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Clueless in Hoboken
I’ve lived on 13th street and Willow Avenues for the past year, and I never knew that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade studio was just two blocks from my apartment. ("Macy’s Magic," Nov. 22). Needless to say, I rarely head north. Anyway, that was really interesting. I’m going to have to go check it out one of these days. – Anonymous
You’ve never visited the Burlington Coat factory? Not even once?
Green dreams
I am such a fan of Kermit the Frog that I framed last week’s cover of the Current. Do you think that’s weird? – Caroline, Weehawken
No, not at all (we write, dripping with sarcasm).
Stuffed in Secaucus
I ate way too much on Thanksgiving. It’s Saturday, and I still feel sick. I can’t move from my sofa. Do you have any suggestions of how I might start to feel better? – Stuffed in Secaucus
Try moving from your sofa.
SEEN AND HEARD
It’s Tuesday evening, Nov. 20. A bald guy is on the Hoboken 126 bus heading into New York, sitting next to his friend, who has a shaved head an earring. The bald guy gets on his cell phone calls his girlfriend. He asks her to tape something on TV.
The guy with the earring looks sheepish. Then, he says to his friend, "Can you ask her to tape Buffy the Vampire Slayer, too?"
The bald guy looks at him. "I can’t remember following a show so religiously since MacGyver."
SEEN AND HEARD, PART II
It’s Sunday afternoon. Three guys in a green VW bus with a Maine license plate drive down 14th Street in Hoboken. Then they drive up again. They drive down. Finally they park on a corner.
They get out. All of them are wearing all white and black clothing, their faces are painted white and black, and they’re wearing black and white wigs.
The 126 bus swings buy and passes them. A passenger on the bus picks up his cell phone and calls his friend:
"Dude. Is the Raiders-Giants game today?"
If you observe such wackiness in your daily travels around Hudson, submit excerpts to us at current@hudsonreporter.com.