You can go anywhere in Dorchester and find yourself a watering hole. But for me there are a handful of places that are truly authentic. I’m talking about establishments that are woven into the fabric of Dorchester. Family run, with a vested interest and feel for their …
Have you been online and noticed the pictures of folks who like to stick their lips out and throw up deuces in every picture their in. Am I the only person that gets pissed every time I see one of these pics? Even if your …
So we got a Jewish kid named Dr. K running around Dot with a Umass Boston hoodie on making hip hop videos. I have some fans of Funky Jew Friday here on DotRat.com …but I’m still trying to figure out if Dr. K is the real deal….the beat has some soul though. I need some honest opinions, so I’m putting it to the Dot Rat’s to decide…..
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Where does the Boston Globe go when they need to get a pulse on what the nation is feeling regarding the debt ceiling crisis. Exactly….South Bay in Dorchester. The one guy with a citizenship in this video is still rattled from seeing big mama’s cones….four seconds …
So this traveling salesman is in between gigs and has a few days off, so he goes into bar in a small town. He sits down has a few beers, and notices a big glass jar full of fifties in the corner. He asks the bartender, what’s the story with the money in the jar? The bartender replies, it’s a little bet we have going here. You have to put a fifty in the jar and complete 3 things, if you do all that you get the money. The man asks what do I have to do? The bartender says, do you see that 6’5″ 250lbs bouncer in the corner? The man says yeah, the bartender says you have to knock him out with one punch. Then we have a mean nasty pitbull out back. The dog has a bad tooth, so you have to pull the tooth. Then the barman says we have an 85 year old woman upstairs who hasn’t been sexually satisfied in 20 years, you have to go upstairs and take care of her. The salesman says, what the heck. He puts a fifty in the jar, walks up to the bouncer and sure enough knocks the guy out with one punch. He then goes out back, the dog is moaning and screaming for 15 minutes, the salesman walks back into the bar and says where’s that old lady with the bad tooth?
If you grew up a Dot Rat, either you played hockey or your neighbors did. When Bobby Orr came to town he infused the neighborhoods with hockey fever. His influence can still be seen on our side streets today…street hockey is part of our fabric …
Racism exists on both sides of Dot Ave. Things have become better over the years but tensions do flare from time to time. The questions being raised by the recent Ups and Downs stabbings sparked my interest in writing about this. And I will try …
We all know that public safety is a tough job for both Police and Fire. The jobs can be thankless and prove very high risk. This morning the Boston Globe reported on this fire in a single family home in Somerville which took the life of a woman in her 90’s. There’s a rumor floating around that a Somerville firefighter who was responding to this fire was an actual family member of the deceased woman. I can’t begin to imagine how horrible this must have been.
Tonight my thoughts and prayers are with this firefighter and public safety officials everywhere.
