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LIFE IS SERIOUS

The most impressive LaLa trading envelope I’ve gotten yet - I had to share.
(I censored the email address. And if you’re wondering, it contained a singles collection from The Exploited. For the full impact, check out the larger version.)

As I’m packing, I’m coming across a surprisingly large number of increasingly yellowed and tattered pieces of paper that have already endured multiple moves. Thanks to Google, I now know the provenance of this one, perhaps one of the oldest. It’s a clever bit of verse with a slightly nasty wit, polysyllabic rhymes, and portmanteau […]

Somewhat more than a year ago, a co-worker was leaving, and Rudy’s Cafe was proposed as the farewell lunch destination. I was way psyched, probably because the cod tacos sounded somewhat like the catfish tacos that Polly’s Cafe used to serve — one of my all-time favorites. We wound up going to Redbones instead. For […]

We were literally calculating an initial offer to make on the condo we’ve liked best so far, and late last night it suddenly went inactive on all the real estate web sites. I had a dream that at 3:21 am the property went back on the market. I woke up from the dream and it […]

We’ve been watching One Punk Under God, a documentary series (with reality show-style editing) about Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye of PTL Club fame/infamy. It’s been more interesting than I would have guessed (although, predictably, I think it could use more punk content). The sequence we watched last night, in which Bakker […]

Somerville has been freshening up the bike lane markers. First they indicate where they should go:

Then they stencil the marker right on top:

Sometimes this makes it look like the iconic cyclist is wearing a cliché asian peasant hat

The narrow headed Somervillian riders make some of their skullish Cantabridgian counterparts look rather macabre in comparison:

Especially since […]

Last night we went to see a This American Life event described like this:
Ira Glass takes theatergoers behind the scenes by showing never-before-seen stories and out-takes from the upcoming season of This American Life television, performing a radio story, answering audience questions, and more!.The show will originate in New York City and be sent in […]

Road hazards that don’t affect 4-wheeled traffic
Loose gravel is bad. So are vertical discontinuities parallel to the road.
Other bikes where I don’t expect them
Riding against traffic or failing to obey traffic signals/yield right-of-way
Vehicles turning left across my path when I have the right-of-way
Vehicles nudging into the intersection are also scary; I can’t tell if they […]