Seems like the only time you ever hear of this guy, the august state rep from Hyde Park (and my small sliver of Roslindale) is when he manages to grind the legislature to a halt over some issue that doesn't involve his district at all (anybody remember how he tied up the disposition of the old Boston State Hospital for years?). This time: A liquor license for some supermarket in Westwood.

Via Robert David Sullivan.

Why would you call 911 and tell the dispatcher you were being held against your will on Mission Hill when police can trace your call to Hyde Park? For that matter, why would you call police to report you've been abducted when it turns out Dedham police want you for a bank robbery earlier in the day?

Brilliant until proven an idiot.

A few years ago, the MBTA replaced all the stinky diesel buses running out of the Forest Hill yard with clean CNG buses. Yay! Only now a lot of them have developed this interesting characteristic: They whistle as they go. Really loudly. You can often tell when a bus is a few blocks away because you hear something that sounds like a tea kettle or an elephant, or maybe an elephant holding a tea kettle.

It's a little after 8 a.m., and they must be having some sort of tournament down at the George Wright Golf Course because the entire neighborhood is being serenaded with "Oh, Canada" over the giant loudspeakers I didn't know they had there. A good thing we're all up, eh? But for those of us still sleeping, here comes "The Star-Spangled Banner."

HELP!!! Does anyone know a company or individual who can identify and spray to destroy poison ivy? This is the 4th time I've caught it since May, and I am ready to just concrete my whole yard in West Roxbury & paint it green (there goes the neighborhood!!)....I have searched the internet to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Boston Police report somebody is going around Hyde Park and Roslindale at night stealing the tires off Hondas and Acuras:

If you see anyone looking as though they are changing a tire during the night time period, you are urged to call 911 and have Boston Police Officers respond and check out the suspicious activity.

WBZ Radio reports heavily armed Boston Police rushed to Wood Avenue around 5 a.m. when a woman reported she had escaped her boyfriend, who had been beating her in the face and that he was inside, with a weapon and a hostage. Neighbors were evacuated, police went in and nobody was inside, WBZ says.

Roving reporter Mike Ball noticed that the best-named pizza place in all of Boston - yes, the Piece of Pizza in Cleary Square - is closed for some kind of work.

Will they still have "free" delivery when they re-open?

For a long time, and likely longer than most would like to remember, the River Street Bridge over Mother Brook (that run down cement bridge by Kelly Field) has been in need of repair or replacement, and has long had a restriction on one side which has been outlined by "Jersey Barriers."

Sometime last night, people on e-distribution for Police District E-18 got a message from CitizenObserver.Com (the BPD's e-blast service) announcing the bridge would close to traffic in one direction starting this coming Monday, July 28 in order to perform repairs.

If the neighborhood is Hyde Park, the answer is two. Both are on River Street; the New York one is in Cleary Square; the New Orleans version just outside Logan Square.