Bostworld

Nobody will ever accuse me of being overly festive this time of year. In fact, I don’t think I’ve been much of a Christmas fan since the beginning of my second decade. Sure: I like gift-giving and all that, but I can’t find it within myself to — as one commercial I saw recently put [...]

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 recently had the pleasure of contributing to the 365 Days Project, hosted on the WFMU site. Despite the hate mail I received from a certain camp who felt I offered too little respect to my subject, the experience was otherwise benign. Bostworld gained no surge in hit counts for my effort; in fact, I’ll [...]

The public spectacle of Elvis sleepwalking his way though the seventies is one of the more cliche metaphors of that decade. But the second half of 1974 is what many consider his absolute nadir. To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the death of The King Of Rock And Roll, we present a compilation [...]

“My world is just that small,” as my wife would say.
A couple of Tuesdays back, I got a new job — a promotion, actually. Nothing too amazing there; getting it was the easy part. The tough part will be filling the position I just vacated. Unfortunately, I can’t hire myself, so I guess I’m [...]

America’s much vaunted Independence Day is still a week away, but we’re dusting off our old Fourth Of July program anyway. This episode holds a special significance for me, and I’m not talking about patriotism. In my brief spoken episode, I offer ambivalent tribute to my state of unemployment at the time. Six years later, [...]

When my spouse and I found out Scottish legends the BMX Bandits were scheduled to play at the 2007 NYC Popfest, we quickly booked some decent lodging and grabbed a red eye to JKF. For their first visit to our shores in a decade, the band played a poorly-attended weeknight show in Brooklyn and [...]