WHY DO YOU LIKE RHODE ISLAND SO MUCH?

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QUONSET HUTS
RHODE ISLAND RED MONUMENTS
NEWPORT BRIDGES
DEL'S LEMONAIDS
NEW YORKS SYSTEMS
OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEMS
LIGHTNING BOLTS
HEWLETT PACKARD LOVECRAFTS
MARBLE DOMES
BUDDY CIANCIS (PLUNDER DOMES!)
COFFEE MILKS

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

foxy ladys

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

my dad hangs out there!
also an NBer's ex worked there (last I heard!)

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thegrantat250.com/

friend of mine bought a circa 1907 dept store in downtown pawtucket -- i've been helping with the renovations now & then. it's pretty rad. yay [urban revitalization / gentrification]!!!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

^ whoa!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

also an NBer's ex worked there (last I heard!)

when i was 19 one of my best friends dated a girl who worked there. i believe her nomme de danse was "nova".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

jon, next time you are around we could check it out. it has a bunch of office space, filled mainly by design professionals. there's a mini recording studio, antique furniture store, and marc's renting space there for his network/security contract biz. there's also gonna be a cafe & some retail space. fuckn rad.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

~~roffles~~ ruffels diner @ wayland square
teh cable car
six finger satellite!!
water fire
free buddy

hey waht is that ice cream shop off blackstone blvd?

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

MAXIMILLIANS

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

God, so many memories of MAXIMILLIANS! DAETs in 2001,2003. Saw Remy there recently!

Ian, please to show up and list all DIY venues.

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

RIP STATION NIGHTCLUB & BURNED PPL
RIP TEH STRAND
RIP LUPO'S HARTBRAEK HOSTEL
RIP MET CAFE
RIP SAFARI LOUNGE
RIP GREEN ROOM
RIP ALL LIVE MUSIC VENUES IN RI EVER

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

that is like a list of every venue i ever went to in the ocean state.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

what remains:

CENTURY LOUNGE
AS220
LIVING ROOM

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

not so broken up over the strand -- although I saw DJ Shadow there!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

lupo's & the met though. :(

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

i think it's called 'the strand' again, but it's mostly a dance club now. yeuch.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

err oops, i saw shadow at lupo's!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

also, the strand was closed for the majority of my concert going life

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

i saw david byrne there before sophomore year!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

you know...i have a hard time telling the differnece between coffee served in rhode island and coffeemilk...what the hell is with you people and milk?!? its not even a dairy state! lay off a bit and let me taste the beans for the love of christ.

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, comparing RI Dunks to NYC dunks, RI generally has less milk product if you give same instructions

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

weirdness i learned after moving to the midwest. if you order a "large regular" at a boston dunkin donuts you get a lot of cream and sugar. if you order a "large regular" in chicago they ask if you want cream and/or sugar. if you order a "large, boston" you get a large regular. it took me almost 6 years to find this out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

my advice is to ask for the cream and sugar u want

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

i take it black and bitter. like my soul.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I like my women the way I like my Dunkin Donuts coffee:

pale
packed with ice
& slowly thawing in my car

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, someone unbanned Kenan!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, someone unbanned Kenan!

Kenan's been unbanned for months!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

zung by laurel? :( :(

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

I happy to like Kenan, so that's not much of a zing -- but anyway, Andrew, if you WILL be purposefully creepy/murderous....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

fair enuf!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

birthplace

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 26 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fortthunder.org/maze/im054.jpg

― be home by 11 (orion), Saturday, 27 January 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ian, please to show up and list all DIY venues.

REDRUM
MUNCH HOUSE
VARIOUS SPACES IN/UNDER/BEHIND ATLANTIC MILLS
MONAHASSET MILL
CANDLE FACTORY/LUXURY TOMB/CAVE OF TIME
THE PROVIDENCE CIVIC CENTER
HILARIOUS ATTIC/39 MANTON
THE DIRT PALACE
THE SICKLE
THE BAKERY
THE BOX OF KNIVES
THE PINK RABBIT
VALHALLA
71 TYNDALL (it was 71, right? that punk house?)

― be home by 11 (orion), Saturday, 27 January 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

RIP STATION NIGHTCLUB & BURNED PPL

^ next door the the blockbuster video i frequented as a teen

― be home by 11 (orion), Saturday, 27 January 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

if i spent more time in high school bangin chicks and less time going to latenight noise shows in hippie lofts, i'd have turned out a lot different.

― be home by 11 (orion), Saturday, 27 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

wait, when did Lupo's close?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Saturday, 27 January 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

two years ago, maybe?

