Archive for 2006

Andy at I, Ectomorph is looking for a noun that could be packaged as a book that bills the noun as something that changed the world. I’d offer corn, but it’s probably been done to death already. Post-it notes? Velcro? Comic books?

Richard Seymour has been named to the AFC Pro Bowl team. Should have been Ty Warren. Warren’s had a heck of a season.

The Kenmore Square basement that was vacated by Deli Haus a few years ago has been brought back to life by The Lower Depths, a bar that should appeal to Red Sox fans, students of age, people attracted to the new Kenmore Square, people on their way to Lansdowne Street, and, no doubt least importantly, [...]

Former WRKO talk-show host John DePetro writes on his web site: I will be on WABC in New York,the number one talk station in the world, all next week. I will be filling in for John Gambling from 10AM to 12 noon. John DePetro on WABC Dec 26-29. Number of pictures of Mr. DePetro on [...]

There are problems on the Emerald Island: One of Ireland’s leading Catholic clergymen today called for national unity in the face of the evil of spiralling gangland murder. As pressure mounted on the Government with five murders in six days, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said a culture of violence was beginning to devastate the [...]

Authorities in Paris have denied H&M’s request to open a 30,000 sq ft store on Champs Elysees. ‘There is a risk that the Champs Elysées could become banal,’ Lynne Cohen-Solal, head of planning at Paris’s city council, said. ‘We have nothing against H&M.’ Nevertheless, she pointed out that clothes occupied 39 per cent of the [...]

The New England Patriots rebounded from last week’s disappointing loss to Miami by flattening the Houston Texans 40-7. Ellis Hobbs scored a touchdown on a 93-yard kick-off return. Kevin Faulk scored a nice 11 yard run behind excellent lead blocks by tight-end Daniel Graham and fullback and Heath Evans, and then again on a beautiful [...]

My father’s getting ready to rev up the chainsaw to cut down a few pine trees that have done their duty as seeding trees on a ridge that was clear-cut a few years ago. He told me prices for pine tree timber are high now, which surprised me since the market was saturated with trees [...]

A spat has broken out between WRKO talk-show host Scott Allen Miller and Boston Globe metro columnist Eileen McNamara over a column by the latter on the decision by Needham High School’s school council to stop sending the honor roll to Needham Times, where it has been published for some unspecified period of time. In [...]

Udolpho’s take on the PS3 hype and subsequent bust. …I read that scalpers bought up boxes and boxes of PS3 consoles on launch day in order to unload them at huge mark-ups. Perhaps even a majority of shipping consoles were bought for this purpose – at the very least a large enough number to affect [...]