Do you ever feel like weird shit hapens a lot in Boston? Well, you're not wrong. Tableseed.com, some kind of weird email system for restaurants, has inexplicably come up with a list of the strangest cities (and states) in the U.S. Boston makes the top ten, coming in at #7 behind (explicably) NYC, Philly, and Chicago, but (perhaps inexplicably) Lincoln, NE. Is it really that weird there? Boston shows well, but other Massachusetts cities are apparently a little more normal, relegating the state as a whole to a respectable but not overly strange #14.

For the second straight game, the Boston Bruins needed overtime to secure a road victory. For the second straight game, Patrice Bergeron delivered with a game-winning score. Bergeron, who buried a shootout chance and Atlanta on Thursday, beat Buffalo's Ryan Miller 0:47 into overtime, thanks to Zdeno Chara and Marco Sturm, to lift the Bruins to a 2-1 win. Milan Lucic tied the game at 1-1 with his first goal since April 2, according to NESN. Byron Bitz combined with Lucic and Tuukka Rask, who got his first career assist, on the end-to-end highlight-reel rush. Lucic and Bitz, a pair that had a solid outing, couldn't score on a similar play in the third. Rask had 25 saves.

-- A 17-year old from Methuen was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after running over a 12-year old in Lowell on Wednesday. Her license was revoked. [WCVB]

• Massachusetts lost out on $147 million in federal stimulus grant money available for public transportation upgrades along Blue Hill Avenue due to bickering between the Patrick administration and residents of Roxbury and Mattapan. [Boston Globe]

• Republican Senate candidate Jack E. Robinson supports free public transportation. [Boston Herald]

Haven't picked your horse in the Massachusetts Senate special election yet? Not swayed by rhymes? Never fear, a new test is here: map-drawing.

Winter is nearly upon us. Please take clever photographs of fallen leaves while you can.

• Rachel Maddow and Bostonist have a thing in common: “I go to Drink and I drink.” [Herald]
• The FDA is cracking down on caffeinated booze. Bostonist does not mourn the demise of Sparks, but we hope the feds keep their hands off our Cuba libres and coffee flips. [Brookston Beer Bulletin]
• Some bar called Lord Hobo opened. [Bostonist]

Movies Want to know why Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) looked so good? Tonight, you'll have the rare chance to ask cinematographer Gordon Willis just what he was up to. The classic film might be the best cinematic rendering of the city and its architecture, and it doesn't hurt that it was one of Allen's funniest and least beset by distracting tics. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $12.

The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B's their first win in like forever.

-- A shooting that Boston police called gang-related inside of a Dorchester elementary school has brought massive police and streetworker patrols to the neighborhood. The 22-year-old victim was shot while playing basketball Tuesday at the John Marshall Elementary School. Police say that it was the second time the victim had been shot since leaving prison in May. [Herald; BPDNews]

The USS Constitution will continue its traditional cannon salutes to the chagrin of Charlestown's sensitive newcomers. [Boston Herald]

Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day will still be Suffolk County holidays next year. [Boston Channel]

One million H1N1 vaccine doses have arrived in the Bay State. "Please, sir, we want some more." [Boston Globe]

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