Prudential Center

Anime kids do the Hub

Anime!

Joe Driscoll photographed some of the anime fans in town for this past weekend's anime conference at the Hynes (such as the folks above).

Bostonist also took photos and reports on the cognitive dissonance of living cartoon characters wandering around the Prudential Center mall.

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She sees weird people

Fabulously Out There is walking to work at the Pru this morning when she starts seeing weird people:

... Next, two men come toward dressed in bedsheets covered in fake blood.

At which point I an wondering....are they crusaders? It is Good Friday and we all know what the Catholics did back in the day. These two might be a bit much into it.

Then, suddenly, Wonder-freaking-Woman, just with different colors appears.

At this point I am doubting my sanity.

There were a few pirate as well....and....as I enter my office building, I see a dude walking around in what resembles a popcorn box (home made, think Halloween) that said "DUH" on it. ...

Hmm, sounds like a job for Anime Boston, which opens today at, tah dah, the Hynes.

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Ready in the Back Bay

Pru says: Go Sox!

The Pru tonight, as seen from Roslindale.

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Another beautiful sunrise this morning

Did you see it? No, neither did I. But David T. Daniels did:

... It lasted only minutes and then it was gone. ...

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Sunrise over the Pru

David T. Daniels gets up early so you don't have to to see the pretty colors.

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Gold standard

The Pru

The Prudential Center was lit up at sunset tonight. Interestingly, the Hancock wasn't, at least out in Roslindale, where I took this photo.

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When worlds collide

Bri just escaped from the Pru:

... [I was] watching the mass pandemonium as the main subway stop for the Anime convention discharged right into a line of 2000 people waiting in their Red Sox t-shirts to get books signed by David Ortiz. TV crews were trying to interview baseball fans without getting ninjas and catgirls in the shot. At one point, I realized I was standing in between a Power Ranger and Godzilla (Matthew Broderick movie version). ...

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Travis Barker at California Pizza Kitchen

SassyGirl reports sighting the Blink 182 drummer at the table next to her at the Prudential California Pizza Kitchen yesterday: Good with the autographs, cheap with the tip.

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Dead woman identified

BPDNews reports the police have found the identity of that woman whose body was found at the Prudential Center last month. Since it wasn't a homicide, they're not publicly identifying her.

Joe Dwinell at the Herald has some more:

... Some caring person out there connected the dots and helped close the book on the girl in a summer dress and floppy hat. ...

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