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This morning, Mike over at T-Rage discussed his take on what pushes urban cyclists to the dark side:
So cyclists think to themselves, “here I am, actually doing something, and burning calories, not petrol, and I get no respect!” Understandably they start acting out, swerving artfully through traffic, running lights, scaring pedestrians. But they’ll never be a match for a soccer mom in a monster Esplinade.
I don't know, maybe I'm just a jerk, but it's the swerving through traffic and blowing red lights thing that makes biking in the city so much fun to me. I ride a track bike with no brakes, so I tend to prepare for possible incidents by slowing early, so it's not as balls-to-the-wall dangerous as it may sound. And while I can definitely confirm his assertion that pedestrians have this idea that it's not gonna hurt so much if a bike hits them (if they even look before scampering into the middle of a car-free street), I'm more than willing to give pedestrians, yes even blatant jaywalkers, the right of way. My only enemy out there is the cars (for lots of reasons, but that's a post unto itself).
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We got an email from a tipster last night about our favorite local-politician-and-TV-newsperson-offspring-cum-American Idol non-winner, Ayla Brown:
Ayla is signing with a record and distribution company on 8/24 and then recording that day. She will have a single out late August/early Sept. and a full CD by mid-Oct. She will also be singing with the POP on 7/3&4 and also on 7/12 at Fenway with Theo Epstein.
Keep 'em coming, guys!
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Around the BWP offices, we're looking to fill a few vacancies in our blog lineup. So if you're from the Boston area and would like to blog for the coolest blog network in Beantown, drop us a note, and we'll set it up. We handle hosting, development, marketing, and design; you do the writing. We split the advertising revenue generated by each blog with its author, 50-50.
Here are the sites were currently looking to get going. Most of the domains/sites are fairly self-explanatory, and most are already (at least partially) designed, but we're always open to suggestions or new ideas.
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Not ones to miss a chance to rain on a celebration parade, Jeff Rizoli and Jim Rizoli, anti-immigrant brothers from Framingham, scored themselves some unflattering press by bringing their bigot-trash selves to a Brazilian soccer celebration yesterday in the 'burbs. We've noted before that the whack-jobs in the 'burbs get bored easily and resort to ridiculousness, but this time even the popo don't got their back:
As Jim Rizoli was talking to a police officer about his concerns about the Brazilian crowd, he patted the officer a few times on the shoulder.
"If you touch me again, I will lock you up," said Deputy Chief Steven Trask, who declined to comment further.
The brothers were incensed.
"When we were attacked over there last week, where were you?" asked Jim Rizoli. "You guys are working for the Brazilians!"
Which is surprising, since one of the brothers, Jeff Rizoli, is head of CCFILE: "Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Immigration Law Enforcement." It's the same thinly-vieled racism that these groups always have: the assertion that a human being trying to make the best for himself and his family can be "illegal" based soley on his place of birth (let's of course forget about the genocidal policy of early US history and how its legal dominion over this land came to be).
But seriously guys, a World Cup victory party? Are you kidding me?
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As much as we are well aware of the obesity problems our nation faces, particularly the generation of children running around (well, not running around is more of the problem…) drinking soda and eating Twinkies, we're glad to hear that the upstanding reputation of the Fluffernutter (one of our favorites) has not been sullied. Earlier this month, Sen. Jarrett Barrios of Cambridge brought up a proposal to limit the availability of Fluffernutters on school lunch menus, awakening a somewhat surprising amount of impassioned debate over the issue. Since Fluff was invented right here in MA, it's really got its loyal supporters.
We're certainly behind Barrios in his concern over the nutrition that children are getting these days. We just love ourselves that marshmallow gooey goodness.
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Thanks to the fine folks over at Felt, we've recently come into a few sweet prizes to give to you, our adoring fans. You can win a free Pool Party at Felt — that is, 2 free hours of pool and appetizers for you and 19 of your closest friends, a $450 value. We have a few to give out, so we'll do a series of contests, starting today.
The first one will involve one of our BWP brethren, Boston is Funny. Charlie Wrigley over there is a lonley man, and we'd like it if you got to know him a little better, so we challenge you to find his boss's name, as he's mentioned it in at least one post since the beginning of December. The first person to find the name and link to the post in a comment on this post will win the first free Pool Party certificate.
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We occasionally find ourselves hungry for some unhealthy food at unhealthy hours. We're talking greasy meat past midnight (that's a great band name). And for all of its other charms, the North End in specific and Boston in general has left us wanting.
One of our favorite hangouts for late-evening eating (but certainly not past midnight) is a place on Boylston we affectionately refer to as the 'Snake (akaThe Rattlesnake Bar and Grill). You can find us many a night tucked away from the crowd in a booth 'neath a painting of Subcommandante Marcos, labeled "El Revolucionaire" (Ya Basta!).
 But sometimes, even the 'Snake isn't serving food late enough for us, and in times like these were are often too lazy or too inebriated to fire up the grill or stove and cook our own food, so we starve. Untill the next morning, at least. In one fell swoop this morning, the Globe both gave us new hope and drew our attetion to threats to the commericial viability of this new hope. It seems there are 10 restaurants in Chinatown that are liscenced to stay open untill 4am. Only four of them still exercise this ability, but still: 4am?! That's awesome.
The problem is that apparantly Boston is an old fogey's town (at least says the article), so the demand for late-night dining is diminishing like a receding hairline, and many of these places are finding it hard to economically justify staying open late.
Our new mission, and yours too (should you choose to accept it) is to patronize these places and keep them open. We'll see you there.
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 We salute the unnamed heroes responsible for this:
NewsCenter 5's Shiba Russell reported that someone beheaded a statue of Christopher Columbus. Police said the vandalism happened more than a week ago.
That shit is straight fucking fire!
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