My good friend Roger Green posted last month on his blog about the behind-the-scenes cost of running and maintaining a personal weblog. I can tell you that, from personal experience, blog hosting does not operate for free. At least not GOOD blog hosting. When I escaped from the Times Union’s blogfarm in 2017, I had…
Read MoreEverything is dangerous around a train
I’m a week and a half away from my train chase of the Union Pacific 4014 “Big Boy” in its first-ever trip to New York. I’ve mapped out several shooting locations, along with alternate spots in case my chosen spots are either too packed with other railfans, or my timing to chase the train is…
Read MoreObsession – what the hell did I just see?
It’s Saturday afternoon. I’ve taken some photos with some new camera gear, but I won’t know how the photos turned out until the film is developed. No matter. I have other things to do. And I’ve heard a lot of word-of-mouth about this film Obsession. Sorry, I think Obsession and I think of that 1980’s…
Read MoreThe Saturday Blogroll Recap, May 30 2026
Last weekend in May, and probably the first decent weekend in a while for me. Lots of plans for photography this weekend, as I prepare for my Union Pacific 2014 “Big Boy” train chase. But before I do anything of the sort … let’s recap this week’s blogroll, shall we? Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreC+C Music Factory, Freedom Williams, and the Atlanta Krunk
Pardon me for what might appear as a “shaggy dog” blog post, but after some recent news of late, I need to tell this story. A couple of days ago, there was an announcement of “The Great American State Fair,” a 250th anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C. that would feature, among various singers and performers,…
Read MoreThe Royale with Cheese TV Club: Fleabag
The Royale With Cheese Movie Club is a blog category where I finally get around to watching films that apparently everyone else in the world has seen. It was named after my finally seeing Pulp Fiction about 25 years after everyone else. Of late, I’ve added a TV subsection to this blog category, so at…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: A trip-hop sound collage from the Avalanches
During my second run on WHCL college radio, I created a segment called the “Sample Example,” where I played an original song, followed by that song’s reinterpretation or sampled section in a more modern track. It was fun. And quite informative. So I want to do this again, based on a 2001 song I learned…
Read MoreKobe Bryant + Kyle Busch =/= Abraham Lincoln + John F. Kennedy
As a kid, I remember an old “Abraham Lincoln / John F. Kennedy” novelty penny. It was a standard Lincoln penny engraved with JFK’s likeness in the dead space. And the penny was glued to a card that contained Lincoln-Kennedy “coincidences” that read like some vast century-long conspiracy. Both men had seven letters in their…
Read MoreThe Hardy Boys – with guitars??
Depending on your perspective or your age group, if someone said “The Hardy Boys” to you, you might think of the hundreds of mystery novels featuring the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy, all penned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon (who never truly existed, that’s a mystery in and…
Read MoreMy big school project, 2026 version
You remember those days, don’t you? Going to the craft store and purchasing all the materials so that you could create a diorama or a display box or some incredible-to-you project for a science fair or for a “show and tell” day. We all did them, we all had varying degrees of success with them.…
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