RED SOX WIN!!

[ert.livejournal.com]

Spontaneous celebrations in Davis Square for Red Sox winning the World Series, 12:45am 10/28/2004

Now let's see what other contests Bostonians can win in the next week.

Comments

[inspiremebitch.livejournal.com]

aw. That's near where I live!!
Why did I have to be working tonight??

Woohoo!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I'm in there :)

[fanw.livejournal.com]

I wish I hadn't already collapsed in exhaustion. Foo! At least you celebrated right!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! I was there, and even though I've never followed sports until this Series, it was wonderfully overwelming to see so much joy in Davis. Strangers hugging, bus drivers waving and cheering, brooms in the air and people dancing in the middle of the street. I've never really been a part of anything like that before.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

How was this filmed? The person with the camera seems, like, 9 feet tall.

Re: Woohoo!

[ert.livejournal.com]

I'm sad I missed you!

[ert.livejournal.com]

Yes, feel happy you got off with just a phone call, I almost went over to drag you out. :)

[ert.livejournal.com]

Yes, looking at the movie after I took it I noted how every 10 seconds of footage there's people chanting or hugging or jumping into each other's arms. I can't count how many high fives I got walking through the crowd.

I went to Harvard afterwards and it was more sedate than Davis, although The Pit was full of people singing in unison, accompanied by a trumpeter standing on one of the walls.

[ert.livejournal.com]

The person with the camera seems, like, 9 feet tall.

Oh, I am!!

At least, my hand is when I hold it three feet over my head.

With my arms.

That go three feet over my head.

Ahem.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Natch. ;)

[fanw.livejournal.com]

I was on the verge. I little "Ya gotta see this. Come on out." and I would have hopped on my bike. Ah well. My sleep-deprived brain was not capable of making such decisions....

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing that! Great bit of film you captured there.

My one caveat is I wanted to see the *chests* of the shirtless dudes... ah well...

[hyperliminal.livejournal.com]

Oh, Harvard wasn't always sedate. We had a full 40-odd-person band playing on the walls of the Pit and the T-station roof. Lone trumpet guy was a latecomer and stuck around after the band went home, and kept entertaining the thinning crowd.

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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

So I saw this reply, and I thought, "Do I know this person?" Checking your userinfo, we clearly know people in common, but I'm still not sure if we know one another. Your picture is familiar, but not certain. Though it does make me want to have a drink with you. :)

Re: Woohoo!

[ert.livejournal.com]

So I saw this reply, and I thought, "Do I know this person?" Checking your userinfo, we clearly know people in common, but I'm still not sure if we know one another.

Oh, I don't think we've met, outside of me apparently filming you last night.

Your picture is familiar, but not certain. Though it does make me want to have a drink with you.

See, that's why I'm sad I missed you. :)

I'm game. :) Real email's on my userinfo page.

Re: Woohoo!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

The day after you posted this comment, I was walking into the Square and you literally ran right in front of me. I was about to call out, but I realized I had no idea what your number was, and "Ert!" or "E-R-T!" felt strange. Plus you had headphones on and were quickly across College Ave. :)

After you were past, I thought, hey, I've been looking for a daytime running buddy to get me back out there! Your pace is almost certainly way faster then where I'm at these days, though.

Re: Woohoo!

[ert.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm in! I've been looking for a jogging partner for years.

As a favour to my knees and back I don't go to often -- it seems to average about every week or 10 days, and recently I've been doing about 5k runs, I think.

Ert!" or "E-R-T!" felt strange.

Hehe. Actually, the LJ username was selected to match my name, so "Ert!" works spectacularly well. :)

[ron_newman]

This video has disappeared. Do you know what happened to it?

[ert.livejournal.com]

Oh, aha, I left that company last year, I'm sure some server migration swept it away at some point. It's up on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkZ7x3Xu7iA) now.

[ron_newman]

Thanks. Can you edit that link (or even better, an embed) into the original post, for the benefit of anyone who comes here later?

[ert.livejournal.com]

Done.

[ron_newman]

Thank you for doing that. This was a memorable Davis Square evening, and I'm glad to see it preserved on the Web.