Bostworld

I decided to start Bostworld about two years ago. Following the example of Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders and the rest of the lifehackers, a took a quick personal inventory, and realized how unhappy I was to be making no effort whatsoever to move forward my long held, but long put-off desire to pursue the art […]

I’ve always been a huge fan of the Four Seasons. One of the first CDs I ever bought was a Rhino compilation of their hits, dreadfully mixed for stereo with the vocals and backing tracks hard panned into opposite channels. Twenty years later, I still have it. At the time, however, my roommate forbade me […]

Tempe was still a pretty sleepy town when I moved there in 1985. It hadn’t changed much in the ten years since I first started visiting its head shops and record stores in my mid-teens. A block east of my house, downtown Mill Avenue was still “home to little more than biker bars, tattoo parlors, […]

One of the topics that came up during my conversation with Russ Shaw a couple months back was his work with the Phoenix pirate station, KDIL. I never heard the station myself; by the time I learned about it, I was in my late teens and the broadcasts had all but stopped. But the older […]

It’s finally starting to cool off around these parts. Soon enough, I’ll able to once again take actual road trips to parts of the state I haven’t seen yet. But the internet still continues to offer an adequate substitute for real experience. I’ve recently found a few great sites that are new to me at […]