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Month: May 2017

  • Barenaked Ladies Concert 5/15/2017 (The BNL Post)

    BNL gave a great, sort of manic concert. Usually, they’ll giggle slyly at their own jokes. This time around they were snorting and convulsed with their own jokes. Ed was greatly amused with his own description of Jim eating salmon by hand in his underwear. There was also a frankly alarming story of how Ed…

  • Barenaked Ladies Concert 5/15/2017 (Mike Evin Post)

    The opener for BNL was supposed to have been The Persuasions: the acappella group BNL just collaborated with on a CD. That’s why I was surprised to see Mike Evin post this on Facebook a few days before the concert: I heard Mike Evin before on one of the BNL cruises. I remembered how he…

  • Barenaked Ladies Concert 5/15/2017 (Pixies Post)

    We went to the Peabody Opera House to see Barenaked Ladies, but while we were there we had other musical experiences. The first of those involves Pixies. We were waiting by the Peabody box office because Gary now likes to arrive at movies and concerts hours early, as if he’s going to have to go…

  • Climate March / TrumpCare Protest

    It’s been a busy week for the resistance, comrades! We braved the weather, and the thunderstorms let up for the Climate March. This is the type of thing that made the ancient believe in Gods. “We are marching for you, Earth Mother, have pity on us for the two-hour window of our March.” And lo,…

  • Wildlife 2017

    I don’t think Gary’s ever had a hobby that lasted over a year, but feeding the animals seems to have stuck. There are two foxes visiting three times a night now: the unimaginatively named Foxy Fox… and the more imaginatively named Vincent Fox: (If you watch carefully it will become obvious that he isn’t named…