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Check out the end of this Herald article which tells how Mayor Menino and his friends joked about the e-mail scandal at a Councilor Tobin event last night. Note: the mayor was skipping an East Boston event to attend this toast.

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The mayor turned down the East Boston event and instead attended a ritzy gala on Newbury Street, where he was given an achievement award. Later that night he went to a 40th birthday party fund-raiser for Councilor John Tobin at a West Roxbury Elks Club.

Ayanna Pressley spammed me at the beginning of her campaign. I complained. She ignored me. I probably would have voted for her if she hadn't spammed me OR she had acknowledged my complaint.

More on my blog at http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/....

I am a company financial planner and I provide the resources for companies to investigate the qualities of a reverse merger with a corporate shell and grow and expand by receiving investment funding through the USA capital markets.

Serena Williams, the defending US Open champion, lost her semifinal match to Kim Clijsters in the most shocking and improbable manner last night, stunning the crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The framing of United States soldiers; The racial attacks towards a Latina Candidate; The refusal to shovel snow off a Boston City sidewalk; The stealing of Massachusetts tax paying cold hard cash of $1000, caught on FBI video camera along with Diane Wilkerson stealing $25.000.00 accepting bribes.

UPDATED to reflect that the indecent involved a pedestrian, not a motor vehicle as I first thought.

The 9:30pm outbound Kingston commuter rail struck a man near the Essex Street crossing in Whitman Thursday night; the first emergency call was received at 10:06 pm, according to chatter heard on a police scanner. I cannot confirm whether or not that this incident was fatal.

Curiously, I can't find one mention of this in local media - not even the local South Shore papers. I guess T accidents after daylight hours don't give good enough photo ops to make the news.

From The Warren Residential Group Blog http://www.warrenre.com/blog

Many of my clients ask my why I think Boston has held up so well compared to other large markets such as parts of California, Florida and Nevada. I always tell them that the main reason is the small amount of new supply being brought to market.

In no particular order, things I've found interesting on my cruise through the interwebs today:

Nobody will ever accuse me of not taking sports seriously enough. In fact, the property damage my friends and I may or may not have caused after Boston College lost the 2007 NCAA hockey national championship game is the stuff of legend, and I vividly remember crying myself to sleep as a 15-year-old when the Red Sox were knocked out of the ALCS in 2003.

Hello out there in UniversalHub land. I have determined that what the internet lacks most of all is a personal blog about some schlub's experiences in and around [insert major city here]. I have decided to rectify that problem my moving my ramblings over here.

I will be blogging about Boston politics, the T, local music, dining, bars, sports, and life from the perspective of a 21-year-old Revere native now living in an apartment in Chestnut Hill, where I will be a senior this fall at Boston College.

Just wanted to know, how many other people have almost been killed by one of these casino bus companys. all i know if you call the casinos they say there is nothing they can do,the bus company has nothing to do with the casinos even when there name is all over the bus.Mohegan Sun you suck....

So if Ortiz and Ramirez were doping, was the curse really reversed? Don't think so.

MBTA Transit Police threaten to arrest me for distributing flyers to reporters at Google Transit press conference

Ride the T with Google Maps? Sure, if you don't mind ending up in the wrong place!

There are "significant" delays on the Newbury/Rockport lines due to a tree that has fallen on the tracks.

Signal problems at Orient Heights causing 5-10 minute delays on the blue line.