The Adventure of a Lifetime

09/14/12 08:39 AM

Greetings from Praha! There’s no literary way I can start off a piece such as this that will appropriately capture how it feels to be here, to study here, to live here. No words can properly describe it and lord knows that no picture can truly capture how magnificent it is. I can say without hesitation that Prague is the most beautiful city I’ve ever been to. As a sheltered suburbanite who has never amassed any decent sum of spending cash, I haven’t been many places. Actually, my flight out of Logan and my connecting flight through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport were my first conscious flights in an airplane. I think my mother took me to San Francisco when I was still a fetus, but the view inside a womb is severely lacking. I’m counting these recent flights as the first real ones. Despite...

Welcome to the Space Out

02/19/12 12:56 PM

Welcome to my new blog. In The Space-Out I will give my take on news, sports, Suffolk stuff and the world in general. I’ll probably also post reactions to plenty of random stuff I’ve found/will find on the internet. Expect plenty of random stuff about history, future science, space, dinosaurs and deep-sea fangly1 fish. This is intended to be a lighthearted and free-flowing opinionated blog. Comments are encouraged. Without further adieu… 1  So fangly isn’t a real word but it totally should be right? Like you definitely think of very specific characteristics when you hear “fangly” and most of them apply to deep-sea critters like the goddamn viper fish ...

Tim Wakefield Retires

02/19/12 12:54 PM

So this is terribly old news by now but with the launching of this blog I couldn’t exclude one of the most important (to me, and most Sox fans I assume) sports stories of recent times. I’ve been a Sox fan since I was about 6 years old, and seen all kinds of players come and go. I have a particular place in my heart for the 1998 team though. It was the first year where I really started to understand baseball and started to recognize the bigger names on the club. In 98 they had many of my all-time favorites including: Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, Brian Daubach, Mo Vaughn, Trot Nixon, Loooouuu Merloni, Jason Varitek, Tom Gordon, Nomahhh and of course the unforgettable El Guapo. Everyone listed above has either retired or gone to different teams in the nearly decade and a...