Workin’ on resting my knee by the above methods (except compression, because I don’t think I really need that), as well as chicken and cashews, coffee oreo ice cream with Heath Bar topping, and the Oscars. All that together sounds kind of nasty, but it’s been most helpful in recovering from the Sheraton Hyannis Half […]

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File under New Yorker mistakes: I’m not one to complain about unfair coverage of the Red Sox, but it struck me as pretty strange that in the “Talk of the Town” article on the A-Rod trade in the March 1st New Yorker, Boston Mayor Tom Menino was mistakenly called “Mayor Michael Menino,” as if the […]

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I had forgotten that about a million years ago, I got an email from my dad suggesting that I file an online claim in the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation Settlement, a lawsuit brought by 43 attorneys general (how often do you get to use that phrase?) against all of the big record […]

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Aimee took me to the Marché restaurant in the Copley Place Mall for something different. (Wait – turns out it was the Prudential Center – where does one mall end and the other begin?) I don’t know when I last went out in the Back Bay, much less in a mall, but it was fun, […]

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I was watching some new trailers on Apple’s Trailers page this week and spotted something a little strange. First of all, you don’t see subtitles in trailers much; you can tell the film is foreign when no one talks in the trailer. Secondly, when you do see subtitles in a trailer, you hope not to […]

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Another Netflix discovery tonight: James Foley’s “At Close Range” (1986), starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. I think I put it in the queue because I wanted to see what else the director of “Glengarry Glen Ross” had done. It has a crazy mid-eighties cast: Chris Penn playing the half-brother of his real brother, Kiefer […]

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Aimee and I spent some quality time with TiVo this weekend, clearing off a bunch of things I’d asked her to record while she recovered from her stomach bug. I started off with Hatari!, the movie that would never end (but finally did, 2:45 later). We watched three episodes of the second season of “The […]

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I finished reading “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” this morning, the first time I’ve read any Holmes stories since the time when I was 13 and obsessed with all things Holmes. The stories had all the atmosphere and intrigue I remember, but many of them turned on such a small point that they hardly seemed […]

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I’m sorry, folks, but I can’t resist. I thought that if I got another reply from the mad website hater, I wouldn’t post it, but this one is priceless. When I received the second email, I replied, stating that I thought an unsolicited series of insults in an email was a pretty poor way to […]

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Aimee and I spent a terrific weekend in Stowe, where I’d never been before but where Aimee had spent many a childhood summer. The weather was great, with appropriately low temperatures and plenty of snow on the ground to help us enjoy snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and downhill skiing. All three were new to Aimee, in […]

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I’m sad to report a premature and disappointing conclusion to “The Affair of the Road Trip Website” (a.k.a., “The Case of the ‘East Coast Snob’”), as reported in this entry. I received a reply to my response today, and it was brief and lackluster:Hi,Well sorry, I just wanted to banter with someone who seemed like […]

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I was going to write a short note about the great weekend in Stowe that Aimee and I just returned from, but this love letter appeared in my inbox this weekend, and I feel I have to put it up here in its entirety, author’s name withheld. I’m not making this up. Hello,After watching the […]

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My latest GarageBand novelty is a duet that never was, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald singing “Dancing on the Ceiling” (no, not Lionel Richie, but Rodgers and Hart). They sang together once or twice, but I don’t think they sang this. It’s essentially a mash-up of the same song, so I guess that’s maybe not […]

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I found out today that Tony Knowles, former Anchorage Mayor and Alaska Governor, is seeking to unseat Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s appointed-by-nepotism senator. This is great news, as Alaska has been represented by Republicans in the Senate and the House as long as I’ve been alive. The flash animation on his campaign site that gives you […]

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Best spam of the day, in its entirety:“When you see particle accelerator behind, it means that related to short order cook leaves.Still bur her from about polar bear, require assistance from her cashier living with clock with lover behind.Anderson, the friend of Anderson and takes a coffee break with clodhopper about snow.Anderson, although somewhat soothed […]

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