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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
6/20/2009 11:01:28 AM
Tags: hodgman, fitchburg
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
4/7/2009 9:41:57 AM
Tags: everything is terrible, knife attack
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
3/24/2009 9:09:26 PM
I am a big fan of our reasonably-priced local movie theater, however I
feel an overwhelming desire to self-immolate whenever I'm forced to visit their website. No one should ever have to suffer through an auto-playing vanity theme song*, particularly just to find out which crappy movies are currently playing.
So as a public service, I present you with theme-song-free, easy-to-read, easy-to-find local movie listings right here at your tenth-favorite website, HelloFitchburg.com. Listings and times are updated auto-magically every morning around 11:15 am. I can't automatically filter out the bad movies, but I can provide an average of the critics ratings along with a link to each movie's trailer.
Check it out: Fitchburg Movie Listings
* Until I finish "Hello Fitchburg for Player Piano," which you will love.
Tags: fitchburg movie times, cinemaworld fitchburg
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
2/19/2009 3:09:58 PM
The mayoral race is officially underway now that Rachel Rosenfeld (aka "Really Rachel") has announced her intention to unseat Mayor Wong, so it seemed appropriate to kick off the 2009 political season with some pie and some pollin'.
Click here to vote!
Tags: 2009 fitchburg mayor race, lisa wong, really rachel
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
2/12/2009 10:39:20 AM
I'm 200 years old today (unless you count all of the time-travelin'), and since I've been looking for an excuse to post this video for 3 or 4 months now, let's just say that this is what I'd like for my birthday:
Tags: happy birthday to me, he's 200 years old, so mean he can't grow no lips
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
1/22/2009 2:25:54 PM
Tags: pre-palin
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
1/20/2009 12:42:34 PM
It's a really good day.
Tags: obama, happy things
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
12/30/2008 8:37:07 AM
Like pretty much everyone in the Fitchburg area, we were without power during December. In our case it was out for a little over a week. While we were huddled in front of our fireplace, we even joked a few times that "at least our Unitil bill will be a little less this month."
Ha.
In reality, our bill was about a hundred bucks higher than last year's. Why? Unitil estimated our usage. They couldn't read our meter because the power lines were down, so instead of estimating our usage at a similar level to the previous year, they estimated that we'd spent the month of December holding time trials for the New England Belt Sander Races in our basement.
The estimated bill has to be paid, of course, and when the meter is read again (assuming it's not estimated), we will eventually be credited for overpayment. In the meantime, though, Unitil can use this windfall cash to cover their short term expenses, like, say, several hundred out-of-state workers at holiday overtime rates. No, it's not enough that we already pay the highest utility rates in Massachusetts. We're going to foot the bill for this misadventure one way or another.
Update: Just discovered this link in the Sentinel forums, seems appropriate to add it here: http://www.unitilsucks.com
Update 2: Get rid of Unitil petition
Tags: unitil
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
12/14/2008 7:45:07 PM
This will be brief, because typing on my phone is really tedious. It's cold, and I think we're the only people left in our neighborhood. We have yet to see a single Unitil truck anywhere in Fitchburg or Leominster. National Grid is saying definitively that most customers will have power again by Tuesday. There have been no such guidelines from you, other than the rather ambiguous measurement of "days". This is helpful only in the most optimistic sense, which is to presume that "days" represents the most efficient unit of measurement available to estimate the remaining duration of the outage. Weeks, years, and decades can be measured in days. We appreciate the updates on Unitil.com, but at the current pace you're fixing problems it would take another 6.5 days to restore power to everyone in the city.
It's starting to look like you guys were caught with your pants down, and you're simply afraid to say that it's going to take a week to restore power. Prove us wrong.
Tags: Unitil
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
10/31/2008 12:46:23 PM
Tags: attention whores, nader
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
10/25/2008 9:14:04 AM
Tags: hodgman
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
10/10/2008 12:33:04 PM
Tags: don't forget to register to vote
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