Monthly Archive for December, 2003

twenty-six

I'm 26!I’m now twenty-​six years old. And my girl­friend is making me cup­cakes to take to work tomor­row (today).

Isn’t that wonderful?

First (real) Snow

Hastings Square, Cambridge

We in the northeast are getting our first snow storm of the year.

After ven­tur­ing down to Quincy tonight, it was nice to find out that my Saab is actu­ally quite good in the snow. We were back in Cam­bridge in one piece before the snow really started piling up.

It’ll be a nice week­end to curl up with a bottle of wine, a good book, & some­one you love.

UPDATE: Snow­ste­ria! (requires Quicktime)

The Rapture

The RaptureRoberto and Tbone invited me along to see the new “it” New York band-of-the-moment The Rap­ture thurs­day night, Down­stairs at the Middle East. They did not disappoint.

You can call it “dancey”, disco, funk, post-​punk, or Nou­veau Garage — but don’t let those labels throw you — these guys want to rock. They remind me a lot of LA’s Moving Units, another great band that com­bines jangly gui­tars and disco drum­ming. But, with Cure-esque vocalisms, a fear­some cow­bell solo, and enough energy to choke a horse, I couldn’t help but feel­ing that I was wit­ness­ing some­thing truly inspired.

Earth to all you 80’s-haters – we’re back, and we’ll pogo you back into line!

Belated Thanksgiving Photos

Thanksgiving Photo album I’ve finally found some time to post a few photos from our first Boston Thanks­giv­ing — sadly, I didn’t remem­ber to take any snaps once people arrived.

One of these days I will real­ize that you’re sup­posed to be timely about blogging…

This new album would have com­pli­mented nicely this Thanks­giv­ing post, but I’m not that smooth.

UPDATE: Well, turns out I did take some addi­tional photos… They were stuck on the ole’ Memory Stick. Too much Pinot Noir, perhaps…

World AIDS Day - Dec 1 2003

World AIDS DayToday is World AIDS Day, part of a cam­paign to increase aware­ness of HIV-related stigma and dis­crim­i­na­tion. Here are a few resources relat­ing to the AIDS pan­demic and World AIDS Day: