I feel reasonably confident in asserting that we have all thrilled to Joe Milazzo’s musings here at Bagatellen on a regular basis. But who is the mysterious man behind the mantle really? Chalk it up to a dull day at the office if you must, but I decided to do a bit of web-sleuthing to satisfy my own curiosity & hopefully gain some dope on our resident prose laureate. Little did I expect the number of possible identities that would surface from my query:
Pen & ink Western theme artist commissioned to do the portraits of the inductees into the Cow Horse Hall of Fame: “His delicate, yet intricate lines speak of a time remembered in our not-so-distant past, which honors the lifestyle of the legendary cowboy.”
Executive Director of the Regional Transportation Alliance, a business leadership organization dedicated to identifying, facilitating, and promoting mobility solutions for the Triangle region.
Current quarterback for the Valparaiso Crusaders.
Schedule Maker for the New York Penn Class A Baseball League.
First Mate/Angler on the Sandy Cove, a 32’ Albemarle sportfishing boat competing in the 2004 Islamorada Sailfish Tournament.
Bit-part Hollywood actor w/ roles in Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991), The Lemon Sisters (1990) and Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Will the real Mr. Milazzo please stand up?
Hilarious!
Try to get a photo of the other Dan Warburton while you're at it! He seems to be a computer whizkid, golfer and martial arts teacher in or near Bakersfield CA!
Alan Courtis of Reynols was most disappointed to learn that I couldn't teach him Tai Kwon Do (or however you spell it)
Uh, I win.
Joe Foster is a gay porn star. He's pretty damn good looking, too, if a bit short.
(I was going to post a link, but qualms won out).
Posted by: J. Foster at May 18, 2004 10:52 PMJoe Milazzo was also my great-uncle. He served in the Great War (we still have his foot locker and uniform somewhere) who, after he was discharged, moved to Albuquerque, NM, where he made a living as a master coffin builder.
Posted by: Joe at May 19, 2004 6:52 AMI think there's a high school wrestler named Jason Bivins (Bivenses are, of course, a dime a dozen) somewhere in the South.
Milazzo, I'd be the guy in the hat if I were you.
Posted by: Jason at May 19, 2004 7:45 AMHey, I gotta be me, vanilla 'fro, myopia, and all...
Posted by: Joe at May 19, 2004 8:30 AM"Joe Foster is a gay porn star. He's pretty damn good looking, too, if a bit short."
hilarious, dude! what do you mean by "a bit short"? ;) http://www.joefosterxxx.com/
Posted by: tomas at May 19, 2004 12:07 PMhow about this joe foster?
http://www.rivervalleyalpacas.com/joefoster.html
Posted by: c at May 19, 2004 1:25 PMhttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~27thiowa/biography/ashline.html
Posted by: Bill Ashline at May 19, 2004 2:07 PM"how about this joe foster?
http://www.rivervalleyalpacas.com/joefoster.html"
;-) breeding male indeed!! hey, maybe THAT'S the gay porn star...
oh, man, the description is even better (joe, i didn't know you had so many awards):
"Joe is a large heavy boned male with great conformation and wonderful Medium Brown Fleece. His density, crimp and coverage will be a wonderful addition to your breeding program. He is an aggressive breeder. Joe placed 1st at the Estes Wool Market in 2002 (3rd in Estes 2001). In 2001 he placed 1st out of 13 in the shorn class at the HART Fall Festival in Sioux Falls and was again awarded 1st Place at HART in 2002. Joe placed 2nd at the 2001 Santa Fe Show. Awaiting first crias on ground in 2003."
Posted by: tomas at May 19, 2004 2:14 PMmilazzo is the departure point for the aeolians
milazzo is also the hinge connecting two big bays
milazzo is further concerned with its own sulphurous emissions
milazzo is like a beautiful woman
milazzo is at about 7
milazzo is reached
milazzo is at 0
milazzo is the ancient mylae
milazzo is adjustable without cutting
milazzo is set for 4 pm the same day
milazzo is marvelous
milazzo is not who he appears to be
milazzo is narrow
>density, crimp and coverage will be a wonderful addition to your breeding program. He is an aggressive breeder. Joe placed 1st at the Estes Wool Market in 2002 (3rd in Estes 2001). In 2001 he placed 1st out of 13 in the shorn class at the HART Fall Festival in Sioux Falls and was again awarded 1st Place at HART in 2002. Joe placed 2nd at the 2001 Santa Fe Show. Awaiting first crias on ground in 2003."
My new bio...
Posted by: Joefoster at May 19, 2004 5:13 PMshit al, you fish those out of a SUB??
guys, this is my favorite thread ever :)
Brian, Milazzo as mantra, I like it.
At the very least this thread will add a few more bricks to the Bags/Gay Porn nexus.
Something about which I've always wondered... my great-grandparents passed through Ellis Island in the late 1890's. Is Milazzo my "true" surname, or was it just assigned to my family at a time before they were ever fluent with the English language? Do I have this name simply because, rather than engage them in questioning, rather than treat them as "individuals", it was convenient for immigration officials to record the name of the port city in Sicily from which Dominic and Caroline (also my sister's name) departed?
Such are consequences of interpellation.
Posted by: Joe at May 21, 2004 10:55 AMJoe Milazzo sat tall in the saddle holding the reins with which he would ride west to the new land, Dallas. He'd heard that there was a cabin there, built by John Neely Bryant a few years ago, about 3/4 of a mile from the Trinity River. "John Neely...I haven't thought about him in so long," Milazzo recited to himself under his breath. Milazzo's golden curls blew in the Sicilian heat. "The river's wide," he chuckled to himself, "and this narrator is supposed to say 'hisself' in these spaghetti Westerns." But then jazz hadn't been invented yet, had it? He drank in the deepening sunset, turned the reins away from the dropping sun, and the little frisky goat gave a little snort, and they both headed home to Giuseppi della Milazza. "Maybe someday...ha ha ha ha ha," he laughed like the madman that he was. "Forse qualche giorno..."
Posted by: Dennis Gonzalez at May 24, 2004 6:50 PMWell this is Joe Foster.. and hahaha I am rolling on the floor in tears... to funny. Though my hair is similar. oh and I'm from Calabria.
Posted by: Joe at August 20, 2004 8:47 AMI lurk around Bagatellen only every now and then, so I've just now discovered this hilarious thread. A couple of years ago I decided to see what I could turn up. Very high on the google list was a Henry Hughes I'd never heard of, even though he too hailed from Mississippi. (I still can't bear the thought that we might be related, so I haven't pursued it.)
Apart from a certain "persistent sophomoric messianism", I'm nothing like Hughes the ardent defender of slavery. I dealt with the South's abiding, internecine racism by getting the hell out in 1976 at age 20. (Here's the word on my hometown: "What goes for the South goes double for Mississippi; what goes for Mississippi goes double for Greenwood.") The 1829-62 Henry Hughes, who seems initially to have had some sort of critique and conscience, "attempted to utilize social science to justify slavery as an ideal condition of society in the broadest possible terms, going so far as to invent new terms, 'warrantor and warrantee,' for slaveholder and slave respectively." Can you say "tortuous"? I know you can.
Below is a link to the best look at a man who seems to have been quite the character. It's a review of _Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South_ by Douglas Ambrose.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28389900528413
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