This is an old Joe Show webisode , the first one we did featuring a guest, in the form of one Ian Adams. I love this one, even with all the flubs and silliness!
Today I talked with Sharon for nearly three hours. "AUNTIE Sharon" is what she'll say to that sentence. Yes, Aunt Sharon, in that she is one of Louie's little sisters (there's a load of other aunts). But Lou is my mother's husband, not my "bio dad" nor my "on paper" father at all, and regarding that fact, the Lombardi family (including those other five aunts) never let me forget it. Not for a day. Ex…
So I was exchanging Christmas decoration photos and video with my friends, and this is what I sent, you guys. I snapped the pic, sent it to our chat, and then I saw the tee-shirt Joey got from his friend at work, draped on the chair right there. Doh! 🎅🎄🤶 "Merry Christmas! Fuck off!"
Because this is gonna require coffee.
I'm at the Honan-Allston Library again today, doing research for a possible new client. One of my favorite things about freelance work, even if it's only writing a simple Artist Statement for a graphic illustrator, is the prep work. Freelancers learn a lot about a wide range of subjects. That's why we're all such strange people. That's my theory, anyway. 🤓
You guys, Sondra Locke died. Sure, yeah, she was in all those Clint Eastwood movies and look what has happened to him. She did other stuff too. She directed and starred in Ratboy. Ratboy is the absolute 1986est thing you could ask for, and I mean that sincerely.
"Ratboy: It's so hard being different"
Just How Big We Talkin'? And How Easy? I can't focus on work today. How the shit am I expected to focus on work today when tomorrow at this time I'll be in New Orleans, a whole city I've never visited and always lusted after? New Orleans. N'awlins. The Big Easy. With my fascination with death and penchant for the unexplainable things that lurk in the dark corners of the world, I am of course drawn to the history of the p…
RIP Michelle's Facebook Account (2008 - 2018)
Facebook self-disrupted in three ways in my opinion. So I'm out, at least for having a personal profile on the platform. At some point I'll likely create a #GenXReport Group or Page or whatever the new thing will be, by then. Because they keep changing the platform for no reason. But for a personal Facebook account, since December 1st, I am Deactivated. #DeactivateFacebook
I went with Deac…
The funny thing about this barely-begun canvas I saw at the thrift store? I almost bought it...because I need something else to hoard in my studio? I pick up too much random shit thinking I'll make something cool out of it. I have too many things in my studio that I need to finish making, and too much writing left unfinished! I resisted the urge to get "Once Up..." but snapped this photo as a reminder: I have a book to finish! Or...…
"Who are they, ma?"
This is a reel of bloopers. It is very funny.
Ten years ago this week! Seems like only a hundred years ago this week. (I'm so tired).
Y'all, it is the Feast Day of our only Klingon saint! Here's the deal...when I wrote the post titled "Smile When You Bless The Gagh!" in order to explain how I am sure that Santa is definitely a Klingon, I hadn't realized that many other me's agree! So here's an illustration by graphic artist Brandon Carr that pretty much nails it. Don't you just love it when you find your fellow travelers?
Cool cool cool cool cool. I din't have a single F left to give. In Allston Rock City extra F's just layin' on the ground here. Ⓕ
I woke up to this photo Joey took just before he left for work today. He texted that he wanted to show me how cute I am all snuggled up with my bear on cold mornings. 😴 I love him so much. If you can marry your best friend, I highly recommend it.💖
Pandora sent me an email. I like it, Pandora. Give a raise to the person who thought of this. I think I even like the toxic green & pink color scheme maybe.
I clicked the thing and Tweeted it, as suggested. But
I had to change the auto-gen line. I'm not saying "Sharing is caring"
for the love of all that doesn't suck. That's like "spring has sprung"
and "it's all about the ________" and other…
Joey brought me a second mug of his delightful French press coffee, but he wouldn't put it into my hands because it was so piping hot. He waited while I cleared a space on my messy desk, then he put down the coffee mug. "Did you not want me to burn my fingers?" I asked, "But what about YOUR fingers?" " My fingers have callouses from playing," he said, kissing me on my head. "The heat doesn't bother me.&qu…
I write a lot about the pure drivel that stood for "education" in the 1970s. That's because the rest of my life has been preoccupied with un-learning all of that baloney. Last month, over a reunion weekend that we try to do every-so-often, I consulted with my three girlfriends (great loves of my life!). These are the lifelong friends, and Michelle, Colleen and Simone were there with me from Grades 1 through 8 when we were at the m…
I hadn't seen The Thing in years. And all these years later, so many of my favorite creators call John Carpenter a big huge major influence, including the Ross and Matt Duffer, the Stranger Things guys. Of COURSE! Dude. D oes anybody else think the two stories dovetail so neatly that the thing in The Thing becomes the stranger things in Stranger Things? "We wanted something in the vein of the classic films we loved growing up," Ross …
If you were thinking of me for this Christmas, and wondering how I'm doing, and if you're feeling particularly life-savior'y, I wear a size "I owe $1000 in medical bills with no plan on how to make that stop being a major source of debilitating anxiety."
The tree is up at Jackson Mann! I think it gets all gussied 'n lighted up this weekend. The school kids make ornaments, the city puts lights on and there's usually some kind of lighting ceremony. Me and Joey attended one year when Mayor Menino was still kicking around (I liked him). So this means the Harvard Ave lights are about to flick on for the season. I'll go picture-taking next week. I love Christmas in Rock City! 🎄 *Note. T hi…
Here is one of my "Blogcast" posts from earlier in the year. Regular followers will know that I made an attempt to convert my blog to an audio-only format...no edits! But it didn't work. Because that was a truly terrible awful idea. And I am sure I'll try it again anyway, because I never learn, do I? This Blogcast, titled "We Got The President We Deserve," is about how digital marketers have been utilizing the data we…
President Trump accuses people of changing their clothes and returning to cast additional ballots in disguise.
The family is not close-knit. No one spoke of my grandfather James DiPoala; I was never told about his life, his years in service nor anything
about him or his personality. All I knew growing up was that Grandpa
DiPoala was "shell shocked" in the parlance of his time, and the reason he didn't live at home with Grandma was that he'd become
violent then deteriorated to the point
where he no longer recognized her or his child…
"... a molecule in which a concentration of positive electric charge is separated from a concentration of negative charge."
Today's #Throwback is a photo snapped by Joe at our polling place, as he does. I think I have a photo of myself at most polls for the past 16 years since I got myself a Joe. Speaking of 2012 , is anyone else wondering just how strange it will be
to see Mitt Romney as a Senator now? I actually think he'll do okay as
soon as he uploads the Senator program into his central processing unit. Fucking Mitt Romney, am I right? 𛱠
It's weird that I didn't see it when it first came out. I mean, it's got Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford in the lead roles. One does trust A-Listers such as these to pick good scripts, doesn't one? After all, Pfeiffer and Ford have each been outstanding in everything, from comedy and adventure to dramatic roles. Moreover I can't think of a single clunker starring either of them, can you? And yet, w henever the conversatio…
This one works great for me!, they said.
Yeah, that's gonna be another "no" from me, dawg. Imagine if this were August? My hair wouldn't fit through the door. This is pure Sicilian lockage, folks. If you don't know, the Sicilians hail from Arab and African cultures colliding and merging. Then invaded by Vikings. I looked it up, having always wondered why these green eyes and light brown hair when the rest of my family is s…
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Song: The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Record: Jobriath
Song: Lotion (cover of Greenskeeper's song)
Record: Sunsets on Empire
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