100 Reasons to Hate Boston

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1) Allston has been full of terrible people since I was in high school.
2) Bad public transit.
3) Shit closing early.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

dont get me started on the closing early! i couldnt believe it when i was there

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

A.C. "Everyone In Allston Should Be Killed"

― amon (eman), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Yea, that song was like 1996..... HOW COME AIDS DIDN'T KLILL THOSE FAGS YET??!?!?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I was just in Boston this week. I think I had some of the worst chinese food in quiet a while. Boston bums seem to much more into elaborate roleplaying games too.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

4) Local accent.

― amon (eman), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

5) http://www.blackoutbar.net/boblogo.jpg and associated douchebaggery
6) http://www.alumnigolf.com/TG/Site/prod_images/21407.jpg and associated douchebaggery
7) new york city prices
8) bad public transit

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

9) The athletic teams are uniquely hateable.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

10. ska was invented there.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

11. college rock

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

12. it is impossible to drive anywhere in boston without violating at least 3 traffic laws

13. http://www.adclub.org/media/images/logos-big/wbos.jpg

14. BIG DIG

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

15. NKOTB

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

16. Bobby Brown

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

17. The 6'2" asshole who pulled a knife on my 5"1' wife in the Central Square T-stop in 1997.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

18. The rest of the college assholes there.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

(DP, what do you do for hvrd? My ex works for the natural history museum.)

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

(I don't do anything for them anymore; I was an undergrad there and worked on the network support staff in the summer of '95. Now I am a corporate bitch.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

(Oh!)

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

19. commuter rail service being useless on the weekens
20. public transit in general being useless late at night

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

21. Boston College students who puke all over Cleveland Circle on weekend evenings.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

22. http://devers.homeip.net:8080/images/128.gif

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

23. David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" is set in Boston

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

LOGAN.
WAAF AND THEIR "FUNNY"
WAAF AND APPEALING TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

27. Not to mention that cabs are more expensive than in NYC!
28. Moving Day
29. Constantly getting run off the road while bicycling

Logan OTM.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

worst street layout in the new world?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

24. Those fackers encouraged this whole smoking ban and other New Englandish attacks on anything interesting.
25. Sports fans -- a whole city full of the worst sports fans on the planet.
26. they're proud of themselves and NO ONE can begin to figure out why

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

27. the drivers are actually bad
28. the people are actually rude
29. worst townies ever?
30. skinhead/oi/etc revivals

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

ELMO IS SO SO SO SO SO OTM.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

31. This girl from Boston who I hate but you don't know, but trust me, she's a BITCH

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

32. january ice rain that leaves your uninsured ass so sick you partially, temporarily lose your hearing for the 3 weeks following. Of course, walking the liberty trail in it might not have been the best idea.
33. mean junkies that are actually kind of scary.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

34. Serious fan douches circa 2003 shouting Nomah! on Yawkey Way
35. Bandwagon fan douches circa 2005 shouting Edgah! on Yawkey Way
36. Yawkey Way

― Gee, You Knit? (mookie wilson), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

38. "Big Poppi"

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

39. River Rave

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

40. NOWHERE TO PAAHHK YOUR CAAAHHHHH

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

41. Boston people at Providence shows

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

42. http://beacon.org/images/covers/0807050202.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

43. harvard law school

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

44. can't fucking park your car there unless you live there? WTF IS THAT

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

45. My dad's from there

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

46. WORST ACCENT EVER

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

47. Boring bars full of boring people

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

48. I've never been to Boston.

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

49. its making providence feeel the need to be that "OTHER CITY IN NEW ENGLAND"
GET A CLUE

― brock (brock), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

guys...I used to hate Boston...a lot. I mean the street layout was designed by a drunken retard. And the teams are all abhorrent. But then I moved to Washington DC and you know what? Boston is alright by me. I mean at least their streets weren't designed by a drunken French retard.

NB or maybe they were, I wouldn't know.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I sort of like DC

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Well then you're gonna love the shit out of Boston!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

50. http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/formanrace.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I ever want to go back to Boston. I don't think I really like (most of) teh East Coast.

