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To quote the Whos to Horton: "We are here we are here we are HERE!"

(Whos? More than one who, not whose. Is that right?)

Thanks Adam, for making West of 495 an official neighborhood. We like to think of ourselves as the Universal Hub Cul-de-Sac.

Wow, all this time I've had a 'blog' and didn't even know it.
(I don't live in Dedham anymore but Canton doesn't show up in Neighborhoods)

The newly energized Boston Celtics play the Shaq-less Fakers at home tonight. A win would put them 2 games above .500.

Antoine seems to be the Boston sports media darling du jour, in a city that has seen enough success to cut him some slack.

If you have a Yahoo account, you can go to their main page and download a coupon for a free ice cream, today, March 2, only. It's to celebrate their 10th birthday.

What I learned by doing this, is that there's a Dunkin Donuts-Baskin Robbins combo shop in Harvard off the 111 exit, something I didn't know. Mostly because I stopped going that way when we moved from Boxborough to Leominster 11 or so years ago.

Woo hoo! Free snacks!

(And I was going to pick Religion for an appropriate topic group because we buy stuff at DD religiously...)

Okay, so why is it that if I want to post, there's no neighborhood for those of us who don't live in "Boston", unless we happen to be in Billerica. I mean, no offense to them, but I've been talking about Leominster on the web since 1996. Does that count for nothing?

Also, Leominster is home to the National Plastics Museum, which has to be worth SOMETHING.

Adam old buddy old pal, can we get a "West of 495" or "Worcester County" neighborhood? Pretty please?

I just got a flyer thing about a meeting that looked roughly as follows:

TITLE (novelty font #1)

BLURB (novelty font #2)

BLURB (novelty font #3)

DATE AND TIME (novelty font #4)

PEOPLE TO CONTACT (novelty font #5)

Oh, I should also mention that each one of these fonts was a different color. That's not quite accurate actually. The title had each letter in a different color.

Headline: For a select few, tradition tops gender

The average percentage of women elected to city and town councils and boards of selectmen and aldermen in Massachusetts dropped from 20 percent in 2003 to 17 percent in 2004, said Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass-Boston.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/...

From a UMB press release:

“Our lab is very interested in measuring large-scale gene expression in stem cells, either adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells,” said Roderick Jensen, the Alton Brann Distinguished Professor of Physics, Biology, and Mathematics.

Full Story:

http://www.umb.edu/news/2005news/releases/february...

Yet Another Thing to Try to Figure Out

Tommorrow will be 10 days since the Wicked Good Forum was deemed to be a "cesspool where the morally bankrupt can bellow"...

...got a note from Ken today asking if I had heard anything.

I miss the forum, I miss the people, I don`t miss the strife that came with the Politics, Gay Marriage and War forums.

Antoine Walker was reaquired by the Boston Celtics from the Atlanta Hawks just before the trade deadline for Gary Payton and a bag of rocks. Meanwhile Jiri Welsh was traded to Cleveland for a future draft pick.

Will this improve the Celtics playoff prospects?

Is Marcus Banks ready to be a full time NBA point guard?

Is Danny Ainge insane?

Stay tuned...

well, damned if i know, but i did see all but one of the nominees monday night at the coolidge, plus last years winner.

Cheerleader A documentary about a jr cheerleading squad (ages seemd to be around 8-12 or so) working towards a bid at the national championships in florida. It examined the role of cheerleading through the years, as well as looking at how cheerleading affects the lives of these young girls. I was more than a little disturbed to see a nine year old flash her *spakies* (those things that cover cheerleaders undies) as part of a cheer, not to mention some of the other more *lavicious* moves. Not to sound like a neo-puritan, but arent we teaching young girls to be overtly sexual a little too early? It seemed a bit gross and disturbing. I find it especially ironic that this kind of stuff (along with those whacked out little miss beauty pageants) happen in those *red states*, where they get all up in a tizy about janet jacksons bare breast while teaching their toddlers to shake their fannies at adult male judges while wearing make-up and come hither looks. i'm just sayin. It was definately interesting.