I was thinking of heading to campus to work all night.  I decided to be lazy.  Half an hour then gunfire, 100 meters away from where I would have been ( Read more... )

But news vans leave parking spaces sprouting rows of satellite dishes and a section of Comonwealth's strip was clogged with them.  Empty camera stands, cords and aimless producers turn sidewalks into obstacle courses.  Clusters of police in neon are hanging out on street corners as pedestrians clump in intersections to stare down blocked off ( Read more... )

Not to make this about me more than as a framing device and appropriately journal-like recording, but last night was a brilliant Smash and I'd finally decided to get out of my funk and venture to campus and see people and today I was noodling around before stuff...  I spent a chunk of late-night early-morning wandering around the Back Bay, tracing ( Read more... )