Gettin My #art On @ #AmericanRep W/ #mandypatinkin And #taylormac Before Heading To #BEA15 #ReadUpAndReady

Purple cactus at Lyman Estates annual plant sale. Meant to get perennials to spruce up the yard and then I saw this.

Ted declines Harvard’s offer

Exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Unlike many professional ballplayers—probably most of them—Ted was embarrassed that he never went to college, or had no formal education beyond high school. In 1991, on the 50th anniversary of his .406 year, Harvard University wanted to give him an honorary degree, but he turned it down, feeling that he would have been out of place among the intelligentsia in Harvard Yard.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams at Boston’s Back Bay station, April 1939, arriving in the city for the first time. Boston Globe photograph.)

where's Gunther?

Dear friends on a Friday night in Boston.

Fun stuff from @DavidAlanGrier and the cast of "The Gerswhins' Porgy and Bess" on Jimmy Fallon's show last week. 

Me and #Gronk. How much fun is THAT book tour gonna be? I wish I was wrangling on that tour. I mean as much as a Gronk can wrangled. @lindahollidayofficial don't tell Pittsburgh I said that OK?

Amazing

This picture will never cease to inspire or motivate me. #WhatIsLove

DESIGN: Good Ideas Glow in the Dark by Adris Group

Croatian designers Bruketa&Žinić have created a book that can only be identified in the dark.

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#KLM is going to rock the house. #layover.

Me and my friend, the 2013 Red Sox trophy. Thank you to Arlington state Rep. Sean Garballey for getting the Red Sox to allow the trophy to travel to Arlington Town Hall earlier this week.

Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid” is out. The reviews are starting to come in. The Associated Press review: 

“Absorbing…this is surely the definitive Ted Williams book. …Bradlee’s brilliant account is required reading for any Red Sox fan.  It’s also a fascinating portrait of a complex character that a baseball agnostic or even a Yankees fan will find hard to put down.” Full review here.