yea, in Losertown this is what passes for cool

Maybe for the working stiffs to clock out a little early instead of taking off 1/2 day?

oops, right. my mistake, thought it was on a weekend.

At 6 PM on a Weds, the working stiffs want a burger and a couple brewskis. We will leave this event for the teetotalers for whom it seems designed.

this was designed for the losers who think standing on a riverbank at night in the middle of march sipping your chai is cool.

If you believe all that then why did you cancel the parade? If you can hold a festival like the one the City's planning then surely you can have a parade too. Maybe its not too late to add it to the program.

Or did the parade depend on the funding received from the bars who would only contribute if the parade was held on the same day as the drinkfest?

Parade depending on the funding from the bars. They cancelled it b/c no way in hell they were going to fund a parade to be held on a Weds night at a time when all their customers would be either unable to attend or unwilling to attend. Plus, it is pretty hard to get all the people who march in the parade to show up on a weekday when they themselves have jobs that prevent them from attending. Really would suck to have a bagpipe band show up missing 90% of the band, wouldn't it?

(There is a place for festivals, but festivals will not, and cannot replace parades. Not in Hoboken, not this year, and not ever.)

Very well put, I agree wholeheartedly. There's no substitute for parade. Vote Zimmer out!!!!!!!

Catherine so you're saying that the Gaelic Hurling team will be able to play the very physical game of Hurling at 4pm but you couldn't figure out how to walk down the street at 4pm, 5pm, or 6pm?
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The Parade committee was organized to develop a parade and this year to the disappointment of all it failed. Worse, it didn't even try.

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Catherine as someone with more than a little Irish heritage let me say thank you for your years of organizing and thank you for stepping aside so others can now take up the honor of organizing the day.

I don't believe the purpose of the festival is to replace the parade outright but rather it is alternative to the parade and should and will be a different event. Perhaps the parade committee will reconsider its unwillingness to consider a week day parade option. The Halloween and Memorial Day parades are good examples of well attended events mid-week (depending upon the calendar). The argument that the parade committee would be forced to march in the darkness is specious. Sunset is at 6 p.m. on March 7th but a week later on March 14th (with the time change) sunset is at 7:30 p.m. which would easily accommodate a parade http://bit.ly/xzjqFk . Just because the parade committee quit doesn't mean there can't be a celebration of Irish Heritage in Hoboken and as a proud Irish woman I will be there with bells on!

Didn't you hear??? they're going to have arepas! arepas I tell you!!! Jen G went out to the superbowl and in indy they told her that all the cool city-generated fun fests have arepas!!!!

I will take off early so I can be there as well. I am looking forward to it. Ironically, I think this will be a more authentically Irish event then any previous parade.

Nope. I just am happy this is not on Washington Street during rush hour as it is completely irrelevant to me at this point. I'll be out on the 17th & the 3rd but not on the 14th.

I don't. I'm contemplating asking to take off work early so I can bring my daughter.

The committee and the bars didn't get a Saturday, and took their toy (the parade) and went home.

Yeah, not a fan of what they call a beer garden or what they charge for a beer at what passes for a festival in this town. Overpriced skanky beer in plastic cups served w/ bad fried food doesn't really strike me as anything other than an excuse to barf after a nice bout of food poisoning. I'll pass and leave this festival for who it was designed for, the stroller brigade.

OOC, your idiocy has no bounds. Read it and WEEP.

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/01/irish-anti-defamation-federation.html

No, if she were in school she'd be classified as a good two-shoes. You on the other hand would be classified as a grumbler.

And I would expect nothing less of you but a non-stop stream of complaints no matter what Zimmer decided to do.

OOC, you insipid fool. So you're calling the Anti-Irish Defamation Federation "Anti-Catholic"? Because here they are applauding the mayor's decision.

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/01/irish-anti-defamation-federation.html

We applaud her decision to try to make St. Patrick's Day the pride-filled celebration and holiday it should be. Mayor Zimmer does not want, and cannot afford, for Hoboken to be New Orleans at Mardi Gras, even if it means drastic changes are needed this particular year.

For all those who disagree with her, we at the IADF recommend ways to create a family-friendly celebration once more, one that will not tax the police and other services required of the citizens of Hoboken."

I'm both of Irish descent and Catholic. Do you really want to dance this dance?

@Outofcontrol pot meet kettle. You are promoting religious bigotry and trying to divide the community with your bizarre claims. As an Irish Catholic I fully support the Mayor's decision on this issue.

