Comments on: Sorry about Boston

By: JackG

JackG — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:21:25 +0000

Dude, Boston has a west coast equivalent. It’s called San Francisco. Although I daresay I’ve never really heard how cool it is to live in Boston… San Francisco still has its ups and downs as far as that is concerned.

But never ask people to go easy on your city, especially during times when it might not deserve it. I once asked the same thing of people trashing SF when they left in droves in 2001/2002 (a.k.a. the dot bomb) after raping and pillaging the city for several years. What I got was to be singled out by Nick Denton as being pathetic. After hitting him up about his comment, he claimed he was referring to “Pathos” in the classic greek sense of the word, somehow trying to contrive some literary sense into his obvious bashing glee. Whatever.

Point is, don’t apologize. Tell ‘em things like the lite-brite incident just gives your city character. Who cares if its nutty. Embrace it. Besides, you could always defend Boston by bashing San Francisco. Might work. Better yet, bash LA. That always works in San Francisco!

By the way, I remember when CompuServe cost $6.50/hr for 300baud access via my C64. I win.

Cheers

Jack Greenwood
Online since 1982

By: Meh...

Meh... — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:50:38 +0000

Boston officials did something incredibly stupid. So now Boston and those who reside in Boston will get made fun of for quite a while. Thems the breaks dude, sorry if you feel so personally offended by it.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:43:09 +0000

Yeah, I remember my mom telling me about movies being "BANNED IN BOSTON!!", typically horror flicks. Don't remember hearing about the knife one (despite reading Globe 6 days of the week, we get them for free in my dorm), but there was something about a ban on tshirts which said "Stop Snitching" (telling police when witnessing a crime), which looked as though it was getting pretty far along at the time: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/05/snitching_t_shirts_come_off_the_shelves/ (Globe story from 2005)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:27:53 +0000

In the early years of the 20th century it was sort of common for people to mention, when trying to sell a book with controversial or racy content, that it was “Banned in Boston”.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:36:47 +0000

As a reformed boston resident myself, i’m not really surprised by what happened either. Do you recall about a year ago, after a homeless man was stabbed, Menino called for a ban on knives in the city? not big knives, not stabbing people with knives, a ban on all knives.

And do you know about the trailer that serves greek food 24 hours near brigham and women’s hospital? it gets shut down for health violations once in a while, but last i knew it was still there.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:21:08 +0000

I don’t really have much to contribute, as I’m not terribly emotionally invested in the whole thing. Heck, my only ‘experience’ with LiteBrite-gate was walking past a bunch of ATF officers standing around in front of the Planned Parenthood* on Comm Ave, not knowing why they had been there until the following morning.

I have also noticed BB’s laser-sharp yet constantly redirecting focus. About a year ago, I nearly (nearly!) convinced myself to stop reading after they had posted “subway map remixes” day after day for about a week(?). Then they suddenly switched subjects and never looked back. However, considering that this is the largest complaint I can think up, they can’t be doing too bad for themselves.

And really, with all this terror scare crap nowadays, its good to have some humor (intentional or not) come out of it from time to time. Especially when that humor ironically comes as a direct result of the local and national media’s fear mongering of the whole event.

*Unknown if they were there due to it being a possible target or just a convenient place to stop.