Like so many stories that end poorly, mine began on Craigslist. I moved back to Boston for my junior year of college after spending the summer working as a barista in my hometown. It was nothing new — since I was sixteen, I had worked several iterations of the typical suburban student job. So when I…

How did the Granville Street Entertainment District shrink to five blocks shuttered during the day, a 10,000-strong frat party at night? Certainly, that's how that generation-the girls out in their handkerchief-sized club dresses, bare legs, and high heels; the boys roaming in packs;-feels about the…

Table of Contents Rate this post I believe a lot about Ruin Space: the capacity for a website, a framework, or an object to be “destroyed,” such that it can be stated to be entirely in addition to the

Darryl is not really into poetry, but he’s giving it a shot for Poetry Month this year . Jonathan is a former poet and a lifelong poetry fan . Together, they may not try to take over the world, but they enjoyed analyzing Frank O’Hara so much last week, they decided to tackle a different poet today.…

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If you know more than a few LGBTQ people, chances are good that you've heard at least one coming-out "horror story." These are the sad stories in which a person who is brave enough to tell the truth about themselves is shamed, disowned, kicked out of the house, or worse. Sometimes these people come…

Guest blogger Michael Coyle volunteers for Coquitlam Search and Rescue and blogs about his experiences here. Could search and rescue be your next volunteer opportunity? In 2001 I volunteered for Coquitlam Search and Rescue. I had no idea what I was getting into. My idea of SAR was that every once in…

“A great (yet confounding) feature of much poetry is its ambiguity.”

April 18, 2013starting up Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming. Back then, as I do now, I had a daily ritual of…

It was a horrible week. Let’s leave it at that. Putting all sports and civic allegiances aside, our thoughts are with the people of Boston, and we hope that the city soon returns to normalcy, so that we may berate their teams with impunity, as the good Lord intended. We are honoured to be joined…

Credit: SB Nation Goodbyes are difficult. If nothing else, this blog is a testament to the emotional toll baseball can take on fandom, from the blow of Melky Cabrera’s suspension to Ichiro’s unexpected departure. I found myself in tears—yes, actual tears—during these moments of transition, trying to…

The language of self-discovery has to come from somewhere; we don’t invent the words to match our unique feelings. So maybe it’s not so strange for Facebook to provide users with a roster of possible emotions, reified as emoticons, to assign to their updates. The provision of a field and a checklist…

I’m a road cyclist, which means that I share the road with motorists. I ride in cycling-friendly areas used by lots of other cyclists and, for the most part, motorists on these roads know how to behave when they encounter one of us or groups of us. Not always, though. On this morning’s ride one…