Wednesday night at the ballpark using the boss’s seats. Not to be confused with The Boss’s seats.
The Jersey Snore Revisited
As former proprietor of a blog titled “The Jersey Snore”, I feel obligated to comment on the pop-culture sensation that is MTV’s latest reality series “Jersey Shore” and the accompanying internet meme, Jersey Shore Nickname Generator.
For anyone who has missed this, “Jersey Shore” is a very, very poor man’s “The Real World” set in Seaside Heights, NJ, which is about 15 minutes away from where I lived during my brief time on the shore. It features steroid-enhanced, over-tanned guys with too much hair gel with nicknames like The Situation, and silicon-enhanced, over-tanned girls with nicknames like J-Woww (that’s right, one J, three Ws) living in one house and working on the boardwalk at a screenprinting shop. But really, most of their time is spent pumping their fists at the club. In the latest episode, they go out to a club just down the street from my old house.
I lived with and amongst these people and even, once or twice, went out with these people. And all I can say is this show is not that much of an exaggeration. The drama, the techno music, the orange skin, it’s all accurate.
People ask me all the time if I experienced major culture shock coming from the South to New York. My response is always that I lived on the Jersey Shore for a year and a half. The culture shock in NYC doesn’t compare.
And in case you were wondering, my Jersey Shore Nickname is Juice Springsteen.
