Category Archives: boston
Baseball photos
A couple of photos sent by my Uncle John. The first is of him and my grandfather presenting a Jimmy Fund check to Ted Williams. Taken next to the Red Sox dugout at Fenway right before a night game against the Yankees, September, 1954. The second picture was taken right after World War II. Nobody [...]
Snow! Weeee!
It seems like all I do any more is go back and forth between travelling or being sick at home. This week’s adventure brings me back to Boston for my Uncle Eddie’s funeral. The obituary says nothing about biker, hell-raiser, or fantastic storyteller, but I guess the paper has to maintain a certain air of [...]
A message to the Who Dat Nation
…from a lifelong member of the Red Sox Nation. There is something to be said for losing, and for doing it with style. My upbringing has made me a New Orleanian. I was raised on NOPS red beans & rice and McKenzie’s king cakes and Hubig’s pies. But genetically, I am undeniably a Bostonian, born [...]
Baseball season starts tonight
Everything up until now has been practice. It’s been an extended pre-season. Two things happen tonight: 1. Roger Clemens Judas Johnny Demon Damon returns to Fenway, wearing the pinstripes of shame. 2. I said before nobody could catch Wakefield’s knuckleball, and at the very last second, the Red Sox bought back Mirabelli from the Padres [...]
Damon, you broke my boy’s heart
He doesn’t know it yet, but when he wakes up he’s going to find that one of his favorite baseball players in the whole world just sold out to the Evil Empire. Yankees sign Johnny Damon We even bought your book, you dick.
Snow day!
We get a full-blown schools-closed snow day in Austin like once every two or three years. All it takes are enough icy bridges to shut down the freeways. So I would have told the biggest Red Sox geek in the house about Mirabelli when he woke up this morning, but he’s already up at the [...]
But who will catch for Wakefield?
The Red Sox have traded Doug Mirabelli to the Padres for yet another power hitter. Not that I’m a big fan of Dougy. He can’t hit, for one thing. And for another, he was the only player who was embarrassingly uncomfortable around the Queer Eye guys during their Red Sox episode last year. And I [...]
Burma Addendum
Turns out the Mission of Burma profile on Myspace is actually being run by Roger Miller himself, and Clint Conley also has a profile there. I sent Clint an email the other day, since he and I have some fairly important things in common…he had his own struggles with alcohol and other substances back in [...]
Boston
Down by the river, down by the banks of the river Charles That’s where you’ll find me, along with lovers, fuggers, and thieves Well I love that dirty water, ooh, Boston you’re my home Some classic rock station was playing the Standells’ “Dirty Water” when we were driving back into town from dinner in Framingham [...]
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