don't know much about History

 Don't know much biology

Don't know much about a science book

Don't know much about the French I took  ( Sam Cooke)

as this shortest of months draws to a close i can't help but feel a little cheated by this Black History stuff.

I have been sitting on the edge of my couch and listening to every kernel of information about this wonderful species of the African -American. It seems the finest doctors and wisest lawyers and the best Chefs, were all African American. They singlehandedly won world war 2 while accepting no credit, they owned Central Park before the white man stole it and they  wrote all the best movies and songs in American History. I am wondering when during these last 2 days of the month they explain how and when this species was wiped off the earth and replaced with the modern day Shine ?  you know, the gun totin, turnstile jumpin, drug dealing, wife beating, welfare collecting sloth that immediately poisons and destroys every neighborhood he graces. don't spoil it for me, i am excited to see how this plays out.

seriously though....it is disturbing to see how demeaning society is towards the blacks . I wonder if deep down they realize that or even care. Today's white America trips over itself trying to find a black person that they can shower with praise for any reason. This morning on local news was a story about the fire Departments in Northern Jersey that held a special dinner to honor all of the Fire chiefs who were black. No specific deeds of heroism were mentioned or honored....just skin Color. It's as if society is saying that we think so little of your ability, initiative and intelligence that we are stunned when we find one or two of you actually assimilating into society and become productive members of the human race.....stop the presses, let's hold a dinner in his honor.......amazing.

Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for

as i was out walking the corner one day

 I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay

His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor

And I guess he’d been there for the whole night or more  (Dylan)

if you did not know the man you might think him to be a Hobo perhaps. I assure you he was not.

Big Jim as he was known one to his friends in Hoboken, Spring Lake and everywhere in between.

The Consigliere of the Coastline.

The Richard Little of the Rails.

A lawyer, a Scholar, and Avid sports fan, a walking Encyclopedia , a beer drinker extraordinaire and a dam good friend. 

For those who only observed him and did not engage in conversation with him...well....he probably seemed to be maniacal creature of the night......hopping on and off the train at a different stop every night . For those who knew him it was a carefully planned voyage, matriculating down the coastline and taking brief respites in the taverns along the way.(depending on whom was tending bar on that given day of the week). Some may have thought him to be homeless when he plopped down 4 or 5 bags and countless newspapers in a 4 seater "apartment" on the train and proceed to crack a beer, pour it into his Thermos and open the NY Times. Some may have thought him to be a simpleton or deranged when he would spend a 90-minute ride talking in his Ronal Reagen Voice. I had the good luck or misfortune to ride the train with him on Christmas Eve 4 or 5 years in a row.....that was a different Jim, reflective on his life, his childhood, his deceased parents and his siblings.....he let his guard down and would speak openly and i could see the wheels spinning.....the other 364 days of the year he was smart enough to know that nobody cared....and he was just crazy enough to entertain a trainload of angry commuters.

He attended one of my BBQ's once....he only stayed an hour........he had his own beers in his knapsack and was drinking out his thermos.....i won't remember him any other way.

God Bless Big Jim Hill.....rest in peace....Slainte'

Only a hobo, but one more is gone

Leavin’ nobody to sing his sad song

Leavin’ nobody to carry him home

Only a hobo, but one more is gone

where have all the flowers gone

 Long time passing

Where have all the flowers gone

Long time ago?  (Pete Seeger)

14 or 15 Dead whales now have washed up on the Jersey coast since December. The most recent one was Monday morning in Manasquan. The best explanation is the ships that are conducting surveys of the Ocean floor for an upcoming wind turbine project. Apparently these ships are shooting sound waves into the Ocean floor to determine depth of the sand base. These sound waves are jamming and disorienting the Whales ability to hear. The whales are then unable to avoid ships in the area. 

I ask two questions ?

Where is Green Peace and the Millions of other environmental /animal rights groups? Are they consciously sacrificing whales for what they deem as the greater good of wind powered energy?

How differently would the media be covering this story if the wind mills were a President Trump initiative? 

