“Given this year’s bountiful rains and the mysterious cycles of nature, oak trees are producing one of the region’s largest crops of acorns in memory . . ..”–boston.com
September 29, 2009
September 26, 2009
Barbra Streisand
I was listening just now at amazon.com to samples of the songs on Barbra Streisand’s new CDs Love is the Answer (Deluxe Edition) that is being released Tuesday September 29, 2009. Maybe it isn’t fair to judge from short samples, but her voice doesn’t sound quite so special to me any more and the songs, as sung by her, don’t seem very interesting to me.
September 24, 2009
b.good
I had a free meal at the new b.good burger restaurant in Dedham. It opens for business tomorrow. I’m familiar with their restaurants near Back Bay Station in Boston and near Harvard Square in Cambridge. They are much better than McDonald’s or Burger King, but also more expensive than those places, without really being expensive. The Dedham b.good is in a new mall on Route One just north of Route 128, near the Showcase cinema. Whole Foods and L.L. Bean are two of the stores in the complex. Getting out of the parking lot is easy if you’re going north on Route One, but somewhat circuitous if you’re going south on Route One.
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I thought the Whole Foods supermarket in Dedham seemed bigger than any of the others in Massachusetts and Rhode Island that I’ve been in, and I see at necn.com that it is “70% larger than any other Whole Foods stores in New England.”
September 20, 2009
La Cenerentola on DVD
A DVD of Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez is scheduled for release in the United States on October 27, 2009.
September 16, 2009
The blue jays and danger
I heard the blue jays make a warning noise just now. The other little birds flew away, and the chipmunk ran for cover. Then the hawk flew into the big oak tree in my neighbor’s yard. The blue jays make the same warning noise when the big orange cat approaches.
I was going to photograph the hawk but it saw me and flew away.
September 12, 2009
Laws may differ on federal property
“Massachusetts voters approved a referendum in November that decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, but the change does not apply to federal property.”–Boston Globe
September 7, 2009
Ted & Joan
“One of the people Ted asked to see in his final days was first wife Joan.
“‘A week before he died, he sent her a message and she slipped quietly into his home in Hyannis Port,’ divulged an insider. ‘Ted told Joan that before he died, he wanted her forgiveness for the way he’d treated her.’”–National Enquirer
September 4, 2009
Toilet etiquette
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has given its students guidelines on the use of toilets, urinals, showers, and sinks, reports IvyGate blog. A slightly disgusting topic. I disagree with one of the guidelines, since in some public restrooms I flush the toilet with my shod foot. It seems more sanitary to me. And the toilets seem to have been designed to be flushed by one’s foot.
Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy insists he was not an alcoholic in his memoir ‘True Compass‘–New York Daily News
Well, I know alcoholism, and I can tell you he was an alcoholic. He may say he wasn’t that bad, but he caused somebody’s death when he was driving after drinking, for crying out loud. It matters because playing along with an alcoholic’s denial helps other alcoholics to persist in denial of their problem.
