go on, click this and then go make plans to enjoy your favorite smart cocktail. Come on, click, don't cost nothin'

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Hallelujah and pass the Tylenol -- UPDATED!

Finally. Some 2 and 3/4 years in the making and Johnny got confirmation his #1 priority is finally opening, yes, he got a message from Ward E councilwoman Candice Osborne that Mayor Steve Fulop wasn't aware the park hadn't opened (Surprise!) and told Parks and Rec to open it TODAY! Friends, Johnny took the dire wolf by and they are putting down the final line larkers and pulling some fencing away.

Not to be a glory hog but Johnny worked almost tirelessly, writing, cajoling, whining, yelling and stomping his feet or sadly this could well have run on into 2018 with no end in sight. The important thing is it just became must easier and safer to traverse from the Harsimus Cove HBLR to the Grove St. PATH and the PAD finally has a park again, something they're not had for almost three years.

Thanks to Councilwoman Osborne, about PAD's only champion in this when it came to the city.

10:25 PM UPDATE -- Johnny just checked his Twitter messages and Councilwoman Osborne says the park opens Thursday.

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State trivia night. One state in the United States has SEVEN words in it's official name. It's true. The reasoning for such is here if you want to find out why, if you just want to know which state click here.

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