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tuesday, december 4th

kelly hogan

@ johnny d's

thursday, december 6th

conor oberst

@ converse hall, tremont st.

thursday, december 6th

jason isbell &

the 400 unit

@ the sinclair

friday, december 7th

the weisstronauts 14th

annual holiday jubilee

with guests tsunami of sound

preacher jack, & the derangers

@ the midway cafe, jp

friday, december 7th

caspian

moving mountains

o'brother

@ the sinclair

saturday, december 8th

patrick watson

@ the sinclair

saturday, december 8th

the faint perform

"danse macabre"

trust

icky blossoms

@ the paradise

sunday, december 9th

band of horses

@ house of blues

sunday, december 9th

japandroids

diiv

@ the paradise

wednesday, december 12th

concrete blonde

jim bianco

@ the sinclair

thursday, december 13th

annual boston christmas cavalcade

benefit for the homeless

featuring tons of artists

(see fb event for details)

@ johnny d's

thursday, december 13th

nada surf

eternal summers

@ the paradise

thursday, december 13th

mates of state

in the valley below

@ brighton music hall

friday, december 14th

forgetters (blake from

jawbreaker's band)

& more tba

@ democracy center, harvard square

sunday, december 30th

sufjan stevens

sheila saputo

@ the royale

monday, december 31st

my morning jacket

@ agganis arena

monday, december 31st

deer tick

two gallants

@ the sinclair

monday, january 7th

quicksand

@ the paradise

tuesday, january 8th

hospitality

@ great scott

saturday, january 19th

mission of burma

@ the sinclair

sunday, january 20th

camper van beethoven

cracker

@ the middle east down

sunday, january 20th

soundgarden

@ the orpheum

sunday, january 20th

ra ra riot

@ the paradise

sunday, january 27th

widowspeak

@ great scott

tuesday, january 29th

kathleen edwards

sera cahoone

@ brighton music hall

wednesday, february 13th

yo la tengo

@ the paradise

saturday, march 2nd

unknown mortal orchestra

@ brighton music hall

tuesday, march 12th

tame impala

@ house of blues

thursday, march 14th

jukebox the ghost

matt pond pa

lighthouse and the whaler

@ brighton music hall

tuesday, march 26th

yo la tengo

@ the paradise

wednesday & thursday

april 3rd & 4th

they might be giants

@ the paradise

visit tourfilter for more shows

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Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Cutting Edge Crowding : Flash MOBs Explained

posted by brad at 11:25 AM | direct link | 0 comments

Random, jacked-in New Yorkers are using email and cell-phone messaging to coordinate Flash MOBs... sudden, unexplained crowds of people who gather in one place, doing something, for 10 minutes or less... confounding clueless onlookers. The most recent gathering was in the Macy's rug department, where everyone stared at one specific rug. Check out the photographic evidence.

photos courtesy moist & tasty

Here are some excerpts from the email instructions for yesterday's MOB #2:

You are invited to take part in MOB, the project that creates an inexplicable mob of people in New York City for ten minutes or less. Please forward this to other people you know who might like to join.

Instructions:

(1) At some point during the day on June 17th, synchronize your watch to this time.

(2) By 7 PM, based on the month of your birth, please situate yourselves in the bars below. Buy a drink and act casual.

(3) Then or soon thereafter, a MOB representative will appear in the bar, wearing one of the "trucker hats" that is so stylish these days. He or she will pass around slips of paper, on which three important pieces of information will be printed: (a) the MOB site, (b) a particular item at the site, and (c) a secret phrase. Commit all three to memory and put the slip in your pocket. ONCE YOU ARE AT THE MOB SITE, NONE OF THESE SLIPS OF PAPER SHOULD BE VISIBLE.

(4) Leave the bar and walk to the MOB site as quickly as possible. No one should arrive at the final MOB destination until 7:26.

(5) Find the item and stand around it. Greet everyone, even those you do not know. Talk among yourselves about the item and its relative merits and demerits.

(6) At 7:37 you should disperse. Thank the salespeople for their help, but explain that the item has been "voted down."

(7) Return to what you would otherwise have been doing. Await instructions for MOB #3.

Absolutely, pointlessly, perfectly, brilliant.

If you're in NYC, join in. If a Boston MOB starts up, I'm very there. Thanks for clueing me in, Hollis.

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neil halstead
live in cambridge, ma
on november 14th, 2008
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