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(Photo from Yahoo! Sports) Yo. What's up, Boston. Kevin "The Big KY" Youkilis here. You may not know this but I'm doing pretty well for myself this season. Hittin' home runs, makin' some pretty sweet plays at first, you know, that kind of thing. Anyway, you're all talking about Papi's knee and Manny's home run chase and all that and, you know, that's awesome and all, totally cool. But, dudes, I'm the Big KY. I am CARRYING this team. Mike Lowell - oh, I'm sorry, WORLD SERIES MVP Mike Lowell - g...

The Boston Globe has lost its second Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter this week, according to the Phoenix's Adam Reilly. And while the departure of Sacha Pfeiffer for WBUR Radio (90.9 FM) means only that we'll have to turn on the radio rather than pick up the paper, the latest loss — that of Charlie Savage, scourge of the Bush White House — is a rather different matter.Savage is going to the New York Times. Given that he is only in his early 30s, this is like losing Jonathan Papelbon to the Y...

Well, it's that time of year again. Mothers Day is this Sunday. As well, my Mom's birthday is a week from today. So, once again I am taking the cheap way out and re-publishing the following piece, rather than buying my Mom a Mothers Day card. I rather tediously go on about this sort of thing in the first three paragraphs of what follows. However, as further proof that I am not a hideous son, I ...

Here's my friend Bre Pettis from the Etsy Media Awesome Team, with Getting Started in Video: Pushing the Red Button: The basic idea is to put something in front of the camera and push the red button, but there’s a lot more. This video is just a few tips and tricks to get you on your way. The main thing is to just start making videos and then each one will get better and better. Bre has some great tips. I like his jump cuts! Hi Bre. ...

Fine. Now let's see them win on the road. Then I'll start believing. ... Bob rightly notes the second team won it for the Celts. Their stellar play was the most encouraging aspect of last night's win. First team comes out flat? Send in the second wave. Second team tires out? Send the first team back in. Wear 'em down. Overwhelm 'em with assault waves. ... Why are people picking on Doc? He's made some mistakes. But I like what he's done. And stop picking on Rondo. ... Update -- Adam has other blo...

Random thoughts: I'm not quite sure why, but the photo at the right really struck me. There's something about it that reminds me of Serbian death squads from the 1990s. Except they're Iran-backed Hezbollah thugs now in the process of seizing Lebanon. Not the type of fellows you want running a country, right? ... The Hub Blog mind then drifts to this Tom Friedman column bemoaning, among other things, our energy policy that boils down to begging Saudi Arabia to alter its oil-production policies. ....

Want to know why the Massachusetts Republican Party is starting to resemble a dinosaur? How about legislation aimed at helping to sell more cigarettes? A Republican-sponsored amendment stuck inside the Massachusetts Senate's corporate tax reform law would eliminate a minimum pricing law tacked on in 1945. Opponents say it would negate the cost of the $1 per pack planned cigarette tax increase and keep prices on a par with butts sold in New Hampshire. Helping the convenience stores along the bord...

I'm beginning to think that people who happen to have read this thing are coming in to Toro and fucking with me, perhaps in an effort to see if I'll actually end up writing about them. This may sound paranoid and nutty, but I have had some weird interactions lately that have led me to this conclusion. Examples: #1: Last week a perfect stranger left me a 100% tip for no reason. I was slammed when they sat down so there wasn't much time for sweet talk, though I was courteous, cordial, and attentiv...

Here's an e-mail from author Scott D. Pomfret. I'm setting up an interview with the satirist for EDGE: I'm reading from my new book "Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir" on 1 p.m. on Monday, June 9 at Borders Books in Downtown Crossing and at 7 p.m. Friday, June 20 at Calamus Books, 92B South Street. If you're interested, I'd love for you to come and post on the events. "Confession" is a funny, irreverent faith journey by a gay Catholic pursuing his Archbishop in the style of Michael...

As part of my new job, I’ve been reading up a lot on student loans and how they’ve been affected by the recent turmoil in the credit markets. Turns out that a lot of lenders have been pulling back on making student loans, even those guaranteed by the government, because they simply don’t have the liquidity to do more business. FinAid.Org has a list of what happened when, and looking through it, I was surprised to see this: An Form 8-K SEC filing by CIT Group attributes $120 mi...

