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Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ALL POINTS WEST!
Tonight (and while we still have power at the Jersey City Desk offices) a handful of songs from acts performing this weekend in Jersey City at the All Points West Festival. We don't envy you kids hanging out at Liberty State Park right now as armageddon weather heads our way...
Neko Case with 'This Tornado Loves You'
The Ting Tings with 'That's Not My Name'
Arctic Monkeys with 'Fluorescent Adolescent'
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs with 'Rich'
Neko Case with 'This Tornado Loves You'
The Ting Tings with 'That's Not My Name'
Arctic Monkeys with 'Fluorescent Adolescent'
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs with 'Rich'
Flash Flood watch from 8 am this morning until Saturday morning for Hudson County
The National Weather Service, in accordance with the Jersey City Desk Action Weather team has announed a flash flood watch for all of today and into tomorrow as heavy rain is expected across the Jersey City Desk reading area today. We're talking biblical rains. Real gulleywashers. If you are in a low lying area do be on the lookout. Again, if your neighborhood begins to flood, head over to city hall for a free canoe.
Peter Cammarano is expected to step down today
Disgraced Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano is expected to step down as Mayor today and Dawn Zimmer is expected to take over the job. Cammarano is bowing to intense public pressure after being arrested in a graft sting last week. A special election would be held sometime in November to elect a new full time mayor in Hoboken.
Hey Cammarano, who's powder now?
Oh, and by the way, Mariano Vega, Jerramiah Healy and Nidia Lopez in Jersey City....you're next.
Hey Cammarano, who's powder now?
Oh, and by the way, Mariano Vega, Jerramiah Healy and Nidia Lopez in Jersey City....you're next.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Late night open thread
Jay-Z has agreed to replace the Beastie Boys as the headliner tomorrow night at Jersey City's All Points West festival. The festival is tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday with great acts all three days. Johnny is entertaining his niece and her friend this weekend or he'd be there. He'd love to see Saturday's show and not just because Neko Case in all her glory will be in town, he'd also like to see the Ting Tings and Arctic Monkeys. But, when you don't have kids of your own and you can show two cool college gals from little Ortonville Michigan the Big Appletini, well sometimes that's even better.
Enjoy Liberty State Park y'all, we hear tell they have a statue there of some significance.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Enjoy Liberty State Park y'all, we hear tell they have a statue there of some significance.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Weehawken firefighter has a 32 floor Florida condo tower all to himself
Johnny finds all this stuff so you don't have to.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a ginormous condo tower of hundreds of units all to yourself? Weehawken firefighter Victor Vangelakos can tell you what it's like. Vangelakos purchased a condo unit in the 32 story Oasis Condominiums in Fort Myers Florida. He planned on using it for vacations until he retired in a few years and then was going to live full time there. Just one issue, no other sales in his high rise went through and a few pending sales were even transferred to a second 32 story Oasis unit right next door. Vangelakos and his family are all alone as the bank for whatever reason refuses to transfer his purchase to the second high rise.
What are some of the eerie happenings you deal with when you have an entire building to yourself?
* During the day the silence is deafening.
* At night, the family sometimes hears people on the grounds or even inside the building itself
* Late one night somebody banged on their door
There are a few more strange things to get used to in such solitude but you'll have to read the rest of the Vangelakos' story here.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a ginormous condo tower of hundreds of units all to yourself? Weehawken firefighter Victor Vangelakos can tell you what it's like. Vangelakos purchased a condo unit in the 32 story Oasis Condominiums in Fort Myers Florida. He planned on using it for vacations until he retired in a few years and then was going to live full time there. Just one issue, no other sales in his high rise went through and a few pending sales were even transferred to a second 32 story Oasis unit right next door. Vangelakos and his family are all alone as the bank for whatever reason refuses to transfer his purchase to the second high rise.
What are some of the eerie happenings you deal with when you have an entire building to yourself?
* During the day the silence is deafening.
