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Lately I’ve been coming up with project ideas on a near weekly basis. But the problem is: I come up with so many of them that none of them go anywhere.
I’d love to be able to give 100% effort to them, but there’s simply not enough time. Between my 40 hr/week job, this blog, [...]

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On Wednesday night, I went to a digital photography class at BCAE. I was originally put on the waitlist, but they called to let me know someone dropped out at the last minute.
The class was decent, but I’m not sure it was worth it for me. But there were some things I picked [...]

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All right. This could very easily be seen as insensitive, so let me first give a general disclaimer.
I believe that Dateline’s “To Catch A Predator” series is by far the best show on T.V. It’s central premise is something I can absolutely stand behind: Catching and exposing sexual predators and putting them in jail. [...]

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This weekend, I was talking to my friend Ben and the subject of celebrity run-ins came up. Working at Houston’s, a lot of politicians, atheletes, and other famous people come in fairly regularly. Which made me think: I’ve only met a handful of what you’d call “celebrities”, and none of them were all that memorable, [...]

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Last night, my friend Erin visited from Colorado. She was meeting up with her sister and about 20 other girls, as it was one girl’s bachelorette party. I met up with them and went to Jake Ivory’s. While there, one of the piano guys played a song called “Homegirl You’re Wicked Awesome”, which made fun [...]

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So, there’s a new Boston blogger on the scene this week. Archbishop Sean O’Malley.
So the question is: Mr. O’Malley, will you be attending the Boston Blogtoberfest?

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A friend forwarded this to me and I thought it was definitely worth posting here.
On Friday, October 27, at The Attic, in Newton MA, atop the Union St. Bar & Grill, Red Square will be holding its First Annual Concert to Benefit Children’s Hospital. The evening will include costumerie, with a special prize [...]

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So the other day I was thinking about what I would do if I had $500,000. That made me start thinking about how I could actually get the half mil. Though admittedly I don’t have the answer to that yet, I have been doing the math.
How am I going to get to $500,000?
1. Ads: You’ve [...]

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Three times this week I’ve seen a billboard that says:

So today during my lunch break I actually went to the site. Let me ask you this: isn’t your immediate thought that Volvo is soliciting stories from people and giving away cars? That was my thought.
With that in mind, I went to the site. A [...]

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Sometimes thoughts pop into my head out of nowhere and I actually surprise myself. Sometimes that happens in a dream, like the other night when I was in a bar that served beer in wicker baskets. Michael Moore was there and was trying to get a spot singing at their open mic night, but he [...]

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