Everything seemed pretty normal on Comm. Ave. tonight as a strolled up to a sub shop to grab a sandwich while Mrs. OL was working late. The only thing that seemed unusual was the street cleaner making endless passes on a street that is usually neglected. That and the six TV satellite trucks parked on the median to the service road and across the way in front of Comm. Ave Associates. At least there wasn't an SUV still in the window. It appears Timothy Newton is about to become a three-time loser....

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let those of you that read this blog via email or RSS that I've added a new widget to the upper left hand side of the blog that provides links all the movies that currently being filmed in the area. Hopefully that will make the information a little bit more accessible. My end goal is to create a bulletin board or forum section for this site that will allow everyone to post their celebrity sightings and/or questions (amongst other topics) in a more organized fashion ...

Something’s been nagging at me for a few days now, and it just keeps resurfacing. In the news, on the blogs, and even in my own personal life. It has to do with words. In my own life, I don’t use words that implicitly refer to an underrepresented and/or minority group of people – even if these words have been adopted by mainstream culture. I don’t use words that backhandedly belittle and degrade the lifestyle and mannerisms of a cultural group and its members, particularly when this gr...

Ever since Abercrombie & Fitch returned to Faneuil Hall, I'm transported back to junior high dances each time I exit through the back of our building. Our 7th and 8th grade dances were held each month in the gymnasium and were the social events of the year. Although there were no stated dress codes for these dances, both the boys and the girls all showed up wearing variations of the same outfit: Umbro shorts and t-shirts, which were preferably Umbro as well (although, Hypercolor and tie-dyed...

Kidding! It's called the Sticky & Sweet tour, after her new "Hard Candy" album, and she'll be rolling it into the TD Banknorth Garden on Oct. 15. Tickets are $57.50-$352.50, and they go on sale May 17 at 10 a.m. at the box office and Ticketmaster, which is 866-448-7849 or ticketmaster.com. There's all kind of presales and resales and crap. For details hit livenation.com or madonna.com. ...

For those of you that actually have to dress up for work everyday (thank goodness I work in an office alone most of the time when I'm not traveling) you might want to stock up on some shirts this weekend. Brooks Brothers is doing their Friends and Family weekend starting today 5/8 through Monday 5/12. I swear, my old roommate used to pretty much own that entire store in his wardrobe. He had a lot of good things to say, though, about those non-iron shirts that they have there. Which would be g...

I've been very busy behind the scenes and can't quite get it together to put up the posts that I had planned on. I guess in time. Unfortunately, patience is not my virtue. If there is any trait that must be my life's work, it's patience. I think I have the shallowest reserve of anyone on the planet. Well, this about what I can muster for today and it will just have to be enough. My perfectionist tendencies are SCREAMING for me to do more. But for now, I'll try and let it be. Anali's First...

I'm not sure what the event organizers were thinking when they did this, but who knows - maybe there's a lot of folks out there who don't plan on spending Mother's Day with their mothers. Or perhaps there are a lot of mothers out there that would like to go to Harvard Square this Sunday and listen to some live music. The 25th Annual MayFair has been rescheduled and will be taking place this upcoming Sunday, May 11th in Harvard Square. The event features "six stages of LIVE entertainment, 30+ R...

This is surreal. Casino supporter Hal Brown, who has compared opponents to the Ku Klux Klan, and Middleborough selectman Adam Bond, who has compared them to Nazis, are going to talk about "the sociopathology of internet abusers and why they feel compelled to do it" at 11 a.m. today on Bond's radio show, "Coffee Shop Talk," on WXBR Radio (AM 1460). It seems that Bond and Brown are very excited over this story in the Taunton Gazette about Michael Quish, a limousine-compa...

When last I left you, I had no voice. Or, at least, I had very little voice. This was not a good thing. I use my voice to make my living. I had lost my voice via the expedient of shouting exhortations and curses. This was during game seven of the Boston Celtics NBA playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks. The exhortations, which were directed towards the Celtics, and the curses, which were ...