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February 14, 2016 Joe, Scooby Doo, TV
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Throwback Thursday: 2002

February 10, 2016 Local Rock, Somerville, Throwback Thursday
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    I approached his cab from behind, so I didn't get a good look at the driver. Given the unseasonably warm day, the driver's ...
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    I just Unfriended my mother-in-law. I have mostly been off Facebook since October, only popping back in now and then because I miss seeing w...
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    Braintree Street at dusk To bring you up to date, we have to move this year. We have most probably been priced out of Allston, but I look a...
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    Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
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    No, I Do Not Feel Bad About UnFriending Okay, I've been sitting on this one for years, partially due to the PTSD, troubling lack...
  • French Toast Alert on HIGH: Heavy Snowfall Expected
        "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.”   
  • My Super-Talented Family Members: Joe "onlyone" Kowalski
    My husband is  Joe Kowalski , an imaginative Gen X polymath and among the most talented people I know. I learned the term "polymath...
  • Naked Cake: Joe Eats Cake Naked at 3am
    September 14, 2015 2:55am · Allston Rock City, MA The last of the party guests had gone home, hopefully happy. Joey had done his part ...
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    Stevie Happy Sunday, dear fine readers. I was thinking. I am lucky enough to be surrounded by incredibly talented artists. And I haven't...
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    “Amazing. So after Trump’s public praise of Vladimir Putin, his attorney general’s meetings with Russians, his campaign chairman’s money...
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    Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
  • Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady
    One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
  • Where Is Lexi Kahn?
    No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
  • Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!
    A Short Primer  for the  Spiritually Conflicted If your thousands-of-years-old religion's definition of "dec...
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    When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
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    When I was 24 years old, I found it necessary to retract and re-submit my * theory about musicians and just what the hell is their deal a...
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    Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Novem...
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