It was a relationship that had its ups and its downs.ย There were times when I enjoyed being a part of it – I boasted to everybody about how lucky and fortunate I was that we were together.ย And there were days when I wished we never met each other.ย And one day – just…
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“And taking the stage now, R.C. Victor!!”
I saw the photocopied advertisement taped on the side of a restaurant window.ย Thursday nights, 6:00 p.m., it’s a comedy Open Mike night at Broadway Joe’s Bar and Grille in Albany. A comedy open mike night.ย Oh my lord.ย Do I want to get back involved with that again?ย Do I want to return to…
Read More“Have you ever tried a Brownie?”
Even as the days tick down, the staff at Stuyvesant Photo are still keeping their commitment to their customers.ย I say this because on Friday night, I drove over to Stuy Pho to see if there were any deals left.ย I purchased a few things – a hot shoe bubble level, some photo pages, a…
Read MoreIt’s a PolaChrome world…
So yesterday, I posted pictures taken with Polaroid’s defunct 35mm instant slide film PolaBlue, which is supposed to create blue-on-white monochromatic images. Well, by the time I got the film, it had developed a color shift to create blue-on-magenta images. I also received a few packs of Polaroid’s color slide film, PolaChrome, and I popped…
Read MoreIt’s a PolaBlue World…
A month or so ago, I tried to mess around with Polaroid’s 35mm instant slide films, including the blue-white contrasting film PolaBlue.ย My first test results weren’t all that spectacular, and I was about to give up on the project entirely. Then I found another couple of canisters of both PolaBlue and PolaChrome film, and…
Read MoreThe Dash
We live our lives as a dash. Not the dash of salt that we put on our food. Not the dash to catch the bus so that we’re not late. The dash might seem to us short or long, or too short or not long enough, but it’s the same length for everybody.ย We measure…
Read MoreWeek 8 of the 2011 $1,000 Elbo Room Spring Trivia Tournament
So I’m sitting at the bar at Elbo Room tonight. My team is just me tonight; Jeremy and Alexis are in Florida, both seeing who can get more suntanned without getting completely roasted. While I’m waiting for General James to ask the first round of questions, I start thinking about all the teammates I’ve had…
Read MoreThis is why “Weird Al” Yankovic is 27 times better than Lady Gaga – or at least her management company
“Weird Al” Yankovic has carved a successful career as an actor, as an author, and as a video music director.ย And if his current career path doesn’t work out, he can always fall back on that engineering degree he earned at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Oh yeah, and he’s a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-parodist-satirist.ย You know……
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: 70’s Smooth Songs
What I’m playing now are some easy listening classics, the kind of music you heard back in the day when WGY actually played mellow Top 40 music.ย Well, so did WROW, inbetween tracks from the Ray Conniff Singers and the 101 Strings.ย But I digress. So with that in mind, let me blast you back…
Read MoreRest in peace, Elisabeth Sladen… the best companion Doctor Who ever had.
I’ve been a peripheral Doctor Who fan – if there’s an episode on or if the TV station is running the entire run of a certain multipart episode, I’ll sit and watch it. I haven’t really gotten into the current iterations of the Doctor, I’m of the generation that appreciated Tom Baker and Peter Davison.…
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