Let me check my MAGA Caucus Bingo card. Matt Gaetz … still trolling for underage girls with his Venmo account. Kevin McCarthy – proof that you can anagram the letters S P E N I and it would confirm that he neither has a “spine” nor a … yeah. Lauren Boebert – nope, I don’t…
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Results of the 45th Annual Capital District Photo Regionals
Background. Once upon a time, many many years ago, when I first put film in a camera and tried to take a picture with it … I thought my shots were good. Worthy. Definitely deserved some art-wall exposure. Then my daydreams crashed into reality. And not only were my artworks rejected in competition and in…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 23 2023
Good morning, everybody. We have now officially entered the autumn season, so keep an eye out for those fall foliage changes, they’re coming soon and they’re spectacular. But before you go on your leaf peeping trip … let’s check out the blog comments, photos and ideas from the people on my personal blogroll. And I…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for September 22, 2023
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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreThe “Uptight” Mix – Sam Pellman Edition
In 2021, during my second run as an on-air talent at my old college radio station WHCL, I slapped together a musical collage of 1970’s hits, all soldered to the Incredible Bongo Band’s track “Bongolia!” It was named in honor and in memory of a wonderful professor I knew in college, Samuel Pellman. I don’t…
Read MoreIs a Nikon Zf camera in my future?
Today, Nikon released the news. They are introducing a true retro full-frame mirrorless camera. And as they did when they produced the Nikon Df camera (of which I own two), their new shooter is called the Zf. Here’s a link to Nikon’s advertising page and all the camera’s specs. So let me see what this…
Read MoreThe Straight’s Elephantine Shoe Store art project
I’ve written about William Straight’s shoe store in Albany before. He operated a bootery and shoe store from approximately 1862 to 1866 at the corner of Broadway and Hudson Avenue in downtown Albany (a parking lot exists there now). While his shoes and boots were probably just as good as any other boots and shoes…
Read MoreSo I shot some geese over the weekend.
Last Saturday, I went to Washington Park with the express plan of testing out some new film in one of my old cameras. No, those pictures haven’t been developed yet. But as I finished my film photo shoot and was putting away my camera gear, I noticed some people at the Washington Park lake. They…
Read MoreAnd in the end … I’m skipping the Durham Fair this year. But not for the reason you think.
The original plan was to leave Albany in the morning, drive to Connecticut, and drop off my artworks at the Durham Fair. Then drive home. And then go back to Durham this coming Sunday and see how everything did. Then I saw the weather report. Tropical Storm Lee heading straight for New England, with coastal…
Read MoreI’ve got Lauren Boebert’s “apology,” where’s Quinn Gallagher’s?
Yesterday, I chronicled Colorado representative Lauren Boebert’s escapade with her companion at a Denver theater. You can read it here, I’m not interested in re-hashing all the dirty deets. Last night, after irrefutable video evidence surfaced that showed Lauren Boebert’s denial of her actions were in fact outright lies, she finally issued a statement taking…
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