Mixed feelings as usual on these "supercrip" stories
This video is making the rounds right now, portraying Mariah Slick, a high-school senior with Down syndrome who was crowned the homecoming queen at her high school in Texas.I have some very mixed...
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Dear Capital One
You know those e-mails you keep sending me?The ones that promise $100 for opening a Capital One savings account?The ones that address me by first and last name and refer to me as a valued customer,...
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Boston Tour of Bigass Heads
So, I got the brilliant (?) idea to do a tour of all of the giant heads of Boston. Not sure if I'd want to do, say, a bike tour, or more like a party bus tour (bike tour is better for the planet and...
View ArticleBoston radio stations playing Alice's Resturant today
WUMB apparently played it at 9:00 already, will be playing it again at noon. Sometimes they play the 30th anniversary edition. ("And I asked myself, I said, Arlo, how many things in the world are 18...
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I watched a First Night ice sculpture get assembleded. Squee.
Because I'm a dork -- do I even need to preface my blog posts with that, as if anyone didn't know? -- I really enjoyed seeing an ice sculpture get taken off the truck and assembled in front of Golden...
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Trying to figure out a way to get back the money from paying the gay tax
As I mentioned in earlier posts, my employer* has decided to start putting the gay tax on our W2s instead of leaving it up to the employee whether to choose to pay it. My W2 this year shows $5783 in...
View ArticleOne more gay-tax-related post
So, on my W2, my federal income is showing up as 5000-something higher than my state income. Based on the federal income number, my family makes slightly too much money to get assistance from the Good...
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There really should be a longassgermanword for
...when you hear that some famousish person died, except you had no idea they'd been still alive any time recently.
View ArticleHeard on the police scanner just now
"The folks from the Blue Cross have now arrived on scene.""...What? Do you mean the red or the blue?""Oh, sorry, the red."
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Massachusetts to decide on "death with dignity" law
The Boston Globe may or may not let non-subscribers click through to the full article, depending on its mood, but here's the summary:Under the Massachusetts proposal, which is virtually identical to...
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This bag is not a toy
A plastic bag just showed up rubber-banded to our front railing. Look, it even has the mayor's name on it, lest you forget who the mayor is while putting it in a crib or whatever it is people do with...
View ArticleLet's play MBTA bingo!
Over at Universal Hub, Adam is in the process of creating an MBTA bingo game. As one might guess, most of the boxes are annoying things -- train out of service, person sprawled across two seats, and...
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