Tomorrow at 11 a.m., at-large Council candidate Roy Owens plans a march, starting at Humboldt Avenue and Seaver Street, to protest things he considers major threats to children - including homosexuality.

Eeka is organizing a counter-protest:

The bottom line is that this is an organizing of people who think that the problems in the community are caused by GLBT folks. If we and our allies come join them, we can show them that we care enough about the community to get up on a Saturday morning and show up. If no one shows up or only a few of us show up, then we will have a group of people who will keep on thinking that GLBT folks are against the community.

The counter-protesters plan to meet at 10:30 in Franklin Park, at the play structure with the pointed roofs, right off of Seaver Street, between Humboldt and Elm Hill Avenues.

Derek says Owens reminds him of a child throwing a tantrum:

You know that if Farrakhan is changing his ways (on gays) that says a lot about the general shift happening in the Black community. Mark my words, folks, in no time Owens will be consigned to Black history. ...

Susannah takes a picture of a pigeon on the T:

He walked on at Forest Hills and walked off at Green Street. Like it's a perfectly normal trip he takes every day.

Earlier: Pigeons on the glass, alas.

With the baby only eight weeks away, Dan and Sarah go on a tour of the Beth Israel obstetrics unit. Dan provides detailed commentary:

... We were informed that each room rapidly converts into a full operating room so I looked around for the panel where the surgery stuff popped out from behind the pictures of new parent support groups. I confirmed that the television could be connected to the DVD player and the battalion of pregnant women looked scornfully at me at my interest in Hollywood entertainment at such a solemn time. The tour guide let us know that the television goes off during transition unless the mother specifically requests it. Last October with those 14 inning Red Sox Yankees playoff games plenty of mothers, fathers, and Obstetricians cranking out newborns were watching David Ortiz hit walk off homeruns and A-Rod cheat. ...

I've set up an aggregator page so you can read every last post by Boston-area bloggers (well, at least, the ones whose feeds get sucked in by Universal Hub) on gas prices:

www.universalhub.com/at-the-pump.html

To the right: Up another 15 cents today at the Hess station on Centre Street in West Roxbury.

Earlier:
What a difference a day makes
Relive the prices this past spring