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

back to = "to"

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

51. Teawasters

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

52. Having to drive through fucking Connecticutt.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

T/S: WBCN vs. WAAF

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

53. http://myspace-160.vo.llnwd.net/00151/06/17/151647160_m.jpg

― Alec Immerman (Alec Immerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

54. Michael Dukakis

― Gee, You Knit? (mookie wilson), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

55. http://www.mtv.com/onair/realworld/season16/assets/flipbooks/cast/danny/188x110.jpg

― Mad SETI (jaxon), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

56. Amanda

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YOU AND YOUR PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS, MITT ROMNEY

http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2002/spring/images/f1-1.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

atleast if this guy was a new yorker he'd have the decency to wear pants (or not wear them)

ihttp://hulubei.net/tudor/photography/photos/BostonianSleeping-1000x1500.jpg

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i like cambridge. or at least i like the record stores and book stores. tons more vinyl than philly. and cheaper too. i never liked boston though. even when i was a kid. but i was already in love with new york when i was a kid. and i really liked providence in the 80's when i went to school in barrington. boston has some similarities with philly when it comes to idiot white mook loser sports fans/teams. they both have that seriously parochial working class yahoo thing going on. but i'll take a south philly accent over a boston one anyday.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i'm applying to BU law school i think. i sure hope i don't get in. my brother goes to harvard and he seems ok though.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

-shitty yuppies on newbury
-the wall of trucker hats in newbury comics

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

their 2nd album just doesn't measure up to their debut.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

57. EVERYONE IS KINDA DOUGHY-LOOKING
58. UPPER CLASS SNOBS
59. WORKING CLASS SNOBS
60. MIDDLE CLASS SNOBS

― Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

61. http://www.divisionrecords.com/pictures/stickers/slapshot_1.gif

― amon (eman), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

ssd are one of my fave bands ever so i can't hate on everything boston.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

62. The people who aren't doughy-looking are steroid ads if they're male or tiny skeletons if they ar female.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

63. http://www.celebrateboston.com/images/attractions/cheersbeaconhill.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

64. http://www.valencialiquor.com/images/bucket-samadams.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

65. http://www.musicstrands.com/coverm/28/146528.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

64.5 those commercials where Sam Adams says it's "always a good choice"

― amon (eman), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

dude, come on, the standells were great!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/johnnychrist/puma.jpg
http://i17.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/7c/c5/79_1_b.JPG

― gang grape (Adrian Langston), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

66. the dance hall crashers (or mighty mighty bosstones?) - "tessie"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.smallvictoriesusa.com/images/StreetReports/04/SepOcT/Ow4/homeless%20Red%20Sox%20fan.jpg
http://www.witz.org/images/bloodsox.jpg
http://baysidemaine.com/Photos/2004%20POTD%20Images/2004_November_POTD/11-9-04%20Short%20Red%20Sox%20Fan%20by%20Conner.jpg

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-157-1112823065.jpg

― gang grape (Adrian Langston), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

"BOSTON MEETS PROVIDENCE"

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

"MEATS"

Barry Bonds vs. Boston
"A Flea Market of Racism"

By DAVE ZIRIN

The media and sports radio establishment of Boston are calling for the head of All-World baseball player Barry Bonds.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Bonds was asked a cream puff question about whether he would consider finishing his career in Beantown. Bonds shook his head and said, "Boston is too racist for me. I couldn't play there. That's been going on ever since my dad (Bobby) was playing baseball. I can't play like that. That's not for me, brother." When the reporter countered that the racial climate has changed in Boston, Bonds responded, "It ain't changing. It ain't changing nowhere."

