Went to a trendy little italian place last night on Hanover, Strega. Great food, odd liquor license. Apparantly Mass laws make beer, wine and cordials a common setup in restaurants in Boston, but exactly what classifies as a cordial is interesting, at the Waterfront on commercial av they can’t have vodka, but they can have vanilla vodka. Weird.

Some loud and drunk lawyers from Chicago (aren’t they all?) Sat near us and discussed, loudly many things including Paul Revere as analyzed in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. At least they weren’t talking about Freakonomics. We wondered if they knew how close they were to the famous statue in the Paul Revere mall. I wonder if they’d care.