SAVAGE!!!

No one looks you in the eye when you're walking a vicious killer like this...


Apparently he knows how to drink from the fountain...
He jumped right up and looked at me to push the button...

RIP Mr. Butch

I remember Mr. Butch going all the way back to the first shows I ever went to in Boston. He was always down in front of The Rat. Real nice guy...for a crazy homeless dude.
"Hey, who's that?"
"Shit man, that's Mr. Butch...he used to roadie for the Bad Brains!"
"No Shit!"
Of course he used to roadie for the Bad Brains, he was a black dude with dreadlocks hanging out at punk and hardcore shows. Did he really? Who knows. Well, I am sure Al Quint knows. He knows everything.

Either way. It is sad that he is gone.

(from Boston.com)

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/07/mr_butch_the_st.html

Mr. Butch, the street icon, dies in a scooter accident

Mr. Butch, shown above on Harvard Avenue in November, had lived on the streets in Boston for about 30 years.

By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff

Mr. Butch, the dreadlocked, homeless man who was an icon in Kenmore Square and Allston, was killed today in a scooter accident, friends and family said.

Boston police said there had been a fatal accident just after 7:30 a.m. on Cambridge Street in Allston, but did not release the name of the victim. Mr. Butch's sister, Jeannette Madison of Worcester, said she had been notified of her brother's death.

Mr. Butch’s real name was Harold Madison Jr. The 56-year-old had been the subject of YouTube videos, a MySpace tribute page, and a Wikipedia entry. He was so popular that The Boston Phoenix wrote in April that it was considering changing the criteria for its "Readers' Pick: Neighborhood Character" category because Mr. Butch won so regularly.

"He's been in so many local movies, videos, in the Phoenix -- he's like an icon of the neighborhood," said Erin Scott, manager of New England Comics on Harvard Street in Allston.

Mr. Butch had lived on the streets of Boston for about 30 years. In Kenmore Square and his neighborhood in Allston -- areas rife with college students and people who cleave to less traditional approaches to living in Boston -- some saw in Mr. Butch a latter-day Thoreau, a man who chose a life that didn't involve taxes, rent, or office cubicles.
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Check out a webpage, with more photos and links here.
http://mrbutchshow.com/

His wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Butch

Hot

Went and saw Harry Potter at midnight last night.
It is very hot today.
That is all.

Happy 4th.

So I just got back from a rainy display of fireworks. Went up to the roof of the (old) office to check out the display. It's pretty cool up there, cause they launch the fireworks from the wharf that can't be more than 100 yards away out in the bay.

The best part of the evening had to be when one of the big ones must have gone off course a little bit, and exploded over the roof of the building. Little firework fireballs fell from the sky onto the roof and I actually had to DUCK to not get beaned in the head with a blue fireball. Pretty cool. There were witnesses... I shit you not.