Boston is a city that treasures its image as a liberal enclave of elite universities and tweedy baseball poets so Bonds's words have gone over like a 4th of July Picnic in Fallujah. He has been roundly criticized including winning the "Just Shut Up" award from ESPN radio. By calling on Bonds to "just shut up" the media is just doing what pitchers have been perfecting all season: avoiding confrontation with the six-time MVP. To be clear, it is not like Boston has cornered the market on bigotry. Every city has its stories of both racism and resistance. Yet Boston's history is particularly nasty. The most violent anti-busing demonstrations in America were not in Birmingham or Biloxi but Boston. In 1989, when Charles Stuart, a wealthy white businessman murdered his pregnant wife, he told police that a "Black guy" did it. The police believed him without a whisper of doubt. They launched a vicious manhunt, fanning out through housing projects and sweeping the streets. State politicians whipped up a further frenzy by calling for reinstatement of the death penalty. When Stuart committed suicide after his brother blew the whistle, all police spokeswoman Margot Hill could say without shame was, "(Stuart) took advantage of the environment he was in. He knew exactly what he was doing." It is precisely what Ms. Hill calls "the environment" that has found expression in the world of sports. The Boston Red Sox were the last team in major league baseball to integrate. They waited so long to sign African-Americans, that the hockey team, the Bruins, actually beat them to it. The Sox removed their color line in 1959 twelve years after Jackie Robinson broke through with the Brooklyn Dodgers. They begrudgingly brought marginal infielder Pumpsie Green up from the minors. But it didn't have to be Pumpsie.

In April 1945 the Red Sox held a private tryout at Fenway Park for Robinson himself. With only management in the stands, someone yelled "Get those niggers off the field," and the door was shut. In 1949, the Red Sox laughed off the chance to sign Bonds's godfather, the legendary Willie Mays, who would go on to hit more career home runs than all but one man before him and awe crowds with his speed and defense. As Juan Williams reports, "One of the team's scouts decided that it wasn't worth waiting through a stretch of rainy weather to scout the black player." That decision killed the possibility that Mays and Ted Williams might have played in the same outfield.

In the 1950s, as teams immeasurably strengthened themselves by signing players like Mays, Henry Aaron, Ernie Banks, Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, Elston Howard, and others, the Red Sox stood pat with an all white hand. (The next time you hear a Boston fan complain about "The Curse of the Bambino", correct them that their "Curse of the Racism" has had a much more adverse effect.)

As the Civil Rights Movement blossomed, New England's Black baseball fans would root for integrated clubs over their own home team. In other words, they practiced their own form of ABB - Anybody but Boston.

Therefore unlike other cities, such as New York and Chicago, where rooting for an integrated team actually helped advance people's consciousness and challenge racist ideas, the Red Sox were proudly planting themselves on the wrong side of history. In the 1950s, if you were young and black, Fenway park was about as safe a space as Bull Connor's back yard.

But the racism in the Boston sports scene didn't stop at the Green Monster. During the 1950s and 1960s Boston was treated to the most successful run in the history of team sports with the NBA's Celtics winning 11 championships in 13 seasons. The mainstay of that team was a player of immense skill, unselfishness, and leadership: Bill Russell. Russell won five MVPs to go with his 11 rings. In 1967 he became the first African American coach of a pro team. In 1974 he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1980 the country's basketball sports writers voted him "The Greatest Player in the History of the NBA."

Russell also felt a deep desire to resist racism. Once in Marion, Indiana, he had been given the key to the city only to be refused service that evening in his hotel's dining room. Russell went to the mayor's home, woke him up, and returned the key.

His fierce pride (which the media called "a bad attitude") mixed about as well with Boston fans as a John Ashcroft sing along at the Apollo Theater. The result was that the greatest player in Boston team sports history was the target of a constant campaign of racial harassment. When Russell tried to move from his home in the Boston suburb of Reading to a new home across town, neighbors filed a petition trying to block the move. When that failed, other neighbors banded together to try to purchase the home that Russell wanted to buy, said Tom Heinsohn, a close friend of Russell's who played with him from 1956 to 1964. Once, vandals broke into Russell's home and defecated on his bed. Heinsohn said two white sportswriters from Boston told him they wouldn't vote Russell the league's most valuable player because he was Black.

Russell's achievements during his days in Boston, from 1956 to 1969, drew national acclaim but never won locals fans' hearts the way later Boston sports heroes did, from hockey player Bobby Orr to baseball player Carl Yastrzemski to basketball player Larry Bird. Despite all the rings, the Boston Garden averaged 8,406 fans during Russell's playing career, thousands short of a sellout. "We always sold out on the road, but rarely when we played at home," said Satch Sanders, who played with the Celtics from 1960 to 1973. By contrast, the Celtics teams led by Larry Bird in the 1980s sold out the 14,890-seat Garden for 662 straight games, from 1980 to 1995. "I didn't play for Boston," he once said, "I played for the Celtics." Another time he called Boston a "Flea Market of Racism."

