All Things Joey
( #Philly, #Phillyist, #Type-In )
Phillyist published another short post by me today (I am on a roll this week). I saw a notice on Make this morning about a Philadelphia “Type-In”, so I did a quick write up while drinking my tea and getting ready for work this morning.
( #Philly, #Comics, #Phillyist, @ronmarz )
Phillyist is doing a Countdown to 2011 and asked the writers to start doing best of lists. Nobody covered comics, so I figured I would toss one out there…
Phillyist: Joey’s Top 5 Comics of 2010
I stayed away from the typical spandex characters because I am honestly bored with them. I would have put Walking Dead on the list, but everybody knows about that now, so the title certainly doesn’t need any more attention.
( #Phillyst, #PhiladelphiaMagazine )
Yesterday, I got my Philadelphia magazine in the mail and the cover asks “Why Kids Are Getting Stupider”. I felt the hairs on my neck rise and reading the article didn’t do much to calm me down. Phillyist was kind enough to let me write a response to it.
Phillyist: Is Philadelphia Magazine Right – Are Kids Really Getting Stupider?
( #KidRock, #Thanksgiving )
On Thanksgiving, recovering from eating to much at my parents house, I am half passed out on my parents couch and not paying attention to the television. I notice the football game is on and could care less. It is half time….
Out of the blue, my old man says “Thats Kid Rock right?” This is coming from a man who doesn’t watch TV, read magazines, surf the internet, and doesn’t listen to the radio… how the hell does he know who Kid Rock is? To put this in further perspective – Bonnie Raitt is the last artist to be added to his sparse musical collection – like 15 years ago.
This might not mean much to you my readers, but that little interaction blew my mind. Just giving you a little family insight, Lombardi-style.
Further Mean Joe Reading:
( #Smoking, #Cigarettes )
Smokers have it hard: the government keeps taxing and raising the price of their vice, they have that terrible cough in the morning, nasty yellow teeth and skin, and non-smokers look at them with disgust.
Hi – I am one of those people that look at you like that.
There are a couple of good smokers out there that peel off and smoke privately—like dogs going off to the woods to die alone—then there are the rest of you. The new kids that never learned how to do it right, blowing smoke out of their mouths like dragons. Looking pissed off because they have to be out in the cold. Or what about the lazy moms driving a carload of kids in her mini-van with a cigarette in her mouth (seeing more of those every day).
For all of you people, second hand smoke kills 600,000 people a year (NY Daily News)
( #Phillyist, #ClassicalGuitar )
The Phillyist published an interview with Tom Amoriello, some of you might know him as GTT. Tom was kind enough to sit down with me and discuss the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society.
Give it a read: