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My best friend pointed out to me last night that I used to have this exact same haircut almost when I was in college. She is correct. See below. Me, circa 1999... Me, circa now, 2008. The same haircut, really. Yet so, so different. Nine years different. ...

I'm not in a good mood today. Not at all. Not even a teeny tiny bit. Guess What? It's not about my kids. Or my friends. Or my family. Or mommybloggers. It's about people that make a commitment that they say they're going to keep, and the first bump in the road, they abandon the project. People like that suck. Especially if the reason for their departure is extremely lame, like not liking a ...

Last night G and I watched the movie Suspect Zero on DVD. It's a pretty wild murder mystery starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley. Just by the star power alone, I would have thought that this movie would have been more talked about. However, it apparently failed to do well at the box office. The movie was released in 2004 and I only learned about it a few months ago from a friend of mine. Now to be honest, the movie was just okay. What fascinated me the most was the DVD extras, which explai...

The following "news" feature here from American Family Association claims that MassResistance photographer, Brian Camenker, was bullied at a scene that turned "violent" at last weekend's Youth Pride when the kids realized he was with the vitriolic anti-gay group. The propaganda piece called "Youngsters attend Boston homosexual pride event" says the crowd started screaming at MassResistance, blocked their cameras and assaulted them (although they don't give specifics). "They claimed that by our t...

I posted a while ago about my plans for our TV setup. In the intervening months I’ve made a few changes to my plans and taken a big step towards getting it all set up. The biggest change is that I’ve removed MythTV from the picture. Originally I was planning on either building my own MythTV powered HTPC or buying a TVease Zodiac MythTV system. It appears that TVease has gone out of business, so that’s now out of the question. But in the course of my research on building a MythT...

Sen. Ted Kennedy has fallen ill, and Media Nation extends its best wishes. Meanwhile, there are signs of early media confusion over what's wrong. The Boston Herald reports that Kennedy experienced "stroke-like symptoms." The Cape Cod Times, whose account of Kennedy's illness is otherwise thorough, makes no mention of the nature of the senator's illness. (Those two links via Universal Hub.) By contrast, the Boston Globe, relying on an anonymous "official briefed on the situation," tells us that K...

Interesting story in the Dorchester Reporter on "TOUCH 106.1 FM," a pirate radio station serving the black community that's been targeted for elimination by the FCC. Managing editor Bill Forry writes: Touch FM (officially LP-WTCH Boston) — which sprang from the bosom of the Grove Hall Neighborhood Development Corporation offices in the fall of 2005 — is unlicensed. They admit it. They're pirates. And they are unrepentant...

Here's something you don't see every day. The weekly Duxbury Clipper recently sent columnist Bruce Barrett to Afghanistan to cover the opening of a girls school funded by the Duxbury Rotary Club. Barrett did his reporting in the form of a blog, complete with photos, video, a map of the area, even a real-time weather report from the Afghan capital of Kabul. An excerpt from Barrett's final dispatch: Kalashnikovs. In Duxbury, a band of men armed with assault rifles attending the opening of an eleme...

Richard Vitale has filed paperwork saying he isn't a lobbyist and hasn't take any money to get the Massachusetts House to change the way tickets can be re-sold in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Association of Ticket Brokers says it paid Vitale $60,000 in 2007 -- and will file a 2008 spending report later this year. It appears someone has some 'splainin' to do. And it better a whole lot more convincing than George Regan's insistence that Vitale was a "strategist" and: “No apportionment has b...

On Sunday, May 18, 2008, I will be walking in the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk at the Franklin Park Zoo, to raise awareness and funds to fight kidney disease and to increase the availability of all organs for transplantation. While I have made my initial donation of $200, I need everyone’s support to reach my goal of $1,000 to benefit the programs and services of the Foundation. My niece Angie has Lupus and is on dialysis. My nephew Michael found out he was a compatible don...

Photo of Kyle, by Kelly O’Connor (need to show support while he’s on the DL!) In totally selfish mode for a moment: I’m very happy the double-header got scheduled for TODAY since I’m not able to be at Fenway tomorrow. I still can’t figure out why they’re saving Tim Wakefield for the night game, though. As KellyO pointed out last night, if Wake pitches the first game, it goes by more quickly and gives the team more room to get everyone out of the park in t...

McCainiancs nervous over the prospect that their man might pick Mike Huckabee as his running mate needn't worry — Huckabee took himself out of the running earlier today by making a grotesque joke about Barack Obama, guns and assassination. Reuters reports: Former Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, interrupted on Friday by a loud crash as he spoke to the National Rifle Association, joked that the noise was Democratic candidate Barack Obama falling off a chair as he dodged a gun ai...

It's hard to believe this is happening. I checked out their Today show performance online with every intention of making fun of it. Instead, it made my little heart swell with nostalgia. I guess somewhere deep down inside I am still that chubby little girl with a Jersey accent and feathered bangs dragging around a tiny pink boom box and listening to "Hangin' Tough" over and over again on full blast. And Tiffany. I also loved Tiffany. ...

Not sure of the hows or whys, but it seems all the RSS feeds for my fave local blogs hosted on WordPress.com have been replaced with mutant self-congratulatory RSS feeds leading to the same blog posts about WordPress.com itself. Gah! I get my feeds via Newsgator, so I'm not sure if the problem is with them or WordPress. Anybody else who doesn't use Newsgator notice this? ...

Sat. May 17 The exotica craze may have crashed, but the Boston-based Waitiki is still riding the wave. Waitiki's Randy Wong checks in with this about the show they're doing at the Lizard Lounge Saturday May 17: This next showis a mixture of originals and classic exotica. We're trying to make good on our group's new tagline - 'classic exotica for the modern listener.' We have re-arranged some of our favorite exotic tiki tunes ... a throwback to that period of Cuban music ...

Harvard and The American Repertory Theatre announced this afternoon that Diane Paulus has been appointed artistic director, following Robert Woodruff. Paulus is a director of Obie-winning theater and opera and a Harvard grad. She teaches at Barnard and the Yale School of Drama; this summer she'll direct "Kiss Me Kate" at Glimmerglass and "Hair" in Central Park. From her Barnard bio: She is the creator and director of THE DONKEY SHOW, a disco adaptation of  "A Midsu...

My love for Keith Olbermann continues to grow. Goodness me, he is the man of my dreams. Smart, funny, and the kind of Bush hater that I most admire: one that can make Bush seem even smaller, stupider, and more insignificant as a human being than we already think he is. Here's Keith: ...

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If I was going to be in town tonight, I'd definitely go check this event out - maybe not participate - but at least see what was going on. A silent rave is going to be held in Boston Common at the northwest corner (near intersection of Beacon St & Charles St). The event will be held from 7:19pm-11:19pm. Here's some more information I found from a craigslist listing for the event: A Silent Rave, or Mobile Club, or Silent Disco, is a simple concept. Hundreds, hopefully thousands, of people ...

Because it doesn't look like he's ever coming to the Northeast. ...