Month: June 2019
El Segundo’s @LATimes Automated Writing Bot Fails To Warn Fellow Robots About Peril Looming #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Apparently You Purchased @LATimes To Block Climate Crisis News, Right @DrPatSoonShiong? #MissionAccomplished #JoeTakesOnTheNews
No, @Sammy_Roth & @LATimes, This Poorly Written Bloomberg Article Repeating The Results The Climate Investigation Center Uncovered Isn’t A Newspaper Doing Its Job. Bad Headline, Shit Placement
I Corrected Today’s El Segundo @LATimes Headline To Include The Climate Reality Their Editors Won’t Tell You #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Latest Galliani Play, Part II Of My Family Trilogy, Wows Audiences At Ruskin Group Theatre
El Segundo’s @LATimes Drops News Coverage & Goes Full On Bread & Circus To Entertain Elderly White Readers With Witches #JoeTakesOnTheNews
@LATimes, @mridleythomas & @ericgarcetti Clueless Failures On Homeless Crisis With No Solutions. Here is How To Fix Things You Rich Dummies #JoeTakesOnTheNews
This Is Going To Make It Hard To Reconcile
I am the firstborn child of Mary Brigid O’Connor and Stanley Daniel Galliani. I was born in September of 1957.
On New Year’s Day 1982 we parted company in anger with my father yelling at me, “Get out! Get out, and don’t come back!”
I told him then, “Don’t say it if you don’t mean it. You know the history of our family!”
To which he replied, “Get the hell out of my house!” And I did.
That was 37 1/2 years ago and to be brutally honest I’ve never missed them or felt a desire to reconnect. And the feeling was clearly mutual. No attempts to patch things up were ever made.
When I was turning forty I reached out to my mother in writing to ask her if I could borrow the family photo album so that I might make copies as I had no photos from my childhood.
My mother replied in a voicemail in which she laughed and said, “I’m not interested in helping out with any self-aggrandized tribute to YOU.” And that was that, 23 years ago. I wasn’t really surprised and I moved on and continued with my happy and rewarding life.
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