The Sad Car of VFW Parkway has gone to the big junkyard in the sky.

Tammy must have one of those old Amphibicars. How else to explain how she survived flooding and a Florida-style sinkhole on the West Roxbury Parkway near where it meets the VFW Parkway after today's storm?

A school bus carrying students from the West Roxbury Education Complex crashed into another WREC bus around 2 this afternoon, ParkwayBoston.com reports (with photos). At least four students taken away in ambulances.

Looks like self-appointed Protector of Public Virtue Bob Joyce and a few of his friends will actually be picketing Gary's Liquors on the VFW Parkway tomorrow to protest Gary's refusal to stop offering copies of the Phoenix.

They're scheduled to be there between 1 and 5:30 - should you find yourself in sudden need of some beer or wine and a chuckle or two. I spoke briefly to Gary today; he says Bob has been great for business, because some people have gone out of their way to start patronizing his store. Directions.

And this despite the fact the Phoenix is back in boxes along Centre Street again.

Earlier:
The hypocrisy of West Roxbury's morals squad.

UPDATE: The Globe says it was careless disposal of a cigarette on the fourth floor, not the barbecue on the second floor.

Channel 4 reports a 3-alarm blaze at an apartment building on the northbound side of the VFW Parkway in West Roxbury may have started when a resident decided to fire up his grill on his balcony around 3:30 p.m on one of the windiest days of the year.

The fire damaged the relatively new Marshview Place at 1522 VFW Parkway, next to the Jennifer Convertible store, and caused major traffic tie-ups when State and Boston police blocked the parkway in both directions to give fire crews easier access to the building.

Lyss reports that despite all the police cars and police, idiot Massholes kept trying to get onto the parkway at Bridge Street anyway:

... What did they not understand about the police cars and the patient officer directing traffic? (Those of us going straight on Rte. 109 were supposed to follow the traffic light.) The officer saw that the idiots were totally screwing up the traffic pattern by their insistence that they HAD to get on Rte. 1 South, that he seemed to start directing them to a sort of waiting area near the cruisers. ...

There's probably an interesting story behind the wreck that's sat for years in somebody's driveway on the VFW Parkway in Roslindale (northbound, between the West Roxbury Parkway and the Hebrew center). But in the meantime, Alyssa wonders what it does to property values as she drives past on the way to work.

To get this, you need to know that there's a large sign on the VFW Parkway for Havey Beach, even though Havey Beach hasn't been open since, oh, the 1950s.

I'm in the checkout line at the Home Depot (buying a replacement sliding screen door for our back porch). The two guys ahead of me have obviously just bought a house, since they're buying a collection of things you would only buy if you just bought a house - a hose, various pruning implements, a couple of plants, a hammer, etc., etc. After they pay, one asks the 20-something cashier (in a charming British accent): "Are there any swimming beaches around here?" She looks at him like he's suddenly grown a second head. An older cashier overhears him and says "There's the ocean. But around here? Only the murky Charles."

They leave, and as they do, she laughs, "Yeah, there's Hahvey's Beach." I say oh, so brightly "Yep, and that's been closed for, what, 50 years?" She answers: "No, Hahvey's Beach. Haven't you ever seen the movie? Hahvey? The rabbit? It's invisible." And she laughs even harder.

Jessica Smith reports that the giant yellow funnel destroyer-of-worlds Transformer bot (or whatever the hell it is) that had been sitting on the road to Millennium Park is now at the VFW Parkway and LaGrange Street:

The VFW Parkway is looking the worst I've seen it in the past few weeks. ...

Hang on, Westie: Allegedly, the interminable MWRA sewer project will be finished in 2008.

Charles Glassberg flashes his lights:

Just a reminder to you Boston-area drivers that the traps at the VFW Parkway/West Roxbury Parkway rotary and by the Putterham Golf Course are still in full effect. ...

Ben Ostrander takes a breather from complaining about all the changes on Beacon Street in Brookline (they're making it near impossible for him to get to Anna's Taqueria) to ask:

I would like to know which stretch of contiguous, straight road has the most names in Boston.

I'll put my money on the Route Formerly Known as 1 from the Fenway to 128: Riverway, Jamaicaway, Arborway, Centre Street, VFW Parkway and Providence Highway.