A Short Album About Love might be baroque pop band Divine Comedy at their finest, Casanova notwithstanding. Actually, founding member Neil Hannon bristles at being described as "baroque pop." Lustfully whimsical pop ballads with heavy literary references? I don't know, but this guy's creative sensibilities are pure Irish Gen X, born into a world where "The Troubles" dominated life and he grew up bookish and wry. Neil …
Some years back I did some editing for a style/fashion writer in NYC, Ellen Lubin-Sherman . She was a hoot. She once told me that she could tell over the phone if a woman was wearing leggings. It was not a compliment. I didn't dare tell her that I wore leggings nearly every day. Ellen would not approve. One of the things I did for Ellen was to enter a bunch of quotations from her first book, The Essentials of Fabulous, into the Goodreads Quota…
OMG. This week's #ThrowbackThursday was just a screenshot of an entry in the blog from October 2002. I remember, I lol'd and jotted down this exchange between Riker and Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation . The episode was The Naked Now, which was (I looked it up) the 3rd episode of Season 1. It's a Diaryland post . This is it, this is the whole blog post. Hey, this blog stuff is going to be great when my memory goes. On a related t…
October is always weird. Just go with it.
Senmi Ramen to Open in Cambridge
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A brand new Asian restaurant is on its way to Cambridge.
According to a source, a sign is up for Senmi Ramen on Cambridge Street,
with the place moving i...
2 hours ago
