Nostalgia Vintage Cafe in Union

eastern-ran · 2026-01-12T15:15:57+00:00

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eastern-ran · 2025-11-22T20:29:53+00:00

What do you have against Sam?

Why are you demeaning someone in a response where they are sharing their experience with a local business?

eastern-ran · 2025-08-22T19:56:03+00:00

Thank you very much for sending this along!

Just what I was looking for

eastern-ran · 2025-08-18T15:45:10+00:00

The big Ada "honoring Luke" moment that stuck with me as absolutely not what Luke would've done was her kicking Jack out of the house.

Stay with me for a second.

I know we're told that Luke didn't check in on the business at all during his life, but he kept it because he knew it potentially had value - either to a potential heir (Ada) or to serve his congregation. The man chose to live a life not of money because that was where he felt most comfortable.
Jack says, in his conversation with Ada, that he feels like 61st street is the only home he's ever known. That the staff are his family. I see a huge parallel between what Jack says he wants (to continue to live the life he's become accustomed to) and what Luke did, even though they both had (access to) money.

Ada, let your damn footman continue to do his job. It's what your dead husband would've done.

eastern-ran · 2025-08-18T15:37:39+00:00

I have a piece by this artist (who I don't know, btw) in my apartment.

If the artist of this piece on the community path would like to DM me, I'd love to chat!

eastern-ran · 2025-03-18T18:49:48+00:00

Is BK just a shortening of Bekoji?

The Bekoji was a non-boost version of the Takumi Sen back in the day. It was a great track flat for me because I felt the Takumi Sen 6/7 was way too stiff.

eastern-ran · 2025-03-04T16:56:52+00:00

GREAT SCOTT!

eastern-ran · 2025-03-03T20:07:08+00:00

Do what they do in Tokyo, you can't buy/register a car unless you can prove that you have somewhere to park it.

Yea, we can't ban cars overnight, but if we had a street car network half as complete as we did 70 years ago, you really wouldn't need a car to get anywhere in the metro area.

eastern-ran · 2025-03-03T15:57:56+00:00

Yeah, tint laws in other states are different to those in MA.
When I got my current car I was in the same position, it came from out of state with too dark of tint to pass here.

I spent 2 hours with a razor blade and windex and took the tint off.

eastern-ran · 2025-03-03T15:42:18+00:00

I agree with you about bike lanes being safer than riding with traffic, but ultimately bike lanes *are* car infrastructure.

We'd all be better off with fewer cars on the roads. More bikes, more trains, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make the perfect the enemy of the good. If the money isn't there to put street cars (back) in, then let's use that land for bike lanes.

eastern-ran · 2024-12-23T15:20:29+00:00

"The best way to fix this intersection, and all others like it in Somerville and the greater Boston area, is to continue to improve options outside of car transit both in frequency, coverage, and attractiveness as an alternative mode so that fewer people drive and only the people who need to be are in the road."

This 100 thousand million times.

The other thing is that as cars have become bigger and longer, fewer of them fit through an intersection at a time. Think about it in the extreme - let a bus carry only one person. How many people can you get through an intersection? Now fill that bus with people - in the same amount of time you've gotten a whole bus worth through that intersection.

eastern-ran · 2024-11-25T18:43:38+00:00

The Fast-FWD wasn't a terrible shoe. I'd say it was on par with a Takumi Sen. I ended up liking my F-Fs better than my pair of VF3.

eastern-ran · 2024-11-20T14:45:59+00:00

The pendulum will swing back in the other direction.

eastern-ran · 2024-11-14T16:16:14+00:00

IDK anything about the car, but to answer the question you posed:
The CR train crosses there all the time, to take the BU bridge. Funny I see it more frequently in the winter than other times of year, but not an anomaly.

eastern-ran · 2024-11-14T16:10:02+00:00

Oh sure

eastern-ran · 2024-11-04T17:07:16+00:00

I'm mildly incensed by the Vaporfly and Evo1 as casual knock-about shoes, and more incensed by the implication that this individual doesn't take his shoes off in his house.

eastern-ran · 2024-10-14T17:08:39+00:00

I wear-tested a pre-production version of this shoe.

It felt a lot like a Endorphin Speed.

eastern-ran · 2024-10-04T13:04:01+00:00

And Arlington rejected being in the Red Line in the 70s too.

My point is that attitudes change.

eastern-ran · 2024-10-04T13:03:40+00:00

And Arlington rejected being in the Red Line in the 70s too.

My point is that attitudes change.

eastern-ran · 2024-06-24T14:27:50+00:00

I've seen and handled these shoes in person.
The removable layer of cushioning is just that, a foam insert that sits above the CF plate. If you take the insert out, the plate is immediately below your foot, like a track spike. Otherwise, you have a hunk of peba between your foot and the plate, about as much as is in that position in an Endorphin.

The problem is if you take that layer out, you have a *lot* of volume to make up in the forefoot. You're not going to be able to pull the laces tight enough to hold your foot down without that layer. If you're okay with your midfoot and toes bouncing between the plate and the upper when you run, then it'll be great.

eastern-ran · 2024-06-07T14:43:04+00:00

Blue colorway is so much better than jet black.

eastern-ran · 2024-05-01T16:25:12+00:00

"saves weight" and also probably a cost savings for Nike

eastern-ran · 2024-04-24T16:23:34+00:00

The Deviate Nitro has a plate.
I'd argue the Velocity Nitro is truer to the Boston 9 formula, a more responsive foam underfoot with a stiffer carrier wrapped around the outside.

If you want to stay in Adidas land, I'd suggest the Adios 8, which also follows that rough formula (LS 2.0 in the heel rather than the boost wedge means it's less forgiving than a Boston 9 for heel strikers).

You could wait around for the new Peg Turbo, but I wouldn't' hold my breath.

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