Russ Stein wishes the tall Metro hawker at Green Street would just go away:
... He's like seven feet tall and runs from one end of the station to the other shouting shit like, "Aw yeah, I've got your Metro!" and "It's a great day for a Metro!" while getting in the way of people trying to catch the train. I've also heard him muttering some ex-junkie Jesus bullshit when dodging him. ...
During the first quarter of tonight's radio broadcast of the Celtics game against the Houston Rockets,one of the Celtics players managed to fake out the referee to get a call to go his way. The referee who made this call was Violet Palmer, who happens to be a woman. Cedric Maxwell, the analyst / sidekick on the Celtics broadcast team, proclaimed "Get back in the kitchen!" when she made the call.
Or 123 Party! Channel 25 was doing an "expose" on dumpster diving (and next week, in part 2 of our exclusive investigative report: Homeless people sleeping in ATMs!). One of Fox 25's sources let the three neon-green dancer guys know and media-jamming hilarity ensued:
Dan Shaughnessy Watch compiles a list of terms the CHB uses over and over and over again, such as "Young Theo" and, oddly, "Grey Poupon" - and solicits your help:
What is your favorite Shankism?
Adam Reilly brings up the 1997 case in which Johnson was charged with holding a knife to his wife's throat (the charges were dropped when she refused to cooperate with prosecutors) and wonders why local reporters either ignored it or glossed over it in their stories on his death:
... Johnson was an amazing player, and he may have been a good man who just made a terrible mistake ten years ago. But pretending the events of that day never happened--or eliding them as "messy"--is awfully tough to justify.
Could somebody get the Globe sports department a map of Boston? An item today suggests nobody there knows the location of local institutions:
Harvard Stadium's new look helped hook a new tenant.
The Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse announced yesterday the team was moving its home from Boston University's Nickerson Field across the Charles River to Harvard Stadium for the 2007 season.
Why do so many sports reporters fill reams of paper complaining about how the media cover things? Isn't that complaining about yourself? And who wants to read that? Bruce Allen ponders Tony Massarotti's contribution to the ouevre, in which Massarotti wonders why Tom Brady's baby is getting more press attention than some divorce case that may or may not involve Bill Bellichick. Yes, it's terrible when the media does that, isn't it, Mr.
OK, this isn't Dan Shaughnessy Watch and it's not like I actually try to read his column any more, but man his column today, in which he takes a break from bashing Sox players so that he can luxuriate in Tom Brady's impending fatherhood, is just puerile. And you can all but hear Herr Shank cackling as he spends - at most - 15 minutes writing it. It ends:
Off the playing field, in 2007, nothing is out of bounds.
Oh, please.
Make Dan Shaughnessy retire and just use some software to create columns consisting entirely of random Shaughnessy phrases (such as "Theo and his minions").
Steve Garfield reads a Globe story about funny YouTube videos that doesn't link to a couple of the videos:
How many times do I have to blog about it, write to the editor, write to the article author, to get the Boston Globe to link to websites when they are the main topic of the story?
Brian McGrory turns in a tearjerker of a column today, in which he talks to a woman who watched her three brothers brutally murdered in 1997. Go read it - with a box of Kleenex. And then hope McGrory keeps it up.
Oh, don't you wish all of Harvard transplanted itself to New York! Alas, this is just 02138 the magazine, which the Dig reports feels can do a better job covering the Hahvahd types surrounded by 24-hour bagel shops. The Dig also posts excerpts from a fun internal memo about how to liven up the mag with more product placement and possibly even a line of 02138 onesies for future Crimson legacies.
The Globe followed up its pre-Valentine's opus on why young women shouldn't hook up, ever (sorry gals, the Globe says you just don't have enough testosterone) with a Valentine's Day opus on how men can win their snookums' hearts by sending them large bouquets at work - because their ladies like making those bitches in the office jealous.
The Dig's Media Farm carves up yesterday's Globe feature on how hooking up isn't emotionally healthy for young women - an article that consists of quotes from two young women who are not hooking up and an author with a new book on why young women shouldn't hook up, but no quotes at all from young women who are hooking up (and with a great throwaway line about how the better the sex is, the worse it is for young w
Interesting: CODE 99 IN PROGRESS AT 42 LANGDON STREET:
Boston Police officers from District 2 and the Boston Police Entry Team have responded to a Code 99 located at 42 Langdon Street in Roxbury. A Code 99 is defined as a special threat in this particular case involving the possibility of an armed barricaded suspect.
How come neither the Globe nor the Herald have anything on the alleged Warriors-like conclave of international graffiti taggers that they promised us would run riot through our streets and subways this weekend?
Did MBTA police scare all those punks away? Are our local papers just not staffed well on the weekends anymore? Or were the initial stories overblown?
I'm with John Keith: How the heck did Jewel get from the Green Line to South Station? Did she transfer to the Red Line at Park Street? Walk through downtown? Jump in a limo? Strap on a jetpack and blast off from the Common?
Does Boston have any reporters who know the city well enough to know people would be asking this?
In the Globe, Meredith Goldstein writes:
Soon, subway trains will be twice as littered: Russel Pergament, the man who gave us both the Tab papers and Boston Metro, will be launching a Metro competitor called Boston Now (not Boston NOW):
... Pergament is being bankrolled by Dagsbrun, an Icelandic conglomerate that operates that country's second-largest telecommunications company and its largest media company. Pergament says Dagsbrun wants to start free tabloids in eight to 10 US cities within the next few years. ...
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