tuned in this afternoon to the boston red sox through the local nesn broadcast through my mlb package because i wanted to watch a little of my old tiger favorite fister pitching. haven't done so since he came up and thus missed his complete game one hitter -- good to know he still has it some days. ended up seeing a commercial i otherwise wouldn't ( Read more... )

so now then.

we are re-watching cheers gradually. a show that she watched somewhat as it aired (myself i only saw the final episode -- and as a momentous occasion really rather than a televised story, having none of the context of what had gone before), and which we both had watched after it aired (but before we met). so for the first time ( Read more... )

[or often it snows sometime in april...i've been quoting that song for aprils aplenty ( Read more... )

i know that my friends and family in boston would appreciate a real winter and not this paltry thing that global warming's left us with ( Read more... )

so i guess i should not be surprised to learn that a man who can and does have such a large influence on the direction of our lives' course spends his days sitting at a desk in a distinguished office building in downtown boston on one of the mere handful of streets which run between milk street and water street as milk and water run together in a ( Read more... )

boston of old

not in 1901

and not when they took the statue down

but once. i was once inside the old state house. and the box was there too.

an arduous task, for certain.
it's good to be the underdog.

i didn't bring in the mail earlier. c. seldom brings in the mail. so i just brought it in a few minutes ago. well after we'd clinched an alcs spot ( Read more... )

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congratulations to my boston friends. for the time being.