John ducks out of the office for a bit only to come back to hear that Martin Scorsese showed up while he was away:

... I wasn't expecting any legendary directors today and there didn't seem to be raw material there for a practical joke, so I dismissed it as just a weird mistake. But I found out later that he was in fact in the building snooping around for ideas for a film he's planning and that he did stop by ...

Just watched the NECN weather forecast and the map showed a truly frightening prediction for much of eastern Massachusetts this weekend:

WIDESPREAD PLOWABLE SNOW

As Dan asked a few days ago, WTF does that mean? I suppose we should be grateful we're not getting

WIDESPREAD UNPLOWABLE GIANT BLOCKS OF GRANITE

But what other kind of snow is there? Even in the Blizzard of '78 (kids, I ever tell you how we survived that; 16 of us trapped in a dorm suite with no food and then the power went out?), the snow proved plowable.

So a dolt in a Hummer allegedly reacts to a parking ticket by whipping scalding hot coffee at the meter maid.

Carpundit, who lives in the neighborhood, says:

I know her by sight from the neighborhood, and I've never seen her giving anyone a hard time.

He also suggests appropriate punishment for the guy, if he's an immigrant (he's described as "a native of Lebanon") and he's found guilty:

a two-year state prison sentence, followed by a referral to ICE for deportation processing. We don't need immigrants like him.

Michael gets pulled over near his BU office for running a yellow light and gets an earful from the cop:

... First he told us that BU was pressing the Boston Police to write more tickets on campus, and bigger fines, in order to instill a sense of automotive respect for the laws of a civilized society. It seems that the privileged rich kids in their BMW's and Mercedes act like that the traffic laws were written only for the rest of the peons, and write off parking and traffic fines as one more cost of doing business, the business in this case consisting of using Daddy's money to get through college with the least amount of physical and mental effort possible. ...

However, he was just getting warmed up in his oratory. He immediately launched into a diatribe against FOREIGN STUDENTS who he said were the worst of the worst, both because they were uniformly ignorant of local traffic laws and regulations and because they were so rich and spoiled that they practically laughed in his face when he wrote them up. ...