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Collarworld: Vincent’s Epilogue
It was a quiet, lazy morning in the afterlife waystation known as Collarworld, where pets wait until they are once again joyously reunited with their masters. It was very quiet. From his home in a green meadow, Vincent the king orange tabbycat could barely hear any noises from the nearby realms. That’s fine, he thought. …
Read MoreJeremy McNamara: Badge 5475
Tomorrow, my friend Jeremy McNamara gets to fulfill the #1 entry on every competitive runner’s life list. He’s going to run his first-ever Boston Marathon. He’s wearing running bib number 5475, and he’s going to race the 26 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square on Monday morning. This is a major, major, major achievement. I’m…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, April 14, 2018
What is this thing outside? It’s bright and warm and – I looked at it – it burns my eyes. I think it’s called sunshine. Haven’t seen it in a long while. But although we had to wait a very long time for spring to arrive, we still get – right on time -the Saturday…
Read MoreMy car snitched on me … again … bruddah …
I wasn’t expecting the phone call. I hadn’t scheduled any appointments with DePaula Chevrolet – normally I do my “Black Friday Tuneup” efforts on, I don’t know, the real Black Friday. But there it was, DePaula Chevrolet’s name on the Caller ID on my cell phone. “Hi Chuck, this is DePaula Chevrolet, how’s your 2013…
Read MoreContemplations for San Francisco – my first seven entries
Yesterday, I posted my thoughts about competing in the brand new San Francisco Bay International Photo Show. And I received some great suggestions from you, my blog readers – about what I should enter and what I might want to save for other competitions. And just for the record, I paid for ten entries into…
Read MoreA return to San Francisco Bay… competition-wise…
Four years ago, I added a new photography competition to my “Competition Season,” as I entered several of my images in the San Francisco International Photography Competition. And one of my images – a slitscan photo called The Three-Two Pitch – earned a silver medal in competition. Yep, that was my best effort in…
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The Results of Solarcan #368
Remember these guys? Last year, I installed five “Solarcans” – a Kickstarter-funded aluminum beverage can / photography paper pinhole photo project, piercing a particularly precise puncture, for a pleasantly powerful passive panorama. With only the light of the traveling sun in the sky illuminating the project, I set these cans at various locations in Albany,…
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The Buvez Coca-Cola Table
A year or so ago, I salvaged a sad-looking French-Canadian Coca-Cola soda crate, tore it apart, and upcycled the wood into a birdhouse. That wasn’t my original plan for the soda crate; but it worked out well in the end. But now, I want to take some French-Canadian Coca-Cola soda crates, bash them up, and…
Read MoreAnd Omari Johnson becomes the first…
Last Friday, the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies lost to the Sacramento Kings 94-93. The Grizzlies are in 14th place in the Western Conference standings, the Kings at 12th place, it was a game with no major postseason permutations. In that game, a 6’9″ forward made his NBA debut, garnering 16 minutes of court time with the…
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