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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Snowbound, 1978

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You can’t really ask “where were you when the Blizzard of 1978 happened?” Not in the same way you ask “where were you when JFK was shot?” an...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Truck Day

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Today is the morning after the Super Bowl night before, but I’m writing this on Saturday, pre-game, so I don’t know whether the Patriots won...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Groundhog Day

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Oh, as holidays go, Groundhog Day ain’t much. Oh, there’s pretty good eponymous rom-com. And it does get reasonably good coverage, especial...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

More monkey business at Volkswagen

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Seems like only yesterday, we were reading (and writing) about the Volkswagen emissions scandal, in which engineers jimmied with software to...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

An emotional support peacock? And I thought emotional support snakes were out there…

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Since the passenger was an artist, and a performance artist at that, I’m guessing that trying to bring a peacock onboard a flight as an “emo...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Water, water everywhere

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I probably don’t drink as much water as I should, but I still drink plenty. And 99.99% of what I drink comes from a frosted re-used wine bot...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Sitting by the dock of the bay? Thanks, Norwegian!

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Other than what I hear from friends and family who are avid cruisers, I know absolutely nothing about vacationing at sea. And despite what I...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Here’s an unfortunate product placement for Crock-Pot

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Chances are, you’ve got some Newell product of another in your home. I just glanced through their brand inventory and, without going throug...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Cultural Relativism, or Botox for Camels…

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As long as you don’t actually stop and think about it to deeply, the stuff you grow up with – the food, speech patterns, customs, entertainm...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?* English cucumbers, I guess

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I used to be a regular at Whole Foods. That was until a couple of years back, when an oasis appeared in the downtown Boston food desert and...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Turning the Tide Pod

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When I was a little kid, I remember being in awe when I learned about teenage/college kid fads like eating goldfish or stuffing kids into a ...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Two weeks of 24/7 Super Bowl hype. Here we go again…

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On Saturday, I turned on the 11 o’clock local news, assuming that the lead story would be the government shutdown or the Women’s March (even...
Friday, January 19, 2018

How’s this for a headline

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How’s this for a headline: You might soon be able to throw axes while drinking a beer in Somerville I don’t drink beer. And I don’t spend ...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Rich man drives a Cadillac, poor man drives a Ford? Not any more.

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There are certain things that I’ve hung on to from childhood. If I watch network news, it’s NBC. I use Scott toilet paper. And I have a sen...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Get along little dogecoin

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Yesterday, there was a bit of cryptotrouble in cryptoparadise, as the share value for most of the crypto-currencies, including granddaddy of...