tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47011878309332485592011-12-28T00:17:53.420-05:00Jeff Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048085339848723604noreply@blogger.comBlogger59251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4701187830933248559.post-56488322760437802322010-11-29T14:31:00.002-05:002010-11-29T20:58:52.997-05:00

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/telegram/obituary.aspx?n=jeffrey-e-barnard&pid=146855309

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Please join us! --- Kathy

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I love you, Kathy. I will always love you.. You are my angel.

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Yesterday, I had a visit from Mayor Joe O'Brien and City Councilor Rick Rushton.  I thought this was a nice gesture on their part, but then Joe took out a Key to the City and presented me with it! Honestly, I'm overwhelmed at this kind of validation! We talked about the online conversation, and how it's been building and building over the past three years. More people are joining in, and

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Now that I've settled in to my new hospital bed, I can easily say that being bed-ridden still isn't the worst thing that can happen to you. One thing that's definitely worse is being bed-ridden in a hospital bed IN A HOSPITAL, where you get sleep deprivation techniques that are rivaled by none, and you get treated like a lab rat. Here at home, I get so much moral, physical, and emotional

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I fell down the other day, and now I'm absolutely unwilling to try to move around without two or three Worcester Firemen on standby to lift my deadweight off the floor... I didn't get hurt at all, but having my legs just go out from under me like that, and so quickly and easily, too, was a very scary thing to experience.  Both Kathy and my Mom tried to get me up, but to no avail, so we had to 9-

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I've changed the e-mail account here...  wormtowntaxiATcharter.net won't get answered on any kind of regular basis for a while (if ever), since I can't go back and forth between my iBook and PC, due to physical limitations I have now. Clicking on my profile (bottom right of page) will bring you to a page with a new e-mail address.

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Members of my family chastised me today for not posting anything for so long. It's not like I couldn't have had my wife bring me the laptop, though... Nothing major has happened on this end, I'm just weaker now and getting up and down from various daily perches became more difficult than ever.  We've made ongoing changes, beginning with the stairlift, and continuing  along to more mundane

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After the chair lift got installed on Thursday, it slowly became apparent that the presence of the new monster on the stairs presented a moderate trauma for the cat. It turned out that the house was now divided into three separate zones for Mr. Smudge, none of which were accessible from any of the others.  He had the living room and blogging room for one section, the kitchen and downstairs

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Here's why the New York Times has been completely without credence in my eyes for nearly a decade.

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I've been watching back to back, 40 year old episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus on IFC this afternoon.  I remember back when friends first urged me to watch this show, and how I made a concerted effort to  watch and join in the water cooler conversations about how incredibly funny this show was supposed to be. It was a learning curve for me, though.  British accents always gave me a bit of

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I'm using the laptop from my couch position, here... Everything takes longer, since I'm not used to using this keyboard, and it's a whole different interface with the Apple versus PC shortcuts, look, and feel. But it's the same me. Today is turning out to be another very draggy day.  I woke up at 5am, but ended up not getting up until 8:30.  This is perfectly okay, of course, since I don't

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This is our front staircase, leading up to the second floor in our house. I've been having an increasingly difficult time getting up these stairs over the past couple of months, and it's become a problem that we decided to solve by purchasing a stairlift. There's really not too many things that are more emasculating than finding you can't get up a flight a stairs without going into a crawl, and

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As that name ("the fall") for the current season suggests, we're headed in a somewhat downward direction...  down towards the cold and dead of winter...  down into the dormant tree season when plants don't grow and you have to turn the heat on in the house...  down into the inevitable prospect of cabin fever, sooner or later...  down into the maw of nor'easters and snow and ice. Not a

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This past week has been a strange excursion into the phenomenon of drug induced apathy.  Honestly, I've never experienced such a pronounced effect on my attitude, as a result of taking any drug. The change of painkiller was done because I had reached a point with the previous one where a change had to be made...  simple enough.  I did foresee the possibility of this change being a matter of

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I'm going to be switching from one type of painkiller to another over this next couple of days.  Shifting around medications presents an unknown, so I don't know if I will end up feeling better or worse. My day to day pain avoidance over the past two weeks, though, has gotten me up to the point where the percocet is no longer a viable option.  Percocet is 5mg of oxycodone and 325mg of tylenol. 

