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Looks straight out of 1993 and I love it.

Just got back from the IndyCar season opener in St. Petersburg over the weekend. The race takes advantage of Albert Whitted Airport's position along the eastern edge of downtown to create a circuit using one of it's runways, up 1st St., around Pioneer Park, and back down Bayshore. I got in a day...

What's with the insistence on the different cladding up top? It looks unsettling, like a parasite is emerging from the masonry section.

I always wonder how these "sell x% of total as electric" laws are enforced. Is that actual sales to the public or is it just that dealers offer that many vehicles? Just because a product is on the shelves doesn't mean the consumer is going to buy it. You can't legislate demand - you have to make...

Those photos exude a weird form of impatient nostalgia to me - the Big Dig had just wrapped up and the new projects that would define Boston going forward were just getting started, but to that point everything still felt "the same". They're from a couple of years after I graduated BLS ('03) but...

The DCU Center today. Still the basically the Centrum, but a little nicer. I wish they had kept the bigger lobby in the renovations a while back so you weren't forced to wait outside in the cold for the doors to open. I also miss the old school message boards (and the warmer color scheme) on the...

There's a bit of Fenway to that place. In fact, baseball is probably closer overall to the vibe that a lot of those old soccer stadium have. There's more parallels to Anfield in Wrigley than there would be in, say, Lambeau.

I think the differences in stadia speak more to the structure and history of soccer in Europe vs the structure and history of football in the US. Many of the teams over there are decades older than any NFL team, and the promotion and relegation system puts different stresses on teams than the...

Some of the college basketball arenas have some wild balcony setups - Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium is almost like a theater, with the balconies right on top of each other (image from https://vucommodores.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/memorialgymrecoated83111.jpg):

Holding my opinions on that until they get the whole thing up. Sometimes they caulk those gaps and if they do so and choose a lighter color it won't be as visible.

Some of the cooler arena/stadium wide shots I've gotten over the years at various monster truck shows. Dad actually took this first one, the Centrum in Worcester (current DCU Center) in 1993, where it forever stays in my mind. It isn't terribly different now but I do miss the old...

I've always wanted to bring up stadiums and arenas on here but thought it was too niche of a topic. I have a specific fondness for them as a monster truck fan, since unlike other motorsports most monster truck shows are in these types of venues. That's one of my big knocks against the TD Garden...

The two smaller buildings behind the Garden - what were those, and were they there right up until they started building the new arena? I never realized they were there.

Cool article on A Sanctuary Cafe on Charles Street. The wife and I spent some time with the cats a couple of weeks back and it was a great experience. Also, they have a tea mixed with cider that is simply phenomenal...

I went to SX at Gillette a couple of years ago and had a good time, despite not being a motorcycle guy. Feld promotes both SX and my beloved Monster Jam so it was interesting to see the similarities and differences in presentation. That frontstretch infield grass is way, way bigger than you'd...

I made the trek back down to Daytona for the Rolex 24 again this year to do it the right way, and while I was down there I decided to take some shots of One Daytona, the new-ish complex across the street from the track. The centerpiece is the Daytona Hotel, a very tony place that probably...

That gives me "old signage in the New England Aquarium" vibes. Looks more retro, somehow.

From the Common garage on Sunday.

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