One more burlap stitching project …

I promised myself I wouldn’t do any more of these. I really promised.  Cross my heart and hope to die. And then … while sniffing around eBay … This showed up. Jt’s a burlap sack, featuring a Native American maiden.  It didn’t look like the typical potato sack Indian image, which was either a gruff-looking…

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So my submission for the Albany Center Gallery Members’ Show is …

The deadline for submission to the Albany Center Gallery Members’ Show is next week.  But with everything else going on – BUILT, the Work of Art at the Albany Institute of History and Art – I plumb forgot.  This can happen when you’re my age.  The three signs of old are are loss of memory…

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The Albany Empire shut down?

The Arena Football League is a fickle mistress.  The idea looked good on paper – find a way to cram a full-sized football game into basketball and hockey facilities.  Shrink the field to 50 yards from endzone to endzone.  Put big nets on either endzone to compact the game into the small area.  And watch…

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Caption Time: A Caption for the Captain

So last Saturday was Date Night, and as we waited in the movie line to pay for our tickets and snacks, I saw a theater customer behind me. Yep.  I had to get a picture. Because sometimes a picture needs a caption. And I need you, my wonderful blog readers, to be creative with this…

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The end of the climb

Imagine, if you will, someone visiting the sacred flame at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, and then the visitor pulls out some graham crackers and marshmallows to make some s’mores over the open flame.  That would be disgusting and offensive. Imagine, if you will, someone visiting the Sistine Chapel –…

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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 26 2019

I guess we’re going through Indian summer right now, so let’s enjoy it while we can.  And while it’s still a few degrees warmer for a little while … let’s also enjoy reading some posts from the writers, bloggers and photographers on my personal blogroll.  As you know, on Saturdays I step aside and showcase…

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I wasn’t expecting to like Watchmen on HBO … but I do like it.

Let’s get something straight right now.  Watchmen is the greatest graphic novel of all time, I’ll fight you if you tell me otherwise.  Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ reinvention of the superhero genre, using characters based on material from the old Charlton Comics superhero line, completely subverted the whole superhero genre.  There was linear storytelling,…

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The possible return of railroading in the Adirondacks??

For a short time, I tried capturing the Saratoga and North Creek Railroad’s crossing over the Sacandaga River.  This was my best shot at capturing that iconic image of a train as it chugs over the trestle. It was a nice picture, and I had hoped to improve on it. Unfortunately, by the next year,…

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