7.28.2004
Cnnsi.com has been running the writings of an ice cream vendor at PacBell Ballpark (I know it's no longer PacBell, I still call it Candlestick). In the latest contribution he writes of Barry Bonds's deliterious effect on selling Nestle Drumstick Brand Ice Cream Novelties.
7.24.2004
The wife and I attended an affordable housing meeting this morning. Affordable housing in Massachussets is the same as expensive housing in Virginia. If we qualify for a mortgage we then enter into a lottery. We won a house!
I am no longer going to bitch about the greater Boston area. yesterday I dropped the kid units off with grandma and ventured into the city proper. Actually had fun and saw stores and restaurants I would like to visit. Saw a guy on the train with an id from Children's Hospital with an MD and a PhD. I feel like a slacker now!
I am no longer going to bitch about the greater Boston area. yesterday I dropped the kid units off with grandma and ventured into the city proper. Actually had fun and saw stores and restaurants I would like to visit. Saw a guy on the train with an id from Children's Hospital with an MD and a PhD. I feel like a slacker now!
7.18.2004
Show a picture of a white duck to a group of morons and one of them, invariably, say "Aflac." Try it yourself, like I did with my inlaws.
Three times in the past two days I have watched "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" three times. Even the director's family has not watched it with such frequency. Why? Because two-year old Margot Monster loves horses. In case you were unaware, Bryan Adams does the music for this film. Usually by the fourth or fifth Bryan Adams song I am asleep, which still doesn't make having to listen to four Bryan Adams songs within one hour any more pleasant. Musical crimes the Canadians have perpetrated: Triumph, Rush, Wonder Stuff, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams. Kids in the Hall just barely compensates for these.
Three times in the past two days I have watched "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" three times. Even the director's family has not watched it with such frequency. Why? Because two-year old Margot Monster loves horses. In case you were unaware, Bryan Adams does the music for this film. Usually by the fourth or fifth Bryan Adams song I am asleep, which still doesn't make having to listen to four Bryan Adams songs within one hour any more pleasant. Musical crimes the Canadians have perpetrated: Triumph, Rush, Wonder Stuff, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams. Kids in the Hall just barely compensates for these.
I am typing this with one hand, with baby Lucienne, smelling like baby throwups, crying. It's only been going on for an hour.
7.17.2004
Things I Either Don't Understand or Hate About Boston
1. What the hell is a Frappe? Call it a milkshake like everyone else.
2. Red Sox Nation. I needn't elaborate.
3. Liquor stores around here close at nine, and you can't buy a sixpack in the grocery or the kwik-e-mart (unless they were grandfathered in or some such hooey).
4. They only offer twelve specialty plates, unlike sweet home virginia which has several dozen. And vanity plates are prohibitively expensive. So no "Govno" plates for me.
5. Rotaries are ridiculous.
6. One of the reasons I moved out of suburban New York was because of the atrocious accents. I just couldn't stand listening to the harridans and guidos talking in the mall. Oh, Boston's not known for their annoying accents at all.
7. The people here are pretty damn racist.
1. What the hell is a Frappe? Call it a milkshake like everyone else.
2. Red Sox Nation. I needn't elaborate.
3. Liquor stores around here close at nine, and you can't buy a sixpack in the grocery or the kwik-e-mart (unless they were grandfathered in or some such hooey).
4. They only offer twelve specialty plates, unlike sweet home virginia which has several dozen. And vanity plates are prohibitively expensive. So no "Govno" plates for me.
5. Rotaries are ridiculous.
6. One of the reasons I moved out of suburban New York was because of the atrocious accents. I just couldn't stand listening to the harridans and guidos talking in the mall. Oh, Boston's not known for their annoying accents at all.
7. The people here are pretty damn racist.
