Tag: boston
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Tunesday : 1988 Revolution Music–Tracy Chapman
1988 was probably the most pivotal year in my developing taste in music. Until that point, I’d pretty much been a bit of a drifter, taste-wise, taking what I liked from what my friends exposed me to–I could still remember being excited for months before the first “Asia” supergroup album came out in when I…
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The Boston Bomber–To Kill or Not To Kill
I found myself, once again, over at Jonathan Turley’s always compelling and substantive blog, where he’s been writing about the decision to allow an image of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in his orange prison jumpsuit, defiantly raising his middle finger after his arrest. Mr. Turley raises the legal question: was this evidence prejudicial…
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The Boston Yeti.
There are things I don’t like about Boston. Like the Patriots and…well, just the Patriots, really. The Boston Yeti pretty much remedies the city–just goes to show you there’s no limit to what one man, or one Yeti, can accomplish. It is things like this that undermine my goal of absolute misanthropy. I’m dangerously close…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings # 18: A Christmas Festival with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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