Last week when Jackie and I went trekking through the snow over at Hall’s Pond Sanctuary, we came across a picture hanging from a tree. It was really creepy to just randomly stumble across something like that. It was obviously attached to the tree by someone, but for what purpose? Does anyone [...]
Read more »»I’ve seen a lot of snow since living in Boston but usually the big snow storms and blizzards have nothing but dry, useless snow - the kind of snow that can’t be used to make a snowball. Well, Monday’s snow storm dumped close to a foot of moist snow over the Boston area. [...]
Read more »»I warned you all last week but no one listened. Now it’s too late. The terrorizing turkeys of Brookline have struck again. The Brookline Tab reports that a team of two turkeys terrorized those trying to enter the BU Grad School of Psychoanalysis.
Universal Hub has another account of turkey terror. Watch [...]
Last April I wrote Cold Turkey, a true story about my encounter with a giant turkey, who I named Freedom, outside my apartment in Brookline on a cold, rainy day. Well, this morning Universal Hub reported that the turkeys are back out in full-force. A contributing photographer for the Brookline Tab snapped a [...]
Read more »»Since the Brookline post office can’t seem to get their shit together and deliver our mail in a timely and orderly fashion, I have to read The New Yorker online most of the time now. Frankly, it’s rather annoying. I paid for a subscription but haven’t received an issue in almost three weeks. [...]
Read more »»There’s this little boutique in Brookline that sticks out like a sore thumb, right next to my favorite place to get cake, Party Favors. It’s basically a Victoria Secret but for older, not as sexy women and moms. As you can see from this picture, the window displays are not enticing [...]
Read more »»So after the heat started to smother the apartment, I decided to call The Hamilton Company back. Luckily they have a 24-hour maintenance hotline. The person I spoke to this time told me that they went to 143 Street but there was no issue. So, I kinda lost it, because it’s not [...]
Read more »»The heat is on… In our apartment!
In the latest display of incompetence and negligence by our lord of the land, The Hamilton Company, the boiler in our building was fired up on this, the last day of May. They can turn the heat on the when it’s warm outside but in the dead of [...]
There’s really no other way to say this so I’ll just come right out and say it – the other day I got hit by a car.
First, let me say that I am absolutely fine. I wasn’t hurt in the slightest. Neither was anyone else for that matter. I was “hit” in [...]