The world lost a good man yesterday. Ken Screven passed away. Screven was a longtime fixture in the Capital Region; first broadcasting on WROW radio, then moving to television as a reporter for WRGB. I’ve always felt that he was a good man, a proud man who never shied away from truth. No matter what…
Read MoreA green treat.
It looks like any normal E-ZPass transponder. But it’s green, man. It’s a green E-ZPass transponder. No, E-ZPass hasn’t come out with a line of transponders that match your car’s paint scheme. And no, I didn’t repaint my old E-ZPass with some leftover spray-on plastic dye. But this little bad boy is going to save…
Read MoreA lunar eclipse in Onondaga County.
May 15, 2022. 9:00 a.m. Camera battery is charging. Backup camera battery is already charged and tight. SD card is clean and ready for hundreds of pictures. Nikon Df camera with different super-ultra-wide lenses – my Irix 15mm and my Vivitar 19mm – packed. Double-check to make sure the manual shutter release is in the…
Read MoreI stretched it to 500 miles. Wow.
I remember the good old days. The days of trying to fill my 1991 Pontiac 6000 and barely getting 20 miles per gallon out of it. So in preparation of my plans to drive to Central New York for the upcoming lunar eclipse, I checked my gas tank. 60 miles of fuel left. And I…
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The Vicious Cycle
On May 14th, a grocery store in Buffalo began the day with shoppers purchasing their home goods. By the end of the day, their worst fears came true. A stranger arrived in the store with an AR-15 assault rifle and started shooting the customers. He killed ten people, including a retired police officer. And he…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 14 2022
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. As you know, on Saturdays I turn my blog over to showcase the great blogs and photographs and stories from my personal blogroll. That’s that listing of links on the far right column of this blog. So let’s get right at it, shall we? BLOGS FOR TRAVEL The Saratoga…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 13, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. In honor of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (which is taking place this week), tonight’s Nightowl Radio Show features past winners of…
Read MoreWrestling shippers unite! We got HOOKhausen!!
Professional wrestling can be enjoyed on several different levels. You can enjoy the athletic competition between two combatants, you can enjoy the gymnastic flips of lucha libre, you can enjoy the non-stop competition of tag team and trios matches, all of that.\ And then you can enjoy the pairing of two distinctly diverse individuals as…
Read MoreIf Moldova doesn’t win Eurovision, WE RIOT!!
I’ve heard about the Eurovision song contest. I’ve heard the results of the Eurovision song contest. I even watched that 2020 film on Netflix – that one with Will Ferrell, you know the one. So when I discovered that the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest was available for us American viewers via the Peacock streaming service,…
Read MoreKodak Red with the backup shot
in my last blog, I mentioned how I tried to use my Krasnogorsk FT-2 “Raskolnikov” camera to create a patterned film weave with the Hamilton College Chapel. I did create that, here’s the blog that proves same. But here’s the secret. I didn’t just bring Raskolnikov to campus. I also took Kodak Red for the…
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Chuck The Writer 