Well, it took three days to get my car out of the snowbank. Let me explain. On Wednesday night, before the Nor’easter hit our area, residents of the Town and Village of Green Island were told to take their cars off the streets, so the streets could be properly plowed. Residents could park their cars…
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Green Island is the best place in the Capital District, and I’ll fight you if you say otherwise.
It’s Friday morning. The entire Capital District is blanketed with heaps of snow. Island residents have already been alerted – by e-mail, by phone and by text message – to move their cars off the city streets, so the cars can be towed. I’ve already parked Dracourage in one of the designated “safe spots” to…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 19, 2020
Dear Santa. I’ve been good all year. Well, good enough. Well, it’s negotiable. But what I haven’t failed to do is, every single Saturday this year, whether I’ve had my ankle in a cast or my mouth covered with a mask, is bring you a recap of the great writings and podcasts and photos from…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 18, 2020
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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. The following is a special flashback episode, in which we look at the ten most-played songs on WHCl during the week of…
Read MoreCaptain Kangaroo – the children’s TV show you forgot about…
It’s morning in America, and you turn on the TV. Today, the mornings are populated with a plethora of news and talk shows. But just imagine a time when, at 8:00 every weekday morning, there was an hour-long children’s show. With a genial host. And cute puppets. And entertaining and informative short segments. Welcome to…
Read MoreStar Trek: Discovery – I did NOT see that coming, and I should have.
Don’t get me wrong. I do enjoy watching Star Trek: Discovery, even though I would swear that every episode lately featured a character named Deuce X. Machina. You know, the crew of the Discovery are in the middle of a perilous plot, and suddenly the solution will come from some previously unidentified source. That kind…
Read MoreBank of America’s “fast ATM’s” versus “slow ATM’s” is just an excuse for them.
I have a credit card with Bank of America, and every month I need to make a payment on that credit card. For argument’s sake, we’ll call the payment an apple. My billing cycle with Bank of America goes from the first of the month to the first of the month, so my scheduled payment…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: Left Behind on the Ark
Sunday, December 16, 1973. Miss Smetana dipped the blackboard eraser in water, then wiped down the blackboard. Streaks of drying shale replaced her chalk-outlined notes of scripture and verse. She had to do this after every Sunday class. The religion classes at the parochial school adjoining the Church of Most Pleasant Blood were shared with…
Read MoreLots of 8’s without being crazy.
So I ran a few errands yesterday. Dropped off a big bag of empties to the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society (they’re finally taking bottles and cans again, so every 5c deposit bottle and can garners them 8c in donations). Zipped over to Walmart to purchase a few kitchen items. And on the way home, I…
Read MoreThe Canadian Pacific Holiday Train 2020 Virtual Concert (watch it here!!)
So last night, instead of traveling all the way up into the Adirondacks to photograph the brilliantly-lit CP Holiday Train, I instead watched the concert from the comfort of a laptop computer, a comfy couch, and some Date Night comfort. This is good. Because Canadian Pacific runs the Holiday Train as both a Christmas tradition…
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