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Bostonalicious: The Drive Home

i got this cell from idiot comics (rob sergel)













Bostonalicious: The Drive Home

On the drive home the people in the left lane pass you on the left. Problem is, the people on the right pass you on the right.

I like looking at faces on the drive home. Who are all these people? Where did they come from and where are they going and where are they sleeping tonight? You can infer and extrapolate what you like from the make and model of their car, their driving style, and their seatbelted appearance.

In Massachuetts people wait for their chance to get angry. Road rage is ever-present, ready to emit at the sign of an aggressive driver or careless commuter. Parking, rush hour, and bumper to bumper traffic particularly incite emotions. Whatever frustration has built up at home, work, or the grocery store gets its chance to shine from the pulpit of the driver’s side window.

Pedestrians walking home from Whole Foods with their reusable bags enter the crosswalk in front of two lanes of weary drivers and proceed to shout back at the compacts that honk and bellow. I cheer on the pedestrians and the folks taking charge and taking offense. If nothing else, it’s entertaining after an hour on the highway.

Closer to home, walls of subway passengers spill from the T and clog the sidewalks and barricade intersections. Walk signals become white beacons of invitation and approval. Truck drivers and cab drivers plod through the sea of the homeward bound.

Most windows stay closed. I imagine everyone listening to boring talk radio or bad music on their iPods that they choose to connect via FM radio rather than a simple tape adapter. Here it’s still legal to gab on your phone, blast texts, and multi-task away from your desk.

Many roads carry these travelers – Route 2, 95, 495, and 9. The Mass. Pike and the Middlesex Turnpike. Commutes with traffic, reverse commutes, short commutes, long commutes. Telecommuters commute to the living room. Many commute across state lines. Cops and troopers wield radar guns and pull over with impunity.

If you make it home safe, be grateful you didn’t get into an accident, didn’t get ticketed for speeding, and didn’t get any bad news on your cellphone on the way home.

The drive home can take you from your parking garage to your two car garage, but it can’t take you much place else.

Ode to an Allston Apartment

Ode to an Allston Apartment

Somewhere past Boston University and in some stones throw/spitting distance from the green line, a dingy apt, preserved through the decades, still attracts hipsters, rockers, and rowdy students. We throw water balloons from the roof, the guys and girls on the other side of the parking lot listen to crappy music, but our music sucks too.

On the front porch a guy with giant curly hair sits in a chair listening to headphones. The buzzer works for the left door.

Inside 18A there’s a church pew in the living room. There’s a soft wall to wall carpet and all sorts of junk spread over the place. Discarded crap takes the place of seating. Doors go outside or into closets or a bathroom if you’re lucky.

A box of DVDs and VHS tapes squats in front of the tv, which turns out to be a nice flat screen. What movie do you wanna watch? The spanning coffee table still carries the weight of months of take out, couch hours, parties, and who knows how many other comings and goings of strangers, randoms, hoboes, and friends of friends.

It smells fresh and clean in the apt. Three floors, six people. Several of them are gone however, and there’s no telling when they’ll be back. The expansiveness of the house is of one dimension on the outside and another within.

If you walk barefoot on the floors your feet won’t be black. If you walk barefoot on the roof your feet and ankles will get blackened nasty. Beware the rusty nails, the edges, and spilling something on yourself. How does an armchair stay dry outside?

In the summer a fan may be your only solace. Fear the naked roommate face down in the morning. Windy leaves and tree things fall twirling in the air plopping into your drink or catching your hair. The charcoal from the grill smokes and smokes and permeates your T-shirt.

Sit back and let the girls talk. It’s easy when you don’t feel awkward and quiet and shy because others are doing the chatting for you. Feels like times past, when a futon and a lamp were enough.

If diet pepsi and gold bacardi isn’t your thing, there’s probably a pabst for you – oh wait that’s the last one, sorry. Nah, the stores aren’t open today.

By now we’re either tired, asleep, or taking off. The dim kitchen lights illuminate the cool walls and the new greenish blue paint. A photographic memory won’t capture what rests on the kitchen counters, nor the perplexing wall decorations and posters. On the way out, the chair is empty.

pretty rootsy

pretty rootsy

let's go boston!

let's go boston!

