Thursday, March 14, 2024

Dade County Slash Pine - Name That Park

 

Ancient Forest, What's Left Of It

 

The world famous Dade County Slash Pine, only 1% of land formerly full of them left on earth

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

"The Consci," New Term Coined in Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics In The Magic City

Semantics were one of Lenny Bruce's favorite trips. The power of words and phrases to affect outcomes based on assigned meanings and how they change. So I coined a term in my new book, Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics In The Magic City. It's not listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam Websters, or anywhere else in the English language.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics In The Magic City

 




If you want an uncensored history on certain standup comedy stories you mighta never heard before, even if you're obsessed, and how they were a microcosm for live comedy all over these United States in the days when free speech, hard drugs, and the mafia ruled the streets, then this is the book for you.

Starring: Lenny Bruce, George Kirby, Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, B.S. Pully, Sammy Shore, La Wanda Page, Flip Wilson, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, Redd Foxx, Slappy White, Joe E. Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Wildman Steve, Pigmeat Markham, Moms Mabley, and Rodney Dangerfield.

Plus bonus chapters with Miami Overtown Soul, Funk, Country, Pop, Rock, and R&B Pioneer Sam Moore and his wife /manager Joyce Moore on the true history of real life in Rhythm and Blues, and what you might have never heard about Bill Cosby.

Book now available on Amazon with upcoming activations stay tuned

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Funny New Project On The Way

This is gonna be great. Working with some real cool miami people on this one

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Miami Herald Anti-Historic Editorial Board?

Sensationalist headline, legitimate question.

It is the ultimate hypocrisy that the Miami Herald editorial board, in an opinion column about suppressing history, conveniently failed to mention the very Jewish roots of the Hampton House.

The Hampton House was a Green Book Motel because Harry and Florence Markowitz opened their doors to the African American community writ large.

They did cash business with inner city Miami and travelers, tourists, musicians, political figures from around the country and extended credit to same during the dangerous era of dynamite firebombings by the KKK in that very neighborhood of Brownsville, an unincorporated destination near the City of Miami. During segregation, they held integrated parties with all races having a blast at the bar, the pool, the rooms, and the lounge.

Amidst terrible local police corruption and with the FBI closely following the activities of the Nation Of Islam, they welcomed Malcolm X.

Not to mention the fact that the Mafia was always trying to get in on the action.

They were also regular advertisers in the Miami Times newspaper, paying into the black economy on a weekly basis, and the Miami Herald as well, contributing to the Knight family's wealth for that matter.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

No Facebook, No Instagram, No Snapchat, No 4Chan, No Whatsapp, No Twitter X, No Tik Tok, No Myspace, No Signal, No Telegram, None of That

I'm on Google Maps, Youtube, Reddit, Blogspot, Amazon, Print Media, Street Promotion, Distribution, and good ol Physical Reality. So far that's how I been doin it.

If you think you see me anywhere else, it's probably fraud or a catfish. Jacob Katel here reporting live from the identity theft capital of America.

Im not anti social media, it's pretty cool that everyone can get their story out there now, i'm just not on it, dont have the apps or the accounts. In the past fifteen years, the whole world has fallen for the redefinition of the word "friends," which used to be more than just people who follow eachother, and the new meaning of the word "followers," which used to be a major insult. And i gotta say, a few corporations run by a few people shouldn't have so much control over how so many people think and act. The social programming, a/b testing, psychological experiments on mass populations of Americans by private and sometimes multinational corporations and foreign governments, weaponization of human networks, algorithmification of information, and mathematic foryoupagetuitiveness have gotten out of hand. Just clear your fuckin cookies already and think for yourself, dumbass

It's all designed and engineered bullshit for the purpose of creating microplastics, which is why even though technology is fun and cool as shit, i try not to fall for the tricks and traps.

I like listening to comedy podcasts, posting photos, and uploading videos as much as everybody else, i just opt out of as much of the lame shit as possible.

Friday, August 25, 2023

Miami New Times Freelancer 2008 - 2015

Websites change so much over time, and the internet is such a different place than when I was freelancing for my local paper, that i kept clips of all my copyrighted work just to prove it existed. Here are a few examples of my articles with photos. For whatever reason of their own accord, most likely something to do with image formats and dimensions, nearly all of my photography has been erased from their archives, but not from mine.  

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

MADBALL New York Hardcore in Miami

 

MADBALL at Churchill's Pub, Miami, FL, 2015 - Jake Katel



I rember riding out to Churchill's Pub when I was fifteen years old to get onstage with my first band, 528, to play my guitar fast and loud as I could while a bunch of crazies ran around in a circle full of rage and destruction while patched up bikers and their tough as nails biker mama's laughed so hard they spilled or threw their beers just to watch everybody slip and fall.

I got to see lots of great shows there over a couple of decades time, too many to remember, but a few of my favorite were MADBALL, Agnostic Front, and Murphy's Law, three of the best bands to ever do New York City Hardcore and take their sound around the world, independent, against the odds, in spite of the haters, overcoming their obstacles, and having fun. They still inspire me today, and that is why I have always stood up for myself and did everything my own way.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Lil Wayne In The Club 2013


Lil Wayne 2013 - ©Jacob Katel. All rights reserved.

Lil Wayne. Phenomenal metaphor and simile creator and complex like-as comparison proliferator. Maybe the best writer in the game. Most consistent subject matter meets most varied word choice, imaginative symbolism, and vivid imagery, whether he uses a pen and paper or not.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Cuban Missile Crisis revisited

Exploring original cuban missile crisis area - december 2020 - Jake Katel

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Miami Herald: "Aerojet Held Liable For Crop Ruin"

 

 

U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins ruled Tuesday that Aerojet-General Corp of Sacramento Calif is liable for damages to South Dade crops when a solid fuel rocket was tested here in 1967.

Monday, April 3, 2023

The Disappearing Grove

 

knocking over history on Grand Ave - Jake Katel

The Goombay Festival used to be bigger than Calle Ocho, drawing over a million revelers to Grand Avenue in Coconut Grove, with the crowd stretching from US1 in Coral Gables all the way to Cocowalk and beyond. Now almost all that's left are the memories of a time that cannot be replaced, and the rapidly demolished landscape of the buildings that once lined Grand Ave.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Book Copyrights

 


Jacob "Jake" Katel and Henry Stone Official Book Copyrights

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Road to the Dark Heart of the Rocket Ruins of The Everglades

The second to last ditch to the abandoned rocket silo - Jake Katel

 

In 1966, Aerojet test-fired the world's largest solid-fuel rocket upside down into a fourteen story concrete hole in the Everglades.  

 

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