Bill Murray Crashes Billy Gardell's Kennywood Days _(short film title "Caddying for The Lama")

Bill Murray Crashes Billy Gardell's Kennywood Days _(short film title "Caddying for The Lama")

Last summer I worked on a short story published on my blog that received a decent amount of traffic about a giant rubber duck in the 3 Rivers (confluence) of Pittsburgh, Billy Gardell (star of Mike & Molly), Wiz Khalifa (just busted in San Antonio, TX for weed just like Willie Nelson was and has his own strain of marijuana named after him), and the mayor of Pittsburgh (#ThereIsPedutoAgain).

Well given that the New Yorker has a current piece in its Culture Desk section describing Bill Murray as an "internet jester" as he magically appears across the country and in a world of the web desperate for clicks, unique views & #newmediabuzz he inserts himself in everyday occurrences people post on social media sites and makes these things extra special = I am having a little fun writing this piece.
#BillMurray Crashes Billy Gardell's #KennywoodDays _(short film titled "Caddying for The Lama" promises to be funny)

Bill Murray is even more famous for this latest brilliant intuitive use of new media and everybody who has enjoyed "Where's Waldo?!" is anticipating where this internet jester new media star will pop up next!

Gardell who reigns from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  is proud to have such blue collar rusted roots from the big Steel City whose football team the Pittsburgh Steelers have won more Super Bowls than any other team in the NFL and for the hit star of Chuck Lorre's CBS Primetime Show Mike & Molly to have his DVE Morning Show buddies at WDVE Pittsburgh and 50 carefully selected "yinzers" from the loyally faithful WDVE audience have their own Kennywood Days at the iconic Kennywood Amuzement Park in Pittsburgh = is like Billy Gardell's Super Bowl being played in front of his own hometown crowd in his hometown city.

But Gardell is actually nervous this #newmedia Bill Murray may upstage him by actually showing up at Kennywood Park July 11th 2014 and photo-bomb him during Billy's big photo-op in the park with the average everyday DVE listener.

"Look O'Connell, this is how you handle it, OK. When you meet with Murray let him see you're relaxed, not nervous, not intimidated because if he senses that we'er done. Done! You hear me, O'Connell!! You know how important this is to me, right?! OK, so just play a Belushi and ask if you can order room service and you deliver what I told and just as the room service arrives with its armies of wait staff and trays you finish my message and get up and bolt out the door like you're Dave Matthews who just took a shady shit on Rusted Root's tour bus and your leg of the tour with them has ended.

Now let's go over it one more time. Look Mr. Murray here's what Billy wants me to relay, ""You are hilarious with those gopher faces & killed it in What About Bob but don't make this photo-bomb during my Kennywood Days your Rushmore. Listen, Pittsburgh is my city. My city! For Father's Day I got 4 new Steeler tee shirts & 4 pair of sweat pants and I opened each one of them up like I'd never seen Steeler gear in my life. Oh, look at this one! Oh, look at this one! Yeah, you go up to Punxsutawney!""


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#TheNewMedia #BillMurray "Internet Jester" says #TheNewYorker ... & We keep hoping for another Pittsburgh Bill Murray event @NewEdayMedia: @NewYorker like when he was here for GroundHogDay & KingPin & Pittsburgh loves him for those stories but now we want #NewMedia#BillMurrayGroundHogDay

Bill Murray, Internet Jester

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It would not overstate the matter to call Bill Murray beloved, but will we ever grow tired of his persona?

Cyril Wecht Letter to My Mother Is Humbling to Read Regarding My Dad's Passing

Under normal circumstances I would never publish a letter from Cyril Wecht to my mother however the passing of my Dad has affected many of you whether you called him 

Attny Conte, Mr. Conte, John, Uncle John, GranDad or dad.

