I will give Hulk Hogan his flowers. He revolutionized the appeal of professional wrestling. He was a larger than life character in a sport full of larger than life characters. He had charisma in buckets. He was marketable like no one would believe. He could sell out an arena in nothing flat. For over twenty…
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Caption Time: The Light Switch
Cracked magazine brought this to my attention, and I could not help but share this with all of you. There was a company called Hartland Plastics, and they manufactured various plastic and Bakelite products over the years, mostly kitschy stuff like religious trinkets and whatnot. Well, someone at Hartland Plastics thought they had a great…
Read MoreTrains to the New York State Fair would work … except …
I appreciate the New York State Fair. It’s my summertime happy place, where I can submit my crafts and photos for competition, I can eat wacky Franken-food, and I can feel like there’s not a care in the world. Traveling to the New York State Fair from Albany, however, does bring a series of options.…
Read More“I used to rule the world …”
I didn’t have to be a fan of Stephen Colbert to know that last week’s news about his last night TV show was about as suspect as a game of three-card monte. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is one of the top programs on late night television, yet last week CBS announced the show…
Read MoreThe Tears of Angels
I’m looking up at the sky. How many stars can I see in the night? Dozens? Hundreds? A thousand upon a thousand? My cell phone is screaming at me. An Amber Alert. Be on the lookout for a nine-year-old girl that may have been abducted in Lake George by someone in a white van, driving…
Read More90 Minutes of Moonlight
I’ve previously achieved breathtaking star trail photographs, and I’ve also captured solar and lunar eclipse photos. But my goal this year is to snag a “moon trail,” in which the moon’s travels through the sky are captured on one single frame of film. This is difficult. You’re asking a camera to stay focused on a…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 19 2025
Hi everybody, looks like it’s going to be a great day today, so take care of all your morning chores – which will make your afternoon a much more pleasant day! And one of those chores, shall we say, is checking out the blog posts and photos and ideas from my friends on the blogroll.…
Read MoreThe Congregation of Carissima
Sometimes you work on a project and you think there’s a goal in sight. And suddenly … without warning … you’re taking a different route. Robert Frost points to the other road and say, “Take this one, it’s less traveled.” I shall explain. Last month, during my Hamilton College 40th reunion, I took some of…
Read More“Sports Challenge” – the coolest sports game show of the 1970’s
Here’s the scenario. Three legends from a professional sports team go up against three legends from another professional sports team. And in the end, one team emerges victorious. With what method do they battle? Golf? Bowling? Lawn darts at 30 paces? Nah. We’re talking trivia here. Such was the concept of Sports Challenge, a weekly…
Read MoreCaption Time: So THAT’S how they change the signs.
Another candid photo from the Saratoga Race Course, and it actually gives me some insight as to how they operate the starting gate. Apparently each gate entrance has the number of the horse that will race out of it. But when horses are scratched, or you have one of those “combined” horses in the race…
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