Holy shit! IKEA in Somerville! Cheap, T-accessible Swedish goods! Apparently Good Times Emporium is going bye-bye to make room for it. I know, I know, "evil big box store" and all that jazz... but they're breaking ground this summer ( Read more... )

So I haven't been able to update or really do much of anything computer-related since Thanksgiving, because my laptop is broken yet again. I am in fact typing this post on the super spiffy PS3 that Alex and I acquired this past weekend. Since it takes forever to type anything, it isn't great for email writing, but works well for general browsing. ( Read more... )

Who's getting HD? Me! I'll finally be putting to use that beautiful idiotbox I bought back in August. Admittedly, the fact that House, MD is broadcast in HD played a large role in convincing me to get it. But I also looked at my TV up close the other day and realized how very fuzzy regular service is on a screen that size. When I watch Hugh Laurie ( Read more... )

I'm a prisoner in my own neighborhood! And we haven't even won the game yet...

Any artist can tell you that his finished creations don't always equal the sum total of his sweat and blood. Sometimes people put a lot of effort into something that ends up being meaningless, irrelevant, or simly not the manifestation of the creator's original idea. Such is the nature of art. But this is not art. This is what happens when a person ( Read more... )

So I just got out of my drawing class (early), and get this: they give us our supplies. The drawing pad, the charcoal, the erasers, everything. I emailed my professor last night asking what I should bring, since I had my old Pratt drawing board brought down from home just for the class, and he said to just show up. What kind of magical charity art ( Read more... )

Hey STA alums, remember Nick Campolo? Did you ever wish you could make him dance? Well, now you can. And even if you didn't go to STA, you can still make him dance... maybe. I'm a big fan of the dances on letters Q and Y, personally. I actually bumped into him on the T a few months back. I think he recently graduated from Emerson. Anyhow, enjoy.

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Why is my bathroom flooded? Why is there brown-yellow water in my bathtub? Why can't I take my shower now, hmm? Why did the maintenance guys leave without fixing anything? Why is no one cleaning this up? Who is the deadbeat in the apartment above who couldn't flush his toilet properly? Why is water gushing at an increased speed out of my toilet ( Read more... )

True to my word, I'm posting a couple photos of my new (possibly uninsured?) toy.



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For the EC kids on here, Emmanuel was mentioned briefly in this week's Weekly Dig issue, in an article about the Artists Foundation ("Art Palpitations," by Lisa Harris). It concerns the self-employed and health insurance, considering that it is now MA law for all residents to have the latter. Apparently Kathy Bitetti, the executive director of the ( Read more... )