Rick Jenkins

Rick Jenkins wants to make sure everyone feels like they’re at home. There’s a bowl of candy set out for people to pick at, Charlie Chaplin’s playing on a mounted TV in one of the corners of the room, some seats are reserved and marked off, scorpion bowls are ushered out to the throat-parched, and but soon Chaplin will be shut off, the room will fill, the lights will darken, The Stendals will start to play, and the first comedian — Rick, the host — will take the stage.

Jenkins is the manager and host of evenings at The Comedy Studio. Located atop the Hong Kong Restaurant in Cambridge, MA, The Comedy Studio has been called “the greatest comedy club on earth” by the senior producer of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Frank Smyley, but quotes like that don’t speak to how it relates to the rest of the city, who the man who runs the show is, and what a show up on the third floor is like — a friendly, welcoming environment hosted by a friendly, welcoming man who only asks for a certain degree of decorum — pants, at least. Please.
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Following in the footsteps of our friends over at blogging.la (aka Metroblogging Los Angeles), we here in Boston are wondering who is Boston’s Grinch of the Year.

We are looking to you, our readers, for nominations. Basically any person or group of people who had a negative impact on Boston in this past year. You should know what a Grinch is if you have every read the book, seen the tv special, or seen the movie.

I think some other cities may be nominating the Patriots or the Red Sox for their award, but not sure who we should pick here, so throw out some names in the comments section and we will start a poll at the beginning of next week to get a winner!

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Metroblogging Boston and the whole Metroblogging community!

As you can see, the blog here in Boston has been rather low traffic as of late and most of it has been content from me. Well, we are making some changes and trying to get Metroblogging Boston ramped back up and we need your help! If you have any interest in writing for this site, please send me an e-mail at metblog at skadz dot com. Thanks!

Well, Rob Petit would love to have it. He is a local artist who is going to put together an installation with the old cell phones. If you’d like to donate, check out this post.

The MBTA has rolled out T Radio. I don’t leave my house without an iPod attached to my ears, but this should be interesting for the iPodless :) (interesting or maybe thoroughly annoying)

Amy has some thoughts on the new station. What do you think?

I like the phrase “Hoax Device.” It makes me wonder how broad the interpretation can get.

(For actual reportage, BoingBoing.)

826 Boston is throwing a Revenge of the Book Eaters. Check it out.

On a related note, McSweeney’s is now on YouTube — here’s something with Millard Kaufman:
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NYC Metblogs has the news.

Something going on over in Kuala Lumpur.