"50 Blocks Away"

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"50 Blocks Away"

this article is from June 24, 1874. incredible, so much still true

you can get this pdf here : THE COLLEGE REGATTA.; THE DARTMOUTH CREW.

"Dartmouth College is situated upon a plateau behind the east bank of the Connecticut River, and, though exceedingly picturesque in its surroundings, labors under the disadvantage of being up in a corner, and very hard to get at."

and the best part is that i found this just by googling dartmouth crew

“I’m not sure what you’re referring to, but it sounds exciting”

“I’m not sure what you’re referring to, but it sounds exciting”

gotta jet, later g

celtics are no bueno, gonna hang out with fizzle tmrw night, tgif, long weekend ahead

it took me a long time to get home last friday night when it was raining. how long is it going to take to get me home the friday night before memorial day weekend? only time(keeping) will tell

-splatman

takin' over

takin' over





no time for content, gotta run, tty when i return

goooo cellllltics

goooo cellllltics

great game, nights

going to sleep too late

going to sleep too late

blame boggle

jon lester threw a no hitter, so lil wayne put on a red sox hat

bye hunter and sylvia! smorton -- i'm gonna put up a link to your blog

i'll visit ya'll in maryland soon nuff

very fun green key, yay panarchists

very fun green key, yay panarchists

i love panarchy and green key and pong and backyards and tabard and alums and friends.

power outages, however...

this is a photo of nate senge, we went skydiving together

celtics rule!!@@!!@!@!@@@

headed up to green key with marquez

headed up to green key with marquez

hanover here we come!

cya!~

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when i start typing at home i feel like i should be wearing the smart gloves i wear at work

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early to bed, early to rise, then get on the highway. hasta manana

ps no me gusta celtics. quiero ipod con queso

any competition

any competition

really cool animations and ads here, including the cool black and white PS3 ones, superfad

some cool music places with some mix downloads Lowpro Lounge

The Flying Skulls

laurens near davis on bay state for the backyard bbq smoking firepit kegger. cops showed once, were creeping, but everyone moved inside and it didnt get busted. just hacked, crashed, got up early-style so that i can go to bed at 11pm tonight

11pm, 23:00 hours. twenty three hundred hours. its a good time, an early time, and 11 + 8 is 19 but it's also 7AM, which is when i should get up

went to faneuil today, fun as always, i like it down there but it gets supercrowded, parked in that garage, met up with rabbott, sidestepped the street performers and crushed wagamama. yasai katsu curry, raw juice, raw salad, couple gyoza. hmmmmm yum

walked through urban outfitters but i don't think they have stuff that's XXL and i certainly didnt find any mothers day presents inside.

couple doors down to crate and barrel, got mom some things, namely coasters, dish cloths, and a leather tray thing, bright colors, oh yeah and flowers. and the card too, so i'm 3 for 3. feeling pretty good about it

lovely day out today, good day for going in the field and hacking and throwing a bee and kicking the soccer ball. it's like the green out there

Drag Album Artwork Here. OK

lucky kat

lucky kat

i got these from Greg Pence: Graphic Novels and Cartoons. dartmouth animation guy

today just listened to how the mayans invented television and tons of dubstep, good times, some mexican food, pecan pie, celebration foods. lucky kat is a magic hat ipa

wmbr in cambridge is first on your fm dial. finally chatted with jonathan today, wmbr on dj on aim, which was cool. you can see how this is fun, sub bass

celtics are down big at the half, just turrible.

that's pretty

gggggg

gggggg

super tired, absolutely bonkers week, a rolling coaster for sure

went to this dartmouth thing tonight for a second, totally random, free scotch tasting at the harvard club by the glenlivet, didnt really drink or eat anything cause we got there too late, but did get a cool leather bowl thing that looks like the end of a football turned inside out

better than the 16 year if you ask me. also went to a basement pong game and came away with a tall wooden shelving thing that's now in my room. i put up some pink fliers on my wall but i'm not sure they work

finally lost the blogging every day streak. to be honest it feels weird not blogging every day! so i'll try to maintain.

weather is lame, i'd like it to be warm and sunny the next couple of days. but you can't always exact what you want

banshee beats

season starts

season starts

i got this photo from babayan's desktop

marcal and armen are here. im eating sunflower seeds that sometimes get stuck in your throat. i think the feed looks better on csn, but they think it looks better on espn. 852 vs 840

flurry of events and baffling goings on.

