Louder Than Bombs
Still eating the garlic spaetzle, this time with brown gravy.

Street musicians in Boston can no longer use amplifiers, I heard on the news. Well, the ones under the street, that is. Apparently some anti-terrorism task force recommended that they be barred from performing on subway platforms. But since that seemed too severe they decided they could stay, but they have to be quiet, so people can hear the unintelligible overhead announcements. (What a great idea! Since the War on Terrorism® is going SO well we can now afford to concentrate on Boston's subways, instead of the entire countries of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the whole Middle East, for that matter.)


The holiday meal