On Feb 3rd 50 train cars derailed near Palestine Ohio. 11 of these cars were carrying highly toxic/cancer causing chemicals. ( including highly toxic vinyl chloride and hydrogen chloride )                    Officials evacuated 100 people that lived in the immediate area on Feb 6th and then conducted a "controlled" release of those chemicals into the atmosphere to avoid a catastrophic explosion. On Feb 11 residents were allowed to return to their homes. Over the weekend local farmers reported that chickens and Foxes were dropping Dead and residents were returning home to find dead fish in the fish tanks. Dead animals have been reported well outside the original containment site. Mayor Pete Buttplug and the white house administration has been invisible on this issue.

I ask two familiar questions.

Where are the environmentalists on this, where are the demonstrations, protests and marches? 

How differently would the media be covering this story if there was a Republican POTUS and Transportation Secretary?

Oh, when will you ever learn?

Oh, when will you ever learn? 

chick peas

 

Hear Ye, Hear Ye......beeeer me.

As President of Sweater Nite I felt obligated to address the security questions that have arisen over the past Fortnite. 

First, it has been verified that the Chinese Balloon and the 3 other things we shot down were in fact sent into US air space to gather/steal information about Sweater Nite 25.

And Wang Sore, the runaway U-Haul driver that terrorized Bayridge was in fact a Malaysian spy working for Xi Xi Pingpong . He was on a suicide mission to takeout as many skaters as possible (did someone order takeout?) Thankfully he fell into my trap and was operating under a fake dossier with aged documents that showed Sweater Nite would be held at the LieF .....when he saw that only Mike Gallagher was in attendance, he realized he had been duped and then jumped the curb and made a Beeline towards PC's. 

After a brief consultation would our security team of Cleary, Cleary and Cleary (aka Cleary, Cleary and Cleary) we have decided to change the password to gain entry to Chick Peas .......

wait...wasn't that the old password?

Yes...and therein lies the brilliance of the plan, Our enemies will waste countless hours trying to crack the new code, nobody will ever suspect that we replaced the old password with the very same password...GENIUS .......meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

it's only Tuesday.....5 days and a wakeup.

stay tuned for developments.

Downtown there’s another disaster

Pig’s head and a loaded gun

Day by day things are going faster

Get off the street the killing’s begun

whoa, it came out of the sky

 Landed just a little south of Moline

Jody fell out of his tractor

Couldn't b'lieve what he seen, oh  (CCR)

what in the name of san juan hill is going on up there ? 4 objects shout out of our skies in 8 days....US fighter jets crossing into Canuckland to shoot one down.....1 in alaska, and now one over Lake Huron....good thing everyone was watching the 8 hour pregame show and drinking beeeer and eatin chili and nobody seemed to notice .......did POTUS address the nation? don't be silly....did kareem abdul Jabar pierre hold a press briefing? crickets .....i will say the administration is moving faster....just 8 days ago we all watched as a chinese balloon floated across the heartland and over our nuclear silos , we were told it posed no threat and was it better to wait until it reached the Atlantic to shoot it down....then suddenly they said it could be armed or filled with biological weapons...at the same time our demented leader did a hard hitting interview with PBS & telemundo and said it was no big deal, certainly not a threat......but he ordered it shot doen on weds.....but "THEY" decided to wait until Sunday....begs the question, who is running this country and who has the power to over rule the President?.......what if the next time the POTUS orders the Pentagon to stand down but THEY decide to launch a nuclear salvo anyway? anybody care? anybody else intrigued?

anywho, in the span of a week we went from downplaying and also sounding the alarm bells simultaneously, to now shooting down objects we have yet to identify. It was probably a Martian spaceship delivering the cure for cancer , but martians don't vote yet, so shoot em down. 

on the brighter side of life the miserable eagles lost the superbowl......they join their stablemates the Phillies as runners up....even sweeter they were done in by 2 ex Giants....Kadarius Toney had a huge punt return for KC to setup a TD and James Bradbury was flagged for a crucial holding penalty that sealed their fate........

Laid on the ground a-shakin'

Fearin' for his life, And then he ran all the way to town

Screamin', "It came out of the sky"

what fixation feeds this fever

 As the full moon pales and climbs

Am I living truth or rank deceiver

Am I the victim or the crime

Am I the victim or the crime  ( Graham & Weir) 

so a 14-year-old girl was bullied unmercifully in Bayville NJ by her fellow students. One recent incident was captured on film and shared on social media, the young girl was walking down the hallway when she had a milkshake thrown in her face and then was kicked, punched and knocked to the floor of the school...this weekend she took her own life.