Attorney & Mrs. John A. Conte

Best of the Roses

(both of my grandmothers on mom & dad sides were named Rose),

Johnny

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John Alan Conte, Jr. Endless Tour Project Interview #GratefulDead (Pittsburgh, PA) YouTube

©1995 robbi cohn/dead images...Jerry Garcia 6-30-95 Pittsburgh, PA
Grateful Dead 3 Rivers Stadium 

Here is a few minutes of the couple hours I spent with the Endless Tour Project a couple weeks ago on a Monday evening in Point State Park #GoldenTriangle

Thanks to Joanna for trucking to Pittsburgh to interview me Monday and Liz Berlin via Skype Tuesday on the big monitor at the Creative Life Support offices inside Mr. Small's Theatre in Millvale (across the bridge from Lawrenceville).

This is a very Grateful Dead family sponsored project and I am honored to be a part of it.

John Alan Conte, Jr. Endless Tour Project Interview (Pittsburgh, PA)

Published on May 24, 2014

John Conte remembers rain pouring down during the Grateful Dead's final Pittsburgh performance in 1995 as part of the Endless Tour Project. www.endlesstourproject.com.

click on this YouTube link to watch here on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14unOb0kLcc&feature=youtu.be

Jerry Garcia's RoseBud (played 6-30-95)

John Alan Conte, Jr. Endless Tour Project Interview (Pittsburgh, PA)

Best of the Roses, John
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Piece in PittsburghPostGazette Today on Dad: Obituary: John A. Conte / Prominent Beaver County lawyer consulted on Jack Ruby’s defense

The reporter who wrote this piece on my father commented to my father's law partners Attorneys Scott Melton & Dan D'Antonio what an immigration success story Attorney John Alan Conte really is. .. Scott shared those words at my father's funeral today. Both Dan & Scott honored my father in a big big way today and we are thankful & grateful. 

And it was said: John as a young child found an injured crow and took it home and nursed him back to health. He named the crow "Jimmy" and taught him to sit on his shoulder. John would even walk to school with Jimmy the crow on his shoulder and when he went into the school in the morning Jimmy the crow would wait for him and be there when he got out of school in the afternoon and get back up on John's shoulder and walk on home with him. John figured if he could teach a crow all this he could teach a jury.

Obituary: John A. Conte / Prominent Beaver County lawyer consulted on Jack Ruby’s defense

Sept. 19, 1927 - May 25, 2014

May 30, 2014 11:40 PM

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Attorney John Conte

By Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

John Conte, a lawyer who once served as a consultant for the defense of Jack Ruby and won several record malpractice awards in Beaver County, diedSunday.

He was 86 and lived in Conway, where his family had settled after emigrating from Italy when he was 7.

Mr. Conte practiced law in Conway for nearly five decades and made a name for himself early.

It was his handling of a local murder case that landed him on the Jack Ruby defense team.

In 1963, he represented Walter Hlista Jr., who was accused of killing his father, Walter Hlista Sr., the police chief in Harmony.

Hlista confessed to shooting his father five times after being ordered to turn off the TV and go to bed.

In a novel defense for the time, he pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, saying he snapped after enduring years of abuse.

Mr. Conte argued that the beatings and mistreatment had so altered Walter Jr.’s mind that he could not form the intent to kill.

“It would be a barbarous thing to inflict punishment on someone who did not intend to do evil,” Mr. Conte told the jury.

After a sensational trial, the jury acquitted Walter Jr., who 20 years later killed himself and his 2-year-old daughter in the state of Indiana.

Two months after the acquittal, John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, after which Jack Ruby shot Oswald.

Mr. Conte’s work on the Hlista case generated considerable publicity around the country and attracted the attention of Melvin Belli, who represented Ruby.

Belli flew Mr. Conte and his partner, Paul Courtney, to Dallas, where they consulted for several weeks about defense strategies.

News accounts of the time mention Mr. Conte but not his specific role, although his former law partners and his daughter said Belli rejected his suggestion to use a similar defense as the one he had used in the Hlista case.

