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First stadium concert in a long time. I can’t believe there are people who experience live music exclusively this way.

AC/DC has disproved my theory that I couldn’t be thoroughly entertained by a band playing a quarter mile away. Sad we missed Anvil, though.

Final Free Slurpee in Harvard Square: Mountain Dew Blue Shock.

Free Slurpees conquered in Brookline/Allston/Brighton: Apocalyptic Ice, Mutant Berry Blast, Fanta Banana, Terminator Blood Orange Lychee.

Free Slurpees conquered in South End: Transformers Passion Fruit, Liqud Artillery (G.I. Joe). Denied twice in Back Bay.

Free Slurpees conquered in Cambridge: Sugar Free Wild Strawberry Crystal Light, Mountain Dew Voltage Freeze.

Today is 7-Eleven Day, and the people of Boston should feel free to take advantage of my Free Slurpee Treasure Map: maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=…

Comfortably seated in Coolidge Corner Theatre, moments away from finally seeing The Room. Overheard: "I'll reimburse you for the spoons."

Sitting in the lobby of the Marriott Copley Place, trying to round up AEA people for some lunch.

They Might Be Giants are great, but there’s not enough snark in the solar system to adequately describe their audience.

Remember those amazing scenes of a desolate, abandoned London in 28 Days Later? I'd like to see that in Harvard Square.

I owe Eric Pope a beer for convincing my tired ass to stick around for Peelander-Z. Holy hell, what a show.

90 minutes later, an MBTA lesson is well learned: If you live in Red Line territory, don't let your bike get a flat in Green Line territory.

At Brattle Books, reading a surprisingly prescient essay on web typography published nine years ago.

Having a sense of direction will help you get around in Boston about as much as fucking a dead cop will help you become the president.

Big sound problems for Crippled Black Phoenix tonight at Great Scott. To be fair, they’re probably not used to dealing with 8-piece bands.

Stabbing inertia in the face and pointing myself toward the dance party at TT's.

Sad that the seven-foot-tall guy who obstructed my view of John Vanderslice will do the same for John Darnielle.

It's a comedy of errors tonight, the T and me.

Enjoying the ICA's struggle to intellectualize Shepard Fairey's work.

Pretty bummed out by the number of people in Central Square willing to just walk past a kid crying on the sidewalk because he lost his mom.

Sitting with @beep and @meyerweb, looking forward to fleeing the Burren's, um, comedy show that started happening while we were here.

Does Cambridge even have storm drains? Precipitation turns this place into Venice.

Massachusetts, I know you want me to know what you're all about and everything, but you really might be overdoing it with the snow.

This month, Cambridge and Philadelphia are my parallel universes. As part of the bargain, my desk chair in the latter is now made of cat.

Finally scored a Charlie card for cheaper MBTA fares. Almost starting to feel like a resident.

Dancing in Boston's clouds.

Doing a poor job of navigating the labyrinth that is Boston.

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For my first visit to central Boston, just last year, I approached from Logan International Airport, northeast of the city. The entire five-mile ride was underground, which wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow if I had been on a subway, but I was in a cab. I knew I was traveling through the results of the Big Dig, Boston’s impressive system of tunnels named after area politicians, civil rights leaders, and baseball players. But experiencing it… See more →

Having a great night in Beantown with @beep, @drinkerthinker, and @simplebits.

Wayne hopped on a bus bound for Columbus this morning. He then flew from there back to Philadelphia, from which he’ll fly to San Francisco on Saturday for a week-long family vacation in northern California. You may recall we spent some time there recently. In the parlance of his students, Wayne is an all-star partyer.

My party is almost over, and as much as I’m really looking forward to getting home, I’m oddly apprehensive toward… See more →