Category Archives: New England

How Cold Was It?

February 16, 2015 – 5:45 pm

A young couple purchased an old home in Northern Maine from two elderly sisters. “How you survive winter up here?” “No problem,” the older sister answered with Yankee terseness. The young couple bought the house, but with the approach of Winter the husband was concerned about the house’s lack of insulation. “If they could live […]

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Super Bowl Sunday 2015

February 1, 2015 – 4:50 pm

It’s Sunday Bowl Sunday and the New England Patriots are playing last year’s champions for the 2015 NFL title. Seattle’s Legion of Boom have promised to shut down the Pats’ stellar tight end, Le Gronk, and punished any receivers daring to cross their paths on the other side of the scrimmage line. The ‘Hawks coach […]

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Tom Brady Is So Cool

January 11, 2015 – 10:18 pm

In the Teddy Bruschi home game shirt which I found thrown out on South Oxford Street a year ago. Freshly laundered. Yesterday with the Patriots down two TDs against the Ravens I broke tradition and phoned a friend. This potentially dangerous breach of the superstition code paid off big time and the Patriots won against […]

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REST STOP by P. Nolan Smith

October 22, 2014 – 8:10 pm

On Saturday I traveled north from New York on a Chinese bus. Greyhound really. They charge $25. 7am departure. I fell asleep on the Williamsburg Bridge and woke in the Storrs Hills on Connecticut The driver was pulling into Burger King. “Ten minutes.” I walked inside. Mickie D’s rival was offering a breakfast burrito. I […]

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ISIS Please

October 5, 2014 – 6:27 pm

ISIS has beheaded four western hostages in Syria and Iraq. The militant warriors are threatening to decapitate a fifth prisoner. The US and UK have refused to negotiate with ISIS. The captive seems doomed, but not if the Pentagon offers New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels in exchange for the held reporters. Tom Brady […]

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