Alleged criminals, that is.
I have an Op-Ed column in today’s Globe tracing a commercial real estate foreclosure in Roxbury back to the Dianne Wilkerson scandal. Not the bra-stuffing part, but the (alleged!) $15,000 crooked land deal pay-for-play part.
Read it here. Pony up $1 for the real paper and marvel at that incredible illustration. And check [...]
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New in Today’s Globe: Criminals Ruin Everything
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Media
Tags:Allegedly!·Boston Globe·Crooks·Dianne Wilkerson·Real Estate·Self-Promotion
Five Other Dignified Career Moves Chad Ochocinco Considered, and Rejected, Before Joining Buzz Aldrin on Dancing With the Stars
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Media
1. Travel the country’s finest gas stations and car washes, singing the hit romantical ballad On the Wings of Love.
2. Hold Fonzworth Bentley’s umbrella.
3. Assistant manager at Topeka TGI Friday’s.
4. Sensitivity trainer for John Mayer’s racist crotch.
5. Join James Franco on the cast of General Hospital.
Tags:Seriously?
This Week in B&T: Dollar Borrowed, Dollar Earned
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Media
Perhaps you read this or this in the past couple days and wondered, oooo weee what up with that? Well, this week we tell you, here’s what.
What you knew was, this KS Partners is losing a whole bunch of square footage. And what we discovered is, it really doesn’t matter. Because the company bought and [...]
LMFAO to Mitt Romney: I’m Not Your Prey, I’m Not Some Salmon Going Upstream
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics
So release that Vulcan grip!
Tags:Internets·Mitt Romney
Nexis Account Put to Good Use
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
The Awl put an intern to work recently and dug up like 9257 nasty things that the New York Post said about NY Daily News exec – and Boston Properties chairman – Mort Zuckerman, before abruptly almost endorsing his candidacy for US Senate, which has not even been announced yet.
And here are the highlights.
Tags:Death of Newspapers
Globe Gets Nautical
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Today’s Globe features a boilerplate trend-tastic bit about Bostonians who live on boats. The piece speaks to Bostonians who live on boats, who complain about bills and sometimes tell funny stories, and cites some statistics which illustrate the trend as a growing one.
The author also has the good sense to know what to do with [...]
I Read the Herald for the Articles, Not the Pictures
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Hey Herald. Can you please stop slathering yourself in Scott Brown man-porn? People on the T are starting to look at me funny.
Alternate punchline: Funny how the paper has yet to run a photo of Scott Brown looking hunky while reading a book.
One Internet is Not Enough
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Hoping that two will be, though.
Here’s me on the Twitter, and here’s B&T.
You’re welcome, world.
Southie Convention Center Finally Finds a Way to Pay for that $1B Expansion
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Apparently, they’re going to start scratching together some cash by charging news outlets for access meeting minutes. This, according to State House News, which asked for copies of the routine documents, and was threatened with a bill.
Bold Boldfacing
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Yesterday’s Inside Track featured a roundup of Big Names To Watch in 2010. They included such not-watched-in-2009 names as, uh, Theo Epstein and Gisele and Ben Affleck. The year is sure to be unlike we have ever seen before.
Just one question: How did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad get left off the list???
