We aren’t sure if the cranes are in Bayonne or Newark, but they make for one heck of a setting for a sunset.
That’s a shot from Brooklyn Heights.
A Statue Of Liberty Sunset
Every so often we wonder what a sunset would be like in New York City if New Jersey didn’t have oil refineries directly in the line of where the sun goes down.
Pollution makes things prettier sometimes.
Having said something nice about pollution, we must now take a moment to urge all of you to switch your source of electricity (if you haven’t already) to wind power — we currently live in the future, live like it, use wind power.
Empire State Head Trip
There are several things in life that we will simply never understand. One of which is the fact that people travel to NYC from all over the world to see the sights, particularly the Empire State Building, and then aren’t blown away by it.
They will usually look east from 42nd Street in Times Square and say, “Hey look, there’s the Empire State Building (in reference to the Chrysler Building)” and their friend will say “Yeup, there it is.” Then they will talk about how the man dressed in silver and covered in silver paint who does whistle noises as he moves is the coolest thing that they’ve ever seen — we’re pointing Midwestern/Bible Belt folks out most with this one.
Anyway, the point being is that people from all over the world know what the Empire State Building is, and the fact that you can go to the top of it to see one heck of an amazing view is a widely known worldwide fact. So why then, would the Empire State Building feel the need to place this billboard along the New Jersey Turnpike…
Especially when one considers that the visual that one has before the billboard is this…
And this is the visual that one has after the billboard is this.
Do the people at the Empire State Building not realize that they already, by default, are advertising to the folks who drive along that very spot? Or, are the people at the Empire State Building simply saying, “Hey all you tools in New Jersey, you’re too stupid to know that you can visit the top of this building, so please stop by and take a trip to the top, eh?
2011 Puppies Calendar Gone Loco
While visiting a Dollar Store in New Jersey yesterday we discovered that the year 2011 is going to be one heck of a crazy year — it will consist of 16 months!
The reason for the four extra months is so that people who enjoy looking at photos of puppies on their wall calendars can have another four puppies this year, obviously. No word yet on whether the months will have new names, or if existing months will be recycled and reused multiple times. Only in New Jersey kids, only in New Jersey…
Poor Photo Op
This is the hilarious photograph that we took of the M&M’s factory in Hackettstown, NJ.
We originally intended on taking the photograph for our own use — because we wanted to quietly look at it on our cell phone, think about how there were billions of M&M’s inside, and then say “giggety” as we would then presumably fall into a deep sleep where we would dream about swimming across an ocean of M&M’s — but that silver SUV managed to block any and all aspects of what we were trying to capture, i.e. the three giant M&M’s that mark the front gate of the factory.
So here we are, the best darned photo op of a New Jersey corporate center in the middle of farmland, and the best part of the shot is covered up by an SUV… how fitting, New Jersey!