Could Dr. Phil just leave us alone?
By adamg - Tue, 07/04/2006 - 10:52pm.
Jilly-D: WTF. why is Dr. Phil hosting the Fireworks Spectacular??
Zolok: I couldn't care less what this bumptious sumbitch thinks of our pyrotechnics.
Tim Jarrett: What a weird night, with the decay of Steven Tyler’s vocal chords on full display.
Single Girl in the City: Is it me, or were the Boston fireworks a bit of a let down this year?
Michael Bradford thinks it was you, Single Girl: The fireworks and the Boston Pops concert was not a disappointment this year - when are they a disappointment?
JS notes that the fireworks set off car alarms in nearby neighborhoods.
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Fireworks were fine
I thought the fireworks were just fine. The crowds on Memorial Drive seemed smaller than I recall from previous years, possibly because of the drenching rain that happened around 6 pm.
Who is 'Dr. Phil' ?
Not a big TV watcher, I take it
He hosted the fireworks on national TV.
Dr. Phil.
The fireworks were
The fireworks were bee-yoo-tee-ful, but I think that the fireworks/music combo was more interesting last year - I remember being really blown away by how in sync everything was. That could just be in the glow of my memory, though.
Bring Back Harry Smith
I was not impressed with Dr. Phil. It seemed as if he had trouble reading the teleprompter. I attended the rehersal concert on the 3rd with my parents, as I do every year. We stake out a spot early and end up down by the front row. In previous years, Harry Smith, the former host, would come down and chat with us in the afternoon, to get a sense of the crowd and mood. Dr. Phil did nothing of the sort, and he remained out of sight. Based on his reading performance, I know for sure he was not practicing his lines.
Fireworks setting off car alarms
Yet another reason to outlaw car alarms that are set off by anything other than moving the car or being inside the car. There's absolutely no reason a car alarm should go off because of NOISE. How the hell is noise threatening anyone's car?
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
Let's Ban Car Alarms
Let's Ban Car Alarms
I almost never agree with anything in this right-wing magazine, but this article is exactly on target.
Or rain
Memo to people who own rusted-out pieces of crap that can barely turn over and that make other people wonder how the hell the thing can pass inspection every year:
Your car isn't worth protecting. Nobody's going to steal it, not even high-school kids just out for a joyride, because you live in a neighborhood where plenty of people leave much better cars unlocked all the time - sometimes even with the key in the ignition. So just disconnect the alarm before the next rain storm when the water will seep through the rust and cause a short that sets off the alarm at 3 a.m. which is roughly, oh, 3 hours and 35 minutes before your neighbor has to get up for an early meeting.
Yes, I realize this does not describe any neighborhood within booming distance of the Esplanade (people in the Back Bay leaving their cars unlocked? HAH!), but I just had to get it out of my system (again).
True confession time: Yes, my car has an alarm. No, it has never gone off by itself. Yes, I have stupidly set off the alarm by pressing the "panic" button instead of the "set alarm" button (although not at 3 a.m) - which is how I learned that the only way to disable the alarm in that case, short of opening the hood and ripping out wires, is to start the car. So probably my rust-bucket-owning neighbor was just getting back at me. In any case, the rust bucket is gone, as is the other piece o' crap car that had sat in the same spot for months, much to the enjoyment of the local kids who glued themselves to seats on the curb to watch the tow guy s-l-o-w-l-y winch the thing up onto his flatbed to haul it away.
Um, where was I?