I’ve started a new blog called Nifty Thrifty, geared towards college-aged Bostonians who constantly strive to have fun in spite of being constantly broke.

http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/
http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/
http://niftythriftyboston.wordpress.com/

Please check it out if you enjoy mouth-watering foodie pictures or silly plays-on-words about Boston’s Gay Pride week. And please leave feedback with your own suggestions for being broke in Boston! This project is for my New Media class and I’m graded on YOUR participation so I would appreciate the comments :) Thanks!

l’m not a huge fan of politics, but I am planning on checking out Sarah Palin’s rally at the Boston Commons tomorrow (Wednesday, 10 am - 1 pm). I’m not a fan of Gawker, either, but they do have a fairly funny “Tea Party Dictionary” up. Some of my favorites: 

Communism: Is used to define any plan or program, usually put in place by the government, that has any aspirations to help the poor. The word ‘red’ and the phrase ‘redistribution of wealth’ are also regularly applied. All are meant to imply that the ordinary business of a capitalist government, to provide the things that the free market does not, is sinister and evil. Draws on mythology created in the 1950s and 1960s.

Freedom: Is defined as the rights of any individual to do anything, without government interference, as long as those things do not include falling in love with a member of one’s own gender, or deciding to get an abortion.

Marriage, Sanctity of: Any mention of this phrase is code for ‘I don’t know what’s right, but I know that gay people freak me out and and make me feel funny, and it just ain’t right and it shouldn’t be allowed’.

Check out the entire dictionary here - complete with corresponding pictures of ironically, but unintentionally, misspelled Tea Party signs.

This Jamaica Plain band, Earth People Orchestra, doesn’t make music together anymore, which is somewhat tragic considering they did not record any official releases, just this collection of songs from WMBR Radio in 2008 (which I highly recommend you snag; it’s good audio quality and pretty perfect). In a way, though, the brevity of the collective makes the music all the more special.

The phrasing and feeling from 2:31 is so incredible it gives me chills, and the noise of the T can’t overpower their harmonies. I wish more bands like this posted up in subway stations! Boston could use it.

our lungs are straining from maintaining vibrations from certain frequencies;
will you assist us, please?