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Monthly Archives: June 2014
So Long to My Desk of 37 Years
Well the Missus and I are moving to a new place and, say, it’s swell. It’s also smaller and more, er, refined than our current place. So I decided my desk has to go. Back story: In 1977, I shared a … Continue reading
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Tagged ave atque vale, Bob McNutt, Chestnut Hill, deep drawer, Howie Cusack, Philip Marlowe, Route 9, Star Market, walnut desk
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The Redemption Unit
Inspired by our pal Dan Kennedy, who just published his first piece at Medium, the copycatting staff has just publish its first piece there. Preview: The Redemption Unit Adventures in the Social (In)Security Meltdown of 1975 Prologue I got my … Continue reading
Why We’re Confused About Social Media and Brand Marketing
Because we’re all about you splendid readers, the hardworking staff is working hard to stay on top of marketing trends in social media networks. But we have to admit our head kind of exploded when we read yesterday’s Mediabistro’s Morning … Continue reading
Time Says Magazine Editors On Its Side
From our Late to the Party Line desk As the hardtracking staff noted last fall, Time, Inc. has decided to trade journalism’s traditional Chinese Wall between advertising and editorial for the Berlin Wall – that is, a thing of the … Continue reading
Scrapple From the Apple (Store)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Boylston Street Apple store to dump some old computers last night and, say, it was swell. Largely because we dropped off a Mac SE that we bought in 1989 for – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1989, Apple Geeks, Apple store, Boylston Street, Charlie Parker, Liquid Paper, Mac SE, Scrapple from the Apple
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WSJ’s Wimbledon Double-Fault
Question: When the Wall Street Journal gets it wrong, how does the paper set it right? Answer: Stealthily, in this case. From Tom Perrotta’s piece in the Weekend Wall Street Journal print edition: [Rafael] Nadal, the top seed at Wimbledon, lost his … Continue reading
When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
. . . well, that’s just sad. The hardnoting staff has a habit of recording mangled phrases in the press, and here’s our latest batch. • From Boston Magazine last July, about the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial race: “[Martha Coakley’s] apparent reversal … Continue reading
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Tagged @MickeyBPowerPop, Allen Craig, Arsenio Hall, Bill Clinton, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Brian Krause, CNN, Condoleezza Rice, Daniel Nava, David Desharnais, Doug Band, First Read, International Cherry-Pit Spitting Contest, Iowa, Jeremy Roenick, John Kerry, Johnny Carson, mangled phrases, Martha Coakley, Mexican immigrants, Montreal Canadiens, MSNBC, New Republic, NPR, Quebec, Red Sox, Rep. Steve King, SCOTUS, Secretary of State, St. Louis Cardinals, Stanley Cup, stare decisis, Wall Street Journal, Will Middlebrooks
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Tyler Kepner’s Sweet NYT Tony Gwynn Column
The hardrooting staff is an American League fan, so we never paid much attention to San Diego Padre’s great Tony Gwynn. Shame on us. Gwynn, as Richard Goldstein’s New York Times piece yesterday reminded us, was a ballplayer for the … Continue reading
“How Boston Fixes a Pothole”
Politico has a series called What Works and its latest installment is Boston: There’s an App for That, by Ben Schreckinger. “Civic hacking” and the transformation of local government. Boston’s City Hall is a 500,000-square-foot concrete monstrosity. Built in 1968, … Continue reading
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