The idea was that Ruby wasn’t in his right mind when he killed Oswald because he was overcome with grief for JFK, like almost everyone else in America.

“Dad told him to use the temporary insanity defense, and he didn’t do that,” said Mr. Conte’s daughter, Alane Scheider of Conway. “He later called my dad up and told him he should have done that.”

Ruby was convicted and sentenced to death. He appealed and won a new trial but died before it happened.

Back home, Mr. Conte’s career progressed. He handled criminal cases early on, served as an assistant district attorney and a special condemnation prosecutor for PennDOT in the 1960s and ’70s and later specialized in medical malpractice and personal injury.

One 1980s malpractice case he handled with partner Scott Melton resulted in the largest verdict in Beaver County — more than $2 million — up to that time, a record that lasted 19 years, according to his former law partners.

A $900,000 award he and Mr. Melton won in a 1980s defamation case against the owners of the New Castle News was one of the largest paid defamation verdicts in the country.

Mr. Conte’s partners said he had the common touch necessary to connect with juries.

“He really knew how to pitch a case in a way that people related themselves to our clients,” said one, Dan D’Antonio.

Mr. Conte was born in Italy in 1927 and came to America with his mother, Rosina, and brother, Anthony, in the 1930s. His father, Giuseppe, was already here and working on the railroad at Conway Yard.

Mr. Conte spoke no English but learned quickly. He graduated from Freedom High School and served in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II aboard a rescue tug in the Pacific. Anthony, who later became an anesthesiologist, served in the Army.

When Mr. Conte came home, he attended Geneva College, finishing at the top of his class, and earned his law degree from Boston College in 1952.

He was admitted to practice law in 1953, initially working out of a storefront office in the Northern Lights Shopping Center. He continued taking cases until 2000, when he suffered a stroke.

He and his wife, Joan, married in 1955 and raised six children in Conway. She still lives there, as do three of the children: Cheryl, Joe and Alane. Another, Cynthia, lives in nearby Baden, and John lives in Sewickley. A fourth daughter, Maureen, lives in Boston.

A Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. today at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Conway.

Torsten Ove: tove@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1510.

left to right grandchilden: Loke (w/ Kohl & Max), the late Thomas John "Tommy" (w/ Parka) & John "Bubbs"

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Me wearing Dad's fedora, top coat, suit jacket & sunglasses with one of his cigars.

Dad, I will miss you always and relish in the memory of the days when you would walk through the door from the office for dinner and in your lovingly boisterous voice say, "hello everybody!" ... Love, Johnny for now & forever.

Dad's Beaver Co Times Obituary + Inside the Conte Compound Pics

Published: Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:00 am

John A. Conte, Esq., 86, of Conway, passed peacefully on Sunday, May 25, 2014.

Born Sept. 19, 1927, in San Marco, Italy, he was a son of the late Giuseppe and Rosina Maria Colagrossi Conte. A U.S. Navy veteran, having served as a Yeoman in World War II, he was a founding member and active parishioner of Our Lady of Peace Parish.

Having immigrated from Italy at age 7 and not even speaking English, he rose to become a prominent Beaver County Attorney with a private legal practice in Conway for nearly 50 years. Early in his career, his successful work in murder trials led to his being consulted by Melvin Belli, the defense attorney of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Atty. Conte was a pioneer in medical malpractice, winning in 1984 the largest verdict that had been obtained in 19 years within Beaver County. Recognized as a 60 year member of the Beaver County Bar Assoc., he also served as their past president and member of the Board of Governors.

He was preceded in death by his grandson, Thomas J. Taverna and his brother, Anthony A. Conte.

Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Joan Ellen Erzen Conte; six children, Cheryl (Gary) Jamis, Cynthia 'Cinders' Kahele, Joseph Conte, Alane (David) Scheider, Maureen Conte and John (Deanna) Conte, Jr.; five grandchildren, Nicole (Veronica), John 'Bubs,' Zachary, Aaron and Leah; a sister-in-law, Josephine Conte, and two nephews, David (Allison) and Darrel (Sharon) Conte and their families.

