How much has the Boston-New York thing gotten to me?
Well, you’re about to find out. It’s still a few weeks too early to break out the annual Open Mike Christmas Carols (despite the fact there are at least 37 stations and satellite radio now dedicated to them; I’m pretty sure The Carpenters have one all to themselves).
So I needed to borrow from — and, soon, apologize too — a certain Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who long ago memorialized another annoyingly high-achieving Bostonian in “Paul Revere’s Ride.