Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Bicycle Safety

God bless America’s secularized public school system for teaching generations of students the proper habits of good citizenship, public safety and personal hygiene. But don’t count out the scores of church schools who had their heavy hands in the game as well. Sure, they had a lock on the materials devoted strictly to religious instruction, but devotional institutions of learning also showed an interest in seeing that their students’ time on earth was as long and trouble-free as possible. And though classroom filmstrips might be more likely to, say, celebrate the studious habits of a young Abe Lincoln, they didn’t shy away from a good old traffic safety fear fest either.

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Your Favorite Little Podcast: Episode Eleven

Sure, here at Bostworld, we’re all about the fetish objects — the scrapbook items, the out-of-print vinyl, the odd junk found in the back of the closet. This is the very meat of our little weekly visits. But (for me, anyway) these things are nothing without the accompanying line or two of snarky commentary. At the end of the day — for better or for worse — it all comes down to the content.

That’s the way it used to be over at LuxuriaMusic.com too. Back in the days of their first iteration, I couldn’t even access their live feed, let along the chat room and live deejay cam — not until I was able to convince my wife that broadband was the way to go. But back then, Luxuria must have had folks on staff that did nothing but pump the site full of readable content damn all day. They were lousy with great articles about just about every obscure musical fetish you could want. This was back in the optimistic golden days of the Dot Com Boom, so I’ll bet there was enough VC capital lying around to pay people actual salaries for this sort of thing.

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The Rubber Band – “Hendrix Songbook”

I’ll buy just about any album with Michael Lloyd’s name on it. I first grew to love his work via his productions for the Osmond family and other 70s teen idols like Leif Garrett and Shawn Cassidy. But his credits appear on dozens and dozens of album from the period. Like other great producers of the 70s, such as Dennis Potter, Freddy Perrin and Lamont Dozier, even his least distinguished work is worth a gamble at the local thrift store (where the greatest gamble of course is not price, but that unbearable stop at the checkout counter).

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Downtown Encroaches

What kind of developer are you? When you encounter that dilapidated old wooden hovel on an otherwise empty lot, do you think “MacDonalds!!” or do the wheels inside your head begin to spin with all the ways you could retrofit it into a popular night spot, replete with hot fusion cuisine and perhaps a deejay on the weekends, serving up the latest in “chill out” mood music along with the finest local microbrews? Does that burned out shooting gallery of an abandoned hotel or apartment make your heart flutter with dreams of a glorious student housing/gallery combo, ready to take advantage of the soon to be completed downtown annex of the local university? All using only the latest in “green” building techniques?

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