Museum of Science in Boston an early May morning as seen from the tracks to North Station.
28 Weeks Later is a good deal better than the disappointing 28 Days Later. It has a good mix of action sequences, big explosions, hails of gunfire, and up-tempo running as ragers repopulate the city that 28 weeks earlier had been depopulated by the first wave of ragers. The virus-induced repocalypse is caused by an [...]
The missus and I saw The Waitress this morning at AMC Boston Common 19. It is a fairly miserable film. I knew nothing about it in advance but I had expected it to be a high-brow chick flick, maybe even borderline enjoyable. In reality, The Waitress is a rather dark drama with streaks of very [...]
About a decade ago I went into a store to buy a black suit. The proprietor told me he had no black suit, but he did offer me a dunkelblau one. Ever since I’ve been making dunkelblau jokes, along the lines of “that guy in Reservoir Dogs who didn’t want to be Mr. Pink should [...]
A young woman was hit by a car as she crossed the westbound lanes on the way from the BU Central T-stop to the courtyard outside Marsh Chapel next to the GSU at about 7.08 PM this evening. The thud created by a car hitting a person is an unpleasant one. The young woman tumbled [...]
I read the teaser for an article in The Boston Globe on how young voters are going to be really, truly, sersiously off-the-hookizzle important in next year’s elections, and my reaction was the same as John Daley’s: Weren’t we told the same thing in 2004? Aren’t we told the same thing every election? I for [...]
The quote below is from a report by the University of Masschusetts Donovan Institute, so it should be trusted only when verified, but if it is correct it may just explain a substantial part of budget shortfalls in towns and cities cross the state: From 1999 to 2004, school enrollments statewide were essentially flat, with [...]
A pretty substantial response by Boston Fire department to some kind of incident at the Braemore on Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore Square tonight. I don’t know yet whether anybody was hurt. Below are some pictures from fairly early in the response, before the police rerouted traffic. This is a photo of fire fighters scaling a [...]
Truly Jörg’s in Kenmore Square was held up today, according to Fox 25 News. Two weeks ago some scum held up the Cold Stone Creamery a couple of blocks south of here. And about two weekends ago D-4 ignored an hour-long disturbance incident outside a residence. Can somebody please put some police in the community [...]
I had no idea but allegedly there is an arbitrage market for shelter dogs on the East Coast. Apparently animal rescue shelters in the Northeast are so picky about who can adopt dogs from them that there is an interstate market for rescued dogs. Down South a shelter dog can be had for twenty-some dollars [...]
