Obscurorant 2.0

Goddam that was fun. Let’s do that again.

I became a hard-core Red Sox fan in 1988. By hard-core I mean someone who followed the team on a daily basis (which in those pre-internet days meant reading actual box scores in the Baltimore papers and gobbling up the Globe sports sections Dad mailed me) and whose emotional state closely paralleled the team’s fortunes. [...]

It’s probably best not to ask how and why I came across this awesome mashup. Simply set the wayback machine for 1990 or so and enjoy.

Hit it here.

After a little more than two years, my iPod has given up the ghost.  I’m trying to decide whether I should  just buy a new one, or get install a new hard drive to try and resurrect the old one.

Coast to coast, from Manhattan to Santa Monica, in under 32 hours – the real-life Cannonball Run.
Plus, the nine-minute film that inspired this stunt: C’était un Rendez-vous.

Take the right brain vs left brain test by looking at the dancer: does she spin clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Pictures are posted, including a bunch from the wedding.
More to come, mostly from the pre-wedding whiffle ball game.

This past weekend The Girl and I ventured out to Rhinebeck in upstate New York, for my cousin’s wedding and the attendant gathering of the clan.* Heading there and back again, we managed to cram in some good eats and a bit of sight-seeing. What follows are a few of the high lights.
Barrington [...]