The Closet Extrovert

We’re talking trash over at Down With Absolutes. To be more specific, we’ve been discussing RecycleBank, the pilot “recycling for incentives” program going on in Wilmington that I posted about recently. According to Mike’s post, some people are upset about having of their weekly trash collection days replaced with recycling collection, but dropping regular trash […]

It’s not just women. According to an article in Men’s Health, Wilmington, Delaware is the 6th most angry city in the United States:
Our search for evidence of urban anger began with the percentage of men with high blood pressure, from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (as calculated by Sperling’s BestPlaces). We then factored […]

We received a letter from the Mayor’s Office at the end of June informing us that The Mayor, the Clean Wilmington Committee and the Wilmington City Council would be implementing its new residential curbside recycling program in our neighborhood on July 17th. The program is called RecycleBank and it looks promising. The limited-area pilot phase […]

It really has been a crazy time recently! I was putting in some long hours on a project and got about 2 hours of sleep this afternoon after being up all night. I was awoken from my nap by my housemate, who had just spoken to our landlord because the ceiling above his bed collapsed […]

To balance out all the complaining I’ve done about my neighborhood over the past seven months (I’ve intentionally refrained from posting about the inescapable ice cream truck music), I thought I’d list a few of the positive things about being here (and toss in some relevant haiku as well):

The flowering tree in the front yard […]

Dear Men Who Drive Around Blasting Music So Loud That the Thump of Your Woofers Makes Me Think I’ve Developed Heart Arrhythmia:
No matter how big your speakers are, they’re never going to compensate for your small dicks.
Dear Upstairs Neighbor Who Bangs on the Floor Whenever My Woofer Barks at Some Noise or Event He Feels […]

Well, I’m back to bitch about street noise again. Who decided this was a good idea? I’m talking about walk-behind street sweepers that sound like incredibly loud lawnmowers with “BAH-LOOP! BAH-LEEP! CAUTION! SWEEPER APPROACHING” blaring through some kind of megaphone. One went by a while ago after I’d spent the previous tweny minutes hearing it […]