A Cry for Help

David Grenier’s new blogroll includes one-line commentary on the sites he links, including the following:

Oh, the shame. So true, though.

Gasoline at Hess in my ‘hood has been consistantly at least 10¢cheaper than everyone else for a couple weeks now - what do they know that everyone else doesn’t?

Can I just say, I love all this pope stuff. I attribute part of it to the surely-going-to-hell author Dan Brown, who set Angels and Demons amidst a conclave (literally “with key”, because they’re locked in). Plus secret meetings are cool, unless it involves Dick Chaney and the oilman from the Simpsons.
Of course, I don’t [...]

I am just sick about the horrible, pointless, random murder of Providence Detective James Allen. I can’t even begin to imagine the hole left in his family, including the Providence Police force. My condolences to them all. I wish I had more to offer.
Em remarked that the murder of a public protector is among the [...]

I always have my taxes done wicked early, usually in February at the latest. I spend April 15th shaking my head at the idiots at the post office, waiting in line at midnight to mail their taxes. What is wrong with these people?!
I only mention this because I’ll be one of those idiots this year. [...]

I’m a sucker for horns anyway, but this song by the Decemberists is wonderfully infectious. Made me rush right out and get the album Picaresque (hooray for vocabulary rock. See also Pavement and Bad Religion), which I’m getting into between TV shows and hive-painting. Good stuff.
The question I have is why haven’t Mike or Nightwing [...]

I love when I get email from readers. Since I get more hits in a day than I have commenters (or friends, for that matter, which reflects not on a high number of visitors but a pretty low number of friends), I’m always surprised when I get mail from out of the blue. The other [...]

I just can’t possibly keep up. Every day, more posts, from more interesting sites, competing for the dwindling time I spend surfing the web (set to dwindle further as the weather gets nicer). How do people do it? The Poor Urblog withers on the vine at a time when it should be bursting at the [...]

Who will be Rhode Island’s junior Senator in the 110th US Congress? Already we know it won’t be James Langevin or Patrick Kennedy (thank god). Will My Favorite Republican hold his seat? Or will Matt Brown move his office from one marble domed capitol to another in DC? That could only happen if he bests [...]

To celebrate the return of my summer obsession, Em and I baked a cake.

Add some hot dogs and a six pack of Sam Adams, and you got yourself a good night. Now let’s smoke the Big Gangly Unit and start the season in first place.