When asked to write this article I spent days agonizing over trying to be inclusive and explain to “muggles” (non-magic folk) the details behind cosplay and how some people may use cosplay as a form of therapy. As a self-aware individual and cosplayer, I only have my experience and the stories shared with me by […]
Rhode Island Comic Con is upon us again and thousands of excited fanatics will invade downtown Providence like a colorful misfit army of all backgrounds and backstories, much like their favorite characters. Some will even be dressed as their favorite characters — each year cosplayers dedicated to their artistic crafts bring to life heroes and […]
My comic collecting began on a crap Monday. I decided the Deftones’ White Pony, some overly sweet Moscato and a few comics would cheer me up. Getting home and decompressing, I was reminded how much I enjoy the tangible paper love every turn of a comic book’s page gave me. How easily I turned into a hero […]
Dear C; I have a stalker. Don’t laugh, I really think I do. It’s a guy on my street. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for almost five years now, and I’ve been going for walks since I moved in. Lots of people around here wave when they see me, probably because they see me so much. […]
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the real presidential debates and “Saturday Night Live’s” satirical version of them. The election has crossed a line. We are not watching a political exchange any longer; we are watching a new reality show that has somehow managed to carry a braying donkey into the […]
Zombies have taken West Greenwich, but they only come out at night and on the weekend. After years of watching zombie thrillers and playing every zombie game I could get my hands on, I was prepared for an onslaught of undead corpses shambling toward me. My bloodlust would overcome their hunger for my coveted brain. […]
A Gallup Poll released earlier this week shows that Millennials prefer Trump to Clinton on one issue: regulating Wall Street. Trump holds a 7-point lead on this single issue over Hillary Clinton. This is absurd. Every other issue shows Clinton handily trouncing Trump from national security to healthcare to education. Trump is the anti-regulation messiah […]
Dear C, I am trying to decide if I should stay in college after this semester. I just don’t feel like I need a degree in order to do what I want to do, which is pottery. I love being creative. I am happiest in my space at a local share studio. I think I […]
Every 19 minutes, someone dies in this country from an opioid overdose. Many of these are from prescription pain medicine, but overdose deaths have also soared among users of psychiatric sedatives such as Xanax and Klonopin. Far too many people stumbled into their addictions unintentionally — just average citizens who initially got hooked on medicine […]
People who are intimately familiar with the Biggest Little like to talk about the six degrees of separation factor here (but, of course in Vo Dilun’s case, that would be two degrees of separation). It is not unusual to have someone try to introduce you to someone, “Hey Bill, do you know Larry?” To which the […]