Any Madoff victims in the Davis Sq area (or Somerville)?

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Just curious. Directly, or indirectly. For instance, I assume that some MIT postdocs may have been funded by the Picower foundation, and that went down because of Madoff. Tufts lost $20 million.

Pug seeks good parent(s)

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The question I didn't expect to hear today: Do you know anyone who wants a pug?

My friend has inadvertently wound up with a pug. A three-year-old male pug, to be precise. Apparently someone she works with, through a backwards sort of thing, owned the dog. But now she has taken on temporary guardianship of this little fellow, but won't be able to keep him on at her home (a couple of cats, see). She has found a pug rescue organization, but is putting out the call to see if anyone has been looking for a pug or has been considering looking for one.

In terms of details about the little guy, I don't have them, but I would be able to hook prospective pug parents (pugrents?) up with my friend. Feel free to post a comment or message me!

In other news, balls it's cold. How's everyone holding up?

Queen of Spikes

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I've lived in the Davis Square area for over four years and just last night visited Spike's Hot Dogs for the first time. Have any of you seen the polaroids on the wall of all the people who were able to eat 6 or more hot dogs? There's a hall of fame gallery for the top dogs (my lousy pun, not theirs) and the highest hot dog consumption total was 17, eaten in 90 minutes, by a woman. And from I can tell from the photograph, she seems rather small in stature. Does anyone know who this person is? Is this a joke?

My friend Jon fell instantly in love, so if anyone knows her marital/dating status, please pass that info along too.

Really seems hard to believe...