Just back from Boston. Pope, Red Sox, Pope, Red Sox, Fever Pitch, Pope...

[maveric]

Damn! Thats all you hear on the local TV stations.
After a funeral and unexplained mysteries concerning my Ma's money and jewelery, as well as crappy, cold weather(crappy & cold by my standards), its great to be back in SoCal.

BTW The Pope died, The Sox lost 2 of 3 from the Yanks and "Fever Pitch" starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore is opening soon in Boston.

[ET Awful]

1. And of those three topics, as a resident of Massachusetts, I care about

none of them :).

[Submariner]

2. 2 out of 3........damn dissappointing

The Pope died?

[maveric]

3. Yep! And my hometown of Lawrence MA is a fucking WAR ZONE!

Now I know why I left that place. Murders, fires, drugs, bad drivers...

[candy]

10. Lawrence,the auto insurance fraud capitol of the US !

[maveric]

11. Staged accidents seems to be the way things are going there now.

I had to keep my eye open for such things happening.
But the "Cedar Crest" restaurant is still open and seems to be an oasis in hell. I love that place, "soup to nuts", as they say back there. Best Cutlets I've ever had.

[candy]

4. Big Dig,Big Dig,Big Dig!!!!

[maveric]

5. Debris was falling on cars the other day in the Ted Williams tunnel.

You'd think that after a 4000% cost overrun they'd have done right.

[candy]

6. The debris falling was an "isolated incident"---When the tunnel

collapses completely and kills thousands it will also be called an "isolated incident"

The guy who founded Modern Continental was smart enough to die last fall before all of this fell on his head.(If you'll pardon the pun)

[seaglass]

8. The amazing thing was how Modern Continental was

prohibited from bidding on state contracts because of rte 3 and the prohibition lasted all of what, two months?

[candy]

9. Dontcha love it? Massachusetts politics. ! ! !

[maveric]

12. Oh yeah. And I's uer the Mob had a hand in that project too.

They always have.

[MADem]

7. To be fair, though

The local coverage is taking the Pope thing from all angles--to include questioning passers by if they felt the Pope did all he could vis a vis the sex scandal issue, and asking about his views on women taking a greater role in the church. Ya gotta figure with the percentage of Catholics in the area, that story would get a good bit of play...