Yesterday morning found us tromping through the snowy streets of Somerville at an early hour (after a delicious breakfast at Sound Bites) for our wedding invitation appointment at Firefly Press (no website, naturally, but watch a short film on John and his work). We spent two hours learning about the variety and history of typefaces, […]

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Date night was my turn this week, and I decided to take us to the MFA for some edification. We had a delicious dinner at Brown Sugar Cafe back in the Fenway behind my old place, and then trudged through the berms to the MFA, open until 10 pm on Fridays. We enjoyed the permanent […]

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Another great Repartee night at the Symphony. We’d had minor members of the orchestra, star members of the orchestra, but never the composer of the piece as our guest speaker – but that was the case tonight, when Michael Gandolfi joined us for a pre-concert talk, during which time he described the Garden of Cosmic […]

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It’s best if you find someone who reads Hebrew in order to fully understand this post. A friend of mine who does pointed out to me this Oscar preview article by acclaimed film critic Uri Klein from Israeli news source Haaretz.com. The article talks about the big races and features a couple of images. Except […]

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OK, so it’s very small, but it now exists. I received in the mail today my copy (359 of 2500) of the CD Baby-produced “official bootleg” of the Pixies’ return to Avalon in December of last year. I opened it up (nice job, everyone at Coudal / pixiesdiscs) and lo and behold, there I am, […]

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We spent much of today holed up in Aimee’s apartment, watching the snow fall outside. The roads seemed well maintained, but any cars that were still parked on the street were nicely buried by noon, when the snow finally stopped. We cancelled screenings at work tonight, though last night was really the worse night, condition […]

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The snow is really coming down out there, but come on… Aimee and I just watched the nightly local news for a half an hour…and we got a half an hour of weather. I know I’ve said this before, but it was a whole lotta weather. Weather here, weather there, weather stories, weather predictions, Patriots-related […]

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I read with amusement (and chagrin) the story of some Alaskans victimized by ‘Nigerian’ scams in today’s Daily News. This has been around so long, I feel like actual Nigerians aren’t even doing it any more. Like ‘spam,’ it’s undoubtedly giving an entire group of people an unfair reputation, though I guess they can’t really […]

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Aimee and I spent an eventful and enjoyable three-day weekend in the company of Scott and Sarah in Charlottesville (or CHO to those who prefer to deal strictly in airport codes). We arrived Friday night and got acquainted with Katie, Ben, and Hazel, the cats who rule the roost. I hadn’t seen the new house, […]

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Today was the day for sophomore season dvd announcements (and not that I’d buy any of these, but it’ll certainly save a trip to the Museum of Television & Radio to watch the odd episode): The A-Team Season 2, Magnum, P.I. Season 2, and Knight Rider Season 2 were all publicized today, and in addition […]

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Yesterday, I finally watched the ‘part two of two’ cliffhanger finale that opens Series Two of “MI-5,” aka “Spooks.” The resolution itself was a little hollow – there’s a bomb in the house, the protagonist’s girlfriend and her daughter are trapped inside…but the bomb doesn’t go off. OK… It’s interesting to note that the series […]

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It’s that time of year again, the semi-annual student photo show, when the walls around our offices are covered over with giant hanging bulletin boards pinned full of photos. It makes getting in and out of some offices a little tricky, as the hangings block the door, and it covers over our exhibition and poster […]

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When our planned trip to the Poconos was called off due to an ice storm, we switched gears and decided to head to MASS MoCA and Lenox for a weekend in the Berkshires. We headed out Saturday morning, and drove straight west through was ended up being a fairly decent snowstorm, which meant it took […]

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After joining Flickr awhile ago, I finally started putting some photos up this week. I still can’t really decide what to do with it; I’m not going to store all of my photos there in addition to my computer, but it’s nice to have an easy place to put some up every once in awhile. […]

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I know I’m late with this, but I thought for my sake, as much as anything else, I’d put up my top ten films list for this, my first full year of blogging (in The Year of the Blog, no less). Aimee and I came up with our (somewhat similar) lists this weekend; I wanted […]

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