Entries from November 2004

We Get Results

November 29th, 2004 · Comments Off on We Get Results

So it probably doesn’t have anything to do with my expos? on the subject from three months ago, but the strange street sign reading “Antrim At” has been changed to the more traditional “Antrim St.,” as of this weekend. I don’t know if the city stopped working with the company that made the sign in […]

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Tags: Cambridge

Four Days, Four States, One Big Turkey

November 28th, 2004 · Comments Off on Four Days, Four States, One Big Turkey

Aimee and I enjoyed a nice holiday weekend with her family in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, plus a little road trip detour through Connecticut on the way back home. The weekend started with a frantic last-minute effort to get the calendar done at work, which I think pretty much happened. I then caught […]

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Tags: Travel

Don’t Go Changin’

November 24th, 2004 · Comments Off on Don’t Go Changin’

Is there any way I can reserve a new 2004 Jetta now, and pay for it in a few years, when I get the money and need a new car? Because by the time I’m ready to buy a new Jetta, it certainly won’t look anything like I remember.VW released photos of the fifth-generation Jetta […]

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Tags: Noted

Holiday in Henryville

November 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Holiday in Henryville

Eight of the last ten years since moving east for college, George and his family have invited me to their home to celebrate Thanksgiving in the Poconos, since I wasn’t about to trek to Alaska for a four-day weekend a month before going home for Christmas. It’s time to move on, though, and this year, […]

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Tags: Nostalgia

Lost in Translation

November 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Lost in Translation

I just finished watching the first season of the BBC tv series “Spooks,” or, as it’s known in the US, “MI-5.” What, I ask, is wrong with “Spooks”? American audiences are too literal? It sounds too much like a horror film? Whatever you call it, it’s a good show, a full 59:00 of drama, with […]

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Tags: Noted

Dedicated to the Avalon

November 19th, 2004 · Comments Off on Dedicated to the Avalon

It’s been at least a year or so since I’d been to the Avalon, and it had somehow grown in size in my mind, into a venue too big to see a decent small show. I was pleased, then, when it was announced that Badly Drawn Boy’s planned Avalon show had been moved down the […]

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Tags: Music

Another Entry in The Thingy

November 18th, 2004 · Comments Off on Another Entry in The Thingy

A busy day in both Boston and Cambridge ended with a great evening spent with Tim and Mari, as we enjoyed the “exotically hip atmosphere” at Pho Republique (and it’s ‘fuh,’ not ‘foh,’ by the way…) in their new ‘hood, the South End. We couldn’t make their wedding last month, but we got the scoop, […]

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Tags: Film · Miscellany

Minnesota in November

November 16th, 2004 · Comments Off on Minnesota in November

It may not seem an obvious destination this time of year, but how else would I be able to learn the true value of the Minneapolis skywalk network? Minneapolis was host to the 14th annual Association of Moving Image Archivists conference: three days of seminars, presentations, and discussions on the history of film preservation, techniques […]

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Tags: Film · Photobooths · Travel

It’s a Sign

November 6th, 2004 · Comments Off on It’s a Sign

Every time I see this sign, I wonder what it’s doing here, on the corner of Arlington and Newbury, at the edge of the Public Garden in Boston. It’s straight out of an English motorway, with that distinctive typeface, the bird’s-eye representation of the street layout, and the mysterious “C-28, C-9” indicators. It’s a dead […]

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Tags: Noted

Let the Media Blackout Begin, Again

November 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off on Let the Media Blackout Begin, Again

The one bright spot was going to be for Knowles’ defeat of Murkowski in Alaska, but it looks like that went down the tubes, too, along with pretty much everything else last night. More than half of the people in this country chose that which has an extensive, proven track record of being detrimental to […]

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Tags: Noted

The Big Day

November 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off on The Big Day

I can’t remember when I started following election news every day; it was some time before the Democratic primaries, so almost a year has gone by in which I’ve experienced the ups and downs, the paranoia and optimism, the anger and satisfaction that comes with paying attention to one thing for too long. The circles […]

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Tags: Noted