Editor’s note: At the recent Spoken Awards, one performance had the entire club hooting and singing along. We asked the performer to send along the barn-burning lyrics. Lyricist’s note: Every word has been fact checked. We call him “Tronald” out of disrespect. Stream the demo at found.ee/tronald CHORUSTronald Dump’s a fraudA bully, A liar, A […]
Your computer, smartphone, laptop, tablet, and electronic devices are tools. Those tools have no gender. No heartbeat. No blood in their veins. No lungs. No thoughts. No Soul. Those tools are an amalgamation of dead materials: silicon, copper, aluminum, gold, plastics, et cetera. Materials that are “activated” by small brushings with human heat — mostly […]
On the “Weekend Update” satirical news segment on Saturday Night Live. anchor Colin Jost displayed a snapshot of an unhinged rant laced with profanity in the form of a Donald Trump post to Truth Social, before admitting he made it up – but until he said that, any viewer would assume it was real. I […]
Local Civil War re-enactor Bill Sherman was having trouble recruiting young people into the hobby, so he hit on a novel idea that is perfectly suited to Gen Z. He immediately telephoned his friend Jim Longstreet and suggested they realign to Civil War II, getting rid of that old, dusty gray and replacing it with […]
April Fool’s Day originated among the French a few years into the Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin had been pleading with them for any sort of assistance. The brand new nation, fighting for their independence, told the soon-to-crumble powerhouse that they’d gladly take anything: ammunition, food, lovely ladies, cash. The French eventually grew […]
News broke of an audacious operation on Jan 3 where US forces flew into Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, captured dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and flew them out to stand trial in federal court in New York City. For days, Americans were glued to the news media wondering, “Where the hell is Venezuela?” […]
“We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives!” –Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1957 What does the future hold for Little Rhody in the next few years? We broke down our guesses to mirror the sections in a normal Motif […]
How did we get to wearing blue overalls while attempting Taylor Swift’s dance in “The Fate of Ophelia” music video, trying to be as (‘cool?’ Is that the right word? Please suggest) as ‘cool and slay’ as youngsters who have already memorized the Tik Tok. (Ah, the good old days of Musically and Vine, all […]
Rhode Island has a history of paranormal activity throughout its history. Weekend nights can see crowds of people in Providence and Newport participating in guided ghost tours. Some historical cemeteries are tourist traps and must-visit stops for fans of the spooky. Restaurants are haunted. There are people that have claimed to have seen a ghost […]