Boston Commons has dutifully gathered up all the local bloggas about the random MBTA search policy (including this general information guide), and one of them
caught my attention in calling the president of the National Lawyers
Guild an “anti-American terror apologist” (and an idiot). Without
addressing the characterization, it seems
to me NLG’s Michael Avery quote poorly worded his [...]
Funny how an article that starts out talking about how penny-wise wives check their husbands’ profligate stupidity (”We were newly married with no money to be spending on stereos,” said the only sane person interviewed in the entire article) evolves into a pro-consumerism booster that equates empowered, working women with the need to buy more [...]
Took
this picture Monday, the summer solstice, on my bike ride home, which
takes me through Boston Common. This view, looking out over the Common
to Back Bay, always enchants me. (I’ve also found that the later the
sun sets, the later I tend to stay in the office. Kind of perverse.)
Karma forbid that anyone caricature the 1960s and 70s as an era of
self-indulgent hedonism. But Ty Burr, defending the honor of helpless
hippies everywhere, is here to remind us
of the 10th anniversary of an insipid, hack-art, feel-good movie and
resurrect it from post-Oscar obscurity. Because Forrest is part of some
vast right-wing conspiracy to make us all Think [...]
After many fruitless trips to Paper Source, refuge of the imaginatively
crippled, we’ve realized that its entire business model rests on
selling every customer the exact same “unique” paper experience. That’s
right, you and 100,000 other couples can send petal invitations that
reflect your own, personal, conformist identity. Thanks, Paper Source!
Boston sure has a lot of patriotic holidays: Patriot’s Day (otherwise
known for the Boston Marathon), Evacuation Day, and today, Bunker Hill
Day — a holiday well-known for wreaking havoc on the Boston school
schedule. (Giving kids a holiday their last week of class is a recipe
for chaos). It’s an official holiday and unofficial work day here at
the [...]
I’ve lived in Cambridge 10 years — several of them on the River — and never knew that dragon boats have been racing here since 1980.
I’ve seen these race in Flushing, NY, right about this time of year and
was pleasantly surprised to see them here. The crowds were quite
boisterous and loud; we could hear them [...]
Yet Another Blog: xRoommates is the new refuge for my college roommates (including Argus).
Do I really need to write for 4 blogs???
Johnny Nilsson graduated Cambridgeport Middle School on Thursday, 10
June 2004. Besides winning the athletic achievement award and being
voted “best looking,” he also took home the Bill Bradley award for
“most likely to become a Rhodes Scholar and politician.” His response:
“What’s a Rhodes scholar?”
Johnny’s brother Carl commented, “Don’t we wish we were that cool?”
If only.
Johnny Nilsson, in [...]
Considering that the Big Dig was initiated on the whim of politically
powerful friends of the North End, for the relatively trivial purpose
of reconnecting that neighborhood with the rest of Boston, is it any
surprise that the likely result will be a “disparate set of
neighborhood parks, shaped and constrained by nearby residents who
regard the space as their [...]
