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Merry Allston Christmas

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It’s the unofficial last day of summer here at The 300s headquarters. We’re heading into Labor Day weekend, and with August 31st/September 1st falling on Saturday/Sunday, Boston is gearing up for a brutal eventful Allston Christmas.

In case you’re not from the area, or didn’t go to school in Boston, Allston Christmas is the time of year when tens of thousands of college students return to the city, Allston in particular. It’s also a moving day for a good number of the young professionals who rent apartments in God’s Country. I mean Allston.

This year, Harpoon has even introduced a new brew to celebrate the holiday.

We’re doing our part here at The 300s, too. As the poet laureate of The 300s, please allow me to present Have Yourself a Merry Allston Christmas.

Have yourself a merry Allston Christmas
Let your move be light
From now on our UHauls will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry Allston Christmas
Don’t get storrowed today
From now on our UHauls will be miles away

Here we are in our Allston days
Like our college days of yore
Craigslist friends who are dear to us
May their rent checks clear once more

Through this year we’ll always be together
In our two-bed split
Snag a brand new couch from the curb below
And have yourself a merry Allston Christmas now

Craigslist friends who are dear to us
May their rent checks clear once more

Through this year we’ll always be together
In our two-bed split
So snag a brand new couch from the curb below
And have yourself a merry Allston Christmas now

If we can get Michael Buble to record this, I really think it’ll take off.

Safe travels and move-ins this weekend everybody!

Tomorrows. The. Day. The 300s Podcast LIVE….Oh and the Super Bowl Too

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I know you’ve all been waiting months and months for this. The Patriots. The Rams. Tom Brady. Jared Goff. Bill Belichick. Sean McVay. Red. Big Z. Mattes. Joey B. The 300s Podcast LIVE on Super Bowl Sunday might be the most ambitious crossover event in entertainment history. Come stop by Oak Square Liquors in Brighton from 1-3 pm to see the boys chopping it up, make your predictions, and win some free stuff. Or if you’ll already be glued to your couch, no worries because you can catch us on Facebook LIVE as well.

So keep an eye on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for all the updates and behind the scenes of The 300s Podcast live event!

PS – Rumor has it the person that predicts the final score of the game will even win a 30 rack (or just a gift card if thats frowned upon by the ABC).

Will The Mass. Pike Overhaul in Allston Lead Red to Finally Have a Mental Breakdown?

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Boston.com – After years of debate, state transportation officials Thursday announced the final design on the biggest highway project in Boston in a generation: rebuilding the Massachusetts Turnpike at ground level in Allston and elevating a section of Soldiers Field Road along the Charles River onto a new viaduct above the highway.

I think one of the cooler daily blogs (I think it is the only daily blog) that we put out here at The 300s is Red’s #RushHourRap blog. It’s always sweet to learn about some old school hip hop you don’t know about.

What you may not have gathered from that blog is that the reason Red has a knack for musical discoveries is that he spends half of his waking life stuck dead in traffic commuting to and from work, surfing satellite radio for anything that will entertain him enough to keep his finger off the detonator of a suicide vest. It is the brutal, tedious way so many of us go through our Corporate American life. It is especially draining in the avant garde design of the Boston commute infrastructure. It is the bottleneck of the rat race.

And now, the state is sure going to make it worse. Not only are they going to conduct construction in around the areas Red has to navigate Monday through Friday, but Massachusetts has a rich history of completely fucking these kinds of problems up. So not only we staring down the barrel of typical construction traffic, we are looking at a full fledged clusterfuck of heavy equipment, detail cops, and broken dreams that will for sure go about 100x over budget, which currently stands at $1.1 billion.

So is this it? Is this the “improvement” that finally sends our Founder and EIC over the edge? Is he going to be found Kony 2012’ng down Storrow Drive after having moved 100 feet in three hours? I hope not, but I won’t hold my breath.

T’s and P’s old friend, T’s and Ps.

Friday Morning Randomness – Allston Christmas

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Merry Allston Christmas! If you’re partaking, may the previous tenants of your new residence be long gone and may the meter maids mind their own business.

This video is evidence of a high-tech engineering success story. I strongly disagree with the guy who posted it calling it “red neck couch moving.” If MIT were in Allston, I know that Allston Christmas would be a little bit more orderly with all the engineering kids moving furniture more efficiently than Ross and Rachel.

I myself am not an engineer. That is why I a cracked a box spring in half one Allston Christmas, to prevent holding up the entire building. I am also not a great planner. That is why I once switched units on Allston Christmas between 10 PM on August 31 and 4:30 AM on September 1. Moving in the middle of the night like the Baltimore Colts baby.

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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Are Now Just the Los Angeles Angels

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SportsLogos – The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim still the butt of jokes on social media and elsewhere due to their clumsy name have officially changed their name to just “Los Angeles Angels” finally dropping the “of Anaheim” part.

Apparently the Angels quietly made this change awhile ago, but didn’t make any grand announcements about it because, well, its always been a ridiculous name. Los Angeles is a cool 40 mins from Anaheim, which if you’ve ever driven around LA you know is more like 2+ hours.

That would be like Charlie Baker deciding to put a team deep on the South Shore. Might as well be the goddamn Cape League at that point.

This is the FIFTH time the Angels have changed their name and the teams only been around since 1961. Thats fucking bananas. Not to mention they’re going back to a name they already used with LA Angels. They’ve also been the Anaheim Angels and the California Angels, but its hard to top Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

I still hold out hope that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred will get drunk and green light an NL expansion team in Boston. Then we could really get wild with some team names. Lets just say the Minutemen for now. The Boston Minutemen of New England. The Seaport District Minutemen of Boston. My personal favorite? The Allston Minutemen of Brighton.