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Goodbye Facebook Goodbye

howard — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:11:38 +0000

I made a big move recently. Actually it was a series of moves, some large, some small, all adding up in the end to one mammoth relocation. I lived in the Boston area, more or less, for 48 years, and at one location, a condo, in Cambridge for over 26 years (the longest continuous single [...]

I stand expanded upon…

howard — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:44:11 +0000

I used to like to say, to friends (who were always far more indulgent of the, OK, sometimes obnoxious personae, as my friend Ezra Pound would call them, that I would adopt from to time), “God I hate to be right.” Well, the following doesn’t make me right, but it does substantiate (and give permission [...]

Plus ça Papelbon… plus c’est la même Buckner

howard — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:39:02 +0000

No regrets here, as the news reaches me finally, mid-afternoon (because I’m now in another market—one with a team that clinched its division, has killer pitching, and an even better record than the Yankees… the pitcher business should tell you all, all by itself), and the NYTimes, which is my print news source (paper, the [...]

02138 is moving

howard — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:28:59 +0000

Well, actually, I am moving, not the zip code, the area it represents, or this blog (or website). It’s a change of base of operations, home for lack of a better word. Though I can’t think of any better word than home. And so, in a figurative way, this virtual “02138,” the one always in [...]

Reasons given to Organizing for America for unsubscribing to their newsletter

howard — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:33:00 +0000

I need only preface what I said to the folks at “Organizing for America” [which is, as it says at the bottom of their emails, “a project of the Democratic National Committee”] with this. I very much supported Barack Obama for the candidacy, and then, as candidate, for the Presidency. I even sent him money. [...]

Who cut the cheese?

howard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:42:58 +0000

...Yes, there's a smell emanating from West Cambridge, and it isn't goats. But more later, after I look into it.

Starbucks still misses the boat for this landlubber

howard — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:21:07 +0000

Somewhere along the line, sailors, probably it was British sailors first time around, were called “tars.” This is among other things that sailors have been called in their lives at sea and their reputations in ports from Massalia (which is what the Phoenicians called what we know as Marseille) to Guadeloupe preceded them. The reference, [...]

Dinner last night

howard — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:07:33 +0000

Jody’s Lemon & Rosemary Chicken with herbs and garlic Haricots verts with kalamata olives and garlic sautéed in EVOO Heirloom tomatoes with local mozzarella [Fiore di Nonni] 2006 Jean-Luc Colombo Viognier “La Violette”

What is strange

howard — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:44:16 +0000

[written 2009 July 31 Co-posted on the Per Diem blog] What is strange about produce shopping in France were all the apples available throughout the summer. I don’t know where they were coming from, as I didn’t buy anyway. My cling fruit juices were flowing as is appropriate. The pears were only barely beginning to [...]

Review of The Biscuit from Yelp…

howard — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:57:13 +0000

The preponderance of the reviews here [on Yelp] appear to be from transients. This isn't surprising as the neighborhood immediately surrounding The Biscuit is a haven for graduate students mainly from Harvard and Tufts. Though they're smart enough, God knows, they make up for abundance of brains by a deficit of taste.