Word: transitional
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...sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those who created the dumbest of the comic books," says the nameless sniper, "created our present." One day, the friends are watching...
...Healy wrote that “the design [for the project] is already at 100%, but due to a $1 million funding gap we are not able to move forward.” With the newly-announced funding, that gap is filled. The funds, which come from the state Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program, will go primarily toward improvements at the intersection of Mass Ave. and JFK and Brattle streets. The walkway connecting Out of Town and the Coop—which an Improvement Project report has dubbed “the super crosswalk”—will...
...offers a potent, less polished version of their sound. Foregoing the long, clever track titles of “Deja Entendu” (“Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die,” “Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades”) in favor of short, concise names, the album’s lyrics, while still catchy, lack some of Brand New’s previous ego and cuteness. Even the album cover evokes a slightly creepy, “Donnie Darko”-esque...
Commuters who wait at the Kendall Square T-stop have an aural distraction that is unlike amateur subway guitarists or the tunes emanating from their iPod earbuds. Since 1984, a contraption that melds high-culture art, physics, and the grime and tumult of Boston’s mass transit has amused and frustrated subway riders...
...just tap and go.” That’s what the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) “Ambassadors” were telling bus and subway riders yesterday morning as they distributed plastic CharlieCards to launch a new ticketing system. According to MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo, the CharlieCard—a new bus and subway pass that features an embedded microchip with the card’s value–will improve efficiency and revenue collection. Beginning in January when fares are set to hike, riders who continue using paper CharlieTickets or cash will pay an even...