“BUILT: Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes” is the final stop on my photography “charity season.” The three artworks I submitted, which encompass Capital District architecture and iconography, were displayed – along with hundreds of works from other amazing local painters, photographers, sculptors and inkers – in the soon-to-be-fully-restored 60 State Place, the former KeyBank building on…
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Never let another MC steal your name.
It’s 1979 and I’m in high school. Street Academy of Albany. And it’s there that I discover this musical genre called rap. And back then, “rap music” was pressed on 12-inch vinyl records, and usually contained one long rap song on side A, and an instrumental version on side B. I bought my first rap…
Read MoreSomeecards have invaded my blog!!
You’ve heard of Someecards.com. Well, I’m sure you’ve heard of Someecards.com’s output – they’re all over your friends’ Facebook walls and, by extension, they’re in your news feeds as well. Sort of like how many of your Facebook friends are into the bitstrips feature, where their lives and actions are turned into cartoon characters. Normally,…
Read MoreHalloween courtesies
It’s October 31st. Time to get bags and bags of Fun Size candies and wait by the door for the little ghosts and goblins and Iron Man-costumed kids to come down your street. It’s a rite of passage, I guess. It’s a change of the seasons, I guess. And so much has been written about…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 31, 2013: Ten for Thursday
Okay, let’s get to the most important part of the day. No, not the fact that the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series title in the past ten years. No, not the fact that today is Halloween and all the little Trick or Treaters are going to travel door to door, looking for…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: It’s a new Boston album! No, really!!
I can joke about waiting for a new Boston album. But the wait is finally over. Boston’s sixth studio release, Life, Love and Hope is scheduled to drop this December. This is only eleven years after their most recent release, Corporate America, and nearly thirty-five years since the release of their multi-zillion-selling debut album. Now…
Read MoreA moment of zen in Round Lake
Pick Up Your Trash-6401, a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. I tell you, if I hadn’t glanced over to the right while I was driving up Route 9 towards Saratoga Springs… I would have missed this sign completely. You know the drill. Got out of the car. Nikon D700 camera in the bag. Nikkor 28mm…
Read MoreThe best conversations are at 1:30 am
It’s Sunday night, Monday morning. In less than 24 hours, my daughter Cassaundra will be on a plane, returning to Washington State. The visit meant a lot – but it went by too quickly. And it’s 1:30 in the morning, and neither of us can sleep. Cassaundra’s watching the second season of Once Upon a…
Read MoreWhen “The War of the Worlds” played in Albany
[nggallery id=17254]Haven’t done the ‘When It Played in Albany” feature in a while, so this is a good time to restart. I’m going back to 75 years ago, when the Mercury Theater of the Air created a dramatic rendition of H.G. Wells’ classic War of the Worlds as a radio drama. Over those three-quarters of…
Read MoreMy “Toy Collector Magazine” years
Last Friday, one of my Facebook friends, Wayne Youngblood (he was one of my editors for Goldmine magazine) posted a picture of an extremely rare Hot Wheels prototype car, the pink “Beach Bomb” vehicle. This car. I remembered that car. I also remembered the article I wrote about Hot Wheels cars, in conjunction with the…
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