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Yeah, they're wearing boxes on their heads - so?
By adamg on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 11:31pm
Macleodphoto ambled about the Pax East show at the South Boston convention center today.
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Yeah, the photos are
Yeah, the photos are needlessly in black and white - so?
This post is all about boxes
This post is all about boxes in gamer journalism.
Pax East vs the MBTA
The T is more bizarre and much more entertaining with characters whose alter-egos rival Warlock from Destiny and Elsie from the League of Legends.
I will herein take the
I will herein take the opportunity to share my personal but not arbitrary guidelines for where "South Boston" is.
Fort Point Channel to Boston Wharf Road: "Fort Point"
Boston Harbor to 1st Street: "The Seaport"
The rest: "South Boston"
Yes I am aware that to the outside world all three areas are "South Boston" . This is not the outside world.
There is actually no such
There is actually no such thing as the "South Boston Convention Center." It's the BCEC or Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, but Adam refuses to call it that in every article for some unknown reason.
If I recall "South Boston
If I recall "South Boston Convention Center" was how people referred to it colloquially when being conceived, planned, and built. The Seaport at the time was known as "a parking lot".
Adam is a colloquial kind of guy.
And I never call TD Garden that, either
Also, please note how I don't capitalize "convention center" when I write "South Boston convention center."
Yes, I know its official name, but I'm a serial official-name flouter! If it's any consolation, when I lived in New York, I refused to call Sixth Avenue "Avenue of the Americas."
Avenue of the Americas
When I was able to fly from mother's nest I visited New York and always though that Avenue of the Americas was a little overblown. 6th Avenue is more succinct. Plus it's New York; there is no need for street name puffery; in the greatest city in the world there is already enough puffery.
Just as I refuse to call Huntington Avenue the Avenue of the Arts. Now if Mr. or Ms Avenue of the Arts plunked down a billion to improvements to the Huntington Ave. then I might reconsider.
One avenue over from 6th, on 5th, is one of my favorite buildings. 666 Fifth Avenue. In two story neon the numbers 666. Was this a mockery of Christian eschatologists? A tweak of the theological nose of conservative Christians?
This is the only building where I pressed the open door button while the elevator was in mid-flight. What possessed me to do this? Do not know. The elevator opened between floors. I was spooked.
Never returned to that building.
"the convention center that isn't the Hynes"
"South Boston convention center" is an easier and more descriptive way to say that.
But the Hynes is "the Hynes".
But the Hynes is "the Hynes". I, to this day, refer to the Hynes Green Line stop as "Auditorium" which just seems to confuse even the people of my generation.
They must be feeling a
bit, shall we say, boxed in?
(Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be appearing here all week.)
9am to 5pm Saturday, March 14, 2015 GNU/Linux InstallFest
9am to 5pm Saturday, March 14, 2015 GNU/Linux InstallFest
http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/events/220776456/