Be Mine Forever

Now is an opportune time to make this announcement, since the most interested parties have recently appeared on F*c*book. I am delighted to finally announce the long-awaited winner of Ornoth’s Wedding Gift Longevity contest!

While I no longer have a record of who attended our wedding nor what gifts we received, today I can say with a large degree of confidence that we have a winner! After nearly two hundred thousand hours of continuous service—over four times the duration of our marriage—the only wedding gift that is both still in my possession and fully functional is…

… a black, cube-shaped Soundesign AM/FM digital alarm clock radio given to us by none other than the illustrious Brent Cabotjam Britton! Yay!

Thanks again to all our contestants, and hearty congratulations to Señor Britton—we hope you will accept this complimentary vintage clock radio as a remembrance!

Salted, Part 2 of n

Four years ago I made a post entitled “What a Pillar of Salt Sees”, which enumerated dozens of Boston landmarks that had disappeared. As time went on and more things changed, I added a paragraph of addendum.

At this point, that list has grown long enough to justify another whole new list to note the people, places, and things that are no longer part of the city’s fabric.

That said, here’s some of what’s changed since 2005:

Bands Bim Skala Bim Clubs Man Ray the Plough & Stars (since returned) the Linwood Grill the Littlest Bar Avalon Axis Restaurants Thornton's Fenway Grill El Pelón Taquería Rod-Dee Thai Cuisine Fenway Sorrento's Italian Gourmet the Cambridgeside Galleria Panda Express Friday's on Newbury Street Newbury Pizza the Linwood Grill James Hook Lobster Co. Rangoli Indian Restaurant the Friendly Eating Place Cafechina Commonwealth Brewery Businesses Baybank Bank of Boston BankBoston Fleet Bank FleetBoston Sugar Heaven Trani Ice Cream n-jectibles Allston Beat Krispy Kreme Gargoyles Grotesques and Chimeras on Newbury Street Grand Opening Quantum Books Marty's Liquors in Coolidge Corner Martignetti's liquors Coolidge Corner Barnes & Noble Virgin Megastores Newbury Tower Records on Newbury Street Tweeter Etc. Media Boston Globe's Calendar and City Weekly sections People Red Auerbach Miscellaneous the “Partisans” statue from the Boston Common the DuBarry mural T tokens

More recent updates can be seen at this post from 2013.