Red Sox craziness already gearing up for 2008.  It slipped my mind that single game tickets for April, May, and September went on sale on Saturday, so today I was left picking through the carcass to see if I could get a ticket or two to any of their 1:30 pm Wednesday games.  (I did manage to get a single bleacher seat for a couple of September mid ( Read more... )

Once again the Onion catches the mood perfectly- Slow Month in Baseball Saved by A-Rod.  It starts out a little sarcastic and jokey and just gets darker and angrier the more you read.  I really like Mike Lowell and hope they would keep him for his own sake, but if they kept him and didn't even talk to A-Rod that would be the icing on the cake.  WTF ( Read more... )

So the Sox are well on their way to breaking the Dreaded Curse of Relief Pitcher Curtis Leskanic.

And they better do it in 4, too, because I can't handle that many more 1 am nights.  I am way too much of a wuss.  It is killing me, though, the back to back late nights.  Can't we, as fans and consumers, unilaterally demand that they start the games at ( Read more... )

Oh god, I'm selling Rilo Kiley tickets on craigslist and I forgot about the craigslist flood.  (Parenthetical:  How lame is it that I couldn't find someone willing to go to Rilo Kiley with me??  Where are my indie rock peeps?  Is it tied to the fact that the first word I think of to use is "parenthetical"?)

I hope someone buys them soon so I can ( Read more... )

Have you guys been watching Mad Men on AMC??  Because it is mind-blowingly good.  Seriously.  HBO-caliber (high budgets, great prodution values and well crafted characters minus some of the swearing and nudity).  You've probably heard this from everyone at this point, but if you haven't checked it out yet, you have to.  The first four or so ( Read more... )

So, you guys, seriously- you have to see The Ten.  It's written and directed by some of the State guys (and the guy who did Wet Hot American Summer) and it's hilarious.  It's probably playing your local art theater.  I saw it on Saturday at the Kendall Square Cinema and I almost wet my pants.  It has a ton of great people in it, and every member of ( Read more... )

Just found out today that the State is finally coming out on DVD!!!  In October!!!!!!!!   Here's a video that expresses more than my 15 exclamation points ever could.  The State!! On DVD!! With commentaries!!!

DAMN this sideways house!!

Shit... I think I kinda..... like Joanna Newsom....   One of my coworkers has her new CD Ys on his iTunes, and I listened just out of curiosity (just like I listened to the first 30 seconds of Milk Eyed Mender before feeling like I'd had enough Joanna Newsom to last the rest of my life.)  But, man, I started listening to it and then immediately got ( Read more... )

Wow- having a life outside my job is so much better than I could have thought.  And I'm suddenly as (self-) scheduled as any Wellesley 10 year old.  I've been keeping up with pottery, catching a ton of movies at the HFA and the Brattle theatre (Barbara Stanwyck Centennial!!!) and I finally registered with the sailing classes.  For Xmas this year, ( Read more... )

-Win Butler

Lots of news to relate.  The biggest news, I guess, is that I got a new job.  This is the company that Sandy, former Fed coworker and friend, pointed me towards.  I interviewed with them last week and they got back to me right before I left for Seattle on Thursday night.  I spend the weekend thinking about it and accepted the job on ( Read more... )