Hey,
I read your piece about Joe Pisani's new hot blog and couldn't stop laughing. I have found his former columns to be about as narrow-minded, sarcastic, and cynical as possible. I thought he was finally gone!!!
He single-handedly ruined a Catholic parish by incessant hyper- vigilant front page visibility, and the priest who stole money and led that "immoral life" is still not in jail. Every non-Catholic had a field day with this over publicized, almost personal vendetta Pisani had with Bishop William Lori and the Diocese of Bridgeport. It was front page for a year, ultimately forcing two gifted priests to leave the priesthood without a trace.
He targets single women, his obnoxious daughters,and divorcees for his new columns, blaming these woman for his daughters inept dating skills. Drunks are another target. I love a good happy drunk. The Catholic Church is always another. Middle age-is his newest complaint-is 58 middle age? I'm thinking 45 is. And as far as I can see, someone should teach Joe the art of growing gracefully.
He is considered by a few, mostly himself and his little bobbled-headed women editor friends, to be a "devout Catholic." Does Joe have any male friends or do they threaten his lack of masculinity too much? I'm Catholic, and very few Catholics write condescending and judgmental articles targeting innocent groups of people. He generalizes and pretends he is more insightful than the rest of us, virtually proving he knows very little about real life. His views are obnoxious. Someone should wake him up and tell his he is not Henry David Thoreau......nor will he every be. Thoreau had class, a brain, and a conscience. Pisani falls short in all three...
Susie Costaregeni (sp?),was a former student of his many years ago. I think he taught her 9th grade English at St. Joseph'sin Trumbull(though she clearly didn't pay attention to the subject). I wouldn't even want to begin to figure out the obsession the two have for each other. And far be it for me to add to the rumors already around town. Susie cannot write, has no grasp of the English language, and why she follows in the footsteps of her former "mentor" (see her goodbye letter to Joe in the Advocate archives) and works for free is beyond me. It seems like a high school love, gone bad which turned into an office fling, ultimately lacking an office. Haha. . But she's still single...or was last week. Oops....Joe got married eventually, but not to a bimbo half his age (well, she is 48, I think, but acts like, well, like a spoiled brat. Maybe it a "father figure" thing. Could Joe be the daddy she never had? Oh, I could have such fun with this topic...
Her columns, if you can call them columns, were crap. How many times were Harry Connick Jr and his wife Jill spotted doing nothing? Who cares? They live in this area and are pretty mellow, normal people. Who was seen eating sushi while strolling Greenwich Ave? Who cares. Does everyone strolling down "the avenue" have to worry about her catching them tossing garbage into a garbage receptacle? The only thing I have noticed about Susie, is she is the last to turn down a free drink from any loser. And she spends enough time in the Greenwich bars so that she is never far from the action, both for personal reasons, or professionally scooping up the gossip garbage. And it is all garbage. I I love the bar scene and spend too much time looking for love....haha.
Joe Pisani. Every column he writes, I can rip apart. Especially the ones for the Catholic newspapers. I know my facts, Joe doesn't. Maybe he's a convert. I have some friends who know him well......and don't like his new "metro" inflated demeanor, heck, they never liked him period. He is working for the Dielenschneider Group in NY. Robert Dilenschneider is a self-proclaimed authority on everything....but in reality, he inherited a bunch of money from his mother, is a lazy ass, and likes to see his name in print. Lives in a mini mansion in Darien, I think. He like to spend money too, and he's an idiot. I think he wrote one book which was a marginal success. However, he's another loser from the area. I met Bob and thought AH immediately.. I have also met Joe, Bishop William Lori, and Pope Benedict XVl. Our social circles must cross sometimes! Ha ha What a strange coincidence. Maybe I should address that. I'm a lot younger than these people.
I couldn't care less about the "newest hottest blog"....but I'm sick of his old-style, say nothing new, journalism. I follow it b/c a friend is equally amused by Joe's shortsightedness, and sends me the links. Yesterday, Joe wrote up about scantly clad, almost nude, girls popping up on his computer screen. Why doesn't that happen to me? I guess I don't visit as many porn sites. Oh well. There's Joe trying to come up w/more excuses either for his wife or new boss or whomever,and proving his male will power and virtuous behavior exceeds the rest of ours. Nice try.
Maybe break up this letter and use what you want. I would certainly give you some more constructive articles. I'm a writer who is bored at the moment. I don't want Joe to target me in his next column, or sue (no pun intended) me. Believe me, he would. He has some anger issues.
Regards
RC
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I don't understand why RC was so nice to Joe. The man in a moron, IMHO. He abused his editorial powers ruthlessly, to the benefit of his (few) friends and the detriment of his (many) enemies. He was probably the nastiest, least-Christian person in the snakepit of Greenwich yellow journalism.
And thus karma caught up with him eventually, as it was bound to do. I bade a not-so-fond farewell to Joe in my post of 5/5/08, but it appears he has now resurfaced floating on the front page of that open sewer, the Greenwich Post. He should know better than to mess with karma, which will undoubtedly bite him twice as hard the next time. And yes, Virginia, there will be a next time, and a next, and a next, and a next, until "Pissy Joe" finally learns his lesson or falls off the face of the earth, whichever comes first.
Some people never learn. I suspect "Pissy Joe" is one of them. Right, RC?
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