Author: Joey deVilla

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Editorial Florida

Attention Florida drivers!

Bumper sticker on car bumper: “Using your turn signal is not ‘giving information to the enemy’.”
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Music

Lollapalooza 1991: Now THAT was a concert!

Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:

  • Butthole Surfers
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • My first chance to see Nine Inch Nails
  • Living Colour
  • Ice-T and Body Count
  • Rollins Band
  • Jane’s Addiction

…and after the show, we continued the fun at a normally sad nightclub near the airport that had their “alt-rock” night on Wednesdays.

There was already a feeling that interesting things were happening in music. Big Audio Dynamite had put out their single Rush a couple of months prior…

…and we had no idea of the musical gems that were still forthcoming:

  • Nirvana hadn’t yet released Nevermind,
  • Pearl Jam hadn’t yet released Ten,
  • Soundgarden hadn’t yet released Badmotorfinger,
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn’t yet released Blood Sugar Sex Magik,
  • U2 hadn’t yet released Achtung Baby,
  • Metallica hadn’t yet released Smell the Glove — but seriously, the black album (the one with Enter Sandman),
  • Ministry hadn’t yet released Psalm 666,
  • Public Enemy hadn’t yet released Apocalypse 1991…The Enemy Strikes Black (with the heavy metal version of Bring the Noize),
  • 2 Unlimited hadn’t yet released Get Ready for This,
  • A Tribe Called Quest hadn’t yet released The Low End Theory,
  • Black Sheep hadn’t yet released A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,
  • 2Pac hadn’t yet released 2Pacalypse Now,
  • Del tha Funkee Homosapien hadn’t yet released I Wish My Brother George Was Here…

…and I was a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University back then. Great times!

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America The Current Situation

The October 2024 cover of “The Atlantic” doesn’t need a headline

October 2024 cover of “The Atlantic,” featuring a painting of a covered circus wagon containing an elephant in chains. The driver of the wagon is Donald Trump, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and suit, and brandishing a whip. The wagon is traveling down a muddy trench towards the Capitol building in Washington, D.C..

The cover painting says it all.

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funny

Meanwhile, at the Saturday market…

Two young women at the scented candle stand at a Saturday market. Woman 1: “Hey, this candle smells like Fireball.” Woman 2: “Becky, us non-alcoholics like to call that scent cinnamon.”
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It Happened to Me

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Joey de Villa playing accordion beside the blue wall with cartoon animal musicians behind Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe.

I hope you get a chance to do what you love.

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It Happened to Me

Step one: Get a box…

If you know, you know.

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America The Current Situation

Your daily reminder

Sign that reads “A guy who is not allowed to run a business in New York is asking you to hire him to run the country.”

And in case you needed proof, here’s the press release from the office of New York State’s Attorney General, Letitia James which states that in the civil fraud case against “Donald Trump, Adult Sons, and Former Executives,” they are ordered to pay more than $450 million and that Trump is banned from serving as an officer or director of any New York company for three years.