Cup O' Joe by John DAgostino, Eccentric Artist

Yeni Gözler - New Eyes

2006-05-26T06:46:00.000-07:00

I think that it is over 15 years no that I am painting versions of coffee cups. The styles change as the workings of my mind change. When I say "change" I don't mean grow, re-interpret to my present frame of mind.

On my new website yenigozler.com that shows my new 2006 art work I write - I have new eyes. I can see clearly now and believe this is the most significant work that I have produced in a long time. Eight years ago at the age of 40 I was told that I was developing cataracts. My eyes were getting worse and worse, but every time I went to the doctor he or she said, "They weren't ready yet." I moved to Istanbul, taught, and painted.

This past Fall I took a break from painting and stumbled around Ecuador half blind. I started to worry that it might be a more severe problem. As a visually oriented person it is extremely dis-orienting not to be able to see well. When I came back to Turkey the doctor said, "It was only cataracts and they are ready." I had the operations and can now see better than I could since childhood. It is difficult to explain as an artist what it means to have vision, to be able to see clearly. But look into my eyes, look deep into my eyes and you will see a bit through them.

I was lucky to have an art show at a great Istanbul restaurant, Sade Kahve, on the Bosporous. You can see the photos from the opening on the site.

By the way you can see more eccentric outsider art coffee cup art at cup-o-joe.com.

Outsider Artist in Coffee Heaven

2005-10-28T10:26:00.000-07:00

Tripping with the John Dog in Ecuador
by John DAgostino, Eccentric Outsider Artist

I narrowly escaped Miami before the CIA caught up to me, although I didn’t escape that wet cunt of a hurricane Wilma. She blew me then pissed in my face; the kinky bitch that she was, but she’s long gone now and I’m in Guayaquil looking for a little cookie.

I got just the coffee to go with that sweet and tasty dessert. This dirty old eccentric outsider art maker is drinking some powdered café con leche with fine Cuban rum and chocolate added; a spiked choco-latté to ease out of last night’s alcoholic haze.

This be just a short blog cause I’m headed to Quito with a stocky female gym teacher and a MILF who’s still married, so I won’t divulge her name. I met them last night. I was pounding down tequila and coke and sucking spoon fills of delicious chocolate that the un-named one prepared. All that chocolate and booze got my cock a popping.

The girls had twinkles in their eyes either from the dark rum and dark chocolate they were consuming or my witty drunken conversation. I say the last part in jest cause I can’t remember most of the night and probably said some terrible things with my nasty mouth. I do remember one gem that spewed from my dirty old outsider artist mind. I asked all the girls (6 were at the party) if they wanted chocolate smeared all over them. Maybe they were too shy to go there while in such a large crowd. Maybe when we get to Quito the two will loosen up. I’d love a taste of some chocolate hair pie along with some chocolate dipped nipples. Now that’s real milk chocolate.

It is fun to work with eccentric outsider artists

2005-09-22T04:48:00.000-07:00

Time 4 Weird News with My Buddy John Dog
by Maxine Dogmeat

Full moon last night. Had a wonderful evening hanging at Mehmet's Bar with my friend eccentric outsider artist, The John Dog. Mehmet's is more like an outdoor cafe. Actually, all the tables are outside. The only inside seating is on the second floor, but no one goes up there except to use the facilities, the crapper. Mehmet's overlooks the beach and last night there was a cooling breeze coming from the Med that sucked the heat from the streets. Life is bearable when you are listening to the good r & b and the blues with the smell of the sea in the air and a little wind in your sails.

Slept well, woke up for the first time in many a week not lying in a moist pool of sweat or my boobs dripping wet against my rib cage. The heat wave seems to have eased and I'm feeling good. Had me a hearty breakfast, tomato, olive, and hotdog omelet washed down with generous amounts of Coke. When I opened the Coke I looked under the lining in the cap and found that I won a free liter. I was starting to get all tingly down below with all this excitement or maybe it was the caffeine. I called my good buddy The John Dog, who was at home drinking a cup o' joe and told him the good news. I walked to the bank and the cash machine worked, which made me happy cause half the time it doesn't. I'm on a roll. I stopped at the liquor store and got some Kirov vodka and Captain Black Mini Tipped Cherry Sweets cigars for later.

