cheap_robv

Name: rob
Location: boston
Job: office dweller
Tell us about yourself: i like to play guitar, write, and find cheap fun to save my bucks for the expensive stuff...

Recent Actions

Posted The Hub-o-sphere Wants You! to Bostonist
Going forward, Hub-o-sphere will experiment by filling the weekly post with reader submissions.
Posted Bite Size News, November 23: Looking on the Bright Side Edition to Bostonist
More than a thousand families can give thanks to the Massachusetts Salvation Army for Thursday's meal. [Boston Globe]
A Vermont church is selling its prized possession to keep operating their homeless shelter. [Brattleboro Reformer]

Posted Bite Size News, November 19: Old Ironsides & Bunker Hill Edition to Bostonist

The USS Constitution will continue its traditional cannon salutes to the chagrin of Charlestown's sensitive newcomers. [Boston Herald]

Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day will still be Suffolk County holidays next year. [Boston Channel]

One million H1N1 vaccine doses have arrived in the Bay State. "Please, sir, we want some more." [Boston Globe]

Posted The Hub-o-sphere, November 17 to Bostonist

-- Alternative advice for bikers to not run red lights: only "slightly illegal." [Boston Biker] -- Danvers High can't even handle reading "meep." They passed on an attorney's email to the police. [Theodora Michaels] -- Statistically speaking, Coach Belichick wasn't that crazy. (And if they converted, everyone would call him a genius.) [Advanced NFL Stats]

Posted Bite Size News, November 16: Xmas Tree(!) Edition to Bostonist

The Macy's Christmas tree is already in Downtown Crossing, but they're waiting until after Thanksgiving to light it. [WHDH]

Faneuil Hall's Christmas tree has arrived and will be lit next week. [Boston Herald]

The City of Boston's tree is on its way from Nova Scotia. [Boston Channel]