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Sure, you know things are bad. You've heard stories from friends and family about getting laid off and have read news pieces about cutbacks at factories in some part of the country far from where you live. But, as dry as much of the Federal Reserve Beige Book can be, there's something calming about its comprehensiveness, a sense of solidarity in misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over...
...fame, directed from the wildly admired comic-book serial written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons--can't match this Mach 2 ride through alternative history. Nor is the movie likely to live up to the hype it and its source novel have generated. Derisive laughter was heard at a critics' screening, and a Hollywood Reporter review predicted that the film--budgeted at $100 million and the object of a rights wrangle between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox--would be the "first real flop of 2009." (TIME's Lev Grossman offers a fan's review...
...last year. Muller added that she also worked at a Life is good store in her hometown of Greenville, S.C. which, though still open, is also struggling. Some shoppers at the closeout sale were wary of purchasing the products, despite slashed prices. Mariana Toledo, a Cambridge resident who had heard of the sale, came and left empty-handed. When asked if she would have felt more inclined to express herself through her t-shirt if the slogans had greater variety, like “Life is Average” or “Life is Not So Good Today...
That's right, the designer of the t-shirt—who also happens to be Crimson Business Manager, and claims the idea was his roommate's—voted against his own shirt, and was heard expressing sentiments too vulgar for print upon learning of his victory in the design derby...
This is probably the coolest design from an artistic perspective ("Where the Wild Things Are"), but we don't really see the Mather connection. Last we heard, the Wild Things (roaches, obvi) made their home mostly in Lowell and Winthrop. Maybe those stalwart creatures have finally found a way to live in solid concrete...