Everybody wants a piece of that Boston aura
I read on Old Country newspaper websites that one of Sweden’s privately-owned cable channels has launched a show called Boston Tea Party. I haven’t watched it but from what I understand it has nothing to do with Boston, or tea, but probably quite a bit to do with partying. Maybe “Boston Tea Party” is slang for chlamydia or something. I have no idea.
I say WGBH should strike back with a show called Brasklappen in which doctors and lawyers in Newton brag about banging their Swedish (or was it Swiss?) au pairs. Partial re-enactments included! [Speaking of WGBH, the station has a new president, Jonathan Abbott, starting Wednesday this week. The Boston Globe has a long and insanely boring article on him today.]
In unrelated news, the United States Census Bureau reports that home-owners who took out a Home Equity Loan in 2001 were less likely to spend it on home “additions, improvements, or repairs” than their 1991 counter parts. More surprisingly, they were also less likely to spend it on “education or medical expenses.” Read all about it.
(Let me tell you, getting readers for Census posts is hard and demeaning work)
