Canter Bridge

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For Red Sox fans, 2003 was the year that we finally understood that our world is an evil place.

It was the anteroom to 2004’s glory. It was purgatory, a furnace of affliction. It was the sum of all our fears. For a moment, when we could not summon the strength to look away from the horror, it seemed that we had descended to hell. Momentarily, Dante was a sportswriter for the Globe, all was darkness, and the unbearable screaming just wouldn’t stop. (more…)

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Cool cars, expensive vodka, Italian suits, football, golf and its accoutrements, watches named after international capitals.

Oh, and cigars. (more…)

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Two years later, the Red Sox fan still wakes up on the odd morning late in September thinking it never happened. It was a utopian dream, the comfort of the drugged and sleeping. (more…)

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You can tell a lot about the readership a men’s magazine is trying to reach by scanning the first three car ads. In the issue in front of me, they flog the Lincoln MKZ, Range Rover Sport, and Audi A6. (more…)

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As your grandfather told you, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. Nor, these days, does the title of a magazine always clue you into the content that begins on page three. (more…)

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If you’re just a tad cynical, you might expect that the new MEN’S VOGUE might concentrate on self-possessed metrosexuals covered with Armani, leering at the camera, and wishing they had a life. (more…)

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