Update - Our brief civic nightmare is over!

Update this story - Boston’s Bid for Summer Olympics Is Terminated

Let's hope this willingness to invest in infrastructure will be directed to more useful, needed and more universal projects. Perhaps we can still build affordable housing units, without it being an Olympic Village first. Still hope for that pin-trading festival though.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for January 10, 2015

 Greetings from Boston, city of curmudgeons!! (or right next door actually)

Olympics in Boston, what could go wrong? We love giant infrastructure projects, building new stadia, the little inconveniences of hosting large media events, outsiders, and change.

Don't let Greg Louganis talk you into it. Especially in these days when it's possible for a man to give birth. Or let's just have a big pin-trading festival instead.

Unpopular Music - January 10, 2015 by Unpopularfred on Mixcloud

Anyway, enough curmudgeonry, here's today's playlist, after the break...