On a Lighter Note…
From the UPI. A 27-year-old Monroe College graduate is suing the New York school, contending it has done little to help her find a job. Trina Thompson, who graduated in April with a bachelor’s degree, alleges in a Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit that she did not receive adequate employment leads and advice from the school’s…
Gee whiz…what coordination…. ‘Course, ‘Rock Band’ ain’t music. (Using cranky old man voice) Back in my day, it took hours and hours to learn how to play an instrument, much less multiple instruments. Kids these days!Oh….like this guy?
A cautionary photo courtesy Dave Barry.
In preparation for Father’s Day, and homage to what once was…. (Submitted with tongue firmly in cheek….honest!). More old-fashioned stuff HERE.
My closest friend during my fresh-from-high-school year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh was a small-venue professional wrestler. (Were I inclined to categorize it as a sport, rather than a form of performance, I’d have characterized him as a player in the minor league.) He and his twin brother were a bad-guy tag team of…
According to GQ, Rhode Island can lay claim to 2 of the 25 best pizza’s in the U S of A (hat tip ProJo). Number 5 overall was the Spinach-and-Mushroom Pizza at Bobby and Timmy’s while #18 was the Grilled Pizza with Roasted Eggplant at Al Forno. Overall, Providence ranked #5 on the list of…
I’ve been traveling for the last couple weeks, and last Wednesday while doing some work holed up in my hotel room, I stumbled on “The Goode Family“. It made me chuckle quite a few times. As described in today’s ProJo: Though it will no doubt be labeled right-wing agitprop by some of its trashed targets,…
In the season of graduation, his column from 2004 doesn’t so much contain advice as, perhaps, hold up a mirror to the graduating “audience”. This is your big day — the day when you jam four years’ worth of unlaundered underwear into a Hefty bag and leave college, prepared by your professors to go out…
Have you ever thought that somebody suspected you of something, and as you offered a relevant explanation, you found yourself drifting into tangents and having to amend things that you’d just said and thought, “he’s going to think I’m lying”? Well, research suggests that what appears to be poor lying skills may be the natural…