https://www.lifeontheblock.com stories of a lifelong love Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:48:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeontheblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/favicon.jpg?fit=24%2C24&ssl=1 https://www.lifeontheblock.com 32 32 9250943 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cause-im-halfway-there-to-lovin-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cause-im-halfway-there-to-lovin-you https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cause-im-halfway-there-to-lovin-you/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:41:05 +0000 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/?p=469 If admitting that I’ve loved a boyband (one in particular, and pretty much only them) for my entire life makes me uncool, then so be it. I’m uncool. Having said that, I never really got into pop in the way many do. New Kids on the Block aside, there was only really ever one other similar group whose music I… Read more →

]]> https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cause-im-halfway-there-to-lovin-you/feed/ 0 469 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cant-stop-the-whisper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cant-stop-the-whisper https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cant-stop-the-whisper/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:11:08 +0000 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/?p=393 For those that don’t know, I write music reviews for a couple of publications in the San Francisco Bay Area.  My favorite is a San Francisco music blog called Spinning Platters, and for several years the editors and I have been working to try to set up some kind of interview piece with the New Kids.  While it hasn’t happened… Read more →

]]> https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/cant-stop-the-whisper/feed/ 0 393 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/through-sunshine-and-rain-baby-we-keep-on-smilin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=through-sunshine-and-rain-baby-we-keep-on-smilin https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/through-sunshine-and-rain-baby-we-keep-on-smilin/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:00:50 +0000 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/?p=235 The announcement that the New Kids were going to have the honor of playing Fenway Park came in late January. I’m not going to mince words or dance around the truth: had I not been $800 into my cruise payments (or, even so, had I had the option of finding a roommate replacement without jeopardizing the reservation for both of… Read more →

]]> https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/through-sunshine-and-rain-baby-we-keep-on-smilin/feed/ 4 235 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/side-streets/i-keep-remembering-when/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-keep-remembering-when https://www.lifeontheblock.com/side-streets/i-keep-remembering-when/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 17:00:21 +0000 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/?p=196 Final thoughts from the cruise… In addition to the videos I’ve posted here on the site, all the rest from the cruise (as well as some other random stuff) can be found here. Please enjoy & feel free to share! As soon as I got back, I started putting a playlist together of songs that would always remind me of… Read more →

]]> https://www.lifeontheblock.com/side-streets/i-keep-remembering-when/feed/ 4 196 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/ill-be-trippin-cant-wait-till-the-next-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ill-be-trippin-cant-wait-till-the-next-time https://www.lifeontheblock.com/on-the-block/ill-be-trippin-cant-wait-till-the-next-time/#respond Thu, 26 May 2011 01:55:30 +0000 https://www.lifeontheblock.com/?p=195 When I got on the Destiny, I was pretty sure it would be my only New Kids cruise. Why? Because what I want to do is be a travel writer. I already do it, but I want to get paid to do it. In the meantime, though, I travel and write to get experience. And I do that with money out of my own pocket. So, one New Kids cruise gives me enough Miami/Bahamas fodder for my travel blog one time, but can I do it multiple years and still rationalize spending the hard-earned money I should be using traveling somewhere new instead? Probably not. Read more →

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