As a Catholic, I'm deeply offended you would dare to venture into this territory.
You don't speak for Catholics. Your characterization here to attack the mayor is beyond unseemly. It's despicable.

What is wrong with you?

No real Irishman cares what that rag of a paper has to say. Or does anyone in Hoboken care what a self hating jew has to say. Go get a life Grafix Avenger.

OOC, do you really find life to be so long that you feel carping and harping away endlessly with venom and bile over a city you no longer even live in is really a good use of your time? For heaven's sake, take up a hobby. Make yourself happy. Live your life. Your anger and hatred at people who have no direct relationship to you or your life in Secaucus is simply bizarre. I know you have a special "friend" in Mr. Raia, but seriously, life's too short. You do realize you're not persuading anyone of anything on here, right? All you're doing is making us feel sorry for you. Please, get help, you are truly out of control.

Outofcontrol blogs for one main reason: to make the Mayor look bad as part of an Old Guard political apparatus. Occasionally something irrelevant and neutral is added to the mix to throw off the dogs, but that's it for an independent voice. To wit Hoboken Questioner's greeting to new business that appear as posts on Patch. Once you read the comments through those glasses, everything falls into place. These statements only in matters of convenience conform to what outofcontrol believes.

But your eyebrows say you're a Persian and related to this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad

seriously eric, dude, move your kid to some antisceptic suburb already. if you want a recommendation, pied piper can tell you how nice it is in westfield

Sorry everyone, my curious wife left the milk crate in front of the computer so I could reach the keyboard and I created this fake name to sound like March 3rd would be so outofcontrol. Just doing my part to be the town's biggest ahole

Napoleon Complex, you are my new favorite commenter.

Too bad you're such a RAT.

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/02/ga-catches-rat.html

Interesting, "Ohio State" has no such transportation arranged, nor have they heard of you, "Sara".

I smell a RAT...

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/02/ga-catches-rat.html

Oh what a devious little worm I am!!! Grafix will totally fall for this. I mean sure, people would question why college kids would sit in a bus for 15 hours to do something they could do daily on their own campus. And Grafix will certainly forget to consider that 300 people from Boston college would need a place to sleep. No one would ever consider these things

Beth will drop some extra coin in my stipend for this one.

To the Sara Person,

I just got off the phone with Ohio State Student Services.

The lovely, helpful gal I spoke with had me on hold for sometime as she attempted to confirm your story. Well, no one at the Student Services Center knew who you were or anything about this 7 or 8 buses being coordinated through their office. No one had any information or had heard ANYTHING about this trip. NO ONE.

Sadly, my phone dropped the call as she was saying the email address you posted was WRONG. Ichecked that too- it's SCSC@osu.edu, NOT "ssc"

Nice try, "Sara".

Yeah, I'll bet you know "300 people from Boston College" coming.

What a LOAD.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Nice leg work, GA. Nice hilarity, as always, Lane/Kim!

Next time, why not just post an open question on Patch asking if our refrigerators are running. May the laughter never die. Thanks again, this made my weekend.

HAHAHA!!!

Sara how are those sentence writing lessons coming along?

Yeah, GA is at 106 Hudson St. and has a nice parking lot perfect for your buses. Just pull into the lot, park, get out of the bus, go into the lobby and start screaming you want to see GA and you aren't leaving til you see the almighty GA. They will happily welcome you to our fair town and keep you entertained until the GA can see you. Enjoy the visit!

Sara Sullivan = Troll. Best not to feed the stupid bitch.

Folks, I have the goods on this fool. 400 lines at Student Services? BS. A PT job? Not ONE person knew who she was. I was told "she doesn't work at Student Services".

Check back at GA shortly.

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/02/lepre-scam.html

It's getting harder and harder to understand what these morons are even trying to accomplish with these fake internet postings.

Who is supposed to believe this idiocy?
What anti-Zimmer conclusion is this supposed to lead the 'believer' to?

All it accomplishes is further illustrating the bunker mentality of Zimmer's enemies who don't have enough human contact to comprehend how truly stupid and implausible their little scams are. Obviously no buses are coming from OSU. And when they don't come, it will be yet another reminder that all these people do anymore is lie.

Maybe one of the faithful like ooc or franksinatra can log in and explain what the hoped-for outcome was from this latest bit of stupidity.

