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Brian McGrory must not get paid enough

By adamg - 4/14/06 - 10:27 am

In addition to his Globe duties, it seems like he's taken a second job in the P.R. department of LimoLiner:

At 11:08 a.m., we pulled up to the side of the Hilton Hotel in midtown New York. It all seemed so abrupt I almost wasn't ready to get off. The kind attendant bade me farewell with a chocolate coin, the letters ''LL" imprinted on the wrapper. I'm sorry, but how great is that?

No, pretend I didn't just say that. There's nothing worse than accusing a professional journalist of being on the take. Just ask that New York Post gossip columnist. Slow news days happen. It was probably just that there was absolutely nothing else happening in Boston that might warrant coverage by a metro columnist. Yeah, that's it, right? No wonder McGrory can't wait to get out of town. On the wonderful LimoLiner.

Brian McGrory says: Leave the writing to us!

Snakes on a Bus!

Brian McGrory slips off the wagon

By adamg - 4/11/06 - 7:25 pm

Dear Easter Bunny,

I realize you might be hard at work right now. God knows, you work harder than just about anyone I know, except maybe John Silber's charm school coach.

Learning to appreciate Brian McGrory's wide-eyed wonder

By adamg - 1/13/06 - 10:07 am

Wow! Some people get up earlier than Brian McGrory does! They even go jogging!

I wonder if he'd be stunned that I also write a column for the Globe.

Brian McGrory, moderate Republican?

By adamg - 12/20/05 - 8:51 pm

John concludes that's what McGrory is after reading his Romney piece today:

... Brian is a fervent believer in the myth of the rampant state legislature which must be restrained by some heroic martyr of a moderate republican.

Ooh, Brian gets tough

By adamg - 11/22/05 - 3:53 pm

Brian McGrory is spitting fire today, with a column that excoriates Tom Menino for not doing enough about rising rates of violent crime.

I don't normally advocate violence

By adamg - 11/2/05 - 10:48 am

But could somebody get Eileen McNamara to pile up about 500 copies of her column today and use them to slap Brian McGrory about the head to show him what a metro columnist at New England's largest newspaper should be writing about instead of sucking his thumb over Theo Epstein?

The columnist's cherry-flavored thumb

By adamg - 10/28/05 - 10:45 am

When you pick up the Globe, you just never know which Brian McGrory you're going to get. The tough crusader who arranges mayoral debates and manages to actually drive to JP to report stories or the thumb-sucking space waster who makes you long for the intellectual stimulation of the letters to the editor in Metro.

Campaign notes

By adamg - 10/21/05 - 1:40 pm

For the second day in a row, Brian McGrory actually gets off his tuchus and does some real reporting, this time to check out Maura Hennigan's assertion that the path around Jamaica Pond is a rubble-strewn minefield. McGrory discovers it's not.

Menino, Hennigan, McGrory

By adamg - 10/20/05 - 9:14 am

Article and audio clips of the McGrory-sponsored debate.

John calls it Yawnfest 2005.

The Unchosen One: I gotta tell ya, I really don't like either of these candidates. At all. Period.

Who shot at Michael Flaherty?

By adamg - 10/19/05 - 12:56 pm

Which is worse? That somebody tried to kill the city-council president last night or that somebody took a potshot at his SUV just for the hell of it?

The Unchosen One: This was probably not an assassination attempt, but doesn't that make it scarier?

Globe a little slow on the local uptake?

By adamg - 10/11/05 - 10:31 am

Yesterday's Globe had a wild-west story out of Mattapan in which patrons at the BPL branch there had to duck when a bullet came flying through a window. As the story notes:

The shooting was first reported in the Dorchester Reporter.

Yes, it was - last week (read the Reporter account).

My love/hate relationship with Brian McGrory

By adamg - 9/30/05 - 2:23 pm

When the Globe made Brian McGrory one of its metro columnists and his very first column was about dog walkers on the Commonwealth Avenue mall, I *almost* wished they'd given the Old Thumbucking Plagiarist another chance.

The Globe's newest sports writer

By adamg - 8/9/05 - 1:00 pm

Brian McGrory once again disappoints Johnny with today's paean to Terry Francona:

... What is going on here? Do Dan Shaughnessy or Bob Ryan take breaks to write about eminent domain, gang violence, terrorism or gay marriage on the sports page?

Shockingly, McGrory plants his lips squarely on Tito's ass cheeks. ...

Wake him up when Brian McGrory's done

By adamg - 8/6/05 - 8:53 pm

Not Actually John Bagley reads McGrory's paean to his former summer cottage and wonders:

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