E.T.'s L.J. U.R.L.

The Globe will now be printing the Herald as well.

New England's Komen foundation not cutting funding for Planned Parenthood.

Washington state senate votes for gay marriage.

Sorry I haven't been following up on things, having a crazy couple of weeks... will catch up someday soon, I hope...

For gnomi and the other knitters out there... yarn bombing has arrived...

According to today's local news in the Globe, Officials worried state will shudder Brookline District Court.

Does anyone know what happened to Images & Frames, on Comm. Ave. (near the big Shaw's)? I just heard that the store is now empty. That's been my go-to framing place for years, so I'm hoping that they've moved somewhere else, rather than gone out of business.

On a different note, does anyone know whether there's something weird going on with the weather line (617-WE6-xxxx)? I haven't been able to get through on that lately, so I've started wondering whether I just have bad timing, or whether it's something more...

For those of us who've always wanted a tour of the Fluff factory...


The Fluffernutter was up for official state sandwich today! Can't find the vote results yet, though...

Word on the street is that there has been a major accident in Coolidge Corner. Details are sketchy as of yet (anyone know more?), but for those who may be passing through the area, thought you'd want to be aware...

Hit a bit of traffic on my way in this morning, for some reason. Fortunately growing up in Boston means you always know at least 3 ways to get from one point to another, so it was only a minor inconvenience. But it is amazing what wide-ranging effects one messed-up intersection can have. (I was going to write about the accident, but I'm tired so I'm just inserting the links instead. Sorry for the laziness.)

As those of you who are local know, Brookline has been suffering from an excess of road construction lately. Three-lane roads have been narrowed to one, heavy machinery and traffic cones are everywhere... I've been wondering how some of the stores in the affected areas are managing to stay in business when nobody can get to them. (And worrying a bit about ours, should the juggernaut shift our way.)

Tonight, I was driving up Washington from Park (here's a visual aid, for those of you who don't know the area), and came to a point where the street was closed off and traffic was being diverted onto Fairbanks. Great, I thought, now I have to go right and then left in order to go straight. I followed the two cars ahead of me down to Beacon Street, watched as the lead car (a white van) waited for a break in traffic... and was then shocked to see it turn left into the furthest lane of oncoming traffic. Fortunately for it, there was nobody in that lane at the moment, but as you'd expect, the cars in the adjacent lanes started honking rather urgently. (This was about 8:30... after dark, in other words.) I followed the car ahead of me in turning right (with the flow of traffic), and glanced back to see the van progressing slowly down Beacon Street the wrong way... I wonder how far it managed to get before it was able to turn around. I hope nobody was hurt in the process.

As it happened, I was on the phone with sdavido during this episode (having called to tell him I was en route), and when I said, "OMG! There's a car driving the wrong way down Beacon Street!" he responded (approximately), "Eeek! I don't want you out there!" I said, "It's OK, I know where I'm going." He said, "It's not you that I'm worried about..."

Came across an article about the cost of real estate in Brookline. Doesn't look like we'll be buying there anytime soon...

(For those of you who aren't local, we live in Allston, right over the line from Brookline - literally, one building over. We could never have afforded to buy a condo in Brookline. It's sad because I grew up there, work there, and love the town, but the rise in prices since my parents bought their house in the 70s has just been insane.)