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Brett Andersen, ARHS Ultimate coach. I love the game of...

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:37:14 -0400

Brett Andersen, ARHS Ultimate coach.

I love the game of Ultimate. The game is catching on, now more than 7 million people play around the world in organized Ultimate games. The new pro American Ultimate League is cranking in the US. Amherst High coach Brett Andersen is playing for the Connecticut team, where he makes this absolutely SICK layout catch for a point. It is a spectacularly beautiful game…

It was a long, glorious day. Entertainment value at it’s...

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:22:00 -0400

It was a long, glorious day. Entertainment value at it’s peak. 17 innings. Our tickets worked out to $1.53/inning or about $4/hour. You just can’t argue with the value. By the 8th inning we left The Bleachers behind and headed down to home plate. Where we spent the NEXT 9 innings watching the drama unfold. It’s not often you get to watch your $20m superstar go 0-8 and watch two DHs in a serious pitchers’ duel. Darnell McDonald (our DH) and Chris Davis (their DH) were the stars dueling each other with 83 mph fastballs in the 16th and 17th. Adrian Gonzalez was just sad. Their DH has a lower ERA than our DH now. Davis struck Gonzo out ON THREE PITCHES in the game-deciding bottom of the 17th with the tying run at the plate. Six and a half hours after arriving into The Fens, we headed out, feeling sad, but not quite as sad as Adrian Gonzalez.

Some notable facts from the game:
* There was a second 7th inning stretch in the middle of the 14th
* First time since 1925 two position players pitched against each other.
* First time in Red Sox history a cleanup batter went 0-8
* FIrst time since 1905 a pitcher went 0-8 and got the win (Waddell against Cy Young for the Sox - we lost and were in last place then too)
* First AL position player to get a win since 1968
* First AL game since the DH when no DHs were in the game (they were pitching!)
* Sox have lost 5 in a row twice this year, they only did that once in the last 9 years before this.
* Will Middlebrooks hit his first Major league home run - a grand slam to tie the game

Watching Gonzo strike out on 3 pitches against the Orioles DH may have been the saddest at-bat I have ever witnessed in baseball. But hey, what other sport can you witness such carnage for just $4/hour?

Brooklyn Watches. “It’s great to wear something on...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:03:54 -0400

Brooklyn Watches.

“It’s great to wear something on your person that is analog and full of machinery.”

Horizons by Neil Dawson. My mostest favoritest piece of...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:30:00 -0400

Horizons by Neil Dawson.

My mostest favoritest piece of sculpture in the whole wide world!

Even Leonardo had to write a cover letter for his resume when he...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:49:12 -0400

Even Leonardo had to write a cover letter for his resume when he was job hunting…

“Also, should the need arise, I will make cannon, mortar and light ordnance of very beautiful and functional design that are quite out of the ordinary. “

Amherst Town Election - April 3rd, 2012 7am to 8pm All politics...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:32:01 -0400

Amherst Town Election - April 3rd, 2012 7am to 8pm

All politics are local. Schools. Taxes. Open Space. Diversity. Jobs. Roads. Small Town Feel. All of these things are controlled, helped, hurt by how our small town is governed. We have a 300+ year-old form of government in Amherst, Town Meeting. Love it or hate it, it has the power.

Next Tuesday, due to redistricting, we will be electing the full body of Town Meeting - every member. That’s 24 people you need to vote for in your precinct. You say you don’t know all these candidates? Don’t know how they’ve voted in the past? What they stand for?

We can help. Andy Churchill, Clare Bertrand and I have researched every candidates’ voting record. We have matched their votes to our values: Protect and enhance Amherst’s quality of life by creating a more fiscally sustainable town that can support strong schools and services; open space; diversity; and a family-friendly, small-town feel, without soaking the taxpayer.

You can see our endorsements here.
http://sustainableamherst.org/2012-candidates/

So. *VOTE* Get out and vote dammit. Have an impact on the things that impact you every day.

* And talk the election up with your neighbors and friends - give ‘em the list and get ‘em out to VOTE!

