BUILT IN OBSOLESCENCE.

See consumer complaint website about VIZIO.

Vita Pastorale February 2011 cover

Close-up of my image used in article about Saint Joseph Cafasso

Full page one of article

Thank you card from editor

Deepest thanks for the precious collaboration. I also bring greetings and thanks from Father Giuliano Censi and our most cordial greetings.

Locked Bike N.Y.C. ©Vincenzo Aiosa

Brooklyn, NY 11232
(718)832-8553

Sunday night TV line up nothing special, let me go to Home Depot. Let’s see check hours on line, call store to see if there any changes or problems, all seems to be on track (the recording confirms the Internet information). So I headed on  over  and arrived   @8.30 pm.To find out that the store closes at 9.00pm No excuses no apologies, just the same bad attitude from employee & managers. As I was checking out @ 8.58 my cart was taken away by the manager(no cart outside of the store after 9) with nothing more to say to me he just walked out mumbling some choice adjective.(I think he called me a faggot- whatever gave him that impression?). I must add that the cashier that served me was somewhat apoligetic and really on my side and could not believe the behavior of management.  Being in the construction business I go to Home Depot quite a lot,  Iam used by now to being treated like dirt by Home Depot employee this goes especially for the Hamilton Ave &  the Nostrand Ave store.  The Northern BLD store in LIC is a bit better but the thieves roam the parking lot , so it is very unsafe to go and leave your car unattended.

© Frank H. Jump

Our friend and  house guest from England,  Lemmy Caution retold his horrific experience of 1999

Lemmy’s Arrest…

…what follows is the sorry tale of Lemmy’s arrest and subsequent trial during the s-s-sweltering summer of 1999 in New York City. It speaks of crime and negligence and how these are played out on a routine, everyday basis …it exposes c-c-corruption and a casual disregard for law…it contains truths that some would prefer to remain hidden…

…so it goes that during the summer of 99, Lemmy was walking back from his good friend Eddie Constant’s place in the East Village and decided to cut across town to take the A train uptown. When Lemmy arrived at the station and swiped his ticket the turn-style jammed and so he swiped it again and then again. Seeing that other people had decided to jump over, Lemmy did the same. Less than a minute after he had done so Lemmy was accosted by two guys who pressed him against the wall and demanded to know who the hell he was and what the hell he thought he was doing. Admittedly, Lemmy couldn’t resist telling them he was King Tut but even so it seemed that it was with indecent haste that Lemmy was cuffed in chains and thrown in the back of a Police Car. A Hispanic guy called Ernesto was already in there and also handcuffed. Then the cops t-t-turned to Lemmy and his fellow con and asked if we knew of any criminal activity in the area. This being near Washington Square, Ernesto gestured to the various guys lined up on the corner and sarcastically said “yeah, he’s a dealer, the one next to him is dealer, so’s the one next to him as well…in fact they’re all dealers” . The cop replied “tell us something we don’t know” to which Ernesto said “well you asked”. But the cops obviously couldn’t be bothered or were being paid off to look the other way and so Lemmy and Ernesto were driven down to Chinatown and thrown in some jail near Canal St.

Then the fun really started…

My Prison Lemmy Caution

…the initial booking was meant to be done by the two cops that arrested us…but by some once in a lifetime miracle the computer was down…which meant that Lemmy couldn’t be processed and also meant that Lemmy’s name couldn’t be run through the computer and checked against the database of known felons on the run. Thus by some equally miraculous co-incidence , this meant that the arresting cops couldn’t go back out on the streets to continue  their work policing the city and making it a safer place but were instead forced to stay inside and play cards and drink coffee for the entire duration of their shift. Eight hours later at the end of their shift when it was time to go home rather than go back out and work the streets, the computer miraculously started working again. Lemmy was in awe about how an inanimate machine could be so considerate as to not to work for the precise duration of their shift—meaning they had to stick around the jails playing cards while they waited for it get back online rather than pounding the streets—and how at the very moment they were due to go home it started working again..

…but before we get too far ahead of ourselves, there is still much to be t-t-told about Lemmy’s initial hours banged up in the can…

…first off, it is important to note that Lemmy had a valid ticket and had already told the cops as much at the station. “Go ahead, check it you’ll see it’s valid but the turnstile doesn’t work” But the cops weren’t interested in Lemmy’s ticket or whether it was valid and just wanted to cuff him and get him into the car so that they could take him down to the jail and get on with their card game. The ticked was confiscated with Lemmy’s other stuff…then as he languished in the cell he started getting b-b-bored after a couple of hours and so started to speak loudly to Ernesto by recounting the plot of Kafka’s Trial and how it was funny that the country’s values on freedom were so easily undermined by a bunch of lazy cops and how this wouldn’t happen in Lemmy’s country as the cops were professionals who went about their business in a thorough and systematic manner. Of course Lemmy wasn’t really talking so much to Ernesto (tho he became quite interested in how Kafka’s Trial ended) but was really talking to the cops in the corner playing cards, who he could see were getting distracted from their game until one came over to Lemmy’s cell and started chewing off Lemmy’s ear about how cops in England all secretly carry guns and that Lemmy should be grateful as New York was so much safer now than in the 80s because of the work the cops were doing. Lemmy said that the only danger he’d ever been in while in New York is from lazy cops and that he certainly didn’t feel safer knowing they were playing cards and making up false arrests rather than getting their ass out onto the street. This seemed to rile one of the other cops who came up to Lemmy to ask “what his problem was” to which Lemmy replied that his “problem” was that he had a valid ticket and had now been banged up for nearly 8 hours. “What the fuck do I care about that” came back the answer…

James Cagney

Lemmy imagined himself as Jimmy Cagney as he pressed his face up to the c-c-cold metal bars of his cell

Toyota Stuck! © Vincenzo Aiosa

Toyota is not the first automobile company to have a major recall. Remember the Ford Explorer?