Family and friends will be received today 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday 1 to 6 p.m. in the POLAND FUNERAL HOME INC., 901 First Ave., Conway, where Prayers will begin Saturday at 10:30 a.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. in Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Conway. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Freedom.

Members of the Beaver County Special Unit will meet at the cemetery at 12:15 p.m. to provide full military honors.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association or the Beaver County Humane Society.

Inside the Conte Compound Pics

                         mio padre e mia nonna Conte for my high school graduation 1988

We can still ever so lovingly picture Dad sitting here

 "The Spanish Room is called the Spanish Room because of the Spanish sconces and tile." - my hilarious, smart & beautiful mother

My mother is a very good cook even though she is not Italian :) !!! & is Austrian / German ... when my wife & i moved in together and could not make egg salad because we did not now how to boil eggs she immediately went into action and purchased us the Betty Crocker Cook-Book telling my wife it is the Bible of the kitchen.

ok il resto della casa è privata, quindi devo mostrarvi la porta ora!

This is a spring May view from behind the garage and what we would refer to as the sideyard off the patio. Further down the yard to the right beyond where the giant Magnolia tree is located is where the family vegetable garden used to be that my step-grandfather, who lived 6 months out of the year on Mercer Island in Seattle, WA and the other half of the year in Honolulu, HI, would work in and help tend to after my Uncle Leo Conte who also lived in Seattle (and only traveled by the railroad) would start for us every year.

The courtyard (or, at least, part of it)

Thank you, Dad! 

Without you I would never be allowed to be the man I am.

Grazie.

Ciao,

Gianni Conte

"Johnny"

#1 BIGnewEdayMedia2014: Diana Falzone 411 4x4 = Beyonce, Jay Z, Solange Family Feud & Alec Baldwin's Attitude

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Diana Falzone 411 4x4 = Beyonce, Jay Z, Solange Family Feud & Alec Baldwin's Attitude

click here to watch or click on above or below (hyperlinks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhMqJ9MNe1M&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

Fox411 Four4Four: Beyonce's family feud and Alec Baldwin has major attitude ; ) #444

Four4Four: Should Beyonce ditch Solange?

Four4Four: Should Beyonce distance herself from Solange?...

Smelling Incense on a Village Street Today for a Special Spring Sunday ...

Strolling happily near 2 of the places my wife & I rented in the Sewickley Village before buying a home in 2000, I smelled incense. What immediately came to my mind? It's a special day today as 2 Popes are being canonized saints in front of 2 Popes & w/ churches around the block I thought about celebrating mass today. Reading a book on the Prince-Priest Gallitzin of Pennsylvania early settlers of Western PA knew a mass was special by the burning of incense & in fact some of them would not make a daunting winter trip from say Ebensburg Pa to Loretto Pa unless the incense was going to be burnt. 

This pic of me is taken at the home of Attorney John A. Conte on the patio of the Conte Compound in Conway, Beaver County, Pa.

mystrawhat.com $cholarship fund 2015 = apply here now

in 2015 mystrawhat.com will provide two 12th grade students each with $250.00 each.

@NewEdayMedia: @MHarrisPerry thinking of starting a scholarship for 12th graders: $250. annually for 2 students who demonstrate in essay value of diversity
$$$
@NewEdayMedia: @MHarrisPerry instead of my morning prayers while walking now I am thinking how I can put my money where my mouth is as a real everyday poet

How to be awarded the money?

send a 650 word essay demonstrating how you've embraced diversity and have used it to create value to enrich the culture & make better your surroundings to John Alan Conte` Jr. via email at mosshead7@yahoo.com with the email subject "essay for mystrawhat.com $cholarship fund 2015"

Must include your name, age, school you attend and an email address for you or your parents (if parents, please include their names as well and please inform them of this & share your essay with them).

