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Today is Groundhog Day, also Candlemas.

In a show of rodent solidarity, both Punxsutawney Phil and Wiarton Willie have independently decreed: Spring will come early this year.

Damn, I was hoping for a cool year ahead…

It’s the Superbowl this year, by the way. It just happens that the finalists are the two teams from the two closest cities to here in the cornfield. Spirits are running really high on campus…

al-mooninites, originally uploaded by jburwen.

If you don’t get it, read the news about the advertising blitz which turned City of Boston officials into scaremongered panicky button-pushers.