J Marotta

@jmarotta

Very angry nerd. Texas based. All opinions my own, and I stand by them usually.

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J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 25

A picture of said blob.

The blob building on Roy St in Lower Queen Anne hill in Seattle. It’s an off white building that has a real weird shape with multiple skylights in random places.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 25

My hometown ominous megastructure is, I suppose, the Museum of Pop Culture/Experience Music Project. “I suppose” because I don’t think it’s all that ominous. Originally, I was going to answer the blob building on Roy (IYKYK), but it doesn’t exist anymore.

The MoPop/EMP, a building made of multiple misshapen blobs of different materials, just under the space needle in Seattle.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 23

Another one:

Refused The Shape of Punk To Come, a chimerical bombination in 12 bursts. Yellow cover with, clockwise, a picture of a metal sphere thing plugged in, a guy throwing a Molotov cocktail in the street, a band onstage, and slam dancing with a man upside down.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 23

I’ve already seen In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, so next to that I’ll also say Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand:

Cover of Bee Thousand. The album is mostly white, with blue stripes running vertically down the left side, ans 3 red stripes crossing the blue stripes at the bottom. Guided by Voices is upside down and in black, with bee thousand in black below that. A man in festival clothes, as a harlequin, is inset in a picture on the right, looking at a landscape.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 18

Jones, I, too, have blood. I am trying to donate some. I don’t need more. I’m not sure where the Donut center is.

Transcript:
Hi Joseph, this is Jones. We have blood. I wanted to remind you of blood donation for Sunday, 9 o'clock at Northamar Donut Center. Please get a good meal prior.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 16

The rental cabin itself is well stocked with equipment.

A Griswold cast iron pan on an electric stove.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 16

I want to know why “and Dad” got whited out here.

A handmade (?) wooden sign. The top says “Our Family Rules”. Top to bottom in the left is “Obey Mom” (with the letters “and Dad” painted over), “Always Tell the Truth”, and “Clean Up After Yourself”. On the right, top to bottom, is “Support Your Siblings”, “Bless Your Food”, and “Play Outside Every Day”.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 16

I’m vacationing near Brainerd, MN this week. We had a short outing to a thrift store.

A record cover of The Very Best of the Moms and Dads. The cover is a 4 piece band of late middle aged people, all wearing short sleeve white button up shirts with red vests. A woman sits at the piano, a man stands next to her with an accordion, a man sits next to him behind a drum set, and a man stands all the way to the right with a saxophone.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 12

It took me almost a full minute to parse what this is.

Windows lock screen. A tile in it has a headline that says “Ocean creatures quiz”, with an image of an octopus below the headline to the left. To the right of the image are the words “Is a whale shark a whale or a shark?” Punctuation is exactly as I’ve written it. Below this question in a different color text is “Take the quiz”

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 11

It’s an accomplishment, even if it largely means that I sit around to do it.

10 Gallons sticker on a water bottle, indicating that I have donated 10 gallons of blood or blood products.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 4

To be fair, I’m thinking of giving one of these as a host gift to our friends in England this summer.

HEB tortilla pool float box. Has a picture of a giant tortilla. Standing next to it is a lady in a black bathing suit, smiling.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 2

Sucks for the old mental state, but it’s a decent driver for cookin’.

Eggs on a tomato bed with greens and parsley.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Jun 1

Cooking some anxiety away.

Onions sautéed in a large cast iron skillet.

J Marotta@jmarotta· May 19

Right to complain secured (for another 6 months-ish).

I voted early sticker on a black background.

J Marotta@jmarotta· May 17

Austin PD: Shelter in place inside these 4 major roadways: South Slaughter Ln, East McKinney Falls Pkwy, North Ben White Blvd., West Escarpment Blvd. due to ongoing law enforcement incident. Effective until further notice. Visit Austin Police social media (X, FB, IG) for updates and to stay informed.
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J Marotta@jmarotta· May 6

Later subsumed into Rifts.

Manhunter, a game of bounty hunting in the far future. Cover features a bald cyborg guy pointing a gun in the air. The background is a desolate desert scape with rubble.

J Marotta@jmarotta· May 5

Box has arrived at the Met Gala

Box, the humanoid robot from Logan’s Run. He is a robot with a metal boxy torso, a human-ish but shiny metal face, and weird appendages on his hands.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Apr 29

I usurped her plans and made a Dutch Baby. This is a terribly staged picture but it’s what I got.

A Dutch baby, which is an eggy, custardy pancake thing. It’s in a cast iron skillet, on a countertop. Apples and a Tupperware lid, along with a dish towel are behind it.

J Marotta@jmarotta· Apr 24

Silvio Dante from The Sopranos saying “It’s anti Italian discrimination”

J Marotta@jmarotta· Apr 9

So I saw a kid in my school when I was in… 3rd(?) grade who had this lunchbox and I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. Nearly a year of seeing these posts and a memory was finally triggered.