Later my buddy the dog man called me back with some bizarre story that only an eccentric outsider art maker could imagine. Overhead the clouds were beginning to appear 'the powers at be' (one of my new favorite expressions) decided that the John Dog wasn't going to have a 'Happy Days' Richey gets a hickey day. It was going to be a 'Happy Tree People' day instead. Because when he took off his socks to get ready for the beach he noticed that his legs where covered with red bumps of various shapes and sizes. Some of them were oozing. "No, no, not again attack of the oozing puss filed sores, he screamed." Shit, fuck, piss, god damn mother fucker; what else can one say in these situations? I hate to see a friend suffer. "Sometimes," John Dog said, "I wish that a little blue squirrel with chain saw a blazing would burst into my room and hack both my legs off. Rev up the motor and dig in. Have a ball slashing away; blood all over the room covering the walls, the bed, the computer, and everything else including me and the fuzzy little blue rodent. Get it over with."

I wanted to comfort him badly, maybe lick his balls a little and suck him off.
I went to his place with a couple six packs. "It felt good getting that off my chest, thanks for stopping by with the beer" he said. I said, "Think I'll pop open a cold one now." We worked on an article that we are co-writing, called Time for Weird News.

Later I ran a cool bath for the John Dog, told him to strip and get in the tub. I took a bar of anti-bacterial soup from the shelf and began to scrub the sores on his legs. I wanted to cheer him up so I pulled of my t-shirt and shorts and gave him a view of my naked body. He smiled and his little turtle head popped out stretched its neck. I lathered the rest of his body and massaged him forcefully with a sponge.

I turned on the warm water and rinsed the John Dog off. His dick was firm and very inviting. I was wet and ready when I entered the tub and when he entered me. We sloshed around in the water and made a lot of bubbles in the process. John Dog let out an eccentric outsider artist moan and kissed my breasts with appreciation. I could feel him coming inside me so I road him harder. Water was slashing all over the bathroom floor when I climaxed.

After our bit of sex-ercise we got back to writing the Time for Weird News article. Here's a little sample of it.

Time for Weird News dateline Chicago - LaChania Govan said she got bounced around by her cable company when she called to complain. She made dozens of calls and was even transferred to a person who spoke Spanish — a language she doesn't understand. Understandably, she got p.o.ed and said a few things.

When she got her August bill from the company she had no trouble understanding she'd made somebody mad. It was addressed to "Bitch Dog." Damn, if she was my wife she'd probably be getting most of her letters addressed that way me being the John Dog and all. (JD comment)

The cable company explained that "La Cania" means "female dog" in Portugese. They have farmed out all the customer service work to foreign countries with cheap wages. It was a guy in Brazil on the phone who misunderstood, Lachania. Lame fucking excuse but very creative. If you believe that one you probably believe the Jesus never screwed Mary Magdalene. (Maxine comment)

Here's a better one from the same story, In another case, Peoples Energy customer Jeffery Barnes started getting letters addressed to "Jeffery Scrotum Bag Barnes."

He said, "I had no bad words (with them) at all. I guess the earliest letter is dated in May and from then on up until now my name has been listed as Jeffery Scrotum Bag Barnes and I have no idea why."

Barnes said he received an apologetic call from a company official. He also has contacted an attorney to determine if he can take legal action.

A Peoples Energy spokeswoman called the letter inexcusable.

Sounds like Peoples Energy needs to be more vigorous in their employee drug screening procedures. Some low paid stoner doing data entry for minimum wage probably just got bored one day. We've all been there haven't we? Do something stupid at work that's gonna hit the fan after you've quit. Stick it the boss man before you go. Joe'd be bragging to his stoner buddies about it and they would be saying, 'Yeah, that was cool man, way cool dude. Sticking it to the maannn. Righteous' (Maxine comment)

Now if Joe Stoner hadn't resigned and the boss man fingered him for the deed, I'm sure he'd be getting a letter with a pink slip in it addressed to Joe Fart Breathed Slacker Stoner. (JD comment)

My Other Blog - dirty old outsider artist

2005-08-31T05:30:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,
September and October could be slow months for posting. Who knows, sometimes I get inspired. But I have some other projects in the works that I need to attend to. Hope you have enjoyed August posts on my great new outsider artist blog – notes of a dirty old outsider artist, which is based on the title of Charles Bukowski's book – notes of a dirty old man, so is the design of the site. I wrote some brief descriptions of all my August blogs.
Click on a link in the description to go to an August blog page

