A Cry for Help

Usually the sight of hundreds of people ambling down an interstate in a big city is a bad thing. Think 12 Monkeys or Hurricane Katrina. But yesterday in Providence there was a more benign reason to see the citizenry take to I-195 - the DOT bused us up there.
The new highway bridge in Providence is [...]

Oh, Rhode Island, how I love you.

via Seth

Almost two years after I wrote this post, I finally got to see the Buddy Cianci movie.
It was awesome.
Go see this movie, or I’m revoking your Rhode Islander status. Make sure you watch for my Nana bringing her trash to the dump.
Now that I’m brushed up on my Buddy lore, I’m excited for him to [...]

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard this before, but I just read that Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal tech columnist, and perhaps the most powerful man in Silicon Valley, cut his teeth working for the ProJo in my hometown of Warwick, RI. I like reading Mossberg’s column in the Sunday paper (even though I wouldn’t [...]

I heard the other day that more Americans than ever are growing disgruntled with President Bush, and it turns out that this particular factoid came from a 50 state poll. What fun! Who loves their Dubya the most? Not Texas, but Utah! In fact, there’s only 6 states where our Commander in Chief has support [...]

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has a great blog that I enjoy reading. This morning we find out that yesterday’s Dilbert strip was sent to the papers with two different end panels, one potentially more risqué than the other. If you’re wondering which one the Providence Journal ran (and can’t guess from this post’s title), it [...]

I like to do my taxes as early as possible if I can help it, being poor has the benefit of getting most of your federal contributions back from the guv’mint. This year I bought Tax Cut Deluxe from Best Buy (mostly because I got a free wireless mouse with it), collected my various 1099s [...]

From even before I got to work today, there was more activity than usual a little ways down the street. We watched from the window as police taped off the cute little house with a water view that had been for sale for a few months. Neighbors milled about, cars were turned away, and someone [...]

The headline read “Rhode Island fares well in national study of obesity.” Apparently, our little state has the third lowest obesity rate among adults. Well yeah, but look at the competition. Being the skinniest guy at the Krispy Kreme Konvention isn’t exactly Kate Moss-ish (she’s still our culture’s yardstick of skin-and-bone-ism, right?)
Still, we should be [...]

Some of these make me think people just pick any 6-letter word so they can have a whole word on their license plate…
JUNGLE
DANISH
PYRMID
WATERS
KRAZEE
HRYPTR
MAHALO
FRESCO
SCRIBE
HAYJUD
PUREOX
LET GO
SHREK
GOLDEN
SERNTY
COOLIT
PLATNM
JULY29
WENT69
SEEGUL
EXPLOR
KIDSDR
BTRFLY
LONDON
WTRCAN
ALEGRO
MARGIN
ELITE1
Out of Staters:
WOLWO (on a Volvo from MA)
RUBBISH (PA)
CAPTIV8 (NC)

…so we can keep an EYE on YOU…
Due to the failing of RIPTA to provide me with an economical and environmentally sound method of transportation to and from work, I have been commuting by car approximately one hour each way, Monday through Friday. I hate it, but I’ve been getting really good at spotting [...]

I just got back from something that I never thought I would have the right to attend - the RI Monthly ‘Best Of Rhode Island’ party. In a year that has seen more local press then I ever thought possible for the little improv group that could (or couldn’t, depending on the night), we [...]