Last Friday, I visited my podiatrist for a regular checkup. He was involved in the team that saved my life – between podiatry, vascular and all the other medical professionals last February, they fought back a diabetic abscess and bloodflow issue in my left foot that nearly cost me my life. But on the road…
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The Donald Trump $2 scam is back. Ugh.
I swear, not only does Donald Trump glorify in swindling and scamming, so do many others who want to use his name for their own little grift. Example. Last year, a company called “Proud Patriots” offered a $2 bill with Donald Trump’s face replacing the official portrait of Thomas Jefferson. And they sold this bill…
Read MoreA postcard from Iowa, 2024 edition
After last year’s debacle where my entries almost missed the entry deadline (thanks a pantload, FedEx), I made sure to ship my entries on the first eligible day. My best-ever effort at Iowa was three accepted, with two winning awards (and one, my lunar eclipse stitch photo, taking a first place silk in its category).…
Read MoreWhere are all the bingo chips??
Last week, my girlfriend and I went out for a meal-and-movie date. Lunch at the 99 at Rotterdam Square Mall, followed by a showing of A Quiet Place: Day One. As we left the restaurant, we noticed that the mall anchor that once housed a K Mart now exists as a bingo hall. And you…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 6, 2024
Hi everybody, hope you’re enjoying this extended holiday weekend. Of course, it IS the weekend, and that means I take a break from blogging about my thoughts and photos, and share instead the thoughts and photos on my personal blogroll. You should check these writers and photographers and bloggers out. You really should. Have a…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 5, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show, a rebroadcast of an episode from July 7, 2023, is a special themed broadcast, featuring some of the worst and…
Read MoreGeneral Philip Sheridan gave me money last week.
I have to go back to 2011 for this. Maybe 2010, because that’s when I took the photo. I was in downtown Albany, taking photos wherever I could – just testing out my new-to-me Nikon D700 and having some fun. And as I walked around the Capitol building, I decided to capture a photo of…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Iowa State Fair are …
I first sent my photos to the Iowa State Fair’s Photography Competition in 2014. Ten years ago. It took three years for them to accept one of my entries, and another year before I picked up my first blue ribbon from that organization. The Iowa State Fair is the first of my five-event “Competition Season,”…
Read MoreSo is this what they meant by “The Mark of the Beast”??
This is what happens when I get the munchies. I go to the store. And I wanted some chicken breasts. Because, I mean, who doesn’t love chicken breasts? But it wasn’t until I got home, unpacked my groceries, and started to put all my perishables away … I noticed something about the chicken. Something rather…
Read MoreAnother “Buena Vista Panorama” attempt in Bennington County
So how does one celebrate Juneteenth on what is arguably the hottest day of the year? Simple. I grabbed my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera, packed my camera bag with four rolls of Fuji Provia 100F, and drove to Bennington County, Vermont. I’ve blogged about this before; Vermont has more wooden covered bridges than any other…
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