* At night, the family sometimes hears people on the grounds or even inside the building itself
* Late one night somebody banged on their door
There are a few more strange things to get used to in such solitude but you'll have to read the rest of the Vangelakos' story here.
The arrogance of the Jersey City Council and it's mayor is alarming
Fox, meet henhouse. Yesterday, in a move that can only be described as arrogance personified (and sorry Steve Fulop, you tried) the arrogant, corrupt and self-serving Jersey City Council voted 7-1 to NOT ask arrested for corruption member Mariano Vega to step down. Apparently the 7 who voted for him to stay enjoy the presence of a corrupt bastard in their midst. By the way, Vega voted not to remove himself.
Loser.
And you Nidia Lopez, you need to go and go soon. You're not even a real resident of Jersey City, not as long as you're begging for tax breaks in Florida. Mayor Healy, you need to go as well. Yesterday your clownish description that you had technically done nothing wrong all while being linked to dirty campaign cash tells us you're gonna need a little help in getting your crooked ass out the door.
That can be arranged. In fact, it will be.
Yesterday's protest on the city hall steps and then inside the city council was just the beginning. Those will continue and they'll continue to grow. Then come the petitions to forcibly remove your butts from office. The pitchforks and torches are coming, AND like in Hoboken don't be surprised when they show up on your front doorstep.
This is war.
Loser.
And you Nidia Lopez, you need to go and go soon. You're not even a real resident of Jersey City, not as long as you're begging for tax breaks in Florida. Mayor Healy, you need to go as well. Yesterday your clownish description that you had technically done nothing wrong all while being linked to dirty campaign cash tells us you're gonna need a little help in getting your crooked ass out the door.
That can be arranged. In fact, it will be.
Yesterday's protest on the city hall steps and then inside the city council was just the beginning. Those will continue and they'll continue to grow. Then come the petitions to forcibly remove your butts from office. The pitchforks and torches are coming, AND like in Hoboken don't be surprised when they show up on your front doorstep.
This is war.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Dear New Yorkers, who the hell is driving your MTA trains anymore?
A few weeks ago a story broke that an MTA train operator with between 200-400 passengers on a LIRR (Long Island Railroad) double decker train from Port Jefferson L.I. to Hunter Point in Queens let a passenger take control of said train and the passenger was commandeering it at speeds up to 80 mph. Ronald Cabrera was the MTA operator identified as having let a friend drive the train. MTA officials say Carbera was questioned and relieved of his duties pending the outcome of an investigation.
Today we come to find out in comparison Cabrera showed excellent judgement since another MTA operator was allowing her EIGHT YEAR OLD child to run a subway train, a Lexington Avenue Express train on Sunday. Jules Cattie was a passenger who thought he overheard an operator passing along tips to a new driver until he actually saw, and snapped camera phone images of an eight year old driving the train.
"The kid was standing there with a female conductor behind him. A little, little kid standing there" Cattie said.
Simply amazing. Know what this latest event SOUNDS like to us? A mom who didn't have child care lined up on a Sunday and decided to bring the kid to work. Cheaper to bring the kid to work than do the right thing and leave him or her with the babysitter, a relative or a child care facility. It's not enough parents more and more often bring their kids into the workplace for a myriad of unacceptable reasons, snow day at school, kid too sick to be in day care, babysitter fell through etc. Look, you made the CHOICE to have the kid and now you want to put people's very lives in danger in letting your precious little choice run an MTA train because YOU are inconvenienced? Nice priorities.
According to the Current.com article:
Investigators confirmed on Tuesday that an unauthorized person was in the operator's cab as the subway traveled through Manhattan on Sunday
Throw the book at 'em.
Today we come to find out in comparison Cabrera showed excellent judgement since another MTA operator was allowing her EIGHT YEAR OLD child to run a subway train, a Lexington Avenue Express train on Sunday. Jules Cattie was a passenger who thought he overheard an operator passing along tips to a new driver until he actually saw, and snapped camera phone images of an eight year old driving the train.
