I'm about to go to bed but I wanted to post a link to a website I heard about on Colbert Report tonight.
http://supportyourvet.org/
More on this after I've had time to view the site.
Escape Routes
The bus runs in South Weymouth now.
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Documents/Schedules_and_Maps/Bus/225map.pdf
From Quincy Center to Columbian Square. Now. Now that I'm old and moved out and have a car and don't need a bus to help me escape from the suburbs to some place cool like Cambridge (har har, "cool like Cambridge...ah, I used to do that all the time: somehow get to Braintree, then go to the other end of the line in Harvard Square, just to mill about, like they talk about at the end of Car Talk "known to the hipster wanna-be suburban teens taking the T into Cambridge as Hugh Louis Dewey...").
I saw the 225 in front of me on Route 18. Was surreal.
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Documents/Schedules_and_Maps/Bus/225map.pdf
From Quincy Center to Columbian Square. Now. Now that I'm old and moved out and have a car and don't need a bus to help me escape from the suburbs to some place cool like Cambridge (har har, "cool like Cambridge...ah, I used to do that all the time: somehow get to Braintree, then go to the other end of the line in Harvard Square, just to mill about, like they talk about at the end of Car Talk "known to the hipster wanna-be suburban teens taking the T into Cambridge as Hugh Louis Dewey...").
I saw the 225 in front of me on Route 18. Was surreal.
Doom Looms for Boston Globe
Well, um, okay. Here's the thing. If the Globe dies, all we're left with here is the EFFING HERALD owned by wingnut Rupert Poophead. The Herald and it's tabloid 2nd grade reading level spewfest poop all over the 1st amendment by wasting precious trees on their lame crap. If there's only the Herald here, the world will LITERALLY end. Literally.
But also, lots more than just reporters will lose their jobs. The printers, the deliverers, the sales staff, and on and on. That's why the unions are involved with the showdown - those support staff workers' unions have to make major concessions for the papEH to stay afloat. There was already buyouts of reporters & editors, followed by a round of lay-offs. Also.
Me 'n my friends don't read the printed paper so much nowadays - mostly just Sunday. But we go to Boston.com for all our local news: sports, entertainment, politcal, etc. What needs to happen, needed to happen many years ago, is a successful monetization of on-line newspapers. It's the failure of imagination and lack of foresight from company managers that lead to this crap. I hope they hurry up and fix it. I can't live with only the Herald. I can't. I simply can't.
My, my. I had no idea I had such impassioned feelings about The Boston Globe. Look at that. Four paragraphs of drivel, but I still felt compelled to write while this neverending Red Sox Yankees game continues...okay. I'm done now.
But also, lots more than just reporters will lose their jobs. The printers, the deliverers, the sales staff, and on and on. That's why the unions are involved with the showdown - those support staff workers' unions have to make major concessions for the papEH to stay afloat. There was already buyouts of reporters & editors, followed by a round of lay-offs. Also.
Me 'n my friends don't read the printed paper so much nowadays - mostly just Sunday. But we go to Boston.com for all our local news: sports, entertainment, politcal, etc. What needs to happen, needed to happen many years ago, is a successful monetization of on-line newspapers. It's the failure of imagination and lack of foresight from company managers that lead to this crap. I hope they hurry up and fix it. I can't live with only the Herald. I can't. I simply can't.
My, my. I had no idea I had such impassioned feelings about The Boston Globe. Look at that. Four paragraphs of drivel, but I still felt compelled to write while this neverending Red Sox Yankees game continues...okay. I'm done now.
Now I Like Bernie Williams
Now that he's retired from baseball and no longer playing for the Yankees, I can indiscriminately judge Bernie Williams at his new career as a musician and the verdict: fantastico!
Mom and I both heard the same story on "Only Game", an interview with Williams, promoting his new CD. Mom was just as impressed as I was and went straight to Newbury to buy a copy.
Williams is a guitarist and plays very sweet and tender songs. Even Red Sox fan James Taylor blurbed for him on the back of the CD, complimenting Bernie as one in a million (at least): someone with extraordinary talent on the baseball field and on the guitar strings.
Here's the interview. Or go here and click on "Bernie Williams" at the bottom, if that link doesn't work for you (I think you have to have Real Audio installed.)
Here's the CD:
http://www.campuscustoms.com/reformrecords/berniewilliams.html
Hope you enjoyed the video of him playing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", too.
New Books
Over the last bunch of days, I've purchased or received in the mail the following New Books:
Areas of Fog
my vocabulary did this to me
Roseland and Necco Face both here
Some used book (literary & otherwise) purchases include:
State of Denial: Bush at War III
Women in Love
Black Magic: Poetry 1961-1967
In my next entry, I'm just going to go crazy and list all the books that I don't have on their proper place on their shelves and why. Because right now I'm on vicodin (doctor prescribed, not recreational) and doing that sounds like a good idea. Mostly, because I can't seem to concentrate on anything else.
Areas of Fog
my vocabulary did this to me
Roseland and Necco Face both here
Some used book (literary & otherwise) purchases include:
State of Denial: Bush at War III
Women in Love
Black Magic: Poetry 1961-1967
In my next entry, I'm just going to go crazy and list all the books that I don't have on their proper place on their shelves and why. Because right now I'm on vicodin (doctor prescribed, not recreational) and doing that sounds like a good idea. Mostly, because I can't seem to concentrate on anything else.
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