I had several offlist convo's with Joe. We shared a love of old sports cars, like an Alfa Spider late 50's, looking for alternatives to M$uck, various techie stuff, and a former professorVern Bullough who wrote a history of sexuality after he left CSUN where I took him for the Man and Western Civ series.
VB turned me on to Arnold Hauser and more general social history view. Joe helped me track down Bullough who ended up in Austin, U of T
Joe had a cool sense of humor.
CG