October 4, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 10/04/11 "The Improper Bostonian," publication September 21 – October 4, 2011/The Pine Street Inn
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I’ve mentioned before that my discussions of other people’s use of code aren't indications of my trying to use code myself.
There isn’t any code on this page that I, myself, am trying to use as code. As I've said, if I try to use code, I'll mention its presence by saying "This word or number is something that I'm using in place of a person's name or other identifier."
I wrote about the locker and shower rooms at the Pine Street Inn because there was an incident of small but specific bullying this morning, and it happened in the locker room there. The coughing and other gestures and language are also directed at me; that’s ongoing, there aren’t even a few minutes that ever pass by in the place where at least the coughing isn’t happening. It’s difficult to address because there are staff who participate in it, and because, obviously, the manager of the shelter supports harassment and child molestation. It also can be difficult to address because the bullying happens around me; coughing, and so on, or things that are said in conversation to or around me about wetness and smell, fish, pizza, and so on, but the only person who’s said anything to me directly was the staffperson who said “And so aren’t you” weeks ago when I objected to the Wet Floor signs, saying that they were disgusting. If readers remember, I was subsequently barred from the place for 2 weeks, because I had objected to the signs and the fact that they had been put around for me to see even more blatantly that morning than had happened up until then.
Most of the time, when I try to confront the bullying directly or try to talk to staff about it directly, I am met with lies that nothing is happening and that people are just coughing or whatever else it is, and then I'm accused of being disrespectful and trying to cause trouble. If I then continue to assert that I'm being abused, I risk being told to leave, even if it's at night and I'm being told to leave an overnight shelter.
That tends to be what happens everywhere that the bullying occurs, if I try to confront it directly.
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I looked at the September 21-October 4, 2011 publication of the magazine, "The Improper Bostonian", for the first time last night. It was on a table in the front lobby of the Pine Street Inn, a few feet away from where at least one Wet Floor sign always is. It seems to now be habit at the Pine Street Inn that the Wet Floor signs by the front entrance to the lobby get tied to a shopping cart at night, with a sign that says “Kids’ Barn.” There are still other Wet Floor signs around the place where they don’t need to be, still large, orange paint buckets under the toiletry table in the women’s locker room. I still get harassed there, by several guests and by some of the staff.
Everyone has to take a shower at night, and put on a nightgown and robe provided by the Pine Street Inn. You are given a bed number if your name is called during the lottery; the bed number has a corresponding locker in the locker room, where you put what you were wearing before you took your shower and put on the nightgown and robe.
The locker room is connected to the shower room by a door, and through another door on the other side of the shower room is the 2nd floor bathroom. The shower room and locker room get locked at night; they are inaccessible to guests after the designated shower time is over and people are supposed to be sleeping, and then they get unlocked in the morning.
The locker you are given is a temporary locker; you only use it overnight, as it corresponds to a temporary bed number.
This morning, when I went to my locker, I saw that someone had put a used, green packet of shampoo, conditioner or lotion that said "Olive Oil" on it in front of the locker. There was no other trash anywhere on the bench in front of the lockers.
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As for the magazine, The Improper Bostonian, publication September 21 - October 4, 2011:
The front cover shows some kind of Americanized sushi, with stuffed oyster or clam shells along with the sushi rolls.
There are 2 captions, one in black and one in white. The first one, in black, says:
“CHARTING
A NEW
COURSE
BOSTON’S RESTAURANTS REINVENT THE CLASSICS”
The second one says:
“EAT, DRINK
AND BE MERRY
DIVA CHEFS ARE OVER, FUN IS
THE ORDER OF THE DAY”
The first page shows more pictures of fish as part of an ad for a restaurant called Forum (written in gold print) whose address is given as 755 Boylston Street (black print)/Back Bay (red print).
The second page is an ad for Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams (written in white on a darker background), a furniture store.
The back cover is a Stella Artois ad. The background is mostly white. The writing is grey.
The caption says:
“New
Stella Artois
Chalice Can”
There’s a picture of the product, and then, against a grey background, it says, in darker grey:
“She is a thing of beauty”
The last page before the cover says:
“GOOD STORIES TRAVEL FAST”
In the lower, right corner of the page, it says:
“15th
ANNIVERSARY
Mohegan Sun”
It goes on to say:
“With an incredible selection of restaurants, there’s something to satisfy every appetite. From lobster at Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain to filets at Michael Jordan’s Steak House. Among life’s millions of moments, some of the very best are made by Mohegan Sun.
