Lamenting the loss of an old friend

Adieu, cassette tape.

The greatest insult the seven year old can wield is calling me a toddler

Mmm, dinner tonight.

I dread the day I have to be a bridesmaid.

Don't you think?

Violent middle school flashback.

The Nirvana baby turned 17.

Ghost towns, around the world.

Protecting yourself during police interrogations.

Girls can add, too!

Something to consider for your travel plans.

A long piece from the NYT Magazine on understanding suicide.

About lists, within this list.

Everything can be arranged to your liking.

I don't care how bad the reviews are.

Mailbox! Mailbox! MAILBOX!

Fonts, personified.

Some random things

Woe is being a shorty.

"Entitled mediocrity". (An interesting tangent to that essay)

The Big Picture is an awesome photojournalism site from the Globe. This selection was particularly...well, just look at the 8th photo.

Not a moment too soon...

Another Boston site slated for "new retail/office space" - the former Shreve, Crump & Low at 350 Boylston.

Sigh.

Title IX says I'm allowed to peg boys in the face with this dodgeball - Me, Second Grade

Title IX will begin to be applied more rigorously to college science programs, in an attempt to increase the numbers of women participating.

Also, apparently no one is able to take (or rather, understand) a joke.

WBUR's Flickr account has a neat photo set up, of pictures from Cambridge's Club 47 (now Club Passim) in the 60's.

How can I possibly wait two weeks?!

X-Files. Do not hurt me the way Indiana Jones did.

Concierge service in short supply! Quick, we must build more towers!

Plans to build a luxury apartment complex (surprise!) and new retail space in DTX, replacing the buildings which currently house Bromfeld Pen Shop and City Sports Downtown.

With the downtown area now chock full of luxury apartments and luxury apartments-to-be (ahem, Archstone Boston Common, The Devonshire, the former Emerson dorms at 100 Beacon, 96 Beacon, 6 Arlington and 130 Beacon, the new W Boston casting its shadow on the Theatre District, the new Ritz-Carlton Boston, Millennium Place, and whatever monstrosity that ate The Littlest Bar) one wonders if rich people have a really hard time finding homes.

Hey, Boston Redevelopment Authority! WTF.

(BTW, I love how the Combat Zone has been flavorfully renamed the "Midtown Cultural District" [any idea why my building gets its own special zone?])

Dear Stuff White People Like, Stop Revealing All My Secrets

For white people, the haircut-with-bangs is an important symbol that a female has completed her transformation from a nerdy girl to a cool woman. In fact, if you went to high school with a nerdy white girl who moved to a big city, there is a good chance she will show up to your high school reunion with this haircut.