A Cry for Help

Red Sox win! Red Sox win!!
Has being 8½ games out of first place ever felt so good? The Sox just made a miraculous comeback against the Yankees after laying the smack down on the Empirettes. Jason Varitek is my hero. So is Billy Mueller. And Official Soxer of A Cry for Help, Trot Nixon, was [...]

I just witnessed a bench clearing Yankees - Red Sox brawl from the bleachers at Fenway. That is all.
UPDATE - What a fucking awesome game.

I just saw Boston Mayor Tom Menino, when asked why all traffic was barred from I-93, say that “these missles they have nowadays, they can fit in the back of a car” (paraphrase). Missles. I know the 9/11 report just came out saying we had a failure to imagine what terrorists could do to us, [...]

It’s Nomar Garciaparra’s birthday! If history is our guide, number 5 will destroy the Yankees tonight, with at least two home runs and 5 RBI.
I love Nomar!! A Cry for Help loves Nomar! As you can see, even our despondant header-dweller has put up her Nomar poster!
Happy birthday buddy!

In keeping with my “long-after-release” listening to of new music, I just picked up Good News for People Who Love Bad News, from Modest Mouse. (Though, if you’ll allow my to defend my snooty hipness, I did have a short-live indie-rock stage around 2000 when Modest Mouse and Built to Spill and others were constantly [...]

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 [...]

Do not elect this man!

After presiding over an ethical cesspool in the RI legislature, then mucking through a sex scandal which forced him to step down as speaker of the house (which could have been a moot point had some electoral “inconsistancies” not allowed him to eke out a win over A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE last [...]

Perhaps you were interested in what blog post Matt sent me the other day that inspired this Cry for Help? (if you were, you sure didn’t comment about it, dammit)

Well, to answer your unasked question, it had to do with funding cuts at the Providence Public Library, the jewel of RI’s lending library system and [...]

I read this story the other day, via Jimspot, about one woman’s experience on an airline flight with 14 Syrians. It’s pretty scary, but when I was done reading it there was something that didn’t sit right with me. The article seemed so self-consciously inflammatory, and too perfect in its terrifying plot. But honestly, they [...]

For some reason, it struck me yesterday to dust off the old comic book collection. It was a neat little visit to the past. Then I went to the comic book store on Thayer Street last night to see how much I’d missed. Not surprisingly, there were quite a few titles I’d never heard [...]

How weird is this: Matt, my good friend in real life, has a conversation with a stranger while dining out. Stranger gives Matt a business card which lists a website, which Matt reads, and follows a link from. Thinking I’d be interested in the subject, Matt sends the link on to me.
Turns out the post [...]

Today is Em’s birthday!!!