Aimee threw a great party for me at her house last night, with about a dozen friends, an assortment of appetizers, and beers of many nations. It was great to see everyone, especially some of those whom we hadn’t seen in awhile, and everyone got along famously. Some guests chose to ignore the “no gifts” […]

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Amanda, Dan, Aimee, and I finally made the pilgrimage up Route 1 to Saugus, the home of Kowloon, which has to be the biggest restaurant I’ve been to outside Vegas. It was a little on the rainy side driving up, but the illuminated Polynesian hut was like a beacon to us hungry travelers, and the […]

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We gathered at Mark and Katie’s new place (new enough that it doesn’t show up on Mapquest, at least) to watch the Super Bowl on their mongo wide-screen tv. All were pleased with the outcome, though we had to be quiet so as not to wake young Jack, who played with plastic cups and ate […]

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I always thought Somerville was even more relaxed and rational than Cambridge on the continuum of Boston neighborhoods and neighboring towns. But when it comes to parking, Somerville has managed to outdo the draconian Brookline. While Brookline tickets ruthlessly all year long based on an inexplicable standard (no overnight parking anywhere ever, and we won’t […]

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I went to the opening dinner for our conference on film criticism tonight, at a nice house on Brattle Street, the part of Cambridge other people mean when they say “Caaaaambridge,” the home of Longfellow and the type of places I worked on when I temped for Sotheby’s Realty, transcribing listings for properties like these […]

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Well, the dust begins to clear. We had our meeting, our “opportunity” to find out what was going on, and while the explanations were vague and mostly unsatisfying, no one else seems to be in danger of losing his or her job, so we can be thankful for that. Who knows what it will really […]

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I’m not sure whether it’s a good idea to talk about this here, but who am I kidding – I have a loyal readership of about four. And as this is the latest in a long line of journaling that started for me sometime in the fifth grade in a blank book I bought at […]

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The blog is a mess right now as I attempt to do the inevitable third month of existence re-design. And, as is my wont, I started at about 10:45 tonight, already kind of tired from driving back from Amherst. So I didn’t get it done – in fact, it’s barely started – but it’ll improve […]

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Aimee and I rolled some quality frames at BostonBowl last night, easily visible from I-93 but requiring a few drive-bys on Morrissey Blvd. to actually find. Big-ball, small-ball, beer, pizza, free bowling socks, air hockey, video games, and a photo booth – a full-serve kind of place.This game had the surprising policy of actually letting […]

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Aimee and I enjoyed the company of Amy and Dave at their new place in Huron Village, just outside of Harvard Square, for pizza and wine tonight. We had a delicious potato pie from Real Pizza and a classic mushroom pie from Armando’s, both within walking distance of their beautiful, huge, spacious, roomy apartment. Well, […]

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We hit Oleanna for the first time tonight, and sampled their yummy deviled egg Pret a Manger selection, plus some excellent Portuguese wine and a main course that had been “schnitzeled.” Whatever it was, it was good. It’s still chilly out there; we have no snow, but it’s apparently two degrees out, while in Alaska, […]

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I love overhearing conversations between people who are obviously totally immersed in a very specific world that most people never join. I suppose it wouldn’t be as interesting to me if it were something really foreign to me like neurology or fluid mechanics, but I was in Tealuxe today and heard two guys talking about […]

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Aimee and I set up the stunted little tree in my apartment, which means flattening the branches from the two years the tree has spent in a box, and decorating it with the classic “Harley-Davidson” Barbie ornament, the mouse and roll of 35mm film ornament that is now in two pieces, as well as the […]

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Is it just me, or does it seem like nothing else happens when there’s a snowstorm here? Oh wait, it’s just that nothing else gets covered on the news – instead, we have budding meteorologists undergoing weatherman hazing, standing in the wind and snow in a parking lot in Scituate or East Worcester, waiting to […]

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Another night at the Enormous Room, perhaps the only place in Cambridge to sport both a line out the door and a cover (“What are we paying for, really?”)Multiple birthdays were celebrated by multiple parties, and the djs, encased in brick and only locatable using the international sign for djs (tilt neck like you’re cradling […]

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