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Remembering 9/11

September 11, 2017 Leave a Comment

I took that photo back in August of 1995 from the bow of the Staten Island Ferry during my first-ever visit to Manhattan. Despite having grown up just a couple hundred miles away, I somehow managed to not go there until I was 25. I guess I just assumed that it couldn’t be much different than Boston, so why bother?

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Take Me Out to the Therapist… Take Me Out to the Shrink…

Van Halen (or, The Band That Ate My Life)

Gene Simmons on stage

Dear Gene Simmons of KISS, a.k.a. My Childhood Hero: I think there’s been a terrible misunderstanding. Either that, or you’re an overly sensitive dick.

Daddy Vader

If not for The Force, Darth Vader would have totally gotten his ass kicked, because that suit? Not very practical.

No, really: This job-search thing is like shooting fish in a barrel

Hell hath no fury like white-male privilege threatened

An Open Letter of Apology to President Barack Obama

Zombie Dinner Party … with your chef, Dr. Hannibal Lector

There must be a reckoning

Turns out I have a bright future ahead of me ... in a field about which I know nothing

Man, this finding-a-new-job thing is going to be easier than I thought

ABOUT ME

Jon Zal @ The Massachusetts State House, Boston

I was born in 1970, raised just outside of Boston, and now live near Philadelphia. As a child, I thought I was going to be…
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