Rob DeCola
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Rob DeCola
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Boston Journalist, Dual National 🇺🇸🇮🇹, Trekkie, Retro Gamer, Media Consumer, End User.

I saw Spaceballs before Star Wars as a kid and it messed me up. Subscribe to a newspaper.
Happy 30th to @boston.com !

I was 20 in 2003 and pretty sure I knew everything there was to know about journalism.

They hired me anyway.

What followed is an enviable career I wouldn't trade for anything.

Here's to all the heroes, villains, big stars, and bit players I met along the way!
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My mains. #MortalKombat
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And may Her days be free of Thomas the Eel getting all up in her business. #NewEnglandAquarium #NEAQ
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This our Queen. There are many turtles like her, but this one is ours.
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
All hail the Queen Guardian of Boston! Long may she swim around the Giant Ocean Tank and nap upon its fake coral. #myrtletheturtle
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I wonder if Black Mesa was just an AWS outage? 🤔 #halflife
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh, ok. Sorry I annoyed you with my fanatical local loyalty. #kowloon

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/l...
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The suspect pulled a Patterson-Gimlin. #bigfoot

www.boston25news.com/news/local/b...
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The #Dunkin $6 Meal Deal here in Mass. is the $8 Meal Deal out in California and not enough people are mad about it.
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One for me and WhatsHisName, my new best friend.
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The blue #Xbox X is the most obvious example of the sun-damage problem that haunts Southern California's otherwise superb #retrogaming stores.
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I don't know art, but I know what I like.

(Yucef Merhi's Atari Poetry IV)

#retrogaming #art
September 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So, 1100 men went in the water. 316 men came out. The sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

#Jaws #Thefarmerandtheshark

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I got to see this on the big screen at Coolidge today and WOW. #Jaws #Jaws50th
August 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The #StarTrek episode "Bread and Circuses" used stock footage of #MIT in Cambridge thus this Memory Alpha entry:

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a large building found on the planet 892-IV."

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Massach...
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It's modern and has hundreds of games and the guy swiping his credit card has no idea you destroyed something beautiful. #retrogaming #emulation
August 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Wrong airlock. #Halflife
August 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
August 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
August 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I just want Dry
August 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Call this Agency. #GTAOnline
July 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
July 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM