Out on the street in front of my apartment, there is a woman yelling “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!” at two rambunctious children.
Category Archives: the 'hood
View from the balcony
May 13, 2008 – 6:08 pm
So, I watched some of Town Meeting from the balcony last night, and I learned something interesting: If you squint a bit, you can see which TMMs are reading comics.
(awesome image lazily lifted from Sam Hiti’s website without permission - hopefully it’s OK. Buy some of his stuff - I did!)
Suburban reclamation project
February 18, 2008 – 6:57 pm
Well, the switcheroo of the office and the living room progresses - lots of crap has been moved, the network is up again, etc. Aches and pains have just necessitated a beer break. I anticipate an additional Vindaloo-related break shortly, as well.
Hazzard County, MA
February 10, 2008 – 7:52 pm
(Mass Ave, just outside Harvard, facing Porter)
Officer looks askance at DFF, while DFF snaps pic after pic, chuckling.
DFF: Sorry - when I am ever going to see something this absurd again?
OFFICER: …
OFFICER: Around here? You never know.
One thing I know - that’s no General Lee.
“The thinking person’s heartthrob”
January 22, 2008 – 6:15 pm
Slipping mad props for one of your favorite artists into an only semi-related product review! Well done, anonymous Boston Globe Business writer, well done!
Happy friggin’ Halloween
October 31, 2007 – 4:33 pm
Archenemy GF does not enjoy answering the door for all the cute little kiddies on Halloween. It’s not that she doesn’t like the cute little kiddies - she does - but doesn’t like the prospect of repeated interruptions to her dinner, consumption of HGTV shows, and other oh-so-important things. And she particularly doesn’t enjoy [...]
Efficiency
August 9, 2007 – 5:40 pm
How UPS got William Gibson’s Spook Country to me:
West Sacramento, CA -> Mather, CA -> Louisville, KY -> Poughkeepsie, NY -> Newark, NJ -> Philadelphia, PA -> Stratford, CT -> Windsor Locks, CT -> Watertown, MA -> Arlington, MA
(this took three days, instead of Amazon Prime’s promised two)
WTF, UPS? Time to lay off the sauce, [...]
They fused, somehow
August 8, 2007 – 2:45 pm
From Peter, who writes:
My roomate Max loves to make films for the You Tube. He made one about me. It’s only half true, tho.
Which half, I couldn’t shouldn’t say.
Didit didit didit didit didit didit didit da DAH
August 7, 2007 – 12:53 pm
Are all supermarkets awash in 70s prog rock, or just the one near me?
I’d kind of hoped we’d be leaving all that behind us - far behind.
Reports from the field
June 27, 2007 – 2:06 pm
Roving archenemy field correspondent SBL provides the above photo from Switzerland (and a number of others, but I have yet to ask him if I can post any). I particularly like how much the mountain in the background resembles a hollywood special effect or a Wyeth painting… in the foreground, the shadows go to black, [...]
A man after my own heart
June 9, 2007 – 6:53 pm
Archenemy roving field correspondent AWM writes from Duke:
Hot as nuts down here all the time now. Pretty much keeps me from leaving the house, not that that was a problem before.
LOL!
Notes from the field
June 9, 2007 – 12:44 pm
Archenemy roving field correspondent SBL reports, via email from some trendy wireless handheld or other:
Dude, I’m looking at the Eiger!
No word yet on whether he’s sanctioning anyone.
Must be a coincidence
January 22, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Family Watchdog’s Google Maps hack shows you the bad apples. The red squares indicate convictions for offenses against children. I know you’d have to try pretty hard to not live or work somewhere relatively near a school in this town, but this seems like an alcoholic renting an apartment above a saloon.