by | May 17, 2010 · 7:09 pm

How “Solo” Can You Go: Your Weekly Dancing with the Stars Recap

Who's going to make it to the FINALS? Photo courtesy of popdirt.com

Four couples. Four shows. Two weeks. I can’t believe this season of Dancing with the Stars has gone by so fast!

With that said, it seems there are always three couples who shine and one that just eeked its way into the semis. This season, that eek-er would be Chad Ochocinco. The clear favorite is Nicole Scherzinger, with Evan Lysacek nipping at her heels. And of course, Erin Andrews cannot be overlooked, although she did have a week in the bottom two in the not-so-distant past.

Tonight, the stars will again dance two dances, a ballroom dance and a Latin one. Tonight is also the night where the stars have to dance for 15 seconds without their partners. Yikes! Let’s get this mother going!

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by | May 17, 2010 · 8:20 am

The Freedom Trail: A Good Walk Never Spoiled

In the eight years I’ve lived in Boston (off and on), I’ve done the Freedom Trail about one bigillion times. Funnily enough, I’d never finished the damn thing. In all the times that I’ve started following that red line toward the State House, past the Granary Burying Ground, toward Old City Hall and past the Old South Meeting House, I’d never once made it across the Harbor, into Charlestown and up Bunker Hill. Until this past weekend.

With my best friend Sam coming for a visit, I was determined to finish the Freedom Trail if it killed us. And it almost did. Those 300 or so steps to the top of the Bunker Hill Monument nearly did me in, and my legs are still sore (translation: I need to work out more). But sitting at the top of Bunker Hill, with the breeze blowing and the sky a bluer blue than I’ve seen in quite some time, I knew that taking a Saturday to complete the Freedom Trail was definitely worth it.

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by | May 13, 2010 · 8:23 am

Quote of the Day

“That book is so fucked up; that story’s the worst. I mean, at the end the tree is a stump and the old guy just sitting on him #8212; he’s just used him to death, and you’re supposed to want to be the tree? Fuck you. You be the tree. I don’t want to be the tree.” – Ryan Gosling, when asked about his character’s Giving Tree tattoo in his new film Blue Valentine

My parents were never very strict, but there were certain things I was banned from reading or watching when I was little, namely because they threw me into a deep depression for weeks on end after I finished them. They go in this order: The Land Before Time, Stepmom and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.

However, Where the Sidewalk Ends was perfectly fine. People falling off the end of the earth obviously didn’t scare me as much as cancer and deforestation. I was a really mature child.

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