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From where I'm sitting, it really seems that one of the sadder, lingering legacies of the 20th century is the phony dichotomy between religion and science.  It has left us with a division between hard line atheistic know-it-all pseudo-scientific dogma on one extreme end of the spectrum, and hard line theistic know-it-all religious dogma on the other extreme end of the spectrum.  To my view, they

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I've had two very pleasant days.  Yesterday, I went over to Bob Jordan's house in Grafton, where he was holding his annual two day yard sale, and hung out for about 3 hours or so.  Lisa cooked up a really great soup that I had two helpings of, and felt like I had been sent into soup heaven.  It just hit the spot! This morning, I went out with another friend I grew up with, and we spent a couple

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Because the Obama administration has done nothing about this.  And even though I end up suffering cognitive dissonance whenever I think about it, it's also why I'll never vote for another Republican...  ever.

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Just east of the center of Northboro on Route 20, Chet's Diner will be celebrating 50 years of service under the Pantazis family this week.

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We did the podcast from the Wormtowntaxi holodeck this morning:

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Even though most of the rainy-NESS has finally gone away, there's still a significant amount of cloudy-NESS circling back in from the west this morning. I didn't want to wait for the sun, though.  This morning, as soon as Kathy got home from work, we headed out to the supermarket and proceeded to fill a list of items that I had been accumulating over the past couple of days.  The supermarket

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Where: 13 West St, Grafton Center When: Friday, October 8th from 10am to 5pm, and Saturday, October 9th from 8am to 5pm What: MUSICIANS & MUSIC-LOVERS / ARTISTS & ART LOVERS / READERS & BOOKLOVERS... WILL ALL FIND SOMETHING HERE THOUSANDS OF VYNYL RECORDS - ALL TYPES AND GENRES / LESS THAN 25% ARE ROCK. ANTIQUES & NEGLECTIBLES (THINK ABOUT IT) VARIOUS MUSICAL INSTRUMETS PRICES ARE REASONABLE

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Haven't we had enough rain, lately? I know I'm getting a bit tired of not being able to, at the very least, go sit out in the yard. When I saw the forecast for today, I decided that it would be a good day to rest my feet by spending the day mostly on the couch with my feet up.  From time to time, the swelling gets a bit ahead of me, and if I spend a day with my feet up, then things get back to

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It's coming up on six months since I first got the initial imaging results saying that the cancer had metastasized...  from merely being a skin cancer of a year and half before.  The adventure has been thick and varied ever since. It does feel like my universe has shrunken into a smaller simulacrum of my former sphere of perception.  It's especially shrunk in relation to the area I used to

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There is absolutely no argument in favor of privatization that can justify this.

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When I was a young sci-fi enthusiast in the late 50's and early 60's, there was a story entitled "Flowers For Algernon" that I will hardly ever forget.  It's the story of a man with a very low IQ who, through a scientific experiment, is given the gift of increasing intelligence.  He eventually reaches genius level.  But the effect isn't permanent, and the main character, now brilliant beyond

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Kathy and I struck out around 10 this morning. We went everywhere. We just got back. I have been re-charged. This past week or so, staying inside every day, really built up a case of cabin fever for me.  But after today's wanderings, I feel renewed and remedied to the nines!

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Even just running along here at less than half the pace I used to, it looks like the traffic isn't all that bad. Through my percocet haze, though, I don't really see much to comment on about it... Well, other than saying thank you to all of you who continue to come here and read me. You're the ones who make these monthly stats, not me.

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If anything inspires me to lay around all day on the couch, dozing to vapid TV shows, it's our cat, Smudge. I just had to go upstairs and close a window when I heard the rain splashing on the air conditioner housing down here on the first floor.  Why I didn't close that bedroom window before I came down here, I don't know. But making a trip up the stairs is not a simple thing anymore.  It's a

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When I take these painkillers, I feel like cardboard. I become indecisive, and usually choose the path of least physical resistance whenever a thought of doing something comes up. I've fallen asleep on the couch to every episode of the Science Channel's "How It's Made" and "How Do They Do It"... Yet, whenever either of those shows are on, I tune them in and watch them over again. I watch NECN

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My days are getting to be more routine, lately. Up around 5am, meds and a can of Ensure, lie on the couch for an hour or two, then it's time to see if I might want to eat some real food around 8 or 9 o'clock. Bored yet?... Well, I sure am, and it's getting to the point where my ultra-sedentary daily life has partially atrophied my whole body.  It's a dwindling spiral, too.  The less strong I

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On Thursday, Massachusetts will become yet another in a line of states making texting "illegal" while driving. The idea of making it "illegal" actually began as a propaganda campaign last year at the New York Times.  Based on nothing but the fact that people are getting into more accidents over time, and portable devices had proliferated over the same time period, the conclusion that making the

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This is a really great behind the scene post over at the Seen In Worcester blog.

