Dan Dunn’s Podium

Allan and BarbaraTosti
38 Teel Street
Arlington, MA 02474
781 646-4599
abtosti@rcn.com

Our daughter, Nora Tosti, died one year ago. We are planning to have a one hour candlelight vigil in her memory on the anniversary of her death, Friday night, December 8, from 7-8 P.M. on the sidewalk in front of Bournewood Hospital, where she [...]

Tuesday, November 28 - A Plague in Arlington: Coping with the Influenza of 1918
7:00 PM doors open, 7:30 PM start, Town Hall (730 Massachusetts Ave). Arlington Historical Society Lecture, Dennis J. Ahern presenting.

http://www.mcsnh.org/A Christmas Tapestry
A Child’s Christmas In Wales
by Matthew Harris with string quartet and Charlie Blood, piano
December 2, 2006 8pm St. Joseph Cathedral 145 Lowell Street
December 3, 2006 3pm The Abbey Church – St. Anselm College 100 Saint Anselm Drive

http://www.mcsnh.org/A Christmas Tapestry
A Child’s Christmas In Wales
by Matthew Harris with string quartet and Charlie Blood, piano
December 2, 2006 8pm St. Joseph Cathedral 145 Lowell Street
December 3, 2006 3pm The Abbey Church – St. Anselm College 100 Saint Anselm Drive

Check out this 6-minute YouTube video. The long-repressed mechanical engineer in me loved it. His neighbors must hate him.

One Wednesday, the Globe wrote a top-of-front-page story about Romney’s appointment of his communications director Eric Fehrnstrom to the Brookline housing authority. The story detailed how this appointment would entitle Fehrnstrom to a state pension: “While the Brookline position is part-time and pays only $5,000, the pension Fehrnstrom receives will be calculated based on [...]

Thanksgiving was the annual trip to Dedham to my grandparents’ house. The usual suspects were there. Uncle John stole the show with dessert - a three-layer cake that looked like a turkey.

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Please, someone notify the metaphor police. This photo exceeds all metaphorical safety margins.

See my Tabblo

The best links on the web have the word “unsafe“. My favorite is “Cochiken.”
I loved the theme music the first time. By the 5th video I was annoyed. Great marketing, no doubt.

There is an interesting story in today’s New York Times about Clinton’s Senate campaign spending.
She spent $30 million on a re-election campaign. That number is meaningless without comparison, so here it is: “The only other Senate candidate to come close to her spending level was Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, who spent about [...]