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I don’t live in Boston, but I’ve been a Sox fan all my life, so I’ve certainly had my heart broken there a lot and I feel like in some small way that it’s my fuckin’ city too. So, in case you haven’t seen them, here’s the folks in Boston affirming their resilience. I mean […]

One of the unwritten rules for the Friday Night feature is that I don’t repeat an artist, but since it’s unwritten and since I unwrote it, I can break it any time I like. In any event, I’m running out of artists, though I’ve never, so far as I can recall, posted anything with the […]

I’m a strong believer in traditions, at least when they serve my purposes, and here at CTBlue we now have a tradition of posting this video on Good Fridays. I am adhering to this tradition for a number of reasons, chief of which being that it spares me from having to overtax my brain by […]

Tuesday will mark 35 years of wedded bliss for me and my girl. Well, not all bliss, especially for her, but we’ve been hanging in there ever since the JP made us legal in our living room before a crowd of four. Somehow, against all odds, she’s put up with me for that long. So, […]

Okay, these videos have almost nothing in common, except that they’re both from the dim and distant past, and there’s a bit of religion in both of them. I had to pass this along because it blew me away when I saw it on the Washington Monthly’s “Political Animal” blog. This is sister Rosetta Tharpe, […]