THE JO-TEL … illegal blog downfield

Here is the result of my trip to the pumpkin patch. The song sort of has a story arch, but its currently in draft form, so it may not be that apparent.  I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it, so here it is anyway.

 
Happy Jalloween! 

 
Part of the reason that I haven't been posting lately is that I think I had gotten away from what I do best, which is writing at length about things that only I care about so that you all can get a window into the magical realm of my life.  In light of this, I […]

This is basically what the jo-tel is all about.
 

Kanye has a book.  As he describes it, it's
an entertaining volume of 'Kanye-isms'– the creative, humorous, and insightful philosophies and anecdotes used in creating my path to success. It captures the same wit, playful irony, and piercing insight found abundant in my lyrics. In Thank You and You're Welcome!, I deliver my personal message uncensored, […]

I wrote these poems while I was bored between rounds coaching a law school moot court competition in Chicago last weekend.  Generally, I write two types of poem collections: (1) the ones whose design and execution I toil over for months; and (2) those ones that are one-offed in a few days.  It's unclear which […]

When I was in New Zealand I picked up this really cool field recorder. Basically it has two condenser mics on top in an xy arrangement.  It has a stereo and a multi-track recording mode.  I purchased it so that I can start recording my daily experiences in sound.  The idea was to just […]

In the meantime, enjoy my meeting notes.

I was in Chicago over the weekend. I met up with some of PETE's friends, including one of the dudes that runs that Rivalfish website, which I discovered is exactly 700% more visited than the jo-tel. We went to this free Stoli marketing party. Amazingly the benefits of the bountiful free booze […]

This would be like both Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin reuniting for one-time only concerts on the same night … except one is in Brighton at 7:30 p.m. and one is in Cambridge at 9 p.m.! But maybe you’re a street racer from the mean streets of Manchester, with a rough exterior that conceals a […]

Troubling news on the internet today, as a more-than-cursory Jo-tel investigation has revealed that all photographs of Garth Algar's dog, Tina Turner, from the movie Wayne's World, have been scrubbed from the world wide web. Scarier still is the possibility that they were never there to begin with. How can a society such […]