Snowball is an eight letter word

by | May 20, 2013 | reading & writing

After last month’s haiku spree, I was intrigued to discover – via BoingBoing – the Chaterism, a form of constrained poetry thusly defined: Snowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one...

Even giant inflatable ducks need a break

by | May 16, 2013 | culture

My mancrush favorite artist working the medium of inflatable ducks, Florentijn Hofman, has brought his giant inflatable duck to Hong Kong harbor, a place that is also special to me. Apparently many welcomed their new rubber duckie overlord. The 54 foot high duck...

Pop over to Clover for a popover

by | May 15, 2013 | eating, urbanism

According to the Hobbits, second breakfast is the second most important meal of the day so when I found myself in Dewey Square one morning this week, it seemed only natural to get a food truck breakfast even though I had already eaten. I was tempted by Area...

The Multitude of Mites on Mimolette

by | May 14, 2013 | eating

I had the strangest dream this weekend: I dreamed that people were hoarding precious balls of bright orange cheese. When I woke up this was on the radio: The FDA is cracking down on Mimolette, a wonderful cheddaresque French cheese. Mais pourquoi? Cheese Mites,...

Palimpsest

by | May 8, 2013 | photo, reading & writing, transportation

palimpsest |ˈpalimpˌsest| noun a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. • something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form:...

Free tree from a pocket park in a parking spot

by | May 2, 2013 | design, urbanism

In addition to National Poetry Month, April was also National Landscape Architecture Month. Who knew? Not I, that’s who, at least not until the very last day of the month when I noticed that two parking spaces on Portland street had been converted into a...

Dub Pies Coming to Haymarket

by | May 1, 2013 | eating, urbanism, working

Dangerously close to the office, Cuppacoffee featuring Dub Pies is coming in [?] days to a torn down parking lot on Merrimac Street. Are we allowed to just fill in a number? It’s got to be soon, I can see the LevelUp terminal is already in place....