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Joseph

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About Me

Joe is an enigmatic sort who collects stories, mementos, names, and metaphorical masks like so many baseball cards. He enjoys delicious things, quirky things, things that make him either laugh or cry, and putting things in alphabetical order. He dislikes stupidity, closed-mindedness, poor grammar, and doing the dishes. He also enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

Joe has survived eight zombie attacks, three nuclear blasts, thirteen car crashes, innumerable poor relationships, dozens of matches with Psycho Patrick, and four years of Catholic high school. He is looking forward to surviving a new president, a new job, a new city, and death.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A faerie bearing gifts of a three novel book deal, the perfect egg roll, the never discovered fourth Soul Coughing album, and a pack of smokes. Other than that . . . I have enough friends.

My Blog

The Afterglow of the Thumping Madness (part III)

(Author's note: This is the third part of a trilogy started far too long ago.  For those of you who give a rat's, I've been busy working on re-typing my first novel and first-writing my second, s...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:32:00 GMT

The Afterglow of the Thumping Madness (part II)

(This is Part Two of a cold-night saga.  For the first installment, click on Part One or just scroll down.  Duh.) Expected time of rescue- 9:23Time I finally looked at the clock- 9:27Time sp...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:10:00 GMT

The Afterglow of the Thumping Madness (part I)

I had a dream the other night.  During this dream I was working at Barnes and Noble, except the sales floor resembled my old B&N from Auburn and the stock room was the same as the Lechmere's...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:21:00 GMT

Late Night Post-Debate Thoughts (or "Why I Might Vote in the Republican Primary")

"Joe, I think I have a problem," Deb said, snuggled up next to me in bed.  I had convinced her to watch the midnight rebroadcast of the Democratic primary debate with me.  Slowly getting Deb...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:51:00 GMT

Not Exactly Full Circle

1)In 1996, I moved from Rhode Island to Worcester with my girlfriend.  I worked a miserable soul-sucking job (Blue Jeans Pizza) until gaining temporary employment at Barnes and Noble.  ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:51:00 GMT

The Saddest and Most Beautiful Shit Ever

Deb and I recently spent some time at the wonderful Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was an enjoyable day complete with some sublimely beautiful works and some laughable silliness. ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:56:00 GMT

ALJ (12/11/02) "Makes Me Wanna Vom"

(Editor's Note:  This was originally published on December 11, 2002 in my old LiveJournal page.  I like nostalgia.) It takes a special special man under special special circumstances to eat ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:31:00 GMT

ALJ (12/05/02) "Saturnalia Serendipity"

(Editor's Note:  This was originally published on December 5, 2002 in my old LiveJournal page.  I like nostalgia.) What's getting me through my day:Earlier this year I was looking into learn...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:05:00 GMT

ALJ (12/03/02)

(Editor's Note:  This was originally published on December 3, 2002 in my old LiveJournal page.  I like nostalgia.) I always used to write my fiction in the third person point of view, usuall...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:57:00 GMT

The Clark Taco-Crawl

On the evening of Sunday, November 11, my brother and I thought it would be a good idea to have a stroll down N Clark St. in Chicago and eat some tacos.  If you are at all familiar with the stret...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:51:00 GMT