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This photo is a good reason to be glad we didn't get hit with a snowpocalypse today.
Cynthia Donovan took video of Curious George arriving at the Children's Museum yesterday - and a photo of an unsettling chicken.
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A couple weeks back, Molly noticed an unusual New England-themed cake at the Stop & Shop on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Cake Wrecks posted her photo today. You'll have to scroll a bit for it, but you'll know it when you see it.
I assume that's what the error message on the pay toilet outside the BPL main branch in Copley Square means. But then, I'm a Web geek, so I would think that. Fortunately, both toilets and WiFi await inside the building.
Mike Ball appreciated the instant and brief artwork this morning created by his paper guy tossing his morning papers onto a snowy sidewalk.
William McAdoo reports from the Boston Burger Bash - with photos, videos and, of course, the name of the winning chef.
Penny Cherubino photographs a waiting dog outside Salumeria Italiana in the North End.
The sky was clear over Leominster Saturday night, so Jody LaFerriere could shoot the full moon, or wolf moon, the largest of the year.
If you look up while you walk around downtown, you start noticing all these buildings adorned with caduceuses, such as 12 Post Office Square, above. Was fin-de-siecle Boston full of doctor's offices and hospitals? No, it turns out that Mercury, the Roman god whose staff ultimately led to MGH was also the protector of merchants and travel, and so 19th-century Boston traders felt his two-snaked staff the perfect adornment for their offices. The Boston Flour and Grain Exchange pairs a caduceus with Neptune's trident, from back in the days when Boston was a major seaport.
Sam Baltrusis has a write-up and photos from her Hasty Pudding visit today.
It's a wonder Dan Tobin was able to keep his hands from shaking long enough to take this photo.
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On Sunday, the Globe Magazine posited that Bostonians who object to City Hall, the JFK Building and that mental-health building with the staircases to nowhere are simply stupid, plebian dunderheads unable to grasp the magnificence and brilliance of these 1960s and 1970s edifices and their role in restoring Boston's luster after decades of decline. Or as writer Sarah Schweitzer (of course), put it: Read more
William McAdoo posts photos. It all looks so civilized.
Iceburns takes a picture worth a thousand words - a Zakim image just crying out for a story to go with it.
Copyright Iceburns. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
Mike Mennono doesn't think so, but considers Dejan Djordjevic's exhibit of photos taken on MBTA trains:
I would never question Dejan's good intentions, and a few of his portraits here are absolutely exquisite, but the show would actually have benefited from at least a cursory acknowledgment of the obvious element of voyeurism. ...
Ed note: Mennonno's post has one photo, not from the exhibit, that you might not want to have on screen when your HR person comes by for a chat.
Channel 25 reports a Rockland woman plans to sell a potato chip with a likeness of the Virgin Mary on eBay.
Ed. note: Looks more like a map of New Hampshire that somebody squashed to me, but I suppose there's not much of a market for something like that. Hmm, may not be much of a market for salty mothers of God, either, based on this item.
Earlier:
Jesus on a steam iron.
Mother Teresa on a cutting board.
Maybe not by itself, but David Bernstein ponders if Wallace might have some issues this fall if you combine Browniemania with hostility toward Wallace over gay marriage and from elephant-memory Tom Menino over Wallace's decision to back Flaherty for mayor. If, that is, Wallace even runs, Bernstein adds. Wallace currently has at least one opponent - Democrat Michael McGee, who so far hasn't seemed to express major policy differences, except for casino gambling. Like Wallace, he also supported Flaherty.
Paul Marotta gets up early and down to Revere Beach so you don't have to.
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