It's so creepy looking at the photos/video -- that's three blocks from where I used to live.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 15, 2013 11:01:11 am PDT #18790 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amy - Apr 15, 2013 11:03:19 am PDT #18791 of 30001
Because books.
Oh my god, Jesse, really? Yikes.
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 11:04:31 am PDT #18792 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now getting gruesome first-hand accounts of hair on fire, severed limbs, battlefield scene in front of Charlesmark Hotel.
Also...
Boston scanner: Device was in a "trash barrel ... All officers responding in the area, beware of trash containers."
askye - Apr 15, 2013 11:05:26 am PDT #18793 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Just heard from ABC - 2 official dead.
askye - Apr 15, 2013 11:05:55 am PDT #18794 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
And they had a guy on the phone who was saying his friend said there was a bomb found in a hotel near that area. The Mandrian Hotel I think.
Maria - Apr 15, 2013 11:13:16 am PDT #18795 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Good to hear from our Bostonistas. But God almighty. This is horrible.
Theodosia - Apr 15, 2013 11:14:33 am PDT #18796 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm safe here at home in Somerville, and rather heartsick.
At least with the explosions so near the finish line, there were plenty of experienced medical people in running distance. And one of the best trauma centers in America is less than a mile from there.
Just heartsick, truly.
Unfortunately, it seems that mid-April brings out the "patriotic" crazies every couple of years.
askye - Apr 15, 2013 11:15:02 am PDT #18797 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Just heard on New England News that Boston Police are confirming that they were bombs.
Jesse - Apr 15, 2013 11:15:26 am PDT #18798 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh my god, Jesse, really? Yikes.
Yeah, I was right there. But am now safely on the other side of the river!
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 11:16:50 am PDT #18799 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
BREAKING: Small homemade bomb is preliminary cause of explosion at Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials tell...
Fox News reports Massachusetts General Hospital treating 10 people with amputated limbs
I've seen one report indicating that there might have been shrapnel (ball bearings) in the bomb, which would account for the loss of limb. Sounds purposefully designed as an anti-personnel bomb to maim and kill.