― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
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― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
yes -the roads are set up bad and the subway shuts down at 1am. Correct. But….THE REST OF YOUR POST READS LIKE A DUMB MOTHERFooCKER REDNECKNewbury vs KIMS??? What?huh? - Newbury the only place to shop in boston? Um, yeah if you are a stupid a;s tourist with no clue ..oh wait…Please. This place is fookin indy bookstore, record store, café heaven. (nyc record shops are more picked thru than boston btw…for the most part)Also: film archives, weekly kung fu filmings on weds night at allston….moody street in waltham has over 100 different ethnic restaurants.Middle east nightclub drops the fffing abomb on any DC club. What do you have? The 930club or some something? Tt the bears, the attic, the paradise . and so on and so forth.And yes, boston is no NYC. Correct. Bloody fffing brilliant. The world isnt flat either. Bears sh*t in the woods aslo.Sorry but your post was mucho dense…
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
Boston 0, Rest of the World 1.
― allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
The real golden stretch is Mass Ave in Cambridge between Central Square and Harvard Square, at least as far as used record store searching goes.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
Thanks, Dan.
Also I would like to revise my prior post:
BOSNOT U HAVE NO CHANCE
EAT DICK FAGTOGS
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
Also, this isn't true. I've been to four clubs in DC and at least two of them were better than the Middle East. Of course being as we're discussing personal preferences in barhopping and shopping, IT'S ALL PRETTY GODDAMN SUBJECTIVE INNIT. The Middle East is one of the most overrated places I've ever been! Dan Perry OTM about how a lot of these things entirely depend on your mood at that exact moment; the apparent-spirograph-cobblestone-road-system in Boston tends to put me in a mood to hate every single store I've ever set foot in there, for example.
FWIW, Kim's puts me into fits as well. Tourist. Trap. For. Hipsters. But then again I hate indie record stores to begin with so your like supposed indie record store mecca isn't really a pulling point for me to decide to suddenly like Boston, kephm.
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
yeah, true that. like life itself. yes , it is confusing as hell to get around. I still get confused sometimes when in a car...ive seen hundreds of good shows at the middle east. its sort of a dive, but some of us don't mind.
i was responding to tombot. he doesnt know what he is talking about.
goto Berks shoes in harvrd square to escape the indyfication
oonas is a good vintage(clothing) shop outside of hrvrd square...
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
Also, PHO PASTEUR! (Avoid the evil one in the Theatre District with the radically overpriced menu, though.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
My worst experience in Boston was trying to get to...the Sheraton? I think? My sister was staying there. We could see it but could find no conceivable way via roads, even using our Mapquest directions and a huge atlas map, to actually GET to the Sheraton. It appeared to be dead center in a labrynth. It would've been easier to get out of the car and just walk two miles or whatever to get to it. It was insane! I was certain it was a magic trick?
xpost: ts: "you don't know what you're talking about" vs "you have different expectations for a city than I do". The hysterical "stupid tourists!" approach is just kind of proving the Bostonites as bitter, chip on shoulder defensive assholes stereotype right which is unfortunate.
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
You guys should go to Bartley's Burger Cottage!!!! (if it's still as awesome as I remember)
Or Harvard Donut in Central Square)?? BEST FUCKIN MUFFINS EVER
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
It's not my thing; I expected different from what I received and wasn't entirely into the crowd there. Diviness or not had nothing to do with it.
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't been to Bartley's in years, but DAMN their burgers rock. Also, ANNA'S TAQUERIA!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
you peeps jsut need to follow around geeta. (from her post way upthread) she knows her stuff.
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
So anyway when we all come to Boston you guys can all chauffer us touristas around and show us all the cool shit while I stand there disgusted by the fact that you boys's idea of "cool shit" is not "shoe store" and then we'll go to good restaurant and then we will get plastered then we will retire to my hotel room and then set fire to the curtains?
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
"Also, dim sum at Chow Chow city is U+K."
(Berk's in Harvard Square is an excellent shoe store, by the by.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
Whatever. he doesnt know what he is talking about. who am i talking to here anyways? you are taking what i was saying to him and following it up with what i said to you...
I JUST mentioned Berks two posts ago XPOST : P
Bsoton is a small city. there is plenty to do. it is not nyc. seems simple enough.
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
maybe my response to tombot was what you mean by "so boston". but if you have reads any of my other posts then you might know better.
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
(ooh I just remembered: Changsho on Mass Ave near Porter Square. They had the coolest matchboxes ever made!!)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
yes, there are many preppie yuppie snotty people that are prolly rude to you when you visit. & you hate them. I DO TOO. but there are plenty of artists, writers, songwriters....nice people.
i am an artist, i dont equate my ego with my city. save that for superfans maybe. boston can be mega-rude. so can nyc. any us city i would think.
dont forget , there is more to do in nyc than boston. brilliant!go bears
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
xpost: yeah man` twin city donuts is still around
― kephm, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
Oh xpost, kephm finally figured out just what was so goddamned offensive about his fucking tone, hurrrrrrah.
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link