I guess it’s axiomatic that when kids finally leave the nest, they try to leave as much of their junk behind as they possibly can. But eventually the parents catch on, the nest is declared off limits, and the stuff has to go. It was during one such day of reckoning that I was helping a friend clear the clutter out of his parent’s store room.
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
For the first share offered at Bostworld — and the opening salvo in our series on country music — we’ve chosen a classic album by none other than the prodigious Anita Kerr Singers.
During her heyday, demand for Anita Kerr’s backing vocal arrangements was so high that she is said to have appeared on a quarter of the country records released during the late 50s and early 60s. Kerr’s commercial sweetening on hits like Faron Young’s “Hello Walls,” Leroy Van Dyke’s “Walk On By” and many other songs of emotional ruin and social misadventure gave them just the cheerful touch they needed to appeal to a wider audience.
Continue reading ‘Report From The Country, Part One: The Anita Kerr Singers’
One of my favorite blogs doesn’t have snazzy CSS or RSS feeds,* doesn’t share out-of-print records or PDFs of old comics. It doesn’t keep me abreast of the current state of my online rights and it doesn’t offer handy lifehacking tips. It doesn’t even link back to this site. All it does is sound a weekly deathknell for our “non-negotiable” way of life.
Twenty years ago, I rented the back half of a cool old house just off downtown Tempe. The whole place was falling apart. I broke up with my girlfriend there, and spent the entire summer sweating and sulking alone within its dingy confines. It had a huge hole in the living room wall, through which an ancient evaporative cooler blasted fetid rusty air.
Continue reading ‘Things I Should Throw Out: Phoenix Gazette, 1951′
Oh, this is a bad habit to start: stealing someone else’s content. But it’s worth it:
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