Miscellaneous: July 2009 Archives

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WEEI reports that Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka complained in the Japanese press this week about the Red Sox' training program, citing it as the cause of the shoulder injury that has twice sent him to the disabled list this season.

DCist went to the official launch of Google Moon and geeked out over astronauts while celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.

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We get it, Boston Phoenix. Apparently, Sam Yoon is some kind of Asian—represented in the graphic above by a Chinese food container—and Mayor Thomas Menino is some kind of superhuman white man who springs forth from pure Asianness to conquer the electorate with his shirtless whiteness and his chopsticks. Very classy, but also very racist. What will the Phoenix run if Yoon wins the election? A picture of Fu Manchu bursting out of a pizza box? [Via Sociological Images, since we apparently don't actually read the Phoenix]

-- Gotta love the Internets when you can read that Rudy Giuliani's daughter lost her wallet in Harvard Square. [Lemmingtrail]

Bostonist loves when it when booze and history are combined. We’ve been known to spend afternoons watching Drunk History videos on YouTube and to sweep the history category at trivia night. But if you told us two years ago that we’d be able to knock back a few drinks in a formerly infamous and historically significant jail … well, we’d think that maybe you’d had a few too many yourself.

with Canadiana—arriving in New York City.

Phillyist nominated the administrators of the suburban pool club that allegedly kicked out a number of urban youth on basis of their race as its assholes of the week.

  

We looked out the window of Bostonist's Jamaica Plain "offices" a few moments ago and saw something awesome: a Land O Lakes truck delivering the gigantic recycling bins that are rolling out all over Boston. Universal Hub has tracked the bins as they've moved north from Boston's southern neighborhoods, and we've been waiting for ours since July 1st.

We don’t need to tell you that the tall ships are here. Bostonist readers have been tagging lots of great photos of the ships on Flickr, and we’re planning on heading to the waterfront later on today to check them out for ourselves. There are lots of reasons to go see the tall ships. Maybe you’re a history nut. Maybe you’re looking for an excuse to talk like an old-time sailor. Maybe you just like all things wind-powered. Maybe you’re looking for a new backdrop for your Facebook profile picture. Or maybe you’re just looking for something free to do this weekend. Whatever your reason, go. The tall ships are just plain cool.

[I]f you drink blood that doesn't necessarily mean you're a vampire. There are blood fetishists. This is something I talk about in the book: there people who used to describe themselves as vampires and now describe themselves as blood fetishists. And I've seen symbiotic relations form between blood fetishists and vampires.

Bostonist reader Monica Wing writes to tell us about her art car (pictured), which was apparently stolen in Brighton between June 16 and 18. We'll let her take it from here:

We know how Fenway's wild turkeys can ruin your day, but what about Fenway's hipsters? If you have a plot in the Back Bay Fens Victory Garden, you might have already had it with them. Mike Mennonno explains:

Pop quiz. What substance covers every square foot of city sidewalks? Correct. Fecal matter. If you don't believe me, try walking a dog for a week. It poops as it pleases. And dog poop is only the dash of bitters on the fecal matter cocktail that covers the streets of Boston. Bird poop. Cat poop. Rat poop. People poop. It's all there, mixing together in rainwater that can only be described as relatively pristine. And it's on the feet of everybody who walks the streets in flip flops. Those people have fecal feet, and fecal feet are bad for you.

-- Did you see a giant pothole near Chinatown? There's an iPhone app for that. [CNET News]

Each week Bostonist is dedicated to bringing you the most viral Boston-based videos the internet has to offer.

Got your foam hats, flag shirts, and star-shaped glasses ready for the festivities tomorrow? No? Neither do we. Bostonist will be staying far, far away from the Esplanade tomorrow. We’ll watch the fireworks, for sure - but we’ll pass on the crowds gathering to watch the Pops. Sorry, Neil Diamond.

Fixies are a pain in Grandpa Bostonist's neck. Fixies are European fixed gear racing bikes that don't have back brakes, designed to teach racers "pedal discipline" in the velodrome. On the clogged streets of the big city, however, they are little more than a pathetic compensatory status marker—the bicycle equivalent of a sports car. They are bikes for racing, not for getting around.