Twilight in Boston
August 18th, 2002 | by Brian |Just got back from a wedding in Boston. In the back of my head I was thinking about moving there someday. Sounds like a place with a lot of intellectuals, and two people’s unsolicited comments confirmed that. My friend who got married said Phoenix has an anti-intellectal atmosphere, and his friend from college commented, passing, that people in the area love to learn. I did not even ask.
But, there’s the taxes and humidty. As I took the tax-funded T (subway, which works well, is air conditioned, but was on time until it really mattered — when I was going to the wedding ceremony), and walked around Cambridge and Boston in search of used book stores (H.L. Mencken’s In Defense of Women for $1!! + 5 cents for damn taxes…), I kept singing lyrics of Jonathan Richman tunes about Boston (Fly Into Mystery, Twilight in Boston, New England), but “Springtime i New York” kept popping into my head because of the line about it being “sticky.” But it was a record-high weekend for temperature, so maybe that’s unusual.
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