defend the indefensible: new jersey

This is where I'm originally from:

http://www.njn.net/about/pressroom/highlandsrediscovered/

Up north in West Milford.

Also, if anyone has seen The Station Agent... there.

pretty

Thanks :)

after being here for like 5 years i'm finally down to defend new jersey.

Where do you live? I live in Morristown. Its like every other state, there are good and bad places. Morristown is nice. I work in Saddle River, that's REAL nice.

had nothing against jersey before I moved to nyc

jersey license plate in manhattan has a amazingly high correlation to asshole driver

hawthorne xp

reason i was thinking about this is because we may be moving to Astoria, Queens. which is nice but not jersey

I moved from Astoria to JC and preferred Astoria a lot. But here I am anyway.

have some good friends in JC and have spent a lot of time there lately. i dig it,much love for Downtown Taqueria especially

Taqueria is like a Tuesday tradition. See also: John's Pizzeria, More, Soul Flavors, Grand Sichuan

I'm going to see if I can move to Philadelphia sometime in fall/winter and make arrangements to do my awful phone work networked in from home, even though it means subletting my current apartment (and probably finding a roommate)- I've gotten sick of being tantalizingly close to cities with actual shit to do but having so little opportunity to actually take advantage of them. I've definitely gotten over the "holy shit I'm not in Alabama anymore wheeee" honeymoon phase of NJ residency.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70H5YR20110118

wow.

Camden broke shocker

this guy eh

http://blog.tstc.org/2011/04/29/feds-new-jersey-on-hook-for-full-271m-arc-tunnel-bill/

and

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/nyregion/deal-reached-to-expand-xanadu-mall-project-in-nj.html

i tried to go to barcade on saturday night around 11.30 and there was a LINE
a line to go into a BAR
IN JERSEY SHITTY

God help America if this is true ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/nyregion/report-disputes-christies-reason-for-halting-tunnel-project-in-2010.html

controversial viral map

http://i.imgur.com/Pwnf4.jpg

parents live in the 'farms and army bases' belt which is probably pretty true

Can't believe I've never contributed to this thread - lifelong NJ resident (born in Livingston Hospital, grew up in Westfield, lived in Elizabeth the last 20 years). On the map I live in "The Melting Pot," while my mom currently lives in the "Hill People" section (house on the edge of a state park, she's actually had bears in her driveway).

grew up in vast wilderness of rednecks section. my hometown looked like being on set at a taping of my name is earl.

"middle-class raritan valley line commuters" is not wholly inaccurate

誤訳侮辱 i grew up right next door to you (cranford)

yay i'm a poor minority

Oops, so am I; I misread the map and Elizabeth is filed under "Poor Minorities" (which honestly I don't know about—sure, half the store signs are in Spanish, but I'm definitely noticing some gentrification lately; a lot of people around town these days who look like they decided it was a cheap alternative to Brooklyn).

JC now has a four-star New York Magazine restaurant two blocks from my house, suck it minorities

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/top-shelf_scheme_authorities_r.html

i'm never drinking at a tgifridays ever again

PATH train completely sputtered out for an hour between 6 and 7 pm last night

I follow PATH on Twitter and that seems to be happening an awful lot lately.

it's drastically overworked. even on off hours it's WAY crowded

Grove Street PATH at 6 AM used to be 75 klicks to nowhere & now it's packed w/ dapper savages (calling in the airstrike any day now).

(keeping my eye on u forks)

not creepy at all

Follow up on Operation Swill:

"At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water — and apparently not even clean water at that."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/05/23/us/ap-us-operation-swill.html?hp

not creepy at all

joeks, mang. lurking in NYC's foul water-warped basement f/ nearly twenty years has been economic but perhaps ill-suited to sanguine sentiment (I blame the rubbing alcohol tbh).

lol, it's cool. I just don't remember ever having seen you post before so the first time I'm heard from you was all "TEH CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE TEH HOUSE"

i love new jersey. and the new PATH trains... they are so clean and sleek. i don't use them to commute or anything though. new jersey has the grounds for sculpture, the princeton record exchange, and me. obviously the best state.

also walt whitman is here, even though he is a corpse now. that counts for something.

Also has the Joyce Kilmer rest stop, which counts for...negative something.

don't know much about joyce kilmer but that rest stop has a starbucks iirc so it isn't bad as far as turnpike service areas go

Molly Pitcher

i tried to read a book about the misfits in the library today while i was waiting for someone and the first two pages was just ragging on new jersey, saying that it was the only place that could produce a band so fucked up and disaffected as the misfits. i think they even said that new jersey was a "misfit" among states. i didn't like this angle.

fuck. new jersey is getting too cool man. i gotta get out of here.

i am in wildwood, new jersey

it is very rainy and grey. i've only just arrived, but it seems like kind of a cool place tbh

googie architecture is fun.

i like turtles

New Jersey seems less defensible every day I live here. And yet I am still defensive of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/nyregion/new-owner-of-meadowlands-xanadu-site-plans-revival-work-soon.html

I heard the WNYC news bit on this today and lol'd at "Xanadu"