Comic shops are always a great place to meet nerdy chicks – isn’t Kevin Smith’s store around there somewhere?
Another Jersey joke: If New Jersey is the armpit of the US, then Florida must be…
@kayysamm My impression was that uberbatman was more giving a backwards props to NJ for being so…Jersey. I, for one, love the fact that the Aqua Teens and Earl Hickey live in Camden. I think that the world is a better, quirkier, more interesting place for New Jersey’s existence in it, and that those shows and others like them (and movies – think Clerks!) are actually drawing on the viewer’s enjoyment of the quirkiness. Those of us who watch cartoons are usually being complimentary to the place, thing or idea in question when we compare it to the way it was handled in the cartoons we love.
I really enjoy the beautiful parts of NJ, including the industrial wasteland from a distance. Then again, there is a distinct Jersey smell that always hits me on the drive between NYC and Philly – but this would be one of the worse areas, I suppose, and so bad to use as an example.
I am about to move to Jersey City, and am extremely impressed with how clean and beautiful it is, especially when compared to the giant cauldron of human waste that is much of NYC. Recently I saw a guy unzip and pee on a tree on Broadway, in the middle of the day, in front of the busy entrance of a retirement community. Totally nonchalant about it. Unbelievable.