I'm beginning to think this is the beginning of the end.
I used to be limited in my internet surfing by only the time I had in front of a computer. Now I sit and stare blankly, having exhausted the interest potential of the same three or six sites I always visit.

I'm running out of internet. Now, the whole thing is so boring that I've resorted to putting inane stray thoughts like this one on it.

The internet would be much more interesting if it did a little of the work and didn't always force me to go find something to look at. I mean, come on. The TV doesn't ask these things of me. Too bad I don't have a TV.


There are signs of optimism,
if you know where to look, signs that baseball can compete and survive in a hyperaccelerated mouse-click age. In May, bone chips taken from the arm of Seattle Mariners pitcher Jeff Nelson were put up for auction on eBay. The bidding went into five figures before the site, in a spasm of good taste, took the chips off the market. Surely, there has to be reason for some optimism if baseball players can be sold off at tidy sums piecemeal.

"The Decline (and Fall) of Baseball," Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe, 6/23/02


 

 


Former Recycling representative Bill Landesman

 

 


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ALIVE AND WELL AND UNDER THE DASH! (3/3/07)
 I'm still here, taking apart my car so you don't have to.

SNAILS MANIA! (8/26/04)
 That's an anagram of someone's name, but I've decided this story isn't worth telling.

FIRE! (2/29/04) No, no, please, take your seats and remain calm. This was over twenty years ago near my house in NJ, and thanks to a magazine I found on eBay, now I'm re-living the whole thing.

ARGLO TO MOJO (11/25/02) You can send things in, you know, as my friend Joe did with this old Central Square photo of the former Arglo Electric Supply.

WHO SAYS I NEVER ADMIT TO BEING WRONG? (10/29/02) In fact, here are a whole bunch of examples, as I admit to some potentially embarassing childhood misconceptions.

ASKING FOR A LAWSUIT, AS ALWAYS. (10/26/02) KCRW took down its links to the old shows of Joe Frank, my favorite radio monologist, so I put them up here. Just don't tell anyone.

BRAND DEATH, CONT'D. (10/26/02) Or is it? Can a brand really start life over in a new color?

IT ALL SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF WORK IF YOU ASK ME. (6/9/02) I haven't done anything here in a long time. So far, there are two main features advertised on this page that are nowhere near seeing the light of day. Isn't it about time someone came forward and bought me out so I don't have to do all this tedious work involved in maintaining this?

FACING BACKWARDS AS USUAL. (6/9/02) After years of delay, my historical Central Square photos are now on the web.

TAKE A STROLL (11/21/01) through the land of dying brands at the now-open exhibit Familiar Marks.

NOW SHOWING (10/24/01) Advertising: Where would ads be without it?.

REINSTATED (9/20/01) Time to do things again. At least I got to say goodbye.

SUSPENDED (9/11/01) This isn't the best use of your time.

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