The greatest Boston Globe article of all time?

Ladies and gentlemen – seems like my recent style is to blog up a storm on Wednesdays. As my brother would say, no shame in that. Oh yeah, today is technically the last day of summer. And it’s like 80 degrees outside, can you believe it? this summer rocked. Best summer ever(?). possibly. It was very fun, plenty of hanging out and partying. I’d do it all over again.

I had a massive scare last night when my brand-new tv wouldn’t turn on. Panic! Or, as the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy reminds us, “DON’T PANIC.” So I didn’t. but I wasn’t happy about it. we got on the horn with customer service. Eventually the tv actually did turn back on, but we’re still gonna have a guy come over and reset it or something (apparently the problem's not isolated to us). Fingers crossed over here…

Well, what’s been going on? Hmm let’s see. In eight days it will be illegal to text while driving in Massachusetts. You ready for the change? Don’t sleep on that one. Detint your windows and stuff your phone in the trunk from now on would be my advice.

Saturday I went to the union sq farmers market (only a handful of them left, sad). I then went into Boston with a friend where we stumbled upon a gathering (ask me if you want details). We then went to “Serb Fest” aka the Serbian Festival in Cambridge. My friend from the former Yugoslavia invited us. Turns out that her mom was the lead singer of the band. We showed up a little early and ordered up some lamb on a spit, delicious. Ate some adjvar too (not pronounced the way we thought of course). There was a ton of music and dancing, it was really cool! The people sitting at the table with us threw a plastic knife at me to get my attention so that I would take a photo of them. It took four tries, but I think I got a good one, I hope they like it!

Ok, well now on to the real reason for this post. Folks – I think the Boston Globe peaked today in terms of breakthrough journalism and excellent writing. That’s right – I have uncovered the single greatest news article in New England journalism history. Don’t believe me because it sounds too good to be true? I wouldn’t joke about this kind of thing.

Best quote – “I never get anything more than a numinous tickle from the Cheez-Its display. It’s not magical, but rather obliquely legendary.”

Where shopping becomes a roller derby - Somerville - Your Town - Boston.com

I lived in Somerville til I was four years old or so, so of course I can relate.

Cheers everyone, and happy end of summer (that just does not sound right for some reason).

The TV, or Borderline

I finally got my own HDTV. The past year I was lucky to have a roommate who had a nice LCD. But he peaced, and el Jefe no tiene a nice TV. So I managed to avoid driving outside of state or shopping at the evil store by shopping online. I ended up going with an LG. The one I got I didn’t even think was gonna be that big, but it’s huge! It’s borderline too big for my room. I nearly had to rearrange everything.

But it’s up, and lookin good. I’m feelin it. 1080 LCD. Initially I thought that I would just go with 720 plasma, but got convinced otherwise.

Q: What recent TV episode has Dave recently watched three times, including twice showing other friends?

A: “Beyond Survival with Les Stroud”, episde – “Sea Gypsies of Malaysia”.

I might have to devote a whole post to the sea gypsies. I'm still blown away by the episode and the people. More on that soon.

-Dave

I don’t think so, do you?

I thought that you had heard, that’s why I asked. Do I still need to look elsewhere? The connection from eye contact overwhelms the wary. Glance averted, crisis diverted.

Instructions for not getting ahead of yourself, as scrawled on a pillowcase – realize that you cannot predict the future. If that doesn’t work, think about the incredible things that have happened to you and ask yourself if you predicted those events.

Ride It

Hey folks. What’s up, it’s been too long. Hmmm one post a week isn’t that good. But whatever, I’ve been busy, and better late than never.

Well, it was a good weekend. Birthday party Friday night (hit up bluefin and tavern in porter), then Saturday I went to the bc weber st football game. Great game! What a beautiful day. I forgot to bring my crazy creek chairs to sit on during the game (the metal benches aren’t very comfortable), but it was still a blast. We stayed for the whole game, and even got there on time. Success.

Then I went to buddy’s backyard pong fest for a bit. I won a game, then was about to win another game when it started raining. Then I went to another get-together in the burbs, hung out on the porch outside and joked around in the kitchen. Sunday I got good mexican food with some amigos, played some hacky-sack, and hung out. Monday I was pretty worthless, should have been doing stuff outdoors, but was instead worthless indoors for most of the day. Weak play outta me.

I’m really bad at starcraft. I can’t seem to win a game, even the practice games. I’m probably getting beat by 7 year olds. It’s so frustrating! Oh well.

Ooooh I got a link for ya. Not sure if you saw or not, but yesterday google had an interesting little gimmicky HTML 5 thing on their homepage. It was pretty cool. What they’re showing is that html 5 can do a bunch of cool stuff. At first you’re like “oh wait that’s just flash”, then you realize that it isn’t flash. Dope! Anyway here’s a page with a bunch of cool examples, drawing programs and games and such. Check it out!
www.phpguru.org: HTML5 examples

also, here’s an article about one of my favorite restaurants around Boston. This is possibly because I am friends with the sous chef. But it’s also in one of my fav neighborhoods, the interior is lovely, and the food is fantastic. Nytimes called it “solidly excellent” I think. Haha. Well, the owner got written up, and they talk about the restaurant too. Side note – I don’t think I could live on a houseboat. Maybe for a night or two!
A Cambridge, Mass., Chef in His Getaway Galley - NYTimes.com

college football started this past weekend. I watched a bunch of it. nfl starts this wknd, I’ll watch a bunch of that too. Team usa is dominating in the world basketball championships, I hope they win the whole thing.

Ok folks, I’ll talk to you soon. Peace.

Jokers Wild

RA: Clubbing in Boston

Resident Advisor article presumably about the dance music scene in Boston. I’ve been to a bunch of the places and a bunch of the nights. There’s always a bunch of stuff going on, which is really cool, and certainly a good variety.

I was actually at enormous room (see above) last night for the monthly installment of SSLLOOOWW. Or whatever it’s called. We had to leave a little earlier than I would have liked, but the slowed down music was awesome. They were totally playing all of my jams! Good times. I went home with a free bottle of “DRANK” too. Sweeeet.

I’m still watching the world basketball championships, which are a lot of fun. Oy I’m definitely horribly busy, with nary a moment to breathe. I guess I like it this way, but I wish that I had less things to do, and that someone would do stupid little things for me. I need a clone, or I gotta stop complaining and do it myself.

It has been so, so, so hot. mid 90s for multiple days in a row. Tomorrow’s gonna be the same. We’re supposed to get touched by the hurricane on Friday. Going to the football game on Saturday should be sunny and beautiful, just might be windy.

Oh yeah the revs lost their super liga game. I have not been on the revs bandwagon this year, thankfully. Oh yeah, and sox aren’t gonna make the playoffs. Remind anyone of the matt cassel-led patriots not making the playoffs a couple years ago? Exactly.

Oh yeah I upgraded to snow leopard. Snow leopard rules! Recommended, three thumbs up. It saves your computer like 10 gigs and makes it faster and fixes stuff. It doesn’t get any better! Sheesh I should have upgraded earlier.

Wow I just read an article about pirates in somalia. When you become an avid nytimes reader you become a reader of the subjects that the nytimes writes about a lot. Some things that I feel like I have read a lot about on nytimes – iraq, afghanistan, somalia, pakistan, facebook, autism, internet privacy, and health. I mean, I guess these are covered in most newspapers, but the kind of international coverage that the nytimes gets usually seems unparalleled to me. Level of 1-10 – how biased am I?

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Ok, peace.