Dowbrigade

First posting on WordPress, the new blogging platform. Migration was traumatic but ultimately painless – it seemed like it would never work, until suddenly it did. Thanks to j, Sebastian and Hal, who helped the digital idiot Dowbrigade through the transition.
Obviously the first difference you notice is in the layout and design scheme. [...]

The big day has arrived! Today is a memorable day inthe Dowbrigade household, and in the evolution of the Dowbrigade itself. At 12:30 pm, in Faneuil Hall, the Revolutionary marketplace in downtown Boston, the lovely Norma Yvonne will be sworn in as an American citizen. And then, afterwards, we will come home and begin [...]

Abe Coleman, a squat powerhouse of a professional wrestler, billed by promoters as the Hebrew Hercules and known to opponents by the two-footed kick he copied from kangaroos, died Wednesday in New York. He was 101, probably making him the oldest professional wrestler, according to wrestling publications.
He weighed 220 pounds, stood [...]

The Dowbrigade is getting to be a regular over at MIT’s Stata Center, attending events which are completely over our head but somehow more entertaining than staying home and watching Roswell reruns on the SciFi Channel. It’s twisted exterior and only slightly more subtle interior askewedness are starting to grow on us.
On Friday it [...]