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Despite the grim situation at the Boston Globe, at least one reporter still knows how to have some fun.

Today's article on Breyers ice cream plant in Framingham closing ends with this sentence:

"Unilever's other brands include Ben & Jerry's, Dove, and Vaseline."


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Feathers flew at Christopher Columbus Park

Pillow fight!

Petercip managed to avoid getting feathers in his lens at today's waterfront pillow fight.

Steve Garfield posts photos from today's annual public pillow fight.

More photos.

Steve also posted a video, which sums it all up:


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Psycho dog owner on the loose in Teele Square

Rob Bellinger learns to be wary of the short guy with the short dog jogging around the square:

... I love dogs, and as the duo passed us on the sidewalk, the dog panting heavily, I swooped playfully torward toward the panting pup. The dog lunged and barked at me as she passed. Dan and I laughed, not having wanted to cause the dog any anxiety. Then we heard a human ranting angrily at us from behind.

"Did you just terrorize my dog?! You think that's funny?! I saw you laugh! You terrorized my dog!" ...


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Michael Gee is not happy with the NY Times

Michael Gee, the former Herald sportswriter, excoriates the NYT management over at his "homegame" blog.

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Police: Woman came well equipped for a knife fight at Roxbury bar

Boston Police report arresting a woman for slicing up another woman at a bar Friday night, reportedly in a dispute over a crack-cocaine purchase.

Gina Otey, 39, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and possession of crack cocaine following the 9:45 p.m. incident at the Shirley Bar, 187 Norfolk Ave. Police say she came to the bar with at least two knives, one of which she proceeded to use on the victim, who fled the bar with a stab wound to the hand before police arrived. Otey allegedly told officers she was forced to whip out the knife because she was short-changed during the purchase.

Innocent, etc.

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A Web site left to its own devices

MassDevice is the "online journal of the medical devices industry in Massachusetts and New England."

Via Tinker Ready.


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Bomb threat in Harvard Square?

No idea what's going on, but everyone's tweeting about it right now.


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DA: Teen killed minister's son ten days before he was murdered himself

Steven Odom, 13, died steps from his home because a gangbanger mistook him for a rival - ten days before his killer was himself gunned down, officials say.

"Though he will never go to trial, we're taking the unprecedented step of announcing that the evidence we've developed would support his conviction for Steven's homicide," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said this morning. "In short, if Charles Bunch, Jr., were alive today, we would be announcing his indictment for first-degree murder."

A second, still breathing, teen, was indicted yesterday in connection with Odom's death, which officials said was part of a beef with a rival gang. Conley said David Johnson, 19, owned the gun Bunch used to end Odom's life:

Shortly before 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 4, Steven Odom was walking home on Evans Street, a short distance from Thetford Ave, with two friends. Bunch drove past them and mistook one of those friends for a Thetford Avenue rival. Bunch called Johnson and told him he needed a gun to "handle" that rival.

As he had on previous occasions ending in violence against Thetford Avenue associates, Johnson provided Bunch with the murder weapon, a .357 Colt Python revolver with the knowledge and shared intent that it be used to kill a rival. Bunch returned to Evans Street, where saw Steven and his friend, and emptied the gun at them.

One of the bullets in that barrage struck Steven in the head, killing just feet from his home.

Conley said Bunch never expressed remorse even after learning he killed an innocent kid. He said Bunch's death remains unsolved but emphasized it had nothing to do with Odom:

The murder of Charles Bunch, Jr., doesn't alleviate the tragedy of Steven Odom's murder -- it compounds it.

Every life has meaning. Every life has value. But the lives of children are especially precious because they hold such promise and potential. I've met Rev. Odom and Ms. Odom many times. I've seen the kind of parents they are, the kind of family Steven had, and I'm certain he would have grown up to be a force for good in his community. We lost much more than a 13-year-old boy. We lost the good man he would have become.


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A world without the Globe?

Matthew Gray: I don't think I could handle a Boston where the Herald is the paper of record.

George Snell writes the Times shouldn't wait 30 days:

... The Globe still has more than 200 drivers, a printing plant, and enormous printing and circulation operations. Get rid of them. Move everything online. Firing reporters and editors - the staff of which is already bone-thin from previous lay-offs - to tantamount to suicide at this point. News is the only valuable commodity that the paper owns. It’s the only thing they can sell.

Restructure the editorial staff for a focus on news, businesss and sports from Boston, Massachusetts and New England - only. Get rid of feature writing (movie reviews, record reviews, etc.) and use freelancers. No more cooking, recipes, comics, etc. And then charge a nominal subscription fee for the content - temporary and call it the "Save the Globe" fund if they want. The fee is to shore up finances as they scramble to save the operation. Painful, but necessary.

Then start to experiment, restructure and try to make a go of it as an Internet only operation. Infuse blogging, social media, and user generated feedback. Build forums and wikis. The Globe needs to dive into the Web like no other newspaper before it. ...

Mats Tolander: Reactionary as I am I just plain like newspapers and I don’t particularly enjoy seeing them belly up:

... Frankly, I think Times Co. demand for $20 million in concessions from the unions sounds like a classic negotiating ploy, except that not even those concessions are likely to be enough for the newspaper to turn a profit this year, or the next, or the one after. Even when the economy turns around and newspaper advertising picks up again - even if only as a halo-effect - Globe employees may find themselves in a high-inflation economy where their employer still can't turn a profit. ...

The Outraged Liberal wonders what sort of losers are running the show down in New York, what with the news coming out only a few days after the Globe laid off and bought out a good chunk of the newsroom:

... I doubt the Globe will fold up shop in 30 days. I strongly suspect the unions will agree to concessions -- but only after they wring some promises of sacrifice from management too. The industry is indeed dying, but I can't see people voluntarily ending their jobs in this economic environment.

And we can only hope there is a white knight out there to scoop up the pride of New England journalism -- for a bargain price to be sure.

I'll start rooting around in my change bowl and penny collection. Anyone care to join me?

Dan Kennedy thinks the Globe will survive but wonders what's next:

... I don't think anyone believes this is a one-time deal. What will the next demand be?

Paul Levy, who knows something about saving failing organizations, writes Times management needs to be completely open with both employees and the public if it really wants to keep the Globe alive:

... If people believe it is their paper they will read it. Use the forces and opportunities of technology to make it happen so your excellent reporters and columnists can earn a salary and work on the really important functions envisioned in the Constitution.

Laurel Touby: The mother is eating the cubs for survival?

Constantine von Hoffman doesn't think blogs and citizen journalists could fill the gap:

... Just like any other craft, journalism consists of skills that must be learned. While a self-taught electrician may become as good as one apprenticed to someone else I do not want to provide my house for him to do his or her learning on. I do not know if I am a good journalist but I do know I am a damn site better that I was when I started out 24 years ago. I am better because I had people show me how to ask questions, how to listen to answers, how to spot a discrepency, how to verify facts and to face the facts even when it means the death of a really pretty hypothesis. Business and the government have entire departments devoted to nothing but spinning the facts, institutionally those departments are all living for the day when they only have to deal with "citizen journalists." ...


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