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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Restoring the Longfellow Bridge, or, Activist Podcasting

30-Sep-05

A week ago I attended a Mass Highway presentation on restoration of the Longfellow Bridge, which I attended representing the Metro-Boston chapter of MassBike.
The Longfellow Bridge is a vital connector in Greater Boston’s bicycle
infrastructure: back in July we had done a petition drive on the
Boston-bound side of the bridge during the morning rushhour and
collected 81 [...]

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Who took the cat out?

12-Sep-05

The reign of terror of the “fat” tabby known as Garfield has finally ended in the Boston Globe’s daily comics, er, Sidekick
section. After tormenting my morning ritual for decades, the cat
finally got the boot. I like to imagine that this strip sealed the
warrant:

The
Indonesian writer posing as “Jim Davis” doesn’t even bother to hide the
fact that [...]

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