* * * PRESS RELEASE * * * Jason Picetti, aka ALS Boy, will be making his live television debut this upcoming Labor Day Monday, September 7, 2009. He will be appearing on the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, which is broadcast on KTVU, Channel 2 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. He is [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Set Those DVRs
Posted in Allegedly Funny, Ask the Audience on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
ALS Boy Needs Your Help
Posted in Ask the Audience, Memoir on August 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
How would you like to help me write my memoir AND decorate my office at the same time? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions then you may skip the next sentence and go directly to the next paragraph to find out what you can do to help. If your answer [...]
First Day of School
Posted in Life on August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday was the first day of school at La Entrada. In purely stereotypical terms, the first day of school means different things to different people. Students, for example, may verbally lament the fact that the summer’s over as they cheerfully interact with their fellow students and teachers. On the other hand, teachers may verbally lament [...]
The Happiest AND Most Accessible Place on Earth
Posted in Accessibility, Vacation on August 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Emma’s First Visit to Disneyland A Photoessay Words: Jason Picetti Pictures: Ameer Khan Earlier this month, Fehmeen, her brother Ameer, Emma, and I piled into the proverbial Wally Wagon and made our way south down I-5 to Disneyland. And despite the fact that things got off to a less-than-ideal start (please refer to the stolen [...]
Setting the Bar
Posted in Life, Vacation on August 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On our first day at Disneyland, someone stole our brand new stroller. Actually, that statement isn’t exactly accurate. Let me try again. Before we even left the hotel for our first day at Disneyland, someone stole our brand new stroller. Here’s how it all went down: Because the four of us overslept a bit, we [...]
Watsu
Posted in Treatments on August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am floating. Not in the sky on a fluffy white cloud. Not in the vast and empty blackness of space. I am floating in water. F L O A T I N G My heavy and uncooperative body made buoyant by a trio of devices attached to my legs and neck. At first, I [...]
Snapshot
Posted in Emma on August 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On the personally momentous occasion of this being my ONE HUNDREDTH POST on this blog, I have decided to celebrate the event in a manner befitting the nature of the medium. Rather than having to rely on my vastly overworked and woefully underpaid memory for this information at a later date, I am going to [...]
And Here’s Why
Posted in Life on August 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
As we drove around in our new (Toot Toot Chugga Chugga) Big Red Car Van the other day, Fehmeen asked me the following question: If you had to assign a number to the life you are living right now, with 10 meaning absolute perfection and 1 representing overwhelming despair, what number is your life? I [...]
