April 2010
67 posts
Drunk food →
My scoop reporting for tonight: “You will not find lard, fried in lard, surrounding lard like this, ever.”
Uno’s, we hardly knew ya. →
Just as Kelly’s is preparing to open at the corner of Harvard and Commonwealth, the Pizzeria Uno’s across the street has closed down. I just noticed tonight at the lights are off, the…
March 2010
45 posts
Sunny where the Sox are. →
But not so much here.
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This Thursday →
Just a reminder, the ticket parade commences on April 1st (no fools). Nominally clean streets and positive cash flow!
(The City of Boston will send you email reminders if you want.)
The All-Seeing Eye →
From the Bostonist photo walk.
The Cure →
The Cure’s first ever US show was in Allston, according to the infallible commenters on youtube and the noise.
International Wine Vault?! →
Looking for something almost completely unrelated, I came across this. This has got to be part of BLM Wine – 1360 vs 1354 Comm Ave.
International Wine Vault is the largest, most…
Glass & fire →
Some jackass broke some beer bottles inside my entryway this weekend. And it sounds like something similar is going on over at Ringer.
Pieces of glass and a fire pit with rags and fire…
On Augury →
Liam minces no words about a metal matinee at Harper’s Ferry last week. My goal for this week is to be this direct to someone about something, anything, without getting myself fired dumped or…
Swimming down sidewalks →
I’m only realizing now that this POTD makes it look like there’s a non-trivial amount of non-flooded sidewalk out there, but there’s just not. We’re ankle deep all along our dogwalking…
No I will not share my hamentashen. →
Except that I did.
Things I am learning about fruit trees →
Plans for my new mini-orchard are progressing. Below, the one vs several tree logic is laid out by Purdue’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. I will now proceed to…
My critterless long run →
I’m still under 20 miles for the week, but it’s within spitting distance. Given her gimpiness last week I didn’t bring the dog along very much, just the last short one yesterday. It’s…
PhDaddy →
Happy defense & bday & St. Patrick’s Day!
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They can see the sun. →
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Cranberry nutella cookies →
Not a good week for training. It’s been (understatement) raining, and I’ve been unpleasantly sick. So instead, I made cookies with a recipe I stole from Jenny at Snackreligious.
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Fording the Tides of March →
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Over ALL →
The odds of me winning an NCAA pool are poor. And yet they’re so much lower yet when my team is THE OVERALL #1 SEED and therefore everyone and their mother’s brother’s monkey will be…
It’s never gonna stop raining (and that’s... →
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Cranberry Nutella →
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A little Saturday optimism →
I’m sick and it sucks.
Given my predilection for complaining, a secondary suck is that it’s overly easy to exhaust the available sympathetic ear. My friends transition from the nominal …
A little ladder truck excitement. →
Unclear if anything’s actually on fire or not, but the entire calvary is outside right now.
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Opening soon. →
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Coming soon. →
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Blooms?! →
Hope springs eternal. Found in the ACL flickr pool.
AVMS skate off at HAIR →
Speaking of helpful email forwards, Allison of MITL (fame? fame.) sent me some promo material about an event Allston Village Main Streets is having at the Harvard Allston Ice Rink (168 Western…
“It was too easy to catch these fools” →
That robbery at The Joint? Resolved.
Most amusing (other than that the alleged perp was ID’d through Facebook) is that the huge bong being lifted below at 0:21 is named…
“Grown up Allston” →
Thanks to WVillain for sending me a link to this post from Meghann Ackermann…
A friend and I used to live around the corner from each other in Allston. Now, four years later, we live around…
Yi Soon Bakery →
Treats for my coworker’s baby shower today.
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And speaking of new websites →
My new baby nephew has one of his own, which they’ve foolishly given me administrative access to. Anyway, I’m pretty sure you know I’m right when I say you need more baby blogs in your life. So
Blue sky bounce →
And I’m glad for it.
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Hola Good Time Emporium Bear! →
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Burden swap →
If you find yourself needing help, consider asking the wise jellyfish who lives in this blue box amidst the woods of Ringer Park. If you can locate it, that is – only the honestly deserving will…
Boa classes starting →
Starting this Wednesday, at the Boston Academy of Burlesque Education. Disappointingly, no constrictors are involved.
Ha yeah right →
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Hey there eyes open. →
A quick one right now – I have a bunch more I’ll put up later tonight so check back!
Justin Townes Earle →
At Great Scott last night. I don’t know him particularly but I really like his daddy.
Video courtesy of Clara.
Boston Latin School II →
Trying this one again.
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Now that’s greco-roman. →
Given Adam’s Trojan Horse post, here are some amusing background photos from the (presumed) folks in question. I’ve found you gotta write your own jello wrestling waivers into those…
Boston Latin School →
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Oh shiny rotors, how you do vex me! →
If some bad car-related thing happens, consider this post spooky foreshadowing.
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March resolution →
An apple a day!
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C&K vs Azama vs BLB →
Here’s a short video review of Azama, to watch prior to their ultimate demise today regarding their desired 3am closing time (a pragmatic & pessimistic prediction).
Geekhouse at NAHBS →
Lower Allston’s Geekhouse Bikes has some gorgeous photos up from the handmade bike show in RIchmond.
This particular bike has integrated self-powered headlights.
Next came time to…
New Crack Swing →
So there’s White Rabbits (at the Paradise on May 1st), Frightened Rabbit (Paradise again on April 29th) & Dead Rabbits (coming to a stewpot near you). Add Bad Rabbits to that list. This…
