This is when it’s a great time to be a Bostonian. Late May - summer is just a phone call away, people are shaking the dust off their grills, motorcycles, mandals, sunroofs, drop-tops, halter tops, ray-bans and coppertone, and plopping shiteating grins on their faces and trying not to say “So, how ’bout this weathah, hah!?”
Truly, truly outrageous.
Speaking of grills, it’s time to pay tribute to Alton Brown. His brand of applied science in the kitchen and at the charcoal is making it possible for rubes like us to enjoy some pretty amazing food. Who else will teach you how to properly and elegantly butcher an entire tenderloin in one episode, and inspire a DIY electric smoker made out of a trash can in another? The man’s a genius, and there’s a reason why he’s judging all those ludicrous Food Network grab-ass shows. (By the way we’re totally making one of those)
Driving a motorcycle rules. However, I have begun to notice my tendency to want to talk about it to everyone I know, thus rendering me a tool. I have made every effort to battle this tendency, stifling my “oh-my-god-riding-is-so-cool” comments whenever and wherever possible. Clearly, here I have failed. But I am allowing myself an indulgence on this, the smallest of all soapboxes. Judge me if you wish.
The Celtics are the most Jeckyll-and-Hyde team I’ve ever seen, and that includes the 1999 Red Sox. One night they show up and shove your face into the yellow snow like an 8th grade bully drunk on power. The next night they’re Johnny Dixon getting pushed down by Eddie Tompke and having his deerstalker hat stolen.
The Sex and the City movie is, apparently to really freaking lame chicks, what the new Star Wars movies were to really freaking lame dudes. Peoples: dressing up as characters of movies to attend movies is not acceptable. Please take the time to read and circulate this memo. memo-re-costumes.jpg
Pandora.com is one of a handful of websites that are truly beneficial and useful to mankind. No, this website is not one. Neither is your silly, self-important blog. If you haven’t taken the time, support the Internet Radio Act now.
You can buy half-used bottles of shampoo on Craigslist. Almost everyone knows that. I’m not sure which of those two sentences makes me more sad.
The MBTA (Mostly Bankrupt Transit Authority) really has its hands full with their latest disaster. A 24-year old girl, the conductor of one of the green line trains, died driving her trolley straight into the back of another trolley in broad daylight. I refuse to believe that anyone could crash a trolley car due to operator error. What, you didn’t see the enormous train car stopped on the tracks in front of you, and ignored what should be clear and unmistakable instruction to that effect? The MBTA is posting record revenue losses every year, the entire system is in a shocking state of disrepair, and the union that runs it is choking what pathetic life still slushes through it’s arteriosclerotic blood vessels. I’d like to believe this could wake people up to the absolute disgrace that is our public transit system, but I’ve lived here for a while.
Say hi to Debbie Downer for me!
Cheers, y’all.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Kristen // May 29, 2008 at 11:39 am
Ohhh! another thing you can do on Craigslist??? Buy a baby. For $10,000.
2 Magglio // May 29, 2008 at 3:22 pm
thanks for the memo. i’ve circulated it amongst friends and co-workers. it had to be said. well done.
3 Andrea // May 29, 2008 at 9:55 pm
And yet, I still ride the T every day to work… And the bus!
4 Jimmy Hoffa // May 30, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Remember last year when the T bus driver was so high he drove his bus straight into the harbor? That was my favorite. Nothing like union labor.
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