To celebrate our set tonight on Jon Solomon's show on 103.3 WPRB Princeton radio, we though it'd be cool to come up with a list of things New Jersey is good for. And so without further ado ...
84 things New Jersey is good for:
1. Beer
2. Bowling
3. Hoagie Haven
4. Vasanta Bhavan
5. Finley, the Camden Riversharks mascot
6. Good for a rousing game of "What's That Smell?!"
7. Mastoris
8. The Feelies
9. The Bent Spoon
10. Jon Solomon
11. Princeton basketbal
12. The Whole Earth Center
13. "Trenton makes, the world takes"
14. best educational system in the country. more HS grads going on to higher ed
15. most densely populated state
16. The Marlton Diner, 3:39 a.m.
17. Holiday Skating Center
18. South Jersey Light Rail
19. Harry Wright Lake
20. tomatoes
21. Steel Pier in Atlantic City
22. Point Pleasant airbrushed t shirts
23. the turnpike @ 4am
24. the fact that it's not New York
25. Cooper River Park Fourth of July fireworks
26. the golf ball driving range off of rt. 130
27. The Aceinos!
28. Jess Peters
29. Bon Jovi
30. WPRB
31. WFMU
32. Maxwell's
33. Allen Ginsburg
34. Walt Whitman
35. Albert Einstein
36. Thomas Edison
37. Yo La Tengo
38. baseball
39. Frank Sinatra
40. Cape May
41. the boardwalk
42. mullets
43. ted leo pharmacists
44. the wrens
45. Latinos
46. NJ transit
47. Weird NJ
48. Farmfest
49. Marisa Wiker
50. Westampton steak out (cheesesteaks)
51. "little india"
52. Mitsuwa up in Edgewater
53. Sagami in Collingswood
54. Cluck U Chicken
55. City Gardens (R.I.P.)
56. country drives
57. Schnackenberg's
58. ice cream
59. pornography
60. shoeboken (the greatest name for a shoe store ever)
61. Weehawken (the greatest name for a city ever)
62. 'be a hobo' (the moondog song)
63. Cheap, full-serve gas
64. Newark airport
65. Michael Murphy's beautiful girlfriend Kathryn
66. The Express Lane on the Garden State Parkway
67. The Freehold Mall
68. Tunes (record store)
69. The Misfits
70. The Jersey devil
71. Thomas Sweets
72. Red White and Blue thrift in Trenton
73. Trenton Titans ice hockey
74. Lambertville
75. diners on Rt. 1
76. the mob
77. the PATH train
78. Pier Platters (R.I.P.)
79. Princeton Record Exchange
80. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
81. Cloverleaf-shaped highway ramps
82. Shopping malls
83. Paul Krugman
84. The shore
Thanks to all our friends for helping with this list!
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