Winners?

winners will be notified via email and then must provide written permission by parents or guardian and the school you attend that you are able to accept mystrawhat.com $cholarship fund 2015 --- two 12th grade students will receive $250.00 each

When?

please have your essays in by April 12, 2015 and the monies will be awarded by the end of your school year 2015

$ please note $ winners must be willing to have pictures & story shared with new everyday media and provide written consent along with permission to accept mystrawhat.com $cholarship fund 2015

Why?

Why not? ... when I attended Marquette Uni I could not come home for Easter Sunday and so my generous father granted me extra allowance funds so I could have a nice Easter Sunday dinner treating 3 of my collegiate peers from my east dorm: Larry from Chambersburg, Pa; Chris from White Fish Bay, Milwaukee, WI; and Raj from India.

All and all I had a wonderful university experience both at Marquette University and Penn State University and the generosity and encouragement of my father allowed me to pass it on and I did.

Things are tough now for many and I want to continue the positive generosity and encouragement while emphasizing the rich importance of diversity. .. It's OK to be different and sometimes in the long run even better to be different than know only an identity of the crowd.

We dinned at Pieces of Eight located on prime real estate on the lake in downtown Milwaukee currently known as the Harbor House http://www.harborhousemke.com

Maybe you'll use this money in the same spirit or however you see fit for yourself.

Goodluck ... "dare to be different" ...

John Alan Conte` Jr. home from Marquette University on Thanksgiving break 1990


Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses),
mystrawhat.com
&
theneweverydaymedia.com

paper mache ghost poem

stay focused he thought as his fingers struck keys as he typed his search and 21st century multi media sales & marketing flashed across the screen and within a blink of an eye in comparison of the time he knew had fluttered passed him like leaves dancing in the wind in the form of paper mache teddy bears in triangle hats.

in the black predawn dreams of the past he was at home comfortable and in grand stories now distant memories but not as faded as covers of magazines kept in boxes in a basement or attic or maybe like yellow newspaper wrapped around knick-knacks saved to later help conjure up those feelings that passed of the past

now in his room with all of the books acquired over decades of seeking and with favorite original collections of folk art, luxuriant leather-ed Manhattan chair and oriental rug he had a warm hug to translate from a ghostly embrace he needed to record as a poem reflecting those fond moments not to be lost in thoughts like contents of some attics filled with cats & rocking chairs and brilliant Pacific sun light filled of coastal fresh air

the dreamer dreamt at home yet from with in a safe place of his childhood home where he encountered an unknown.

whereas the book that sat on the low to the ground coffee table that opened for enormous storage room of toys, books, crayons where he spent so many innocent Saturdays at play while his father sat nearby writing legal briefs, preparing cases and also keeping-up with papers from other cities --- this book in his dream opened-up and fluttered as if someone was racing through its pages and however there was no one there and then from out of no where as if breath was breathed into newspaper a stuffed teddy bear stood-up and made a paper mache image of itself included with a triangular top hat and darted off in a happy dance ... "John, it's OK. You're dreaming. You're dreaming it's ok. Go back to sleep now, darling."

Awakened early this morn still black predawn screaming as in my dream "who are you. What spirit are you. Tell me. Show me. Who are you."

BIGnewEdayMedia2014 25Top Hottest Women of Now Launched on MyStrawHat.com for the New Everyday Media by John Alan Conte` Jr.
http://theneweverydaymedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/bignewedaymedia-25-top-hottest-women-of.html

BIGnewEdayMedia2014 Original Poetry Now Launched on MyStrawHat.com for the New Everyday Media by John Alan Conte` Jr.
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BIGnewEdayMedia2014 25Top Hottest Women of Now Launched on MyStrawHat.com for the New Everyday Media

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find the #goodstuff here in this latest e-book from

mystrawhat.com's the New Everyday Media

john alan conte` jr.