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My week began last Sunday with a five hour stint of sitting in Elm Park during the stART in the Street event, which I have to say was a real real shot in the arm for me!  I enjoyed meeting old friends, new friends, and virtual friends who I had never met before. On Monday, I went for a checkup with my Primary Care Physician and learned that the feeling of low energy I had been having was

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A ten minute Mike's Eye View of last Sunday's event.

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The Blue Belle Diner has been resurrected and will have a grand opening on the weekend of October 2nd and 3rd.

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Here we have three broadcast cameras set up along the sidewalk in front of George's Bakery on the corner of Grafton and Cutler this morning. On Tuesday, some kid brought in a half a pint of mercury for show and tell at the Grafton Street Elementary School (right across the street), and now it's an ongoing story for the Beantown TV stations. When I was a kid, I remember having a little sealed

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"But ignoring the pot, ecstasy, shrooms and acid that make it what it is [Burning Man] is like discussing a Tea Party convention as if there were no white people there." - Andrew Sullivan

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The Canadian Space Agency now has a live webcam to watch the aurora borealis.

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I'm glad to see that the Federal Government is arguing that there is no privacy in public places, since this means that citizens will be able to legally videotape any and all police activities that take place in public.

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The only real problem I have with a God-less, Soul-less universe is that it's the most comfortable scenario possible.  This comfy-ness is extremely attractive, especially if you're occupying some position out beyond the center of the Bell curve...  out there where thinking comes all too easily.  When it comes to completely baseless belief systems, the one that offers the most comfort can hardly

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This picture is from yesterday, around 9:30am. The building was nearly demolished when we went by. On the corner of the now closed Lexington Street at Grove, stood the A. L. Purinton Locksmith building for many years. Now they're at 203 Grove Street, next to Ernie's Car Wash.

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Kathy made fresh salmon patties for lunch today. They taste so-o-o-o-o good!

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This Boing-Boing piece on the subject has a bit more useful info than I thought it would.

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For those of you boomers out there who spent the 1960's here in Worcester, there's one band that stood out called "Orpheus".  They had some commercial pop success with the song, "Can't Find The Time To Tell You," a lip-sync video clip of which suddenly showed up on YouTube a few years ago. Two years ago, another clip from the same lip sync session showed up for the song "I've Never Seen Love

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"Obedience to law is liberty." - etched in stone above the main entrance of the abandonded courthouse The link is to an article announcing the proposed sale (by auction) of the old courthouse by the state.  If anything can be done to get that un-american saying removed from that ugly building, I would be happy. Why this unviable structure has to remain standing at all, however, is completely

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If you've ever seen a large flock of birds suddenly change direction all at once, have you wondered how they did it?  Or how about a large school of fish?  Suddenly, they change direction completely...  in instant unison. We're not talking about the Navy's team of precision jet flyers who do shows and communicate all their cues via radio.  We're talking about animals that communicate to each

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Isn't it amazing how eight years of the Bush administration committing war crimes and trampling all over the Constitution seems to have now completely removed itself from the public discourse? And isn't even even more amazing that the right wing would somehow get the notion that the Obama administration, the direct reactive result of eight years of right wing abuses of power, prompt these same

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I camped out at the corner of Elm Street and Park Ave. The picture was taken at 11am. I got back home about an hour ago, so I actually spent twice as much time there as I thought I might be able to.  And I really had a great time! There were people who I've had a virtual connection to via the blog for a long time, but who I had yet to meet...  but I finally got to meet today. It was really

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Sunday's stART in the Street event will run between 11am and 5pm on Park Avenue, between Highland and Pleasant. Be there or be unaware... Memories of past stART events includes last year's stART in the Street, which I posted about on 9-20-09, and included this video... Mike Benedetti also made a video of that event, which I covered at this link. I plan on hanging out in a corner of Elm Park

