We kid, we kid, New Jersey. In fact, we’ve been kinda loving you this summer: Your Weber’s grilled cheese drive-in thing, your Princeton Record Exchange, your continuing apparent total lack of ironic sensibility. The whole thing. This. You. But we know it’s not all sunshine and lollipops, New Jersey. You’re complicated. At the core is your ongoing identity crisis: Exactly which city’s bitch are you? New York? Or Philly? Jerz native Steve Chernosky wants to put it to rest, though, with New Jersey: The Movie, a documentary examining where the perceived dividing line between North Jersey and South Jersey, and if such a thing exists at all. (View trailer at right.) Chernosky was profiled in the New York Times yesterday, and had just as many questions as you did when you used this as your bit at improv comedy night:

“Is it the old 609 or 201 area code line? Is it at the far northernmost Wawa convenience store? Is it where you can last buy Philadelphia Phillies baseball caps?”

Frankly, pal, it’s wherever I can find a relative whom I can convince to be my beard for car insurance. Roll credits.
NYTimes: And Why Do You Drive On A Parkway And Park On A Driveway?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 1:26 pm.