Lighting up the river

I watched them from a roofdeck on Comm Ave. Started a couple minutes late but I thought the choreography was really well done - both the main river barge and the secondary ones that lined the bridge.

We listened to a bunch of the concert on the radio, where imo it lost quite a bit of its impact - but it wasn't bad. But I heard people who were at the Hatch Shell lawn saying they really loved it.

Leaving the back bay afterwards, there was about ten minutes of craziness watching happy yet incredibly stupid pedestrians walk in front of moving vehicles, and out-of-town vehicles totally ignore stop lights - and pedestrians! Thank goodness everyone seemed pretty chill. I didn't hear any raised voices, or witness any actual accidents.

I for one am very thankful to David Mugar for bankrolling the celebration for so many years. I think, by and large, that its a wonderful thing for the city and for all the folks who visit here for it. We need to find a way to make sure it keeps happening.

... we already have the winner of the "dumbest UHub comment of the day" !!!

Mugar is a philanthropic pillar of the city and he does far more than spend funds "on a parties"; it's sad to see him bowing out of this particular project after so many years but it's overdue.

David Mugar was certainly quick to heed your advice! He just set up a cancer center five years ago.

Seriously, though, is there some bizarre decision tree for some people? Like, everything has to cure cancer or feed the poor or else it's not worth doing?

In the time it took to post that comment you could have been volunteering at a homeless shelter or something else socially productive.

You monster.