Just a simple series of recommendations, today. Let’s look back at some of the best Boston movies. I find that I can only take so much media speculation at times like these, so it’s useful to take a step back and just breathe until there is more factual information for journalists and news readers to impart. In the meantime, I watch movies. There are ton to choose from, here, since Boston perhaps only trail ...

As a rule, I don’t want to know anything about an actor’s personal life. I don’t like having perspective on why she chose a certain character or what was happening with him that all he did was cry his way through that performance. I want to come to each movie as clean as I can: no preconceptions, little expectation. Shoot, if I could I would remove all footage of a work from its promotional materials. I sit ...

As real baseball comes ever closer to reality (some might argue we haven’t seen that in Kansas City for decades), I find myself getting my fix any way I can. Books, music, every blog known to me, even forcing the 11-yr-old to play catch with me (oh, man, he couldn’t care less, but we’re making headway) or the 14-yr-old to play MLB 2012 (she kicks my butt). The best and most satisfying distraction for me, as ...