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• Don’t be misled by the name.

  By ljd42 on May 7, 2022

  

  The Neponset Cafe is a small Japanese restaurant in Dorchester that primarily features ramen, despite the restaurant’s name—which comes from its location on Neponset Avenue, right next to Neponset Circle. (Don’t confuse it with a very different Neponset Cafe across… Read More ›

• My next challenge: (re)reading Ulysses!

  By ljd42 on May 6, 2022

  

  Perhaps the title to this post is misleading: is it strictly correct for me to say that I am “re”reading Ulysses? Well, in a way. I like to claim that I’ve already read it one and a half times, because… Read More ›

• Revisiting Brasserie

  By ljd42 on May 5, 2022

  

  In honor of Star Wars Day, Barbara and I returned to Brasserie for our third visit yesterday. OK, I lied. It wasn’t really for Star Wars Day (but still: May the Fourth be with you). It was for another holiday… Read More ›

• A Pop History of Asian Americans from the Nineties to Now

  By ljd42 on May 4, 2022

  

  The title of this post is the subtitle of the book, even though it describes it perfectly. The much more cryptic title is simply Rise. This is not the kind of book you read cover-to-cover. It’s more the type you… Read More ›

• Are contractions bad? In a way, but not for the obvious reason.

  By ljd42 on May 2, 2022

  Oh my. Edwin Battistella begins a recent post in the OUP blog with this sentence: A few years ago, a student dropped a linguistics course I was teaching because the textbook used contractions. Yikes, can that be true? Apparently so…. Read More ›

• Gulp. Are there (were there?) special math problems given only to Jews?

  By ljd42 on May 1, 2022

  Yes, unfortunately there is (or was?) such a thing. The special problems were, of course, more difficult than the regular math problems. Much more difficult. I learned about this from Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog, where she explains “how during entrance… Read More ›

• “Yes, it’s my real name. Shut up!”

  By ljd42 on April 29, 2022

  You probably don’t believe it’s his real name, so check out the first chapter of Randy Rainbow’s memoir, Playing with Myself. He even includes a photo of his birth certificate (but Republicans will probably claim that it’s a fake—just like… Read More ›

• Looking forward to a local cat café

  By ljd42 on April 27, 2022

  What’s wrong with you, Boston? Tokyo has 100 cat cafés; Boston has zero! But that may be changing—for the better, of course, since we couldn’t have fewer than zero. Richard Auffrey, better known as The Passionate Foodie, recently wrote about… Read More ›

• Re-read a whodunit (even though you already know who done it because you’ve read it before)!

  By ljd42 on April 25, 2022

  Why, you ask, should I re-read a whodunit when I already know who done it because I’ve read it before!? The quick answer, which I mentioned in an answer to a completely different question in a completely different context two… Read More ›

• Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.

  By ljd42 on April 23, 2022

  Say what? If you don’t get it, just read it backwards! Yes, it’s a palindrome. And I just watched a movie about people who write palindromes: The Palindromists. “How nerdy can you get!”, you exclaim. “And which syllable has the… Read More ›

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