http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVKo-vqaeuo

MassCann/NORML Benefit event on Sat. April 19th, 2008.

Be there with us as we countdown to 420!

With Robby Roadsteamer, The AndWutz, Graveyard BBQ, Prospect Hill, Hektik and Aztech.

We'll also be celebrating my birthday and Tony and Former Jenn Spanks 420 Wedding Anniversary.

Robby Roadsteamer is on WBCN 104.1 FM (the #1 rock station in Boston) on Wed. and Friday Nights. He recently appeared on a telecast of the Boston Red Sox with Jerry Remy as well as the NESN dating show, Sox Appeal and VH-1's Best Week Ever.

1:35pm, sitting here on the PC reading my blogs for the afternoon and WHAM! huge flash of lightning followed immediately by the thunder. They weren't kidding this morning when they said we'd get some.

It is snowing like mad right now... but in the last 5 or so minutes haven't heard another rumble or seen another flash.

anyone else getting a dose of the thundersnow?

The Salem Gazette reports Salem police have arrested a man wanted in connection with 10 years' of graffiti on MBTA trains and on buildings across the North Shore and Boston.

Adam Michael Brant, a.k.a. SPEK, was arrested Wednesday on 16 counts of tagging and 16 counts of malicious destruction of property.

Some examples of his oeuvre.

My husband just called me. He works for a hospital in Boston (not Paul Levy's hospital) and as non-essential personnel he was released at 2:30pm today.

It is now 7:45pm. He just passed Kappy's on Rte 1 North.

Do the math -- 5.25 hours, yes.
But, even more disconcerting is -- Kappy's was closed.

"Think of the amount of booze they COULD BE SELLING to people like me who have spent 5 hours to go less than 10 miles. Think of the revenue! Think of the ... "

Doug was a little upset.

Good thing it only took me 2.5 hours to get home from Marblehead (to Haverhill) and I stopped at the wine store in Georgetown on the way home. Pinot Grigio Awaits.

Good luck to any and all still out there battling the elements. Be safe, not stupid.

Lynn has another blogger. Some of these blogs have been mentioned right here on Universal Hub, helping to put Lynn back on the map as a place to be. (Um. Yes. Lynn was once hopping mad with activity that wasn't all sin.) Downtown, in particular, is on the rise and full of potential, even in this current real estate market.

http://cityoflynn.upsidemedia.com

This poster invites all Lynners, wannabe Lynners and potential visitors to take a look, visit Lynn, and contribute comments.

The state wants $2 billion to fix its college system, but does that conceal a classist public/private school divide? A Salem Blog is not optimistic.

I'll be liveblogging the elections in Salem on A Salem Blog.

OK, so there's a new Boston.com. To me it looks flatter and more crowded, and it's harder to find stuff (though that will probably go away as I get used to it). Here's part of what they say:

The result will be a new Boston.com that is easier, fresher, and more useful than ever before. Among the changes that you will notice beginning today on the home page, article pages, and soon throughout the site:
* Our pages are wider, less cluttered, and designed with more breathing room.
* The type is easier to read, and directions around the site are more straightforward.

Anyone know what kind of user feedback they used to guide the new site?

North Shore Mall mostly reopens after the roof of a Gap store partially collapsed.

The state is building a 1-mile bypass road from Beverly to downtown Salem. Read about it and see the pictures in Salem's Last Road.