defend the indefensible: new jersey

Wearing white pants during your perp walk, C or D?

What a fucking loser.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=6931297

was the organ trafficking somehow linked to the money laundering and/or the bribe-taking mayors?

ha, I keep trying to find more details about this, because it actually sounds as if one of the money-laundering connections was just, like, "hey, so long as you're here, you know anyone who needs some kidneys? cuz I can get some kidneys"

The NYTimes article from today makes it sound like they were completely separate things and this guy just happened to know about both.

"And while you're at it, there's the dude at the deli not putting enough mustard on my sandwiches without a payoff."

I stand corrected: so it was an informant who was like "hey, so long as we're doing this, you wanna take down some organ traffickers? cause I can find you some organ traffickers"

The Real Teenagers of New Jersey

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2009/07/super-sweet.html

Yeah, that was pretty confusing.

One of the 44 arrested found dead

another example of one of our homegrown finest (courtesy of njguido.com, where else?!?)

http://nj-guido.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/guid8.jpg

> also, Corzine is pretty much boned right now ... time to get used to saying Governor Christie.

― some sick fuck with a bow and arrow killing roos and koalas (Eisbaer), Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:30 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

cant believe we have a fat governor

now no one will respect new jersey politics

"now no one will respect new jersey politics"

hahahaha, that's hilarious

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).