I did run a 5k on St. Patricks day in South Boston, it's run a couple of hours before the parade starts and is for a good cause, the South Boston Boys and Girls Club. It sold out right away as Southie is the place to be on St. Patricks day although its not my cup of tea. The atmosphere while tame compared to years ago is still a bit over the top for my liking as I gave up drinking at noon back in college so the crowd is still hard core. The city even makes the bars and liquer stores close early since so many people find a reason to get absolutely hammered on the day of St. Patrick. That should tell you what kind of behavior you get if you should choose to visit with the kiddies to see how it is done in Southie.
I just finished reading the new Whitey Bulger book by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy of the Boston Globe and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has any interest in Boston, Southie or how our government totally screwed the people of Boston by letting this animal and his like commit every crime in the book from murder to drug dealing. It is a shocking story and one that the government has been covering up for decades due to the misbehavior of of the FBI and the Justice Dept. who are complicit in all of the crimes that he was allowed to commit while the authorities looked the other way. If your not from the Boston area, you might be shocked at how this was allowed to go on but for folks around here, given that his brother was the most powerful politician in the state, this is sadly not real news but it is disturbing nonetheless.
Anyway, I am currently listening to the Pink Floyd boxed set that you can get on ITunes. It has remastered versions of every album they produced and if you take the time to just sit and listen from start to finish it really is quite an amazing compilation of music and gives you a different appreciation of the depth of what they accomplished. I don't think that my cat or my wifes birds appreciate this but it is quite good. The photo comes from Storm Studios who did a great deal of the artwork for Pink Floyd over the years and put together the slide presentation in the box set on ITunes. This picture I lifted off of someone's Tumblr page and is a fantastic bit of art.
