Let’s start off in Weirdnessville this week by focusing on that quick-change billboard on Route 72 in Manahawkin near the Holiday Inn. It’s digitized and computerized, brightly cycling through assorted ads and messages. One display changed my day – and maybe my life. It’s a state public service warning-of-sorts that reads, “If you can’t buy it, don’t try it.”

My initial reaction was a default “Say what!?” It was upon my third or fourth think-over that I began registering the say-whatness of this…