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My brother, Jon, and his significant other, Cathy, will be having a yard sale today in North Grafton at the corner of North Main Street (rte 140) and Westboro Road (opposite the barber shop), from around 9am until whenever. The house is located about a half mile south of the Shrewsbury line on rte 140, about a quarter mile south of Bradish's.  The address of the house is 1 Westboro Road, if you

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"I love the spokesmanese here: "avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies" indeed! Christ, where'd this guy learn to talk, the Mistakes Were Made School For Obfuscation and Passive Voice Bullshittery?" - Cory Doctorow

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One thing that has changed completely in my life has been my sleep habits. Generally, now, I get a decent chunk of sleep at night in bed, and another one or two chunks during the day on the couch.  It's apparently adequate for me, because I don't feel sleep deprived the way I did during that nightmare week in the hospital, back in July. Nearly every night, I wake up around 1 or 2 and lie there

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Tomorrow (Saturday), my brother, Jon, and his significant other, Cathy, will be having a yard sale in North Grafton at the corner of North Main Street (rte140) and Westboro Road (opposite the barber shop), from around 9am until whenever. I plan on hanging out there in the morning from around 9am on.  So stop by and at least say Hi if you get a chance.  And who knows?  Maybe you'll see something

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I'm so looking forward to the stART in the Street event on Sunday.  It will be set up on Park Ave between Highland Street and Pleasant Street, and run from 11am to 5pm. This is WAY more than some artsy-fartsy flea market or hippy fest...  This is absolutely top notch artists all lined up in booths and tables along a quarter mile section of Park Avenue.  The imagery, alone, of simply walking past

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Most of my time is spent at home. It's the biggest part of how my daily life has changed.  Where I used to describe myself as leading a "sedentary" lifestyle when I was working, this change is the penultimate radicalization of the "sedentary" lifestyle! Somehow, though, the lifestyle doesn't really put me into any sort of comfort zone.  What makes my day is having little projects to get done,

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There's a great article in the T&G today that, among other things, lists all the instances where Charlie Baker pops his little cork in public.  Apparently, this insurance industry insider is a real screamer, hot-head, and flashes out at all the little people around him with a nearly uncontrollable temper when things don't quite go his way.

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As a prelude to this Sunday's stART in the Street event from 11am to 5pm on Park Ave between Highland and Pleasant, I've been reminiscing about previous stART events that I went to. Here's a crazy video I made at stART in the Park in June 2008... I made a post on June 1st 2008 with a bunch of still pictures, too.

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There are few things more offensive to me than a proselytizer.  Proselytizers have to assume that you are too stupid to realize how wrong you are, and how right the proselytizer is.  The only way the proselytizer can feel any slightest acceptance of me is if I totally submit to his or her belief system, and obey only their religious rules.  Otherwise, I am lost, less than them, and merely to be

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The way I see it, the central issue with voter apathy isn't a matter of any logic, but a twisted sense of pure selfishness.  I ask people why they don't vote, and they tell me that their vote doesn't matter. What this means to me is that they think their vote should weigh more heavily than anyone else's in order to "count".  It really does take a massively twisted ego to view democracy in this

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I don't know how I even stumbled onto this item on Amazon... In the late 1950's and early 1960's at Rosetti's drug store soda fountain in Grafton Center, Blennd was one of the more popular fountain drinks on a hot summer day (at least for me!). I'm surprised to see that anyone's still making it. Does anyone else remember this fountain treat?

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There's a nice background article today in the T&G about stART on the Street. My plan for Sunday's event is to be camped out in the park with lawn chairs, near the intersection of Park and Elm, from 11am to around maybe as late as 1pm.  It all depends on how I feel.  I probably won't be moving around much, but rather just staying in that one spot so that people can find me, stop by, visit, and

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Prifti's Homemade Candies is closing down.

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I stumbled across this site the other day. Here's a sample of the fun images they find and post...

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This Saturday, September 18th is the kick off for the REC Farmers Market Food Photo Fest photography contest! The contest theme is local fresh food. Artists can use any food theme for their photos! Inspiration could be drawn from a farmers market, one of the city's many community gardens, friend or family member turning our beautiful local harvest into a delicious meal or preparing a special

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I'm so glad this pork chop lost his bid for Auditor! It was really the only race yesterday that I felt any passion about. Getting this overfed duck's nose out of the public trough makes my day!

