WFMU's Home Turf

Here's a shot of WFMU's post-apocalyptic homebase of Jersey City. This blood-red sunrise photo was taken during a recent drive over the Pulaski Skyway shortly before 6 AM, while listening to the sinister conclusion of Mita's show.

In particular, her closing track ("Vampire Radio" by Douglas Breggar) [Streaming Real Audio] left me with a palpable sense of creeped-outed-ness, even as it gave way to the familiar strains of the JM in the AM theme.

Previous Jersey City-centric ramblings on this blog can be found here.

Comments

[Nicholas]

The creepier thing is how did the Jersey City skyway get that shade of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" red? What is Elizabeth pumping into the air these days?

[Pete]

I attended a presentation recently in which a Google rep was using examples to illustrate search term trends in book titles. Of the four examples given, two were for very high-volume terms (Harry Potter, Freakonomics), one (something about a very particular subset of orchids) was in the mid-to-low end, and at the far right of the graph, where it trailed off toward the baseline, was -- you guessed it -- "Jersey City."

I wanted to interrupt the meeting and say "What's the big idea picking on Jersey City?," but I'm trying not to be that guy.