The Globe throws down the gauntlet against Brunchers: stay home Sunday, they say, predicting "up to 10 inches in some places." The Weather Underground concurs; snowfall is currently predicted to hit Boston around midnight.

Peter Cip shoots the Tobin from underneath during a snowstorm.

Aside from the whole entitlement thing, I'm left wondering what this small thing (maybe 18 inches high) is normally used for. Dual Tinker Toys holder?

The wind can't decide which way to blow the snow out there - sometimes the horizontal snow moves left, sometimes right.

Tibbon tweets at 11:45 a.m. that it's snowing so hard, you can't see any land while standing at the midway point on the Mass. Ave. bridge.

Not a clue what that means, but it sounds bad and we could get one Wednesday afternoon: Lots of snow and temperatures collapsing quicker than Favre in green and white.

BostonZest illustrates why.

That would be E.H., who is already predicting a potentially major widespread event along the eastern seaboard sometime in the beginning of the New Year:

... Right now I would say that the chances of a big east coast storm are above average for the Jan 2-Jan 7 timeframe and we may just do it. ...

Fabulously Out There reports on a wonderful thing outside her East Boston home:

... The old gentleman was standing there with his shovel and had this mountain of icy snow in front of him, tough to do for even a young men. And I am not exaggerating when I say that other people came running with their shovels.

There must have been 5 men shoveling his spot free.

That almost made me cry. Maybe I am sometimes built a little close to water, but that just made me really happy. ...

The City of Cambridge advises:

... Please don't take it personally if we plow snow back into your driveway, but as we work to keep streets passable, it is often unavoidable. ...

Via Wicked Local Cambridge.

Jay Fitzgerald reports on the two guys wandering around his neighborhood with shovels:

... They were exchange students from Vietnam -- and they offered to help shovel the fluffy stuff for free. They had never seen or felt snow before. They just wanted to experience it. They helped shovel out the car, declined payment, and went on their awe-struck way afterward. ...