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According to the T&G's election results at this link, Joff Smith got the shit kicked out of him at the polls yesterday! Coming in a very distant third behind John J Mahoney (1,555 votes), and Margot R Barnet (1,415 votes), Joff's paltry 858 votes speaks volumes to the utter lack of interest in having this guy moving on to higher office and out of his City Council district. I don't think he's a

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Heh.

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How many nuclear weapons do you think have been detonated on this planet since 1945? I once guessed that it might be several hundred, but the answer is that 2,083 nuclear bombs have been detonated on this planet since 1945. The last detonations were in 1998, giving us a span of 53 years. That's an average of a little over 39 nuclear detonations on Earth every single year for the past half a

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I voted Democrat this morning. I voted Democrat because I so greatly desired to vote against Guy Glodis. Every time I see that pudgy, pasty pinky-white, overfed, "feeding at the public trough" face of his, I want to throw up. I have a problem with career politicians, but I will still vote for them.  But when they're fat and obnoxious looking, it just isn't gonna happen. I'll vote mostly

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I woke up around 4am this morning with a lot of things I wanted to write about.  As I lay there forming various arrangements of subject matter in my head, I kept thinking, "Do I really want to get up now?" As it turned out, I didn't.  I dozed for another hour and a half. But there are still things I wanted to write about.  The main one, though, had triggered a short crying jag last night when I

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Today, you can vote in the Massachusetts Primary Election. I'm not terribly pushy about people voting in primaries, mainly because I think people don't want to commit to one political party or another, so much as they just want to get the voting over with. The Democrats only have three contests (out of 12 on the ballot) with any challengers: Treasurer, Auditor, and Sheriff.  So, if you go to

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“Mike is the only pit bull in Worcester that I want running loose.” - Tim Murray

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I found it very interesting to read a somewhat piqued journalist's respone to a wisecrack made by Sarah Palin.  Here's a link to the reporter's explanation of how this all went down. Read the whole thing.  It's a very short piece. As you can tell, the problem here is a somewhat muddy one.  It's the same ill-defined and muddy problem that has been Sarah Palin from the beginning.  There's nothing

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T&G has a slideshow of 13 old photos taken in the 1960's showing before and after the massive urban renewal and demolition that took place downtown, in order to build the Galleria. If you remember those days, then these pictures are priceless!

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It was so crowded at the groundbreaking ceremony today, that all I got to see was the backs of suits... There were probably some options I could've taken to get some decent video, such as going up into one of the upper levels of the Commercial Street garage for an overview... But I decided to place myself where I could run into people. I did run into a lot of folks, too. I'm glad I went.

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Today's the day that naysayers like me have been singing "That'll Be The Day" about for half a decade! I had all but given up the idea that I would ever see anything happen with the Galleria, that there would ever be a shovel, a jack hammer, or a piece of heavy equipment down there.  My nightmare vision for the future of my hometown was that 22 acre cemetery would simply continue to deteriorate

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It has never really been about the high moral ground of, ostensibly, "objective" professional journalism...  not ever.  The purpose of owning a Newspaper is to be able to wield fantastic opinion molding power over the public. The proof that this basic purpose is very much alive and well is right here at this link. I would respect our local daily newspaper's actions that influence public opinion

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If you thought the narco-state called Afghanistan might have been knocked out of business, just make note of the fact that 90% of the world's heroin and opium is still being exported from Afghanistan every year. This has been the case since less than a year following the United States first invading Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. Here's a link to a recent article shedding a tiny sliver of

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The problem with a person like Rupert Murdoch is that his aged crust of prejudice is beyond assailing.  He will do what he thinks is in his best interest, despite any and all immediate OR lingering indications to the contrary because...  well, because the super type A always has to be right. Well, no matter how right he may feel in his own slowly calcifying brain, the proof of the pudding is in

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"...we think Glodis’ campaign didn’t realize what it was saying when it sent out a flier promising that the former state senator will 'reign in wasteful political spending'." - Patriot Ledger

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"Statewide, our colorful local sheriff is seeking the post of auditor, a rather surprising move, because no one knew he could add." - Dianne Williamson

