So…it’s by now very well established that I am a lousy front pager. I will remain so at least through March, as I have truly got to push the latest MS of my desk by then. Which means no posts ’til then that require my little grey cells to exercise themselves much at all. But …
Winter Wonderland Open Thread
Took a break to take a walk through a lovely, gentle snowfall this afternoon. Here’s Boston (actually, Brookline) doing its winter wonderland thang: First up: we grow our herons tough up here: Next–local cats are pretty hardy too. I had a long, long week of writing something very hard to bring off–just finished yesterday, and …
David Crosby, R.I.P.
Shit. Just damn. I know he was–to put it most gently–a strong personality. That voice, though, and the music… We’re losing some great ones. Rest in power, Mr. Crosby.
Sunday Pot Roast
Dropping by on a day when there’s a nor-nor’easter blowing where I am–at a secure undisclosed location on Cape Ann, north of Boston… …–and that makes it a perfect pot roast Sunday. I do a lot of braising, and often get fairly elaborate–but we’ve just been eating our way through a chuck roast that is …
A Couple of Tidbits Whilst We Await McCarthy’s Excellent Adventure
So–COVID is so far treating me with some kindness. Two nasty days, then yesterday, when it felt like nothing worse than the tail end of a bad cold, with today being pretty similar. Thanks to all the jackals for your kind thoughts. So I’m up and dressed and at my computer, and wishing everyone a …
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Stochastic Terrorism Comes To Boston
Talking Points Memo reported yesterday on a series of bomb threats delivered to Tufts University. Tufts–which occupies the border region between Somerville and Medford, west and north of Cambridge and Boston, had, it seemed committed the sin of teaching about race and the concept and history of whiteness in the US. The first threat came …
Some Fun Betwixt Hot Soup And Criminal Referrals…
I’m still trying to crank out chapters in my overdue MS, so this is another quick post, but I can’t resist sharing some marvelous crossing of the streams action that reached me via the Great Orange Satan (not the Florida man, in case you left your scorecard at home). That would be this, from Joshua …
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