A Cry for Help

Happy New Year! Em and I are off to see Sideways at the Cable Car and then enjoy Waterfire and Providence’s fireworks, despite Em’s horoscope telling her to watch TV all night. Hooray for non-freezing temperatures!
I’m excited for the coming year, the last one had so many ups (the Sox) and downs (the Dean scream), [...]

If you’ve left a comment lately (and bless you if you have, I don’t know how you guys put up with me), you’ve had to type a simple Q to post. This, in the two days it’s been up, has flawlessly defended my comments section and archives from the locust-like ravages of automated comment spam. [...]

Since we missed Christmas here on the site, I’ll wish Jesus a happy belated birthday now, and I hope you all enjoyed your holiday. I had probably one of the best Christmases of what is supposedly my adult life. Luckily, I missed all the blog hyperbole about how a shadowy cabal of liberal Hollywood types [...]

It’s pretty easy to pick on a president for not doing enough for foreign people, but really, does President Bush have to make it so easy by merrily continuing his vacation while 100,000 bodies are recovered from Southeast Asia after the worst natural disaster of my lifetime. A good chunk of the country will always [...]

i’ve ranted about it before, but its fresh on my mind again…you guys let them do it, you let them take away your personal liberties under the guise of national security. much like the dmca was passed under false pretenses and has now been used to screw over a whole lot of people, some new [...]

Sick of the bil.com outages? Me too. This one was my fault, though. Or actually, movable type was not as movable as I’d have hoped.
Nevertheless, now you can get back to endlessly checking A Cry for Help in vain while I continue to post once every 90 hours or so.
And poor Ultra Laser posted his [...]

…but the last time it snowed in new orleans was 1989 - and today, christmas day, while far from what i used to see back north, we got a couple hours of nice solid snow. needless to say, the city is shut down and all of the bridges around the city are closed - but [...]

We’re all true-Blue staters here at A Cry for Help, thus we’ll be marking the winter solstice by sacrificing a puppy in a Wal*Mart parking lot (burning an American flag for warmth, ‘natch). Actually, here’s a “shortest-day-of-the-year” piece of info that I just learned: December 21st is the 24 hour span with the least amount [...]

Yeah, I’m just going to ignore the fact that I’ve barely posted in weeks. You should too. Keep coming back, though, I may or may not post some more! How’s that for service?

I stayed up to see the final ticks off the clock of the Patriots’ second loss of the season (actually, I stayed up a lot later than that), so you can imagine my surprise when I unfurled the ProJo sports section this early morning and read “Patriots stay the course” and “N.E. holds off Miami, [...]

monday’s issue of time magazine will parade george bush as “person of the year” for the second year in a row. evidently “reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style” is a good thing. if its any consolation, hitler was time’s person of the year in 1938.
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End of the semeser time…means lots of writing.
Basically, I’m sick and tired of Microsoft Word recognizing “English” last names like “Moore” and “Taylor” and “Brown”, but telling me that my last name is spelled WRONG (my last name is Russian).
Honestly, what the hell? I don’t care if Word doesn’t recognize it, but stop [...]