A Cry for Help

I’m whipping up a new seasonal style for A Cry for Help. And, as usual, I am doing it live on the site. So if you’re bored and looking for something fun and exciting to do, go down to “choose your views” and pick Spring! (or click here: Spring!) Then keep refreshing until I say [...]

The last couple weeks have brought amazing news to those of us who love the city of Providence: five huge projects that will dramatically change downtown (and the skyline!). The Westin is getting a new tower. The Big Three of the skyline will be joined by the OneTen Westminster condominium tower (you can tell they’ll [...]

Following James’s lead, I’ve decided to go commercial and put up some Google adwords on A Cry for Help. This is mostly so that I can afford some decent hosting and not have to deal with all sorts of outages and server errors (plus you won’t have to hear me complain). I put them on [...]

I just got back from my first day of Bee School! I can’t wait to have bees!
At the Garden show at the Convention Center a few weeks ago I ran into the Rhode Island Beekeepers Association, and got a flyer on their yearly bee school. I wanted to go, but eventually decided not to. Then [...]

(Major spoilers in the article! Don’t read if you haven’t seen it!)
This is a pretty interesting (and fairly obvious in retrospect) take on some movie that’s got the kids talking, but what does any of that really have to do with the religious right?

I understand that not everyone has a background in science, and that even those who do are not necessarily versed in all fields of inquiry. But surely a person can recognize when they don’t know what they are talking about. Nicholas Ratti Jr. of Bristol is not such a person.
Harold Ward’s Feb. 19 letter (”Global [...]

Starting tomorrow, mercifully, I will be able to go out to clubs and restaurants without waking up in the morning wondering why my house smells like an ashtray. Rhode Island becomes the seventh so-called smoke free state at the stroke of midnight on March 1st. The “so-called”s there because you can actually still smoke in [...]