July 1st, 2009 · Politics
Mitt Romney (who has not recently been to Argentina, and thus is having himself a pretty good month) breezed into the State House last night to unveil a portrait of what appears to be an old-ass version of himself. Haha, at least they got the hair right.
Romney’s gubernatorial portrait boasts two props, and neither of them is an armadillo. One is his wife, because hooray for family. The other, the Globe tells us, is “a leather binder that has a medical seal representing the state’s landmark healthcare legislation, approved during Romney’s tenure.”
Tim Cahill be damned, health care is key to Romney’s continued kinda-relevance on the national stage. (So is monogamy!) The fluffing he received on the subject last night helps things immeasurably.
Except that, not too long ago, Romney’s legislative counterparts weren’t so keen on letting him take credit for the state’s health care reform law. When I was researching last winter’s Boston magazine profile of then-speaker Sal DiMasi (not to be confused with this excellent post-indictment version), both Sal and Robert Travaglini were eager to say that they, not Romney, did the heavy lifting on that legislation.
Sal was particularly uncharitable. I asked him about a then-recent Time article that called health care reform Romney’s “defining moment.” The article “gave Romney an awful lot of credit,” he said, bitterly. “It’s easy to make PowerPoint presentations without specifics.”
[State House News photo]
Tags:Mitt Romney·Politics as Bloodsport·Sal DiMasi·You Just Got Nailed
Normally, when I’m walking the bridge between the office and South Station, I see various varieties of trash floating by. Not today!
Today, I saw the handiwork of some enterprising fisherman, who has dropped a lobster buoy dead in the middle Fort Point Channel, between Congress and Summer.
One question: When you haul in your catch and turn off the lights, what color would those lobsters glow?
Tags:Gross
June 28th, 2009 · Media
Hahaha! So today, the Herald’s Ron Borges smacks around infertile female/Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez.
Borges calls Manny a “miscreant” who “created his own suspension by both cheating and then being stupid enough to get caught.” And he says other not-nice things as well.
Wait. Why is Borges writing for the Herald again? Ah. That’s it. He cheated at his job, and he was stupid enough to get caught.
Tags:Herald·Manny Ramirez
June 28th, 2009 · Beer
Once every few weeks, Sunday means it’s time for me to get the kitchen stinking like hops, with everything covered in syrup and malt dust. Brew day!
Today I’m working on an Imperial Red that will be tapped in August, at what’s likely to become the rowdiest backyard wedding Mattapan has ever seen. The style also means that I’m trying to execute a few techniques I’ve never tried before. [Read more →]
Tags:Beer
June 26th, 2009 · Politics
For one, he doesn’t have Bob DeLeo attacking him as a “coke-snorting, staff-banging governor.”
That’s the lot of Patrick’s Albany counterpart, David Paterson, who’s being attacked by a state senator of his own party. Who, incidentally, was recently indicted for physically assaulting an NY Post photographer in Brooklyn. Can you imagine anybody on Beacon Hill actually trying to lay out a journalist?
Wait. Don’t answer that.
Tags:Politics as Bloodsport·Savagery
June 26th, 2009 · Media
Which of these is unlike the other?
Tags:Herald·Savagery
A beautiful thing happened yesterday: the Herald turned in the best, most succinct analysis of the wicked backroom drama currently roiling Beacon Hill.
Patrick, who once expressed a disdain for political mudslinging, already has hired the state’s top opposition researcher, David Stone, to keep any gubernatorial hopefuls against the ropes. “This is going to get nasty,” said Christy Mihos, a Republican candidate for the Corner Office. “He’s going after the Democrat Legislature each and every day, and these are folks that got him elected. He’s going to do whatever he has to do to keep his seat.”
It’s amazing the kind of journalism that can happen when both dailies aren’t exclusively devoted to slobbering all over Bunker Hill Day, no?
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Herald·Politics as Bloodsport·Tim Cahill
June 22nd, 2009 · Beer
It’s quarter’s end. Almost. The folks I cover during my day job are now scrambling around crunching revenue figures and submarket rent data.
I will respond with a run-down of good homebrews that came to be in the past three months. In the end, it’ll be way, way tastier than a look at how sublease space is totally ballooning downtown. [Read more →]
Tags:Beer
So my regular barber shop is on vacation, and I find myself at this other place down the street. I never go in there, because it looks like the type of place that’s full of filthy old men. But I’m weeks overdue and staring down a wedding this weekend, so there I am, in this shop full of filthy old guys jawing at each other.
Barber to old guy drooling on himself: “Hey! How come you didn’t shave for me today? I shaved for you!”
Old guy, wiping drool off himself: “Ah! I shaved my legs for you!”
The barber, paying no attention to the “take a good amount off the top” instructions he’s been charged with, points to the bikini calendar on the wall and yelps, “You’d shave for her, I bet.”
“Bah, I already fucking had her!”
“When, this morning?”
“Yup!”
Tags:Overheard
