Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
To explain what I’m doing here … we have to go back to the late 1990’s, when I wrote several articles for Goldmine Magazine. This one, in particular, was a blessing. It was an interview back in the day with Herb Powers, Jr., a record mastering legend. Here’s his current website. Let me introduce you…
Read MoreOkay, let’s get a few things out of the way. I would have preferred a second Bad Bunny concert to whatever crapola the Seahawks and Patriots were doing in the Super Bowl. Drake Maye looked like he was completely lost on the field. And at one point, Seattle was living on so many field goals,…
Read MoreTrivia Bowl is this area’s ultimate bar trivia championship. Teams from all over the Capital District join for an afternoon of killer trivia action and entertainment. Answer as many questions correctly as possible, and you could win the coveted Trivia Bowl. Back when I played, my Street Academy trivia team won the trophy twice. Trust…
Read MoreAnd we just got clobbered by another batch of snow, with a deep freeze warning for tomorrow. Yay us. Man, if it weren’t for the fact that you could google “Florida Man” and any date on the calendar, I would move to Florida and avoid these chilly weather conditions. (checks weather forecast – Orlando has…
Read MoreValentine’s Day is on the way. And for the first time in a long time, I’m dreading the holiday. Just like I dreaded it way back in 2012. That was the first Valentine’s Day after my divorce. It was a tumultuous and painful time, a relationship that started out fantastic and ended on a sour,…
Read MoreSometimes if you’re in the right place at he right time … you can get a photo that captures an emotion. Such is here. Last Sunday I went to the harness track. Believe me, it was cold out there. Freezing cold. So cold, in fact, that any movement on the track caused dust and flakes…
Read MoreI approach rebooted shows with a mixture of apprehension, curiosity and dread. I worry that the show’s return will diminish its original greatness, I’m curious how a reboot will work, and I dread when the returning show flounders from its over-arching aspirations. The return of The Muppet Show, the classic 1970’s-era variety program that featured…
Read MoreI wrote this article for a 1999 edition of Goldmine magazine, and am reprinting it here. It was almost like finding a prize in a box of cereal. You bought a music magazine, and inside was an honest-to-goodness record. Not a vinyl or styrene record, mind you – a flexi-disc that could bend or twist…
Read MoreIt’s about 4:45 in the morning, and I already have the correct prediction for today. As you know, somewhere in Western Pennsylvania, in some town called Gobbler’s Knob, an annual tradition is held. The townsfolk find a groundhog, check to see if he has the visual acuity to notice shadows on this day, and then…
Read MoreThere’s a store in Troy that sells discounted groceries and food staples. It’s called Bargain Grocery, and they usually have overstocked items, “scratch and dent” items, or foods just reaching their expiration date, and need to be sold fast. You can find some great products there if you look carefully. And in doing so yesterday,…
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