Here are a list of August posts on the blog

Blogs Inspired by the Buk

Go Easy on the Beaver – Chapter One of a wild ride thru the mind of the John Dog, an awesome eccentric outsider artist. Buk enters my brain and things get insane. Please, tell him to stop it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_811.html –
Aug 11

Mo' Ramblin' – The party and it is outrageous, outsider artist John Dog, the Dude, the Buk, and some Russian girls get sloppy drunk and have an orgy. Find out what going on in the closet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_812.html –
Aug 12

Cleanliness Is next to... – How does he do it? I don't know. Besides being a consistently good outsider artist the John Dog is a high powered chick magnet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_813.html –
Aug 13

Thrown for A Loop – There he goes again that crazy eccentric outsider artist is always getting into trouble with the women. Will the John Dog ever learn?http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_814.html –
Aug 14

Bowling and Balling – Big Ern enters into my world and hell breaks loose. Get the bare facts about bare naked ladies from the most creative outsider artist, John Dog
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_820.html –
Aug 20

Jesus Cops an Attitude – Nobody fucks wid da Jesus, as that wild outsider artist John Dog and the rest of the gang found out. Chapter 6 of Bukish blogging.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_821.html–
Aug 21

Bear Epilogue – A wonderful ending to a story from a wonderful outsider artist who tells how two bad guys get it in the end. http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_829.html -
Aug. 29

Blogs Inspired by God and Satan

Sharing the Wealth – Generous outsider artist makes great art and shares the wealth. Lovely ladies from around the world.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_831.html –
Aug 31

95 degrees in the shade – blissful outsider artist reaches nirvana
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_830.html -
Aug 30

Deception Point – When he is not making great outsider art, John Dog is doing book reviews and plugging his brother's super blog 1, super blog 2, super blog 3, super blog 4
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_828.html –
Aug 28

Tell Me Lies – The best dirty old outsider artist in the world brings you fibs and fables from the internet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_827.html –
Aug 27

Trying to Be Good – John Dog likes to cuss, but today this exciting outsider artist ain't gonna cuss – I swear it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_826.html –
Aug 26

In and Out of It – Soon to be famous outsider artist , buy my work now, tells a story of a very strange day in the life of an eccentric outsider art maker.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_824.html –
Aug 24

Titties and Beer – How do you fight a demon or devil that has crawled up your ass and is vexing your soul. The ever curious eccentric outsider artist John Dog explores the subject. http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_823.html –
Aug 23

Cheap Flights to Amsterdam – Welcome to the Hotel Amsterdam, you can check out any time you like but you can never leave as this eccentric outsider artist found out.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_822.html –
Aug 22

The Blues Is Killing Me – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly sides of life as told by that outsider artist who everyone loves to hate, John Dog. I'm fighting back, damn it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_819.html –
Aug 19

Where Is My Hat – Massively popular eccentric outsider artist John Dog tells tales of how every time he meets a big celebrity he some how looses his hat – very weird
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_818.html –
Aug 18

Disco Fever – Have you ever had cheap nasty zombie sex? Learn all about the latest fetish craze fromthe almighty and powerful eccentric outsider artist,
John Dog
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_817.html –
Aug 17

Tripe – Is not meaningless crap. It makes a damn good bowl of soup. The John Dog knows good soup and good art because he isa great eccentric outsider artist.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_816.html –
Aug 16

Ready For the Gulag – The terrific outsider artist John Dog draws the attention of the CIA. Bush finally figured out where Saddam hid his weapons of mass destruction – CHINA. John Dog exposes the lies of the Bush administration and more.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_815.html –
Aug 15

FYI – Adult Content Advisory – My first nasty sci-fi story. Men watch out. The future brings with it the horrors of wanton women out to kidnap your sperm by any means possible.
The best eccentric outsider artist, the John Dog says beware.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_810.html –
Aug 10

It's Not True – A CIA conspiracy against eccentric outsider artist John Dog is blown. And they thought that I wouldn't find out. Don't believe a word of it. Bush sucks.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_809.html –
Aug 09

Love Stinks – John Dog is a romantic eccentric outsider artist and his heart has been stomped on too many times. He bares all with this story. Share his pain. Share his anger.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_806.html –
Aug 06

Where does the term Cup O Joe Come from?

