THE JO-TEL is going to drink its way to Dover

Erstwhile Jo-Tel contributor, PETE, alive and well. And a hero.
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From the Network:
Anyhow, last night I thwarted a bike theft in our neighborhood. I was sitting on my porch smoking a cigarette and some chick pulled up to the liquor store across the street and propped her bike up outside without locking it (there’s a […]

If anybody is still talking about the Hold Steady in 20 years I will kill anything that moves.
-PETE

So I went on two dates this week: one on Wednesday night, one on Thursday.
Wednesday: Meh. Not necessarily bad. Just meh. The night got off to an inauspicious start when she insisted that McIntosh apples were spelled Macintosh. What was I supposed to do? Just let that stand?? And so yeah, that was probably the […]

Vol. 1 was just a collection of throwaway observations mainly meant to be funny.
Vol. 2 has a bit more of a focus: writing a good (or fixing a bad) profile. Having been on the site for a month, I feel like I’m pretty much in the swing of things. And, at this point, I consider […]

A thought I had to myself in considering an email I had sent to a m.c contact earlier in the evening:
“Did I actually fucking use the word ‘accompany’? Did I actually fucking do that?”
I’ve really got a long way to go here.
-PETE

Last Wednesday I went to Kristin Cavallari’s 21st birthday party.
Well, I should be clear.
Her birthday was January 5. That night she evidently partied somewhere.
THEN, last weekend, she went to Vegas and had another birthday party.
So this was her third, at least.
It must be weird to be a celebrity and have people you don’t know throw […]

1) Girls in L.A. do not read good books. I should actually say, they don’t read books. The ones who do seem to not venture deeper into a bookstore that the tables up front, with occasional forays into the magazine department, for variety.
“My favorite book is The Lovely Bones.”
“I just finished all the Harry Potter […]

Watching MTV2 right now (as in, like four weeks ago when I started this post):
See the latest videos from today’s [positive adjective] bands.
Thrice - “Digital Sea”
What? Thrice? The lyrics to this go “Drowning … in a digital sea.” This is terrible. This is MTV2 (with emphasis, TWO!). What the fuck? I need to say something. […]

Yesterday I worked from 9am to 7:30pm and the Bulls fired Skiles. Then I ate some pizza. The pizza was pretty good, so that was fun and exciting.
Merry Christmas from the Jo-Tel to you and yours.
-PETE

Okaaaay.
So uh … I have done a reading column in a while. This is mainly bad, but it has at least one silver lining, which is that the chaff from the past couple months has been removed and I’m bringing you only the finest 50 or so links. Now would be a great time for […]