A month ago, I spotted the location of the new Darwin’s getting ready to open on Cambridge Street. It was a cause for celebration, as the new location is about ten minutes closer to work, and also because there’s really nothing else going on in that particular stretch of Cambridge Street between Inman Square and […]

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I now present the second of the two messages I received this weekend (re-visit the first one here) from my mystery caller, now the fifth message I’ve received from her on my work answering machine over the last year or so. I feel like she’s spinning her wheels a little, and seems to be having […]

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Last night I enjoyed the company of director, writer, and all-around legend Melvin Van Peebles, in town for a screening of his first film, The Story of a Three Day Pass (1968). Dinner lasted about three hours, and was made up of a number of delicious courses, wines, and after-dinner drinks wheeled to our table […]

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I wonder if Karen Freeman has googled herself lately. If so, she’d find her amazing phone messages posted here, and she’d probably stop leaving me new ones. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen, though, because when I came into work this morning, I was rewarded with not one, but two new gems from her homegrown conspiracy […]

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For my return to running after a six-month post-marathon hiatus, I chose the 22nd Annual James Joyce Ramble 10K in Dedham, famous for the actors and others who read passages from Joyce’s work as the runners go by. The rain that came on Saturday stayed this morning, and a light drizzle turned into a downpour […]

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I think Aimee and I knew this even before it was made clear in our pre-cana board games, but we’re pretty quick decision-makers. As I stood outside the apartment we were looking at, taking a call about another apartment, Aimee had probably already made up her mind that she wanted to move in. As soon […]

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Rochester’s most famous son in the movie business (besides George Eastman himself) is Robert Forster, apparently, as he seemed to follow us around yesterday, from his narration of the audio tour at the George Eastman House (check out the elephant in the conservatory) to his introductory membership appeal clip at the Little Theatre, where we […]

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It’s been a few days since my last update, mostly due to the impending deadline for finding out about what I would be doing, and where we would be living, next year. It all started in late January, when I applied to film preservation school in Rochester, NY. The deadline for applying came and went, […]

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These past few days definitely go down as the first great weekend of the spring. My good friend Brent paid a visit to the east coast for the first time since I’ve lived here, and we spent a glorious Saturday exploring Cambridge and Boston like tourists with a stopwatch. After giving a tour of the […]

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This third and final call (listen to call number one and call number two) from Karen Freeman followed quickly on the heels of the second. Additional Information to Be Checked and Verified(688 kb mp3, 1:56) Hi Brian, Karen Freeman, additional information to be checked and verified. We can break through the web. If you’re having […]

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After receiving my first call from Karen Freeman, a few months went by and I figured it was a fluke, a wrong number, or a shot in the dark. Then one morning I checked my voicemail, and lo an behold, two messages had been left the night before, one left right after the other. This […]

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I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to commenting on this; perhaps because it’s just too good, too weird, to be true. Over the past six or eight months, I’ve received three voicemail messages at work from the same person, calling from Naples, Florida. They’ve all been received after hours, […]

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Tyler Kepner of the New York Times opens his article on yesterday’s game like this: “Jason Varitek wears a C on the left breast of his road jersey, symbolizing his status as captain of the Boston Red Sox. Derek Jeter, the Yankees’ captain, does not wear a C. His title has always been obvious.”Chris Snow […]

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The preparation and planning for our wedding (just over three months and counting…) has been fun and worry-free, for the most part, and has certainly been an educational experience. Last night we had our first night of pre-cana in the basement of a church in Boston. A few months ago I definitely didn’t know what […]

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What’s going on over at Bostonist? I’m happy they’re here, but we need to get some quality control measures in place. I understand today is April Fools Day, but do they really need seven fake posts to honor the day? What’s worse, one of them is about a “deul” between “mayor’s,” and another is described […]

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