Remember this past fall when some Harvard/Yale parties got out of hand in Allston and Boston police arrested a bunch of Harvard boys? How come the Herald didn't run a blaring

HARVARD BOYS GONE WILD

headline on the front page? Could it be that Harvard men, just aren't as tittilating as Wellesley lesbians?

And speaking of that story, the photo that accompanies it makes me glad I'm not a news photographer. Imagine having to get down in the mud and ice, your face and lens right on the ground next to an emtpy malt-liquor bottle, as you wait for some unsuspecting student (hopefully, a lesbian) to walk by.

What is it with school bus drivers who run early? Jody reports that her son's driver drove right by them as they were heading down their driveway this morning:

... I screamed at him to run, and we took off up the street, where she was stopping to pick up this other little girl. I screamed "Hold the bus!" to this little girl, who was staring at us, and as we neared the back of the bus, with me staring into the side rear-view mirror, the bus driver drove away from us. Now at least a dozen kids on the bus saw us running, either down the driveway (as I waved my arms) or as we trailed the bus. Did none of them say anything? Or did the she-devil bus driver ignore them all? ...

Note: My bus-driver horror story

An editor at the Harvard Crimson complains about Boston drivers:

Congratulations, folks: you frighten me.

And congratulations on your impending Harvard degree. Can we assume you'll be going back to New York?

Sure, you can get a "slice" of pizza in Boston, but true Bostonians know it also comes by the "piece" (sometimes at places that also sell spuckies). Piece of Pizza recently opened on Hyde Park Avenue in Cleary Square; I've yet to try it because our pizza hearts belong to DeNo's, which, yes, sells pizza by the "slice." Note the ironic "free" delivery. Still, give him credit - he opened it a few doors down from a Papa Gino's and across the street from a Subway.

At the Fairmount commuter-rail stop in Hyde Park.

DashHouse posts a photo from last night's reenactment of the Boston Massacre (see the Redcoats marching to the scene).

Last weekend, Jenn found herself stuck in West Roxbury with a flat real tire, a flat fake tire doughnut and a bent rim (caused by driving on the flat for too long). She has to leave the car at a West Roxbury garage, then return from the South Shore that Monday to pick it up:

... Now I ask you...have you ever tried to get from the South Shore to West Roxbury with no vehicle, during Monday morning rush hour, and a threat of a snow storm? It's not easy. Two taxis, two subways, and at least two $20 bills were involved. ...

Ned works a table at Brookline ScienceFest, showing off a photo exploration game he wrote and showing kids how to fold business cards into cubes:

... Kids really seemed to like Nat's World. I had shown it last year at the ScienceFest, and some kids came up because they remembered it from last year. If people seemed reluctant to move around in the virtual world, I could ask what neighborhood they lived in, and navigate them there (if it happened to be one of the few I had put into the game). A few people found themselves in the game, just because they happened to be on the street when I was taking pictures! ...

Blog Log in the Globe City Weekly got held for space reasons, alas. Hopefully it makes its triumphant return next week.

You'd think if the folks at the Back Bay Virgin Megastore didn't know how to spell the name of the state they're in, they could just walk outside and look at a street sign.

The New York Public Library has posted zillions of images in its NYPLDigitalGallery. Among them: 944 images of Boston, from old prints to photographs (like, say, one of the Custom House before they stuck a tower on it). Click on the link and you'll get the Boston images, along with a search box for other queries (such as, oh, Jamaica Plain or Harvard).

Via PlasticBoy.

The BPL, meanwhile, has posted short movies of Boston between 1901 and 1906, including one that shows some Boston things just never change - even back then, crazy people ran into Dorchester Bay from L Street in the middle of winter.

Sign in the window of John F. Kennedy TV repair place on South Street, Roslindale Square. It's right around the corner from Wapo Taco, where they must have finally gotten tired of people asking them if they sold subs (they also have a sign advising "No Pizza!"):

Andrew exclaims God damn potholes, and then explains why Mola Shell in Waltham sucks and Ellison Park Sunoco rules.

John snaps photos of an old White Rock sign on Columbus Avenue and an old Berwick Whoopee Pie ad painted on the side of a building in Dudley Square.

Sharon complains about plans for the new mega-uber-giganto Natick Mall complex:

Here in the "Golden Triangle" west of Boston, the proposed Natick Mall expansion is planned as a more-of-the-same-old enclosed shopping mall experience, sited in a particularly pedestrian unappealing way surrounded, of course, by a vast sea of asphalt. Even existing retailers in the space are complaining that the plan to build a separate addition is pedestrian-hostile, offering a potentially dangerous and certainly off-putting way of getting from the new to old shopping areas.

Elsewhere in America, though, the big trend is away from enclosed malls in favor of so-called "lifestyle centers" – an open-air shopping experience that tries to create a town-square-like "sense of place" and ambiance that encourages strolling and lingering. ...

Hmm, you mean just like, oh, Shoppers World in Framingham, circa 1980? Before they turned it into a giant parking lot surrounded by big ugly concrete boxes with those stupid green faux canopy things that look more like guard towers at a maximum-security prison (whose motto should be "Shop or Die!")?

David loves that Obain Attouoman's students secured his right to stay in the U.S.:

... It's an important lesson: even teenagers have the power to change the world if they set their mind to it. It's something I hope I can impart on those 65 souls who sit in my class every day, that what they believe and do matters, that they can have impact, that they can make a difference. ... The experience of fighting for one's beliefs, fighting for a member of one's community, and succeeding in making the world a better place is the most important sort of education a young person could hope to receive.

Marilora sighs over the Herald's inability to get basic East Boston geography right even as it supplies such detailed information as the fact that an alleged victim in a knife fight there suffered "a slice across the left nipple."

Is Somerville being overrun by feral cats? Allycat AdvoCats is a group that traps feral cats, neuters them, then releases them back where they came from - where people can keep feeding them:

Through networking with these caregivers we have subsequently identified over 200 feral cats in need of neutering. This number is expected to grow with the inevitable rounds of kitten births.

Via Somerville Happenings.

Jennifer reports she's crossed over to the Boston side - she now uses her middle finger as a standard signalling device in rotaries:

... I gave the finger this morning to some innocent minivan driver, and I don't know why. I think it's because I suspected they were going to do something out of line. Or maybe because their car was taupe. ...