Results tagged “meta”

ROFLCon invaded Cambridge over the weekend, storming MIT's lecture halls and colonizing the bars of Central Square with novelty t-shirts. Bostonist knows that the Internet is always talking to itself, about itself, but it was surreal to be in the room while that was happening.

Last week the Boston Globe reported that a discovery had been made at the MFA. They had a Vincent van Gogh painting in their possession that they never knew about. Unfortunately it wasn't just sitting around in the basement or tucked in a closet it was literally buried underneath another painting in the museum. According to the report: " Now a conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts has discovered the lost painting, but museum...

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...

Bostonist already mentioned to you that the Diabolical Biz Markie will be playing at Axis this evening, but damn, we really need to exhort you to go. Part of it is that people need to realize that the Biz is so much more than just "Just a Friend." He's given the world many other hip hop hits, among which we must mention "The Vapors," the whimsical (but so true) "Pickin' Boogers," and "Nobody Beats the Biz," which is meta-awesome for having a refrain that was inspired by a TV commercial, which was inspired by a musical, which was inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Also, as hip hop ages, it's harder and harder to see some of the early greats on stage, so when one comes to town, everyone with sense ought to jump.

This week we're trying hard to think about something other than how hard it is out here to be a pimp. Well, ok, maybe Bostonist is looking at the Oscars and just scratching our heads. We didn't know Jon Stewart could be that bland. We're still waiting to hear what Three 6 Mafia were wearing that made the camera all jakey last night. Now that we're done with the Academy we're looking back to Grammy....

Why is it that the one contest that Bostonist really wants to be a blow-out is heart-wrenchingly close, while the contest where real competition would be truly useful is unrelentingly lop-sided? So it goes in our fair city these days as the mayoral and pennant races wind down. The campaign of City Hall challenger Maura Hennigan is so lackluster that she hasn't even been able to make hay out of Mayor Menino's refusal to engage in head-to-head debates. Instead, we learn from today's Herald, she must grudgingly participate in the town-meeting style debates the Mayor prefers. Worse still (for Hennigan), the first of these (and the only television event that even approximates a real debate) will compete for voter attention with (surprise!) a Sox game (on September 28). We feel bad for Hennigan, because a debate seems like her only chance to get past the meta-campaigning ("the mayor's scaring away my donors;" "I'm mortgaging my house to fund the campaign;" "the mayor refuses to debate me;" etc.) and get to some real issues that distinguish her from Mumbles. But no one will be watching. The worst part is, for all Hennigan's tenacity and stick-to-it-iveness, we can still think of at least one person who could jump into the race tomorrow and get more votes.