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Did you know Dickie and the boys are doing a Mighty Mighty Bosstones reunion thing with a series of shows at the Middle East?
The gang is all 40-ish now, but it seems most of them couldn’t find anything else they wanted to do.
This video got me a little misty for my BU days. Like the […]

For the record, my legs have chosen the first option, though the second could be imminent the way things are going. (Also for the record, there’s no point to this post. I’m just whining about how hard it is to get in shape after letting myself become a fat bastard. Feel free to ignore or […]

The Monkey Clone Wars are not far from us.
Begin training your children now, for they shall serve on the front lines against the Simianista menace.

When I switched my home computing empire from my dying home-built, full tower PC to my new 24-inch slab o’ sex iMac everything went pretty smoothly. I managed to transfer all the files I cared about over, and Google Browser Sync made setting up my new copy of Firefox so easy I was kind of […]

I’ve been intrigued by synesthesia since I read The Man Who Tasted Shapes sometime in the second half of the 90s. It seems so bizarrely wonderful: numbers might have colors, musical notes might also have distinct hues - or perhaps shapes… It’s just freaky to imagine, and more significantly, it illustrates how seemingly arbitrary the […]

Having spend a number of years in/around Boston, I can testify that it becomes increasingly believable that the Irish may have invented the world.
Perhaps this tendency isn’t only a Beantown phenomenon, as illustrated by this NYTimes article about tracing a large portion of the modern slang dictionary to the Irish Gaelic tongue. The book, for […]

Ron Paul isn’t Rudy Gulliani or Mitt Romney, which - although both good things in my view - keeps him out of the limelight in most of the coverage of the race for the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election. I’m no fan of Republicans in general (especially the Neo-Con breed that seems so […]

May I humbly recommend that you point your web browsing application on over to Saul William’s new album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, which was produced by Trent Reznor (Mister Nine Inch Nails to you) and is available as either a free download in 192Kbps MP3 format or a $5 download that lets […]