Happy New Year to my loyal readers, listeners and viewers! I may have been in New Jersey for the start of the new year, but unlike Snooki from MTV’s Jersey Shore, I was not enshrined in a ‘Snooki ball’ when the clock struck 12 midnight. Thanks for your support. 2011 is going to be a [...]

Snooki may be a household word but not a trademarked one – yet. The pint-sided guidette, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi, applied for a trademark of her Jersey Shore nickname, Snooki. She was rejected because there was already a ‘Snooky the Cat‘ that sounded too much like Snooki. Polizzi can appeal the ruling. Basically, MTV’s hottest property [...]

The cast of Jersey Shore is about to get some MTV stimulus. It’s reported that they are close to signing on for about $30,ooo per episode. That’s quite a far cry from the $5,000 they made in the first season. So, as the Shore crew gets a raise, it looks like the unemployed in the [...]

First Lady Michelle Obama finally gets down to the Gulf to giver her assessment of the situation (no, not like Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino from MTV’s Jersey Shore). Judging by the photo, Mrs. Obama is: Telling BP what she thinks of of the latest re-capping job Wearing Gulf oil spill inspired Rorschach Test couture Happy [...]

As published at Parcbench on 3 March 2010 While thumbing through my list of sites for show prep today, I came across an article on The Smoking Gun which immediately commanded my attention: Toll collector road rage. New Jersey has been the butt-end of jokes since the days of Peter Stuyvesant and New Amsterdam. Whether [...]