Pax Arcana
A British psychiatrist recently studied 500 people in bars, and says he’s narrowed drinkers into eight categories based on how they hold their drinks. Categories include The Gossip — usually a woman who leans over her wine glass (held by the bowl) to tell secrets to her friends — and The Jack-The-Lad, who sits [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Boston’
June 1, 2009
You are how you drink
May 12, 2009
Sell me your fucking condo
Pax Arcana
Hey. Hey you.
Yeah, that’s right — I’m talking to you, numbnuts. Now turn around and wipe that smile off your face. Good. Now, put your hands behind your head and walk backward toward me nice and slow. OK stop right there.
Good.
Alright — now listen real good because I’m only going to say this once.
Sell [...]
April 3, 2009
No Leno
Pax Arcana
So the big news in Boston these days is that our local NBC affiliate says it won’t air Jay Leno’s show when it moves to the 10 p.m. time slot (Conan gets the late night gig starting in a few months).
The affiliate, WHDH, says its 10 p.m. newscast will likely draw better ratings than [...]
March 17, 2009
Self-plagiarism: Happy something day, you mackerel-snappers!
Pax Arcana
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on St. Patrick’s Day 2008. I think it says everything I will ever have to say on this occasion, and is therefore ripe for a reprint. Once I figure out how to monetize online content, I may have to pay myself twice for this — I’m not [...]
March 2, 2009
The redcoats had a lot of balls
Pax Arcana
March 5 marks the 238th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, in which a troop of British soldiers outside the Custom House fired cowardly into the mob that was, um, attacking it.
Five people were killed in the fight, and another six were wounded. Considering there were only eight British soldiers with muzzle-loading muskets — and [...]
February 24, 2009
What’s a sandwhich?
Pax Arcana
I love the salad bar at the Lambert’s on Route 1 in Westwood, but either they’ve invented a new type of lunch meal that questions you back or they need to proofread their signs better:
November 19, 2008
10 ways your children will die this holiday season
Pax Arcana
The holiday season is almost upon us, bringing with it the smell of nutmeg, the warmth of a crackling hearth, and the knowledge that your children are certain to die an excruciating and horrifying death due to your negligence.
Thankfully, the World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) is here to call attention to these rusty [...]
October 16, 2008
MIT exactly $1 million closer to athletic glory
Pax Arcana
The centerpiece of MIT’s athletic facility is Steinbrenner Stadium, named after the father of Yankee majority owner George Steinbrenner.
Wait just a minute. I’m confused. MIT has an athletic facility?
(Googles “steinbrenner stadium”)
It’s true! You can see it pictured below, just next to the Tetris Building:
Anyway, George Steinbrenner — who donated millions to build the stadium [...]
September 16, 2008
Special Ed takes one to the house
Pax Arcana
You know those lunatics that want to eliminate the Massachusetts income tax? The ones seething with rage at the idea of communal prosperity and equal access to education and opportunity and other outdated concepts? Have you ever wondered how a loose affiliation of angry people opposed to parting with fractions of cents on each [...]
September 15, 2008
Creepy doll will not sell your house
Pax Arcana
The upright and fantasmagoric Mrs. Pax Arcana and I did a little house shopping yesterday. Because we live in the greater Boston area, things in our price range tend to fall between “industrial solvent manufacturing plant” and “abandoned mental hospital” on the attractiveness scale.
So we’re open to fixer-uppers, is what I’m saying.
After lunch we [...]
