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I’m saying to all you guys out there what my fiancee already knows. I’m addicted to Yelp. The user-community site of reviews of everything out there from bars and restaurants to clothing stores and abstract concepts. In fact, it was a Yelp review of “the future” that inspired the thoughts behind yesterday’s post.  But Yelp [...]

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We’re in the home stretch, Fredders. February. The last real harsh month of winter, and spring is actually a dot on the horizon at this point.  I know I’m freakin’ stoked. This ice storm crap is for the bir…well, no…maybe it’s for the walruses. Or perhaps the elephant seals. Yeah. This ice storm crap is [...]

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This is a level 4 Jackhole Alert, being issued to all persons in and around the Berkshire County area.
This past weekend, the fiancee and I took a mini-weekend up to the Berkshires. A “couple friend” of ours, let’s call them Trey and Li Ning, own a timeshare up in the mountains, and asked us if [...]

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Barry gave me a soapbox last year. So far I haven’t used it for much except writing rambling little missives on the state of organic food sales or the playoff chances of the local sports collective (if anyone gets that last movie reference I will personally give you one dozen bananas. Seriously. And no cheating.)
But [...]

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AFC Championship games tend to bring out the best situations. Last year’s Pats v. Charger’s game saw me and Barry out in the -20 degree weather suffering for our teams, watching a big win.
This year of course, we’re watching other teams romp through the playoffs, Arizona being such a surprise team full of Larry Fitzgerald [...]

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First off, RIP Ricardo Montalban. I hope you are high in the sky, sitting in a plush easy chair made of rich Corinthian Leather.  You were my first movie villain (Star Trek II) and starred in the first TV show my dad let me sneakily stay up late to watch (Fantasy Island). I met William [...]

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It’s not you. It’s me. Really.
There’s a local bar that I’ve loved for the last couple of years that had everything. Cheap drinks. Darts. Keno. Shady characters. It was my place, but now I have to do something I’m not looking forward to: I’m breaking up with it.
Every Monday night for the last two “seasons”, [...]

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Ugh. Well, Fredders, just when you thought you were 2007 David Ortiz and life was 2006 Mike Mussina, all of a sudden you figure out that you’re 2008 David Ortiz, and life has remembered how to put that good english on it, and you’re unexpectedly wiffing for the last out.
Got a call at 4:58 on [...]

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More ice falls from the sky onto Boston this morning, making all the shittiest drivers in town come out to howl. I swear to Jebus, people are like “OK, so in the most tragically comic of driving conditions, i.e. an ice fucking storm, we’re going to double-park as much as possible and on as many [...]

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