I saw my first Boston Symphony Orchestra concert at Symphony Hall last night, thanks to a Christmas present from Aimee’s dad. After a delicious dinner at Betty’s Wok & Noodle, we headed across the street and found out that our tickets were part of the “repartee” series, which apparently entitled us to wine, hors d’oeuvres, […]

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I’ve only been reading The New Yorker cover-to-cover for the last eight months or so, but they have a pretty high standard of grammar and spelling, from my experience. Some would even call it unimpeachable, and they’re certainly the only publication I read that still use a diaeresis in words like “coördinate” and “reëlect” anymore. […]

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Wilco has done some amazing work over the past ten years, but is their work so hard-fought that every time they make a new album, they lose a member? Leroy has left the band, upon completion of “W*lco Happens,” or whatever the name of the new record might be, which means a couple of things: […]

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I always thought Somerville was even more relaxed and rational than Cambridge on the continuum of Boston neighborhoods and neighboring towns. But when it comes to parking, Somerville has managed to outdo the draconian Brookline. While Brookline tickets ruthlessly all year long based on an inexplicable standard (no overnight parking anywhere ever, and we won’t […]

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I called my dad at the hospital this morning to see how he was doing and talk to him about his shoulder surgery last night and he regaled me with stories of the hospital, including this doozy: the nurse assigned to his room was also working on a leeching – yes, that’s right, actual leeches, […]

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I went to the opening dinner for our conference on film criticism tonight, at a nice house on Brattle Street, the part of Cambridge other people mean when they say “Caaaaambridge,” the home of Longfellow and the type of places I worked on when I temped for Sotheby’s Realty, transcribing listings for properties like these […]

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Well, the dust begins to clear. We had our meeting, our “opportunity” to find out what was going on, and while the explanations were vague and mostly unsatisfying, no one else seems to be in danger of losing his or her job, so we can be thankful for that. Who knows what it will really […]

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I’m not sure whether it’s a good idea to talk about this here, but who am I kidding – I have a loyal readership of about four. And as this is the latest in a long line of journaling that started for me sometime in the fifth grade in a blank book I bought at […]

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I’ve been enjoying the Brattle’s Humphrey Bogart series over the last few weeks, but I started to wonder, when they refer to him as “Bogie” in their blurbs, is that really how you spell his nickname? After some research, it seems that there’s no consensus. In the message board (sorry, the “Bogieboard”) on a Bogart […]

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We spent a chilly but very enjoyable weekend in New York, complete with a rock show, a museum, some bars, some photo booths, and lots of parking karma.Thanks to my conversation with Mikey about Josh Rouse, I checked on Josh’s website, where I found out that he would be opening for The Jayhawks on their […]

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Doubleperf is reborn, for the most part. The main indexes are all looking like they should, though there’s still more to do. In between correcting papers for the “NYC on Film” class I’m TA’ing, I’ve redesigned the site and cleaned up some of the old photo pages from meachams.com. Now that I look at the […]

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The blog is a mess right now as I attempt to do the inevitable third month of existence re-design. And, as is my wont, I started at about 10:45 tonight, already kind of tired from driving back from Amherst. So I didn’t get it done – in fact, it’s barely started – but it’ll improve […]

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Aimee and I rolled some quality frames at BostonBowl last night, easily visible from I-93 but requiring a few drive-bys on Morrissey Blvd. to actually find. Big-ball, small-ball, beer, pizza, free bowling socks, air hockey, video games, and a photo booth – a full-serve kind of place.This game had the surprising policy of actually letting […]

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What do the Film Study Video Library, 507 Putnam, and Willie Nelson have to do with one another? Apparently Mikey Palmer and Andy Eggers…So Mikey, who works in the library here now that Clint is finally off in Cuba, yells at me from across the room that his band is on the homepage of Garageband.com. […]

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I feel like it was only days ago that I was complaining about Lego‘s silly forays into movie tie-ins and the recent over-abundance of pieces with very specific and mandated uses when Aimee and I visited Hamley’s. That’s probably because it actually was only days ago. Anyway, it seems that the market has sent Lego […]

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