Somebody's Got A Case Of The Tuesdays

Why are there so many songs about Tuesdays? By the way, congratualtions if you managed to read that sentence without hearing the opening chords of The Rainbow Connection playing in your head. Why are there so many songs about Tuesday? It's arguably the blandest day of the week. But a quick search through my own iTunes collection brought up Ruby Tuesday, by the Rolling Stones; Tuesday's Gone, by Lynryd Skynyrd; Tuesday Afternoon, by the Moody Blues; and Church on Tuesday by Stone Temple Pilots. And then there's that 80's band 'Til Tuesday. Tuesday must have a really good agent. What? All you get is a paragraph today. The medical conference brochure season kicked off last week and pretty much all I've been doing since then is copying and pasting extremely long titles like, "Managing Chronic...

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The Wollaston Beach Horror

I know I haven't written anything new in two weeks or so, but it turns out nothing worth writing about happened in that span. Yeah, that's the ticket. I suppose I could have mentioned that a string of 70 degree days was broken by what I can only assume was Sean Connery's weather-altering machine. Nothing else short of an enormous Ally Sheedy shaking her dandruff-ridden head down upon us could explain the freak snowfall last Tuesday night. At least it was gone the next day, and today it's supposed to get to 85 degrees, if it hasn't already. I guess I could have written about the all-day Halo 2 game on Saturday. I've been to a few of these now,...

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Up Close And Impersonals

Every two weeks, a new issue of the Improper Bostonian comes out. It's a free magazine found around the city, and more often than not, there's a picture of a celebrity with local roots on the cover, such as Eliza Dushku and Michael Chiklis. Sometimes it's interesting to see a cover and say, "Hey. Matt LeBlanc is from Newton. How about that." But the only reason I pick one up is the Impersonals. Sure, most of the time they're ultra-sappy love letters or sad, desperate attempts by guys who might have shared a glance with a woman in front of Macy's to track them down and tell them they've got a nice ass. But once in a while you find a gem. For example, one of the first ones I remember reading was from a guy who directed his letter to his girlfriend and his best friend. He said he knew thew were...

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It's A Nice Day To Start Again

It's just not a wedding unless someone gets hit in the face. And boy was there a wedding on Saturday. As you probably know by now, Nick and Hedie officially became Mr. and Mrs. Jones over the weekend. And if legend is to be believed, that means we all must now spend all of our time keeping up with them. The rehearsal was at five o'clock on Friday, so I took the day off from work so I wouldn't miss it. The day started with a trip to Randolph to see Sin City in glorious digital...um...digital. The movie was great, especially Mickey Rourke as Marv. On the other hand, it seemed like Michael Madson didn't read the script until the the car ride over...

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The Clip Show

Ever sit down to watch a new episode of your favorite TV show, only to discover that the only new parts are a thinly veiled set up for a clip show? Don't you feel kind of cheated, like the writers couldn't think of anything new, so they just threw some old stuff back in your face? Like that episode of The Cosby Show where they showed all the times the kids sang to their grandparents for their anniversary. Oh, that Rudy. I think the first time I saw that was just before my family drove down to Virginia. I used to think those episodes of Family Ties when they flashed back to the sixties where clip shows, and that the show must have been on for a really long time. But back then I was probably just starting school. The Simpsons did bunch of them, too. There was the April Fool's Day one, where...

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