Today's tale of bicycling angst - involving two guys who did NOT collide - comes to us courtesy of Salon.com:

... "F--- YOU!" he screams at me. Just like that. Then he pedals away.

"What?" I pedal after him. "Hey, man, wait a minute, hang on. It was an accident. I said I was sorry."

On Thursday night, Brad Kelly posted a series of tweets about how a guy tried to mug him - inside the Porter Square Pier 1, after first insisting Kelly take his picture. Dude didn't get far:

The Cambridge police were outstanding. As were the Pier 1 staff.

The Accidental Fiddler reports somebody didn't like her selections as she played at Porter station:

I was busking at Porter, playing "Sunrise, Sunset", when a guy came up and told me...not asked me, told me...to play something happier. So I switched to "To Life", which wasn't happy enough for him. I think I then switched to "Devil's Dream", at which point he said something like, "See? People like HAPPY music!" ...

Via Danielle Ouellette, who says it just bolsters her belief she should have just stayed in bed this morning.

Ben Jackson: Today the role of the Green Line will be played by the Red Line.

Patrice Morris says the role of the Green Line today was also played by the Green Line: GD trolley! GD Redline, GD getting to work early!

On Friday, look for some unusual goings on at the southeast corner of Mass. Ave. and Beech Street near Porter Square, where some folks will convert a vehicle space into a play space. Angie explains on this Facebook page:

The T reports a Red Line train crawled into Porter Square and died this evening.

That's on top of all the Green Line trolleys that gave up the ghost today. Mel Du, who's apparently been keeping count, tweets that makes ten DOA trains today.

Channel 4 reports, and tweets the man is dead.

Riders are being put on buses between Harvard and Alewife.

Carol O., at Porter at the time, tweets:

Was waiting for the subway when there was a commotion & the train stopped short. It seems like someone jumped/fell in front.

She adds:

Tufts researchers used ethnographic research methods to document the impact of the recession on small businesses in the area; one student focused on bakeries and cafes in Harvard, Porter and Davis squares, Tufts Daily reports:

... "Going into the project, based on what the media was originally projecting, I had assumed that these small businesses would really be hurt by the recession; however, I could almost immediately see that this was not the case as I began to spend time in these locations. They were all bustling," Kuross said in an e-mail to the Daily.

Kuross explained that the primary customer bases sustaining the squares' cafés consist mainly of students, already on constricted budgets and therefore "insulated," and upper-middle-class local residents, securely employed and financially stable. ...

Via Wicked Local Somerville.