The heat is making me even crankier than usual, but at least the signs I see when I’m out walking keep me entertained.
Neatly chalked on a sidewalk blackboard in front of a bar at 2046 Mass. Ave.:
FOOD
BEER
RED
SOX
Not all of North Cambridge has succumbed to the onslaught of chi-chi boutiques selling things you don’t really need. A few places still supply the necessities of life.
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Spray-painted in neat capital letters, alternating lines painted in red or blue, on the asphalt sidewalk in Cambridge Common parallel to Mass. Ave.:
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
CORPORATE AMERICA
MAY WE CONTINUE TO
BATHE IN YOUR
GLORIOUS CORRUPTION
!!!!!
Yes, Virginia, we are in Cambridge.
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On Oxford Street, a few blocks down from Lesley University, the “Oxford Laundry Dry Cleaning Coin-Op” displays the following sign in their window:
This LAUNDROMAT WAS IN THE MOVIE “LOVE STORY”
You probably guessed that the “o”s in “Love Story” are hearts. I’m just surprised that anyone still remembers that movie.
Who doesn’t remember “Love is never having to say you’re sorry”?
Complete rubbish, that.
Of course, Hubby was born the year Love Story came out, and I was born the year before, so we’re a bit jaded. (In love, but jaded.)
ohhh, Love Story. Of course there are people who remember it. Ali McGraw died, Dan!
It was terrible. Sooo, soooo, saaaaad. And Ryan O’Neal was just bereft. Dontcha remember?
And, for a lot of us, it was the first movie with sex in it that we ever got to see.
Preppy furtive sex on a couch under a blanket, but sex nonetheless. I had to BEG Mom to see
the movie.
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Jean — I remember Mad Magazine’s paradoy of “Love Story,” but not the movie itself (probably I never went to see it).
Scott — Is that where that line comes from? Of course, my memory for movie lines tends more towards things like “Use the force, Luke” and “Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.”
Love Story: my favorite movie.
When people tell me I’m shallow, it’s for a reason.
Dan, you have to understand the depth of GenX irony, particularly us gay hip-esque urban types. Love Story makes me go all preppy and wish, just for a moment, that I had gone to HDS. Hubby has several versions of the “Theme from Love Story (How Do I Begin?)” on vinyl. Playing Andy Williams’s version now. Didn’t Glen Campbell record it, too? Jim Nabors? I prefer the Shirley Bassey for pure bombast; you’re sure she has her True Love in bits in the freezer.
Scott — Next time you’re up in Boston, I’ll give you a personal tour of the Laundromat That Was in “Love Story”. I want to see you go all preppy.