However, I own a Ford Escape now. God help me. We purchased our new car from Gibbons Ford of Dickson City, PA.

It’s our second vehicle we bought from them. Our salesman is Walter Hallock, the nicest and funniest  salesman I have ever had. No pressure, no gimmicks – just the facts- “If you like the car, buy it already. Don’t waste my time.“

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The first car I ever owned was a 1969 Ford Consul Cortina

Rotten to the core © Vincenzo Aiosa

I think it is really Rotten that we  are still not allowed to get married in New York State- thanks to a bunch of Republican Assholes in Albany. Also  adding to the list of assholes are the Democrats who voted against the bill included Sens. Joseph Addabbo, Shirley Huntley, George Onorato and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, Ruben Diaz Sr. of the Bronx, Darrel Aubertine of the North Country, and William Stachowski of the Buffalo area.The Federal Government, should take example from our neighbor to the North (Canada) .

Frank Jump and Vincenzo Aiosa got married on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 2004 in Toronto, Canada.

Thank you Equal Marriage Canada, The Great City and People of Toronto, The Honorable Justice Harvey Brownstone and his partner Marty, and Brendan Fay and Jesús Lebrón!

For more information about same-sex unions see the website The
Civil Marriage Trail, sponsored by Brendan Fay and Jesús Lebrón

or click on the link below:

Here is the Press release that was sent to the Associated Press for printing
as of February 10, 2004:

Frank Jump & Vincenzo Aiosa have been living together in Brooklyn since 1990. Mr. Jump is a photographer/composer and NYC school teacher. He has recently completed his Masters Degree at Brooklyn College through the NYC Teaching Fellows Program. Jump is an original ACT-UP member and in April 2004, he will be living with HIV/AIDS for twenty years. Jump’s photographic website project, The Fading Ad Campaign documents vintage mural advertisements in New York, across the U.S., and Europe and is a metaphor for his survival.

Mr. Aiosa, a NYC contractor, apartment remodeler and owner ofM V R Remodeling, Inc., is originally from Torino, Italy and has been living in the U.S. since 1982. Both Jump & Aiosa are thrilled to be tying the knot in Toronto and thank the Canadian regional government for their broad-minded and inclusive marriage laws. They are both hoping the United States makes the right choice in recognizing same-sex unions.

San Dalmazzo Torino © Vincenzo Aiosa

San Dalmazzo Torino © Vincenzo Aiosa

San Dalmazzo Torino © Vincenzo Aiosa

Church of San Dalmazzo

The church of San Dalmazzo, placed in the heart of the city in via delle Orfane, is one of the oldest of Turin.Ever since the year 1000 we have got evidence of a pre-existent religious building of basilical plan consecrated to San Dalmazzo martyr, placed on the actual via Garibaldi.Church of San DalmazzoFrom 1271, the church was committed to the Ospitalieri di Sant’Antonio friars, and in 1606 to the Barnabiti (religious order funded in Milan in 1530 by Sant’Antonio Maria Zaccaria), who will see in 1702 to the construction of the façade, to the enlargement of the inside, to the construction of the chapel of the Madonna di Loreto (between 1629 and 1631), to imitate the house of the Virgin existent in Loreto.The church is a building of basilical structure with a nave and two side aisles; in the sides of the side aisles there are eight niches with altars.The nave is characterized by the presence, on its high part, of encaustic figures, a work of art by the painter Enrico Reffo depicting widows, penitents, virgins and martyrs.The pulpit made of Carrara marble is of a remarkable value and it has the effigy of the priest Filippo Montuoro, in order to remember the great work of the building renewing.The altar is surmounted by a marble canopy supported by four pillars.In the right side aisle there is the San Paolo’s chapel, strictly linked to the presence of the Barnabiti in the church.In the chapel a large window surmounts the altar made of incised marble; in it there are portrayed, beside San Paolo, San Carlo Borromeo (which was the first to show his trust in the works of Sant’Antonio Maria Zaccaria), and San Francesco di Sales (in its charisma, the order strongly recognizes itself).The fourth is consecrated to San Leonardo Murialdo, an essential help to young workers in the Turin of the second half of the 19th century, which sees growing rapidly its

P's wife and Joseph © Richard McBee

Joseph sees himself © Richard McBee

Joseph Sees Himself by Richard McBee

The story of Joseph (Genesis 37 & 39) traces the maturation of a young foolish lad into a cunning manipulator who saves the Egyptian empire and facilitates the rescue of Jacob and his sons from the famine in Canaan, preparing for the eventual birth of the Jewish nation. Initially Joseph is sold by his jealous brothers into slavery and ends up as the personal attendant in the house of Potiphar, chief steward to Pharaoh. Potiphar’s wife desires the handsome lad and implores him to sleep with her. Many Jewish commentators say that Joseph almost succumbed to his lusty mistress. Some say as he was about to sin the only thing that stopped him was that he saw his own reflection in the window that miraculously became the image of his pious father, Jacob. Frustrated, Potiphar’s wife accused Joseph of assaulting her and had him thrown into prison where he proved his ability at prophetic dream divination, paving his way into Pharaoh’s court.

And speaking of sins you can use this service before (or after) you sin as well:

Adventures In Redemption