The students...the same group that either bullied her or shared the "funny" video of her being bullied or the ones that stood by and did absolutely nothing . ...they staged a WALK OUT of school for the TV cameras......transparent hypocrisy was on full display as these "kids" blamed the school for not calling the Police and stopping the bullying.......classic deflection.....i'm a guilty piece of shit, but it's the school cops, society or fill in the blanks fault for not stopping ME......and the video of these privileged inbred losers mugging it up for the cameras is equally disturbing.....they couldn't give a rats ass about their dead classmate...they were too excited that a TV camera from the big city was in their little town .......because at the end of the day in 2023 it's ALWAYS someone else's fault.........never forget how occupy wall street launched the theory that it was the banks fault for lending students tution money in the first place that lead to the student loan crisis..........and who started that movement ?  the tenured professors that raked in 6 and 7 figure salaries as tuition rose through the stratosphere. The college teachers convinced the kids that the coat of an education was not the problem but the institutions that lent you the money to pursue your dreams were the REAL problem..........China is coming to slaughter us ,and they can't get here soon enough.

there is an unconfirmed rumor that the Sweater Nite Jerzees for Paul Molloy and Rich O'Mara were on that peaceful weather ballon that dementia Joe shot down....

Am I the driver or the driven
Will I be damned to be forgiven
Is there anybody here but me who needs to know

There was Cowboy Neal

 at the wheel,

of a bus to never ever land (Garcia-Weir-Kruetzman)

so much happening in the world this day....February 8th....aka Neal Cassady's 97 birthday.

where have you been my blue eyed son ?  fair question....i was unfortunately required to be back in the office last week, which of course disrupts my entire life. hard to believe i did this for 30+ years before the pandemic and rarely gave it a second thought. Alas i am back home and Matteau is back to having daily lunch and snack breaks.

Bizarre story in the news that the media is only half telling. Seems the real mission of the china balloon was to spy on secret preparations for the Sweater Nite 25 Silver Jubilee, probably hired by Mulligan to find out where we buy our Koozies. Plans for the Gala are moving right along, skaters are encouraged to arrive early and thirsty, as this Senior circuit is comprised of Day Drinkers. I turn into a hotel room at sunset. There will be a hot buffet and party favors this year (in addition to the annual Koozies) 

good news/bad news from the state of the union.

the good news is that dementia joe did not shit his pants on national TV, we'll consider that a win

the bad news is the great unifier and chief continued to divide the nation by blaming the republicans for everything bad that has happened and somethings that haven't happened. as he shouted down the booing republicans he promised to provide a list of politicians that wish to eliminate social security.

he took credit for lowering inflation that he created, and for lowering gas prices that soared under his watch. The truth is we live in a country that has the attention span of a gnat, we are hooked on instagram and tik tok and at the end of each election cycle people are still going to vote based on political party, not individual politicians.......and our Republican politicians are no better, they just want their palms greased by a different subset of criminals.  

Potus lamented about fentanyl deaths , which is amazing considering his son is in bed with the china fentanyl manufacturers.....and of course dementia joe and kamala have swung open the doors at our southern border.  

big shakeup in the FDNY this week.....why couldn't this have happened before the letters went in the mail....i could have added a 9th and 10th page between that and the classified documents scandal.

anyway, today is a good day for stiff drink..... Neal Cassady aka Dean Moriarity's birthday......the muse for On the Road (the most impactful book in American History) would be 97 today. It is fitting that he and Kerouac were born at this time of year (Jack March 12th) for as we inch further into February, we begin to feel the occasional spring breeze, we know that Winter is dying, and the earth is about to be reborn. We survived another season of frost , we start to dress lighter and walk faster...the sun hangs on the horizon a wee bit longer and dare i say...we start contemplating packing a cardboard box full of beeer and ice and heading to the Park (or 76th street stairs) on the cusp of a season, the precipice of a party, we know that March can bring cruel temps and unusual snow, but we know what lies ahead in the near future.....open the windows, crank the stereo and crack a Beer.

Escapin through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus stop came by and i got on
That's when it all began