Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Nevermore
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.
3 Comments » - Posted in Vanished Boston by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
We Hates the Yellow Face
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.
I speak from experience of course. During a post-breakfast stroll about Cambridge this past […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Long Time Gone
Enjoy some alte schule regional flavor: Dana Hersey in the Rat, Kenmore Square, sometime during the 80s.
2 Comments » - Posted in Vanished Boston, Television by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 26th, 2007
The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid: The Woods
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 […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Here Comes A Regular
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 […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Home Sweet Home by The Silver Fox
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Inaugural
“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 […]
