First, Eddie Andelman. Now, the Duke. Condolences to all the WWF OG’s.
RIP, Boston’s pro wrestling legend Pete “Duke of Dorchester Doherty. Also known as the masked “Golden Terror”.
“Does a pussycat walk thru the woods? Is he ready?!” - Captain Lou Albano
🏴Big Country released its breakout single “In A Big Country” in the US in the fall of 1983. The song peaked at #17 on Billboard’s Hot 💯 on December 3, 1983. It also reached #3 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The bar in the background used to be called The Purple Shamrock.
Every Saturday, the worst people in Boston (myself included) would show up here. We’d drink 17 Long Island ice teas, throw up in a corner, get in a fight over nothing, and then try to take home some chick named Tammy-Lynn from Medford.
Tammy-Lynn had a lower back tattoo of barbwire with a rose in the middle, smeared MAC eyeliner, and a Parliament hanging out of her mouth. She dropped out in 10th grade, would probably try to stab you if she had too many Jagerbombs (her favorite), but in the glow of the streetlights in Faneuil Hall, she was a goddess.
Before for getting in a cab back to her place, her juice head ex boyfriend shows up. Richie’s wearing a wife beater, gold chain, a Von Dutch hat and asking “you wanna die, mutherfucker?!”
Deciding not to risk you life for an unstable 6, you head back into the bar. One more Long Island can’t hurt.
Welcome to Boston. Beautiful culture.
Speaking of WBZ-TV, 78 years ago this morning, June 9, 1948, it became the first television station in the Boston market and the New England region. The CBS-owned station is still located at its original site on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton.
Multiple Spencer Pratt voters have contacted me saying their signatures were rejected and their ballots were not counted. Here is the letter they get.
More than 200,000 Californians have had their ballots rejected since 2020. This is what happens when you don’t require voter ID. If a machine can identify your party registration, people have every right to question whether the process can be manipulated.
One of the greatest guitarists and performers of all time, Prince Rogers Nelson (d.2016), better known professionally as Prince, would’ve turned 68 today.
Performing “Play That Funky Music/Hollywood Swinging/Fantastic Voyage” medley at The Forum in Inglewood on April 28, 2011.
‘Dead Poets Society' starring Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating at a fictional elite boarding school Welton Academy in Vermont, opened at a theatre near you 37 years ago today, June 2, 1989.
“What will your verse be?” scene.