Coney Island 1970. The New York Times has added an awesome...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:12:19 -0400

Coney Island 1970.

The New York Times has added an awesome tumblr called The Lively Morgue that posts a photo a day from their archives. Full of awesome, peeps!

otalo: Best Islands to Visit? Seychelles Outsider Magazine has...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:58:37 -0400

otalo:

Best Islands to Visit? Seychelles

Outsider Magazine has just come out with their 2012 Travel Awards. In the BEST ISLANDS category Outsider tells us, “There are islands with white-sand beaches all over the world, but once you’ve been to the Seychelles nothing seems to measure up.”

Otalo has found over 200 Seychelles vacation rentals for you! Check ‘em out!

Pulp Shakespeare? Bard Fiction? Beautiful.

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:30:38 -0400

Pulp Shakespeare? Bard Fiction? Beautiful.

Toy Story + The Shining by Kyle Lambert

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:11:00 -0500

Toy Story + The Shining

by Kyle Lambert

The 1958 Ford lineup I will take the Fairlane 500 Sunliner in...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:36:00 -0500

The 1958 Ford lineup

I will take the Fairlane 500 Sunliner in red, please.

Pitchers & Catchers report today, people. My thoughts on the...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:55:00 -0500

Pitchers & Catchers report today, people.

My thoughts on the season as I face this 22 degree morning? Sox finish in 3rd anchored by weak starting pitching and no closer, but Crawford has an MVP season and will make spending a warm, sunny losing day in The Fens still better than a day at work

The Great Hall of Hams A worker checks in a special room where...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:40:00 -0500

The Great Hall of Hams

A worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the town of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, just north of Tuscany. Around 10 million hams are sold every year, of which about 2 million are exported, mainly to France, the United States and Germany, which each consume about 400,000 a year. (REUTERS, file photo from 2009)

Props: boing boing

365 Days in the life of a bike chained to a post in...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:29:58 -0500

365 Days in the life of a bike chained to a post in SoHo

art=life.

Eggs in a jar at Luke (Taken with Instagram at Lüke)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:39:25 -0500

Eggs in a jar at Luke (Taken with Instagram at Lüke)

Mardi Gras in Mobile last night, on St Charles in New Orleans...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:53:19 -0500

Mardi Gras in Mobile last night, on St Charles in New Orleans tonite…Bobby continues to hook me up even from his fresh grave…

Listening to Elliott Smith as I drive across the Mississippi...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:11:30 -0500

Listening to Elliott Smith as I drive across the Mississippi bayous in a dark, driving rain to bury a friend…it’s funny how you always remember the long drives.

We just completed the 3rd annual IgniteAmherst! What an...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:17:00 -0500

We just completed the 3rd annual IgniteAmherst!

What an experience. 14 talks in two sets from the most amazing thinkers, dreamers, and doers you could imagine, and they are all from our little valley! Each talk was 300 seconds long, supported by 20 slides that auto advanced every 15 seconds, and about one passion. Our theme this year was “OCCUPY…DISRUPT…REINVENT!” We heard about Reinventing Farmland, Occupying Your Roof, Disrupting Government via Satellite, Reinventing Church, Occupying Jail with Art, Reinventing Wrong…and many more. Check it out! It was full of awesome!

See all about IgniteAmherst!

Jesus didn’t die for our sins. He died because some Roman assholes nailed him to a cross,...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:11:06 -0500

Jesus didn’t die for our sins. He died because some Roman assholes nailed him to a cross, along with tens of thousands of others they didn’t like.

List of Suspects of who killed JFK As someone of the obsessive...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:33:30 -0500

List of Suspects of who killed JFK

As someone of the obsessive bent, I’ve added Lists of Note to my list of favorite websites. The list above was penned by Evelyn Kennedy, President Kennedy’s secretary, while she was on the plane returning to DC after the assassination (upon which Johnson was sworn in as President). She made a list of suspects in the assassination…and Johnson was at the top of the list!