I just got a mass e-mailing from a journalist who wants questions to ask Martha Coakley at a town meeting event. Here was my reply:1) What will she do to address the issue of same-sex partners each being taxed federally on health insurance provided by one...

The 3:45 19 bus hasn't come. The 4:03 19 bus hasn't come. Hopefully the 4:23 will show up and I'll only be 30 minutes late....

This probably breaks several laws, but I think it would be passiveaggressively awesome to install a horn or similar device in my car that I could press and have it make a car-screeching-to-a-halt sound when I brake for jaywalkers, people who cut me off,...

(during weather forecast) "in the Boston, we're talking about..."...

Thanks to refining my google search terms based on some pointers, I've found many places that will recycle plaster debris in Boston, ENGLAND. Apparently this is common there, and they crush it up to make gravel or pavement, or grind it up and mix it in...

I have two garbage bags full of chunks of plaster from a wall. I don't want to just throw it into a landfill. I've found places that will recycle it into pavement or whatnot, but they charge hundreds of dollars for a minimum of a dumpster worth. Anyone kn...

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I'm here. Will be posting live over at http://www.twitter.com/erikashira...

Fiddler on the Roof was amazing. Now we're trying to get out of the theatre....

November is National Diabetes Month.Go see what Wilford has to say about that....

I'm playing around with AccessDNA.com, mostly because it's the least sketchy-seeming of all the genetics websites. I made a profile and put in family history and ethnicity information and whatnot, and it pulled up a report of genetic tests I could seek ou...

One time when my brother and I were adolescents, we were watching Sesame Street out of nostalgia. For some reason we had started singing "would you like to buy an O?" so the logical next step was to go see if Sesame Street was still the same.We found it o...

I joined this Around Me website so I could write some reviews and get paid (through Mechanical Turk). I like that it uses facebook connect so I didn't have to create an account, but other than that, it's stupid. For each category, it seems to have only 10...

Did she seriously just say some people think that "swine flu has pigged in New England?"...

Why do I frequently get email replies from people who haven't known of me until I emailed them, yet they manage to spell my name wrong in their reply? It's like, you've only encountered my name once, and that was in written form, spelled correctly, from m...

We tried Dorado last night. I got the portabello tacos and Molly got the portabello cemita. The portabellos were perfectly grilled, the avocados and tomatoes nice and fresh, and the sauces totally had crack in them. The chips are also fabulous, and they h...

Over on Ohdeedoh, which I usually like (aside from some of the classism and the overgendering of children that usually pops up on shopping/decorating blogs), there's a post about how someone threw their kids a "teepee party," complete with a cake decorate...