Dec 2013
One or two Diet Cokes too many and insomnia rears its familiar head at 3, 4, 5 and finally 6 a.m. I decide not to fight it anymore and walk downstairs. A perusal of my usual web haunts and a few hands of anonymous online poker and then flipping on the TV. Donna Reed […]
Dec 2013
Recovering from their vivacious Christmas Eve & Day debaucheries, Joe Mecca and RSB assume their position on either side of the square round table this Boxing Day to share their old and new traditions. Family holiday dynamics, feasts of seven (or more) fishes, Thee Fez, and cheese cubes. Both compare the massive amounts of […]
Dec 2013
It’s Tuesday, December 24. The sun is shining as I sit in my living room on the 50th Christmas Eve of my time on this Earth. Like most of those Christmases, I will be spending the evening with my family, accompanied by my lovely wife. There will be too much food. Too much overlapping conversation. […]
Dec 2013
On the shortest day of the year, Joe Mecca and RSB gather around the square round table with Sir Russell and Saint Bobby for their annual pre-observation of FESTIVUS. After getting a few housekeeping items out of the way (a shared distaste for jam bands and bland early 90s alt rock; the Mecca’s Christmas […]
Dec 2013
Another evening at The Clubhouse, Joe Mecca and RSB continue to fuel their egos and livers over a few drinks. School first, sports second, Joe’s concerned about the Providence College Friars men’s basketball team; extrapolated, sports as performance ala theater. Also: observations on the further fragmentation of the Republican party; Lil Rhody’s potential as a self-sufficient […]
Dec 2013
It’s the start of the 2013 holiday season, and members of The Inebriati are getting their wine on. Joe Mecca, RSB, Bruce, and Sir Russell talk about their favorite wines, NY state and local wineries, and how they choose to imbibe their grapes Also: JM and RSB recap the once-in-78,000 year holiday known as Thanksgivukkah […]
Dec 2013
It’s a very very special episode of Joe Mecca’s Big Mouth! Not only is it Thanksgivukkah, and not only are we recording at Maison Bessette, tonight extended members of The Inebritati are joined by none other than The Ed & Lois Experience, aka RSB’s parents. And in only E&L Exp fashion, they regale the gang […]