Red Sox connecting with their cutoff man.

Or, the story of the unofficial Red Sox barber.

Best. Name for a professional baseball team. EVER.

1) They deliberately design highway onramps on hills or in other inconvenient locations so that when a driver is trying to get to 65mph with your air conditioning blasting it's practically impossible. I can only assume they do this to keep people off the road in the summer, presumably because The Berkshires, The Cape, and Maine in general are all ( Read more... )

My price not to shovel the driveway is $10. This to a kid on an ATV with a plow attachment. This clearly wasn't a kid who just bought a plow attachment so that he wouldn't have to shovel his own driveway...this kid was obviously business-minded. He plowed his driveway, his neighbors' driveway, then their neighbor (across the street from us) ( Read more... )

If I were weather.com, I'd put a pluralizing "s" on the end of each major category in the pollen forecast.

That way, it wouldn't read

Tree
Grass
Weed

Although it did make me giggle.

Penguins die in crash, octopus uninjured

Last one of the day, I swear:

RPS-15, or, advanced Rock/Paper/Scissors.

Octopus food.

Seriously, go watch the video at the other end of this link.

Thanks to an icon used by the self-proclaimed "Julie 2.0" this morning, I have spent the day actively resisting the urge to say "Slut Bumwalla" out loud.

In searching the web for more yarn stores (specifically, to see if the new store in Sudbury has a web site, which they do not), I learned that there is a place based out of Uxbridge called Yarnia.

I'm almost too afraid to find out the directions to get there.

ETA: Bronson Arroyo update

ETA2: Might help if I put an URL between the quotes in my ( Read more... )