“Lives In House” on Christmas Eve

Damn what a depressing day on Christmas Eve.

If you haven’t heard or saw it on all the Boston news TV stations, our house was destroyed from a winds and rain last night. Yea destroyed. Like not able to live in it.

About 7pm Thursday night there was an extremely loud whoosh through the house from high winds. Well it was also the largest tree in our neighbors yard coming down on top of our house. Luckily Dave’s truck was there to cushion the fall of the base of the tree because it fell atop of the room Erin and Jake were in. The news might have been a little more hyped that what the 5 news stations reported. What really happened was just as scarey. 2 large branches pierced through the ceiling and into the floor that Jake and Erin were in nearly missing them.

Jake learned a new word. Tree.

More pictures and video of news broadcast as I get my computer up and running. We’re living in a hotel for a while, I guess.

Everyone’s ok and the house will live. The truck is completly destoyed but atleast if stopped the tree from killing my family. Thanks Dave.

Nik Carter fired

At radio stations, the end of the year means the contracts expire and either DJs stay on or move out. Thus, sometimes it also means that those familiar voices quietly spin off the local dial. In the case of WBCN 104.1FM’s afternoon DJ Nik Carter, the veteran rock jock didn’t get a new contract and was shown the door earlier this week.

Carter, who broke into Boston radio in the early 90’s as a part-tmer at WFNX 101.7FM which led to a fulltime night-time gig, then had a brief stint at now-defunct WDGE-FM/The Edge in the Providence market in 1995, before joining WBCN in August 1996 as a new night-time jock(Howard Stern got bumped up to morning drive from nights(on tape-delay) in April of that year). When WBCN cut veteran afternoon DJ Mark Parenteau in November 1997, the Cambridge native became its new PM drive jock with his own show called “Afternoon Fiasco”.

He briefly became WBCN’s midday voice (August 2001-August 2002) when Opie and Anthony popped back into town for a quick hello via their syndicated afternoon show, but returned to his old slot when their show imploded with on-air stunt that pushed the envelope way too far..

So long Nik. Thx for some good radio.

Damageplan members shot dead

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A police spokesman describes a fatal shooting at a Columbus heavy metal concert Wednesday night as “a horrific scene.”
Authorities say a man opening fire on band members of Damageplan and its fans killed four people and wounded two others. A police officer arriving at the scene shot the gunman dead.

The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m at the Alrosa Villa nightclub. Police said that they are searching for a motive. A crowd of about 250 people was inside for the concert by Damageplan.

Two members of the heavy metal band were reportedly killed. Darrell Abbott, who was known as “Dimebag Darrell,” was pronounced dead at the scene, according to WCMH-TV in Columbus. Police released the names of two others who died. They were Nathan Bray and Erin Halk, both audience members.

Abbott is a former member of the popular band Pantera.

“(The gunman) came on stage, from the back, like he knew what he was doing and went straight to Dimebag Darrell immediately,” an unidentified witness said.”
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Common chemical methylisothiazolinone found dangerous

Methylisothiazolinone is a chemical found in shampoo. Recent studies found that the chemical by itself has killed cells in rats’ brains.

The chemical, methylisothiazolinone (MIT), belongs to a class of compounds called biocides. These are used in the manufacture of many common household products and industrial water cooling systems to prevent bacteria from developing.

According to the National Institutes of Health, brands containing MIT include the shampoos Head and Shoulders, Suave, and Clairol, as well as Pantene hair conditioner and Revlon hair color.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. Read more