Bono was here

The Herald reports today that U2 frontman Bono, in Boston for the past few days, was in East Boston yesterday, stopping for breakfast at Donna's, at the Orient Heights intersection, which is less than a half-mile from me.

Of course, I had a previous close encounter with the world-famous philanthropic rock star back before he was a household name. At the Orpheum in 1983 I sat in an end seat in the fifth row in the first of the dozen times I've seen U2. Bono came up the aisle, climbed onto the seat in front of me and leaned forward. I held him up with my hands on his chest.

If you hit the town tonight maybe you'll catch Bono having a pint of Guinness somewhere.