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Saturday Morning Open Thread
It was one degree here when I woke up and it’s gone all the way up to seven degrees now. For most of the 46 winters I’ve lived here in the Boston area, the temperatures have rarely gotten into the...
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Sunday Reads: All of you. They all looked alike, just one face. And it was...
Good Morning February is one of the best months on TCM…the title of this post is a line from the movie Twelve O’Clock High (1949). It is the first scene after the real footage of bombing raids shot by...
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Tuesday Reads: More Snow, Mystery Plane, Joe McGinniss, Ed Snowden, and...
A Snowy Harvard Square in 1969 Good Morning!! I’ve had a scary couple of days. I woke up on Sunday morning to find my house very cold. I soon realized there was something wrong with my furnace. It was...
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Friday Reads
Good Morning!! I’m going to begin with some good news today. It looks like the coming winter will be on the mild side. From Discovery News: Winter Forecast for US Nothing to Shiver About. Don’t...
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Thursday Reads
painting by Vladimir Tokarev Good Morning!! I’m getting a slow start today. I guess it must be because I’m so cold. I’ve been up since 6AM, but I’ve been dawdling around reading the news, sipping hot...
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Lazy Saturday Reads: Will Roger Goodell’s Handling of #DeflateGate Be the...
Happy Saturday!! I’m so tired of being cold. The Boston area tends to get a lot of snow–especially late in winter–but we rarely experience the frigid temperatures we’ve had this year. We usually get...
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Fat Tuesday Reads
Revelers toss confetti at float of Momus, patron god of Mardi Gras, in New Orleans in 1960. Good Morning!! Today is Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras in French, the last day to celebrate before Lent begins on...
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Lazy Saturday Reads
Mostly empty area for Trump speech in Pensacola, FL last night Good Afternoon!! The snow has finally begun falling here, and now they say it will continue all night and into tomorrow. We expect around...
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Thursday Reads: Bomb Cyclone Edition
Sea ice floats in Boston Harbor (Boston Globe) Good Morning Jim Cantore is in Rockport on the North Shore and another Weather Channel guy is on the South Shore, in Plymouth, so I guess the storm is...
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Lazy Caturday Reads
By German cartoonist Rudi Herzlmeier Good Afternoon!! The temperature here in the Boston area was 1 degree this morning. We had wind chill temperatures around -20 overnight and today will see -11 wind...
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