THE JO-TEL … illegal blog downfield

Will you stop throwing away your clothes!
-Patsy

I don’t think that Charlie wants to hear about Red Smitty right now.
- Emilio Estevez as “Billy the Kid” in Young Guns
Five inside the morning light on the ground
Pondering the crushed smell all around
My face just turns over in sleep sun
Find your four sheets twisted to the going day
Someone like Hawkeye chasing a deer into […]

The Narwhal makes the news.
-Johnny D.

Dudes wearing the hood of their hoodie up and half-way clinging to their head. I tried unsuccessfully to find a picture of somebody wearing their hoodie in this fashion. This is the new upside-down and backwards visor for me. I understand that a hoodie has a hood for a reason, and that it can be […]

Somedays, you force down a few beers and try to get pumped about getting drunk but your body’s just not down. Other nights you have two beers and then you think you can invade Moscow and take over the world. Saturday night was one of the latter instances.
I was encouraged by the fact […]

Perverts  Fans of Arrested Development  Perverts rejoice today is Alia Shawkat’s 18th birthday. Best known for starring as Maeby in the best show ever televised, Shawkat was at one point a source of traffic for this blog when we were at the old EditMe URL. I’m not exactly sure what post […]

The people of America will prevail.

WITH MASTS SUNG EARTHWARDS
the sky-wrecks drive.
Onto this woodsong
you hold fast with your teeth.
You are the songfast
pennant.
-Paul Celan, Beathturn

 
Yesterday I had jury duty.  It’s always been a dream of mine to get on a jury in a complex and divisive capital murder trial and be elected jury foreman.  However, yesterday I did not have time for that.  Especially because as a contractor I would not be getting paid for any days, weeks or […]

In Israel, the work week starts on Sunday.  Sunday is their Monday.  They are moving towards a 5-day work week where businesses are closed on Friday and Saturday.  Before I guess they worked Sunday-Friday. 
Yarmuckle.
-Hip E.