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This is the song that gives me goose bumps when Joanne sings it. I have constantly marveled, thoughout my entire life, that I should be so lucky to have a younger sister with such a fantastic set of pipes that, even as she reached an age in her high 50's while singing this song at the Hanover Theater two years ago, she could still sound this good. What's especially great for me, personally,

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Mike was the first one to arrive at Friendly's in Tatnuck this morning. And then, in order of arrival, pictured below are Nicole, Hannah, Karl, Noah, Brendan, and Victor. I left to go pick up Kathy around 10, who had worked last night, and on the way home we stopped at Sprout's yard sale on June Street. Here's a Cathy and Kathy pic... After all this excitement this morning, we

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Here's a shot of Putnam Lane, coming through from the Shrewsbury Street side today around quarter of one. I wonder how many more times I'll be able to use this shortcut before it's closed down forever? I went this way this afternoon purely out of habit. This morning was a busy one for me.  I went out around ten to get a haircut at Solitro's on Shrewsbury Street (those guys are the absolute

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Link: This has to be the graphic novel of the century...  the twentieth century, that is. William S Burroughs was one of the enigmatic figures that populated the culture and society while I was growing up.  To learn of this long lost graphic novel, all these long years later, and especially to learn of the fantastic nature of the story plot (read the whole article at the link), leaves me

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Even though I've found that my health problems have brought me much closer to the fold of pure Vegans lately, I am still an omnivore.  And when it comes to buying meat, there really is no other place in the whole universe that compares with Fairway Beef. Kathy and I have been buying meat there for a long time.  It just doesn't get any better than Fairway Beef! When I saw this ad for the place

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There's just something about a cat in a box. I think this may even be one of Jung's archetypes.

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The trouble with this story for me is that I can't imagine how we could have sunk so low, here in America.  I just can't get my arms around how low we've had to sink in order for this story to have possibly gone beyond the pages of the supermarket tabloids. This two-bit religious charlatan named Terry Jones, with his tiny congregation of one or two dozen neanderthals, cranking out ignorant

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Koffee With Konnie episode interviewing Paul Collyer...  this is a must see for anyone who has never had a chance to recognize what an interesting guy Paulie is!

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I uploaded my first fifteen minute video clip to YouTube this morning without incident. Until they upped the time limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes, I was never going to be able to upload this clip from the Zonkaraz concert at the Hanover Theater from November 2008: The song "Jack Frost" is one of the more iconic original tunes for any Zonkaraz fans, and it was usually the song they sang to

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"Who are these people? How can I know them so well when, just a short while ago, we were introducing ourselves as though we were strangers?" - Karl Hakkarainen

Jeff Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048085339848723604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4701187830933248559.post-25744062823114716902010-09-08T23:38:00.000-04:002010-09-08T23:38:21.564-04:00

Every day, now, it's a choice.  I can loll about on the couch, take pills for pain, become lethargic, and basically just succumb to this whole thing... Or else I can plan things to do, not just for the sake of filling space, but things that I'd really like to do. Within limits, of course... But it's still this choice.  Do I succumb, or do I keep living? In order to keep living I have to put a

Jeff Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048085339848723604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4701187830933248559.post-42727602204053711262010-09-08T08:44:00.000-04:002010-09-08T08:44:10.312-04:00

Being sub-rational is all about not really thinking things through. For instance, I hear people saying that they want to shrink the size of government.  But then, they blindly support politicians running for office to run against the politicians that are already in office.  This is truly a matter of cognitive dissonance for me... I mean, on the one hand, wanting government to shrink is the goal

Jeff Barnardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048085339848723604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4701187830933248559.post-80379461618049763542010-09-08T07:35:00.003-04:002010-09-08T07:35:49.878-04:00

I see that the City Council passed their PIt Bull ordinance last night...  despite the fact that there's no such actual breed of dog. I mean, how can you tell a pit bull?  Is it a full bred pit bull?...  Well, no such thing.  So, it can't be a half pit bull, either. How do you register a breed that doesn't actually exist?

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We just had one hellaciously loud thunder boom over here about 15 minutes ago. I had gotten up around 5am this morning, grabbed an Ensure and took my morning meds, only to nod out on the couch watching the news a short time later.  But then, BA-BOOM!!! It triggered a dream wherein the thunder was actually a terrific explosion. An interesting frame of mind to wake up in...

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