Al Daniel

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Although Splat Attack is produced by ’90s kids and (primarily) for ’90s kids and ’90s kids at heart, this month’s installment of Collectors Corner has some items that would appeal to our parents and others to our Gen Z brethren as well.
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A reminder that the Rhode Island gubernatorial election is this year!! 🗳️

Many Rhode Islanders who rely on RIPTA to get around have been severely impacted by service cuts. Our state deserves leaders who won’t throw riders under the bus. We need leaders who will commit to properly funding transit. 🚌

Happy birthday, Sarah!

YouTube video by Splat Attack Podcast Welcome Freshmen's 35th Class Reunion!

This weekend will mark 35 years since Welcome Freshmen debuted on Nickelodeon. Splat Attack is acknowledging this milestone anniversary and filling us in on the series’ history and legacy with insights from various alumni.
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The All-American Legacy of Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show The Super Bowl halftime show has long been a magnet for culture-war controversy. For Bad Bunny, that meant that a performance about love and togetherness led to a lot of extremely hurt feelings.

My pick for this piece's MVP (most valuable phrase): "staggering economy of eyeballs"

via @tribecalledlex.bsky.social:
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Happy World Pizza Day to those who celebrate. (Though personally, I'll wait to observe until Friday and cannot, for the life of me, understand why this occasion doesn't always fall at *that* point in the week.)

Frankenstein’s monster actors who also performed on ’90s Nickelodeon In late January, barely two years after releasing their belated Good Burger sequel, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell confirmed they are…

Following last month's "Kenan & Kel Meet Frankenstein" announcement, I had an itch to find out how many actors have played Frankenstein's monster and performed on a '90s Nickelodeon show.

It turns out there were quite a few.
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Happy Massachusetts Statehood Day to those who celebrate.

As someone who once followed an adolescence dream into daily sportswriting, I can vouch for your first sentence.

And if I must single out any one part of Sally's article, it is the sage directive to "look with a hard eye, write vividly and observationally, and hit our deadlines no matter what."

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Happy Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson Feast Day.

For the uninitiated, those two colonial leaders settled key locations in what came to be Rhode Island, and their ahead-of-the-times stances on separation of church and state, feminism, and race relations are especially worth remembering today.

I'm thinking of Jeffrey Marx, a one-time WaPo writer whose book, Season of Life, centers on NFL player turned HS football coach and pastor Joe Ehrmann, who talks about Men Built for Others versus Men Built for Themselves.

Between WaPo and Amazon, a certain someone surely falls into the latter camp.

So many Monty Burns, so few Arthur Fortunes. #IYKYK

Like I just posted, maybe this is my lack of business and economic knowledge talking, but something tells me the Washington Post, of all papers, could afford to sustain a sports section rivaling that of the golden-age Boston Globe...if the movers and shakers wanted it to.

I'd genuinely like to ask any business/economics experts to weigh in here: With an owner like Bezos, shouldn't WaPo be able to (among many other amenities) field a sports section on a par with the legendary Boston Globe staff of the mid-'70s-to-early-'80s?

Excellent, eloquently articulated points by @kvanaren.bsky.social in a well-earned tribute, though one we certainly weren't prepared to read in the past tense so soon. #RIPCatherineOHara

FWIW, while the media industry is an imploding nightmare that makes one question why they ever wanted to do this for a living, @awfulannouncing.bsky.social is going strong, always accepting pitches for sports media-related stories, and is not owned by any billionaires. Yet.

Kudos, Julia!

I take it this rules out any chance of hearing the jingle "🎶Put your Red Sox on! W-P-R-O🎶!" again anytime soon?

Q&A with Melissa Cherney of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank - Rhode Island Monthly Prior to moving to Rhode Island this summer, Melissa Cherney had spent her entire career in her home state of North Dakota, where she served as Melissa Cherney, the new CEO of the Rhode Island Communi...

"...we really have to zoom out and think about all of the things that impact low-income individuals and families...It’s really thinking about hunger in a much broader way of, ‘How do we ensure that people can thrive?’"

As told to @lclemjourno.bsky.social:
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -MLK

Sure thing, Sean! And as someone who builds his breakfast around a bagel more mornings than not, I am one of those celebrants, so thank you too!

It's a Shanda | Sean Keeley | Substack A Northeastern Jew looking for a good bagel in Seattle and beyond. Click to read It's a Shanda, by Sean Keeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Happy National Bagel Day to those who celebrate.

If you’re into bagels – and especially, but not exclusively, the Pacific Northwest’s bagel scene- check out @seankeeley.bsky.social's newsletter: itsashanda.substack.com

‘I have to be the sickest one here’: Stanford gymnast opens up about eating disorder Less than a year after her Olympic debut in Paris, Levi Jung-Ruivivar was in treatment at an eating disorder recovery facility. Now the 19-year-old is back competing at Stanford.

“It literally had nothing to do with gymnastics anymore."

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Happy Connecticut Statehood Day to those who celebrate.

Nice deal, pretty boy!

I see Kershaw has a nationwide empire, but it's still a little puzzling that he's the only non-Crochet choice of any New England states.

Seeing how we're not just talking about active hurlers (see Nolan Ryan in OK), I might have expected Pedro Martinez for Vermont and Roger Clemens for Connecticut.

Get Outta Town: The Berkshires - Rhode Island Monthly Every few years, my boyfriend Kurt and I get the itch to head to the Berkshires. With its heady mix of outdoor activities, world-class museums and When culture calls, sometimes a reinvigorated Massach...

My pick for this piece's MVP (most valuable phrase): "art-drunk and culturally sated."

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New England Sports Network: 40 years of sticking to a name Built around a dual Red Sox-Bruins nucleus, NESN has constantly kept all of New England on its mind and its air.

Uncertainty as to the future of regional sports networks - particularly those under the FanDuel (nee Bally, nee Fox Sports Net) conglomerate reminds us of the rarity that is the New England Sports Network.

Two years ago, I dove deep into that for NESN's 40th anniversary.
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For a @motherjones.com article, I am looking to speak to caregivers of disabled individuals who are 14 and older who are on Medicaid re Medicaid work requirement exemptions. My email to reach out is jmetraux@motherjones.com and reposts are appreciated.

What Splat Attack means: Slow down, catch up, smile back, look forward Author’s note: On Monday morning, the Splat Attack Podcast’s social media channels announced its crew will film the 100th installment for…

I wrote this all the way back late last spring, ahead of Splat Attack's 100th episode, yet to start this winter, it's been my best-read Medium story two weeks in a row.

We can take that as a testament to the podcast's appeal.
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