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Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-01-30 15:29:10 +0000

This was the same local paper that consistantly reported Brady wasn't going to start this Sunday's Super Bowl.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 15:38:38 +0000

Sure, but I still think announcing plans for a victory parade before a game happens is a bad idea (see: Rockies '07), and planning said parade for a voting day is plain dumb.

Posted by tgl on 2008-01-30 15:47:43 +0000

Really dumb to do it Feb 5th unless you want to suppress the vote which would probably be in Clinton's favor. Which Dem. does Menino support? It probably takes time to do the planning, I wouldn't be surprised if all the other parades got planned before the trophy was won.

Posted by tgl on 2008-01-30 15:55:02 +0000

Actually, now that I read the article, it was the team that specified Feb. 5th back in November. Of course, as MC points out, this is the Herald.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 15:57:56 +0000

I think he's probably for Clinton (just because Mumbles and Deval are not best of friends). It does take time to do the planning, but IMO the city/team shouldn't announce the plans until there's actually a victory to celebrate.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 15:59:05 +0000

I'll take it over the Globe any day.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 16:02:49 +0000

Also, November is when MA specified Feb. 5 as primary voting day, not the Pats announcing a parade.

Posted by tgl on 2008-01-30 16:15:17 +0000

Oops, you're right.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-01-30 16:20:06 +0000

Throwing it out there, this is the first primary I'm voting.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 16:25:24 +0000

Sweet. I'm pretty excited that MA is now part of Super Tuesday.

Posted by virtue on 2008-01-30 17:36:23 +0000

Really? I don't know how I feel about that. Of course, at this point, I find the entire primary and campaigning for it to be one big waste of, of, well pretty much everything. One big scam to keep the 4th estate in business and in collusion with the man. Although, the 4th estate appears to have been in collusion with the man since at least the spanish american war. sigh. Just 'cause the herald eschews the rigid pseudo liberal righteousness of mainstream american press (marginally differentiated counterpoints of acceptable belief over a backbeat of the same bland AP and Reuters reports) in favor of a reactionary conservative righteousness (claiming authenticity by purporting to be the voice of the disenfranchised white blue collar male) doesn't make it preferable. But I did like the shocking nuns headline, god help me.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-01-30 17:39:03 +0000

It's not as bad as this (Amazon pulled it, so this is Google's cache)

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 18:56:06 +0000

Growing up, I was always envious of the states that got to participate in the Super Tuesday hoopla. And voting is fun. You put those two together, and that's why I'm happy. It's preferable to me because it's more interesting to read (not necessarily always reliable), and I am sick of the pseudo liberal righteousness of mainstream american press. I don't read tangible newspapers much anymore (I've even given up on the free weeklies), but I'm always happy to see the Herald's headlines. The articles are just an extension of that. At least the rag has some character, it's a nice contrast to the bland, hopelessly trend-conscious Globe.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 18:58:41 +0000

If you anticipate it enough, it will come true!

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 19:47:00 +0000

At any rate, Menino in the Giants jersey is terrific.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-30 19:59:27 +0000

Speaking of imagery, I'm rather taken with this: I can't agree that it's "shocking", though. Is it the revealed knee, d'you think?

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 20:05:53 +0000

Would have been a great accompaniment to the "Church nun too happy" story.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-30 20:19:26 +0000

That Equinox gym ad is precisely what they're "nun too happy" about, apparently. I have to confess that I was consumed with curiousity at the mention of nuns and a naked man. And... was sadly disappointed that the ad featured a few of the former and barely a charcoal sketch of the latter. Boo. And hiss.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 20:31:45 +0000

I hadn't had the chance to open my Herald today. But now I'm seeing it: the full ad is more revealing, they were nice enough to include the actual naked man...from the side/rear of course, but I guess in the states we can't really get much more than that. It looks like the full ad is unfortunately not available at bostonherald.com.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 20:43:08 +0000

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Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-30 20:43:36 +0000

Since it may not be SFW, here's a link to the ad in all its glory. Enjoy.

Posted by virtue on 2008-01-30 21:06:06 +0000

The make up is what I find so shocking. That and the age of the nuns--not sure there are that many nuns under 40 in the continental us. And definitely not anglo ones.

Posted by G lib on 2008-01-30 21:17:51 +0000

OH MY GOD I'M SO RENTING SISTER WENDY RIGHT NOW I love her. From an interview for PBS: Willcock: ... One of the questions I've heard asked many times is, how do you talk about sex? How do you as a celibate come to talk about those things? Sister Wendy: This question always baffles me. It baffles me even more than this religious/secular divide, because the body surely is a holy thing. God made the body and all the body's functions, and I can't see that there's any one of those functions that are either disdained by God or should be disdained by us. Obviously the criterion is, is it great art? If it's great art, then the body is used to reveal the spirit. Exactly the same themes could be used in small art where the aim is snickering and childish. Willcock: And would you not do those paintings? Sister Wendy: I don't do art that I don't think matters, so any art that even verges on the pornographic is by definition not within my remit. But of course in museums one doesn't see vulgar art. One sees art in which the artist has seriously and responsibly looked at God's creative work and used it. So I'm still baffled at a narrowness of mind, the naiveté of thought that could see certain subjects as not quite proper either for art or for someone speaking about art. Take that, religious right! Pamsterdam, and CtP, you must be fans of Sister Wendy.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-31 06:03:10 +0000

TFC, I haven't quite worked out who you are yet, but God bless you and the makers of that ad campaign. In its full glory, it's very... satisfying. Thank you.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-31 06:10:51 +0000

Absolutely! Reminds me of when Mum took me to see Imagine: John Lennon (it was rated R, I was 15, and she didn't know that Big Gay Mark and I had snuck in to see it 2 weeks previously), and she said much the same thing about the John & Yoko lovemaking scene.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-31 13:38:50 +0000

Glad to oblige! And so you're not in the dark, I'm the gang member formerly known as cdubrocker.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-02-01 14:07:07 +0000

"Super Tuesday. Patriots parade," said Caitlin Carlson, a 17-year-old from Mission Hill, holding out her hands and weighing each option. "If voter turnout's so bad anyway and we have a parade on the same day, that's just dumb."

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-02-01 15:50:26 +0000

Oh, hi! :o)