Tag Archives: boston

Love-Hate Boston Sports Teams

October 4, 2012 – 12:02 pm

FROM MY NIECE Boston sports teams are like men in relationships: The Patriots are like the new boyfriend that you really like – he’s awesome but almost too good to be true, so you worry. The Bruins are like the guy that you just casually dated and you don’t really care about him, he’s just […]

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Split Sky

September 28, 2012 – 9:16 pm

At the age of ten I sat on our roof during a summer electrical storm with my older brother. The sky looked like the beginning of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Unlike Kansas Boston rarely offered such a dramatic show of weather. My father yelled for us to come inside. We thought we knew better and […]

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BRANDI by Looking Glass

June 10, 2012 – 10:45 am

One summer night in 1973 my friend Peter Gore and I were tripping on LSD and decided to catch the dawn rising from the Atlantic. We got into my VW and drove north out of Boston. Traffic was very light that early in the morning. Peter tried to find something groovy on the AM radio […]

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Drunk for Australia

May 31, 2012 – 6:49 pm

An Australian man mourned a dead friend by drinking himself into a stupor. His friends dropped him at his house and he staggered several feet before collapsing on the lawn. A neighbor took a photo which ended up on out Google’s StreetView website as DRUNK GUY. “I’m not too happy about it.” The drunk Aussie […]

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I Fought The Law

May 22, 2012 – 3:35 pm

On August 23, 1973 accidental actor Mark Frechette was arrested for bank robbery a few blocks away from Mel Lyman’s commune in Boston. Boston police responded to the silent alarm and shot dead of his accomplices.. Mark threw his gun on the floor. It was unloaded. Bail was set at $2500. He didn’t go to […]

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