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Uhhh… what day is it?
April 2, 2009 – 10:00 pm
I was just walking home from work in Arlington Center (!) and totally saw a pimp drop off a smokin’ hot young hooker at an apartment building on Mass Ave.
For a second I was tempted to call out “What’s in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth [...]
TVR’s kind of guy
February 9, 2009 – 1:30 am
Iowahawk:
Dead Hobo Reporting Glitch Claims Another White House Appointee
WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced his resignation this morning amid new reports that Alameda County workers had unearthed more than a dozen additional dead hobo bodies at his former home in Berkeley, California. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist had been the subject of a week-long [...]
The Slow and the Serious 3: New England Drift
January 28, 2009 – 2:24 pm
Damn – venturing out into the snow for burritos today was nerve-wracking fun.
What could possibly go wrong?
October 2, 2008 – 11:43 pm
Weren’t a bunch of goofs trying to get Arlington to pass a law like the one being abused here, just a couple of years ago?
Hey, was that…?
September 20, 2008 – 8:12 pm
An hour or so ago I drove past an odd-looking guy walking down Garden Street in Harvard Square. Was that…? Yes, it sure was:
Saturday, September 20, 2008
7:00 PM
HARVARD BOOKSTORE
First Parish Church 3 Church ST Cambridge, MA 02138
(the beard was a little less unruly)
Coincidentally, I finally ordered Anathem today.
Techniques they don’t teach you in Parenting 101, but should
July 6, 2008 – 12:34 pm
Out on the street in front of my apartment, there is a woman yelling “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!” at two rambunctious children.
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.