Apparently, Boston City Hall has run out of blank CDs

You may recall how, in a fit of pique, city lawyers last Friday dumped a shopping-cart worth of paper copies of e-mail on a desk and told reporters to have at it for a few minutes.

They've done it again. Harry Mattison reports the BRA pulled the same paper-copies shtik on him in response to a public-records request he made related to BRA dealings on the Charlesview relocation project. Because, you know, providing electronic copies of the electronic documents would make things too easy or something. He also reports the only reason the BRA didn't charge him $560.39 for the basic search and 20 cents per page for each copy was because City Councilor Mark Ciommo got involved, which is probably a good thing since the papers rise nine inches high (with photo of the stack).