My worst purchase ever?
I just signed up for Valleyschwag. What’s Valleyschwag you ask? Good question.
Valleyschwag is a silly service that collects a whole bunch of free shit from Web 2.0 style companies, packages it up for you once a month and ships it to your door for the low, low price of $14.95 a month.
Now I know what you’re thinking, why pay $14.95 a month for free stuff? Well it’s a fair question but this is pretty good free stuff, the kind you get from young companies with solid bankrolls at large conferences. Not that I need this junk, but you’re promised at least a t-shirt or two in each monthly bundle so I figure it’s worth at least the price of admission. I missed the first send off this month, so we’ll see how I do around mid May.
Make mine a double
I always have a hard time understanding how irrational fears manage to go public. We all have them, however reasonable people usually try to keep them in check so as to not muddle conventional wisdom by introducing baseless positions into public debate. Last Thursday we saw some of the best irrational fears Worcester has to offer at of all places a Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. The issue at hand? Serving beer and wine at Green Hill Park’s municipal golf course.
I talk quite a bit about drinking in public not because it’s a matter of huge importance, just the opposite, its of such little importance with such little reason for concern that any inclusion of alcohol into public events adds quite a bit of risk free value to otherwise boring social gatherings. I’m not just trying to stir the pot here; I truly believe the only way to make a city like Worcester interesting in the eyes of both the residential and visiting populations is to break down as many of the bizarre Puritanical hang-ups we have governing our social behavior. And we are talking Puritans here, good ‘ol fashioned Cromwell loving Puritans who find anything which could qualify as fun to be an aberration.
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Lets seem them horns Holy Cross!
At no time during the 90’s did I ever consider the possibility that in the future cranks would use terms like ‘satanic’ and ‘raucous’ to describe Hootie and the Blowfish.
Only in Worcester folks, only in Worcester.
The Meaning of Life
Junk Mail
Since being chosen as an add on delegate to the Democratic State Convention in June, I’ve been bombarded with junk mail from candidates running for Gov and Lt Gov this year. The number of mailings from candidates has officially overtaken the number of mailings from mortgage companies I receive, no small amount of dead trees. So if any of you wannabe office holders are paying attention here’s a little free advice from someone who actually reads this crap.
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Lactose tolerant
So a few months back I was contacted by a journalist from the San Fransisco Chronicle who was working on a story about the illicit on line trade in breast milk. I’m sure most of you are at this point wondering why a journalist from one of the countries largest newspapers would contact me of all people for such a story, its a fair question.
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People need to be nicer to trees
This is a good start.
