Sure, Buddy Cianci wound up back in Providence, but wouldn't he make just the greatest on-air partner for Tom Finneran on WRKO? Jeff Keating says it'd be a win-win:

... By all accounts, Buddy is a real personality, he’s got tons of radio experience, and WRKO is clearly looking for someone to partner Tom up with. Heck, they're both convicted felons! Sounds like a perfect marriage to me.

Whoa! Instead of convincing would-be guests it'd be criminal not to stay at the swanky XV Beacon hotel in Boston, two-times-a-felon Buddy Cianci is working out his halfway issues at some condo project in Providence, Channel 10 in Providence reports:

... The job was arranged through former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino, whose property management company is part-owner of the condominium development, the Associated Press reported.

Paolino probably is just following that old adage: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but Amy sees the fingerprints of a jealous Tom Menino all over this:

... Menino had better watch himself. He's going to start getting fireplace logs lobbed though his window at night. ...

OK, obviously I'm going over the deep end obsessing about the wonderfulness of a character like Buddy Cianci moving to Boston, but, well, see, some of you may remember how I bought three plush e. coli bacteria for a TV death pool that nobody won and they're still in our foyer closet and the saner members of the household want to know when I'm getting rid of them, so:

Now that Buddy Cianci is becoming the live-in shill for 15 Beacon (technically, XV Beacon, but please):

Come up with the best idea for how Buddy can pitch the hotel and win a stuffed bacterium, something like:

Buddy stands in the lobby and screams at the camera: "So come on down! Take it from me: It'd be criminal not to!"

If I get more than three entries, I'll put it to a vote; the top three winners will each get one of these things. Post your entry as a reply here or mail it to me by noon EDT, Thursday, May 24.

Note: That's an image of one of the stuffed bacteria, not of Buddy Cianci, but, hey, turn it upside down and you have Buddy in a windstorm!