Republic Magazine Issue #13: The Big Pharma Plague

FINALLY! It is here! And YES! That is MY article on the bottom left corner of the FRONT page of this month's new Republic Magazine!

Support a brother and order this issue using the button at the bottom of this site... If you really don't want to buy one let me know, I'll get you an issue, but any support helps as always. This is a sweet article, and the issue is going to be great and I don't want you to miss this.

What's in the Water?

Captain Beefheart

Y'all know Paul Moyer, right?

Check out his video interview with Captain Beefheart.



OK, this is about a good 7 minutes. It is up to you to learn. Have a 7 minute lesson in how to do your art.

4 years ago today

Four years ago, Hunter S. Thompson died.

I remember him by reading ... and RE-reading his books. They are still important and they are still highly influential.

They don't pay me, but they Flying dog Brewery does make some great Ale. Drink some and think of Hunter. Or just go to their website to read a memory or two by Ralph Steadman.

Good Morning Hurt: Bloody Brains and Barbarellatones

Bloody Brains SMASHED some covers that had all 25 witnesses going "WAHHH? You're already done?" Yeah, it was nice to get out of the house, but more importantly, it was nice to go 4 minutes out of the house. So I ordered a double and it was on...

The Barbarellatones were sickening, as expected. They saluted Lux Interior and played Thar She Blows, an anthematic, yet problematic classic that they already hate playing. It's so goddamned good though!



This is the 3rd great show I have seen at Good Hurt in W. LA and there were a combined 75 fans at the shows... Shows what nobody knows won't kill em.

Dan sent me this file today... it's damn good!
Who Do You Love_.mp3



Had fun supporting some LA's best rock.. Looks like a music weekend, Happy Valentine's Day.

Coming Soon: "What's in The Water?"

I am VERY excited about the new Republic Magazine dropping at the end of February! I wrote an awesome piece on Big Pharma. No silly stuff here, just eye popping statistics and almost 3,000 words! Took me forever to get that one done, but made it in by the deadline without incident. In all honesty, I was overwhelmed trying to narrow the scope of the article to stay on point, and in the end I was happy with the results.

Remember - if you are going to order copies of this magazine, see the link at the bottom of this blog which will take you directly to the ordering page. This is the issue I want all my readers to enjoy, so don't miss out - it's the best research article I've ever had published. And you will be supporting the Daily Mael blog at the same time. What a deal!

UPDATE COMING SOON!!

Old Jews Telling Jokes

Nothing like some old Jews telling jokes. I'm going to be on this website one day...



May you have ten children that grow up to be on this site too!

Daily Site is the Daily of the Week!

Talk about risk-takers! Daily Site is now up and running. I held off filling y'all in the new developments happening in my life - but one is quite massive. I am senior editor for Daily Site! That's right, this site was started by a super-genius computer tech geek team led by Omid and Vola. Voila!

What is it? Well, I'm glad I'm blogging about this because I can't do a tell all just yet. There will be a publicity story coming soon, and I could be doing it if I can just squeeze together enough time to it. Anyway, this is a specialty site that is intended to help web-crawling internet addicts narrow their search through the web for a particular topic of interest. For example, my "Splash", as we call each particular channel, is solely for links to UFO and paranormal articles/threads/music/images. I selected this topic because it's easily my most researched and most interesting topic when I get online regardless of my body's toxicity levels.

I urge you to come check us out, and if there is a topic you feel you are a master of, and have the motivation to be part of the team, let me know and I can forward your idea to the captain.

Meanwhile, I've already met some amazing writers. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it hurts my time I'll be able to dedicate to the Daily Mael... but I will fight for my ability to continue posting here because that's how I roll....

So far the topics are limited, but that will change once Daily Site catches on. It's very exciting and I've never loved working like this before.

joe@dailysite.com

Direction: February 2009 Editorial Goes Around the Dailies

The sail has been lifted, the pirates are out to sea and Daily Mael now has a mission. To deliver the dailies (when I'm posting) from around the horn. Discovering a need to specialize has led me down this path. The result is simple, fewer personal rants, more links and happenings at the dailies - for example:

Tonight's Daily Show with Jon Stewart is summarized like this:
Barack Obama plays Rovian hardball, and the media wonders if the honeymoon is over. John Oliver learns what Kenya is all about, and Dev Patel describes the slums of Mumbai.

More often than not, in the beginning, I will be looking for the more obscure dailies, including places like Digital Daily, which is running a good Myspace story. Or maybe Daily Astrology, where today's Pisces scope reads:

Everything is coming up roses and optimism rules the day. Life is for living and you cannot wait to partake of all those new and rewarding experiences that are waiting to enthrall you. Do not go overboard, but have fun. Your energy is high and your creative mind is busy, ready to be applied to the work at hand. If you give your best effort now, much can be accomplished. Your communicative abilities are emphasized. This is an excellent time to sway others to your cause through speeches and other communications. Your thinking is most lucid and grasping. Be careful, though, from taking it to the extreme in trying to find a logical reason for every event that occurs; especially the actions of co-workers. Friendships are most rewarding now.

The web is a big place and if you don't know what you are looking for, it spells nothing but trouble. Look out for the occasional video (less than what have been put up lately) and look for, we can only hope, technological interactive updates to the site to make things more fun. Monthly poll? We'll see, but thus far Daily Mael has been struggling for a face. The time is now, and if you are looking for more of Joe's personal writing, keep an eye open, there may be a similar blog cooking for that.

January went by quickly. Grad school is an unlikely reality happening at the end of February. But the official word came in January, I just wanted to be sure before bringing it up. There were all sorts of great UFO news, political squabbling and economic rumor that built up big last month, and so Daily Mael will be more focused on the dailies covering these sorts of topics, along with the usual humor and quick bits and doodly bobs.

OH, and while your searching the dailies, go to the DAILY STAR for a picture of Texas housewife Sheyla, who recently broke the breast size record at 38 kkk. Ouch, 9 surgeries. Yep, and here at Daily Mael you just get a link and a picture I took in the New Mexico mountains in December.

UPDATE! Ok, by demand, I'm posting a picture of Sheyla that was forwarded to me. She appears to be snapped in her natural habitat - the cosmetics department at a local Macy's.

It almost looks painful - please avoid sharp objects Sheyla!

Lancelot in the Hong Kong Sneeze

I'll never forget when I first discovered Lancelot. I was a about 12 years old and I was on the phone watching, and on the other end my friend Barney was doing the same. We laughed so hard we cried. Lancelot was an early 70s phenom. Seriously, we cried.