Hello. I don't know if this acceptable for posting here or not. Please delete it if it's not in conformity with your rules. I am trying to get the word out about a road rally that my sister is hosting next weekend. Feel free to pass this information along to anyone you think would be interested. We participated in one back in October and had a ( Read more... )

Fifty years ago today Fidel Castro made his way to Boston from New York by rail. In a brief stop in Providence at Union Station, he addressed people that had turned out to see him as he was on his way to speak at Harvard University. He had assumed full power in Cuba a couple of months earlier. I didn't go see him, but I noted it in my diary.

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As we rapidly approach 5 YEARS of Weird RI, I'm wondering if we've run out of weirdness... things have been pretty slow. Are you all spending more time elsewhere? In that time, Facebook has become huge - would it be worth migrating to Facebook ( Read more... )

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It looks like the remains of the What Cheer Laundry building have finally been torn down. I noticed most of it gone sometime last week, driving down Westminster, and then yesterday there was just an empty space where it once stood ( Read more... )

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 Has anyone been to North Kingstown, near the Walmart, and seen the purple house? At this house, there are cages everywhere and the people drive a cow car. When I saw cow car I mean this car is covered in cow spots and has a fake cow statues on the roof.