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You guys are funny. You try to criticize what Menino - an elected official - is doing as mere political grandstanding, while simultaneously urging that "the people" be allowed to decide instead. If you believe that Menino is merely playing politics, then shouldn't you also expect "the peoples'"...

^ Holy fucking shit man

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Rule of thumb: if you have an important appointment anywhere in the Boston area, always have cash on hand for a cab just in case. That's just life in a city with a non-world class transit system. When I worked in Central Square one summer, I used to...

Haha, the real danger, of course, is drunken salarymen stumbling to gruesome death. Found an article that says between 2002-2009, 1253 incidents (either falling onto the tracks or getting hit/sandwiched by the train) were recorded throughout Japan, with Shinjuku being the biggest offender.

Stumbled randomly upon this project while wandering the borderland between Brookline and Brighton. It's at 20 Englewood, on the Brookline side. Apparently a 20 unit apartment building that replaces a surface lot.

^ The door alignment issue is an impediment to widespread implementation in Japan, where they see everything from two to six!-door trainsets on a single line, but they're working on it: http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFK0903H_Z00C12A3000000/...

Pursuit of Happyness featured BART very prominently, all the way to the grungy bathrooms that a semi-homeless Will Smith used for shelter. Ironically, all or most of the bathrooms are now permanently closed - presumably as an anti-homeless measure...

I've developed an irrational hatred of Baltimore, the state of Minnesota, and Cleveland insofar as their hospitals threaten MGH's "rightful" place as man's greatest. And I'm not even in medicine...

Awesome update. Shocked at the way Greylock turned out. WTF O_o

Oh rly, tell us more about your expertise in that monolithic culture known as "Asia" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcDcCASvGb0&feature=related

Wait, what's going on here?

Wait, you can read katakana but you don't know what Uniqlo is???

Not that I dispute the substance of your point, but...have you ever driven along 280 down the Peninsula? It's fucking breathtaking.

Triangle building replacing a park...it's a beautiful thing.

Re: Filene's zzzzz, a real snoozer. But I lack the energy to complain about the Hole getting filled. Just build it.

Awesome pics! I'm glad you seemed to have enjoyed your stay! Been in Yokohama for the past year (4th time in the country), and I've only grown more fond of the country with time. As an American on the smaller side, I admit the issue about seat width on the Shinkansen had never occurred to me...

Legend, nuff said.

That's not really the question, is it. The question is whether San Francisco has better nightlife than Boston. Now I would LOVE to see someone argue no.

But it's irrational for middle class people to avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods with failing schools that happen to be outside the vicinity of housing projects? I'm of course referring to all of those parts of Roxbury that weren't torn down during urban renewal. Say, the entire neighborhood...

Lady, your precious, out of place two story home is already being "loomed over" by a six-story building.