Boston trip gallery

[drscott]

excessor has written up the last few days of our trip, so I don't have to. With considerable effort I was able to get a gallery up using the new Mac version of Photoshop Elements -- twice as hard as it used to be. Some photos of showmeonthedoll, mondragon, trapezebear, and others in attendance.

Large Gallery

Here's Greg and Ernie while Greg enjoys his birthday cake:

Comments

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

For reasons I'm not sure I fully understand, photos of Boston fill me with a sort of sadness. Sometimes I think I'm just not sure what I was doing when I lived there, or where I was going. Not that I'm any surer now, but things feel sweeter and cozier for me in Minnesota.

I didn't know that Bertucci's and Steve's no longer inhabit their original locations. I spent so very much time at both of those establishments over the course of what seemed like many years that that photo felt like an emotional stab. It's what, 32 years since I first went to that Steve's? And the Bertucci's was just my absolute favorite place in the world when it first opened -- I will swear up and down that the current chains do not compare -- this is in part because the original Bertucci's (with it's bocci courts) was my first brick oven pizza and boy was I born to eat that, but also because that original Bertucci's used to serve a prosciutto and garlic pizza that has not been duplicated, in terms of the quality of the prosciutto and the full cooking of the garlic.

Some of these pictures are intensely evocative to me.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Not to forgot one of my favorites at Bertucci's, the three-cheese Pizza Formaggio. Sad that these wonderful places get franchised then fall in quality. No mall version of a pizza place is going to have a basement bocci court!

We must be getting old.

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

...the three-cheese Pizza Formaggio

Yes! That was my first experience with all-cheese, no tomato sauce pizza, and while I've had some excellent Pizza Formaggio's since, nothing compares with my memories of those first experiences.

This is a metaphor, right? Well, also delicious pizza.

Oh, and their eggplant pizza has also not been duplicated -- they really cooked the eggplant properly (as in for eggplant parmesan) before putting it on the pizza.

Thank goodness there's a similar place called Pizza Nea just two blocks from my new office. I know where I'm going for lunch tomorrow.

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

Ernie looks really hungry. **pagersmirk**

[kitchenbeard.livejournal.com]

He looks exhasuted, the poor thing.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

He was! Running on adrenaline alone.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I loved the shot outside "The Co-op"...there were not less than 5 people talking away on cellphones.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed your pics. I find myself staring too intently at Greg's tongue.

I know you have an appreciation for architecture... What was your impression of the Frank Gehry building? He designed the Convention Center downtown here as well as The Wexner Center for the Arts at OSU.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I didn't think his tricks worked particularly well on a building for offices and classrooms. MIT has hired the leading architects (including some alumni like I. M. Pei) to design their buildings since WW2, and in most cases the building-as-art-object trumped functionality. But here we are talking about it, so it worked! The building across the street from it, the new Cog Sci building, appears to be a much better design from the point of view of the people who use it.

But I do love his work for spaces like museums, concert halls, etc.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

His design for the Wexner Ctr is cool... the Convention Ctr looks like a loading dock at K-Mart after an earthquake.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

I love these pictures.