What’s Up in the Neighborhood, April 6 2019

There’s a rule about weather in the Capital Region – if you don’t like the weather outside, wait 20 minutes and it will change.  So whoever wanted snowflakes yesterday – outside of me, who wanted one more photograph 😀 – the snow is mostly gone now.  Probably tomorrow we will get a heat wave. But…

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三つの雪 (Mittsu no yuki)

Okay, it’s official.  Snowflake photography season is over. A few weeks ago, I asked you, my beloved blog readers, to help me select which of my snowflake photos was worthy enough for entry into Competition Season 2019. The majority of you selected a photo with five snowflakes on a T-shirt, one of my earliest attempts…

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Hanna-Barbera’s 1960’s Superheroes and Super-Adventure

At one point in time, the Hanna-Barbera studios produced the lion’s share of animated Saturday morning fare – especially in the 1960’s.  Now of course there were plenty of animated slapstick cartoons out there – mostly The Flintstones and Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel and Top Cat and boy oh boy am I showing my…

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My basketball bracket (NBL Canada) starts tomorrow…

For the past eight years, I have proudly served the National Basketball League of Canada as their statistician and director of player clearances.  And with that in mind, around this time I have eight NBL Canada teams competing in the postseason. It’s also around this time where I get asked by an NBL Canada fan…

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The video Rex Smith doesn’t want you to see…

So somebody alerted me to this.  I’m not really sure how to react.  But I feel that after what has happened in my past … I need to share this with all of you. There’s something that Rex Smith made back in the late 1970’s.  And it’s now available on YouTube.  Boy, I hope Rex…

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What keeps me hooked on Doom Patrol?

Today, the DC Universe streaming app will air the seventh of fifteen episodes of the surreal sci-fi superhero series Doom Patrol, a show about a team of super-powered misfits who barely understand their powers and how they interact in a very, very surreal world. And God help me, I’m hooked on this show. To understand…

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The #NoGoodWay Challenge – eliminate the R-word from your vocabulary

My friend Jad Crnogorac is a fitness instructor and model.  She was also one of the chief operators of the Halifax Rainmen basketball team when that franchise was in the Premier Basketball League years ago.  She’s a good person and she cares about health and fitness and well-being. And her post yesterday on her Facebook…

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