Anybody else remember when the neon Shell sign on Memorial Drive in Cambridge had the “S” out? Seemed like more than a decade it was advertising “HELL” by the foot of the BU bridge.

Have fun!

Hooray!!

Aw man I forgot the “special” fun the city is when it is a sloppy mess of ice and snow and everyone is a drunken sloppy mess.

Green vomit on ice is something you try to forget.

That particular intersection is some of my own worst close calls on a bike.

I avoid the shit out of that stretch between the museum and the bridge.

well now I’m hungry.

Colette and Beatrice are same owner?

So I don’t have recommendations but I do have a rant:

What the fuck Cambridge!?! Why the fuck aren’t there more covered patios? The weather is historically unpredictable so providing some kind of covering would seem like a simple way to extend the utility of outdoor spaces. But do we have that? No. Just look! Our neighbors have better options.

And honestly the amount seems to be dwindling over time.

I demand a better class of covered out door dining! More!

The rant will continue until options improve.

Have you tried violence?

Yes.

Yes, I would slap the name of my city out of their mouth for that.

Lots of multimillionaires with Honda Civics in Cambridge.

Buy a reliable car with all cash and then never think about it again until you do it again two decades later.

Cars, clothes, and other extravagant displays of wealth offend both WASPs and Academic sensibilities.

If it’s your hobby then fine but we’ve got a noticeable lack of car consumer culture here.

I thought everyone who grew up in the shadow of winter hill learned the same shit; rats get dead.

Harvard owns more real estate in Allston than in Cambridge.

Take a look at Harvard’s plan for developing that land.

They’re already doing it.

They’ll never give up the Cambridge campuses for undergraduates but the majority of future expansion will take place on the other side of the river.

As long as everyone drives like an asshole we can all safely drive like assholes.

And honestly it seems like it starts going to shit by lunch.

93 and Pike at least start getting “evening” traffic so early.

Is everyone trying to get to Maine or the Cape at the same time or some fucking thing? Early lunches in town? Friday errand day for fucking everyone?

That’s a great time for Salem!

I LOVED les sablons and had the pleasure of chatting with Jackson at the bar a few times.

Looking forward to their next bar.

Don’t plan to drive on Storrow, Soldiers Field, or Memorial Drive. Or try to drive across the Charles or through Harvard Square. Probably heavier than usual traffic on Mass ave and the highway access areas.

It’s not move-in or graduation but it is up there with like harvard-yale or Boston Calling.

Also if you don’t have a hotel room ya fucked.

Better? If you are outside of Harvard Square in Cambridge you won’t even notice it is happening unless you try to cross the Charles between the BU bridge and Watertown. Or try to go out to dinner.

Harvard graduation week is more disruptive.

While you may not be I guarantee you the rowers are.

Fucking Olympic village levels of fucking going on this weekend.

Tall lanky people hooking up in every private corner of harvard square I tell you what.