Bloody good

A fun oral history piece on the 50th anniversary of Stephen King's CARRIE.
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(click the light switch)

A good story, in which Big Bird, 'a longtime Manhattanite,' is quoted. nytimes.com/2024/02/02/nyr…

Im writing it down while he can still remember. Some of its pretty interesting.

“THE STONES AND BRIAN JONES” explores the musical genius of Brian Jones. Watch on Friday, October 27 @brattletheatre and enjoy a discussion between @bostonglobe reporter Mark Shanahan and Nick Broomfield. Buy your #GlobeDocsFF tickets today: …bedocsfilmfestival2023.splashthat.com

My parents today. They've been married for 60+ years but have to live separately now cuz my mom's mind and body have collapsed. To make them laugh is the whole thing.

I always forget I'm a herring guy

Really great profile from Mark Shanahan:

How Ayo Edebiri, a shy, serious kid from Dorchester, became a breakout star on ‘The Bear’

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Ira noted that the Cure were also in town and the two bands had agreed to play one of the other's songs at their show. He didn't know what Yo La Tengo song the Cure decided to play ;) but YLT would hold up its end w 'Friday Im in Love,' played barely above a whisper. Sublime.

Miami Heat to join the Harvard Institute of Politics

Good, gloomy story well told by my brother.
nytimes.com/2023/05/22/nyr…

A third album that's a stone cold classic *and* looks like it sounds

The thing where people say a friend or loved one 'lost their battle with cancer' is stupid and wrong. People get sick and sometimes they die. But they didn't lose and cancer sure as shit didn't win, you idiots.

Great review of our Violent Femmes episode in The Boston Globe. Thanks Mark Shanahan!
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A great read from Mark Shanahan: Inside the Boston Bruins' unique chemistry that has them favored to win the Stanley Cup bostonglobe.com/2023/04/07/spo… via The Boston Globe

A friend who was diagnosed w prostate cancer around the same time I was died yesterday. Get checked. Goddamnit.

Paul w his daughter Niamh

I was talking to someone about my father, who's dealing w life after Alzheimer's took away my mother, and they mentioned their neighbor Sara Holbrook and how she copes.
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FOMO

French toast is just alright with me
French toast is just alright oh yeah