Despite this mountain of evidence, Bonds is being told to "shut up." The few Boston writers, who to their credit have chosen to actually engage with what Bonds is saying, like the Globe's Bob Ryan have argued that "there may be a bad history, but it has gotten much better." Has it? Last fall, WEEI Boston Sports Radio host John Dennis, after looking at a photo of a gorilla that had escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo and lurked near a bus stop, said the animal was "probably a Metco gorilla waiting for a bus to take him to Lexington." Dennis was referencing the Metco program, under which more than 8,000 children of color from Boston and Springfield have attended suburban schools over the past 37 years. Despite an outcry, he was neither fired nor disciplined.

And to think, Bonds dares say out loud that the Boston sports scene is racist. No wonder ESPN wants him to "shut up." I guess the truth hurts.

― gang grape (Adrian Langston), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hardrock.com/live2/LiveGraphics/Godsmack/Godsmack_interv_home.jpg

― gang grape (Adrian Langston), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

dude, come on, the standells were great!

In general yeah, but I don't ever want to hear "Dirty Water" again.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Standells weren't even from Boston.

― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

19. commuter rail service being useless on the weekens

HORRIBLE

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Standells weren't even from Boston.

THE SONG DIRTY WATER IS ABOUT BOSTON. #65 IS DIRTY WATER NOT EVERYTHING THE STANDELLS EVER STOOD FOR.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

YEAH I KNOW THAT.

I DUNNO THO -- IS IT? "BOSTON YR MY HOME" IS SOME BULLSHIT LIE.

― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

The city of Boston is still to blame for inspiring the song.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

67. the Central Artery

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I think it's unfairly maligned, though

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

(on a nice day)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Barry Bonds OTM

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

gang grape??!?? more like GANG GREEN

(number 68)

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

o h chum

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

boston(and nyc)has sucked some ass since like oh 1990 tops but most of you were what in 5th grade then? do you people really go to yawkey way,newbury street, shit bars and pthen post on the noise board? amazing.the jocks suck the college kids suck new york city sucks noise as a scene sucks lists sucks. cambridge is still a cool place. its hard for me to hate on cambridge as its where i mbv, swirlies morphine boredoms come etc in small clubs! when people went out to have fun and smoke! and wow just imagine

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mediatheque-epernay.com/images/modern.jpg

boston got a pardon for the next five thousand years due to this album. i was there when jonathan signed the papers in duck blood

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

METCO HAHAHA WTF - NONE OF YOU FUCKS CAN EVEN START WITH ANYTHING IVE BEEN GETTING THE 'OH GET AWAY FROM THE DIRRTY SPIC LOOK' FOR LIKE 30 YEARS NOW SO REALLY AND I WAS SEEING THE RAMONES AND ALL TYPES OF OTHER GREAT SHIT IN PROVIDENCE CLUBS WHEN WILLIAMSMANG WAS ABOUT AS TALL AS MY DICK SO THAT ONE WAS JUST RICH.ALSO WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT EAST COAST CITIES, SO LAST 500 YEARS AGO ANYWAYS ALL THE GOOD SHIT AND I MEAN THE GOOD SHIT IS CLOSER TO THE WATER AND FURTHER NORTH. OR YOU NEED TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE OR TO MAKE MORE LISTS OR SOMETHING

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

69.

http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/dukakis.jpg

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

70. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JNW4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

BUMP

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

71. bizarro noise board

http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showforum=1

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

72. big dig is a murderer

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

73. http://www.thenoise-boston.com/cd_reviews/232.asp

FORCEFIELD
Load Records
Roggaboggas
17 "songs"

