by Al Belote | Jul 15, 2009 | cars, Uncategorized
View Larger Map I was just reading about...
by Al Belote | Jun 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite places for breakfast is the City Room in Nashua, NH. And I can prove it. Pictured above are just a few of the many receipt tabs that I save every time I go there. It’s a place that still has actual written-out dining checks, so I always grab...
by Al Belote | Jun 11, 2009 | architecture, Uncategorized
While I’m giving accolades to the Admin building, here’s another view, framed by its neighbor across the Plaza, the Colonnade building. On a cold gray winter day the Colonnade looks like part of a battle-damaged science fiction movie spaceport....
by Al Belote | Jun 10, 2009 | architecture, Uncategorized
Few people I have talked to in passing love it. Most would say it is stark or brutal (true to the style) or comment on the “unsightly” weathering of the concrete. But I happen to love it, in spite of those qualities. Perhaps, in part, because of those...
by Al Belote | May 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
A long, long time ago for a couple months I worked the grill at Howard Johnson’s on the Mass Pike near the Natick exit. I had the crazy idea that I could work the 11pm-7am shift and look for a “real” job during the day (this was just after college)....
by Al Belote | May 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hardin, Illinois – I had breakfast here while the regulars talked about whether society or the individual is at fault in the case of bad behavior on the part of teens, and whether you should kill a beaver or an otter and skin and eat them when you’re...
