A Cry for Help

Personally, I love high gas prices, but if you’re feeling the sting, maybe this used car ad that Em spotted today will appeal to you:
VANGUARD: 1974 Citicar, Electric. Needs new batteries, otherwise complete. $500 or Best.
Five hundred bucks! Sounds like a bargain. But have you ever seen a Citicar? We hadn’t even heard of one [...]

Last yeah, when Em and I moved into a third floor apartment, we had the oh-so-enjoyable experience of moving not one, but two saltwater fish tanks. This involved catching wily fish, removing rocks covered in bristleworm spines (which I believe are still stuck in my fingers somewhere), filling multiple buckets with water and sand and [...]

Thank God for the Red Sox, because I don’t think I would be able to go 19 weeks without another episode of Lost to infuriate me (in a good way!). America’s favorite plane crash survivors ended their second season this week, also ending season one of Bil and Em’s Lost parties. And only a few [...]

So I was thinking about posting on Mondays about whatever I’ve been listening to most over the the previous week. That was Sunday. Now it’s Wednesday, and I’ve spent the last 2 days meaning to write about how amazing Sufjan Stevens is, and how his album Illinois has been by far the most played playlist [...]

We’re back from Philadelphia, where, despite the city supposedly having city-wide wifi, I was completely disconnected for three days. How was our trip? Philly was awesome, driving home sucked, and driving down sucked even more. I’ve got lots of good stories, and a couple pics to share, so that’s what’s on tap for this week. [...]

… I hear it’s like a baby New York.
Anyway, since I got no bites on my offer of Phillies tickets, and since the rain kept Em from going out into the field today, we’re heading down to Philadelphia tonight. I imagine I’ll track down some Wi-Fi, so if anyone has any suggestions on what to [...]

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard this before, but I just read that Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal tech columnist, and perhaps the most powerful man in Silicon Valley, cut his teeth working for the ProJo in my hometown of Warwick, RI. I like reading Mossberg’s column in the Sunday paper (even though I wouldn’t [...]

I’ve got a pair of tickets for the Red Sox/Phillies game this Friday night, 7pm, if anyone is interested in buying them. The drive to Philly is pretty easy, four and a half hours or so from central RI. I bet you can get a hotel room for wicked cheap on Priceline.com, too. The Phillies [...]

Baseball is a weird sport. Remember when, only two or three years ago, the Sox couldn’t buy a win against the Baltiore Orioles? When, despite a terribly average team, the O’s would take three out of every four games we played against them? Man are those days over!
Even the suddenly terrible Curt Schilling couldn’t give [...]

I read President Bush’s statement on immigration to the nation just now. It was good. I wouldn’t be sending National Guard out to the border (despite assurances to the contrary, it seems to me that they’ve been pretty busy these last few years), but on balance it was an altogether logical and coherent position. But [...]

This is going straight into the new TV fund…

My mom, though wonderful, is not inspiring me to post on Mother’s Day. Instead, let’s move up (down?) the family tree to Nana, my 85 year old Italian grandmother. Some of you know Nana, and some have even enjoyed her cooking. I shall call you the lucky ones. For my other friends, you’ll have to [...]