For Mother’s Day, Charlotte and I drove up to Maine to spend the afternoon with my mother (Bridget was not feeling well and begged off). As we left Massachusetts, it was a very pleasant and sunny, if somewhat breezy, morning, but by the time we reached Portsmouth the skies were already overcast. As we reached Portland, scattered rain drops turned into a steadier drizzle, and at the well-known dividing line in Gray, where the coastal air gives way to the colder inland air, the rain was quite persistent.
Our plan for the day had been to take my mother to Freeport for lunch and a little shopping, but that seemed a lot less appealing that it had at home, so we stayed right where we were. Which is probably just as well when you watch the video clip I have for you. The clip comes from TV station WMTW, located in my hometown, and starts out as a quiet and peaceful scene of a rainy spring afternoon on one of the two-lane highways that take visitors to Freeport. It does not end that way.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