No doubt curiouskim and/or prosbus-hq will offer to decode it eventually. But lets remember that the last time those two morons got all worked up it was to tell us that moving BOE elections to November wasn't popular statewide. Another LIE with a short shelf life.

Liars usually get caught up in their lies. Stinky Sullivan seems to have been caught quite easily.

Bwaa- HAW- HAW! You may have inspired a new artwork. ;-)

You do have to admit that the most recent set of lies written by Stinky Sullivan were so lame that it would be an insult to stupid people to call them stupid.

It's just a ridiculous Lepre-con-job. No logic to it other than someone thinks it is funny. To your point rtux, the math doesn't work ,and I'm pretty convinced it is a political apparatus stunt, and so far my money is on it just being a goofy prank that is taking itself too seriously. To wit in the food permits thread this sara sullivan refers to "herself" as a Hoboken resident, with the usual unfounded, angry criticism of the current administration. Just a brat, and if anyone is paying to have this nonsense blogged about, they are even stupider than this blogger.

Nice try loserr. Why did you pull the comment like a scared baby then?? Ur and ur other names are a joke - just more obvious now

all sara's / hoovers college girlie postts are up on grafix avenger site

What is funny is some fool is so stupid that they keep forgetting to keep all their SNs straight and they keep getting caught posting nonsense under multiple SNs.

thirrd person again gettheled44/ sara. "OMG- funniest prank everr??" sorry, your multiple screennamess aren't the funniest prank ever. only the person who wrotte it would say that. the fact they pay you is silly thogh

gettheboozeout44... whazzzish??? beer is cheaper in Columbish? ... urp... lesh go!

Led, were Mason's resume lies, her Elec, Occhipinti's VBMs, and the super bowl ad obvious pranks too, because it seems to me Grafix Avenger spent a lot more time exposing those for the frauds they were.

Yeah, bet Mason was spitting mad each time her lies were exposed. She hates being shown as the fraud she is.

gettheledout/ sara// james baby, you beeen caught witth your pants down, you silly, sillly boy. bet beth docks your check foool

gettheboozeout44.... whazzzish??? yoo know sharah shullivan in ohio too? sheeez bringing 300 people to hoboken AND she hatez zimmer too!..urp... but she pulled down that hate-zimmer post shoooo fasht.... why'd she do that? whazzish? urp....

hey, letsh have shome schnapps and call carl carabelli at the NJDOE 25 times and shcream!!! now now now yooo can't throw me off the shkoool board ...urp... whazzish?

You shouldn't talk about yourself in the 3rd person like that. And clearly you didn't if you are posting here now you crazy lady.

Barrracato/ lame family //tools on thhe ropes. Too funny! Gender identitty issues tooo!!

LD... the Weehawken dope even left clues... 'Sara' is the name of his (unfortunate) victim... charming that he named his fake college girl after the new Mrs.

We talking about the same dope who lives at home w/ momma and flunked out of a C rate law program?

grafix avenger - OMG. he's such sewer scum. what idiott would marry such a cowardly betraying wimpp? let's hope he doesn't procreaate

I wouldn't expect someone too obtuse to know how to hit a reply button to have any clue what I was referring to. But if you must know Ms. Nosy, I am referring to one of Mason's paid minions who goes by the name Sharkbait.

Yeah, Secaucus State, ever heard of it? Home of Hoboken's shrillest goomar!

Someone who is intellectually incapable of learning to use a reply button shouldn't be calling anyone a zombie.

Still too stupid to hit the reply button, not a shocker, you do support Mason, Russo and the rest of the crooks despite knowing they are out to do nothing but hose this town.

Give it a break, Redrider. The one's who are hosing this town are your mayor's politically connected lawyers who keep increasing their own contracts. Your mayor has to repay her debts to the south/central Jersey power machine, so she just keeps spending and spending and spending on more and more lawyers.

Say goodnight, Secaucus. Time to go home to Homer's boss from the power plant.

I challenge you to name 1 suit they are fighting that shouldn't be fought. I dare you to tell us which legal battles you wish to deliberately lose so the taxpayers of this town can foot the bill for your stupidity and hatred for the mayor.

Too bad you're far from the perfect candidate for life-getter of the year, Secaucusite. Not even in the running.

Whoever denies it supplies it, relative-of-evil-Simpsons-boss.

Gotta love people who start a comment with "That's real grown up" and end it with "moron." More like an "oxy," if you think about it.