Article in the NYT about Boston

[ams16]

Did anyone else find it weird? It sort of sounds like the Boston I know and love, but at the same time, it's just.... off.

AMERICAN JOURNEYS | BOSTON
A Science Lover’s Kind of Town

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[in_parentheses]

Hey, I was just looking at that skeleton on Wednesday! I went there with my 6th graders on a field trip. :)

They needed an angle, so they made it all about teh science. Which is some of Boston (or, you know, Cambridge, which is what they mostly meant when they said "Boston"), but not all of it, so that maybe explains why it sounded off.

There's one part that's spot-on, though:

“When you go in [to Mary Chung],” he said, “you can just tell it’s packed with nerds.”

[martini_corona]

Someone should rewrite the lyrics to Mary Mac to be about MIT nerds.