Jason O’Toole

I WAS one of the janitors! During breaks, I painted lockers, sanded the graffiti off desks and tables, and waxed the floors as a part time job when I wasn't fixing televisions at a repair shop.

I've worked with WNBA players, musicians, and other folks society doesn't value at our low paying social worky day jobs...just so we had insurance and roofs over our heads.

My grandma would have smacked me upside the head for talking like that.

When I was state police investigator, I stopped inexperienced federal agents who were never cops from violating rights - reminding them of unlawful search and seizure, but I've never personally witnessed LEOs abuse - throat punch suspects or bystanders, but I knew they'd be locked up if they did.

That is not an approved take down. The abuse under color of law suits are going to create a lot of future millionaires. Doing that on camera is a choice.

When I was his age, this stupid thing was all the rage.

My baby niece lives in Chicago. She and my siblings better be left in peace.

Talk radio stars and drug addicts Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck infamously called Michelle Obama "uppity" for knowing about vegetables like arugula.

The world is a big place and the USA wrongly believes it's special and doesn't have to follow the same rules as everyone else.

Thank you. Quite a surprise.

My grandpa was a legend at the FBI and he used to leave his revolver at home so he wouldn't get made as an agent. He arrested the highest ranking GRU officer ever captured without one and turned him double agent.

My kid was just traveling around Oregon last week and said it's the best. No terror reign noted.

What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?

There goes that dream. The dream was only a few months old, though, as I didn't think I had a shot until recently.

Andover Poet Wins Prestigious Amy Lowell Prize | Andover News Jason O’Toole has long been active in the region’s literary community.

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I wish you were President.

I am not wild about his music, but Bad Bunny as a person is impossible not to like.

These are the rightwing freaks who ruined Fetlife. Bet he was on there with this ghoulish kink. Might wanna dig up his yard and see who turns up.

Did she get a TBI when she had that bad crash or was she always stupid?

Yup. Supposedly alpha male heterosexual rightwing men hated Rihanna and Shakira's halftime shows. I dunno...I kinda enjoyed them.

His suit should be two sizes too small, and his arms and legs are a lot scrawnier.

It certainly can be. Feeding the hungry and clothing the naked should be easy to follow, but they have to get their cut.

In Pete's defense, he's got the excuse of being weak in the body, a drunkard, and a total wimp so of course he can't pull up his own body weight like every single member of the military.

I headlined a Halloween punk rock show in Albany, but the band covered my band from the 80s. I wanted to do Gun Club or Wipers instead but had to be me as a teenager which didn't work.

I'm only featuring at one October Halloween event this year. A luncheon Wegmans is putting on for lgbtq seniors at the Town of Bedford, which will be fun. If I stay too busy, I get no reading or writing done.

When are you performing next? I was out of state when you were at the Lily Pad. I've been a Sparks fan since I was allowed to stay up late for SNL. I have some ideas.

What my great uncle, Father Harry, would have called "heresy."

...I can ask some of the people in New England Poetry Club who do experimental theater. I keep saying I'm going to do something with Alec K. Redfearn at Necronomicon but have too many plates spinning.

Some terrific venues have closed as cannabis dispensaries take over every other space...but it's still very much a thing and if you look at the whole region, there's things happening in other closeby cities and towns - including Providence, Portsmouth and Portland.

Where in the Bible does it say a Christian can lie...or cause incalculable harm to the public you serve so your king can decorate the palace with more gold crap.