tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post2854539338739862471..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: BoxesBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-38485174282728023522010-12-06T15:34:48.702-05:002010-12-06T15:34:48.702-05:00Hey, this is MY neighborhood. The song was writte...Hey, this is MY neighborhood. The song was written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 (Seeger only made it a hit) and was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes" rel="nofollow">inspired by Daily City</a>, and the string of affordable/cheap <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/42615029_77d8d9ae23.jpg" rel="nofollow">pastel colored houses</a>, a string of which are noticably visible along the ridgeline from 101 on the way to San Frandisco, and ddespite the "ticky-tacky" construction they are known now as premier examplars of <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/3136446820_dc0e650151.jpg" rel="nofollow">Mid-Century Modern</a> architecture.<br />Despite its original, musical attempt to mock the social conformity of the 60's it just shows how the Beat-Folkies and Reds were so out-of-touch with the mainstream and enduring values of America.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-82011068015854894272010-12-05T22:55:44.898-05:002010-12-05T22:55:44.898-05:00I shouldn't read blogs when I just spent the d...I shouldn't read blogs when I just spent the day working closely in front of a screen, with an assortment of chemicals.<br /><br />I thought it said "boxers", and that you'd been unpacking boxers for days, and I had a vision of Mrs. Borepatch going. . "what about the briefs!"<br /><br />Yeah, I'm tired. One day to hunt but outside of that worked most every day the last few weeks.Home on the Rangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836315423040719919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-474798270041465572010-12-05T21:29:33.824-05:002010-12-05T21:29:33.824-05:00I hear you. Seems like those boxes multiplied whi...I hear you. Seems like those boxes multiplied while they were in the PODS does it?Hat Trickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08789313677285831256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-71624053592438797922010-12-05T21:23:53.726-05:002010-12-05T21:23:53.726-05:00"Yeah, this song was written to try to gin up..."Yeah, this song was written to try to gin up support for living in Stalinist Apartment Blocks."<br /><br />Say <i>what?</i><br /><br />I always heard "Little Boxes" as a 60s-hippie jab at the levittowns that spread over the US in the 1950s and 1960s: acres and acres of identical little cookie-cutter houses with identical little green yards and seemingly identical cookie-cutter middle-class Ozzie & Harriet families living in them. I've never heard anyone suggest it was intended to support such things.wolfwalkernoreply@blogger.com