crazyjoedavola
crazyjoedavola
crazyjoedavola

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for

He has been a loooong known POS. As Barstool Sports looong been known as a wretched hive of scum and villainy. This is the classy website that ranked the appearances of teachers arrested for statutory rape of students.

Richard Kind is always amazing on Gilbert’s podcast.

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He is the biggest fan of the Amazing Colossal Podcast. 

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Why tell the truth when outright lying is easier, eh Mr. Guiliani?

Unions are integral to how labor works, and how management interacts with labor. Back in the early 2000s, I was working for an adult novelty and marital tools company called Head & Spin.

The thing about the Kinks is they cover all of Classic Rock from the early riff-heavy stuff like above to hippy stuff like Waterloo Sunset all the way through coked up nonsense like Layla and Come Dancing.

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Definitely. It was pre-VHS and Cable (although I grew up on Long Island by Cablevision so I had relatives with cable and we got it relatively quick) and those Sunday Night movies were pretty much a ritual.

They were in Japan. You can’t criticize another country if you’re in a similar time zone? 

Kinda like your comment.  It’s awkward when you’re the only person in the comments complaining about something that everybody else loves.   

Honestly the best bar stool sports content I’ve ever seen. 

Huh. Almost seems as if the mega-rich paid their rightful share of taxes, we’d need fewer nonprofits or something.

Tin soldiers and Trump’s comin’

Rick was too good, too kind for what the internet became.

Weird, someone in the office is chopping onions right now. I’ll have to close my door for a few minutes then ask them to stop.

On the one hand, the Brooklyn move didn’t turn out well. On the other hand, I’m pretty much convinced that any owner other than Wang would’ve been much more impatient and moved the Islanders out of the NY area entirely years earlier. No way to prove that, but still.

Steve Somers is a national treasure, and finding out that his shows are available as podcasts was one of the best discoveries of the past year for me.