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    I’m currently working on a promo video for work, and I’m trying to figure out which one of these tracks to use in the background. 

    Yep,  I approach my whole life like it’s the opening credits to a Woody Allen Movie.

    Seriously!  If you have the unfortunate luck to be stranded on a green line train, ALWAYS ALWAYS STAND AT THE FRONT!  It’s like being in the world’s grittiest tunnel of love, or the Adventure Express from King’s Island. logenscoolstuff: When the subway stations at Boston’s Park and Boylston Streets opened in 1897, they were the first of their kind in the U.S.  These stations are now part of the more extensive “Green Line.” As an “undivided back” (i.e. space for address only on the back) post card, the above image of the “Park Street Subway.” dates from 1907 or prior.   Although the post card depicts the Park Street subway tunnel during its early years, it is remarkable just how similar the underground scene there looks today.  As a friend recently recommended, when on the Green Line in Boston you should ride near the front of the first car; it’s not as thrilling as a roller coaster, but it certainly provides an interesting subterranean view as well as a way to appreciate the infrastructure of oldest subway system in the U.S.

    Seriously!  If you have the unfortunate luck to be stranded on a green line train, ALWAYS ALWAYS STAND AT THE FRONT!  It’s like being in the world’s grittiest tunnel of love, or the Adventure Express from King’s Island.

    logenscoolstuff:

    When the subway stations at Boston’s Park and Boylston Streets opened in 1897, they were the first of their kind in the U.S.  These stations are now part of the more extensive “Green Line.”

    As an “undivided back” (i.e. space for address only on the back) post card, the above image of the “Park Street Subway.” dates from 1907 or prior.  

    Although the post card depicts the Park Street subway tunnel during its early years, it is remarkable just how similar the underground scene there looks today. 

    As a friend recently recommended, when on the Green Line in Boston you should ride near the front of the first car; it’s not as thrilling as a roller coaster, but it certainly provides an interesting subterranean view as well as a way to appreciate the infrastructure of oldest subway system in the U.S.

    Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings defend the tiger mom in song.

    salvationpretty: It may be 3:30pm but it is still too early in the day to see Rod Stewart’s lettuce spilling out of his bowl. via I have no problem with this photo at any time of the day.

    salvationpretty:

    It may be 3:30pm but it is still too early in the day to see Rod Stewart’s lettuce spilling out of his bowl.

    via

    I have no problem with this photo at any time of the day.

    Boston University: the “A Different World” years. 

    Cat owner first, writer second.

    Cat owner first, writer second.

    You remember that time  you were watching Pretty in Pink on late-night cable and it got to this speech and you winced because it was so bad?

    You were right.   

    My best friend turned 30 today, and by way of celebrating I chose to mash all of her favorite things* into one large video…
    So that’s how you get:
    White Christmas
    Auntie Mame
    Star Trek
    The Right Stuff
    Three Coins in the Fountain
    Nothing’s Gonna Stop us Now (Love theme from Mannequin) by Starship 
    Coming to America
    and
    Ignition (the remix) by R. Kelly
    in one video.

    Phew! 

    *or, at least the ones off the top of my head.

    I will just never get sick of this cover. 
    /That is all.

    Firstly, this song SOUNDS terrible, but I feel almost bad for it. This Bruno Mars person just seems to have an awful voice, like a queasy combination of Jack Johnson and Justin Bieber.  But this song in the hands of say, the Barenaked Ladies or (I know, gross) Sugar Ray, or even Weezer would probably be just fine.    

    That being said, I also have to say (as I’m chilling here in a velvet bathrobe after being awake since 6:30 am (melatonin causes the weirdest dreams), I think I’m becoming this video.  I need to go to the grocery, unpack, get dressed, clean…ugh…screw it.

    It’s back to watching Phantom Gourmet instead of making breakfast.  

    Incidentally, it makes me sad that DeForest Kelley didn’t live long enough to have cameos like this.