This is getting ridiculous. The first half of this week's snowpocalypse missed us north (and went to see batwrangler); today's branch is going to NYC again.

Here in Connecticut, this is the view from my window after three days of rain:


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A giant ridiculous dog and his aardvark in the snow:


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Yesterday, I essayed the three-hourish roadtrip up to southern Maine with marykaykare (who is couch-surfing here for a few days on her whirlwind tour of the Northeast). We stopped along the way for (an enormous) brunch at The (infamous) Friendly Toast in Portsmouth New Hampshire, then visited Portland where (after some explorations prompted by missing the ( Read more... )

Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919.

Not to be confused with the London Beer Flood.