The Boston Phoenixreports that antic Boston music scenester and promoter Billy Ruane is dead at 52. His friends and admirers are appending eulogies to the Phoenix post. Here’s one from Johnny Angel (Wendell) that sums things up perfectly:
He was a man of exquisite taste and an army of internal devils. That he walked or staggered among us for as long as he did was his greatest gift — tireless champions of the arts are always saints no matter their other defects.
Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer, publisher, and cultural semiologist-for-hire. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.
He is coauthor and/or co-editor of TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY, THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, THE WAGE SLAVE'S GLOSSARY, the object-oriented story collection SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS, and the kids' field guide to life UNBORED. He is co-founder of the websites HILOBROW and SEMIONAUT; and co-founder of the science fiction imprint HILOBOOKS. He produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He manages a secretive online community known as THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE.
In the '00s, Glenn was an editor, columnist, blogger (BRAINIAC), and new media producer at the BOSTON GLOBE. In the '90s, among other things, he published the philosophy/pop culture zine HERMENAUT; co-produced the DIY website and early online social network TRIPOD; and was an editor at UTNE READER.
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