One of the things about writing about commercial real estate every day is that you pay close attention to buildings – where they are, what they do, how they interact with their surroundings, and how they look.
So when I was at the Copley Marriott yesterday for Drew Faust’s speech, I’m riding up the elevators, looking [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Grooming'
The Mullet-iest Hotel
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:Architecture·Grooming
Scribe: Unimpressed
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Here is a video in which Boston’s favorite former Herald business editor shrugs off the whole “Sexxxy haircuts too sexxxy for Mansfield?” controversy.
Cosmo has read the morning’s Herald. He has seen the photos of the devilish she-barbers in question. And his conclusion? He’s seen cuter women at Supercuts.
A New Leader in the Stippled Portrait Clubhouse?
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Back in February, this blog noted the appearance of a kids-smoking-pipes trend story in the Wall Street Journal.
It was accompanied by one of those old-tymey stippled illustrations of a pipe – one that was captioned, simply, “PIPE.”
Today marks the appearance of a different trend, and a different inanimate object is now on the receiving end [...]
The Plot, Uh, Thickens
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
What do Jim Marzilli, a middle-aged Miami schools administrator, and a Globe metro reporter allegedly have in common?
Click here to find out. (Not safe for work. Or, I can only assume, your job security.)
Well, Do You?
June 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
One final, gratuitous note to end an entirely gratuitous week of assaults on the beleaguered, possibly-ill State Senator Jim Marzilli: Smoking Gun-style documents from the Lowell PD reveal a few choice quotes that managed to evade published reports. Two stand out.
The victim who delivered that epic hooker line (would that we were all so quick [...]
Tags:Grooming·Legislature·Pervs