Life is like a box of chocolates & Hansel and Gretal candy wrappers. I suffer from a warped sense of humor & Mastocytosis, a rare skin disease. In 2001, I left life support and found the meaning of my life. A disease forcing me to temporarily don the protective apparel of a beekeeper's suit, such adversity cut an unusual swath in my life. Facing an odyssey of self-discovery through mistaken identity, I wrote the autobiographical book Stop and Smell the Silk Roses. Life takes us many places. I landed on an TV's Ripley's Believe It or Not, became a comic strip, an exhibit in the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Atlantic City, NJ. My publications include The Mastocytosis Chronicles, 1983 American Collegiate Poets Anthology, 1984 World of Poetry. I have a cameo in the book Planet Eccentric. I have filmed as an actor in The Happening, Invincible, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Eclipse, The Greek American, Bazookas, TV's Its Always Sunny in Philly, The DMV Pilot, New York, The Bounty, The Warrior, The Nail, Cold Case, Sketches from Moscow and done commercial work for Septa and Carnival Cruises. Freudian Slips spotlights irony in short story format.
So too my life is a journey of self-discovery through mistaken identity. I crown thee website Freudian Slips.
joetornatore@comcast.net
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ANNUAL FREUDIAN SLIPS IRONY OSCAR:
2004 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY...... 12-19-04
2005 GOING POSTAL............... 11-17-05
2006 SLIM PICKINGS.............. 8-10-06
2007 THE NOTEBOOK............... 7-12-07
2008 GIRL INTERRUPTED........ 2-14-08
STOP AND SMELL THE SILK ROSES
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As I stepped over a homeless man sleeping atop a heat vent on Walnut street in center city Philadelphia this morning, I realized more than myself longed for an early spring. I want to sit on a park bench and feel the warmth of sunshine beaming down on my face. I never checked with the man but I think the homeless feel the same way.
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March 04, 2007
Bench Warmers
4 Comments:
Wow. Where is this?
Still waiting for real "Winter" here! We are having a six months Spring and I am fed up with it... I just wanted to show snow to my baby, but Jack Frost didn't come around to us
this was just an internet picture, Chi. i think it is of Norway. We haven't had much snow this winter.
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Norway, I think. not local.
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