Not the Hellmouth

Hell Gate.

Bridge.

WTF?

When I knew it -- twenty-five years ago -- Hollister, California, was a town of 10,000 people in the middle of nowhere -- that is, in a little valley to the east of Salinas, on the other side of Fremont Peak.

Now there are people -- lots of people -- walking around Boston in T-shirts promoting the place. Did they build a casino there or something?

There is a snake in my bedroom

It's a Python regius, in a tank on top of my dresser, where my housemate installed it last night.