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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Indifference to Running

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Not that I watch much college football, or churn through a lot of brain cycles thinking about it, but one of the funner things about college...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Did there used to be this many narcissists?

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You're not imaging it.  There have always been narcissists. Caravaggio's masterpiece  Narcissus  was painted 1597-1599, and he obvio...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Short answer: not really

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Well, yesterday, my post was dedicated to pudding. Today, we take on an adjacent foodstuff: Jell-o salad. One of my mother's festive spe...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Proof of the pudding

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I like pudding.  Chocolate. Butterscotch. Vanilla. Rice. Grapenut. Tapioca. And the near relations: mousse, flan, and whatever's in the ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Buy Now, Regret Later

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I am at the point of my life when I don't really need anything.  When I was a lot younger, and a lot shoppier, the byword was that ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Heartbreaking. Enraging.

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I suppose I should have followed up yesterday's grim post with something a bit lighter, but, hey, in for a dime, in for a dollar. So tod...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It's Just a Matter of Time (Veterans Day 2025)

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The song's been running through my head a lot lately. I'm singing it in the shower. One of the signal songs, about one of the signal...
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Thursday, November 06, 2025

One more proof that baseball is the greatest sport...

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I can watch most sporting events with some degree of interest, and in the case of the American Big Four: football, basketball, hockey, and b...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Guy Fawkes Day

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It's Guy Fawkes Day, so across the pond there'll be bonfires and fireworks, and maybe some effigy burning. Guy Fawkes was a Catholic...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

ATM's for doggos? Oh, why not?

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Today is election day in Boston. It's pretty much a yawner. Our mayor, Michelle Wu, trounced her main opponent in the primary. And I do ...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Talk about a niche profession

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This may come as something of a shock to my readers - it does to me - but I have never been to Walden Pond. Sure, I read Thoreau way back in...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Who in their right mind?

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I don't typically use the word "magical" to describe a place I've visited, but taking the water taxi into Venice and seein...
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