2005-07-22T04:39:00.000-07:00

I recently got an e-mail from someone who asked me that question.
I had an idea in the back of my mind. How it got there I don't know. But before I responded with this answer, I did about 10 minutes of research on the web. Ask Jeeves was a dead end. But I have a dictionary site listed on my favorites - http://www.onelook.com/ . An excellent source and the place where I found an answer.

OneLook listed The Word Detective
http://www.word-detective.com/041899.html#joe

(here's the info from the source)
Meanwhile, back at your question, there is, alas, no definitive answer to the riddle of "joe" as slang for coffee, which first appeared around 1930. It may be a variant of "java," also a popular term for coffee since the 19th century, when the island of Java in Indonesia was a major source of the world's coffee. Another theory holds that "joe" comes from the title of the once very popular Stephen Foster song "Old Black Joe."
Yet another theory, and one that rings true to me, is that "joe" as slang for coffee might be derived from "Joe" as a synonym for "the common man," as in "regular joe." This use of "Joe" as a generic name for the man in the street dates back to around 1911 and was very widespread in the military services, as in "G.I Joe," which was slang for the common soldier long before it became the name of a toy. Since "joe" as slang for coffee was and is especially common in the Navy, and since the Navy pretty much runs on coffee, it seems logical that the military slang term for an average guy could have been extended to the average guy's usual beverage.

This last theory was the one I had in the back of my head. My dad was a Joe (his real name) and he drank some cup o joe, he did his spint in WWII, he was a regular guy, a regular Joe.

More Good Coffee Ramblings at
www.good-coffee.cup-o-joe.com

Happy Sipping,
John Dog, Eccentric Outsider Artist

Psycho Cup O' Joe by Outsider Artist John Dog

2005-01-11T05:28:00.000-08:00

PsychO Cup O Joe

Almost cup my hair the other day.
It's getting kind of espresso long.
I could of said it wasn't my way.
Woke cup this morning with a ma-shine gun in my head.
Heart attack and dis-vine surely soon be dead.

Have another cup o' joe, open one eye.
Peal back the lid, shot blood red.
No innocent victims, gonna smoke em till I die.
Fara Zahar, nothing sweet, light a Lucky ghost.
Rid the bitter stench and smell the beans roast.

Smoke gets in my eyes, doggy moms and their cuppies.
Cup all night in a blue-purple haze, distant memories.
Sirens brew an early dawn, burning out tired young yuppies.
Sip a little whiskey, it help what come out the coffee urn.
Good coffee, cup o' joe, might, might not get me what I earn.

Can't know where you going if you don't know where you been.
Speed too fast pain in my chest,java junkie, call me John Dog.
Caffeine makes my heart beat, have women just for sin.
What's the story? Where's the beef? Why ask if I lie?
Cup o Joe dreams,illusions and cigs maintain us till we cry.

Sun come cup night get down, Super Holy It, stains and ashes.
We are all to blame, bear the shame, accidents don't happen.
Violence on the t.v., living like this decades pass us.
Shot of tequilla, drink some mud, eggs, bacon and a side of toast.
Coffee brewing, music to my ears, a Cup O' Joe what I love most.

Welcome Fellow Java Junkies

2004-12-28T06:03:00.000-08:00

ANother Eccentric ARt Blog by John DAgostino, Eccentric Artist aka John Dog aka ClockMan outsider artist, maker of eccentric art and outsider art and eccentric outsider art web sites.

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

This is a site for coffee fiends like you. Nothing but Cups O' Joes. If you have ever been in a 4 a.m. caffeine haze and buzzing hard then you are in the right place. Got to get me another Cup O' Joe. Me serve coffee and nothing else.

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

The goal of this site is to serve up 100 Cups O' Joes. But I got miles to go before I'm home in bean-land bliss . Got to have another cup of mud. Got to keep on keeping on.

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

Enter into MY world of Coffee Crazed Redunancy and Caffeine Induced Repetitiveness .

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

Cup-o-Joes and Good Coffees were some of the many paintings done by the Miami, Florida based artist John DAgostino. He was also known as Clockman because he made many of his paintings into clocks. Inspired by signs and advertizements he painted his own signs using animal, lizard, fish, food product, and coffee cup motifs.

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

The original coffee cup Cup O' Joes were painted on wood or masonite with acrylic or latex paint and measured about 10 X 14 inches with a 3/4 inch thick frame of about an inch and a half wide wood, sizes varied on availability of found materials

Hav-a-cup o joe @ www.cup-o-joe.com

Got to Goooo. John