Some favorite sites
- A Life's Work
- Brainiac - Ideas from academia
- CommonWealth magazine
- Extra Criticum
- Frying Pan
- Joe. My. God.
- Media Nation
- mennonno sapiens - one giant leap for mankind
- New England Folklore
- Phlog (Boston Phoenix)
- strange maps
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Talking Politics
- The Classic TV History Blog
- The House Next Door
- TV Club - The A.V. Club
- TV Guidance (Jaime Weinman)
- Universal Hub | All Boston, all the time
- Viewer Discretion - The Boston Globe
Recent Posts
- Unless Im in a suit,
- The Herald's hack obsession
- Massachusetts takes the president down a peg
- Scott Brown, the primal scream, and the nuclear option
- Brown takes lead, universal health care takes a dive
- Coakley's impression on one P-town/DC correspondent
- Still worrying about shrillness
- Scott Brown as Goliath killer?
- Politics not his strong suit?
- Judge rules against Catholic college's plans for retirement community
Television
- How has the culture of TV (and TV-watching) changed? (The A.V. Club)
- The secret behind TV's obnoxious male leads (Matt Zoller Seitz)
- In Defense of the Multi-Camera Sitcom (Jaime Weinman)
- David Brent helps scientists understand why grandparents can be embarrassing
- A Very Special Episode (The A.V. Club)
- Harry's Law (actually about TV's bizarre ratings system) (Todd VanDerWerff)
- Undercover Black Man: Thoughts on theme
- 22 TV Opening-Credit Sequences That Fit Their Shows Perfectly (A.V. Club)
- South Dakota Dark
- What's Alan Watching?
Favorite places
- Alan Ilagan
- Chicago Metblogs
- Gay Village, Montreal: Un monde, Un village
- Greenwich Village Daily Photo
- Magog & Lake Memphremagog
- Maine Public Broadcasting Network
- montreal city weblog
- New Orleans: Best Of New Orleans Blog
- New York City Metblogs
- Providence Daily Dose
- Provincetown Banner
- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Online
- Roanoke Times
- Boston: Shopping Days In Retro Boston
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Washington D.C. Metblogs
- Washington Heights & Inwood Online
Music
Of note elsewhere
- A History of Tipping (The Smart Set)
- Bars without TVs in Boston (Universal Hub)
- Hey Everybody, Let's All Go To The Beach And Complain
- Le Drive Storrow
- Dogs smarter than cats, study claims
- Gene Weingarten on web comments: Sirloin steak with a side of maggots
- How facts backfire - The Boston Globe
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook (Cory Doctorow, 2007)
- Metal detecting: The world's worst hobby (Emily Yoffe, Slate Magazine)
- Montreal's condoplexes (Christopher DeWolf, Urban Photo)
- No coverage is a chronic condition (Clif Garboden, The Boston Globe)
- Railway car churches
- So You Love Punctuation? Write a Letter to Your Favorite Mark
- The best vacation ever - The Boston Globe
- The Coolest Locksmith Shop in New York City (Scouting NY)
- The Dogs Who Ride Trains
- The Other Detroit (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
- Walking in Boston (mennonno sapiens)
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Notable work
- MassINC's Middle Class Index
- "Next stop: Downtown Noshing" (Boston Globe)
- "Diversity density" in Boston and elsewhere (Boston Globe Ideas)
- A typology of stupid sitcom characters
- Where were Obama's biggest gains for the Democrats in 2008?
- Everywhere an outlier: What each state does best in presidential politics
- I hate TV (Salon.com)
- David Sedaris gets naked
- Demographics and political destiny - The Boston Globe
- 10 regions of Massachusetts politics: How Deval Patrick won
Categories
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