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Art On The Walls: Boston Neighborhood

Isn’t this beautiful? There happen to be some nails already in the walls of the new place, so I hung this piece on one of them. I love it. ...
Currently Listening: Roll the Bones (Rush, 1991)

I woke up today and listened to Roll the Bones (Rush). Man that's Neal Peart (RIP) at his finest, both lyrically and technically. I love...
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Part of me wants to Friend every person in New England with a variant of my last name. For all I know, we're related. Does anyone in t...
800 Pounds Of Peanut Butter...On The Floor? Avant-Dumb.

That's a lot of peanut butter wasted unnecessarily, in my opinion. Could have "honored" the dead artist, Wim T. Schippers, ano...
Memory Unlocked: The Hunt of the Unicorn

I saw a Facebook post today about this unicorn tapestry that someone copied onto a cookie cake. OH this unicorn tapestry! I love it. Actual...
Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!

A Short Primer for the Spiritually Conflicted If your thousands-of-years-old religion's definition of "dec...
Pears Are Important

Good morning. Last night I ate a really delicious pear. I woke up thinking about it. I found a digital (iPad) drawing of a pear I did from ...
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I Cannot Tell These Two Women Apart: Sarah Shahi and Mercedes Mason

Sarah or Mercedes? "This actress shows up in so many shows I like!" I said, watching re-runs of The Finder and Person of In...
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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...
Life in the Lower 99

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Little Baby Face: One in Ten Thousand Microtia Babies

These things are good: ice cream and cake a ride on a Harley seeing monkeys in the trees the rain on my tongue and the sun shi...
Cah Wahz: Tales From a Boston Driver

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Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams

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