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Postcard: Harvard Yard

June 3rd, 2013 · 1 Comment

Card is untitled on its front.

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Boston’s Colorful Neural Net

March 17th, 2011 · No Comments

The Green Line runs under financial Boston; the Red Line pierces academia’s heart. There’s no Yellow here: no timidity or caution.

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Fred FM playlist: 10 October 2010 “Autumn”

October 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · music · self

Shame of the Nation

August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It may never have occurred to many of his critics that Ted Kennedy acted as a mirror, showing them not only the best, but also the worst, in themselves.

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Tags: ideas · language · politics · self

Found things: Buttons (musical groups)

August 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

I remember bringing the first B-52’s album home the summer after my first college year and playing it really loud, and driving my poor Mom crazy with it. Was that our generation’s “scream-o?”

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Tags: music

Found things: Buttons (events)

August 16th, 2009 · No Comments

The two buttons above were created to help promote a couple of stage productions put on by Harvard theatrical groups while I was an undergrad, between 1978 and 1982.

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Tags: music

Found things: Buttons (causes)

August 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Here are more found things from one corner of one room of my little house. This little batch, like the last two posted, are buttons, proclaiming support for certain “causes.”

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Tags: books · history · music · politics · self

Found things: Ticket stubs (music in the 20th century)

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

…and then there were these stubs, found in various piles about the house, from an odd assortment of musical events that I attended before the turn of the century.

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Tags: house · music

Protected: Rosemarie D’Agostino to Pat: 22 February 1944

March 26th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: Ida & Pat

What makes a city “bicycle-friendly?”

January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

According to the NCT piece, the city of Oceanside recently applied for a grant – not an increase in tax monies, mind you – of $435,000 for the expansion and improvement of bike trails. That’s about $435 appropriated for each regular bicycle commuter.

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Tags: health · ideas