Obscurorant 2.0

Those of you with an interest in the history and architecture of Boston, should stop by The City Record and Boston News-Letter, a blog on those very subjects.  You can start with this interesting post about Edgar Allen Poe Square.

File under not-for-the-faint-of-heart: I noticed Carl V. has posted a very graphic and disturbing account of what can take place when a bibliophile is left unsupervised. The end result, is, as always, a lighter wallet and a larger ‘to read’ pile.

Enjoy some alte schule regional flavor: Dana Hersey in the Rat, Kenmore Square, sometime during the 80s.

If I were to write a memoir of my childhood I would shamelessly ripoff Bill Bryson and title it The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid. I belong to the last generation to come of age before digital stream of ones and two and cable connections brought tsunamis of pop culture into every American [...]

I’d say things have progressed to a point where I’m ready to move into my new intertube home here at Obscurorant 2.0.
There’s still some work to be done of course.  I need to tinker with the sidebar so that Pages made redundant by the header don’t appear (I think this can be done) and eventually [...]

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]