My good friend and dog sitter, Karen, runs a dog sitting service in the Boston / Cambridge area. Back in August she started the Dog Blog where as she says, “Your pet and I will post something about our day and you can rest easy knowing that your animal and home are well taken care [...]

I guess I’ve gotten old so I’m moving out of this area and over to the outside edge of Cambridge. I had an appointment at Maven Realty the other day looking at some apartments, as I watched the agent bring up pictures from various listings I noticed his desktop was running Ubuntu. Later I asked [...]

A friend of mine, Kelly Davidson, had shot photos of Preacher Jack at the Plough and Stars a couple weeks ago. So last night I went up to Sally O’Briens in Union Square with a couple friends to see him live. My photos are no where near as good as Kelly’s, but Preacher Jack is [...]

Just woke up 5 gunshots somewhere outside my window and tires screeching, some kind of drive by? Every time a gun goes off around here you can hear the police cars all converging on my neighborhood. From almost a mile away the sirens go on and you can see the lights flashing as they twist [...]

It’s that time of the year again when the City of Cambridge starts up their annual valet parking service. Since I thought today was monday instead of Tuesday I took advantage of this valet service, some people call “towing”, and the city kindly put my car somewhere other than where I parked it. This time [...]

Dear Dom, while I appreciate you sharing the wealth of Cambridge public servants with jack hammers. I couldn’t sleep this morning while they were hammering stuff outside my window. What’s almost worse I think is their conversation, here’s the replay. Act 1, Scene 1 – Enter Guy with Hammer (GWH) and Guy without Hammer (GWOH) [...]