Obscurorant 2.0

Dearest monkeys,
I have uploaded scads of pictures. They are not properly tagged and titled yet, but you may go and look because there are pictures of various moments from the social ramble of the past three months, the game where Johnny Pesky’s number was retired, and also the time The Intended and I were menaced [...]

Hi. All sorts of busy lately, what with school and all and such. I won’t go on, because I am not in the mood for talking much. It has been a long and tiring week, and my friend has moved away. I should write something heartfelt and moving, but that is not how we roll [...]

This gentleman, a professor at M.I.T., compiled a list of ‘geek culture references’ from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. You can measure your own geekitude by counting the number of references you can identify.
Me? 116. My age gives an advantage I think, since many of the references date to [...]

Who doesn’t love them some John Candy? My favorite Candy flick? Uncle Buck over Only The Lonely by a nose.

So the Marliave has re-opened and this is grand.  I’m all in favor of preserving and maintaining bits of Boston’s past. (Requeiscat in pace Littlest.)
But let’s focus on what’s important here people – foie gras sliders. Foie gras sliders will be served in the upstairs dining room at Marliave. Foie. Gras. Sliders. I am so [...]

You were probably already aware that there’s about 1500-odd free MP3s available for download from Amazon? But maybe you didn’t know there’s more free bagpipe music available than you’ll ever need. Unless you’re me of course. I like bag pipe music. It’s just the thing to get you marching about the house when there’s work [...]