Maybe this interests no-one but me, but these are the top terms for 2006 that people have used to come to the blog from search engines. (I’m not sure why Google Analytics can’t figure out how to decode the plus sign). I have no idea why #1 is #1, and it makes me vaguely queasy that so many people are searching for it. More disturbing is #25. But otherwise, it seems about right.

(PS: It’s an image so that the words don’t get indexed, skewing future search results)

I apologize in advance for linking to UK tabloid The Sun, but I’m not sure what’s funnier, a drunken David Hasselhoff shouting “Do you know who I am? I’m the Hoff!” or that there was an 80’s cop show in Britain called “Dempsey and Makepeace”.

Happy Independence Day! In general, it’s the patriotic holiday I feel like I can really get behind; it celebrates a revolution whose vanguard included a bunch of Massachusetts liberals with a fair bit of a libertarian streak.

Today, I have been reading that there is somewhat of a huff in conservative blogs about the “… and the American Way” dropping out of the new Superman movie. This one takes umbrage at the way Hollywood has caved to commercial pressure for foreign markets. But honestly, that’s a silly argument to make; they could and probably would have done that anyway, since the “offending” phrase could easily be modified when dubbed into Greek or French or Arabic or whatever, or edited it for Canada and the UK, and no conservative blog would have bothered to find out.

I think it’s irksome, too, but it’s irksome that the writers/directors consciously did not include it, even in the American release, because it’s antiquated. Can’t we even pretend, in a movie by us and for us, a fantasy movie about a guy from another planet who can fly, that America still stands for Truth and Justice?

If we can’t even fill our heads a bunch of capitalized abstractions like Freedom and Equality and Justice and Tolerance and Liberty and Human Rights and pretend that our country stands for them, what chance do we have of making it so?

Greetings from Darwin’s on Cambridge Street, Cambridge. It’s pleasantly and surprisingly uncrowded, and the Wi-Fi is free, so we’re having some afternoon coffees and poring through our California books to see what we want to do for our big California vacation in a few months (to celebrate 5 years of marital bliss). We had some sandwiches for lunch, I went off to get a haircut at Custom Barber Shop in Harvard Square, where I’ve been getting my hair cut for 9.5 years, picked up the car in the lot at Central Square lot, where we parked when we went to the gym, and had no trouble getting another spot right in front of Darwin’s. Good conversation in progress. Planning is going well. Of course, it helps that Terri is a great trip planner, and already has things very well thought through.

The entire city is blissfully free of both students, who are gone for the summer, and townies, who are away for the long Independence Day weekend.

On July 9, I’ll celebrate 10 years of living in the Greater Boston area.

Music on rotation here:

• Repo Man soundtrack
• some Dylan greatest hits thingie
• the recent Morrissey album
• for better or worse, Bob Marley
• some band doing a cover of The Passenger

I guess we’re starting to audition new hangouts, or getting used to there being no Someday. At least I am.

from still other blogs. And actually the most useful info I’ve seen to date is at a LiveJournal discussion…

In the Globe and in The Herald. And other blogs.

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