Japan’s Getting Nasty

I was walking behind this kid and his mother on Boylston Street today when I had to do a double take. Fukudome? Seriously? Is that some kind of horrible chant that you yell at Derek Jeter after he gets his 3000th hit? I couldn’t believe this kid’s mom was letting him walk around with a [...]

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Oh, Central Square…

Couldn’t figure out if this lady accidentally backed into a closet before leaving the house and honestly didn’t know the hanger was there, or if she was carrying something and lost it along the way… Oh, Central Square. You never cease to delight me!

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Customer Service FAIL: Virgin Mobile

I’ve gone into this before and I’ll go into it again. What is it with wireless customer service and their endless, epic failures?  I tried the old “Help” option to get a live representative on the phone.  After simply saying “Help” seven or eight times and prompting my mother to peek her head out the [...]

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Snapshot: Man In the Corner On the Blue Line

There is a man and two women standing in the corner of a car on the T.  The train is a blue line bound for Wonderland and the man and the two women board at Aquarium and ride on past Maverick where I debark. The man is white and young and dressed in slacks with [...]

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Somebody Else’s Mother

I was on the bus yesterday from Central Square to my temp job in Watertown and the thing was packed because of the holiday and reduced service.  I was wedged into the back of the bus near the door, an elderly Asian man with one of those fold-up shopping carts behind me (except it wasn’t [...]

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Your Input Is Requested

I don’t think they actually wanted our opinion of the performance. I think they just wanted us to enter the theatre.

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Troya From Backstage

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Pretty Decent

Don’t you just love it when you find a decent piece of luggage?

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Airline Reflection

There are three unopened plastic containers on the airline tray in front of me, which gives me the sneaking suspicion I’m doing this wrong: yogurt, milk and… is that chutney?  My friend Sandra has a saying that if she puts something together and there are parts left over it just means she made it better.  [...]

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Snapshot – Who Cares?

A waiting room full of people who are embarrassed by what they cannot control.  A mother who is stifling her little girl’s creativity and a care-giver for the handicapped who is muting her client’s potential to feel even remotely normal in a world full of people who stare. Why are we embarrassed to extend ourselves?  [...]

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