― be home by 11 (orion), Saturday, 27 January 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

Every state has something its Rotary Club can boast of
Some product that the state produces the most of
Rhode Island is little, but oh my
It has a product anyone would buy

Copper comes from Arizona
Peaches come from Georgia
Lobsters come from Maine
The wheat fields are the sweet fields of Nebraska
And Kansas gets bonanzas from the grain

Ol' whiskey comes from ol' Kentucky
Ain't the country lucky?
New Jersey gives us glue
And you - you come from Rhode Island
And little ol' Rhode Island is famous for you

Cotton comes from Louisiana
Gophers from Montana
And spuds from Idaho
They plow land in the cow land of Missouri
Where most beef meant for roast beef seems to grow

Grand canyons come from Colorado
Gold comes from Nevada
Divorces also do
And you - you come from Rhode Island
And little ol' Rhode Island is famous for you

Pencils come from Pennsylvania
Vests from (V)est Virginia
Tents from (Tent)essee
They know mink where they grow mink in Wyomin(k)
A camp chair in New Hamp(chair) - That's for me

Minnows come from Minn(o)sota
Coats come from Dakota
But why should you be blue?
For you - you come from Rhode Island
And little ol' Rhode Island is famous for you

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 27 January 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

new england patriots are win TWO super bowls when i was in ri
also teh red sox win a world series

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

SPITE TOWER

― the art of pretend non-lawyering. (tehresa), Saturday, 27 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

The Spite Tower and RI Red Monument (only monument to a chicken in the world iirc) are both within a stone's throw of my parents'!

― UART variations (ex machina), Saturday, 27 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

old jamestown bridge
block island ferry
aunt carries
jackie's galaxie
red fez
brown university pool
seven stars bakery

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I miss Del's Lemonade all the freaking time. and I had no idea Lupo's had closed.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

east matunuck beach
matunuck town beach
hopping the wall at narragansett town beach
misquamacut carousel
rocky point park
the jetty in galilee
moonstone beach
hell, all of south county
gilbert stuart birthplace

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

moxie soda
saugys
paw sox

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

elmo, ian, jon

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

awwww

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

saugys!!!! yes!!!
also, YES jackie's galaxie

― be home by 11 (orion), Sunday, 28 January 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

HAVEN BROTHERS
SILVER TOP DINER, RIP
NEW YORK SYSTEM

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

brown university pool

it clsoed for a few weeks because the roof was unsound... my dad had to skip swimming!

hopping the wall at narragansett town beach

OTM

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

whatever happened to the westerlies?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

the summers i was 16-19 i worked at a deli/café in southern rhode island. my shady low-level mafioso boss hired me to do all sorts of weird tasks including but not limited to:

a) drive him to new jersey (leaving at 4am) so he could pick up unmarked black cadillacs from an otherwise empty field. drive him back and -- if asked -- tell everybody i'd been mowing his lawn.

b) clean out a basically-trashed "abandoned" house; throw out the belongings of the current tenants, destroy the letters I found under the bed (mostly from a kid to his father, father in jail. kid lied desperately about how successfully he was taking care of his mother).

c) drive trays of bagels and coffee to the local police headquarters, along with these supremely sycophantic messages 'for the great work you do keeping us safe and protected, with love and trust in our mother and the holy son jesus'

d) paint and repaint a mural of a french country villa on the 8x16 wall of a closed-down building 'soon to be a restaurant' and later burned to the ground. presumably because the 'artist' the boss had hired was likely a favorite call-girl, and he had to show his wife the 'work' she was doing.

e) shred scads of unmarked manila envelopes.

But my paychecks started bouncing. Boss threatened to 'break me' if I came on the property. He accused me of extortion, and called two of his buddies to lead me off the premesis. Didn't get fired; just got chased away. Boss's dad took $70.00 from the register and threw them in my face, told me I better "beat it good and quick or I'll get good and quickly beaten."

― indian rope trick (bean), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

The beaches are so much better than Southeastern Connecticut where I grew up. Also, the package stores didn't card you as much. Well, back in the late 70s.

Hi, Remy! That sounds like a perfect teenage summer job! Until you get to the last paragraph.

I need to talk to you about elementary education, RI, public vs. private, stuff like that. I went to the HR people at the Providence School District and they said they weren't hiring anyone with a plain old elementary credential, just Special Ed and Bilingual credentials. Bummer. There must be some way around this. Anyway, e-mail me! I hear you're doing well.

― Punky Husbear Party (Arthur), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

Lupo's is still open - it moved across the street to where The Strand was.

http://www.lupos.com/

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

the "new" strand hosts concerts under the "Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel" promotional brand == THAT'S NOT LUPO'S, GENIUS

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Lupo's @ the Strand is pretty awful as a venue! Elevated dance platforms make for really shitty sight lines! also, terrible acoustics!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Lupo's! I saw Fugazi & The Ex / Stereolab & SY there! Fuckers!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

i was at that stereolab/sy show.

― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

in like 2000?

i saw that show in chapel hill!

― the art of pretend non-lawyering. (tehresa), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

the actual site of the former lupo's (along with the building that housed it) is currently being developed into luxury lofts by cornish associates lp.

i try not to be too idealistic "saving cities" about the economic patterns that cause gentrification, but it seems really backwards for Providence to pay lip service to the arts on one hand while sacrificing, on the other hand, one of its better (i.e. most famous, largest capacity) music venues for its real estate value.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

[paying lip service ... on one hand]

http://vaudeville.org/index_files/image7871.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

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