Yeah, what Brian said. McPhee will rue the day she left the Herald for that cake shift at TKK. Let's see: no preparation to allow for maximum novel writing time during the day? Check. Regular paycheck? Check. Benis? Check. Ability to safely ignore ratings a la Tom Finneran? Check. Yeah, why would she take that job. Reminds me of how we used to fund welfare queens to drive around in Cadillacs, before my jr. idol Ronnie Reagan put an end to that practice. Cons and neo-cons rule, libs and progressives drool! Amerikkka, love it or leave it!
Celtic, you have a point if she's gone into it with a slacker attitude. If she feels she can turn in crappy ratings and keep her job for whatever reason, then you are correct.
But I thought McPhee was an ambitious person and this move runs counter to that image.
And keep one thing in mind: the pay for a night shift like that is tiny, hard to believe it's much more than a Herald paycheck.
Brian, I guess I am saying that she fancies herself a "writer" now (more than just a "reporter"). Hence, having a job with less prep time and no daily deadlines (only in Boston at TKK and RKO is this true of talk radio hosts, I know) will afford her more time to "write" her novels, etc. for more moolah. I gotta believe this is her end game. She sees it as a way to end up making more scratch. It's all about the Benjamins. And she can go back to daily reporting if this cake gig fails at TKK and she needs healthcare, etc.
Will she move out of East Boston? Wait another five years for the neighborhood to deteriorate even further. She likes hardscrabble hoods. It is going to be the next South End. What a joke. Michelle move out to a real neighborhood you are published writer.
Story about a girl....BORING!!!!
Free Bernie Ward!
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, Celtic Frost and Hugh Jass are THE SAME PERSON. Just ignore the sad basement dweller with a pathetic life like most of us have been doing.
Ok, BOB? Don't be a fool and pay attention to the meantioned dork. BTW BOB, you are a bomb thrower and NEVER add any substance to the discussions. You just put down others and even though it is fun to read you go after Celtic Frost/Hugh Jass, you look more dumb than you usually do.
JSYK,
Bomb-thrower? More like a dope slap!
Meanwhile, leave Michele alone! Her book is very compelling! She's a solid writer! And her radio show is getting better! A few mis-steps, yes. And she's brassy and shrill...but she's got some great viewpoints and it seems she's not a timid person. Cut her some slack!
Love, Bob
Me and Hugh the same person? Hardly. I am a stout, manly, masculine Republican of the first order. I grew up tough on the mean streets of Charlestown (in fact, I probably kicked your asses a few times if you grew up around Boston or ever went to Boston to drink as a 20-something). I went to Bunker Hill CC and made something of myself, but have kept my street cred by picking fights in bars with helpless suburban yutes. True, I am balder and fatter than back in the day, but I still will kick your ass.
Hi Brian,
This is off the specific topic but perhaps of interest to the Evercleanse fans of WRKO. In yesterday’s Globe Science section was an article debunking the need for colon cleansing. To quote a gastroenterologist from the article, “I’ve heard my kids say that there’s stuff in the GI tract for seven years. That is the urban legend. In reality most people clear their GI tract within three days. (Evercleanse takes two weeks as I recall.)
Think this article is a thinly veiled disparagement of WRKO by the Globe?
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Bearded and mustachioed scientist wearing eyeglasses, looking up from his binocular microscope and frowning to disclaim an Evercleanse ad on WRKO)
