Hello out there, folks.

Just to let you all know that, after afew weeks of thinking this through, I've made my final decidion. I've decided to leave UniversalHub for the following reasons:

Hey, folks:

It's the holiday time again, and I figured I'd share my favorite recipe with you all for anyone who'e into baking. If others are willing to put in their favorite recipes for the holidays, no matter what it may be, you're more than welcome. Here goes:

Chocolate Pound Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze:

Cake:

2 cups all-purpose white flour
2 cups of sugar
2 sticks of unsalted butter (I always melt the butter first)
3 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder

Hey folks! Once again, I've decided to break from blogging about Boston affairs, and blog about other things. Although I've written other diaries in the past about my alltime favorite film, West Side Story, here is my own synopsis of it. Here goes:

Today, I'm taking a break from posting about Boston's politics to blog in something different. Here goes:

Much has been noted, and said about the force(s) of nature kicking back when people have shown little to no respect for it.

Nature, I believe, is a very strange, if not intense and exciting phenomenom that frequently works in various, if quirky ways. Nature can be beautiful, yet ugly. It can be gentle and yet harsh. Nature can also be calm, and yet it can also be tempestous, wreaking much havoc and destruction towards anything and/or everything in its path.

Boston's one of the brainiest cities in the United States, and in the world, and only blogs such as this can be and are produced, that're totally intolerant of different styles of posting, and people who disagree with them. A lot of you transplanted midwesterners on here are so anxious to blend in and act like so-called "true" Bostonians/Bay Staters, that you come off as being exactly what you are---outsiders! It's no wonder that a lot of the true local yokels around here really can't stand you! Sometimes, I wish you'd go back to the midwest, where ya came from--and stay there!!

Recently, at the Coolidge Theatre, I saw Michael Moore's new documentary film, SiCKO.

As someone who's been a bicycling enthusiast since childhood, I now own two bicycles: A ten year old 21-speed mountain bike for biking around town to do errands, go on appointments, etc around the city, and a 5 year old 27-speed Fuji Touring bicycle, which is used exclusively for long-distance rides out in the country. My long-distance country bike rides are mainly done on the weekends, in the good weather, but, on occasion, I do them on weekeday mornings, too.

Speaking of calculated risks, assuming that it's true that most people are decent, "normal" and honest, why is it that hitchhiking, or even picking up a hitchhiker, is as risky as it is? Why do people now hitchhike so seldomly, if at all these days?

I remember the Blizzard of '78 as if it were yesterday. I was then attending Boston University's (now-defunct) Program in Artisanry, continuing on with my studies in metalsmithing, which, as everyone here knows, I love, and living downtown in a Boston University Dormitory. Since I was living downtown, I didn't have to worry about getting around or being able to get my schoolwork done when the Blizzard of '78 hit.

Although mandated school busing here in Boston was implemented for a reason, I firmly believe that, for a number of reasons, it did noit work out the way it was intended.

It's a known fact that, for many years prior to mandated school busing, the all-white Boston School Committee had violated the Racial Imbalance Law in the most mean-spirited, egregious fashion, deliberately keeping de facto segregation of the Boston Public Schools intact.

As a new member of this blog, how do I go about just simply emphasizing and/or boldfacing just one particular word without emphasizing or boldfacing every word in the sentence or whatever? I have decided against capitalizing the letters of a word or words that I wish to emphasize in my posts, because it looks too much like shouting over the internet, and it more than likely puts a lot of people off. Would love some advice on how to go about it. Any thoughts or suggestions?