Create your moment at mohegansun.com or call 1.888.MOHEGAN”
The second-to-last page of the magazine is on page 112, which presumably means that the last page is 113; the only page that I’ve described that has a number is this one, which I didn’t notice last night when I looked at the magazine.,
I looked through the magazine, and when I saw the second story on page 112, I decided to write about the magazine. I’ve already written about Stella Artois ads being used inappropriately, and that doesn’t seem to have stopped the endorsement of child molestation by the conglomerate and by all associated with it; maybe this will.
Maybe other issues will stop as a result of this, also.
Here’s what it says (all the print was in black, regular magazine print, unless I’ve said otherwise):
“Luckily, the Invitations Were Written in Ink
For a charity with a name cuter than “Puppies and Ice Cream,” Cradles to Crayons’ (in red print) parties certainly pack a wallop.
The group, which provides disadvantaged kids with the necessities they need to flourish, hosted its Summer Sunset (red) fund-raiser at the Liberty Hotel (red).
(Then there’s a paragraph which is a list of names of people who were there, with many flattering adjectives. I’m starting next in the middle of a sentence in that paragraph.)
“…along with one man who claimed to have been out a few nights before and inexplicably found in his pocket the following: a gram of weed, a gram of hash, a pot lollipop, a rhinestone mustache, alcohol swabs and 10 unidentified pills. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud, and it’s important to point out that there were no signs of any illicit behavior at the party, although if there were, I was too buzzed to notice. Kidding! (Sort of.)
The award for best go-to-hell pants goes to (person’s name) and his lime-green corduroys embroidered with martini glasses and cocktail shakers.
The evening’s most amusing conversation, meanwhile, between a group of chatting friends, included the following exchange:
“You’ve got a bit of meat on your chin.”
“And it’s only 7:30!”
(Then there’s a caption that goes with a picture of the “lime-green corduroys” that won for being the “best go-to-hell pants.” Alongside the picture, it says:
“The first person who can correctly guess whether (name) bought his eye-popping go-to-hell pants in Palm Beach or Nantucket will win an Improper Bostonian T-shirt, which you can embroider with whales, lobsters, pheasants, or whatever the hell else you want.”
As I’ve said, I looked through the entire magazine. Page after page, from the beginning, through the middle, to the end, it is obscene.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 4, 2011 @ 3:43 p.m./addition @ 3:44 p.m.
2. Newblog2011: 10/04/11 "The Improper Bostonian," publication September 21 – October 4, 2011/The Pine Street Inn
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I’ve mentioned before that my discussions of other people’s use of code aren't indications of my trying to use code myself.
There isn’t any code on this page that I, myself, am trying to use as code. As I've said, if I try to use code, I'll mention its presence by saying "This word or number is something that I'm using in place of a person's name or other identifier."
I wrote about the locker and shower rooms at the Pine Street Inn because there was an incident of small but specific bullying this morning, and it happened in the locker room there. The coughing and other gestures and language are also directed at me; that’s ongoing, there aren’t even a few minutes that ever pass by in the place where at least the coughing isn’t happening. It’s difficult to address because there are staff who participate in it, and because, obviously, the manager of the shelter supports harassment and child molestation. It also can be difficult to address because the bullying happens around me; coughing, and so on, or things that are said in conversation to or around me about wetness and smell, fish, pizza, and so on, but the only person who’s said anything to me directly was the staffperson who said “And so aren’t you” weeks ago when I objected to the Wet Floor signs, saying that they were disgusting. If readers remember, I was subsequently barred from the place for 2 weeks, because I had objected to the signs and the fact that they had been put around for me to see even more blatantly that morning than had happened up until then.
Most of the time, when I try to confront the bullying directly or try to talk to staff about it directly, I am met with lies that nothing is happening and that people are just coughing or whatever else it is, and then I'm accused of being disrespectful and trying to cause trouble. If I then continue to assert that I'm being abused, I risk being told to leave, even if it's at night and I'm being told to leave an overnight shelter.
That tends to be what happens everywhere that the bullying occurs, if I try to confront it directly.
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I looked at the September 21-October 4, 2011 publication of the magazine, "The Improper Bostonian", for the first time last night. It was on a table in the front lobby of the Pine Street Inn, a few feet away from where at least one Wet Floor sign always is. It seems to now be habit at the Pine Street Inn that the Wet Floor signs by the front entrance to the lobby get tied to a shopping cart at night, with a sign that says “Kids’ Barn.” There are still other Wet Floor signs around the place where they don’t need to be, still large, orange paint buckets under the toiletry table in the women’s locker room. I still get harassed there, by several guests and by some of the staff.
