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 of knocking out eight or nine bottles of red wine. So I put my none-too-steady husband to bed, assuming he'd be asleep in minutes. Next I set about tidying up, putting away leftover cheeses, covering olives, closing bottles of tonic, organizing the empties...when I heard an exuberant voice from the living room …
That was a fun party.
We'd intended to prepare only legit retro party food, but we chickened out once we looked into it. As it happens, party food was gag-inducingly loathesome in the 60s and 70s. Pimento olives made far too much of a showing. Entirely too much ham and gelatin was involved, shaped into something truly diabolical. Everything was formed into a mold or a loaf of some kind.
Friends don't serve friends "molds."
As …
...sorry, they're out. I bought it all.
Just returned from a shopping trip with a metric ton of various cheeses for Joe's locally famous Fondue-bee-doo-bee-doo.
Throwback to 2003 AQM tour! A local photographer came and took great photos of the band. I missed the entire show. "Great set! Your tour manager is in surgery."
While AQM rocked Bikini Test, a great club in La Chaux de Fonds, I was downstairs in the green room where a Swiss woman whose name I never caught was holding my hand and feeding me tea. My gut was on fire. The band got off stage to find I had been rushed to the hospital for em…
Something's fucky in the rental market in this town.
I've read several articles over the past few weeks about "high end glut."All over Boston they're in the process of adding over 2000 new high-end rental units, which are NOT getting rented, meanwhile regular folks are struggling to make rent in ordinary family neighborhoods.
Anyone have $2360 to rent a 400 sq ft studio in The Continuum? That's the new "high end&q…
Ha! I love this because it was the first day that I got the new webcam. In those days, the only way to get an image or video from a PC was to hook up a bulbous little camera. I don't even think it was USB at that point, but a webcam was some tech magic at the time!
I wasn't trying to get a shot here. I was futzing with my new webcam. Jeffrey called. When I posted this on Facebook in 2008, there was no such thing as Throwback Thursday. Re…
Did I tell you about the dyslexic atheist insomniac? He stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog.
I haven't said anything so far, for the delightfully childlike reason that I didn't want to jinx it . But being this happy requires sharing, especially after 2014. All year long into the beginning of 2015 these entries were filled with my dreary slog through the minefield of depression and anxiety. You all supported me and helped to bring me back.
You know what else helped to bring me back? My job. I love my new job.
My birthday post last week ( 45 Things I Know ) reminded me of something cool. Last September I hosted a one-day group project on Facebook in which I invited my friends (mostly Gen X) to participate in compiling A Compendium of Good Advice. Something like a Gen X edition of The Desiderata. It came out pretty good. People should listen to us. We've seen some shit. Control your mouth. We live in a society here. Before you gossip, think. Think of …
So Joe's been playing Army Men on the Playstation. If you haven't seen this thing, it's this old school video game where you play as green plastic army men, and you wage war against the tan plastic army men on battlefields—the back yard, the kitchen table, and other parts of a house. While I was in Davis Square the other day, I went to Family Dollar for toothpaste and toilet paper (thank God for dollar stores) and I saw a bag of gree…
1. Don't pry open anything with your teeth. 2. Support NPR, independent musicians and public television. 3. Don't skimp on three things in life: your mattress, your shoes, and your food. In these areas, buy quality, however else you might economize. 4. Never work for an asshole. If you work for an asshole now, quit. 5. Every now and then, quiz yourself on the state and country capitals from 7th grade geography. There are apps for that now. 6.…
Joe has something of an infatuation with the late great Mel Torme, who would have been 90 this September. We've been talking about having a birthday party for the Velvet Fog, with music, drinks and dishes from the crooner's heyday. "We'll definitely make up a few pitchers of a Velvet Fog drink...oooh, maybe a punch bowl to fit the era!" You guys, I've been looking for an excuse to get a punch bowl for a long time. My j…
Great party.
My face hurts from smiling. 💕
Thanks for coming over, everyone.
Those of you we didn't see, you were missed.
Next time.
We will have more.
God willing and the creek don't rise.
A sushi place in Watertown, MA has a set-up in the ladies' where you
walk in and there's a commode. Just ahead there's also a stall door,
behind which is a second commode. Everyone must experience the same
rapid sequence of thoughts as they're welcomed by this set-up: you stand
there for a few seconds considering going into the stall...but then
what if someone comes in and uses the commode outside the stall? Then
you have …
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