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Author: Michael Picarella

He’s the Twain of the Inane. His work is taken straight from the Inanitarium, a vault of little stories that are literally about nothing, but maybe about everything. Now that you’ve taken a look, it's safe to say this guy is no Twain. He’s even better, right? Michael Picarella is an award-winning writer, amateur family man and expert in fascinations, with a taste for cookies, milk and the American Dream. His book, “Everything Ever After (Confessions of a Family Man),” is a collection of stories you can’t live without from his family humor newspaper column, “Family Men Don’t Wear Name Brands.” Additionally, Picarella is the publisher, content manager and writer of Jack-o’-Lantern Press, a monster blog for monsters only, at www.JackoLanternPress.com, and he’s also the filmmaker behind two feature-length tales of suburban noir you’ve never seen. Picarella is a homeowner living in the outskirts of Los Angeles. He battles armies of domestic gremlins with his wife, son and their pet beagle on a daily basis. Most of their life is made up of small, inane events and manias, which they call their "everything ever after." So how about a break from the BIG, the LOUD, the EXTRAORDINARY and the AMAZING? For more information and ways to connect, go to www.MichaelPicarella.com.

Two-Headed Lion’s Head Inn being used for good, not evil

August 19, 2017 Michael Picarella

By The Invisible Man Contributor to the JLP MAD SCIENCE DISTRICT — The rooms in the Two-Headed Lion’s Head Inn are meant for mad scientists to conduct work of terror. According to sources, however, some […]

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Good Clean Funevil, funny, Good, H.G. Welles, Halloween, horror, humor, invisible man, mad science, monsters, Terror

There are rules to obey on a trip to Disneyland

July 28, 2017 Michael Picarella

We said we’d wait at least another decade before going back to Disneyland after the last exhausting visit, but there we were, only two years later, going back. Such a reversal in not without precedent. […]

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1 CommentEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, LifestyleDisneyland, family, funny, humor, kids, marriage, rules, Summer, Vacation

Wife not pushy about Amazon dash buttons

July 21, 2017July 29, 2017 Michael Picarella

My wife goes along with my random ponderings—theories about the universe, why things happen as they do, world issues and, of course, why American life isn’t complete without Amazon dash buttons. “Have you seen those […]

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4 CommentsEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, LifestyleAmazon, American Dream, Consumer, Convenience, Dash Buttons, family, fun, Homeowner, humor, Lazy, marriage

Happy ending to dog’s tale

July 1, 2017 Michael Picarella

Our pet beagle eats his food fast—really fast. I wondered if we should do something about it. So my wife told a friend, the friend told another friend who was a veterinarian, and the veterinarian […]

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2 CommentsEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestyledog, Dog Bowl, eating, family, fun, funny, humor, kids, learning, maze, parenting, pets, responsibility, teaching, The Shining

Wife says ‘You two are better than U2!’

June 9, 2017 Michael Picarella

I’ve been married almost 17 years, and I know that my wife is not materialistic. For Christmas, Valentine’s Day, anniversaries and birthdays, she doesn’t want much. She’s more into the thought and love behind a […]

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Everyday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestylebirthday, Concert, family, gifts, humor, kid, love, marriage, Materialism, parenting, U2, wife

Father-in-law has chicken soup fix

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Michael Picarella

I got the flu that’s going around, so my wife made a call to her dad. Within 15 minutes, he was at our doorstep with a package. How does he manage to keep his freezer […]

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2 CommentsEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestylefamily, flu, funny, healing, humor, sick, soup, virus

Being Italian means eating tomatoes and loving it

May 5, 2017May 6, 2017 Michael Picarella

I’ve known this for years about my son, who’s now 13, but the other day something hit me, and I didn’t like it. I had to bring it up. Me: You’re my kid. You’re Italian. […]

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1 CommentEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestylefamily, fish, food, funny, humor, Italian, Italian-American, kids, parenting, seafood, Sicilian, Tomato

Mr. Picarella goes to Washington

April 21, 2017April 21, 2017 Michael Picarella

Mr. Picarella is not a mister. He’s a 13-year-old kid. He’s my kid! My wife and I try to protect him from the world, but I promise, we don’t shelter him. We let him ride […]

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1 CommentEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestyleairplane, Control, family, funny, growing up, history, humor, kids, parenting, Travel, Washington D.C.

Dog walk has a second purpose

April 8, 2017April 21, 2017 Michael Picarella

I could walk my dog past other people on walks (“Oh, he’s so cute!”), by kids on skateboards (out of nowhere, they come piercing through the quiet evening), through construction zones with jackhammering (Thd-thd-thd-thd-thd), into […]

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1 CommentEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, Lifestyledogs, family, funny, humor, park, pets, Walks

The day a mysterious package came

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 Michael Picarella

My wife and I don’t use our home phone. We use our cell phones. In fact, the only people calling us on our land line are salespeople and scammers, making me often wonder why we […]

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2 CommentsEveryday Life, Good Clean Fun, LifestyleCardiology, Device, doctor, family, fun, funny, health, heart, humor, mail, marriage, Pacemaker, stress

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