Is a pace technically the same as a step? I read somewhere that a pace was the distance covered by taking two steps, but the Dictionary.com entry for “pace” doesn’t really concur. Anyway, 195 of ’em is the distance between my current apartment on Broadway and my new place on Antrim St., just down from […]

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Check out this interesting Guardian feature on a new exhibition in Basel featuring some early photo booth photographs. The photographs are of André Breton and his friends, who included René Magritte, Luis Buñuel, and Max Ernst, among others, taken in the first “photomat” in Paris, brought there in 1928, three years after it was invented […]

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Aimee tried to tell us not too many teams came in before us in the Muddy Buddy, but I didn’t really believe her. According to the results, Salsa Verde came in 7th in our age group (55-69, combined age), and 28th overall. Not too shabby out of 357 teams. The results also offer an opportunity […]

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Saturday was a touristy day in Boston for Aimee and me, as we hit both Fenway and Faneuil Hall, as well as a day for meeting up with friends we hadn’t seen in awhile. We started with a little packing in Aimee’s soon-to-be old apartment, and then walked to the park to see the some […]

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I joined Aimee and her family for a trip to Foxwoods yesterday, and it was an eye-opening experience. I found out that when you win early, you end up losing. And I found out I have little talent at both video poker and the slots.And that the definition of “token” can be found when examining […]

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In the midst of the transfer of power we’re undergoing at work, I made a pitch for new computers for the four of us in the office. The purchase was somehow approved, so we got three new eMacs and a 1.6GHz G5. It was a great step up from my 3 year-old G4, but from […]

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Thanks to an early wedding present from Stephanie and Andrew, we went to the second sold out Müm show in the courtyard at the MFA last night. The setup was unexpected and very nice, lots of kids sitting on the grass and the band on a concrete step in front of a wall of ivy, […]

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Michael and I enjoyed dinner at Zuzu tonight, complete with self-affirming tidbits about what it’s like to be a groom-to-be, and how tough it is to plan a wedding. Or at least to consider what it takes to plan a wedding. After dinner, we headed next door to The Middle East to see the heard-of […]

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We caught Word Wars, a Spellbound for the hypochondriac shut-ins of the world, in the screening room at the Coolidge last night. I’m happy to see the stories that would make great movies are actually being made into movies; whether or not they’re truly great is another matter. This was certainly entertaining, and did a […]

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Aimee and I ate dinner with Jean, Kevin, and Elisia to celebrate Elisia’s birthday at the Cheesecake Factory in Chestnut Hill; no one told us Jason Varitek would be joining us. OK, so he didn’t join us, but he did spend some quality time walking back and forth past us carrying or chasing after his […]

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Dad and I spent a great weekend in New Hampshire, at the Swensons’ place in North Conway on Friday, up on Mt. Washington for the race on Saturday, and at their cottage in Maine Saturday night. Sunday found us driving blind through the small towns of Maine towards Portland, along the coast for antiques and […]

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If it’s almost the summer solstice, it means the Mount Washington Road Race is on, and if the race is on, my dad is in town. He came in yesterday, and after taking a look at a possible place for me to move, we met Aimee and T’d to the North End for dinner. Temporarily […]

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No, I’m not singing the biggest hit by Yaz (or Yazoo if you’re anywhere but in the U.S., I’m talking about what I’m going to do at the end of July. Yesterday morning, I was informed by my landlady that she’s no longer going to be renting the four rooms in the house, and her […]

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When I’m far removed from my present life, I think I’ll be amused to know what it was like back then, coming home from five hours spent at a book signing, exhausted from the heat, sipping Gatorade from a half-empty bottle retrieved from the fridge, shirtless and sockless in front of my computer, following the […]

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I took a trip yesterday to Quassy, a nice little amusement park in central Connecticut, to check out their photobooth. I also stopped in Meriden for what I thought was a big postcard sale, but turned out to be a mid-sized stamp sale with a few postcards on the side in a conference room in […]

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