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Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Thursday, June 04, 2026

But is it art?

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Although admittedly I don't go all that often, I do like going to art museums. I probably hit Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and/or th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Celebrating Memorial Day (Eve) with The Boss

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I celebrated Memorial Day in the normal way, by walking over to the Boston Common (alas, in the rain - this picture is from a kinder, gentle...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Who ARE these people (Cont.)

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It seems like just yesterday, I'd never heard of Taylor Frankie Paul, an influencer/momTikTok-er/reality star who was dumped by The Bach...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Dashing to the door...

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When I worked full time, and my husband wast still among the living, we ate out regularly. As in at least 3-5 nights a week. I'd get hom...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Tis another reason to love Ireland

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Well, it's St. Patrick's Day, and I have all those loaves of soda bread to prove it. As anyone who knows me knows, I love Ireland. I...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

AI AI AI AI!

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I'm a pretty big Ken Burns fan. I love, love, loved The Civil War, Baseball, The Vietnam War, Country Music . If I had to pick a favorit...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Why am I not surprised? (Even if it's just GoFundMe.)

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My Irish forebears didn't leave Ireland as the (direct) result of the famine. They came over in the 1870's for the usual reasons: po...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Let me not to the marriage of true minds...

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A couple of months ago came news out of Japan that a young woman, on the rebound from a bad breakup, had married a "persona named Klaua...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Walking tall and carrying a big ol' stick made of BS

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Imagine having the last name "Pusser." Bad enough, eh? But to look at your newborn baby and give him the name "Buford," ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Sure The Royals are preposterous, but what a source of entertainment!

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ME: The very idea of the British Royal Family in a modern context is utterly ridiculous. Also ME: The British Royal Family is an endless sou...
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Take a puff? Nah, take a sip. It's a fridge cigarette.

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I was never much of a smoker, but when I worked as a waitress at the Union Oyster House and at Durgin-Park, in the early 1970's, I took ...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Not quite Gwyneth Paltrow nutty, but still...

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I had heard of Sydney Sweeney, of course. But I really had no idea who she is. Blonde? Young? Actress? Hotty?  All of the above, I guess.* A...