City Clerk
Medford MA 02155
Please post every meeting of the Cable Advisory Board way in advance on the city calendar. Thank you.
In case you can't find it, the link is here: http://www.medfordma.org/mayor/city-events/
We realize you are too busy thinking of your Maine bed and breakfast or maybe punching out older homosexual men you are twice the size of but, as a public servant, please serve the public.
Why are the meetings of the Cable Advisory Board posted so close to deadline, about 48 hours in advance?
Could you kindly post the meetings well in advance. With zero people showing up it seems to be intentional.
---the Chapter 74 board was found to have violated the Open Meeting Law, secret sessions, ostensibly spending the money that I saved this city when I shut down TV 3 Medford
---the past history of Mayor McGlynn's Cable TV Commission shows a very ugly pattern of deceit. McGlynn even had a late member of the Cable TV Commission filling a seat, while two other members had moved out of town. Sounds like Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. holding corporate meetings without a quorum, claiming that Susan Crowley, Paul Gerety, Brian Mahoney and Tim Pilleri were on the board when allegedly they were not (see Rumley Report; I tipped Rumley off to this one when I met with Brian Mahoney. Note how Mayor McGlynn allegedly had Rumley pull Mahoney out of the report and the entire "Joe Vig section" Rumley had promised me.
McGlynn was protecting TV3. Why?)
Raymond McDonald obiturary
Raymond "Ray" McDonald - Obituary - Medford, MA / Malden, MA ...
www.currentobituary.com/obit/37249Apr 30, 2007 -
Upon retirement, Ray remained very active and became President of the Mystic Valley Chapter of the AARP
for several years. He later was asked by Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn to serve as
Chairman of the Warner Community Cable Advisory Committee. Ray enjoyed an active social life and cherished ...
The seven members of the Cable TV Commission at that time were former School Committee member Robert E. Skerry, Richard Giovino, Michael Wyche, Michele Bordieri, Donald McCarthy, Raymond McDonald. and Richard Trotta who teaches audio/visual at the high school. http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2018/02/cable-advisory-public-records-request-2.html
---Why is Paul Gerety on the Chapter 74 board when this veteran access producer believes Gerety was - and still is - a big part of the problem.
Happy Belated Birthday Yvette Wilks. Here's your birthday present:
“It doesn’t happen immediately, but when you are at the end you really feel a warmth of love and privilege to have been given such a gift,” said Yvette Wilks. “This is how I feel about being involved with the Cable Advisory Board, it is a gift.” http://www.medfordma.org/2018/01/25/mayor-burke-appoints-3-members-to-cable-advisory-board/
Yvette, you sound like liner note writer Bruce Harris making stuff up because he doesn't know what to say! The warmth, the love and the privilege to stand in the way of free speech. Can you talk about building access TV in Medford or do you want to talk about gifts and free lunch and not showing up on time to the cable advisory meeting. Sheesh...these people are so full of themselves, and they do NOTHING for the community, which is what Muccini-Burke wants.
Oh, puh-leese, Yvette!
Joe Vig reviews the DOORS:
Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music were
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Joe Vig reviews THE DOORS
Here is a review of it from www.answers.com:
A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison's version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 "Love Her Madly," and the beautiful "Who Scared You," "Wishful Sinful"'s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first "greatest hits" collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song "The End," which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length "Riders on the Storm," both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With "The End" and "When the Music's Over" at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that's 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic "Waiting for the Sun" is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. "Love Street," the flip of "Hello I Love You," is here, but pertinent singles like "Wishful Sinful" or "Do It" and its flip, "Runnin' Blue," from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music were www.answers.com:A
MASSWRITER comments on Joe Vig's article:
I agree about the essay, but as a high schooler entranced by Morrison's persona and words, it was kind of cool and I bought into it hook, line, and sinker . . . .
Joe Viglione
