A dream of youth, concocted in the dreary days of high school as I began discovering music no one else had heard of, was finally fulfilled last night. I still remember cutting out the article from my subscription to “Rolling Stone” that reported that the Pixies had broken up, and I thought I’d never get […]

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My first international post will be brief. I arrived here in Reykjavik this morning at around 6:30, and Ásdís picked me up at the airport in Keflavik. The flight was really brief, under five hours, and I barely slept. Icelandair was fine, but I feel like they’ve been scrimping since the last time I flew […]

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Sunday was a busy Boston day, which began with a morning run from Aimee’s place to mine and back, in order to get the tickets for the day’s events that I had left at home. It didn’t take any longer to run than it does to drive on a bad traffic day, and the streets […]

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It’s been a big week in the world of technology: my first

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Aimee and I had a nice evening in J.P. last night, provided by Bukhara Bistro for Indian food and The Milky Way for drinks. We had planned to bowl, but upon entering the Milky Way we noticed there was a dj and would be a cover. So we headed down the street, past the empty […]

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I cancelled my Netflix account today, for probably the fourth time since originally joining in 2000, because I haven’t been watching as many movies lately, and I’ll need more time to run as the marathon gets closer. I can’t not watch a movie if it’s in my house, so it’s best not to have them […]

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As the inaugural post in my “Portland” category, I offer the following thoughts: I think it’s pretty great that in yesterday’s mayoral primary (in which the guy who limited contributions to his campaign to $25 got 41% of the vote, while the guy who raised a million dollars only got only 37%), candidates named “David […]

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I’m in the middle of The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, the second of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes volumes I’ve been re-reading lately. Come to find out tonight that a bunch of Doyle’s papers and effects are up for auction tomorrow. The ownership of the items is a little controversial, but even more bizarre is […]

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I spent the weekend with the family in C-Ville for Scott’s graduation from law school, which was a nice, if brief, little family reunion under sunny skies and a little rain. After some unusually crummy transit luck at Logan and Dulles, I got into CHO about two hours late. Scott was there in Sarah’s Honda, […]

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I read the London Underground Blog every week or so, which always provides fascinating stories of travel on the Tube, as well as links to other interest transit-related blogs. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing. Anyway, from there, I found out about Geoff’s ongoing quest to visit every one of the Underground’s […]

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Sondre Lerche played a terrific set at the Paradise last night, supported by, “for the first time ever, comma, in the City of Boston,” his band the Faces Down. It was the fourth time I’ve seen him, and the first time it was anything more than an energetic acoustic set. The band brought a great […]

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By hook or by crook, my ’88 Honda Accord is slowly disappearing. First, my fifth gear disappeared while I was on the Mass Pike. Then, this evening, I discovered that my radio had disappeared while my car was parked outside my house. Now I realize, many would not call it “theft” if my car was […]

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After an afternoon of surprise, an evening of joy, a week of bliss, a week of “not talking about it,” and a week of fretting, Aimee and I went to Newport this past weekend to look at possible wedding locales for next summer. Along with the place comes the date, so we figured once we […]

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I was looking at the Seattle Times online to read their take on the Yankees’ comeback victory over the Mariners yesterday, and was faced with a name from the past: Manresa Castle, in Port Townsend, Washington. My memory of the place is vague, and is wrapped up with memories of an abandoned fort nearby, but […]

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I walked into the projection booth this afternoon to grab some stuff and heard a very familiar voice saying “Yeah, we can show that, let’s go with that one.” It was Bill Murray, and he had just chosen a rented video copy of his 1990 directorial debut Quick Change to screen for Elvis Mitchell’s last […]

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