My dear, dear French fries,
We need to talk.
The years have gone by so fast for us. From my first McDonald’s fry 24 years ago to the wide crinkle cut deliciousness at Glenwood in Connecticut and Town Spa in Stoughton.
It’s always been good. That was never the problem.
Something changed between us. It became all about you. [...]

Let me first apologize.
For about a year now, we’ve been using IX Web Hosting as an inexpensive solution to our very simple web hosting needs — three domains powered by WordPress. After all, we don’t have any key sponsors, and I fund Blast with my own money when it isn’t making its own cash.
It’s been [...]

It was a long month packed with news, drama and Britney going to the hospital.
In an homage to Letterman’s return to the air, here are the top 10 things you should come away with in January:
10. Your dog will soon take over the world.
9. Don’t stay on the top floor of a casino.
8. Sony may [...]

I saw the stats, and I still didn’t believe it. We wrote a 189-word brief about Kyla Ebbert — a Southwest Airlines passenger who was almost kicked off for wearing a skimpy (it wasn’t even that skimpy really…) outfit.
Then the counter started ticking like dollars on a gas pump.
By the end of the day on [...]

I want to tell you a little more about our editors.
The newest addition to the Blast crew, Bessie King is with us in Boston as the Entertainment Editor. That’s the reason why you’re seeing a ton more content and some quality news reporting, like our instant coverage of Marie Osmond’s fall during Dancing With the [...]

We’re unveiling distinct, new pages for each for each of our sections, a new home page and a redesigned individual article page as well as over 100 tweaks and fixes.

As you read this there is a genocide occurring on our Earth. Not in a book or a film or a museum, but in real time.
In the Darfur region of Sudan, a country on the east coast of Africa, 10,000 people a month, fifteen an hour, are being killed by their government. Three million people [...]

I hope you’re enjoying July’s issue of Blast Magazine so far.
A lot has gone into development and content lately, and I want to share some content developments with you.
The big news is that we are taking the Creative Commons road. We’re licensing all of our content under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, meaning other people, [...]

Summertime.
Blast Magazine clearly doesn’t fear change, and I hope you don’t either. What we’re trying to do is be able to put out flashy covers and section pages and use our excellent graphic design and photography abilities while still providing you with fresh content that comes out more than once a month.
So here’s what we’re [...]

Well, it’s May.
This month we flew out to Hollywood to sit down with Dominic Comperatore, a perennial television actor who has made his emergence onto the big screen in a big way. Kelly Bodami talked with him and we’re happy to present his story.
What the hell happened with this Don Imus shit? We had Kelly [...]

Blast has been under the knife lately, and the facelift is coming along nicely.
The navigation is more conducive to all screen resolutions, and our dynamic archives system kicked off in mid-March, powered by WordPress.
We designed the hell out of Blast as our editorial and creative staff continually try to provide that perfect magazine experience online.
And, [...]

Massachusetts may finally have a chance passing a journalism shield law.
California and 29 other states already have one, but that hasn’t helped Josh Wolf, a video-blogging convergence journalist who videoed an anti-G8 demonstration in 2005 and has been jailed under federal regulations for refusing to turn over footage to the police. It is clear that [...]

Everybody hates Valentine’s Day.
But here at Blast, we use it as an excuse to talk about sex and relationships.
What’s the deal with make-up sex anyway?
This month, we decided to look at romance issues that are often discussed but seldom analyzed. In this month’s feature photo gallery/article, our cover [...]

Happy New Year indeed.
Welcome to Blast Magazine, a hard-fought piece of journalism.
In the late 1990s, the Internet was in what could be called a golden age. For starters, it was much smaller. MySpace wasn’t around and Google was a fledgling search engine. AOL dial-up was how Americans actually got online.
During that time, I owned a [...]