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Dig Boston is running outtakes and b-sides from my book which you can get by clicking on that link right over there, and you probably should even if you don't live in Boston, because come on you cheap pricks, how many dozens of seconds of moderate entertainment have I provided for free here. First up is the dearly departed Razzy's in Somerville, which I was bummed to have to omit from the book. Not because I liked it that much, although I did, but rather because I thought I turned a couple good phrases in that chapter, and I only care about myself.
Located on a dilapidated stretch of Somerville Ave., one of the more maddeningly congested stretches of road in Somerville, Razzy’s is a low-slung red brick afterthought lost amidst a sea of brightly painted three story homes that jostle against one another shoulder to shoulder in this densely packed quasi-urban neighborhood. It’s the type of street presided over by grim looking, perhaps criminally employed warehouses that line the block like hulking, indifferent bouncers, rusted auto-body lots and ethnic groceries that can count a strip mall Papa Johns, Dollar Store and a tattoo shop as its more upscale neighbors. Across the street the relative peacefulness of Conway Park, all basketball courts and architected trees standing in rows of refusal is the lone, leafy aberration. It also happens to be an area jammed to the gills with post college professionals availing themselves of the (relatively) cheap rent to be found here, and that demo squares precisely with the type of crowd Razzy’s is aiming to pull in. Read the rest
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did you include any bars from hyde park in your book? i was raised in rozzie and used to go to hyde park to get drinks before i turned 21. those places were sketchy as shit and as much as i frequented those places, i still don't know the name of any of those bars to this day
A lot of the most famous ones have closed down. I went to the Cottage in Hyde Park. A few in Rozzy, including BK's, which is insane.
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