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weekend miscellany: honk! festival

13 Tuesday Oct 2009

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Hanna’s parents were in town Sunday (bringing Lionel to stay) and we T-ed out to Porter Square to check out a yarn shop that Hanna’s mom wanted to visit. When we stepped off the T in Porter Square, we walked right into the midst of the Honk! Festival parade. Bostonist has a gallery of photos if you’re interested in seeing some of the great costumes. It was a beautiful day and all the participants looked like they were having lots of fun.

Hanna and I are both recovering from very bad colds (maybe the dreaded H1N1?!) that had us at half-mast — and sometimes much less — for the better part of two weeks . . . so no more substantial posts for the minute. Watch for a report at the Beehive blog over the next couple of days from a brown-bag talk I attended last week, and next week I should have pictures and notes from our weekend in Burlington, attending the New England Historical Association’s fall conference at the University of Vermont. Until then, it’s back to the catch-up “to do” list . . .

from the neighborhood: demonic scooter

05 Monday Oct 2009

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There’s a playground around the corner from our apartment that Hanna and I walk through quite frequently on our daily commute. Therein resides a child’s plastic scooter. We never see any of the numerous children who play in the park actually on the scooter, but whenever we pass by it is in a slightly different location, always looking slightly forelorn. Hanna thinks it’s mostly likely possessed.

And a Happy (belated) Birthday to Dad!

18 Saturday Jul 2009

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I totally spaced this week and forgot my dad celebrated his 58th on Friday. He’s home alone right now while Mom is traveling and us youngsters are scattered to the four winds — hope he found some time to celebrate doing one or another of his favorite outdoor activities such as bicycling or taking the new puppy out hiking at the late. Not forgetting, of course, the importance of German chocolate cake!

Many happy returns of the day.

*the photo is from a very rainy bike ride around Loch Katrine in Scotland — an outing I got cajoled into during Dad’s visit in May/June 2004.

Introducing Lionel

08 Wednesday Jul 2009

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Hanna’s mother, Linda, is a fiber artist currently working toward her Master Spinner certification. She recently sent Hanna photos of a completed project: this knitted hedgehog that positively exudes personality.

Hanna has decided his name is Lionel, and that he has a healthy appetite for custard tarts.

I think all he needs is a little leather airman’s helmet and goggles apropos this addictive game of fling-the-hedgehog. Welcome Lionel!

Midweek Fourth Plinth Post

07 Tuesday Jul 2009

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Hanna and I have been slightly mesmerized by a performance art project going on in London’s Trafalgar Square, 6 July – 14 October, atop the Fourth Plinth. 2400 UK citizens have been selected randomly from a pool of 22120 applicants to spend one hour each, twenty-four hours a day, for one hundred days as living art on the empty plinth in the square outside the National Gallery. This morning when we logged on, for example, a young woman just starting her hour (early afternoon in the UK) was tossing 1,000 paper airplanes into the crowd. Yesterday at about the same time, a woman was enjoying tea under a red umbrella in the company of a small garden gnome. Up next, as I’m typing this, is a small purple puppet named Cheeky.


The project, titled “One & Other,” is the brainchild of artist Antony Gormley.

The official website of the project is live streaming video footage of the plinth twenty-four/seven and a flickr pool has been created to gather the still photographs people take and upload to the web.

Go and be captivated. Hope you all have a good midweek.

Earth Hour 2009

29 Sunday Mar 2009

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Last night, the city of Boston participated in Earth Hour 2009, a one-hour worldwide event in which people were encouraged to turn out their lights for one hour (8:30-9:30) in support of combating global warming. Hanna and I spent our hour of ecological friendliness playing scrabble by candlelight.


Hanna won infinity points for spelling “Ianto” on the board and thus won the game hands down.