Everyone has to take a shower at night, and put on a nightgown and robe provided by the Pine Street Inn. You are given a bed number if your name is called during the lottery; the bed number has a corresponding locker in the locker room, where you put what you were wearing before you took your shower and put on the nightgown and robe.
The locker room is connected to the shower room by a door, and through another door on the other side of the shower room is the 2nd floor bathroom. The shower room and locker room get locked at night; they are inaccessible to guests after the designated shower time is over and people are supposed to be sleeping, and then they get unlocked in the morning.
The locker you are given is a temporary locker; you only use it overnight, as it corresponds to a temporary bed number.
This morning, when I went to my locker, I saw that someone had put a used, green packet of shampoo, conditioner or lotion that said "Olive Oil" on it in front of the locker. There was no other trash anywhere on the bench in front of the lockers.
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As for the magazine, The Improper Bostonian, publication September 21 - October 4, 2011:
The front cover shows some kind of Americanized sushi, with stuffed oyster or clam shells along with the sushi rolls.
There are 2 captions, one in black and one in white. The first one, in black, says:
“CHARTING
A NEW
COURSE
BOSTON’S RESTAURANTS REINVENT THE CLASSICS”
The second one says:
“EAT, DRINK
AND BE MERRY
DIVA CHEFS ARE OVER, FUN IS
THE ORDER OF THE DAY”
The first page shows more pictures of fish as part of an ad for a restaurant called Forum (written in gold print) whose address is given as 755 Boylston Street (black print)/Back Bay (red print).
The second page is an ad for Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams (written in white on a darker background), a furniture store.
The back cover is a Stella Artois ad. The background is mostly white. The writing is grey.
The caption says:
“New
Stella Artois
Chalice Can”
There’s a picture of the product, and then, against a grey background, it says, in darker grey:
“She is a thing of beauty”
The last page before the cover says:
“GOOD STORIES TRAVEL FAST”
In the lower, right corner of the page, it says:
“15th
ANNIVERSARY
Mohegan Sun”
It goes on to say:
“With an incredible selection of restaurants, there’s something to satisfy every appetite. From lobster at Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain to filets at Michael Jordan’s Steak House. Among life’s millions of moments, some of the very best are made by Mohegan Sun.
Create your moment at mohegansun.com or call 1.888.MOHEGAN”
The second-to-last page of the magazine is on page 112, which presumably means that the last page is 113; the only page that I’ve described that has a number is this one, which I didn’t notice last night when I looked at the magazine.,
I looked through the magazine, and when I saw the second story on page 112, I decided to write about the magazine. I’ve already written about Stella Artois ads being used inappropriately, and that doesn’t seem to have stopped the endorsement of child molestation by the conglomerate and by all associated with it; maybe this will.
Maybe other issues will stop as a result of this, also.
Here’s what it says (all the print was in black, regular magazine print, unless I’ve said otherwise):
“Luckily, the Invitations Were Written in Ink
For a charity with a name cuter than “Puppies and Ice Cream,” Cradles to Crayons’ (in red print) parties certainly pack a wallop.
The group, which provides disadvantaged kids with the necessities they need to flourish, hosted its Summer Sunset (red) fund-raiser at the Liberty Hotel (red).
(Then there’s a paragraph which is a list of names of people who were there, with many flattering adjectives. I’m starting next in the middle of a sentence in that paragraph.)
“…along with one man who claimed to have been out a few nights before and inexplicably found in his pocket the following: a gram of weed, a gram of hash, a pot lollipop, a rhinestone mustache, alcohol swabs and 10 unidentified pills. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud, and it’s important to point out that there were no signs of any illicit behavior at the party, although if there were, I was too buzzed to notice. Kidding! (Sort of.)
The award for best go-to-hell pants goes to (person’s name) and his lime-green corduroys embroidered with martini glasses and cocktail shakers.
The evening’s most amusing conversation, meanwhile, between a group of chatting friends, included the following exchange:
“You’ve got a bit of meat on your chin.”
“And it’s only 7:30!”
(Then there’s a caption that goes with a picture of the “lime-green corduroys” that won for being the “best go-to-hell pants.” Alongside the picture, it says:
“The first person who can correctly guess whether (name) bought his eye-popping go-to-hell pants in Palm Beach or Nantucket will win an Improper Bostonian T-shirt, which you can embroider with whales, lobsters, pheasants, or whatever the hell else you want.”
As I’ve said, I looked through the entire magazine. Page after page, from the beginning, through the middle, to the end, it is obscene.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 4, 2011 @ 3:43 p.m./addition @ 3:44 p.m.