Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
So here’s the situation. You’ve found this awesome beverage bottle. And you think that the label – for a wine, for a beer, for some super-tasty beverage – would look awesome in your scrapbook or in an art project. Heck, you might even want the bottle cap for something else. Problem. That label is stuck…
Read MoreSo the National Basketball League of Canada has just wrapped up its seventh regular season, and now begins its seventh postseason. Point of order – I am the director of statistics and player clearances for the NBL, so let’s get that out of the way right now. As the NBL begins its playoff run, eight…
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One of the most important aspects a television viewer can expect from his or her local news broadcasts is trust. Trust from the anchorpeople who will provide the viewer with the news. News as free from bias or slant as is possible. Over the weekend, a video clip showing the newscasters and anchorpeople at Sinclair…
Read MoreSteven Bochco passed away yesterday at age 74. For a generation of television viewers, he was a visionary in television drama. He experimented with new techniques and storylines, he created new aesthetics in drama, and changed the way we watched prime time television forever. Today’s blog post shows many of Bochco’s greatest television programs –…
Read MoreYou son of a bitch. I don’t know when you did this … But you should be ashamed of yourself. I drove by downtown Albany last Saturday – just taking care of some pre-Easter chores and goals – and as I drove past the Arnoff Building on Broadway, home of the big fiberglass RCA Nipper…
Read MoreGood morning everybody. All set for Easter? Are you enjoying Passover? Or are you just sleeping late and hoping for springtime to arrive? No matter. It’s all good. Because it’s Saturday, and it’s time to go through the best of my fellow bloggers and writers and podcasters and observers. And I hope you enjoy this…
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So I postponed my GLF Embroidery Project for a few weeks. Mostly because I’ve been involved with other projects that have captured my attention of late. Okay, yeah, I procrastinated. Instead of getting this project done in time for Competition Season 2018, I got hooked on another burlap bag project – the Eastern States Farmers’…
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For the past two years, I’ve made photography excursions to the newly-available Boreas Ponds in the Adirondack Mountains. Essentially you drive up to Essex County, you drive seven miles on an old logging road, then you hike another three hours to a spot where – as you can see in the photo above – you…
Read MoreI swear, there are days when I watch the evening news and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing at the podium, trying to answer questions from the assembled reporters, and trying to give answers that reflect our President’s position on life, the universe and everything. And it took me a while to…
Read MoreIt seemed such an innocuous little television skit. Two minor characters on The Simpsons, Principal Seymour Skinner and his boss, Superintendent Chalmers, have a little three-minute storyline in an episode called “22 Short Films About Springfield.” In the storyline, Skinner invites Chalmers to dinner, then discovers that the dinner is burning. Rather than tell Chalmers…
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