Bon Jovi Owns New Jersey
When he said “this is OUR house” on the stage at Giant Stadium tonight I almost died choking down the laughter. Wife was like, “What about Bruce?”
ME: “Who? Where is this man you speak of? Oh, I know… not here. Johnny’s gonna drop a hammer; knows that Bruce has been checked out a long time ago. “Livin’ on a Prayer” is the goddamn New Jersey state song, whether they like it or not. And the minute he plays it this show is fucking over. Bongourno owns the building and all the off ramps from the freeway.”
Tell Al Gore and Madonna to blow.
No one bought you playin’ the guitar, you cankerous Anglophilic-bitch
Sugarland’s gonna bitchslap Bon Jovi into a faux-country band.
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They’re BOTH conventionals.
Never had the music from either one of them in my New Jersey home.
On the other hand…
Madonna thanked Al Gore, the brainchild of the nine concerts across the globe, “for giving the world the wake-up call it so badly needs and for starting an avalanche of awareness that we are running out of time”.
Kisses, Madge. You’re still “The Icon”, and I couldn’t have said it better myself.
“Teh Ghey”
Wouldn’t that be “Tray Ghay, Tou-shay”??
I don’t care one way or the other….the rest of the world are light-years ahead of us on climate change, and while I’m not a big fan of Gore’s “carbon-offset” scheme (for it is meaningless), I can definitely appreciate the fact that, while we still are mired in denial, misinformation, and downright superstition on the issue, they’re working on solutions.
My thinking is, give credit where credit is due.
Oh for God’s sake they brought back Duran Duran and those little bastard beastie boys!
and don’t get me started on that fake Hendrix…
as a guy who drums and plays stringed instruments, Bruce Springsteen sans the E Street Band is just tired….
Lotta his new stuff sucks, but at least Bongourno is still in the game.
Hey, I’m no climatologist…but I am an engineer/statistics maven who thinks that real scientists are going to have a field day with the research and concepts of our day when it comes to climate change.
“The rest of the world are light years ahead of us”….oh yeah, sure they are. Just how well traveled are you, Hash? Ever been out of the states? Ever been to Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia? (I’ll pull Canada and Mexico off the table….although if you’ve been to a shitty little border town like Nogales or Tijuana you might have some idea…of just how “conscious” those parts of the rest of the world are.)
This country is infinitely greener than it was when I was a child…and will continue to be conscious of the impact “we” Americans are having on the planet. I don’t mind being a good steward of the planet I’ve been placed on…however, I don’t think we need to go overboard based on nothing more than a theory. As I said before, I think that scientists a hundred years from now might be viewing this global warming chapter much the way the learned Europeans viewed the globe before Columbus made his journeys and didn’t sail off the side of the Earth. Maybe someday 10,000 years from now someone will find the hard drive that was in the server hosting Leather Penguin and see the argument that’s sure to bubble up after I hit the “say it” button…and the analysts and scientists are going to say….”Damn, that MajorDad guy was pretty smart!”
See you on the high ground….
MajorDad1984
P.S. Bruce is still alright in my book….provided you don’t listen to anything recorded post the mid-80′s. Agree, the E-Street Band made his sound….his sound.
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“Hey, I’m no climatologist…”
I thought you were a private contractor for the government.
Has this changed?
“but I am an engineer/statistics maven who thinks that real scientists are going to have a field day with the research and concepts of our day when it comes to climate change…”
Yes, I’m sure the 622 scientists who assert global warming will be thoroughly discredited, and the one who debunked the entire concept will be praised and anointed for saving the planet from the unspeakable nightmare of actually conserving non-renewable resources….
“Just how well traveled are you, Hash?”
You’d probably be surprised…
“Ever been to Europe, Eastern Europe…”
Well, yeah, you could say that….and for other reasons besides leeching off the citizenry there, undermining their authority in their own sovereign lands, and making a perverted, drunken, ill-bred fool of myself.
“This country is infinitely greener than it was when I was a child..”
Yeah, but you grew up in Jersey. That’s not saying much…..
Nobody was talking about the environment as a whole, or how much “greener” America is, anyway. We were discussing climate change, specifically.
“however, I don’t think we need to go overboard based on nothing more than a theory…”
Nor do I. I do believe climate change is more than a theory, though.
And if you were, for argument’s sake, to remove climate change from the equation, wouldn’t the vast majority of the recommendations, like reducing energy consumption where feasible, lowering our dependence on foreigners and multinational business interests with loyalty to no one, and saving money in the process, be sensible on their own merits?
What’s happening now, is a visceral objection, promoted by neocons and corporatist interests and adopted by a substantial number of impressionable Americans, not just to climate change, but to all intellectual thought, reason, science, logic, health, justice, culture, and fairness.
“Global waming” (I prefer climate change) is just one facet of that, and was selected because there WERE serious, long-standing links to understanding of the phenomenon by scientists and thinkers long associated with environmentalism, which cons despise because of “hippie” connotations and associations with bad-tasting food, physical exertion, people who forsake deodorant, etc.
All of which are worthy reasons to beef, in and of themselves. They don’t have a goddamned thing to do with climate change, but they do make for convenient, populist distractions from the real matter at hand.
”Damn, that MajorDad guy was pretty smart!”
I don’t know about that….
Incidentally, I support nuclear power.
The energy plan that I submitted in 2003 included access to inexpensive, clean nuclear power in every American dwelling sector by 2012….
But, no…being the schoolyard bully and pouring our tax dollars into a pit is far more important then taking responsibility for meeting our everyday, basic needs.