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Best Halloween display I saw walking around Southie.

Not the display as a whole so much (though that was cool). Check out the pumpkins.

More specifically, the pumpkin on the bottom step.

Seed-vomiting pumpkin. Genius.

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Found this around the corner from where I live in JP. Can anyone translate? Seems like an odd anti-Trump piece. God help us if it's pro-Trump.

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I come across mini-memorials like this a lot, especially in South Boston. Sometimes I can deduce who they're for. Sometimes I take a picture thinking I'm going to figure it out, which I never do.

Yesterday, I looked around Copley Square wanting to take a picture of the city at night. Then I came across this...

Hard to see from this photo, but when I came across this outside of the Copley Square out entrance, the green shoots seemed very...wreath-like.

It's as if nature remembered there being something green placed there some ago and decided to replace it all on its own, a perpetual memorial to some tragedy or string of forgotten tragedies.

That's what I thought anyway.

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I've seen job postings before but not quite like this, not like what I found sticking up outside Andrew Station. 

It's as if the owner of this new business told a young worker to make a classified. Then the worker asked, "What's a classified?" Then the owner, a little older, said something like, "It's like Craiglist, only on paper."

And the worker went with that as best they could.

Nothing else I can say, other than "Contact this place if you need a job." I mean it. I really, really like their style.

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Someone really went through a lot of effort to take the "L" and the "E" out of "Alewife." I can admire hard work in most cases. I'm just not sure it was worth it here.

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Keep in mind that the ad below comes from a company whose then-flagship restaurant took down Christmas decorations so they wouldn't offend people of other religions. I don't have anything against that decision (though they could stop forcing waitstaff to work on the actual Christmas holidays), but juxtaposed with what I saw this morning...wow, what a difference a decade or two makes.
 

Is this a sign I should do more Jesus Poems?

Legal Seafoods: Bigger than Jesus.

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Walking from Jamaica Plain to Brookline, and what do I see?
 

A bird on the fence instead of a tree.

The above pic was taken after I was surprised and backed up. I was walking along the fence fiddling with something in my pocket when my hand almost bumped the bird. The bird did not jump, did not raise a wing in surprise. The bird didn't even budge. The bird just...stood there looking at me.

"What?"

And this isn't me zooming in from a distance. the bird actually let me get in close to take the picture. Pretty fearless bird. He was still hanging there even after I took the picture and walked away.

Seen but Not Believed,

You're going to think me ridiculous, but I couldn't get over the first words up top when I first read this flyer.

And no, I'm not making fun of the grammar. I've printed (and made) worse mistakes on this blog. It just amazed me how much "Need for Sale/Toddler Bed/In Box Never Been Opened" reads like a first draft to Hemingway's six-word novel!

Inspiration lurks everywhere, friends.

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Is it me or should I be worried about the message implied about a movie that seems to be advertised exclusively on the city's garbage cans.

My girlfriend's daugher saw the movie last week with her dad. Her reaction was...cool. Good but not amazing, I think. Not enough to challenge Finding Nemo (her favorite).

Mmmmaybe I'll wait for the video release.

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Taken from the actual smoker's ghetto at my work.

For those who ask why a sign like this would exist, I wondered the same. Then I remembered that I've spent enough time around policy makers to know: if there's a sign saying don't do it, then someone, somewhere, at some time was crazy enough to do it. Often.

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To the fine folks of Northeastern University:

I know you mean well by putting encouraging messages to your graduating class, but for Pete's sake...

Why, oh why, would you put it on the side of a trash can?

If anything, put it on the side of the E Train. Urge them to leave and give Bostonians their streets back for a couple of months.

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My girlfriend's daughter was in the car when we passed this church. She busted out laughing because she thought the sign above the church's sign read, "Jesus didn't respect people. Neither do we."

I asked Molly to take a picture with my iPhone. The fact that one of her last photos settled on the "Grim Church" part of the sign is priceless.

This ought to inspire a Jesus poem or two.

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I hope to God these flags weren't stolen from headstones.

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Found this book by Burne Hogarth on a desk at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery.

Apparently, figure drawing isn't for everybody. Open the book and...

Pretty funny.

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Someone at the fortune cookie company must have taken this bit of wisdom to heart. This was the second time in as many days I got this fortune from the same Chinese food order.

 

Seen but Not (Feaking!) Believed

Taken in Southie this morning. A red wheelbarrow? Glazed with rainwater??? It really IS my birthday.

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I found this "Lost Ring" flyer taped up near the Hynes Green Line MBTA stop. I was expecting the handwriting on the paper to be nothing but snarky comments. I was very pleased to be wrong and instead find human kindness attached to someone's desperate attempt to find something that could very well lost for good. I had to document it.

It goes without saying that if you know anything about this lost ring, you should contact the number on the photo.

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On my way home form an appointment when I saw two young people looking over what very well may have been the last patch of snow in Brookline. In fact they were getting ready to photograph it. I decided to make it meta and take a picture of them at work.

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Found these in front of a yard on Green Street in Jamaica Plain.  The selection struck me as sad.  Maybe whoever had them simply didn't need them anymore, if ever.  Still, I couldn't help but feel that these were the remnants of a failed relationship, perhaps more than one kind.  a spouse and a parent maybe?

I still have all the help books from my last failed relationship years ago, as if I didn't want to give up on hope.  I haven't opened them up since and really should get rid of them but for some reason haven't.  For these to be out for anyone to grab struck me as a bold admission of moving on from past mistakes.  Good for them, if that's the case.

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This--the only copy I mean--was on sale for months at my work's canteen store.  I wonder if I should grab it for a Yankee Swap gift this year.