Tim Gill
@timgill924
Sociologist / New Book - Unraveling the American Mafia: Angelo Lonardo, Carmen Zagaria, and the Beginning of the End in Cleveland (Bloomsbury, 2027)
My 5 year old daughter starts kindergarten in two weeks. I asked her if she’s excited and she said yeah and that she’s gonna fart on her teacher’s head.
20 years ago in my bedroom at my parents house, my buddy tried to eat my parents dog, we were 21
I am training my children to become ethnographers and qualitative researchers. Every few days we walk around the neighborhood and document the plant and animal life and anything else interesting, all while introducing ourselves to the people on the street 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
The crisis of academia in the 1960s and 1970s was that it was *too* conservative. Dominated by modernization theory, functionalism, and people like Talcott Parsons. Interesting now given allegations of “anti-conservative discrimination.”
Neighbors down the street were blasting professional grade fireworks into the sky, while planes were flying overhead… Things were crazy last night.
The St Mark parish picnic yesterday was fun. People was eating bratwurst, baked beans, and potato salad, and drinking PBR. My son and his buddy were going wild. Daughter too. She won a stuffed animal. It was good times.
Tommy Sinito, 1975, amid the Model Cities shooting investigation Model Cities Director Robert Doggett was shot by a man named Jerald Johnson who had allegedly rented a car from Sinito's agency and then drove to Cincinnati. Johnson was found shot dead in the Ohio River days later.
Taking the ferry back across Lake Erie from Kelley’s Island to the mainland. Cedar Point in the distance. Peaceful and beautiful Ohio…
Went for nice summer walk with the kids and saw black squirrels and rabbits all over the neighborhood…
My son and his buddies visited the Amazon River today. Had to get out when a crocodile came down off the banks. Whew! It was a close one.
On Sebby’s last day as a 7 year old, he hit two (inside the park) home runs and got the final out of the game. Very proud of the boy, no matter what, but wonderful to see him having fun and having a solid performance on a special day. Wait for the Oba Strut 🤣🤣🤣
Ahh jeez. On the last final exam I gave at UGA 10 years ago, I included this question on it lol but also 😭
So happy to share that my band Model Martel will be playing The Fest in Gainesville, FL. This is the most important punk fest on the planet and I been playing in punk bands since I been 12. It means a lot to do this with three of my best friends and people I love so much. See you there????
Went to a rugby cookout tonight for my son West Park neighborhood of Cleveland Go Shamrocks!!! 💚💚💚