Matthew Lawrence

Sad day (ate the last of the chocolate covered potato chips that Jason's mother sent us for Valentine's Day).

The silent victims of America's forgotten conflict In the early 1960s, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union became entangled in a civil war in Laos, a narrow Southeast Asian country bordered by

You've also got just over a week left to see The Heart of Wattayai at the Museum of Work and Culture. (Yes I did go all the way to Woonsocket for a story...)

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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

One week left for people to apply for these grants! Take note, people of Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, and East Providence!

A February 2014 Providence Phoenix cover image depicting gubernatorial candidate Clay Pell, in a suit, figure skating, as his (then-) wife Michelle Kwan, looks on -- along with Angel Taveras and Gina Raimondo -- in the background.

Can't believe I almost let the whole winter olympics pass without sharing this Providence Phoenix cover story I wrote in 2014.

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A downtown parks network justifying spending money on temprary interactive sculptures inspired by Taylor Swift's Eras tour.

Sure I guess!

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

Where do people read essays these days?

Not to be Harley Quinn but this egg sandwich is saving my life.

This is great and also the storm that caused this snow happened roughly 100,000 days ago.

A new report from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds 10 corporations are linked to 44% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The report may be the last to use federal data slated for suspension. buff.ly/4dcg6Om

Congratulations!!

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

About to introduce Jason to Lou & Peter Berryman 😬

Happy Ash Wednesday to Ash the band and TV's Wednesday Jenna Ortega.

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

The LinkedIn ones are so similar I think you could replace the letters with black squares and the shape of the paragraphs would be the same.

In 2008 I voted for Obama specifically because he promised marriage equality and to close Guantanamo and when neither of those things seemed remotely close to happening in 2012 I voted for, uh, Jill Stein.

Exactly the same.

I love this album

Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing 21, 1976

Only every third or fourth video is in French, though?

Decided to do my IT training module thing in French just for the thrill.

It’s a shame it was taken cos Alice In Chains is in fact a great name for a 24 year old making gothy lite d&b

This makes so much more sense than what I was picturing from the description (this quote isolated above an interior rink entrance used only by players).

I guess that’s the news for you. The side wall in question was one of my favorite places to walk by. Throughout Pawtucket and Providence, local artists paint murals on publicly accessible buildings/walls. This particular one traces the history of the Industrial Revolution in Pawtucket

The neighborhood around the ice rink is blue collar Rhode Island, a neighborhood of squat residential homes built in the shadow of the Industrial Revolution. A mural on the side of the arena where the shooting happened celebrates the growth of the American textile industry, which started in earnest in Pawtucket. “At the dawn of a new century the most amazing improvements had still yet to be realized,” a quote above the rink’s high school hockey player entrance reads.

This is by far the least important part of a(nother) mass shooting story but what a weird quote to be on a high school hockey arena?

I HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT THIS MAN IS A TOTAL DUD.

Had dinner with his grandparents tonight and they did not bring up pegging thank god.

Why Michigan of all places, just allowed a new ICE detention is beyond me. They just approved a huge facility next to Detroit Metro Airport.