Okay. Normally, when I work on any DIY / arts and crafts / restoration project, I take a ton of photos, document everything on my blog, post the blog, and then work on the next project. This time around … I tried a new tactic. As I began work on another drive-in speaker restoration project,…
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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 29 2024
Good morning, blog readers – lots of fun things coming up this week. Canada Day is this Monday; Independence Day is this Thursday; and the weather still seems nice and reasonable after last week’s nasty heat wave. So let’s get started with this week’s blog recap, and then enjoy all the great weather out there.…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 28, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, originally broadcast on September 9, 2022, took a bunch of familiar rock and pop songs, and re-processed them as “Out…
Read MoreMr. Topham Hatt will be very cross when he sees this.
During the summers when I lived in Boston with my Grandma Betty, we would take Saturday trips on the MBTA trolley system, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. She would park her car at Cleveland Circle, and we’d get a Green Line train from there to Park Street, change for another Green…
Read MoreSly and the Family Stone … in French?!?
You can fall down the YouTube rabbit hole in an instant, and once you’re there … hoo boy you can find some amazing things. Such as this classic 1968 jam by Sly and the Family Stone. You know it, you love it, here it is. Well, when the record company demanded a follow-up to this…
Read MoreThe Force is strong with this one.
Over the years, I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with Twitter n/k/a X. It’s not as polarizing as my love-hate relationship with Reddit, or my love-haven’t-really-found-anything-to-hate-about-it-yet relationship with Mastodon. But that being said … there are moments on X when, for one reason or another, I get transported away from my jaded, cynical soon-to-be-61-year-old-self, and turn…
Read MoreIf you want to vote for Chuck, you can vote for Chuck here.
I have always stressed the importance of voting. Voting is the single most effective tool we have in choosing our government and our leaders. And it’s not just politics. In the past, I’ve voted for pineapples on pizza (totally acceptable), Miracle Whip as the best salad dressing (I’ll die on that hill), and The Last…
Read MoreDo scammers attract scambots? Of COURSE they do!
Last week, I blogged about a new social media scam, one where a scammer posts on one person’s page, tags twelve other people, and blurts about a cryptic message about “I can’t believe he’s gone, gonna miss him so much,” with a link that, if clicked, will take the victim to some nefarious website where…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 22 2024
Good morning, my fantastic blog readers. Glad to see you today. And by “glad,” I also mean that I’m glad to go through this week’s blog roll recap and see what my fellow writers and bloggers and photographers and thinkers are up to. So let’s get started. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 21, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, originally broadcast on August 14, 2020, features popular songs in extremely rare foreign-language versions. This is way cool. Trust me…
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