Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
It’s 3:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I thought I could sleep last night. I could not. The excitement for today was too much for slumber. I have a photo trip planned. Please let me tell this story. There’s a church in Long Island that is just incredibly photogenic. When the fall foliage kicks in,…
Read MoreYes, I did watch The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday nights in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Not so much for the antics of Bo and Luke Duke, or for the short-shorts-and-panty-hose rocking Daisy Duke (although Daisy Duke was certainly a nice satchel of eye candy). No, I was watching for the General Lee,…
Read MoreYawn. It’s early in the morning, my wonderful blog readers, but I need to get this blog post out the door before my girlfriend Suzanne and I travel off for another weekend adventure. So bear with me if I’m still wiping sleep out of my eyeballs while I pen this. But as you know, once…
Read MoreThere were plenty of all-star variety TV shows on back in the day. Depending on your personal tastes, you could watch variety shows from established masters of ceremonies like Ed Sullivan; or you could enjoy comedy / musical stylings from Sonny & Cher, Tony Orlando & Dawn, the Captain & Tennille, Donny & Marie, Lawrence…
Read MoreFor those who are new to my blog, the “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” features films that everybody in the world has seen – but I’m finally getting around to watching them. The blog feature is so named because it took me decades to get around to watching Pulp Fiction. Among other films. Last night,…
Read MoreOne should never expect a new or used car to NOT have some previously undiagnosed mechanical issues. Trust me. The perfect car out of the box usually says “Hot Wheels” on the undercarriage. Every one of my cars has, at one time or another, picked up some sort of mechanical problem. Most of them were…
Read MoreThe news hit last Sunday like a clean wash of rain over a sewer field. A Taste of Italy, the restaurant whose owners used Islamophobia and hurtful and bigoted rhetoric to attack a family who had just lost their autistic son in a tragic accident, is no more. The owners sold the lease on their…
Read MoreI’m still testing out this Kodak Panoram 3A camera – a camera so ancient, its tech support was probably authored by George Eastman himself. This camera is supposed to give me super-ultra-wide photos on 120 film stock (well, with a special modification to the camera’s interior chassis), and the last time I tried it out…
Read MoreRight at the beginning of this blog, I have to tell you this. My girlfriend Suzanne is a trooper. She went through every Big E tradition and superstition with me without batting an eyelash. Superstition #1 – get to the Big E as early as possible. That means leaving Albany at sunrise, so that we…
Read MoreGood morning, my blog family. Time once again for the recap of this week’s photos and thoughts and words from the great bloggers on my personal blogroll. As you know, I set aside one day each week – Saturday – to share these with you. Hopefully this encourages you to visit their sites and see…
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