on a lighter note, sylvia is flying into boston next week and she and company are going to green key next weekend. id like to make it, even if just for a night

until last night, until last night

lovely weather, everyone goes outside and sits. the whole city goes out the door and sits.

played basketball on the court today and someone had fixed the 4th net, so now all 4 nets are good.

thereabouts

technology and information

across all the companies

yahoo and google and all the big guys too

recorder

the alarm on my cell phone

the alarm on my cell phone

i don't recall where i got this photo from

my alarm is set for 7:30 am. this morning i failed to get up immediately, and didn't get out of bed until 8am. not cool! i'm trying to think up strategies to get out of bed at 7:30 am and not get back into bed.

it's a study and an exercise and a work in progress

tengo sueno, and it's only monday. theoretically i should be in bed at 11:30pm every night. which is unheard of for me. i think i need to make 12:30 my goal, or at least it will be tonight

i've cut out caffeine from my diet to help me fall asleep when i want to, and i know it'll work. this means only caffeine free diet pepsi and coke, no more of the regular stuff, or diet mountain dew for that matter. or red (crack) bulls.

matt's parents brought an enormous apple pie. i drank all my milk with some homemade scrumptious chocolate chip cookies, so the pie (pah) will have to wait.

k, keeping eyes open is hard work, i make sure i don't nod off by never resting my head in my hands at all during the day

usurp the king

things of that nature

things of that nature

i got this photo from Better Never Than Late!, which is a blog

sometimes it comes in the form of bruce bowen

watched some man vs wild, zambia, eating caterpillars, yuck

took it easy today, my back was hurting bad yesterday afternoon at work, hopefully ill get a good chair this week

i got up, paced, lifted weights. i feel like at this point it'd be really easy for me to get really out of shape because being seated for 35 hours a week is pretty much the worst way to be physically active.

i was extraordinarily tired last night and am drowsy now too. got some indian food from desi dhaba on foodler. seeing how mundanely i can decribe my wonderful peaceful day

there's been rain. it rained on the soccer field behind my apt. ps my apt is ridiculous and my neighbors and landlord and the guy that's supposed to be the handyman/landscaper are all ridiculous too.

it's cinco de mayo on monday, but i'm not really sure what that means. i did get picante today, i know what that means, it means i'm addicted to getting mexican food from the same place a couple times a week

lemme throw some random links up:

here are strange large scientific images, one of my fave websites of all time, you have to select something from a pulldown menu, hit search, then click on one of the zoom magnification strengths Blue Histology - Large Image

i don't wear fitted hats, but here's a cool one Boston Red Sox Circle Logo Navy Fitted Hat

photo blogs Photoblogs.org - The photoblogging resource

the answer to wikipedia, uncyclopedia, Uncyclopedia,
the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

they're there

"My experience with Spanish open-source software entrepreneurs"

"My experience with Spanish open-source software entrepreneurs"

faith took this photo. it involved two lenses.

Shannah has a blog about handbags. It's called Bags for Bitc*** (my editing). check it out!

here's a piece on paul pierce's menacing hand gesture. A short history of throwing threes

jeff is speaking at the union college steinmetz symposium tomorrow morning at 10:30. my parents will see him, i won't (which bums me out). a site on this event is here

jeff titled his speech "My experience with Spanish open-source software entrepreneurs." nice work Jeff!

i miss you, wish i could see you, sorry things didn't work out. let's figure something out

2nd day of work today. got my basic wonderful breakfast (routine is great sometimes), sat in the tiny office chairs, got lunch with my dad, sat back down in a tiny office chair, did downtown, stood up on the red line, hoofed home.

like......like....like.............what did i leave out

well, it was fun while it lasted

well, it was fun while it lasted

the not working that is. i gotta go to sleep. i've enjoyed not working for half a year, unfortunately it's time to get back on the train.

night train

got up at 7 37, got breakfast, same ppl working there, thanked the cook, got a badge, waited in line for the elevator, crushed payments, went outside downtown, dealt with the afternoon, made it home

meditated, watched cavs wizards, cheered on the celtics, ate junk food, saw a new south park, hung out forever, went and got falafel palace

hopefully i goto sleep at 11:30 tmrw. what kind of word is hopefully?

what kind of adverb is optimistic?

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