Here’s a must mention. Over at the Boston Daily Blog from Boston Magazine, they mention the local dust-up over Sam Adams the candidate and Sam Adams the beer company. That’s not what gets me. What gets me is that the first comment mentions that Portland almost was named Boston and links to Almost Boston in the process.
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While I was off celebrating my birthday today, apparently I missed all the local excitement, as the Mayor walked out of a City Council meeting and then left the building entirely because he wasn’t getting his way. I have not all that much to say. Just go read all the coverage at the Merc’s Blogtown. I had a great deal of disrespect for the man and the rest of Team Potter during the Charter campaign, but this stuns even me. This man truly is just a schmuck of epic proportions.
I figure, given the day, I’m allowed to fuck with time zones. So the way I figure it, with last night’s game ending after midnight on the East Coast (where I was born) and tonight’s game ending before midnight on the West Coast (where I live), the Boston Red Sox have given me two World Series wins on my birthday.
I’d like to thank the Boston Red Sox for that fifth inning. If not for how long that took, Game One of the 2007 World Series would have ended before midnight midnight on the East Coast, and therefore their 13-1 win over the Colorado Rockies would not have happened on my birthday, as far as the East Coast is concerned.
Anyone know of anyplace that’s already gotten their shipment of this stuff, or rather the t-shirts? Just Sports at Lloyd Center apparently has gotten their hats, but not the shirts. If anyone’s spotted them in town, please drop me a line and let me know.
Apparently, come November 12, eight cities get Battlestar Galactica: Razor on the big screen — but Portland isn’t amongst them. Despite a couple of years now having weekly showings of entire television series on the big screen (Buffy, Firefly, Arrested Development), and despite being the founding city of (and biggest fundraiser for) the Serenity charity screenings (the movie also is a Universal property), the studio and the network think Seattle is where to do this, not Portland?
“[T]he Red Sox announced that Carl Yastrzemski will throw out the first pitch before Game 1 of the World Series,” reports The Boston Globe. This provides an opportunity to partially establish my “born and raised” bona fides, since I distinctly remember being nine years old and listening to the radio (in the dark in my bedroom in Castleton, New York) as Yaz got his 3000th hit. As always, read more via his Wikipedia entry.
Since we can’t do it for real, let’s do it the old fashioned way: By ourselves. Just visit Almost Boston, print it out, and distribute as you see fit.
Remember when I wondered why the press was referring to David Crowe of Restore America’s Bigotry as being of Tennessee? I asked The New York Times, and here’s why: “They just moved from Oregon to Tennessee.”
Obviously, that’s not a reference to the Red Sox, since there was no “almost” for this ALCS. Once upon a time, I ran a site by that name. It was so-named (as the site explains) for this reason: “In 1845, the owners of a townsite on the Willamette River flipped a coin to decide on its name. Reportedly with two flips out of three, the townsite became known not as Boston, but as Portland.”