Joe Quinn

Joseph William Quinn, III (9 Aug 195something - ) is husband to Michele Quinn and father of Henry, Mike, and Emilie Quinn. He resides in Bloomfield Connecticut with Michele and their dog Oscar, who is a robot. He enjoys gardening, long walks on the beach, and getting in fights with homeless people.

Early Life
Joe was born in Kentucky, it turns out, which doesn't merit comment. I mean, Kentucky. Seriously.

His family moved to Ohio where his parents, Joseph and Mary (no kidding), proceeded to have 13 other kids. Well, actually, 12 others, and George, who is not a human being and was not born of woman but is Joe's brother nonetheless. It's a long, awful story.

He grew up in Akron -- well, not Akron, but Ravenna. And not really Ravenna, Rootstown. OK, not Rootstown, either, Atwater. Which is an outlying province of Rootstown, which is near Ravenna, which is a suburb of Akron, which you may have heard of. It's near Cleveland. But not, like, really near it. Point is, young Joe took up running, presumably with the hope of being able to run out of Akron, but it is clear that he did not know exactly how far he would have to go to get anywhere cool.

Joe collected fireflies and sold them to grad students, and also ate them.

College
Joe went to the Catholic University of America, which let him in for free because his parents had had 14 kids and in doing so achieved Grand Dragon status in the Catholic Church. He majored in physics, and met Ray Roy and Mike Kane.

It was the 1960s, so there was all this student activism, in service of which Joe once threw a mattress off the roof of his dorm. He may also once have smoked weed, though wife Michele says he did not. There was a bar there called the Rat, apparently, and also Joe played basketball -- though, being from the midwest in the 1960s, he did not know that it was legal to dribble the ball and simply took 26 foot jumper after 26 foot jumper.

Young Joey Starts a Family
Joey moved his family into a house in Windsor, Connecticut that had asbestos shingles, and I think no basement, though I could be making that up. He and Michele had their first two children, Henry and Mike while Joey worked his way up the corporate ladder at Combustion Engineering under close tutelage of his father-in-law, Doodgie Ding Ding.

They moved in 1982 or something to Bloomfield, to be closer to Ding Ding, and bought a house for $76,450, which Mike and Henry completely destroyed over the next 10 years. Like, ruined. Emilie was born, and Joey rode his bike to work every day and ran in a bunch of races. Though he rode a bike, Joe was not a cyclist.

The 1990s
Joey and Michele got a dog, Oscar, and Henry, Mike, and Emilie went to college.