On Sunday afternoon, the last baseball game will be held at The Diamond after 40 years of service to a city and region and two baseball teams in what was, when it opened, “a major league park in a minor league town.” Between opening night in 1985 and the last game on...
Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we're all weird and everyone's just doing their best. Not only do we have a pandemic going on, everyone's going broke, it's too goddamn cold, and now we've got snow and ice? I thought things were going to get better in 2021. Guess now we've just gotta wait for 2022 to roll around… In the...
Here we are for another week of Missed Connections, where the pickings get steadily slimmer as the sadly-departed cesspool that was the Casual Encounters page on Craigslist continues its gradual takeover of what we once knew as one of the most fun internet pages to read. SESTA/FOSTA, what have you wrought? Endless posts about pipe, wood, and...
Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we are simultaneously concerned and cautiously optimistic. Will tomorrow's inauguration bring a new dawn for the world? If so, it might lift the spirits of the many lovelorn folks we find speaking from the pages of Craigslist this week. It seems wintering isn't working out so well for a lot of...
Back for another week of Missed Connections, and in a week where our country seemed like it was about to go under at any moment, things on Craigslist were just as crazy. From spot-on parodies of the QAnon hipster garbage who made up half the crowd at the Capitol invasion (the other half were pure unreconstructed hicks) to keyboard cosplayers...
It's 2021, and wading through spam has become the full-time job of the Missed Connections trawler. I wouldn't blame any of you if you're not even going to that page on Craigslist anymore, just waiting for me to do it so you don't have to click through a million of those spam posts with the circled letters. After the year we've had, it seems like...
Welcome to Missed Connections in Richmond, Virginia, where the once-fertile fields of Craigslist are drying up to the point that we are now harvesting choice morsels from neighboring DC. OK yes, this is the kind of thing I once said I'd never do, but when people are engaging in amusing hyperbole over the receipt of an anonymous coconut, you can't...
I don't know how many ways I can tell y'all over and over again every week that all of us are losing our minds a bit from the longterm social isolation of this pandemic, but even if I get repetitive, it seems that the Missed Connections will always find a new spin on an old theme. This week, we hear from someone whose top criteria for a...
It's another week of Missed Connections, and with the weather growing ever colder, it seems like we're all getting pretty quirky these days. This week brings us freaks who want their ears massaged by a hot barber and lightly-endowed gentlemen seeking those with similar attributes (or lack thereof). How crazy are we all going to be by March? Only...
The COVID-19 era has restructured education for everyone, especially students with disabilities. The lack of peer interaction has negatively impacted some students with disabilities, while allowing others to thrive in the digital classroom. Sebastian and Gabriel Saxon wake up at the same time every day and log into online classes. Sebastian has...
