'Girl' On A Train Reading... #TheGirlOnATrain #books #lifeartthing

You know what looks like fun this week? Ruby Besler’s Naughty Lessons at OBERON:

Ruby Besler, 1940’s sex expert, chanteuse, comedienne, and former Vaudeville star, gives ever so polite but eye popping sex advice to her devoted fans, all the while struggling with the reality of her own lackluster single life.

Tickets and more info here.

Can’t make it in person? Check out the web series!

(Plus, Wolf’s Greasy Tardy Gras Ball and its burlesque performances were rescheduled due to snow, and can be found in Somerville on Sunday.)

image credit: The Ruby Besler Show

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Arizona and Florida team Spring Training sites

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda

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very sad, indeed.

Sad bros.

Happy 140th to the Boston Globe.

Ted Williams knew how to get on base…just like David Ortiz. 

The Kid’s goal: Get on base

 An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: [Ted] Williams’s hitting credo was simple: get a good pitch to hit. Critics said he followed this rule to the extreme by refusing to chase a pitch that was even an inch off the strike zone, thereby hurting his team by having its best hitter often pass up an opportunity to drive a runner home. But Ted made the slippery slope counter-argument: that if he chased a pitch an inch from the plate, it would only encourage pitchers to throw two inches outside the zone, then three inches, and so on. History has vindicated Ted’s approach, as there is now broad acceptance of the value of reaching base, or on-base-percentage, a statistic that was not appreciated and barely even kept in Williams’s day. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams happily crossing home plate at Fenway Park, 1939. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library - Leslie Jones Collection.)

Me and #Gronk. How much fun is THAT book tour gonna be? I wish I was wrangling on that tour. I mean as much as a Gronk can wrangled. @lindahollidayofficial don't tell Pittsburgh I said that OK?

And then this happened. Just another Tuesday at the office. #Elephant #Tembe w/ @joanniejohnst & @zulunyala

That's a lot of reading...

NBA Fact: There were over 500 submissions in the category of nonfiction for the National Book Award, and the committee who decides the winner has to read all of them.

National Doughnut Day at the (soon to open) @sidecardoughnuts in #SantaMonica #sidecardoughnuts #sidecarselfie #freedonuts

You had ONE job! #SuperHeroFail #captainamerica #hawkeye #ChristmasShoppingWithFanboys