Category: Blog Posts

Let Me Mock Your Photos

One of my favorite things to do is mock photos of things and so far I’ve taken these photos myself. Starting today, though, I will be allowing user submitted photos for me to discuss/ridicule. So please email your photos (that you have taken yourself) to me at matt@mattaromando.com along with your name, the photo’s year… Continue reading Let Me Mock Your Photos

Fountains of Fun: Hollywood

I appreciate the ridiculous in life. The less sense something makes, the weirder it is, the sillier, the more I’m enamored by it. An under-appreciated type of art in this regard are fountains. Sure, a lot of normal looking fountains exist but a lot of weird ones do too, and strange-looking fountains can be very… Continue reading Fountains of Fun: Hollywood

Saving Seats

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When I can’t ride my bike, Lucy, to work, I take the subway. Often I will see people put bags on seats, say to other passengers that they are “saving” the seat, or sitting on the outside seat with an empty seat next to them. I guess this is because people are either selfish or… Continue reading Saving Seats

The Return of Manny Ramirez?

Well well well, former Red Sox/general baseball player Manny Ramirez wants to play again and apparently, “is calling teams directly.” Most players have an agent for such things and I can remember when he played in Boston, he was not known for talking to the press or anyone else for that matter. Then again he… Continue reading The Return of Manny Ramirez?

5 Words You Don’t Want Describing Your Gift

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There are plenty of words out there that you’d want describing a gift you’re giving to someone (ex. awesome, great, alluring) and there are some obviously undesirable words (ex. terrible, inappropriate, bad). Here is my list of words that aren’t obviously poor gift descriptions but they’re really no good: Useful – It is a good… Continue reading 5 Words You Don’t Want Describing Your Gift