A couple days ago, the Boston Direct Action Project staged a protest at the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Roslindale, dumping fake blood all over the place and having some camo-clad and "Iraqi" protesters slump to the ground in uncomfortable positions with fake bullet holes in their heads.

And it meets under the Rte. 2 signs at Charlesgate.

You just know this building will be torn down and replaced by a luxury condo project named something like The Residences at Gillette Point.

Kate tries to take photos of a T bus only to be told she's not allowed, at least not without a permit.

... What do you mean I'm not allowed? To take a picture... of a bus? It's not like buses are new inventions or that varied in their construction. Preventing me from photographing a bus is like telling me I can't photograph a public toilet... Everyone knows what one looks like and taking pictures of it isn't really going to help me decide where to plant a bomb in one. ...

Very friendly graffiti at the Longwood T stop

Usually, when a delivery truck gets really dirty/grimy/salt-encrusted, you can count on somebody to write "WASH ME" in the muck. Ho, hum. This morning, Ramon photographed a truck with FREE TIBET in the grime, by Alewife.

There's no better place to watch the melting pot that Boston is becoming than River Street and Fairmount Avenue in Hyde Park (it's basically one street; River jags off by the municipal building).

Buy some black-pride t-shirts right down the block from an old Irish bar. Visit J&M (above) for an eclectic variety of figurines (and basics such as pots and pans). Hungry? Try some Dominican seafood at El Fogon (right next door to Melinda's Taqueria and across the street from the old-time Dotty's ice-cream parlor). And check out the small but growing number of galleries and gift shops:

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.

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