THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

Germany has declared war on Russia. -Swimming in the afternoon.
-Kafka, journal entry August 2, 1914
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This odds-and-ends feature of mine used to be called “Varietals” on the old jo-tel. I am changing the name from “Varietals”, which is a word that yuppies use to describe different types of wine, to “Transvaluation of All Values”, which […]

  This little post will ideally stir some controversy among the Jo-Tel staff and our loyal readers: Having eaten soup nearly every day at work for nearly the past two years I have honed the technique of proper soup ingestion. Efficient soup ingestion technique requires some patience, and probably a few tries to […]

Last weekend was the first of four consecutive weekends where I will not be in LA.  I am excited about this development, since LA sucks as I have four less friends around—net—than last summer. All I do when I’m here is work, go to the gym (I’m motivated most by the fact that the […]

I got glasses last week. So fucking sweet. It’s like I got HDTV for my real life. Remember the first time you ever saw something in HD? For most of us, I’m guessing it was a basketball game; at least, that was the case for me. I remember being blown […]

Nietzsche, horsing around with Paul Ree and Lou Salome. Good. Times.

Setting: Big Foot Lodge, San Francisco tavern. Patsy and Shark drink beers at the bar.
SHARK: [begins to sing along with “Walking on the Sun” by Smashbox, which has begun to play on the jukebox]
PATSY: [quickly but sternly shakes her head, no.]

The correct answer to this question, as posed by the Le Tigre song of the same name, is now: who cares, none of his movies made the AFI 100 Years 100 Movies list! Suckers! No Cassavettes to be found of the old AFI list (2002) or the new and improved list, recently revealed […]

It’s hard work being on vacation. Hard as a motherfucker. It’s 8:14 am, and I’m outside on the porch waiting for the FedEx guy to get here. He came yesterday at 8:41, and I missed him by 7 minutes. I walked all the way home from my girlfriend’s place in North […]

Okay, it looks like i forgot my iPod at the sound stage. Can someone bring that up here? It’s a blue iPod Nano tied to a banana.
-Dan Deacon
Even before seeing Dan Deacon live yesterday, I felt like his new album (Spiderman of the Rings) was a mere album-length facsimile of […]

Testing 1. Testing 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMPx_UcULbc

Roger. Okay I can’t seem to get there to be a linebreak after the video, but other than that …