Happy Move-a-versary!

"I can't believe it's been eight years." - Joe Kowalsk...

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You Can "Take" Classes Online With Me If You Want To

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 mercy of some...

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Currently Listening: Must

Record: Androgynous Jesu...

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This is The House That Carpenter Built

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. Does anybody else think the two stories dovetail so neatly that the thing in The Thing becomes the stranger things in Stranger Things? Feb 2018 "We wanted something in the vein of the classic films we loved growing...

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Currently Listening: Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant (Live at Farm Aid 2005)

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In a column dated November 17, 1928

“I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen."  —Dorothy Parker ...

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Currently Listening: XTC

Song: The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhe...

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Seasonal Defective Disorder

  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." ...

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I Love The Sky When It's Gonna Snow Later

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Global Warning

"I'm one of those people who doesn't believe in global warming, but I'm pretty sure Noah's Ark was a true story. You know, where the guy was warning everyone about the insane change in the weather and everyone was like, shut the fuck up, Noah." - Rory Scove...

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Allston Christmas (*actual)

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. This post was...

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Currently Listening: Jobriath

Record: Jobriat...

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Currently Listening: Voodoo Screw Machine

Song: Lotion (cover of Greenskeeper's song)...

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Currently Listening: Fish

Record: Sunsets on Empir...

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#ThrowbackThursday (Blogcast: April 10, 2018)

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 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 all put online, that it was never...

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President Trump accuses people

President Trump accuses people of changing their clothes and returning to cast additional ballots in disguis...

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Thank you for your service, and your sacrifice

I wrote to a guy who has done a ton of research and he wrote me back! He said "The 14th AIB was part of the 1st AD." 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...

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Spell check always wants to change my last name to "dipole."

"...a molecule in which a concentration of positive electric charge is separated from a concentration of negative charge...

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#ThrowbackThursday Election Day 2012

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...

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