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TWitM #23 rocks Race and the New Frontier
Justice League: New Frontier, the cartoon adaption of Darwyn Cooke’s instant classic about the dawn of the Silver Age of DC Comics, came out on DVD last week. When I was watching it, I was somewhat disappointed. My friends who hadn’t read the miniseries thought it was sweet, but I guess the actual comics ruined …
how to make a toga
This year the Ides of March falls on a Saturday. Hooray, a party just when you need one, and you don’t have to listen to some weepy Irish guy singing ‘Danny Boy’. But how do you make a toga? Add this to the list of things (Latin!) they didn’t teach you in high school — …
Revolution or Scare Tactics?
On my way to work this morning I noticed many campaign banners hanging on highway overpasses, but none was more striking than the one proudly displayed over 95S in the the North End of Providence. “Vote Black Power–It’s Time,” read the message on what, ironically, appeared to be a white sheet. At first I thought, …
Patriarca, the Saudis, and the Atwells tower
Tidbits on Frank Zammiello, the developer. First, his connections to the New England mob: The project is the brainchild of Frank Zammiello, who rose from a start as an Olneyville electrician to head a powerful real estate company and now splits his time between Providence and Florida. Zammiello has developed the Bridlewood Estates in Lincoln …
Who’s sexist now?
The inside scoop from an anonymous D.C. tipster: The two men who interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech in NH on Monday, January 7th with shouts of “Iron my shirt!” were, as many of us have suspected, planted by H-bomb and her staffers. Thanks, Hill, for simultaneously accusing your opponents of sexism while organizing your stooges to …
George Mitchell: pick your poison
Dave Zirin is a great radical sportswriter, with whom I don’t always agree. But yesterday he had this dead-on excoriation of George Mitchell, which includes a tidbit that I’ve been unaware of: In a report that excoriates a “steroid era” in the sport, there is no recommendation for Selig to resign. This shouldn’t surprise because …
More No-Show Shenanigans
Another instance of no-show jobbing rears its ugly head yet again in Rhode Island, this time the accusations are against Providence Fire Union president Paul Doughty, who has allegedly not come to work a whole lot in the last three years. Doughty claims the allegations are retaliation from all the bad blood between the union …
Mystery Solved
LAAAAAADY…. just move the car. Speaking of doppelgangers…. when the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency is being run by Jerry Lewis, whaddya expect? A cover story in today’s ProJo about ‘The Storm’ indicates that RIEMA director, Robert Warren, has been canned. Now, how do we fire the thousands of Rhode Island drivers who really bolloxed …
A conspicuous omission
This point was raised again the other night — given the funkiness and generally conspiratorial natures of the people who occupy this town and the things that go down in it, why doesn’t anybody make use of the fact that the “all seeing eye” is formally called the “Eye of Providence“? Whereabouts are the stickers …
OMG, We Have To Help This Girl!
Dear Readers, We recieved this very urgent email in our tipbox this morning. I cannot underestimate the seriousness of Ms. Kojo’s plight. We, as a compassionate city must band together to lend help where we can, so what we need to do is open a bank account…well, I’ll just let you read the whole letter: …
Who’s better at handling Bill Maher’s audience?
Chris Hitchens? [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoclaTQWzvc] or Bill Maher? [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzrUD-5hf1A]