BIGnewEdayMedia2014 Original Poetry Now Launched on MyStrawHat.com for the New Everyday Media

BIGnewEdayMedia2014 Original Poetry Now Launched on MyStrawHat.com for the New Everyday Media

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find the #goodstuff here in this latest e-book from

mystrawhat.com's the New Everyday Media

john alan conte` jr.

It's All About How You Recover No Matter What Stage You're On

Sometimes you can control that stage you're on whether it's a produced staging-area that you've helped produce & set-up for yourself or that others have unexpectedly produced & set-up for for you for their own narrative & agenda(s) ... However here is positive proof that magic & intent of using that magic true to your natural american spirit are a handful of aces back-to-back that helps you move forward on-down-the-line as your character helps you recover properly 8jettisoned8on any stage -including that grandest stage of them all as Shakespeare penned-it = "all of life is a stage" ...



Best of the Roses (but not rose colored glasses),

john alan conte` jr. & the new everyday media

#BIGnewEdayMedia2014 coming soon to mystrawhat.com

Cold Sunshine = a new original by me

Cold sunshine rough draft 

Frantically attacking the dark she was
Trying to find one patch of sunshine

Desperate she was a pale grey once 
Yellow jaundice like & before that blotchy 
Veiny red large with superfluous flesh. 
Desperate as the house that
Lost its heat in old man's winter grasp 
Being relentlessly karmic as she lost
Her mind in deviant malicious trouble
And the only thread of logic left was
mystrawhat.com's straw-hat & snowed_
in & that
Village snow-globe, sunshine, heat = fire
written March 27 2014 by
John Alan Conte Jr poet / marketer
Percolating poem ever since last week when WTAE morn weather guy said these 2 dichotic words together to describe the day 
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/11/21/firefighters-investigating-possible-snowglobe-fire/ (true recent story how snow-globe & sunshine + straw-hat = fire) 0001 "does life imitate art or art imitate life" ...

So if you were about to launch BIGnewEdayMedia2014 on mystrawhat.com featuring 25Top Hottest women of #newmedia + original poetry = what women would you celebrate???!!! ...

The Ruling Class by Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco) -- Seattle show 12/8/13

Tweedy may be able to fill in for Bill Maher the way for the comedy he heckles the crowd in #Seattle here.... Predicting big "this is the kinda stuff at-the-end-of-the-day people post: oh that Jeff Tweedy is such a F'n a_$hole!" ...
#ha thanks #rulingclass judgements

The Ruling Class by Loose Fur (as played on Jeff Tweedy's Sunken Treasure DVD).  This 
should be filed under Loose Fur but it's better under Wilco so people can find it.

Note: everytime you play a D it should be back and forth between these two:

2   and 2
3 3
2 0
0 0
x x
x x

Intro: D

E //// A //// D //// ////

     E                              A                    D
He resurfaced on the sidewalk of my block the other day
            E                         A
yeah it's a fact check sorry charlie, honey,
                   D
he's back from LA

   F#m
so son you better turn around
     G                           E
yeah christ is on his way across town
       G                         E
he was getting tired of hanging around
          E
yeah he's back jack smoking crack
A                                       D
find him if you wanna get found
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/w/wilco/80358.html ]
            E                           A               D
he's having supper with the upper management of a new regime
   E     A     D
he's in a new jacket tax bracket sandals & a dark pair of jeans
           F#m       G
he's got deductions right on down the line, dependent claims on all of
   E
mankind
E                            A                  D
have no fear he's right here drinkin' beer just trying to get down

     E                A   D
he resurfaced on the sidewalk of my block the other day
            E                         A
yeah it's a fact check sorry charlie, honey,
                        D
he's back from the grave
           F#m
you better turn your frown upside down
G              E
christ is on his way across town
       G        E
he was getting tired of hangin' around
  E       A            D
yea he's back jack shootin' smack find him if you wanna get found
          E      A               D
yeah he's back jack smokin' crack find him if you wanna get found