Culture Buzz Dharun Ravi will serve 30 days in prison for spying on Tyler Clementi while he kissed a man, broadcasting it online with a webcam, driving Clementi to kill himself. Ravi was facing up to 10 years for committing a hate crime, but was convicted of the much less severe charges of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy.
This single dad sent his 10-year-old son to school wearing a wire after complaints of bad behavior. What he recorded was disturbing.
Politics Buzz Though he does have a book out. Called “Kosher Jesus.”
Food Buzz Whoever handles U-God's Facebook page has apparently been cruising the Jersey diners. The Wu Tang Chicken Wrap includes lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and deli mustard for just $7.49 at the Chicken Holiday in Hillsborough.
Culture Buzz Both of the horrible assholes responsible for this are fortunately in jail. Taylor Giresi, 20, and his 17-year-old cameraman (whose identity has been withheld because he is a minor) have been arrested for assaulting David Ivins, a transient living in the woods of Wall Township, New Jersey. They recorded the attack, in which they mock and beat Ivins, and posted it on Youtube. WARNING: Disturbing footage.
Culture Buzz Bullying has become a serious epidemic in schools around American, but it's hard to imagine that the bullying comes from a teacher. In this unfortunate case, however, Julio Artuz who attends Bankbridge Regional School in Gloucester County, New Jersey, was the victim of teacher-student harassment. The teacher, who remains anonymous, claims it's just his way of “motivating” his students. You can read the whole story at nbcphiladelphia.
Culture Buzz Everyone seems to be talking about Upstate New York and Vermont as the epicenters of Irene damage, but parts of New Jersey got hit just as hard. Residents continue to battle floodwaters 4 days after Irene.
Culture Buzz 'A Close Walk' is an annual program held in Wildwood, New Jersey on July 22nd where Christian Youth get baptized at the beach. Since this heat is definitely Hell I can see how a dip in the Atlantic Ocean would feel like Heaven. (via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com)
No wonder 67 percent of New Jersey voters disapprove of their bully-in-chief Governor.
(via brooklynmutt.com)
Politics Buzz The fiscally conservative darling of Republican politics is catching heat for using a $2,500-an-hour state helicopter to attend his son's baseball game. Using tax payer-funded helicopters has been a sticky wicket for New Jersey governors in the past, and this is proving no exception.
This political commercial has it all: rapping, grandmas, and rapping grandmas! If you live in North Bergen, New Jersey, you should consider voting for Sacco if you're the kind of person who bases their vote on entertainment. If not, I suppose you can inform yourself some other way. (But why!?)
Rutgers University holds an annual music festival and street party called Rutgersfest. Here is one example as to why the New Brunswick Police Director calls it “the worst thing of the year.” There were also four shootings during the event. Welcome to New Jersey!
Word on the street is they're gonna allow him to be “governor” for a day! Let's see how he fares! No crying in office, kid!
Celebrity Buzz You've probably heard by now that Snooki got paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University, while Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison got paid $30,000. These are American values, folks! Lets take a look at some other people who make less than Snooki!
Some fascinating time lapse footage of yesterday's Snowpocalypsageddon 2010: The Frozening. This was filmed in Belmar, New Jersey. It's why everyone on the East Coast is freaking out and air travel has been colossally screwed. Time to resort to cannibalism.
http://www.okmagazine.com/2010/09/danielle-staub-says-she...
But she's a pathological liar with several personality disorders (pure speculation), so are you really going to believe anything this crazy bitch says?
New Jersey’s Seaside Park beach was briefly closed on Sunday when a 5-foot blue shark swam onto the shore after hearing of Snooki's arrest. The shark thought it might be in the Jersey Shore star's best interest to let him represent her in her legal battle.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100607/ap_on_re_us/us_terror...
The young men's intentions were sinister, investigators say: to head to Somalia to seek terror training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists and unleash attacks against fellow Americans.
Chris “Birdman” Anderson, the Denver Nuggets center known for his candid tweets, says what a lot of New Yorkers are thinking about the Nets' upcoming move from New Jersey to Brooklyn.
Some awesome highlights (and bangs! ha!) from the 1994 doc, Wildwood, NJ. Worth watching through to the end. To the young people: That ringing noise is what we used to call a “pay phone.” Look it up on Wikipedia.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Drunk_goes_mad_...
This guy went from not being able to pay his bar tab to smearing shit on the walls of a police station. So, just a typical night, really.
Music Buzz Calvin Tanella is a former construction worker from New Jersey who became so enlightened after listening to a 10-minute rant by Michael Savage, that he decided to drop everything and become Hi-Caliber, the Republican Rapper. His new album, Mr. Conservative, was influenced by the likes of conservative pundits ranging from Sean Hannity to Bill O'Reilly and hip-hop artists from Run-DMC to the Beastie Boys. In Obamanation, Tanella raps, “A Socialist in the White House, what have we done? You think Bush was bad, now the real fun has begun.” F**k it Tanella, let's do it live!
Food Buzz The source of NYC's mysterious maple syrup smell has been found! Not just New Jersey, but a company called Frutarom — who produce a product using Fenugreek, which release the sweet scent that has been enveloping NYC. Come ON, I don't buy it. This is definitely some guerrilla advertising stunt for Aunt Jemima.
http://www.asylum.com/2008/12/18/new-jersey-the-greatest-...
Today, in 1787, New Jersey became the 3rd state to ratify the US Constitution — officially making today New Jersey Day! Celebrate the Garden State by embracing all the wonderful things that exist because of “America's Armpit:” The Shore! Atlantic City! Springsteen!