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Friday, April 06, 2018

Twin Cities?

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The day is coming, but I haven’t yet sworn off Facebook. But I have stopped revealing, if not my innermost secrets, then my subsurface prefe...
Thursday, April 05, 2018

Play Ball, Ye Olde Town Team

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It’ll be sunny today, but the thermometer isn’t supposed to nudge much above the mid-forties. Plenty chizzly-wizzly (as my mother would say)...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

April 4, 1968

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We didn’t have phones in our dorm rooms. In my dorm, there were three phone booths per floor, and freshman had to take turns answering the ...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

What would YOU do if you were a Sinclair anchor?

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I don’t imagine you start out dreaming about anchoring local news in Amarillo, Texas or Buffalo, NY or Peoria, Illinois. Nope. If you’re in ...
Monday, April 02, 2018

Clowning going buggy whip?

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Well, Frank Avruch died a couple of weeks ago. Frank was a local TV personality, best known for having spent a decade or so playing Bozo on...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Peep o’ the morning to you…

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As so often in the past, my Easter-related post will be devoted to Peeps. After all, in my book, it isn’t Easter until I’ve bitten the head...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Tourist in Ireland Part Four: Talking in Tongues

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Many years ago, before one of my trips to Ireland, I decided to teach myself some Irish. It is, of course, something of a colossal waste of...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Tourist in Ireland, Part Three: Galway Girls

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While I do have some ancestral ties to the Province of Connacht, I don’t have any direct connection to Galway. Yet the city of Galway is one...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Tourist in Ireland, Part Two: “I write it out in a verse— MacDonagh and MacBride”

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On Monday morning, after an almost full Irish breakfast (no black pudding) at a Latvian-run B&B, we decamped to Dublin on the train fro...
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Monday, March 26, 2018

Tourist in Ireland, Part One: “If Ireland was so great…”

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Forty-five years ago this May, I visited Ireland for the first time. That was during a 5 month hitchhike and hostel tour of Europe during wh...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Open door policy? Not such a good idea…

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A couple weeks ago, five tourists were killed in a helicopter crash in the East River in Manhattan. (The pilot survived.) This wasn’t just a...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Blood Unicorn

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A few years back, Elizabeth Holmes topped the list of the wealthiest self-made American women. The blood-testing startup she founded, Theran...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

All out of guac? Oh, no…

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When it comes to pushing my shopping cart around the grocery store , unless something is insanely expensive, I don’t pay all that much atten...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Not so sweet news at Necco

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The New England Confectionery Company used to be located on Mass Ave in Cambridge, and when you got anywhere near it, you got a whiff of tha...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Oh, goody, the Winklevoss twins are back!

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I must say, I do spend quite a bit of time contemplating The Big Questions. Sometimes, the questions are one-shots: Why did the a-hole in ...