A Cry for Help

To: Sun <apollo@solarsystem.com>
From: Bil
CC: Storm E. Week <rain@yourparade.com>
Subject: Where are you?
Hey Sun, what’s up?
Haven’t seen much of you lately, just wondering how it’s going. I could use your help this weekend, since I have a ticket for Jazz Fest tomorrow. Also, there’s a 3 inch pool of water collecting in my car from an unidentified [...]

A common complaint about the current state of music albums is that people don’t want to pay $15 for a couple of good songs. I’m not sure if this is a true complaint or just another justification for illegal downloading, though it’s probably a valid point. When I was in high school I used [...]

Hahaha, I actually like smoking bans, but what I really like is when smokers get all riled up about laws pertaining to their dirty habit.
The RI Senate passed a bill today banning smoking in all indoor public places except our two gambling facilities (”all encompassing vice dens”). Now the bill goes to the House, [...]

Too late to be any good, the Cry for Help free ice cream post!
April 28th was Free Scoop day at participating Baskin-Robbins locations (now infiltrating a Dunkin Donuts near you!) You might ask “Bil, don’t you mean Ben & Jerry’s? They’re the ones who’ve been giving away free ice cream once a year to [...]

My friend Whitney wanted me to pass along some info to my vast, vast (enormous) readership. She’s got a team together for the June 4th Relay for Life, benefiting the American Cancer Society, and we want your help.
The relay is pretty neat. It runs non-stop from 6pm Friday June 4 to noon the next [...]

…and I don’t understand women.
Against my better judgment, I clicked on a Mark Patinkin column on ProJo.com today. I think the fact that it mentioned a Providence building in the headline piqued my interest. I should have known better.
First of all, Mark Patinkin is an amazing feature writer. When he goes out and finds a [...]

Dan Shaughnessy, in introducing a column about how good it is to be a Red Sox fan right now, writes:
You will wake up today and gaze in the mirror and you will look like Brad Pitt (Cameron Diaz if you are a woman). Your front lawn will resemble the 18th green at Augusta and [...]

e.dogg mentioned to me the other day that her Outlook Express rules were getting unwieldy, and that spammers were finding ways to write “mortgage” that she couldn’t even imagine. That reminded me to post about what I’ve been using for anti-spam. Since last October, I’ve been using POPfile to classify my email as it comes [...]

If posting is sporadic in the next couple days, it’s likely because I am fighting to maintain internet access. BellSouth, somehow worse than Cox at providing internet access, has me cursing blinking modem lights and ready to throw monitors. For no reason whatsoever, my DSL modem has been losing service for minutes or hours, [...]

Get those brooms out, it’s time to sweep up the mess in the Bronx: the Boston Red Sox win three in a row against the New York Yankees. Due to today’s impending win by the Devil Rays, we can now dust off this beautiful graphic, something as rare as a Monster Seat ticket for [...]

The author can take credit if s/he wants, but I got in from a night of drinking and found this on my desktop:
just watching an ad for “carpet fresh no vacuum” here. you just spray it on and leave. like fabreeze. is there a trend here? we dont want to clean. [...]

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on a project for my marine ecology class. We had to design our own experiment, on any subject we wanted, and carry it out.
I’ve been doing evil experiments on barnacles. Barnacles are those little encrusting guys that just look like white bumps [...]