For the first time in my relatively short baseball fandom, there will be a new team, or at least a team in a new location, next year. While I’m not too concerned with visiting RFK Stadium in the next two seasons, I’ll be interested to visit the new park in DC in 2007. Michael Wilbon […]

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So said the guy giving me a massage last night, about my marathon training at this point. We were discussing the aches and pains I am having, and the fact that I haven’t run since Monday, which is more days off in a row than I’ve had in a year. He said that’s what his […]

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Last night, Marty and the Social Club turned the corner, for me, and went from a band I go to see because I know the singer, to a band I’d go to see because the music is so good. They played a short set in front of a small-ish crowd at the Middle East Upstairs […]

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So it was more like a Taser than a gun, but we did have fun with it at Crate & Barrel this weekend as we started setting up our registry. We had a productive weekend, starting with the great save-the-date mailout on Saturday morning (as Aimee said, thank goodness for self-adhesive stamps).We started adding items […]

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I had the last of my long weekend runs today, thirteen miles along the Charles River. The distance seemed short, even though before three weeks ago, it was the longest I’d ever run before. I finished right around the time I had for my last half-marathon in February, but I feel pretty good about it […]

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According to the Chicago Marathon site at this moment, there are 37556:16:9:53 (days, hours, minutes, seconds) until the start of the marathon. In my world. though, the marathon is three weeks from today, and today I ran the longest distance I’ll run in training before the even itself, 20 miles. I can only compare it […]

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I got an email this morning with the subject “congrats,” which immediately made me think it was either lotto scam or Nigerian scam email. Of course, those don’t go in the trash, but into my Nigeria folder, which now has over 300 amazing examples in it, including the two that came in today, from “Barrister […]

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Another good show last night at my favorite venue around, the Paradise. We saw Snow Patrol (with the charming, sibling-stocked Eisley opening) play an energetic, if oddly-constructed set in front of a sold out crowd. The album has grown on me, and the band played a set that, at moments, made me happy to be […]

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This weekend, tickets for the Pixies’ return to the Bay State after twelve years away went on sale. Having had the opportunity see the Pixies in Iceland in May, one of the few chances for them to play “Caribou” to actual caribou (thanks, Pitchfork), I jumped at the chance to see them perform “U-Mass” at […]

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As a warmup for the marathon, and to keep me going between my two longest training runs (last weekend and next weekend), I ran the Brian J. Honan 5K in Allston today. It was the first year for the race, celebrating the life and causes of the late Councilor Honan. It was a nice event, […]

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I made my yearly pilgrimage to Brimfield today for the annual postcard show that goes along with the much larger (read: totally insane) antique fair there. The postcard dealers set up at buildings on either end of the mile of antique dealers, so I parked at one end and walked the length to the other, […]

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I finally took the plunge and ordered a new digital camera last night. It will replace my first digital camera, the workhorse Canon PowerShot S100 that I got on eBay in August, 2001. I’m pleased with the three years of service I got, and figured it was high time to move on from the 2.1 […]

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The new sound system recently installed at work was being tested today, so we went in to listen as they ran some recent trailers in order to test the Dolby Digital part of the equipment that doesn’t get utilized when you’re playing 40 year-old movies. There was nothing spectacular about the selection: For [the] Love […]

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I can’t say wedding planning has been a painful experience, but it has its ups and downs, what with choosing the right band and trying to figure out which photographer‘s eye or style will be better. It’s rewarding, but it’s a challenge, too. Choosing a honeymoon destination, on the other hand, has been all great, […]

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That slogan, on a t-shirt worn by a ten year-old kid I saw when I was running today, kept me laughing for a few hundred feet of the 16 miles I ran today. This was the second-longest run of my marathon regimen, and was the longest distance I’ve run, period. The day was perfect, and […]

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