"The kid was standing there with a female conductor behind him. A little, little kid standing there" Cattie said.
Simply amazing. Know what this latest event SOUNDS like to us? A mom who didn't have child care lined up on a Sunday and decided to bring the kid to work. Cheaper to bring the kid to work than do the right thing and leave him or her with the babysitter, a relative or a child care facility. It's not enough parents more and more often bring their kids into the workplace for a myriad of unacceptable reasons, snow day at school, kid too sick to be in day care, babysitter fell through etc. Look, you made the CHOICE to have the kid and now you want to put people's very lives in danger in letting your precious little choice run an MTA train because YOU are inconvenienced? Nice priorities.
According to the Current.com article:
Investigators confirmed on Tuesday that an unauthorized person was in the operator's cab as the subway traveled through Manhattan on Sunday
Throw the book at 'em.
Why this site refuses to take ads or swag from companies
At the recent BlogHer conference, a small time blogger approached a representative from the shoe company Crocs. Apparently she didn't get her gift bag with free Crocs in it when she arrived. So, without hesitation she approached the Crocs rep and told him he really should give her a pair of free shoes or she'd write something nasty about him and or the company on her blog. You read that right, she was so caught up in self importance she was willing to sell her soul for a plastic pair of crap shoes.
How often is this repeated across America? How many times do bloggers demand free stuff in order to write a positive review or become what those in the PR industry refer to as 'influencers'? In our opinion once is too often.
Some mombloggers do take free products in return for posts on the products but with one important caveat. As pointed out in the New York Times, and BusinessWeek, if they get something that they don't like or simply doesn't work well, they simply don't write about it. Instead of being intellectually honest and reporting out what eats, sucks or blows, they simply don't give the product any bad press. Why would they? The free swag gravytrain may have it's limits. Too many bad reviews or snarky comments on one companies products and company X is onto the next influencer. Hence the huge credibility gap with those who do blog and take ANY free stuff in exchange for posts. Another big issue here is many of those getting free stuff in exchange for blog posts don't disclose that they are getting the stuff for free. This is an abhorrant breakdown in morals. When someone gives you something in exchange for press, you disclose it.
So citizens, going forward if you see a site raving about the latest and greatest don't be afraid to ask questions or leave a comment asking if that reviewer took something for free for the post. You have every right to know how much influence the influencers are under. It's one reason you'll never ever never see ads here. If Johnny wants to say something nice about say Murray's Cheese he can without the taint of being on their gravytrain or getting special discounts when he goes there. He'll always tell you the truth as he's not bought and paid for like so many blogs nowadays.
How often is this repeated across America? How many times do bloggers demand free stuff in order to write a positive review or become what those in the PR industry refer to as 'influencers'? In our opinion once is too often.
Some mombloggers do take free products in return for posts on the products but with one important caveat. As pointed out in the New York Times, and BusinessWeek, if they get something that they don't like or simply doesn't work well, they simply don't write about it. Instead of being intellectually honest and reporting out what eats, sucks or blows, they simply don't give the product any bad press. Why would they? The free swag gravytrain may have it's limits. Too many bad reviews or snarky comments on one companies products and company X is onto the next influencer. Hence the huge credibility gap with those who do blog and take ANY free stuff in exchange for posts. Another big issue here is many of those getting free stuff in exchange for blog posts don't disclose that they are getting the stuff for free. This is an abhorrant breakdown in morals. When someone gives you something in exchange for press, you disclose it.
So citizens, going forward if you see a site raving about the latest and greatest don't be afraid to ask questions or leave a comment asking if that reviewer took something for free for the post. You have every right to know how much influence the influencers are under. It's one reason you'll never ever never see ads here. If Johnny wants to say something nice about say Murray's Cheese he can without the taint of being on their gravytrain or getting special discounts when he goes there. He'll always tell you the truth as he's not bought and paid for like so many blogs nowadays.
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