Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

Posts from May 2008

Subprime indeed.

The second best explanation (but the first funniest) of the whole subprime mortgage mess is The Subprime Primer, which involves stick figures and cuss words.
The first was last week’s episode of This American Life.


Jim Hendry: What is Wrong With You?

Jim Edmonds… is a Cub.
In other news, Charles DeGaulle just signed a lucrative 3-year, $16 million deal to command German troops on the Western Front.
for reference, the picture accompanying that article has got to be the most sickening thing I have ever seen in my life.


Posted
7 May 2008 @ 12pm

Tagged
Music

Congrats to Doughty

Mike Doughty has been sober for 8 years as of this past Monday. I say congrats to him.


I know this disc is “rare”, but…

While searching to try (in vain) to find a copy of an old 7″ from a local band in my high school days, I discovered some donkey selling Chimark’s Fifteen Fingered Man EP via the Amazon Marketplace for $100.
I realize there are probably no more than a couple thousand copies of this disc at most, [...]


New Green Line stops announced

Some representatives from the Mass. Office of Transportation announced the proposed locations of the Green Line extension in Somerville and sort-of-Medford.
It’s about time someone from a legitimate office of the Commonwealth said something that suggested a future for this project.


Posted
3 May 2008 @ 10am

Tagged
Boston, MBTA

Brookline Stairway Liberation Front

No Stairway? Denied!
People need to reclaim their staircases. The people shall not be denied.


Posted
2 May 2008 @ 7pm

Tagged
Ataxia

Poop.

Bella Luna to move; Milky Way to close.


Posted
1 May 2008 @ 5pm

Tagged
Links

The consume®econnection Project

Scott Ballum has begun quite an interesting undertaking. “The Mission: A year-long effort to meet the laborers and craftsmen who build what I buy – and put a human face on consumption.”
Now that is a project. He even went to Loretto, KY to visit the Maker’s Mark distillery.
Unfortunately, the weblog seems to be [...]