This past weekend, I was given an offer I couldn’t refuse.  My cousins asked me to be the godfather of their daughter—Alexandra—who will be born this August. Naturally, my first thought was, “This is going to make a great blog post.” Kidding. My first thought was, “Whaaa…me…kid… role model…what’s that you said? I can make [...]

Welcome back, muggles.   In this Episode of the Happy Hour, Noam Newman’s finally back and we all talk about what fantasy/science-fiction worlds we’d want to live in. We also talk about what sidekicks and maidens we’d want from these worlds. We cover Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, the Simpsons, [...]

After a long day of celebrating Patriots’ Day—some call it Marathon Monday—I sat down and watched the new HBO series Game of Thrones with a couple of my brave roommates. The show is based off of American author George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of award-winning fantasy novels. I [...]

The Happy Hour is just what you need on this rainy Tuesday in Boston! Turn it on and let your mind flow away from Marathon Monday and to the past… This week Matt Cooper again sits in for Noam Newman, and he, Brian Donovan and I talk about the girls that got away . We’ve [...]

It’s the eve of the eve of Marathon Monday. Rejoice, everyone! How many times a year can you say, “Man, I can’t wait until Monday!” I’ve only had that thought four times in life. Bet you can guess what years those thoughts happened. I don’t know that you can count this as a sunny Saturday. [...]

Tuesday marked the end of an era for my group of friends and I. We played our last intramural basketball game. It was sort of surreal. It seemed like just yesterday when seniors were kicking our freshmen butts—blowing us out by nearly 30 points at times. As the final seconds ticked down on our last [...]

Welcome back to the best place to spend a Happy Hour on a Tuesday. As usual, we’ve got some great music this week. http://vimeo.com/22412678 Special guest host Matt Cooper sits in with Brian Donovan and I as we finish up the always exciting Butler/Maid Brackets. See if Alfred Pennyworth and Geoffrey Butler can fight their [...]

Two sunny Saturdays in a row. That’s rarer in Boston than a Red Sox win. I had to, I’m sorry. Go ahead. Remind me I’m a Cubs fan. I dare you. Anyway, here are my Saturday afternoon thoughts. It’s not really the morning anymore. Today is a shorts day And sundress day—got to love girls [...]

Boy Meets World taught me a lot about life. I was talking about the show with some friends and we all agreed that people who don’t like Boy Meets World don’t have a soul. Additionally, we came to the conclusion that people who watched the show had a 96.54% better chance of turning out to [...]

Welcome back to the Happy Hour, people! In keeping with theme for the rest of the blog, we too talk about all things 90s. We cover topics ranging from huge cell phones to Corey Matthews. We even get a little sentimental and talk about what it means to be a kid who grew up in [...]