Happy Valentines Day

What better way to celebrate the so-called holiday than with a photo of The Cantab in Cambridge, a constant source of heartache for me in the early 2000's. 

Places I Revisited in 2025

Events both joyous and sad led me back into Cambridge this past year, which felt good. I don't know if I ever really wanted to live in Cambridge, but it's a place I love visiting. I used to go every week when Stone Soup was at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, then that went away after 2017. It felt good to be walking its streets even semi-regularly for a good chunk of the year.

Not Art Found Here

Spotted the work of Not Art on the Mass Ave bridge from Boston to Cambridge.

Let's Start the Day with More Words

Another poem by Boots found in August while walking around Cambridge.

Your Weekly Dose of God

Saw this before heading home from Cambridge last night.

From Cantabridgia

Caught some more work by Boots from my time in Cambridge this summer.

Lifting My Spirits

To cheer myself up, I'm sharing this great origami artwork I found in Cambridge. 

Rendered Unsaid

Captured in Cambridge. 

 

This Shirt

 

Thinking about the late Tom Tipton and numerous Out of The Blue Art Gallery moments. As I said before, for every insanely wonderful moment, there was another "Dude, what the hell?" moment. Take this shirt I took a picture of back in March 2015 when it was still in Central Square Cambridge. The saying on the shirt "You won't wear a shirt, and you'll cry" is from a Patton Oswalt routine (put the words in YouTube, you'll get it. Not the best look to attract passersby on Massachusetts Avenue. I posted this on Twitter back then and tagged Oswalt. Not surprisingly, there was no response. To be fair, I would have worn this shirt. Indoors.

Deep Drive Dive

Been going through old thumb drives. Found this picture of what was likely a wall inside the bathroom of the Out of the Blue Art Gallery during its time in Central Square Cambridge back in September of 2016. 

The cat outline in red is for a band I've never seen, The Basement Cats, which could have been formed at the Out of The Blue's old Prospect Street location in Cambridge, given the amount of cats down in the basement and in the gallery. 

The dog outline in green with the Out of the Blue's name on it is clearly a tribute to the gallery owner Tom Tipton and his series of giant dogs over the years which also had free reign in the gallery (thankfully only one at a time).

The Basement Cats still have a website and an Instragram page. Whether it's the same band or just incredible coincidence, I cannot say.

I Missed Cambridge

At least their sidewalk clocks tell the correct time. 

Wonderful

Thanks to Toni Bee and Dr. Nicole Aljoe for a wonderful evening with "Beefound: Washington and Wheetley Write." If there's a YouTube video following last night's live stream, I'm definitely posting that as well.

 

This Thursday: BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!

Still happening. Hosted and featuring Toni Bee. Also featuring speaker Dr, Nicole Aljoe. Supported by Writers Without Margins, Stone Soup Poetry and Poets in the Garden. Click here for more information and here to register. 

Next Thursday: BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!

Hosted and featuring Toni Bee. Also featuring speaker Dr, Nicole Aljoe. Supported by Writers Without Margins, Stone Soup Poetry and Poets in the Garden. Click here for more information and here to register. 

Across the Bridge at Sunset

 

 

Finally got a decent evening shot on the bridge leaving Cambridge before it got too dark. Only took me what, twenty years? 

Walking Through Central Square

 

 

Can't remember the last time I walked around Cambridge on a Saturday night. 

This Week's Friendly Reminder

I love looking around Cambridge. 

See You Saturday for Timothy Gager's Book Launch

See me this Saturday for the release of Timothy Gager's new poetry collection, Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness. Join me, Tim, Melissa Cundieff and Krysten Hill at the Remnant Brewery-Satellite in Cambridge from 2-5 PM ET.

Congratulations, Tim Gager!

I'll be part of Timothy Gager's book release, reading alongside other guest poets Melissa Cundieff and Krysten Hill. Join us at Remnant Brewery-Satellite  in Cambridge from 2-5 PM ET.

This Saturday: Poets In The Garden at the Longfellow House in Cambridge

Hosted by Toni Bee and featuring Justice Brooks, Linda Carney-Goodrich, Charles Coe, Parker-Vincent Alva. Click here for more information.