June 2022
I’m entertaining the thought of moving JosephCSimmons.com to Substack. It would be a bit of a project, so I’m not crazy about the idea, but I’m also not crazy about maintaining this website. If you know anything about me, you know I love writing, and hate most everything else. Like...
- June 22, 2022
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I’m going to the dentist tomorrow to finally have my temporary crown replaced with a permanent one. I think I was supposed to get this done three weeks ago, but as I’ve repeatedly posted, I’ve basically been sick the entire month. I think I postponed the procedure twice, as a...
- June 21, 2022
Finally went to the doctor yesterday. I felt pretty stupid, since I looked and felt much better. But I’d been telling myself, “Don’t go to the doctor, you’re almost over this” for a week and a half now. And my ‘much better’ still involved a lot of coughing. It was...
- June 17, 2022
My phone rang at 12:15 AM. I was already tucked into bed and would’ve been asleep, but luckily my spastic coughing problem was preventing that. Upon hearing it ring, my brain immediately processed the following: My phone is on Do Not Disturb, so it shouldn’t be ringing unless it’s someone...
- June 16, 2022
I started reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson last week, and it made me wonder if I have to be a loser to make great art. Thompson was a loser, by the way. He spent most of his adult life stoned or drunk or both,...
- June 13, 2022
You thought I wasn’t going to post today, didn’t you? The truth is, I almost forgot. I stayed up pretty late last night, working over Zoom with three non-sports fan comedy writers on an animated pilot script while I was simultaneously watching the Tampa Bay Lightning playing the New York...
- June 10, 2022
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Not even two days after I wrote that we’re a “single-income family”, my wife Evgeniya has completed one virtual reality environment for a client, and sold another one for more than twice the fee as the first. How cool is that? She studied and practiced and never quit learning; now...
- June 9, 2022
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“Oh, that looks amazing! Can we make it? Do you want to try?” Evi was sitting in the passenger seat of our minivan, looking up at an off-road trail in Chattahoochee Oconee National Forest. It was a semi-steep incline, with rock and gravel and a few deep pits. As far...
- June 8, 2022
I remember standing inside Checkers restaurant on Chambers Street in Downtown Manhattan, trying to decide what to order, when I realized I could barely afford anything. I had next to no cash, whatever was left in my checking account was needed for a bill of some kind, and my savings...
- June 7, 2022
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I guess Hurricane Season has officially started. We already have some tropical depression or something forming in the Gulf of Mexico, and the weather here in southwest Florida is already crappy. (I have no idea if those two things are related; I never said this was the Weather Channel.) In...
- June 3, 2022
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