"Load" records, indeed. This is some haw-haw collective of performance-art types, wearing throw rugs and mop-wigs on the cover, playing oscillators, loops and video game sound effects, and it sucks harder than a two-dollar crack whore. The first "number" is a one-note synth fart, held for a solid minute. And it's the best thing on here. There are long stretches that sound like leaky faucets, tests of the Emergency Broadcast System, and elderly people coughing up hairballs. Six tracks and twenty minutes in, you finally hear a beat, not that a beat could redeem this catastrophe. Almost looks like they're selling it as a sci-fi concept album, but there are no vocals or liner notes, and even the press sheet is one big, pointless Fuck-You to the general public. They list fake names (smart move), and thank a buncha people with fake names too. These guys should learn that the bigger the in-joke, the less funny it is. To think that they actually sat around attaching song titles to this puddle of misery is mind-blowing. Someone sank big money into the thing, but there's no way that even the band members listen to it. Helen Keller could make a better record in her sleep, and she's dead. Honestly, these people should be ashamed. (Joe Coughlin)

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

that cd is the score to an installation they did at the whitney biennial of a bunch of flashing jawa type animatronics.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Brinkman's loft had a lot of the Whitney stuff in it last time we were there.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

things that make boston suck less:

museum of science & the mugar omni theatre "new england time capsule" intro w/ leonard nimoy

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

also the aquarium-mobile.

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

WHO PUT THE THE RAM....
.....
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IN THE RAM....
.....
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A LAM...
...

A DING DONG

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Someone sank big money into the thing
ORLY?

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Once when I was down by Wheelock I met a girl and asked her her name. She said 'Orly' and I immediately responded 'ORLY!?' and she said 'Yes, it's an old and respected Jewish name, thank you much," and looked at me like she was TOTALLY FUCKING OFFENDED and walked off with her fat friend, mumbling about me.

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

it's spelled Orli

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001GXU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

(phonetic jewess)

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=orli

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

& the internet sez that 'orly' is a common enough variant.

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

gonna add to that redemption list:

Charles River, anybody?
Boston is kinda laid-back for some East Coast shit?
A subway system that fucking works right? At least when I was there?

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

why is the charles river redeeming>!?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

A subway system that fucking works right? At least when I was there?

when did that start happening? and can someone explain to me why the t shuts down BEFORE last call? this has never made any sense to me. does the cab drivers union have more clout than i thought?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

A subway system that fucking works right? At least when I was there?

too bad its like living on the L train... EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME

XPOST!

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

cf. London

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost! ok:

the river -- It's pretty and people use it. It has sailboats in it all the time. Nice waterfront places.

the subway -- maybe i'm wrong, but it was cleaner & more reliable/efficient that nyc's. but yeah i forgot about it shutting down at night or whatever. that part sux.

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

cuz, you know, it's a river. not it's fault that it flows through boston. xp

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

^--- yeah exactly

damn I hate Boston

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

i love boston, shut your filthy speech hole.

best view of boston is driving east along mem drive in cambridge in front of mit (the stretch from the bu bridge to the longfellow bridge). great view of the skyline, people on the river walk, boats on the water. great in spring or fall.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

last time I was in boston I finally got to see the SMOOT lines on the bridge

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i was in boston i was driving south down 93 with my head out the window puking my guts out of the rental car. when we returned it they had the good graces not to ask about the racing stripes on the drivers side.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's olde...its got New England charm.

― ~Loves that Dirty Water (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://k47.pbase.com/o4/64/345764/1/57435293.IMG_7769.JPG

HO CHI MINH, PEOPLE.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

PROVIDENCE has charm.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

73.

Providence Goodwife = cool Puritan name
Boston Goodwife = lame Puritan name

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

74. Storrow Drive

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^ true, but being from Charlotte (AKA WORST CITY EVAR) the roads generally don't bother me at all.

other bad things:
75. students EVERYWHERE
76. everything is one million dollars US approx.

some redeeming things:
students EVERYWHERE
people are like crazy nice
seems fairly safe for a city of its size

?:
I LIVE HERE.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

NYC is much nicer than Boston.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

probably, we don't have weed deliveries. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

non-ILB Red Sox fans... UGH!!!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

nice qualifier shasta.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I love you guys, but the rest of these turkeys... maybe just the ones that made it out here... lordy.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

were they out there pre-2004?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

nice security dere

http://amerika.nu/graphics/boston_herald_victoria_snelgrove_cover_600x735.jpg

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

NO I HAVE FOUND A BETTER WAY

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-- Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr...) (webmail), September 13th, 2006 3:10 PM. (scarymonsterrr) (later) (link) (admin) (userip)

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

>:(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

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