A Cry for Help

Who can grill a pizza? I desperately need your help! With today’s beautiful weather and our recent acquisition of a gas grill and giant picnic table, Em and I thought “what better day to fire up the grill and make a tasty pizza?” Attempt number one yielded what I would call “cajun flatbread” (you might [...]

Personally, I love high gas prices, but if you’re feeling the sting, maybe this used car ad that Em spotted today will appeal to you:
VANGUARD: 1974 Citicar, Electric. Needs new batteries, otherwise complete. $500 or Best.
Five hundred bucks! Sounds like a bargain. But have you ever seen a Citicar? We hadn’t even heard of one [...]

We’re back from Philadelphia, where, despite the city supposedly having city-wide wifi, I was completely disconnected for three days. How was our trip? Philly was awesome, driving home sucked, and driving down sucked even more. I’ve got lots of good stories, and a couple pics to share, so that’s what’s on tap for this week. [...]

… I hear it’s like a baby New York.
Anyway, since I got no bites on my offer of Phillies tickets, and since the rain kept Em from going out into the field today, we’re heading down to Philadelphia tonight. I imagine I’ll track down some Wi-Fi, so if anyone has any suggestions on what to [...]

I’ve got a pair of tickets for the Red Sox/Phillies game this Friday night, 7pm, if anyone is interested in buying them. The drive to Philly is pretty easy, four and a half hours or so from central RI. I bet you can get a hotel room for wicked cheap on Priceline.com, too. The Phillies [...]

This is going straight into the new TV fund…

My mom, though wonderful, is not inspiring me to post on Mother’s Day. Instead, let’s move up (down?) the family tree to Nana, my 85 year old Italian grandmother. Some of you know Nana, and some have even enjoyed her cooking. I shall call you the lucky ones. For my other friends, you’ll have to [...]

This is much easier to say after taking two out of three games from the Evil Empire (man, did we have no business winning tonight’s game or what?), but the 2006 squad of Red Stockings have been fun to watch. (You know what’s not fun to watch? Slow motion replays of Hideki Matsui breaking his [...]

Speaking of addictions, Lost, like smoking, is slowly killing me. Well, it’s not the killing of me so much as EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE SHOW! (Spoilers, blah blah) With Libby gone, it seems the only person who is really safe is Charlie, with his horde of hobbit fans to keep him around. With Libby and [...]

Oh Dunkin Donuts, shall I compare you to a summer’s day? Thou art more quenching and tasty. Like most Rhode Islanders, I have Dunkin in my veins (if you prick me, do I not bleed… coffee? Yup, Shakespeare two-fer). I just went through my massive financial spreadsheet (Quicken is for pussies) and found out I’ve [...]

You should have heard by now, but today’s Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops. That’s cool in and of itself, but it’s a special day for me, as it was on FCD 2001 when I first met Em (all together: “awwwww”). She had five cones in one hand, asserting that such scooping [...]

The Bil Blogs family has a new edition: my friend Pete has set up a blog documenting his adventures in (de)construction. Despite multiple invites, I haven’t actually been down to his place (it’s in Wyoming, ‘ferchrissake!), so I’m excited to watch the progress on the web.
This may remind you of the UL’s venture into house blogging, which has withered worse [...]